Search Results: Titles starting with I from Anglophile Books

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1977. Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394417909. 8vo; 295 pages; Bottom corners bumped, one to boards; top edge sunned, binding good and tight. Dust wrapper, not price cut, browned at top edge, one closed tear at back. ; Second printing before publication, October 1977. . Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: British Woman Author, Novel.

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. 2010. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book.; <b>A new collection of short stories from this witty and intelligent author - family stories, romances, ghost stories, WWI patriotism, stories of independent working girls and honourable chaps. Originally written at the turn of the last century, these stories are perfect miniatures of insight and humour. Now out of print.</b> .

Poole, Dorset, UK: New Orchard Editions Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. c1978, ?. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 1850790000. 333 pages; Pages lightly browned but clean, spine tail bumped. Clipped dust wrapper is very lightly edgeworn and rubbed. A nice copy.; Includesboth Alice books, The Hunting of the Snark, and other short works. This edition has 24 black & white plates and several additional illustrations by a variety of well known Alice illustrators. . Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: Lewis Carroll, Fantasy, British Author, Children's.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+. c1921,1969. Reprint. Softcover; Trade PB. 286 pages; Spine and cover creases, light edgewear, dampstaining to bottom edge does not extend to margins or text. Previous owner's pencilled airline notes on inside front and back cover. No markings in text.; The second volume of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga is on the surface a tale of divorce in Edwardian England, but in reality much more. Soames, the man of property, has lost his wife, and finally moves to pursue his dream of an heir. Irene falls in love with Soames' cousin and Soames, himself, finds a suitable future mate in Annette. The fortunes of the earlier generation and the next are also told...and the reader who despised Soames in A Man of Property is surely growing fonder of the man who is a victim of his own birthright in English society. A measure of happiness comes to all in this volume of superb storytelling. ; Forsyte Chronicles. Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: Forsyte Saga, Movie Tie-in,… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. 1993. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 024112834X. B&W Photographs; 478 pages; A lovely copy. Spine head faintly bumped, page edges pale yellow. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly creased at top edge.; The author draws heavily on unpublished works for this 'first major biography of one of the most provocative, prolific, and influential figures in British-American literary history. In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream. In her personal relationships she was often at the center of a circle of friends and artists whose activities she inspired and sometimes controlled. Her extraordinary range of associates included writers as diverse as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. During a long and "scandalous" affair… Read More

NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2012. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 705 pages. Spine ends lightly bumped, green ink line on bottom edge, remnant of a sticker blacked out with ink on front free endpaper. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn.; <b>'Can love and honor conquer all? Mark Helprin’s enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the beginning of summer, 1946. <p>Postwar New York glows with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant.<p>Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions,… Read More

Toronto: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. Spine ends lightly bumped, faint sunning to bottom edge, faint foxing top page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear and very light scoring on back panel. A nice copy. ; <B>Between 1870 and 1914 one hundred American women married British nobility, only six married Dukes. This is the engaging story of five of those women, Consuelo Yznaga, Lily Hammersley, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Helena Zimmerman and May Goelet.</B>; Cover matches sample image. .

NY: Avon Books. Very Good. c1940, 1970s. Softcover; Mass Market PB. 221 pages. Faint spine creases, light cover creases, light edgewear. Pages age browned but clean and not brittle; none loose. ; <b>Serial murder baffles local authorities, but for the ever-unshakable Lord Peter and the working-class sleuth Montague Egg, the killings are intriguing invitations to unravel postmortem puzzles, fascinating falsehoods, mysterious motives, and diabolical demises. This collection of short stories (17 stories, including two Peter Wimsey stories and five Montague Egg stories) was originally published in 1940.</b> .

New York: C. N. Potter. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1979. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517538741. 214 pages; Board and text block edges lightly soiled. White dust wrapper, price clipped and lightly soiled and edgeworn. Pages clean and bright, binding good and tight. ; This collection of short stories, originally published in England (in slightly different form) as Monday Lunch in Fairyland has two new stories included, making 15 in all. . Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: British Woman Author, England, Social Life And Customs.

NY: Riverhead Books. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. 691 pages. Spine ends very lightly bumped, black spine cloth has a few faint smudges, page edges also have a few smudges; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear. A very nice copy. ; <b>England's "Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what… Read More

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1987. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060157550. 180 pages; Edges dusty, front board slightly flared; dust wrapper rubbed. ; Basis for movie of the same name. . Catalogs: Short Stories. Keywords: Movie, Fiction.

New York: Bonanza. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. c1925, 1970s. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517175045. B&W Illustrations; 302 pages; Originally published in 1925, this edition has no date. Spine ends lightly bumped, dust wrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn. A very nice copy. ; Illustrated by the author with 304 photographs that he took while traveling through all the counties in Ireland. From the dust wrapper 'This volume pretends to no place as a guide book, nor is its text intended as a serious effort to cover with precision or fullness any part of Ireland. It is merely a record of impressions of beauty or quaintness observed in a land which for romance and pathos, strange history and legend, for witching grace and mystery, is probably unsurpassed. ' . Catalogs: Travel. Keywords: Ireland.

NY: Tom Doherty Assoc.. Very Good- in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2008. First US Edition. Hardcover. 431 pages. Spine ends bumped,short closed tear at spine head, board edges faintly soiled, page edges pale yellow; no binding problems, pages clean and bright. Unclipped dust wrapper slightly edgeworn.; <b>The village is the tiny town of Ballybucklebo in rural Northern Ireland. This is the second novel in the series that has been described as in the tradition of James Herriot.</b> Image is actual copy on offer. .

NY: Kensington Publishing Corp.. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover; Mass Market PB. ISBN: 082176201X. 475 pages; Book has faint edgewear, remainder mark on inside front cover; looks unread.; A tale of passion between headstrong Siobhan O'Rourke, Princess of Donegal Keep, and her adversary, the English knight Gaelan PenDragon, set during a fiery war in ancient Ireland.. Catalogs: Romance. Keywords: Ireland, Novel, Fiction, Zebra Historical Romance.

New York: Dell Yearling Books. Very Good. (1960) 1987. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0440439884. 184 pages; Edgeworn and rubbed, no spine creases. ; The story of Karana, an Indian girl that lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. This is a fictional retelling of an actual 19th century event. A Newbery Award winner; highly recommended. . Catalogs: Children's. Keywords: Newbery, Aleutian.

NY: Puffin Books. Very Good. c1999 & 1994, 2001. Softcover; Trade PB. 281 &231 pages. Faint edgewear,spine edges rubbed, page edges pale yellow; looks unread. 'Island of the Aunts' illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, 'The Secret of Platform 13' illustrated by Sue Porter. ; <b>This omnibus edition has two magical children's books. In 'Island of the Aunts' (also published in the UK as 'Monster Mission') "three children have been dramatically kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts. But Myrtle, Coral, and Etta are far from killers - they need the children for a special mission. The secret island where they live is a sanctuary for magical creatures - mermaids, selkies, the amazing boobrie bird and even the great Kraken himself, and the kidnapped children help to care for them. But the Island of Monsters has become the target of some dangerous villains who want to turn it into a theme park." <p>"Under Platform13 at Kings Cross… Read More