Search Results: Titles starting with G from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Duckworth, 1904. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, red boards (a little stained) with gilt cover/spine design and titling all bright (some rubbing on spine); text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; some foxiing on endpapers.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: ""George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive."" He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and incisive writing, nevertheless, in true Chestertonian style. With b/w f'piece and 31 b/w plates.

London: Methuen & Co, 1929. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, original blue buckram boards, gilt spine ruling & titling (rubbing and sunning on spine); text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and crisp.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus' by J. H. Dowd

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); red boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Provenance: Carlota Frahm, literary agent. Scarce in this condition.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Sam Bagshott, son of the late Boko Bagshott, had been at Blandings Castle only a short while, but long enough to know that anyone enjoying its hospitality must get the occasional shock. Sam braced himself as the possibilities flitted through his mind. The house was on fire? Empress of Blandings had taken to the bottle again? Constable Evans had arrived with a search warrant? There was a wide area of speculation, and he was prepared for bad news in any form. In any form, that is to say, except the one in which it came. First published in the previous month in the US as 'The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood.

London: William Heinemann, 1916. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, red boards (a little sunning) black titling front and spine, with publisher's logo on back; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp, some foxing on endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). After returning home Masefield was invited to the United States on a three-month lecture tour. Although his primary purpose was to lecture on English literature, he also intended to collect information on the mood and views of Americans regarding the war in Europe. When he returned to England he submitted a report to the British Foreign Office and suggested that he should be allowed to write a book about the failure of the Allied effort in the Dardanelles that might be used in the United States to counter German propaganda there. The resulting work, Gallipoli, was a success. Masefield then met the head of British Military Intelligence in France and was asked to write an account of the Battle of the Somme. Although Masefield had… Read More

London: Collins (Crime Club), 1954. 1st. h/b. Very good, unclipped d/j (some bumping), text block firm, pages crisp (some foxing on edges).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The death of Greta Marais--once so famous among model-girls--was a seven-day sensation to the newspapers. But to the unsuccessful, small-time actor Roger Brand, looking down at the sprawled corpses of his mistress, it implied a terrible and frightening predicament. It was so obvious that he had had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to kill her. Written by actor, author and director Val Gielgud, older brother of John.

Stratford-upon-Avon: Celandine Press, 1981. 1st. paperback. Near Fine, numbered 333 (of 350), marbled wrappers good (only minor corner bumping), tight binding, untrimmed pages pristine. Incl. original order form on pink paper.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender, R. S. Thomas, Anthony Thwaite, Ted Walker, John Wain and Laurence Whistler. Title page engraving by Miriam Macgregor. Limited to 350 copies (150 quarter bound of which 75 signed by all contributors; 200 in marbled-paper wrappers).

London: Maclehose Press, 2008. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing, unclipped d/j. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons his customary aloofness to find out more, and accepts a dinner invitation from his landlords - a billionaire-thug and his beautiful but mistreated wife. The dinner party - a chance for a brilliantly satirical sketch of the braying upper class hunting set - is disastrous and, soon after, Jim's pastoral idyll disintegrates. His lambs die, cows give no milk, bees swarm. Sensing his ghostly lover has turned malevolent, Jim knows he must placate her before the circle of decay reaches those he loves - even if that means making the ultimate sacrifice. Both… Read More

London: Religious Tract Society, 1906. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, navy blue full calf boards, blind pressed tooling and gilt cover/spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked; general foxing.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). In the Devotional Commentary series, Charles Brown's commentary was first published in 1906.

New York: Anchor Books, 2017. 1st thus. p/b. Near fine, 1st p/b edition (v small crease on back cover). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman replied testily, ""The military commander in the field will have charge of the use of the weapons, as he always has."" This suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and UN forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to… Read More

London: Collins, 1942. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, light tan clothbound boards, red cover & spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and clean (slight foxing on pastedowns).. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1980. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st ed (1st printing), signed label affixed to 2nd fep, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; some foxing otherwise v.g. condition. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Dirk Bogarde's 1st novel, set in the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals who want their freedom. As the Empire crumbles, the island is plunged into chaos and violence amidst a nationalist uprising. Selfishness, sex, greed, fear and revenge, all play their part; though so too do the finer instincts of love, loyalty and concern. At times gloriously funny, never sitting in judgement, Dirk Bogarde portrays mankind's fallible, complex humanity as the thin skin of conventional behaviour, tautened in the corrosive atmosphere of Southeast Asia, gradually begins to split.

London: Folio Society, 2012. 1st thus. hardback. Fine, Folio edition, green slipcase, green boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm; unmarked pages crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The poems in this edition follow the fourth edition of ""The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins""; the prose follows the text of ""Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works."" (OUP, 2002) with 1 b/w photograph (fpc) and 8 colour plates.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 1st. p/b. New. B (198 x 129). From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the… Read More

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1956. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); maroon boards, gilt spine titling bright, maps on pastedowns, text blocks firm (v slight forward lean), pages unmarked; some foxing on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). An Italian fisherman and his wife, Rosa, live in Sydney. Hard times are ahead. Their mortgaged boat may be lost and with it, their livelihood. But Rosa has a plan to reach the coast of America from the islands of the Pacific, sailing on a beleaguered little houseboat. The plan seems almost perfect, especially when Willie appears and has his own reasons for taking a long holiday to the land of opportunity.

London: Viking, 1995. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition 1st printing, unclipped d/j (slightly scuffed, in protective sleeve), black boards, spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.

London: Mantle, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition. Signed to half-title, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in the Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water Ð its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship has hunted pirates to liberate enslaved prisoners. Now it Ð too Ð finds itself hunted. But the shipÕs crew hides a secret, and the stakes could not be higher. The bravest among them are not who they seem: if arrested, they will hang for their alleged crimes. Can they survive their journey and escape their fate? A… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (minute marks on cover), v slight forward lean; otherwise pristine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of AmyÕs haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusionsÉ

London: Minerva Press, 1973. 1st thus. hardback. Near fine, 1st thus edition, with unclipped d/j (v.g., some slight bumping and spine slightly faded); light brown clothbound boards (front lightly warping upwards) with red printed design and titling clear; pink pastedowns, text block firm, thick pages crisp, clean and unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The J_taka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.

Westchester, IL: Crossway, 1985. reprint. p/b. Very good, some label residue and bumping on covers, otherwise text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. C (216 x 135). One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs. The result is a remarkable and inspiring book, showing the importance of Christian faith for many composers, and the effect of this upon their music. But it also shows how the lack of faith has brought profound change in the meaning and form of contemporary music. Thus A Gift of Music seeks to open up a whole new world of music--to encourage listening to the finest compositions with new understanding and pleasure, and to stretch our ears and imaginations. It is a book which will be greatly appreciated by those who already love classical music, and by others who want to explore this… Read More

London: Reprint Soc. (by arr. Victor Gollancz), 1964. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st reprint society ed. (1st Gollancz 1963), unclipped d/j (fair - flaps loose), blue/red boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; pages unmarked and tightly bound. . 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Glass blowers is about the Bussons, the author's forebears, before and during the French Revolution. An engraved glass in her posession, and an old letter found by chance among family papers left by her grandfather, George du Maurier, led the author on a voyage of discovery. the result is a novel which has a quiet intensity of feeling.