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London: Phoenix, 1996.. In these two inspirational essays, Ben Okri returns to the themes of his novel, Astonishing the Gods. He explores the meaning of language, its unique power to shape and direct our lives, and the special responsibilities that belong to those who make words their weapons." 13.5 cms x 10.5cms. Pp.47, slight toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

London; J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928.. 1st edition. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts "Shewing the Two Constant States of the Human Soul". Pp.299, 4 colour plates + 55 black & white plates + 3 pages from the MS. "An Island in the Moon" and 17 pages from Blake's MS. Sketch Book known as The Rosetti Manuscript, uneven toning to pp.44/45. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine. G+.

London: Casanova Society, 1923 .. Limited edition. 4 volume set in matching quarter calf bindings. 9.25" x 6.25" x 1.75". 8vo. Blue leather spines with gilt titles, sunned and rubbed, over mottled blue boards. Top page edges gilt, other page edges rough cut. Clean text throughout, just a little light toning to endpapers and extreme page edges. Each volume with a coloured frontis and tissue guard. Volume 1 states: "This edition ... is limited to 750 sets of 16 volumes on antique paper ... and 1500 sets on bond paper in 4 volumes, each set numbered 751 to 2250 ... n.� 2057." A well preserved set. ** "Edward Powys Mathers (28 August 1892 � 3 February 1939) was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of a newspaper proprietor.[1] He was educated at Loretto and Trinity College, Oxford. He is well known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of One Thousand Nights and One Night.… Leer más

London: Williams & Norgate, 1899.. By the author of "The New Koran", a Utopian book. "The book of Bander Yat, the Syrian, concerning those who fled from the Judean saints and made their abode in Damascus, and concerning the wisest among their descendants who taught men the true way of life." Chapters: I. The Acts of Solomon; II. The Scattering and Mixing; III. Shefan The Sage; IV. The Restoration Sect; V. The Pharisee Fathers; VI. The Invasion of Greeks; VII. The Temple Idolatry; VIII. The Pestilent Prohets; IX. Jews and Christians; X. The Wars of Palestine; XI. The Sun Worshippers; XII. The Persian Martyrs; XIII. Men in God-Guise; XIV. Priests and Magistrates; XV. Judging and Pardoning; XVI. A Psalm of Shumal; XVII. The Prayer of Pito; XVIII. The Parable of Saphion; XIX; The Failing Miracles; XX. Worshippers and Helpers; XXI. The Averted Martyrdom. Interscript; XXII. The Founding of Families; XXIII. The Taming of Beasts; XXIV. The Ursican Robbers; XXV. The Trade Brigands; XXVI. The Sar Masons;… Leer más

London: William Heinemann, 1922.. `Selected and edited with an introduction by John Erskine. "These lectures were delivered to Japanese students, and Hearn's purpose was not only to impart the information about Western literature usually to be found in our histories and text-books, but much more to explain to the Oriental mind those peculiarities of our civilization which might be hard to understand on the further side of the Pacific Ocean. The lectures are therefore unique, in that they are the first large attempt by a Western critic to interpret us to the East." Pp.xx/328, toning to pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

Edinburgh: nd. (c.1933)?. With a Foreword by Professor J.Y.Simpson. (President, World Brotherhood Federation). "This book is not intended to be a life of Burns or a synopsis of his works, but an effort to place within the limit of an hour's reading, the spirit, teaching and song of Burns on humanity, love and brotherhood." 23cms x 14.5cms. Pp.144, many black & white illustrations throughout, maps to final page, creases to top corners, occasional finger smudges to margins. Dark green cloth , gilt title to front, some edge wear and water spot to front board at lower spine. G+.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.. 1st edition. "Each generation has rewritten the Brontes to reflect changing attitudes - towards the role of the woman writer, towards sexuality, towards the very concept of personality...'The Bronte Myth' gives vigorous new life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture". Pp.xvi/320, 23 black & white illustrations, a couple of spots to lower page edges. Black cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Kilmarnock: The Kilmarnock Standard Limited, 1959.. 1st edition. Contains " a brief summary of the main activities of the Federation since its institution...Intended to serve the double purpose of providing for members of the Federation information which could only be obtained by going through sixty-seven volumes of the 'Chronicle', and of informing those outside the official Burns movement of the real work - the literary, educational and benevolent activities - of the Burns Federation." Pp.172, frontispiece + 23 black & white portrait photos, minor toning to endpapers. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has creasing and 4cm tear to lower front corner and chipped loss to top of spine and rear top edge. VG/Good.

Dundee: T.M.Sparks, 1923.. 1st edition. Undying Words of Love and Appreciation by Admirers of the Poet. Pp.64/8 pages of ads for Masonic Publications by the publisher + tipped-in revised price list to final page, owner's bookplate (John Knaggs) featuring an owl with the motto "Quin Ultima Natural Perscrutari", spotting to closed page edges just touching internal margins, some pages uncut. Cream boards slightly rubbed. G+.

London: Cassell, 1996.. Includes some 400 entries on major and minor Italian writers from the twelfth century to the present day [sic]; on Italian metrics and poetic forms or genres; and on literary or critical schools, periods, problems and movements. In addition, there are specific entries on Italian literature, films and art, as well as feminism, post-modernism and other topics of contemporary interest." Pp.xvi/716. Paperback. VG.

London: Guy Chapman, 1925.. Facsimile of Francis Hickes' translation from the Greek into English. The present edition is reprinted from that of 1634 by Hickes' son Thomas, who added the prefatory matter. 17cms x 11cms. Pp.xx/187, toning to endpapers and light creasing to lower corner of first few pages. Black cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt decorated motif to front board, minor wear to top and tail of spine. VG.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.. For the last twelve years of his life Dickens toured Britain and America giving two-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. "This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than ever before, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners." Pp.xiv/331, 17 black & white illustrations, scuffing to lower corner of half-title page. Paperback. VG.

Richmond: Curzon Press Ltd, 1994.. Reprint of the 1958 edition. This is the best single volume account of the first rebirth of a national literature in the national language, tracing the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century." Pp.464. Paperback, slight sunning to spine, crease to spine. G+.

Cambridge:University Press, 1998.. 1st edition. "British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed the fictional form, writers of economic tracts and treatises sought a language and a conceptual framework to describe the modern commercial state...In a series of fresh readings of a wide range of novels, Bellamy shows how the novel contributed to the debate over public and private virtues and had to negotiate between commercial and anti-commercial ethics. The resulting choices were crucial in determining the structure as well as the moral content of the novel." Pp.viii/223. Blue cloth, dustwrapper sllightly rubbed. VG/VG.

London: Leonard Parsons, 1926.. 1st edition. Ex Priory libary. Pp.344, library ownership inkstamp to front free endpaper, small number notation to inside front board. Navy blue cloth, gilt title to spine, minor scuff to spine. VG.

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1970.. Facsimile reproduction of the 1891 photographic facsimile of the original 1590 edition. "Sidney gave epic stature to the conventional pastoral romance, in which the central subject is love, by heightening the style, addingindividuality to standard characters, and raising moral questions about justice and chivalry." Pp.lxxiv/361. Paperback. VG.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.. Michael Denning tracks the spy thriller from John Buchan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a story of our times, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret agents." Pp.xii/168, toning to pages. Paperback, scuffing to spine edge. Good.

London: J.M.Dent & Co, 1905.. 18cms x 12cms x 2cms. Pp.viii/171, colour frontispiece + 7 further coloured illustrations + 9 further illustrations (all by C.E.Brock) in the text, sepia bookplate - W Clafton, for himself, shield, helm & oak leaves, scroll advertising his skills in illumination, heraldry &genealogy to inside front board, very small ink date to top corner of inside front board, shadow of bookplate to front free endpaper, toning to rear endpapers. Cream "cherub" decorated spine and front board, spine rubbed with some fading. G+.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.. Revised edition. Volume One of Four. Pp.245. Paperback. VG.

London: Privately Printed [By the Navarre Society Ltd], 1922 .. Publication date etc. from British Library. A very good half leather binding. 2 Volumes bound in 1. 8vo. 8.00" x 5.75" x 1.75". pp.62/[2pp.]/pp.332/pp.404 . This edition has no coloured illustrations. Polished maroon calf spine and corners over pink marbled boards. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and gilt titles: "Boccaccio's Decameron". Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title present. Printed title-page. Introduction with illustrations within the text. Followed by: "Giovannia Boccaccio As Man And Author By John Addington Symonds". Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. VG. ** "The Decameron sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313�1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three… Leer más