Search Results: Titles starting with H from Inklings & Yarnspinners

New York: Hogarth Shakespeare, 2016. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing; unclipped d/j (fair, bumping on spine and grubby label residue on back); light blue boards and black spine titling clean; text block firm; pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.""A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back story falls neatly into place.""--The New York Times Book ReviewFelix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he's staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of… Read More

London: Penguin, 2014. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed on title, unclipped d/j (some bumping at base). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). n a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan must find a way to unlock his full powers before his seventeenth birthday, or face madness and death. His one hope lies with the sinister Blood witch Mercury. But Mercury's help always comes at a price - one Nathan may not be able to pay . . . Now a major new Netflix series entitled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself.

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: Macmillan, 1998. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The FBI receive an anonymous threat from a terrorist group that claims it can trigger earthquakes. Judy Maddox, an FBI Agent with a point to prove, is tasked with investigating the threat by her obstructive superiors. She must discover if it is credible and, if so, where it comes from. When a suspected, machine-generated tremor is detected her investigation reaches a critical point Ð can she find those responsible, and their next target, before they trigger a catastrophe that will devastate the entire West Coast of America and the millions of people who live there . . .

London: Heinemann, 1977. 1st. hardback. Fine, with unclipped d/j (though price inked out) in protective sleeve, black boards pristine, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and clean, tightly bound, some foxing on top edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.

London: Heinemann, 1977. 1st. hardback. Fine, with unclipped d/j (some tearing at top), black boards clean but some marking on front, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and clean, tightly bound, some foxing on top edges. Owner's inscription on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.

Delhi: Seema Publications, 1976. 1st Indian. h/b. Very good, 1st Indian edition, clipped d/j (fair, chipping and torn, in protective sleeve), black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages tight and unmarked (apart from occasional pencil lines). Provenance: from library of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, FRSL.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). First steps in Muslim jurisprudence, consisting of excerpts from B_k_rat-al-sa_d of Ibn Ab_ Zayd, with Arabic text, English translation notes This book, ""First steps in Muslim jurisprudence"", by Alexander David Russell, Abdullah Al-Ma'Mun Suhrawardy, is a replication of a book originally published before 1906. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

London: R. S. Surtees Society, 1983. 1st thus. h/b. Fine, in protective sleeve.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written. We would all be forgiben moments and passages where we agree Ð the interaction with Pigg, the baleful look at the Ôbon tonÕ the magical, hysterical hunting scenes and bawdy exchanges with impertinent washerwomen. Where else can one find these snaps of the early Victorian hunting, turnpike world? In the novel Jorrocks, who has taken the hounds at the invitation of the snobbish populace, arrives in the Spa town and proceeds to wreak havoc. With his inimitable Scottish huntsman he shows the people of Handley Cross that a city grocer can love Ôunting just as much as an hÕEarl. Facsimile of 1854 edition.

London: John Murray, 2008. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, signed to title with inscription 'Belladonna, she ????, 2008'. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder. Travelling alone, Hildegaard encounters a gibbet with five bloodied crow-stripped corpses, and later the body of a youth, brutally butchered. Who is he? And what is his connection to the hanged men? Murder will touch Hildegaard and those she loves even more closely as she rides on to her childhood home. Castle Hutton is riven by treachery. Old loyalties are shifting. Hildegard will need all her courage to counter the dark forces in the land. First in an engrossing new series of medieval mysteries, Hangman Blind introduces an intrepid new heroine.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. 10th imp. hardback. Very good, 10th imp (1st 1933), unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve); red boards, black spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked but a little browned.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The ninth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer David Mark - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph Poisoned port . . . Pet cats in peril . . . Purloined pearls . . . Lord Peter Wimsey solves the mysteries of the man who was blown into the fourth dimension and the murder in fancy dress. He pursues miscreants across several countries and into unexpected hiding places. 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James

London: Constable & Co, 1995. 1st. h/b. Good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve), ex-library (with usual stamps and labels); text block firm, pages tight.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. Frost is up to his neck in crime. And the problems keep coming. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis. But beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary… Read More

London: Vintage, 2000. 19th imp. p/b. Fine, as new. B (198 x 129). A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity. He refuses however to supply parade of grievances, and to give a simplistic account of beatings, sexual abuses, etc. He will not embark upon yet another fictional journey into the dark nature of slavery for the voyeuristic delight of the English reader. Instead, the old man ties the reader up in knots as deftly as a harlot her client: he spins a tale of myths, half-truths and fantasies; recreating Africa and… Read More

London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing; signed (inscribed 'To Mel, with all best wishes, Tash Aw'); unclipped d/j, brown boards clean; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman Ð a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer Ð whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta ValleyÕs most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novelÕs narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who… Read More

London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 1st UK. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing; signed to title; unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman Ð a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer Ð whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta ValleyÕs most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novelÕs narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1950. 1st. hardback. Near fine. Clean, unclipped d/j in plastic wrapper.Red boards largely unblemished with gilt-titling on spine intact. Pages crisp with text and drawings sharp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Stevie Smith's 5th published collection of poems

London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 1st. hardback. As new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When the world's foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan Morris's imagination.Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place - yet behind its arcane splendours are darker implications. The traditional Roof Race is peculiarly exciting, the waterfront is picturesque, the wistful call of a trumpeter from a distant rampart is wonderfully evocative, and every street corner is haunted by memories of illustrious visitors - Freud, Diaghilev, Marco Polo, Lawrence of Arabia and countless others. But Morris's visit ends in flight when an unidentified enemy arrives to seize control.When Jan Morris returns to Hav, some twenty years later, she finds that her account of her earlier visit is banned - and discovers a place that has rebuilt itself, transformed by a new energy and now… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. cheap. hardback. Very good 12th impression (1st 1932), unclipped d/j (fair with chippiong and bumping in protective sleeve); blue boards, some spine fading, black spine titling; text block reasonably firm but forward lean; pages crisp and unmarked; browning on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The eighth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling thriller writer Lee Child - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear . . . The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name.

London: Picador, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new, signed on special half-title. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Haven is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.' Ð Margaret Atwood via Twitter Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks Ð young Trian and old Cormac Ð he travels down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. Their extraordinary landing spot is… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1960. 2nd impression. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition (2nd impression), with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and grubbiness); blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. A little sunning on endpapers. Provenance: signed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005) - with occasional annotations by Fry. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, chipping and bumping); blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.