Search Results: Titles starting with O from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Faber & Faber, 1953. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked; endpapers singicantly tanned; donor's extended inscription on ffep, two other owners on pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). de la Mare's final collection of poetry - published when he was 80 years old. He would die just three years later. Contains 69 poems, many having first appeared in periodicals, but with some appearing in print for the first time.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, n.d. (1947). 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, orange clothbound boards, silver spine titling, text block firm, (some untrimmed) pages unmarked but with some yellowing. Neat owner's inscription on ffep. Wartime papers.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Written by Sir Charles Trinder under the pseudonym A. C. Malcolm, this is a delightful fantasy set in ancient Athens.

London: Hamish Hamilton, n.d. (1986). uncorrected. hardback. Fine, uncorrected proofs in protective wrapper.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Uncorrected proof of Theroux's 1986 novel published simultanesouly on both sides of the Atlantic. It's New Year in paranoid, computer-rich New York, and a group of Owners has jet-rotored out to party in O-Zone. New York is a sealed city. Visits to the eerie, radioactive wasteland of O-Zone are now rarer than moon landings. The people dumped there, 'aliens', officially do not exist. For Hooper Allbright and Fizzy, Theroux's futuristic Robinson Crusoes, the trip sets in motion an adventure of undreamed-of desire and terror.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1946. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good (spine a little grubby), yellow spine titling clear; text block firm, pages unmarked and clean.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Born John Casey (1880-1964), SŽan O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j, orange boards, white spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet. In one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years, Jane Harris has created a heroine who will make you laugh and cry as she narrates this unforgettable story about secrets and suspicions and the redemptive power of love and friendship. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Shenval Press, 1966. Limited. hardback. Fine, limited edition (no 83 of 350) green boards with gilt logo on front, black spine with gilt titling, both bright; tightly bound pages, clean and unmarked, and no foxing; in matching green slip case. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.

London: William Heinemann, 1920. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, uclipped d/j (fair, some chipping and bumping, not intact, in protective sleeve); green boards, blue on white panel spine titling; text block firm, untrimmed and uncut pages, unmarked with some sunning.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Bridges had become Poet Laureate in 1913 and inevitably the First World War preoccupied much of his writing subsequently. He, along with several other writers, worked at the War Propaganda Bureau in Wellington House.

London: William Heinemann, 1942. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (bumping on top edge), red cloth boards (a little fading on edges) gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, unmarked pages tight, fairly browned (wartime papers).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A collection of eight poems, including ""The Burning Glass"" and ""The Dancer in Darkness"".

London: Hutchinson, 1972. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st reprint prior to publ.) with unclipped d/j (fair, some tearing, creasing), black boards clean, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straighforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.

London: Methuen & Co, 1950. 1st thus. hardback. Good, 1st edition, ex-library (Latimer Trust), clipped d/j (some chipping and label residue); blue cloth boards (some staining and mould), gilt spine titling dulled; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Originally published in 1899 by T. H. Bindley, this fourth edition was completely revised by F. W. Green to take into account half a century's worth of development in Patristics studies. Includes The Creed of Nicaea; The Epistles of Cyril; The Tome of Leo; The Chalcedomian Definition.

London: Penguin, 1996. reprint. p/b. Fine, as new. . B (198 x 129). Marquez describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, he witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. The novel is his recreation of her legend as a popular saint. Sierva Maria De Todos Los Angeles, only child of the Marquis of Casalduero is bitten by a rabid dog at the beginning of this story. When she does not die, but evinces problems of a psychological nature, her father turns her over to a convent to be examined by church officials. But the priest who examines her, Cayetano Delaura falls in love with her. Their chaste affair, sexual without consummation, leads to their mutual destruction. Their plans to run away together are thwarted; the priest is banished and Sierva Maria dies after an awful exorcist ritual. When her body is found the narrator notes that 'the roots of her… Read More

London: Sceptre, 2002. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a menage a trois and dangerously attracted to a married woman whose husband is a POW, who confesses that she has been tempted by a charismatic American sergeant. Before Father Darragh can dissuade her, she is murdered. Suspecting the sergeant, yet believing he might save his soul, Darragh gets drawn ever further into a morass his complacent superiors deplore and towards a showdown that could cost him his life.

London: Viking, 2021. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition 1st printing, signed.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life. Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership. Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life,… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. Signed to title; d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales,… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1986. 1st, 3rd printing. hardback. Near fine. Signed. D/j clean and unclipped, pages clean and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). "The Old Devils"" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.

London: Hutchinson, 1986. 1st. hardback. Very good. D/j clean and unclipped, pages clean and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). "The Old Devils"" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.

London: William Heinemann, 1917. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j, red cloth boards (a little fading on edges), black cover & spine titling; text block fair (one loose page); pages unmarked but browned (especially publisher's 64pp catalogue at rear); pastedowns unmarked; maps intact and clean.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A description of the front line in France immediately prior to the Battle of the Somme, with 16 b/w photographs and pull-out map.

London: Faber & Faber, 1965. reprint. paperback. Good reprint 1962 p/b edition, tight binding, cover stained in places, pages crisp and unmarked, with just a little foxing.. A (178 x 110). These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley

London: Faber & Faber, 2006. reprint. p/b. Fine, as new. . A (178 x 110). These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972. 1st. paperback. Good, ex library book (Latimer Trust), cover bright, pages tight and unmarked (library labels and a little tearing on ffep).. C (216 x 135). From the Growing Points in Theology series (translated from the original German by the author.