Search Results: Titles starting with B from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Macdonald, 1953. 4th imp. hardback. Very Good, 4th impression (1st ed 1951) with unclipped d/j (bumping mainly at top) red clothbound boards and black titling clear; pages tightly bound, some browning in end papers, no foxing.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Another collection of Searle's humorous drawings, of which 40 pages are of St. Trinian's cartoons.

London: Viking, 1986. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st ed (1st printing), signed label affixed to dedication page, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; excellent condition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated life. We share experiences from his family home in Hampstead through to his farmhouse retreat in Provence. This memoir highlights the people, emotions and episodes that made him into the man that so many loved. It is an especially searching and intimate volume of his acclaimed memoirs. Written with all the honesty, wit and intelligence that have made Dirk Bogarde such a popular writer, Backcloth is both eloquent and touching.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, signed on title page, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); boards good, text block firm, pages unmarked; just a little sunning.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 6th and final volume of the Anna Lee series; When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a paedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband? The Florida Keys and a handsome U.S. operative give Anna her first blissful taste of the sunny, fog-free New World even as she handily attempts to answer these questions and dodge the bullets that seem to her so quintessentially American. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel.

London: Headline, 2001. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with ""Beyond the Fringe"" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays (""Kafka's Dick"", and ""An Englishman Abroad""), films (""A Private Function"", ""Prick Up Your Ears"", and ""The Madness of King George""), monologues (""Talking Heads"") and diaries (""Writing Home"", and ""The Lady in the Van""). In this book, the author examines the life of this intriguing, private man and sheds light on his work.

London: Baskerille, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, signed on title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). POLITICS IS A DANGEROUS GAME In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar. Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation. In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1979. 1st. hardback. Fine, limited 1st edition, unclipped d/j (fine), text block and unmarked pages pristine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A selection of unpublished and uncollectd poems by Vernon Watkins' widow, Gwen, drawn from the large number left at his death. Kathleen Raine's introduction notes, 'Wales gave Vernon Watkins muyth and landscape; but he is also one of the last poets to write the English language of the educated and the cultured. He makes no concessions to a demotic revolution. He belongs to past and to future, transmitting words he inherited without diminution of meaning and value. He is perhaps a national, but not a popular poet; certainly a great poet.

London: Leonard Smithers & Co, 1899. 7th imp. hardback. Very good, important 7th edition (1st to name Wilde as author, Smithers' last to publish), no d/j, mustard boards, cream clothbound spine with gilt titling (some fading); text block firm, untrimmed pages tight and unmarked (some spotting on edges and endpapers.). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Wilde's famous poem was written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897 (he had been incarcerated after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison). During his time Charles Thomas Wooldridge was hanged (a soldier in the Royal Horse Guards). He had been convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.Having previous been published under the authorship of C.3.3. in the first 6 impressions (c5000 copies made from 1898), the 7th was the first time Wilde's identity was revealed (although… Read More

London: Allan Wingate, 1946. limited. hardback. Very good, 1st limited edition (unnumbered), with d/j (only fair, in protective sleeve), red clothbound boards good (faded at head and tail), gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages a little aged (wartime handmade papers) but unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Franois Villon (c. 1431 Ð c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of parallel French and English translations (chosen by AndrŽ Deutsch and Mervyn Savill) made by a variety of writers (incl. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Heron Lepper, William Stirling, Lewis Wharton, Algernon Charles Swinburne, DeVere Stacpoole, Richard Aldington, and John Payne).

London: Elkin Mathews, 1910. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, light green fine buckram boards, gilt impressed titling cover and spine; text block firm, pages untrimmed and unamrked. Small retailer's label on front pastedown; some ofxing on endpapers, otherwise v clean.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever

London: Folio Society, 1977. reprint. h/b. Near fine. Grey slipcase, green quarter clothbinding, printed boards, gilt spine titling/decoration. Top edge green; Slight scuffing on cover. Unread.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram's Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1995. 1st thus. hardback. Near mint, as new and unread Folio edition. Blue slipcase, gilt on black spine titling/decoration.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram's Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs on Mr Harding's daughter.

Oxford, New York, Toronto: OUP, 1991. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A collection of original poems by the author of ""Conkers"", which deals with the lives and experiences of young children and teenagers.

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd impression, same year) no d/j, red clothbound boards good (a little faded / grubby at edges), gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and clean; loose inserts, 3 programmes for Bath Summer School for the study of Late Stuart/Georgian Architecture & Decorative Arts (1955/6/7). Endpapers foxed, otherwise pages good.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls, and spent the mornings strolling along the Parades in their elegant finery, and exchanging gossip in the coffee houses. Writers, actors, artists and politicians shared the city's delights with exalted members of the peerage; and over… Read More

Montreal, Canada: Private Circulation, 1945. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition (private press, numbered 357/1000), marbled covered boards, white titling plate on black spine; text block firm, pages partially trimmed and some uncut. Signed on ffep with dedication to Sir Campbell Stuart (1885-1972), a Canadian press baron who eventually died in London. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Stuart's bookplate on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. 1st UK. hardback. Near fine, 1st UK edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and tearing); yellow clothbound boards & gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Dylan Thomas's reworking of a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson set in the South Seas.

London: Faber & Faber, 2017. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); text block firm and pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The stunning novel from the prize-winning author of The Wake. 'Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing.' Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't yet know; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements and with something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage and the search for truth. Short, shocking and exhilarating, it confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1904. pocket. hardback. Very good, reprint pocket edition, no d/j, red clothbound boards (spine slightly soiled) , gilt signature, spine titling and ruling; text block firm, top edge gilt (soiled), pages unmarked. Owner's inscription ffep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character RenŽe de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it ""One of the finest political novels in English."" Nevil Beauchamp is a young naval officer with high ideals of honour and public service who, having been wounded in the Crimean War, recovers his health in Venice. He there falls in love with a brilliant and high-spirited French girl, RenŽe de Croisnel, with whom he hopes to elope. RenŽe marries an elderly French aristocrat… Read More

London: Vernor and Hood, J. Wheble, J. Britton, 1801. 1st. hardback. Very good, no d/j; contemporary full burr calf boards, (vol I front and vol II back boards loose), chipped and rubbed; gilt spine titling faded; text blocks good, binding tight; pages crisp and unmarked. Ex-library copies (Newport public libraries). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The Beauties Of Wiltshire, Displayed In Statistical, Historical, And Descriptive Sketches: Interspersed With Anecdotes Of The Arts. Vol. I & II - each site accompanied by engravings, covering Stonehenge, Bowood, Longleat, Wilton, Longford etc

London: John Murray, 2008. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK, no d/j, black boards, gilt & white design and titling on cover and spine; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never to be seen again. Newell's suburbanite parents, Lincoln and Lorraine, are racked with mounting grief as their marriage begins to unravel during the unfathomable year that follows his disappearance. Bing Biderbixxe is an illustrator on a professional visit to Sin City on a hot summer day. He meets Cheri Blossom, a stripper known for her eye-popping pyrotechnic stage performance. Offstage, her drug- and porn-running boyfriend, Pony Boy, is cheating on her. With exacting suspense and original technique,… Read More

London: The Century Press, 1907. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, original blue cloth-backed boards, gilt titling on cover and spine; soome bumping; text block firm, pages uncut and untrimmed, internally clean and crisp; and plate on front pastedown.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a condemnation of the impudence and intolerance of teetotallers.