Search Results: Authors starting with E from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: John Murray, 1959. reprint. h/b. Near fine. Unclipped d/j (some cimpping), cream clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and tight.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation

London: Guild, 1984. hardback. Near fine. No d/j, clean and tight pages.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation

New York: Coward-McCann, 1969. 1st USA. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, light tan boards clean but some bumping at head; green spine titling clear; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). New York Times bestseller: A sweeping romantic saga about the colonization of Australia, from the author of An Important Family.When Gilbert Massingham chooses Eugenia Lichfield for his bride, he knows the aristocratic beauty is the ideal mistress for his plantation in the Australian wilderness. But the virile, larger-than-life, vineyard-obsessed Gilbert isnÕt the husband Eugenia imagined when she left England for this untamed land.Then exiled Irish portrait artist Colm OÕConnor and prison refugee Molly Jarvis come into their lives, altering the familyÕs destiny. As Yarrabee grows into one of AustraliaÕs premier vineyards, a subtle struggle for power begins that will have far-reaching consequences for Eugenia, Gilbert, and their children.Featuring a cast of… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition (signed to title).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household Ð and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools Ð end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his ÔberserkerÕ heritage? With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious (possibly Scandinavian) heritage. With star-studded anecdotes and set to a soundtrack of pop hits which transport the reader through time, itÕs a memoir like no other. Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on… Read More

New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1884. 1st thus. hardback. Good, ex-library book (Latimer Trust), 1st thus edition, no d/j, brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling and ruling; text block firm, pages tight. Neat pen notes throughout (incl. timeline summaries).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). An edition of Jonathan Edwards' classic biography of the missionary to Native Americans, David Brainerd. Edited and introduced by J. M. Sherwood with an essay 'On God's Hand In Missions' by Arthur T. Pierson.

London: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 1st USA. hardback. Near fine, 1st US edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (vg); beige boards, silver spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Slightest of bumps on base edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.

London: Folio Society, 1986. 1st thus. h/b. Fine, blue (gilt-impressed) boards in blue board slipcase.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1901. hardback. Very good, no d/j, maroon boards (bumping at edges and spine dulled )with small decorated circle on cover (gilt embossed) and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Some foxing on endpapers. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squireÕs son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by ArthurÕs seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that… Read More

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1878. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition (originally pub in 8 parts in 1876), maroon clothbound boards (some bumping and chipping), black/gilt pressed decoration & titling on cover/spine; text block firm, pages untrimmed.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1988. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), green clothbound boards pristine, gilt titling on spine bright; pages unmarked and tight.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Published on the centenary of his birth, this volume of the correspondence of T.S.Eliot covers the period from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, until the end of 1922 - the year of ""The Waste Land"" and seven years after he had married and settled in England. The text includes not only letters of significance which Eliot wrote during this period, but also letters written to him by family, friends and contemporaries. The poet's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot, has assembled the material from collections, libraries, sale rooms, archives and private sources all over the world. She has also drawn extensively upon her own archive in London. She has written the introduction, annotated the letters throughout and provided chronologies and an editorial commentary where necessary.… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1942. 1st. p/b. Very good, 1st edition (1st impression) in pink coloured French wraps in protective sleeve (some fading at edges, untrimmed string-bound pages crisp with very occasional underlining. Watertime papers. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.

London: Faber & Faber, 1970. 5th imp. h/b. Very good, 5th impression (1st published thus in 1963), unclipped d/j in protective sleeve (vg, slight bumping), blue clothbound boards, clean, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Printing Error: pp227-238 printed at front! Owner's bookplate on front pastedown: W D A Rowlands.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes. Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

London: Faber & Faber, 1942. 1st. p/b. Very good, 1st edition (1st impression) in pink coloured French wraps in protective sleeve (some fading at edges, untrimmed string-bound pages crisp. Watertime papers. Owner's neat inscription ffep. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The final part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.

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: Faber & Faber, 1951. 1st. hardback. Very good, with unclipped d/j (slight bumping top of spine), red boards clean with gilt titling bright; pages unmarked and clean, tight; slight foxing top edge.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University given on Nov 21 1950.

London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 1st (2nd imp). hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd impression, same year), missing d/j, turquoise boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm (v. slight forward lean), untrimmed pages tight and unmarked, though with some light foxing on edges and endpapers. Owner's inscription scribbled out on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The three lectures Eliot gave at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in March 1939.

London: Methuen & Co, 1960. 1st thus. paperback. Good, shelf wear on covers (some soiling and scuffing), text block firm and tight, spine unbroken. Occasional v. light pencil markings.. C (216 x 135). First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.

London: Faber & Faber, 1945. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards in protective sleeve (some fading on spine/edges), gilt spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean), pages crisp and unmarked. Signed by owner to ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.

London: Penguin Books (in assoc. with Faber & Faber), 1948. 1st thus. paperback. Very good, 1st edition in paperback (Penguin), binding v.g., some rubbing on covers, but pages unmarked and no foxing, despite wartime paper.. A (178 x 110). The usual Penguin format with pale blue bands and penguin logo, includes Prufrock and the Wasteland, taken from his earlier collection COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1935. D4 in the Penguin poetry series.

London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 1st, 3rd imp. hardback. Near fine, with unclipped, d/j (in protective sleeve). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)