Search Results: Authors starting with S from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Bloomsbury, 2010. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert Sackville-West, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast, labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colourful ancestors formed with it.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956. 1st. hardback. Good, with clipped d/j (bumping and small tears on edges), clean blue clothbound boards with bright gilt titling on front and spine. Pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, thoughtless and insightful, Sagan's young narrator explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.

London: Fourth Estate, 2019. 1st thus. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning. For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed as natural, as well as cultural. In the twenty-first century, we like to believe that we have moved beyond scientific racism, that most people accept race as a social construct, not a biological one. But race science is experiencing a revival, fuelled by the misuse of science by certain political groups. Even well-intentioned scientists, through their use of racial categories in genetics and medicine, betray their suspicion that race has some basis in biology. In truth, it is no more real than it was hundreds of years ago, when our racial hierarchies were devised by those in power. In Superior, award-winning author Angela Saini explores the… Read More

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. 1st. h/b. Near fine, clipped d/j (some bumping). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement in the poetic field of General Meiji endeavor to blend ""Western learning with the Japanese spirit."" He and perhaps he alone, have successfully combined the lyric intensity characteristic of the short forms of traditional Japanese poetry with the freedom of length, form and rhythm which characterizes the poetry of the West. In him East and West, despite Kipling's dictum, have indeed met; and from him the future poets of both traditions have much to learn. For all the startling beauty and originality of his work, Hagiwara remains a poet of the dark. Shiveringly sensitive… Read More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales s riveting and explosive American Girls. With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence one… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1962. 1st UK. hardback. Good, 1st UK edition, with unclipped d/j. Blue cloth boards clean and intact. Pages clear. Some foxing on cover and endpaper.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.' First published in the New Yorker as two sequential stories, 'Franny' and 'Zooey' offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family.

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1892. 1st. hardback. Very Good, ex-library book (Latimer Trust), maroon buckram boards, black ruled and gilt impressed cover design, with gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, untrimmed pages tight, uncut and unmarked; black ffep scarred and torn by label residue.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The Enchiridion, Manual, or Handbook of Augustine of Hippo is alternatively titled, ""Faith, Hope, and Love"". The Enchiridion is a compact treatise on Christian piety, written in response to a request by an otherwise unknown person, named Laurentius, shortly after the death of Saint Jerome in 420. It is intended as a model for Christian instruction or catechesis. As the title indicates, the work is organized according to the three graces necessary for the Christian worship of God: Faith, Hope and Love. Under Faith, Augustine explains the use of the Apostles' Creed, in teaching Christian doctrine and in refuting heresies. Under Hope, he briefly explains the Lord's Prayer as a… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co, n.d. (1928). 1st. h/b. Very good, no d/j, blue boards, blind ruling and some bumping; gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. Salt is considered, by some, to be the ""father of animal rights"". An Old Etonian, he returned to teach there for ten years.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping and creasing); green/blue boards clean, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit and Baltimore. She was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and worked as a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and as poetry editor of The New Republic . A vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she is also a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry . In addition to her five poetry collections, she is the author of a childrenÕs book, The Moon Comes Home . She is Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College and lives with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), as new.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A West Point English professor offers an intimate portrait of teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war and assesses the various ways in warfare has transformed her relationship with literature, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching at a military academy, and what books and movies mean to her students.

London: Little, Brown, 2006. 1st (2nd imp). h/b. Near fine, 1st edition (2nd imp); unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), black boards, red spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have until now been besotted by the supposed cultural revolution of the Sixties, Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society, the impact of immigration, the invention of modern pop music and the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 1st. hardback. Fõne, with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping), black boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power, irrevocably shifting the country's political landscape to the right for decades to come. Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable and significant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by both courage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research - including interviews with McCarthy himself - to show convincingly how Eugene McCarthy's political experience embodies the… Read More

Plymouth: Northcote/British Council, 1998. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. C (216 x 135). This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public. It also assesses Trollope's continuing popularity as a writer - outselling many of his more critically 'esteemed' contemporaries in the late-twentieth-century and offers a lucid and comprehensive introduction to the full range of Trollope's popular works.

Chicago, IL.: Moody, 1994. 2nd revision. paperback. Very good, 2nd revision reprint. Pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). With over 500,000 in print, Spiritual Leadership is the perennial favorite for teaching the principles of leadership. In this classic, J. Oswald Sanders illustrates biblical leadership principles through the lives of David, Moses, Nehemiah, the Apostle Paul, David Livingston, and Charles Spurgeon.This world needs more leaders who are guided by God and devoted to Christ. Christianity needs to put forth a powerful voice to be heard above the cacophony of immorality and deception in much of today's leadership. Spiritual Leadership will encourage you to place your talents and powers at His disposal so you can become a leader used for His glory.This timeless classic will equip leaders of all generations to press on in service for Jesus Christ. Spiritual Leadership has easy-to-understand modern language and a study guide to assist each leader as they grow and… Read More

Betws-y-Coed: Country Cottage Publications, 1992. 1st. p/b. Very good, 1st p/b, signed to title.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Take a fascinating and delightful trip down the memory lane of Betws-y-coed and compare yesterday with today.

London: Mantle, 2010. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition 1st printing, unclipped d/j (v.g. slight crease in spine; black clothbound boards, blindpressed tudor rose on cover, bronze spine titling bright (spine somewhat dented); text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. Neat owner's inscription verso half-title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). England, 1545: England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of ""monstrous wrongs"" committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant… Read More

London: Mantle, 2018. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing. Unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). England, 1549: Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the ProtectorÕs prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France. Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Since the old KingÕs death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of HenryÕs younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of Edith Boleyn, the wife of John Boleyn Ð a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth's mother Ð which could have political implications for Elizabeth, brings Shardlake and his assistant… Read More

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 1st USA (2nd print.). hardback. Fine, 1st USA edition (2nd printing).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Jose Saramago (1922-2010), ""Skylight"" tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily marriedelderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she s kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1948. 1st. hardback. Near fine, missing d/j, original clothbound boards, red cover ruling and spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp (wartime papers; some glue colouration on pastedowns). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Over the past 70 years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to human response and the practical demands of living. To achieve this, he carried his philosophical concepts into his novels and plays, and there subjected them to the test of imagined experience. His uniqueness lies in the success with which he demonstrated the utility of Existentialist doctrine while creating, at the same time, works of the highest literary merit. Thus Sartre became the populariser of his own literary thought.… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1993. 1st thus. h/b. Near fine, 1993 reprint of Folio set from the 1970s, in red medium weight card slipcase. Each volume in beige pictorial cloth, gilt on red panel spine titling; text block firm in all 3; pages crisp and unmarked (top edge red). 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with Sherston deep in the trenches. Soon he is sent to the Somme where he is wounded and sent home to convalesce. In the 3rd volume, he finally ends up at the Western Front in France, where he is shot in the head while on a reconnaissance mission and invalided back home. As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's… Read More