Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Inklings & Yarnspinners

New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd printing) with unclipped d/j (good, slight bumping), green clothboards clean but with bumping (gash on cover head), gilt spine titling bright, text block firm; untrimmed pages unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?

London: Bloomsbury, 2009. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition with unclipped d/j (good, slight bumping), blue boards clean, titling bright, pages unmarked and tight.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?

London: HarperCollins, 1997. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st, clean and unclipped d/j (only slightly marred by residue of price stickers); red clothbound boards very good, gilt titling on spine bright. Pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 18th novel in a sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written Ð sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even JackÕs exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is savouring this reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j. Boards & gilt titling bright.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spyÉ

Downers Grove, IL: IVP Praxis, 2019. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (yellow clothbound boards), metallic blue spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp; underlining and marginalia.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearMany bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed. Researcher and practitioner Rick Richardson unveils the findings of the Billy Graham Center Institute's groundbreaking studies on the unchurched. A study of 2000 unchurched people across the country reveals that the unchurched are still remarkably open to faith conversations and the church. Even unchurched ""nones"" and millennials are quite receptive if they are approached in particular ways. In this book you will also find best practices… Read More

London: Ebury Press, 2013. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). With over fifty new poems from BritainÕs favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam AyresÕ incomparable collection of works. PamÕs poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In ÔThe SwiftsÕ and ÔThe Pyracantha AnthemÕ she marvels at nature, while ÔA PatientÕs PrayerÕ and ÔLitter MoronÕ offer wry views on Modern Britain. From the dog being afraid of the toaster to your son leaving home for university; and from the search for that perfect swimsuit to becoming a gran for the first time Ð PamÕs poems are beautifully crafted, and her subjects the everyday and the universal. Delightfully illustrated, most of the poems in You Made Me Late Again! are brand new, yet it also features several firm favourites from her stage shows, published for the first time, such as ÔThe Make-up LadyÕ and ÔTippy Tappy FeetÕ.

London: Viking, 2002. Viking 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st Viking edition (originally pub in 1964), ex-library, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); black boards, silver spine titling; text block firm (but slight forward lean), pages unmarked but browned.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The Castle of Death shelters a poisoned garden, curated by a criminal mastermind and set atop a rocky Japanese island. Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but M. gives him one last chance. To save his job, James Bond needs to infiltrate and destroy the Castle of Death in exchange for top-secret Japanese intelligence. 007 must learn the skills of ninja warriors and face his ultimate enemy in a battle to the death.

London: Peter Davies, 1951. 1st. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, light brown clothbound boards, gilt/red spine titling on red panel (some rubbing); text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. 18 bw illustrations, 1 colour plate (frontispiece portrait).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The letters of the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier, edited by his granddaughter, Daphne. Illustrated with George's drawings, and with a biographical appendix by Derek Pepys Whiteley.

London: Allan Wingate, 1946. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, some bumping on edges), brown cloth boards (a few small stains cover edge) gilt cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm; pages crisp and unmarked, but a little tanned and occasional foxing.. 8vo: imperial (290 _ 210 / 11_"" x 8_""). Three stories, The Young King, The Star child and The Happy Prince illustarted in full-page brown toned drawings by Georg Ehrlich.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (13th imp Aug 1919 after 1st in May 1919), no d/j, marbled boards, black clothbound spine, titling plate affixed, text block fair, untrimmed pages unmarked, some foxing on edges and endpapers. 2 contemp. newspapaer clippings affixed to front pastedown.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Young Visiters or Mr Salteena's Plan is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. It all starts when Alfred Salteena, who is 'not quite the right side of the blanket', takes young Ethel Montacue to stay with his friend Bernard Clarke... Daisy Ashford has an exquisite eye for matchmaking and manners in English society, and her tale, with its hilarious observation and idiosyncratic spelling, is as irresistible today as it ever was. BBC1 adapted it… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d.. hardback. Very good, no d/j, white boards with gilt titling on brown on spine - clean and bright in plastic sleeve; pages unmarked and tightly bound. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1926. 3rd reprint. hardback. Good, 3rd reprint (original in 1920) no d/j, red clothbound boards, blind-pressed bust on cover, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and tight.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Youth was not my first contribution to "" Maga "" * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far as I know had ever hinted that he was anything but that)Ñhis origins have been the subject of some literary speculation of, I am glad to say, a friendly nature. The story Gaspar Ruiz is not a piece of personal experience like Youth. It is truly fiction, by which I do not mean that it is merely invented, but that it is truly imagined from hints of things that have really happened and of people that have really existed at that time, in that locality and under those special conditions of hfe. It can… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. 1st. hardback. Good, printed cloth boards, no d/j, some grubbiness, splitting on spine; sunning on endpapers, pages unmarked and tight, neat owner's inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Lesser known World War I poet, William G Shakespeare, depicting the Ypres Salient battles.