Search Results: Titles starting with K from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Heinemann, 1965. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg, small chip at spine head, in protective sleeve), green clothbound boards, gilt spine titling br4ight, text block firm, pages crisp & unmarked. Slight foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Monica Dickens's novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going around with a social worker on his calls she knows that adolescents and, more important, small children are daily subjected to neglect and brutality and that "care and protection" cannot be prescribed like National Health aspirin. She meets Kate again, by chance, in her Uncle's supermarket where she is learning the business from the bottom up. And between these two girls, from different backgrounds, with very different parents who have… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1971. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, purple boards clean (but fading on edges); gilt spiine titling (on black panel) bright; text block firm; pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This is the story of Christopher IsherwoodÕs parents Ð their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his fatherÕs death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world which shaped Isherwood and which he rejected.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1906. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition, no d/j, grey/green boards with gilt pressed decoration and titling bright (in protective sleeve), text block firm (top edge gilt), untrimmed pages crisp and unmarked (slight browning). With 24 full colour plates.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way that Americans celebrate Christmas. In his 1812 revisions to A History of New York, he inserted a dream sequence featuring St. Nicholas soaring over treetops in a flying wagon, an invention which others dressed up as Santa Claus. In his five Christmas stories in The Sketch Book, Irving portrayed an idealized celebration of old-fashioned Christmas customs at a quaint… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. Signed to title; d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). *WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023* 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88, but also for his relationship with Martha. 2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from KiteÕs days at school and an off-the-record BOX 88 asset, makes contact with explosive information about what happened all those years ago in West Africa. When tragedy strikes, Kite must use all his resources to bring down a criminal network with links to international terror É and protect Martha from possible assassination.

London: W. Kent & Co, 1881. Miniature. hardback. Very good, brown boards (slight bumping), gilt spine titling bright; pages crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, a.e.g.; occasional foxing on endpapers. 24mo (127 x 88 / 5"" x 3_). Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Burns includes: - Vol I: Tam o' Shanter, Farewell to Ayrshire, On the death of a favourite child, etc- Vol II: A Winter Night, There was a Bonnie Lass, A red red Rose.

London: W. Kent & Co, 1880. Miniature. hardback. Very good, brown boards (slight bumping), gilt spine titling bright; pages crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, a.e.g.; occasional foxing on endpapers. 24mo (127 x 88 / 5"" x 3_). Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc.- Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations

London: W. Kent & Co, 1880. Miniature. hardback. Very good, brown boards (slight bumping), gilt spine titling bright; pages crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, a.e.g.; occasional foxing on endpapers. 24mo (127 x 88 / 5"" x 3_). Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy- Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems

London: W. Kent & Co, 1880. Miniature. hardback. Very good, brown boards (slight bumping), gilt spine titling bright; pages crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, a.e.g.; occasional foxing on endpapers. 24mo (127 x 88 / 5"" x 3_). Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Milton includes: - Vol I: Paradise Lost- Vol II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Psalms, Misc poems and translations, Latin poems

London: W. Kent & Co, 1882. Miniature. hardback. Very good, brown boards (slight bumping), gilt spine titling bright; pages crisp, unmarked and tightly bound, a.e.g.; occasional foxing on endpapers. 24mo (127 x 88 / 5"" x 3_). Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Byron includes: - Vol I: Childe Harold, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Lara- Vol II: Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, Hebrew Melodies; Miscellaneous

London: Blackie & Son, n.d. (?1950). Meteor library. hardback. Very good, with unclipped d/j (slight bumping), orange boards clean, red titling front/spine bright; pages unmarked and tight; only a little foxing on edges. Prize plate on ffep (Forres Academy 1949/50). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A classic Haggardesque adventure novel with a treasure map, collapsing rope bridge, secret caves, aviation, swordplay, underground tunnels -- and, of course, an interesting Lost Race! Illustrated by Reginald Cleaver.

London: Allison & Busby, 1978. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). B(runo) Traven was the pseudonym of a mysterious ?German writer, whose true identity is still in dispute. He is best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This collection of short stories was published posthumously in the USA in 1975, having been translated by his wife Rosa Elena Lujan.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1915. reprint. hardback. Good, no d/j, red leather-bound boards good, with gilt spine titling and cover elephant design bright; pages unmarked and tight; all edges gilt; owner's plate on front pastedown; back gutter loose (but taped repair) . 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a disciple and then funds his education at an English public school an adventure begins that will take the unlikely pair to the Himalayas on a thrilling journey of espionage and enlightenment. 'The greatest of all Kipling's books' E. M. Forster; 'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip Pullman

New York: Little, Brown, 1962. 1st USA. hardback. Near fine, 1st USA, with clean unclipped d/j (spine tanned), black cloth-bound boards with blind-pressed logo and clear gilt-titling. Pages clean and tightly bound.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his old school friend Widmerpool, who is gaining prominence in the business world, if he will help him. But reserves lists are quickly filling up with names, and itÕs not long until the threat of war is the one thing on everyoneÕs mind.

London: George Allen & Sons, 1909. hardback. Fair, no d/j, orange boards with gilt titling (some scuffs and grubbiness); pages intact but guttering weak, pages tight and unmarked, with some foxing; school prize plate on front pastedown.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). First published in 1851, John RuskinÕs Victorian story tells the tale of the Black brothers: the kind-natured 11-year old Gluck and his two nasty older brothers, Hans and Schwartz. For Gluck, play is cleaning the floors, and his education consists of a wholesome quantity of punches. One stormy evening, Gluck is left at home to prepare his older brothersÕ dinner when an extraordinary-looking little man knocks at the door. Having been strictly warned not to let anyone in, Gluck watches as the little old man becomes increasingly drenched at the door. His soft heart tells him to ignore his brothersÕ advice, and so GluckÕs encounter with the mysterious King of the Golden River begins.

London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new (d/j in protective sleeve).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the Boer Wars and the First World War, he became the poet of the common soldier. Although he wrote propaganda for the government in the Boer and First World Wars, Kipling was also acerbic in his criticism of military incompetence, deeply compassionate towards the victims of war and despairing of the senseless bloodshed that he witnessed. Through his writing, the voices of countless soldiers and the guns of many battles echo through the years and place Kipling firmly firmly among the leading practitioners of 19th and 20th century war literature.

London: Collins, 1976. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); orange boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm (but slight forward lean), pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Quiller is called back from his vacation in France by the secretive London Bureau. He is asked to take on a mission that seems strangely undefined. Quiller learns that there is an international terrorist strike being planned -- at least 3 agents with the Bureau have died trying to gain information on this terrorist strike. All that is certain is that this group will not hesitate to kill anyone who seems even remotely on their trail. Quiller's task is to infiltrate this group through a series of disguises.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1959. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition 1st printing, signed on ffep, unclipped d/j (slightly grubby and bumped - initially appears clipped but Macmillan's standard cut); red boards clean, white spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp but foxing on edges. Inscription: ""To Margaret Harvey, in abinding friendship from John Berry - 'J'ayme, donc je suis."". 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). From flap: ""Krishna Fluting is a very superior kind of book, all about exotic, barefaced India, where the ancient lunar cold of the Himalayas fights a losing battle against the life force, where Peter Bruff is battered at by gods, demigods and humans, and seems to enjoy it, and comes to his proper inheritance. Everyone earns remorse, relief or triumph, or simply love, watched over by the Smiling God, whose flute-note is the call fo the Infinte. Winner of inaugural Macmillan Prize for best book.