Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Inklings & Yarnspinners

Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2008. 1st. h/b. Near fine, some label residue on ffep.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Quarry, a thoroughly compelling first collection, shows an impressive range and versatility with poetic form. It emphatically announces a persuasive and highly distinctive new voice.

Lisboa: Edi›s çtica, 1963. 1st. p/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed and dedicated by Maria AmŽlia Neto (translator) on ffep 'Offered to Mr F. E. Halliday by the translator, May 65'' Thick paper cover in protective wrapper, (a little browning on edges) otherwise vg condition; text block firm, untrimmed pages crisp and unmarked. Scarce.. B (198 x 129). The Portuguese translation of Eliot's iconic poems written during the Second World War. The English and Portuguese texts are printed on facing pages.

London: Book Club Edition/Michael Joseph, 1974. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j; some light foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.

London: Faber & Faber, 2022. 1st. p/b. Fine, limited 1st edition pamphlet, signed on title. C (216 x 135). Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.

New York: Sarah Crichton , 2014. 1st USA. h/b. Fine, 1st USA edition, 1st printing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public, political concern. Her bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body beneath the make-up and elaborate clothes, as well as to rumoured illicit dalliances with such figures as Robert Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of assassination plots and other Catholic subterfuge. For such was the significance of the queen's body: it represented the very state itself. This riveting, revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the feminized world of the Elizabethan court. Between the scandal and intrigue the women who attended the… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1955. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition in facsimile d/j. Blue boards clean but faded at edges; gilt spine titling clear; text block firm and pages unmarked and crisp; very light foxing on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1956. 1st, 2nd imp. hardback. Good, 2nd impression (same year as 1st ed), with unclipped d/j (some bumping and creasing esp on spine); red clothbound boards faded at top but white titling clear. Pages unmarked but some foxing.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The 3rd novel by Andrews (pseudonym of Lucilla Crichton) in her series of hospital romances.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961. reprint. hardback. Near fine, 1961 reprint (1st ed 1954) with unclipped d/j (v.g.); blue clothbound boards good, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, some bumping and chipping); blue clothbound boards good, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A collection from the many broadcasts made by the poet Dylan Thomas and which was proposed just before he left for New York on what would be his final journey. Prefaced and edited by Aneirin Talfan Davies, who was Welsh Region director for the BBC.