england fiction

Hardcover. Germany, Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3-vol set in slip case. Hardcovers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact, informative volumes. In Volume 1 you'll learn about the first magazines that appeared around 1900 in France, Germany, and the U.S., and follow the development of the genre through the First and Second World Wars. Covered are men's magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction. Volume 2 documents the proliferation of pin-up magazines following World War II, most notably a little item called Playboy that debuted in December 1953 and spawned dozens of imitators. This volume also charts the emergence of English men's magazines, fetish magazines, and the top five covergirls of the 1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new American pin-up magazines following the loosening of U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in decline, England going pervy; nudists going hippy, and Germany going pervy, hippy and political.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Reprint, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All edges gilt. Mustard cloth covers with beveled edges. Elaborate gilt pictorial design. Gravure plates, b&w line drawings and text illustrations by Edmund Garrett and Chas Copeland. Patterned end papers. Front hinge starting. Shelf worn cover. Spine ends worn. Blank prelim page missing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate. Clean copy. Classic early 20th century Crime Club mystery series volume, this set in England with the opening chapter at the narrator's "club", "In Which I make Drummond's Acquaintance".

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in England as "Disposal of the Living".

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket, 112 pages with 12 drawings by the author. Fit for a duchess, indeed, was the splendid up-to-date privy which the Budd family finally achieved, after generations of living with a noisome hut in the garden. But, as usually happens, there was a canker: the marvels of modern technology defeated them. Here splendidly remembered as in her previous books, Dust to Dust and A Prospect of Love, is this and more of life in southern England in the 1930s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 3rd Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 198 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange aCCU1mulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space. No dj issued, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 216 pages, Library Ed. stiker on dj, spine slightly faded. Dickon sets to find and warn the playwright Marlowe of danger. He is aided and hindered by a tough little urchin, Cecily, who teaches him the culture of the road. Set in Elizabethan England, with glossary.

hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 166 pages. Black & white illust. by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket worn, large chunk gone from front panel. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 166 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue, 576 pages. First published in England in 1891. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in England in 1987.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 276 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY BODGER on the front fly leaf. Over fifty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and two children went to Britain on a special literary quest. They were seeking the world that they knew and loved through children's books. In Winnie-the-Pooh Country, Mrs. Milne showed them the way to that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. In Edinburgh they stood outside Robert Louis Stevenson's childhood home, tilting their heads to talk to a lamplighter who was doing his job. In the Lake District they visited Jemima Puddle-Duck's farm, and Joan sought out crusty Arthur Ransome to talk to him about Swallows and Amazons. They spent several days messing about in boats on the River Thames, looking for Toad Hall and other places described by Kenneth Grahame in The Wind in the Willows. Mud and flood kept them from attaining the slopes of Pooks Hill (on Rudyard Kiplings farm), but they scaled the heights of Tintagel.

Hardcover. Chiselbury, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 356 pages. An amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of 'André' Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts as a Jewish youth in Munich, whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940. André becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French whilst working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British, he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England. His network betrayed during his absence, he is arrested on his return to France. André then begins an even more perilous journey with interrogation in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace, before being transferred to Dachau and Allach, ahead of the advancing Allies. Illustrated with over 120 vintage and color photographs and letters. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket, 165 pages. Illustrated with Steve Pyke's b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH O'GRADY AND PYKE on the title page. Stranded in a dismal flat in England, the protagonist remembers his happy childhood in Ireland, the rough living and working conditions in England, and his only love. The language is quite simple and often Hiberno Irish, but deeply imaginative and so lyrical, that the line between prose and poetry gets blurred. The beautiful black/white pictures added to this book, and the author's ability to portray Irish music help to give an insight into Irish culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.

Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JAKEMAN on the title page. 1st Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Tight copy with light wear to covers, but heavy fading on spine and edges of front and rear covers.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 4th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket that's price-clipped. 184 pages illustrated by Lee Townsend. Another story of Toby Clark and his Shetland Pony on a New England Farm. Clean copy.