Search Results: Titles starting with N from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. 1st thus. hardback. Good, 1st thus edition (combined volume), beige clothbound boards (scuffed and bumped, blue cover/spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked, top edge blue.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944) was a British novelist who took his own life during the war. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the award of the 1935 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

London: Sceptre, 2016. 1st UK. paperback. Fine, uncorrected proof. Pristine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by his captors, but he forges an unexpected ally: a rebellious British girl, Betsy, who lives on the island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. Based on fact, Napoleon's Last Island is the surprising story of one of history's most enigmatic figures and a British family who dared to associate with him. It is a tale of vengeance, duplicity and loyalty, and of a man whose charisma made him dangerous to the end.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, n.d. (?1924). 1st thus. hardback. Very good, no d/j Everyman edition, green cloth boards (good but small stains), gilt spine titling bright; patterned pastedowns; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. 1st. h/b. Near fine, signed on title, unclipped d/j, maroon boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean), pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg supply. For five years Courthope and his band of thirty men were besieged by a force one hundred times greater - and his heroism set in motion the events that led to the founding of the greatest city on earth. A beautifully told adventure story and a fascinating depiction of exploration in the seventeenth century, NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG sheds a remarkable light on history.

London: Swan Sonnenshein & Co, n.d. (?1891). 1st thus. h/b. Very good, Full calf boards (original, some professional repairs), gilt tooling, cover coat of arms and spine titling, 5 raised bands, text block firm, pages crisp (very occasional foxing), marbled endpapers and edges. School prize label on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped Edition. With Ten Letters not included in any other Edition. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick and Others.

London: Folio Society, 1994. 1st. h/b. Fine, Folio edition: Marbled green boards with brown spine panels and end papers. Like new in brown slipcas. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise to the mysteries of bird migration and animal reproduction, with the purpose of inspiring others to observe their own surroundings with the same pleasure and attention. Written as a series of letters, White's book has all the immediacy and freshness of an exchange with friends, yet it is none the less crafted with compelling literary skill. His gossipy correspondence has delighted readers from Charles Darwin to Virginia Woolf, and it has been read as a nostalgic evocation of a pastoral vision, a model for local… Read More

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1933. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition in paperback, yellow printed covers with only slight rubbing; spine a little creased but intact and text block firm; pages unmarked but slight foxing on edges.. A (178 x 110). McNabb was a renowend Catholic apologist and theologian, born in Ireland and subsequently spending many years ministering in London.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1943. 1st. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, red cloth boards with yellow impressed titling on cover and spine (some sunning on edges and spine slightly cocked with bumping and rubbing); text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Beaton's account of his 3 months in the Near East taking photographs and collecting material for the British Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. Includes many b/w photographs

London: Bantam Press, 1989. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards clean, silver spine titling bright; text block firm (slight forward lean); pages unmarked and clean (some foxing on edges).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective . . . The Negotiator unfolds with the spellbinding excitement, unceasing surprise and riveting detail that are the hallmarks of Frederick Forsyth, the master storyteller.

Persia: unknown. hardback. Good, some wear and tear on boards but binding reasonably firm and pages unmarked. Donor's inscription on ffep: 'a Nestorian hymn book used in our congregations in Qroomiah, Persia'; on title page 'Miss Susan Jenkins, Pittsfield, N.H. with love from Anna J. Beach.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). American missionaries in Iran: Perkins (Justin, translator) Ktaba da-zmaryate qadi_e [Book of Holy Hymns], Urmia, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1860.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j. A little bumping on spine otherwise pristine.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans - his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years in the Chelsea Hotel, passing stranger evenings with the eccentric residents. Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. It… Read More

London, New York, Toronto, Sydney: B. T. Batsford, n.d. (1948). 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, orange clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block reasonably firm; pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs. Sitwell leads us out of museums and away from the great cities, where tourist, and their guidebooks, usually remain cloistered. By traveling outside the usual, Sitwell has discovered a new and beautiful Holland in which 18th century architecture, strange villages and costumes of Friesland, and undiscovered artists. Sitwell's account of the Netherlands awakens anew our curiosity in this well trod country. Incl. many b/w and colour plates, pull out map.

London: Little, Brown, 2006. 1st (2nd imp). h/b. Near fine, 1st edition (2nd imp); unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), black boards, red spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have until now been besotted by the supposed cultural revolution of the Sixties, Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society, the impact of immigration, the invention of modern pop music and the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1924. Tusitala. hardback. Very good, no d/j, 3rd impression in Oct 1924 of Tusitala edition (orig. Nov 1923); blue boards with blindpressed signature on front, gilt titling on spine showing signs of rubbing. Pages clean and unmarked (exc. for inscriptions on ffep) - some tanning on endpapers. . 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The first volume of Macmillan's Tusitala complete edition of Stevenson's works. First published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English short story tradition.Contains: the Suicide Club; The Rajah's Diamond; The Pavilion on the Links; The Lodging for the Night; The Sire de Maletroits Door; and Providence and the Guitar

London: Duckworth, 1930. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (rare with d/j), unclipped d/j (good, but bumping and tearing, spine hinge weak); printed boards good; text block firm, pages unmarked and bright; only a little tanning.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j. Signed to title. Yellowing pages.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond. Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate . . . 'A magnificent feat of storytelling and panoramic reconstruction' Observer

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2018. 1st. p/b. Good, crisp and intact, contains markings and underlinings. C (216 x 135). "Our millennial children, as well as nonchurchgoing millennials, are both the church's greatest challenge and its most exciting new opportunity.""-John Seel, PhD Warning: There is a fundamental frame of reference shift in American society happening right now among young adults. You may think of this group as millennials-those born between 1980 and 2000-but millennials resist this label for good reason: the national narrative on them is pejorative, patronizing, and just plain wrong. Here's what we do know: Of Americans with a church background, 76 percent are described as ""religious nones"" or unaffiliated-and it's the fastest growing segment of the population.Close to 40 percent of millennials fit this religious profile.Roughly 80 percent of teens in evangelical church high school youth groups will abandon their faith after two years in college. It's unlikely that the evangelical… Read More

London: Burns & Oates, 1912. 1 (5th 1000). h/b. Very good, original buckram binding (only light fading in places), gilt pressed titling and decoration bright, text block firm (top edge gilt), untrimmed pages crisp, but some foxing. Owner's plate on front pastedowns.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The final anthology of Thompson's poetry originally published in the year of his death (1907).

London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. 2nd imp.. hardback. Very good, 1st edition 2nd impression (1st in 1956), unclipped d/j (some soiling and chipping); red boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm; pages crisp and unmarked but browning thoughout. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). 5 RED HERRINGS: Lord Peter Wimsey bent down over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the gnarled old hands. Then, with a quick jerk, he lifted the quiet figure. It came up all of a piece, stiff as a wooden doll . . .But how did the general die? Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for questioning? And which of the general's heirs, both members of the Bellona Club, is lying? HAVE HIS CARCASE: 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… Read More

New York: St Martin's Press, 1973. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; black boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm. Pages crisp with occasional text markings and underlinings.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, after an era of neglect and obscurity, is today appearing on concert programs with startling frequency. In response to the growing vogue, especially among younter audiences in America and Europe, the well-known writer and foremost Scriabin authoirty, Faubion Bowers has written a completely new and definitive study for the general reader.