Search Results: Titles starting with A from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1936. 1st (1st reprint). hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st reprint same month), unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.

London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1999. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, black printed green cards, (a little bumping on edges); pages untrimmed but thread binding loose, internally unmarked and some browning; owner's plate on front pastedown.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A small collection of poems from the satirical writer and journalist T. W. H. Crosland.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g.), red boards, blue spine titling; text block firm, pages pristine.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies - and enemies. Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. 'Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Times

London: William Collins, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new (d/j in protective sleeve). Signed to ffep.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max HastingsÕs graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel CastroÕs Cuba, Nikita KhrushchevÕs Russia and KennedyÕs America; then to describe the nail-biting… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1956. Readers Union. hardback. Near fine, with v good d/j (slight bumping at top and fading at edges) pages clean and crisp.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The third in Powell's Dance to the Music of Time

London: Fourth Estate, 1996. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK edition (same year as US), unclipped d/j (a little bumped at top), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi. Divided into nine sections and spanning a century, this novel illuminates the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, the Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.

London: Folio Society, 1995. 2nd reprint. h/b. Fine, maroon on yellow printed boards, half maroon cloth spine, in yellow board slipcase.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master

New York: Grove Press, 2017. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most secretive of countries. Bandi's profound, deeply moving, vividly characterised stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the absurd theatre of their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare. The Accusation is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in… Read More

Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 1997. 1st. p/b. Very good, 1st edition, covers and textblock good, label residue on spine, some underlining.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The opening of the Stasi archives in 1989 revealed the existence of denunciation and informing in police states, but such practices have long been known. This is an exploration of denunciation and informing in Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The contributors to this study offer a comparative treatment which has particular relevance to the historical anthropology of everyday practices and debates on totalitarianism.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1947. revised. hardback. Good, 1st reprint of revised edition, missing d/j, green boards with some water staining and fading, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages tight and crisp, unmarked. Donor's inscription on ffep and owner's plate on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The revised edition in 1947 (after original published in 1935) of a respected l iterary criticism of the poetical works of Eliot, which is also a study of the art of poetry.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Fine-paper. hardback. Very good, red full-leather binding, gilt titling and decorations on front and spine (spine edges a little fragile), patterned pastedowns, all edges gilt, pages unmarked and tightly bound.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and… Read More

London: Hutchinson, Heinemann, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.

London: Hutchinson, Heinemann, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1920. reprint. hardback. Very Good, no d/j, blue leather-bound boards good, with gilt spine titling and cover elephant design bright; pages unmarked and tight; top edges gilt; owner's inscription on ffep; tanning on endpapers. . 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. In 1900, in his essay ÒWhat We Can Expect of the American Boy,Ó Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing Òin the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do.Ó The book's title comes from the ballad ""Mary Ambree"", which starts, ""When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt"". Kipling had previously used the… Read More

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1901. hardback. Very good, no d/j, maroon boards (bumping at edges and spine dulled )with small decorated circle on cover (gilt embossed) and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Some foxing on endpapers. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squireÕs son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by ArthurÕs seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that… Read More

Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2000. 1st. p/b. Near fine, tiny bump on back bottom edge.. CoffeeTable (250 x 200). Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History of King Lear Nahum Tate / King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy John Keats / The Public (El P(blico) Federico Garcia Lorca / The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht / uMabatha Welcome Msomi / Measure for Measure Charles Marowitz / Hamletmachine Heiner MŸller / Lears Daughters The Womens Theatre Group & Elaine Feinstein / Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief Paula Vogel / This Islands Mine Philip Osment / Harlem Duet Djanet Sears /Each play is introduced by a concise, informative introduction with suggestions for further reading. The… Read More

Northampton: Northampton Repertory Players, 1948. 1st. hardback. Very good, no d/j, blue clothbound boards, gilt cover design & spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked, but a little browned. Provenance: Tenniel Evans, actor and clergyman. Signed: inscribed on ffep: To Evangeline & Tenniel - with best wishes and sincere gratitutde for so many memorable performances, not forgetting Audrey & Touchstone. Aubrey Dyas, March 1956.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A history of the Northampton Repertory Theatre 1927-1948 by Aubrey Dyas. Foreword by J. B. Priestley. With 36 b/w photographic plates.

London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1878). 2nd. hardback. Very good, no d/j, green boards, gilt and black cover design and spine titling; text block firm (slight forward lean); pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Reed was a pioneer of school fiction for boys -- he contributed to The Boys' Own Paper (BOP) -- writing from a Christian standpoint but without the moralism of others. This was his first published book, after being serialised in the BOP; due to the immediate success and popularity of the story, Reed was encouraged by the editor's to attempt longer and more ambitious works, resulting in the publication of 'The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's'; many illustrations.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. 1st thus. h/b. Near fine and unread: slight creasing on cover, slight browning pages.. B (198 x 129). The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley (1827Ð1889). It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same characters reappear in a sequel entitled Little Mr Bouncer and his friend Verdant Green. Introduction by the novelist Anthony Powell.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus edition, original white cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards, spine darkened, finger-soiling to covers, endpapers spotted, mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often (qty: 1) First edition thus, number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and… Read More