Search Results: Titles starting with R from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. reset & reprint. hardback. Very good, limp suede-bound boards (fading and bumping at top and spine); gilt titling bright; binding firm, untrimmed pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Combination of various publications of Brooke's work. 1908-1911 poems; 1914 & othe poems; The South Seas; Other poems

London: Readers' Union / William Heinemann, 1941. reprint. h/b. Good, 1st Readers' Union edition (original in 1939), no d/j, blue clothbound boards (some water damage), white spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp but some foxing.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). John Boynton Priestley OM (1894Ð1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future. In 1940 he broadcast a series of short propaganda radio talks, which were credited with strengthening civilian morale during the Battle of Britain. In the following years his left-wing beliefs brought him into conflict with the government and influenced the development of the welfare state.

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1929. 2nd reprint. hardback. Good, 2nd reprint, no d/j, green clothbound boards (some scuff marks) black cover/spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked; foxing on edges and endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The seventh book in the Anne Shirley series, first published in 1926. 'There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in the lower corner near the marsh. Not a great many people knew of its existence. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of course . . .' When the new minister, Reverend John Meredith, arrives at the manse, the village is scandalised by his children's behaviour. He is the best preacher they've ever had, but since his wife died the youngsters have run wild. Anne recognises their kindness, though, and before long the four young Merediths are firm friends with her own six children at Ingleside - and up to all sorts of schemes. They meet at a private hideout - a… Read More

Dublin: New Island, 2001. 1st. hardback. Near fine, unclipped d/j, pristine apart from slight spotting on top edge.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Set in 1950s rural Ireland, Rathcormick is an engaging tale of a large and happy family: a stern and domineering Papa, a warm and practical Mama, their two daughters and six sons. For Homan, the youngest, life is a free-spirited awakening in a world of old-fashioned virtue and frugality. But no boyhood lasts forever, and an abrupt turn of events signals an end to the idyll. Homer Potterton was the director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1980-1988.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 1st thus. hardback. Good, missing d/j, blue boards clean but faded at edges and spine; gilt spine titling some rubbing; text block firm, pages tight, clean and unmarked; some tanning on pastedowns.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). First UK combination of 4 great Chandler wartime novels: The Big Sleep (1939); Farewell, my Lovely (1940); The High Window (1943); The Lady in the Lake (1944).

London: William Heinemann, 1941. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, blue boards good with gilt cover and spine titling a little dulled; text block firm (slight forward lean), pages unmarked and crisp (but tanned - wartime papers). Owner's inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

Self-published, 2017. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with a high view of what a human being is and opens a vista of possibilities for man with God against the straitened condition of being without Him.The Re-inherited Mind deals with human dignity, liberty, endeavour, relationships, time and purpose using a secure understanding of how we know things, why we believe things, and how we remember them.

London: Fourth Estate, 1994. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (vg in protective sleeve); black clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm (gutters a little loose); pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.

Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). e evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions--institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology. In this unique exploration of evangelical subculture, Daniel Silliman shows readers how Christian fiction, and the empire of Christian publishing and bookselling it helped build, is key to understanding the formation of evangelical identity. With a close look at five best-selling novels--Love Comes Softly, This Present Darkness, Left Behind, The Shunning, and The Shack--Silliman considers what it was in these books that held such appeal and what effect their widespread popularity had on the evangelical imagination. Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and… Read More

Stroud: Amberley, 2017. 1st. hardback. Fine, as new. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and he with her, but her proud family consider his status and prospects inadequate. Heartbroken, the lovers part: he goes to sea while she leads a forlorn life at home. Years later he returns with a fortune in prize money, and after further misunderstandings he claims her as his bride. This is the story of Anne Elliot in Jane AustenÕs Persuasion. It is also the story Ð true this time Ð of Katherine Bisshopp, the clever, beautiful daughter of an old Sussex family. Drawing on KatherineÕs letters and journals and other family papers, this book relates the joys and anxieties of her youth, her harrowing eleven-year courtship with… Read More

London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. C (216 x 135). An erudite and superbly illustrated survey of a continuingly vital part of contemporary art. Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book Ð the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject Ð demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American and European painting, from Eakins, Bellows and Homer through Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper and Giacometti, to Balthus, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. The author provides the historical, artistic and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn and argues that the western tradition of pictorial realism has in fact been renewed and modified through the diverse influences of modernism, political conflict and new visual technologies.

London: Folio Society, 1997. 5th reprint. h/b. Fine, Folio edition in brown slipcase, blue/brown/gilt printed clothboards.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

London: Triton Publishing, 1965. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, a little bumping at head and tail); text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Rebecca's Daughters was an exercise by Thomas to write a film script that would also give the reader ""a visual impression of the film in words."" It was never made into the movie he envisioned, but it was published by Triton in England in 1965 and Little, Brown in the U.S. in 1966.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 1st English. hardback. Near fine 1st edition in english, with clipped d/j (v.g., a little bumping on edges); red clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. Translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political… Read More

London: Guild Publishing (by arr. Methuen), 1988. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus edition (same year as Methuen original), unclipped d/j, grey boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Some foxing and browning.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt. 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .'When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her next-door neighbour, in a wild attempt to stop him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run.Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in… Read More

New York, NY: Little, Brown, 2018. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, signed and dedicated on title ('For David, The Aftermath, It holds so much, Leslie'), unclipped d/j (some grubbiness, bumping), white boards, black spine with copper spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp; multiple underlinings and marginalia.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life. Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1952. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); orange clothbound boards, giltspine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked (some browning).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). From the dustjacket: Joad is not a sentimental preacher, exhorting us to 'return to religion'. He is a thinker, a philosopher, who has found himself slowly compelled by his reason to concede the unique claim of the Christian religion. He has set out to tell us what has happened in his own mind, and can equally happen in the minds of others, to bring about this result... He tells us, very clearly, why and how he has come to this definite belief, after a lifetime of free philsosophical speculation. He seeks to make clear its philosphical foundation in a God who is both transcendent and immanent and to show the inadequecy of contemporary alternative creeds.

London: Penguin, Michael Joseph, 2002. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.), black boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world of political intrigue and conspiracy. Stationed in England, he quickly finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story to tell: senior Russian officials are plotting to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The CIA novice must forget his inexperience and rely on all his wits to firstly discover the details of the plot - and then prevent its execution. For it is not just the Pope's life that is at stake, but also the stability of the Western World. Red Rabbit is the thrilling eighth novel featuring Jack Ryan, following The Sum of All Fears and Debt of Honour. Published after Executive Orders, the novel charts Jack Ryan's earliest mission for the CIA, and is the stunning prequel to The Hunt For Red October.

London: SCM, 2007. 1st thus. p/b. Near fine; some creases on back cover. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This book seeks to do something different, by looking at the impact of Christianity over a wide range of areas of national life - religion and the media, religious art, religion in literature, religion in schools, religion and economics and so on. The book has been born out of a frustration at existing writing on religious change in Britain, which has tended to over-concentrate on church attendance figures, rather than look at the more diffuse and dynamic influence of religion on public and private life. ""Redefining Christian Britain"" will open up new areas of inquiry including… Read More

Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984. 1st. paperback. Very good (unread), 1st edition, ex-library book (Latimer Trust) with clean covers and tight binding; spine without creasing; pages a little tanned but unmarked. Provenance: originally owned and signed by the author's father, renowned NT scholar John Wenham (to whom the author gives tribute in preface).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol IV differs in that it is a single-author monograph, by David Wenham, one of the co-editors of the series.