Search Results: Titles starting with I from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, ex library (Latimer Trust); text block firm, pages unmarked. Some foxing on edges and single crease in spine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In this book David Watson, author of ""You Are My God"", draws on his years of leadership and learning at St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, to give a message to the Church of the 20th century.

London: Ebury Press, 2011. 1st thus. hardback. Fine, as new and unread.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). In this lavishly illustrated book bestselling author Christopher Winn takes you on a captivating journey around London. Travelling through the villages and districts that made up the world's must dynamic metropolis, I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's sometimes turbulent past. See the Chelsea river views that inspired Turner in his final years. Explore London's finest country house in Charlton and unearth the secrets of the mother of Parliaments and discover the village that gave its name to a car and the Russian word for station. With gorgeous colour illustrations throughout, this miscellany reveals the steeple which became the model for the traditional wedding cake, the home of the sandwich, and the house which was home to Handel and Jimi Hendrix. Brimming with facts, stories and snippets,… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1955. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, (slightly chipped but v.g.); red cothbound boards with gilt spine titling (slightly dulled); text block firm, pages unmarked. Signed to title page. Housed in publisher's original shipping box.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.

London: National Book Council, 1944. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, publisher's green clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked (occasional foxing).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.

London: Virago, 2017. 1st UK. p/b. Near fine, 1st UK edition, slightly yellowed edges, some v minor bumping base rear cover. Otherwise crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . . For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance the two sides of her upbringing - Muslim and Western. She has also sought to provide a mediating voice between these cultures, which too often misunderstand each other. In this compelling and evocative memoir, we accompany Mekhennet as she journeys behind the lines of jihad, starting in the German neighbourhoods where the 9/11 plotters were radicalised and the Iraqi neighbourhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another, and culminating on the Turkish/Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. In her travels across the… Read More

Exeter: Anne Piper, 1998. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, privately published, unclipped d/j (v.g. some sunning, in protective sleeve); black boards, gilt spine titling brightl text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Sir David Towry Piper CBE FSA FRSL (21 July 1918 Ð 29 December 1990) was a British museum curator and author. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery 1964Ð1967, and of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1967Ð1973; and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1967Ð1973, and Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1973Ð85 and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, 1973Ð1985. He was knighted in 1983. Under the pseudonym Peter Towry, Piper wrote a number of novels, including Trial by Battle (1959), a story based on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Japan for three years during World War II. This is a posthumous compilation of his writings during the war.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. 1st UK. h/b. Very good, 1st UK edition, missing d/j, red clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Slight foxing on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When their paths cross, the ensuing misunderstandings lead to vintage Wodehouse comedy.

London: Bantam Press, 1996. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, slight tanning on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed. The only rule is imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. And a visionary patriot whose voice rises above it all: Igor Komarov. It is in to this world that former CIA agent Jason Monk is plunged. Drawn out of retirement by the CIA's desperate bid to halt Komarov's meteoric rise, he must slip back in to Russia undetected and carry out a covert mission that the world depends on. With Komarov set to win the next election, Monk discovers a secret document that is smuggled in to the British Embassy in Moscow. Named The Black Manifesto, it reveals Komarov's horrifying and deadly secret agenda. With many Western leaders persuaded that Komraov can lead his country into a new age, and the election looming, time is running out . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 1st (2nd imp). hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd impression, same year), missing d/j, turquoise boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm (v. slight forward lean), untrimmed pages tight and unmarked, though with some light foxing on edges and endpapers. Owner's inscription scribbled out on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The three lectures Eliot gave at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in March 1939.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1890. 1st USA. h/b. Very good, 1st USA edition (4 years after UK 1st), no d/j, original brown cloth binding, gilt titling on upper cover/spine, text block firm, pages crisp and yellowed, occasional pencil underlining.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second ""Idle Thoughts"" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898. The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1972. 1st. h/b. Very good, signed to ffep; unclipped d/j; black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his knees sees more than a philospher standing on tiptoe. If you want to know what hundreds of thousands of Christians have experienced, and are still experiencing, in Communist prisons, read these sermons. Then get down on your knees and ask God for the privelage of sharing the cross of the sufferers, of remembering them as though you were bound in chains with them.

London: Simpkin Marshall, 1949. reprint. hardback. Good, reprint edition, missing d/j, red boards (some bumping, waterstaining), black cover & spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp but with frequent marginalia. Wartime standard papers. Scarce.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. This book articulates his theology of sanctification which lay at the heart of the holiness movement.

London: HarperCollins, 2000. 1st. hardback. Near fine, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards pristine, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages slightly yellowed. Signed on title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of ÔAn Instance of the FingerpostÕ. How do you resolve a scandalous kidnapping without paying the ransom or attracting any attention? It's not a question Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, would normally need to answer. Unfortunately, the Italian prime minister is asking it. As Flavia begins a desperate search for the Claude Lorrain landscape, snatched while on loan from the Louvre, her husband embarks on a rather more leisurely quest. Jonathan Argyll is keen to discover the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, titled The Immaculate Conception, as a favour to its owner. His enthusiasm wanes when the investigation brings… Read More

London: Biteback, 2012. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. . B (198 x 129). Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every aspect of human civilisation: science, agriculture, architecture, religion, the arts, fame and family. From freeing your soul to freezing your brain, all these attempts to defy death fall into four simple categories - the four paths to immortality. Ranging across continents and cultures, from ancient Egypt to cutting-edge laboratories, Immortality raises the curtain on what compels us humans to keep on going. The four paths are ancient, but science is now showing us - for the first time in human history - whether any of them can really lead to infinity. Cave investigates what it would mean for our lives if they can - but also if they can't. If the paths up the Mount… Read More

London: Frances Lincoln, 2015. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. CoffeeTable (250 x 200). LarkinÕs photographs not only illustrate his poems - they explain and deepen them ... superlative, succinct and subtle biographical commentary'.The Times. The most widely read British poet of the twentieth century, Philip Larkin was also a keen amateur photographer and through his life he made images of the people, places and things that meant most to him. The Importance of Elsewhere gathers the best of Larkin's photographic work, divided into short thematic chapters arranged in chronological order. Written by Richard Bradford, the acclaimed author of the Larkin biography First Boredom, Then Fear, the book shows how Larkin, as an individual, as a writer and indeed as a photographer, developed an acute sensitivity to all aspects of the world around him, from his love of open uninhabited landscapes and empty churches to his mixed feelings about crowds. There are also fascinating portraits of those people who were closest… Read More

Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2016. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural forces of our day with fortitude and winsomeness. What is needed is followers of Christ who are willing to face reality without flinching and respond with a faithfulness that is unwavering. Os Guinness describes these Christians as ""impossible people"", those who have ""hearts that can melt with compassion but with faces like flint and backbones of steel who are unmanipulable, unbribable, undeterrable, and unclubbable, without ever losing the gentleness, the mercy, the grace, and the compassion of our Lord"". Few accounts of the challenge of today are more realistic, and few calls to… Read More

London: Orion, 2011. 1st. hardback. Near Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing. Slight forward lean. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin's series... Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist. A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees Fox in mortal danger.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. 1st UK. hardback. Very good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j in protective cover (but has small tear and small stain on front); boards green cloth fine, pages clean and bright. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg, some bumping); grey clothbound boards, bronze spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked, some marking on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key role in central Europe with Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. This is a work of cossummate political analysis and is unquestionably Tim Garton Ash's most outstanding book. It will be published simultaneously across Europe and in America.

London: Bodley Head, 1961. 1st. hardback. Good 1st edition, ex-library copy, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve and glued down, pages bright but front board partially detached. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Previously unpublished journals recording his African travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and an earlier wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941. Some of the raw material wound up in ""A Burnt-Out Case"" and ""The Heart of the Matter.""