Search Results: Authors starting with P from Inklings & Yarnspinners

Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. C (216 x 135). He was one of the Bible's greatest leaders. A man of action who took on the incredible task of rebuilding ancient Jerusalem. He was dedicated. Wise. A zealous man who saturated himself with prayer. In all of this he helped set the standard for godly leadership. And yet you probably know nothing about him. He was Nehemiah. Indeed, his Old Testament book reads like the memoirs of a pastoral leader and politician par excellence. In it Nehemiah tells how, with God's help and blessing, he went about rebuilding the city of Jerusalem and renewing her people. It is a spirited, first-person account of spiritual renewal. Yet Nehemiah can equally be read as a testimony to God's involvement with man. Using a Bible-study approach J. I. Packer looks at how Nehemiah led the people and how God led Nehemiah--all to ultimately build up His Kingdom. Through this book you will discover a model for revival in your own church. A Passion for Faithfulness… Read More

London: Country Life, 1934. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green clothbound boards, black cover illustration, black spine titling; text block firm pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Memories of 70 years with the Leicestershire Hunts (Quorn, Pytchey, Fernie) by A Melton Roughrider (ie Dick Heathen) With illustrations and foreword by Guy Paget, drawn from The Tatler, Vanity Fair etc.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. 1st. hardback. Fine, signed 1st edition, with unclipped d/j. On title page: ""To Louise - best wishes, Michael Palin"". 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played the hapless, stuttering Ken (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He wrote much of the dialogue and acted in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits and acted in his next film, Brazil. He co-produced, wrote and played the lead in The Missionary opposite Maggie Smith, who also… Read More

London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. Signed to title; d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him. Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of… Read More

London: J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1842. 3rd & enlarged. hardback. Good, tan full calf binding with blindpressed ruling, gilt spine titling on red and black plates (significant wear on spine, text blocks firm, pages unmarked and crisp; marbled edging; ex-library (Latimer Trust - residue of labels on front pastedowns). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students in Theology, in 2 volumes

London: Faber & Faber, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition. Signed on half title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Plague is not the only killer -- an historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and nation-building, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built of pink stone'. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Each of them holds a separate mission. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. Because Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress. But plague is not the only killer. Soon, the eyes of the world will turn to this ancient island, where the future of a fragile empire is at stake, in an epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1995. 1st UK. hardback. Fine 1st UK and signed edition, with near fine unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A tapestry of Middle East and Islamic culture, by the author of ""The White Castle"" who won the 2008 Nobel price for Literature. Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, suspects that his vanished wife is hiding out with her half-brother, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies. Galip plays the part of private investigator, with dire consequences.

London: Faber & Faber, 2012. 1st thus (3rd printing). p/b. Near fine, one slight crease on spine, pages crisp and unmarked. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. Under the creeping shadow of right-wing nationalism and political revolution, they share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before their home became a high-class resort. Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun, has yet to discover the real-life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 1st. paperback. Near fine.. B (198 x 129). A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the ""lost boys"" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with NyaÕs in an astonishing and moving way.

Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia, 2017. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg), red boards, rose gold spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp and tight - multiple underlinings.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely. This book humorously considers that slavish art from the historical past to our current political environment, and particularly through the revealing lens of literature. Some of the grandest examples of yes-men appear in these pages--from Dante's flatterers and Dickens's Uriah Heep to Kellyanne Conway, who urged us to ""go buy Ivanka's stuff,"" and the obsequious soul who apologized to Vice President Cheney for being shot by him.More relevant now than ever, as sucking up… Read More

London: Fourth Estate, 1994. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve); black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm (gutters a little loose); pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.

London: John Murray, 1962. 1st. hardback. Good 1st edition, clipped and sunned d/j, red cloth-bound boards clean with gilt design on cover and titling on spine bright; pages tight and unmarked, with a little foxing. Provenance: Peter Foster (1919-2010), architect and painter (fmr Westminster Abbey's Surveyor of Fabric) and his wife Margaret (Hemingford Grey, Cambridge). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Parkinson's advice for how to succeed in the world. Step one is finding the right father-in-lawÉ

London: Viking, 2002. 1st. h/b. Fine, signed to title (dedicated to Margaret & Gordon, 2002). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In this surprising and eccentric autobiography from a former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris writes of his personal and political life with equal candour. With a First from Cambridge and the possibility of working for the Foreign Office, he decided instead to apply to be an apprentice diesel-fitter with London Transport. He was rejected and so turned to a life in politics. He has worked with Margaret Thatcher, Chris Patten, Tony Blair and Michael Portillo, and his observations of political lifeand those who move within it are truly fascinating. This colourful memoir is an account of a young life already well lived.

London: Folio Society, 1997. 1st. h/b. Fine, Folio edition in brown slipcase, maroon spine with gilt titling.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara.

London: Faber & Faber, 2020. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new, 1st edition 1st printing. Signed on title. d/j in protective sleeve. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author's own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to Black Mirror-style sci-fi, 'weird tale' to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means. Occupying the shadowlands between confession and invention, Zonal takes us to places and spaces that feel endlessly surprising, uncanny and limitless.

Amsterdam: Kilderkin, 2016. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. C (216 x 135). A travel guide to a country that no longer exists, the Ddr. What could be more useful than that? Find out where and what you should have been drinking in ThŸringen and East Berlin almost thirty years ago.

London: Religious Tract Society, n.d. (?1875). 1st. hardback. Very good, no d/j, brown boards, black/gilt tooling & titling cover & spine, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). If the reader is looking for a complete and thorough biography of Isaac Watts, one that delves into details and specifics, this is the book to read. The comprehensive minutiae will reveal an ample look at WattsÕ life and indeed, the time in which he lived. Quoting, ÒIt was a cruel time; the laws were very bitter against the Nonconformists....,Ó puts the reader right there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Isaac Watts never married, but he was not without feminine companionship, and content is devoted to the women who were special to him. Biographer Edwin Paxton Hood has packed much information in a book of a little over 300 pages, including views of Dr. Watts on various subjects, such as the afterlife. Not a simple overview type of biography, but one will come away with a feeling… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. 1st. h/b. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, mustard coloured clothbound boards (some grubbiness), blue titling; pages crisp, text block firm. Neat pencilled owner's inscription front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake

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: HarperCollins, 1996. 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 scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece ÔAn Instance of the FingerpostÕ. A tip-off without any names and a theft with no obvious motive Ð these are the apparently innocuous matters currently in the hands of Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad. Flavia is able to disturb the looters of the monastery in San Giovanni but not catch them. And it's a good thing that nothing valuable was stolen because neither she nor art dealer Jonathan Argyll have a clue who the culprits were. Maybe the truth lies with the item they did get away with Ð not the disputed Caravaggio the monastery is known for, but a curious icon of the Madonna that is said to have strange powers. Such claims… Read More