Search Results: Titles starting with C from Inklings & Yarnspinners

Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. 1st. h/b. Vol 1: Near Fine (one early underlining); vols 2 & 3: Fine. All in protective sleeves. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's life--his key relationships, his conversion to Christianity, his bestselling books, and more. Poe brings to light new information on Lewis and corrects many earlier misunderstandings about him to show how his experiences of education, war, loss, and friendship shaped him into one of the most important writers and scholars of the 20th century. This set includes Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898-1918), The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918-1945), and The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From… Read More

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2013. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g. but v slight bumping); text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)

Plymouth: Northcote/British Council, 1998. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new.. C (216 x 135). The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents only a small part of Lewis's controversial life, and omits much that is crucial to an understanding of this fascinating, and in some ways tormented, personality. Lewis enjoyed (to the chagrin of his academic colleagues) a tremendous success as a popular theologian. He was also a successful science fiction writer. And last, but by no means least, he was a brilliant and original academic in the field of English Studies. This book weaves together the very different elements in the complex phenomenon of C.S Lewis, and relates the central concerns of Lewis's life and work to current thinking about postmodernism,… Read More

Bangor: Strandtown Press, 1998. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, signed and inscribed on title, text block firm and pages unmarked, small crease on back cover. Comp slip insert.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Written in time for the centenary of Lewis's birth, David Bleakley's biography of his early years, and the legacy of his Irish childhood.

London: Faber & Faber, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. Signed to title; d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, ex-library (Latimer Trust), some label residue on cover, text block firm, spine creased, forward lean, pages unmarked. Scarce. A (178 x 110). From the EFAC Christian Foundations series which sought to recover the church's dynamic witness, scriptural teaching and fellowship in worship. Michael Green's contribution on ministry.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904. reprint. hardback. Very good, reprint of 2nd edition (orig. 1892), ex-library (Latimer Trust), blue boards with blindpressed ruling, gilt spine titling (some label residue); text block firm, pages uncut and unmarked; library markings on front pastedown and ffep (chipping). Unread.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Classic history of the biblical canon by J. C. Ryle's son Herbert, the noted theologian and bishop (after holding bishoprics of Exeter and Winchester, became Dean of Westminster).

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1962. reprint. hardback. Very good, with unclipped d/j (a little tatty) blue clothbound boards clean, bronze spine titling bright; front biinding text block a little loose otherwise firm; pages crisp with occasional pencil marking; owner's neat inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1971. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (in protective sleeve), red clothbound boards, pressed black/gilt cover/spine titling & design; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from ""natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses; both, in the course of their work, met many of the leading men of their day, and George III made a friend of Brown; both, in their different ways, exerted a lasting influence on other landscape designers, including those of America and Europe. Edward Hyams, himself a gardener of sophistication and taste, has written in this book an account of the astonishingly full lives of two men to whom Britain is indebted… Read More

London: Grant Richards, 1908. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, dark blue buckram boards (a little bumping on edges), gilt titling and decoration bright; text block good, untrimmed pages unmarked (t.e.g); maps on pastedowns.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission to trade and to aid the Indians of Darien against the Spaniards; Captain Carmmock a splendid old pirate, who commands the ship; Edward Perrin, a shy and frail little homosexual, Stukeley, a brutal bully and fugitive from justice, and Olivia his beautiful wife. ÔAs the weeks and months at sea go by, nerves are strained to breaking point and violence build sup, Captain Margaret has been for years the silent lover of Olivia. Perrin is in love with Captain… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1941. 1st. hardback. Good, missing d/j, yellow boards showing rubbing and some browning; endpapers v.g., pages clean and unmarked, binding reasonable and intact.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody. His mission: break the British Blockade. The only thing in his favor was surprise. Who would expect a Yankee frigate in Long Island Sound at night?

London: Reinhardt Books (Viking Books), 1988. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (slight bumping, in protective sleeve), olive green boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp, slightest foxing on edges. Unread.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time. I can still remember the wetness of the gravel under my gym shoes in the school quad and how the blown leaves made the cloisters by the chapel slippery as I ran recklessly to escape from my enemies between one class and the next. I slithered and came to an abrupt halt while my pursuers went whistling away, because there in the middle of the quad stood our formidable headmaster talking to a tall man in a bowler hat, a rare sight already at that date so that he looked a little like an actor in… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1928. Grove. hardback. Good, no d/j, blue clothbound limp covers, gilt titling on cover & spine reasonably bright but with some scuffs and fading, pages clean and unmarked, tightly bound.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.

London: Heinemann, 1932. Grove. hardback. Good, no d/j, green clothbound boards, gilt titling on cover & spine bright, pages clean and unmarked, tightly bound.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1964. 1st. h/b. Near fine, unclipped d/j (just v slight scuffing), yellow boards, black titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). If the framer fits... Take a no-holds-barred proxy war for a rich Texas oil company, with Jerry Conway, its young president, fighting for survival. Add a beautiful woman in a mudpack and not much else who gives up a freshly fired .38 to Conway before she shows him the door. Top it off with the body of another young woman with a bullet in her chest fired by the same gun, and you have the recipe for the perfect murder - and the perfect frame-up. Perry Mason has two problems. His client, Jerry Conway, is the prime suspect. And Perry himself is the accused accessory....

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 1st UK. hardback. Near fine, 1st UK edition, with clipped d/j (v.g.), maroon clothbound boards (light bumping at base), gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, unmarked pages crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to ""Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction."" An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the complex intrigues, both amorous and political, of his legendary courtiers.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. 1stUK. hardback. Good with clipped d/j (slight bumping but in protective sleeve), pages bright with tight binding. Owner's inscription on ffep.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 (the year first published in the U.S.)

London: Dulau & Co, 1928. 1st. paperback. Good, with fair d/j (fading with wear and tear) pages clean and binding intact if a little loose; foxing on endpapers. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Bibliographical catalogue of Wilde's writings (formerly in the possession of Robert Ross, C. S. Millard (Stuart Mason) and The Younger Son of Oscar Wilde). 2000 printed, with 105 special paper

London & New York: W. H. Allen, 1975. 1st UK (2nd imp). h/b. Very good, UK edition, clipped d/j, red clothbound boards, gilt spine titling (some rubbing); text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations for his music compositions.

London: British Library, 2017. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders, school governors, librarians, teachers, parents, students, editors and publishers. Censored deals with some of the most contentious and fascinating cases, including works now praised as literary masterpieces, such as James Joyce's Ulysses and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; as well as a troubling book about assassination that was implicated in a murder case. The books in this comprehensive study have been chosen to showcase the variety of suppressed literature, the methods and consequences of censorship, and landmarks in the history of free speech.