Search Results: Authors starting with E from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Guild, 1984. hardback. Near fine. No d/j, clean and tight pages.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation

London: John Murray, 1959. reprint. h/b. Near fine. Unclipped d/j (some cimpping), cream clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and tight.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation

New York: Coward-McCann, 1969. 1st USA. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, light tan boards clean but some bumping at head; green spine titling clear; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). New York Times bestseller: A sweeping romantic saga about the colonization of Australia, from the author of An Important Family.When Gilbert Massingham chooses Eugenia Lichfield for his bride, he knows the aristocratic beauty is the ideal mistress for his plantation in the Australian wilderness. But the virile, larger-than-life, vineyard-obsessed Gilbert isnÕt the husband Eugenia imagined when she left England for this untamed land.Then exiled Irish portrait artist Colm OÕConnor and prison refugee Molly Jarvis come into their lives, altering the familyÕs destiny. As Yarrabee grows into one of AustraliaÕs premier vineyards, a subtle struggle for power begins that will have far-reaching consequences for Eugenia, Gilbert, and their children.Featuring a cast of… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition (signed to title).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household Ð and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools Ð end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his ÔberserkerÕ heritage? With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious (possibly Scandinavian) heritage. With star-studded anecdotes and set to a soundtrack of pop hits which transport the reader through time, itÕs a memoir like no other. Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on… Read More

New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1884. 1st thus. hardback. Good, ex-library book (Latimer Trust), 1st thus edition, no d/j, brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling and ruling; text block firm, pages tight. Neat pen notes throughout (incl. timeline summaries).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). An edition of Jonathan Edwards' classic biography of the missionary to Native Americans, David Brainerd. Edited and introduced by J. M. Sherwood with an essay 'On God's Hand In Missions' by Arthur T. Pierson.

London: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 1st USA. hardback. Near fine, 1st US edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (vg); beige boards, silver spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Slightest of bumps on base edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1878. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition (originally pub in 8 parts in 1876), maroon clothbound boards (some bumping and chipping), black/gilt pressed decoration & titling on cover/spine; text block firm, pages untrimmed.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1986. 1st thus. h/b. Fine, blue (gilt-impressed) boards in blue board slipcase.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1901. hardback. Very good, no d/j, maroon boards (bumping at edges and spine dulled )with small decorated circle on cover (gilt embossed) and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Some foxing on endpapers. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squireÕs son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by ArthurÕs seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. 1st USA. hardback. Very good, 1st USA edition (1st UK in 1954), no d/j, black boards with white/yellow design and titles; (spine chipped and cracks in places). olive and black printing, pages crisp and tight.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.

London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 3rd. hardback. Nearly fine with good unclipped d/j (torn spine), fading on ffep, tight binding and crisp pagesProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)

London: Faber & Faber, 1935. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition,missing d/j, navy clothbound boards good (with slight scuffing on edges); spine torn and faded, with gilt titling fair; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; owner's inscription on title. Newspaper cuttings tipped into to endpapers. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)

London: Faber & Faber, 1944. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j in reasonable condition (some foxing and bumping on top edge). sSandy-coloured boards, clean. Pages clean and crisp with no markings (good condition for war-time rationed paper); binding creased open in middle and slight tearing (from original cutting) on two pages.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start

London: Faber & Faber, 1934. 1st. hardback. Very good, with good d/j not price-clipped,green clothbound boards and gilt titling on spine all clean and near fine; pages unmarked apart from small neat owner's inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)

London: Faber & Faber, 1950. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Elements of the play are based on Alcestis, by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1948.[1]

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. 2nd. h/b. Very good, 2nd impression, in unclipped d/j (vg, in protective sleeve, some chipping), lavendar clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Wartime papers.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to ""start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is"" Eliot begins with the appearance of poetry criticism in the age of Dryden, when poetry became the province of an intellectual aristocracy rather than part of the mind and popular tradition of a whole people. Wordsworth and Coleridge,… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1954. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. Owner's name stamp on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.

London: Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, 1988. Limited. h/b. Near fine, rare limited edition, unclipped d/j (good, some chipping and bumping); red leatherette boards, gilt spine titling and cat on cover; 15 excellent, tipped-in coloured and b/w plates by Mim Hain (all fine). Signed and numbered (133/200) on title.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition with good unclipped d/j in protective sleeve, pages bright and crisp, tightly bound. Small retail label on front pastedown: University Book Store, Singapore/Kuala Lumpur. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in the love scenes in particular contain some of Eliot's most tender and expressive writing for the theatre. The play was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1958.

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