Search Results: Titles starting with W from Inklings & Yarnspinners

Lake Mary, FL: Relevant, 2001. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, text block firm, pages intact.. C (216 x 135). One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest rock group on the planet. This book explores the questions and controversy surrounding the deep-rooted religious themes of the group's music. It is a spiritual companion to their albums. It exposes the real meaning behind many of their songs and performances. From the group's beginnings at the Sghalom Christian fellowship in Dublin all the way through their seeming rebirth on their most recent album, the book brinds to light the struggles and triumphs of the band members' Christian faith. How have they kept it so vibrant in the harsh light of the world stage? Have they found what they're looking for? Why has the… Read More

London: Short Books, 2015. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy after overcoming depression. Some of the steps relate to particular experiences and events, such as holidays, dramas at work and her children's exams; others are useful at any time. Indeed this is an ideal book to dip into whenever the mood takes you. Written in the confidential, conversational style of a good friend and delightfully illustrated by Daily Mail cartoonist Jonathan Pugh, Walking on Sunshine will act as a constant, supportive companion through your ups and downs.

London: John C Nimmo, 1893. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, original blue buckram boards, spine titling on panel; text block firm, untrimmed pages crisp; with 4 photographic plates and portrait; numbered and limited: 147 (of 208). Ex-Repton school library with just a few stamps otherwise unmarked. Foxing on edges and endpapers.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers and artists. John Symonds was born at Bristol, England in 1840. His father, the senior John Addington Symonds, M.D. (1807Ð1871), was the author of Criminal Responsibility (1869), The Principles of Beauty (1857) and Sleep and Dreams.

London: William Heinemann, 1930. 1st reprint. hardback. Good, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards (a little biumping on edges), fading on spine and gilt titling; pages tight and unmarked; foxing on endpapers (and back paper torn out). Provenance: Prof Bill Trowbridge OBE, engineer and physicist, one of founders of computational electromagnetics (pencil inscription on ffep). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.

London: Constable & Co, 1943. 7th. h/b. Good, 7th edition, no d/j, blue clothbound baords (some bumping and fraying on edges, fading on cover); text block firm, pages crisp, some sunning on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent the first eleven years of her life in Japan before her family returned to Belfast. Her mother died shortly afterwards, and her father remarried. Hugh Waddell himself died and left his younger children in the care of their stepmother. Following the marriage of her elder sister Meg, Helen was left at home to care for Mrs Waddell, whose health was deteriorating.

Dublin: Farshore, 2012. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new, signed to title; unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story. With a stunning new cover from fine arts photographer, Nine Francois and chapter illustrations from award-winning war artist, George Butler. National treasure, Michael MoropurgoÕs, War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and… Read More

London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Cassell, 1917. 1st. h/b. Very good for age, 1st edition, no d/j, maroon clothbound boards (some fading on spine/edges), gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp but yellowed, some foxing on endpapers and some underlining.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled him. Except for the opening piece, its chapters were published as articles in the press. Though proclaiming early in the volume that ""I avow myself an extreme Pacifist,"" Wells staunchly supported Britain's war against Germany ""in the hope that so we and the world may be freed from the German will-to-power and all its humiliating and disgusting consequences henceforth for ever.""

London: Faber & Faber, 1962. 1st thus. p/b. Very good, 1st p/b edition (Faber paper covered editions), spine and cover intact but some shelfwear, ffep half-torn & neat owner's signature; light foxing on edges.. A (178 x 110). A 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 Ð 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the ÒThe InklingsÓ, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts who championed the merit of narrative in fiction and concentrated on writing fantasy. He was given an scholarship to University College London, but was forced to leave in 1904 because he couldn't afford the tuition fees. Other notable works by this author include: ÒThe Greater TrumpsÓ (1932), ÒMany DimensionsÓ (1931), and ÒThe Place of the LionÓ (1931). This volume is highly recommended for lovers of fantasy fiction, and it would make for a fantastic… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1995. 1st thus. hardback. Near mint, as new and unread Folio edition. Tan slipcase, gilt on black spine titling/decoration.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Beautiful Folio edition of Book 1 of Anthony Trollope's popular ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"" series. In ""The Warden"", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"" has been prized by readers for its entertaining exploration of the fictional English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester. Introduction by Prof Owen Chadwick and illustrations by Alexy Pendle.

London, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, n.d.. Nelson classics. h/b. Very good, pocket edition, clipped d/j (chipping and bumping); green clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). In ""The Warden"", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"" has been prized by readers for its entertaining exploration of the fictional English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester.

London: Faber & Faber, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, d/j in protective sleeve.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists - of Ezra Pound, who edited it; of Vivien Eliot, who sustained it; and of T. S. Eliot… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1971. 1st thus. h/b. Near Fine, limited numbered edition (#83 out of 500, on penultimate back endpaper); red slipcase, red printed title plate; red buckram boards, gilt signature on cover & spine titling (spine faded); text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; printed in black & red, b/w photographs throughout.. 8vo: imperial (290 _ 210 / 11_"" x 8_""). Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.

Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1984. 1st Dutch. paperback. Near fine, 1st Dutch paperback edition, text block firm and intact (in protective sleeve); signed on title:To Mother and Al: At least you can read the title! Love, Graham, June 84'. [Al was the name that Swift used for his father.. B (198 x 129). In Dutch translation: One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of historyÑand tell stories . . . Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the… Read More

London: Collins, 1965. 1st. h/b. Very good, clipped d/j (some chipping and bumping, in protective sleeve); green clothbound boards with faded patches on spine; gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). John Cecil Moore (1907-1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War (Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The Blue Field) Ð was followed by a series of novels and self-styled 'country-contentments'. The Waters Under the Earth is his last novel.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1936. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, red cloth boards good but some rubbing on spine; gilt spine titling bright; text block reasonable but with slight forward lean; pages crisp and unmarked. Rare 1st edition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.

London: Collins, 1964. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (chipped and bumped, in protective sleeve), grey/green clothbound boards, with slight fading on edges; gilt on red spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; some foxing on endpapers. Provenance: Tenniel Evans, actor and clergyman.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Wavell was more than the only British general who 'showed a touch of genius' (Rommel's opinion). He was a man of scholarly interests and attainments; a biographer; an outstanding administrator 'whose fame as a constructive statesman' might, in Smuts' opinion, rival his achievement as a soldier; and a Viceroy of India. A biography of Wavell must bring out all these sides of this intensely modest, silent and yet brilliant man--not forgetting the happy and simple family life which lay at the foundation of his career.

London: Bodley Head, 1980. 1st. hardback. Near Fine, with price-clipped d/j. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep). 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Ostensibly 2nd volume of GreeneÕs autobiography, but this is focused more on his writing than his life

London: 4th Estate, 2015. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, some scuff marks), white clothbound boards (slight bumping at spine base), metallic blue spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp, couple of small stains on edges.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it was like to be them Ð letters, drawings, text messages, emails and social network exhibitionism. But unlike texts, emails or television, poetry allows people from distant times to talk directly to us, with nobody else getting in the way: a mediaeval ploughman, a Tudor drunk or a jilted Georgian woman can look us in the eyes. What follows, then, is not a history of Britain in verse, but an epic story of what it was to… Read More

London: 4th Estate, 2015. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by BritainÕs most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of thousands of Britons over many centuries have left traces of what it was like to be them Ð letters, drawings, text messages, emails and social network exhibitionism. But unlike texts, emails or television, poetry allows people from distant times to talk directly to us, with nobody else getting in the way: a mediaeval ploughman, a Tudor drunk or a jilted Georgian woman can look us in the eyes. What follows, then, is not a history of Britain in verse, but an epic story of what it was to be ÒBritishÓ Ð which means Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Northumbrian, Mercian as well as English. Combining some of the greatest of our poetry, including poems far too little-known, with explanations and… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. 1st (9th imp). hardback. Good, 1st edition (9th imp - orig in 1937), green boards showing ring marks and fading at edges & spine, gilt titling bright, pastedown maps good, pages unmarked and tight, wartime standard papers.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Swallows & Amazons Book 7. 'Now Susan,' Mother said, 'And you too, John. No night sailing. No going outside the harbour. And back the day after tomorrow. Promise.'But promises can't always be kept. Within twenty-four hours John, Susan, Titty and Roger find themselves fighting a night gale in the treacherous waters of the North Sea, adrift and in the main shipping lanes. Suddenly, it's real adventure and only their sailing skills can help them now.