peter owen publishers london and chester springs (13 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 189 p. One of the front flyleafs is torn out, not affecting title page. This is a memoir of five decades of newspaper reporting by a British journalist who worked on both sides of the Atlantic.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Penned dedication by the author on the half title page; author's signature on the title page. Very good condition. The lightest of edgewear to the cover. All pages are clean and the text is clear. CM. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. London and Chester Springs. Peter Owen Publishers. 2009. This title was originally published in 1999; this is an expanded second edition. Red and yellow striped wraps with illustrations to the front. Three corners have the most minimal of knocks but otherwise the book presents as fine. Over the past few decades, the author of Alice in Wonderland has been characterized as child-centered and unworldly, and harboring an unnatural attraction to Alice Liddell and her siblings. All this may be true, says Leach, a successful playwright now for nearly two decades, but if so at all, it refers not to the actual person Charles Dodgson--a well known and respected logician--but to Lewis Carroll, the persona he created as thoroughly as he did the other fantasy characters associated with the story. She sorts through the evidence to reveal Dodgson's actual life, and particularly his relationship with the Liddell family and with women in general. Of particular interest, she shows how photographs and texts that would today be considered child pornography were innocent standard fare in Victorian England. She has revised the 1999 first edition for this second.

176 p. Paperback (Fine copy.).

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 224pp., 21 illustrations, list of illustrations, chronology, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy., Study on the image of George IV in his time.

Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: viij, 248pp., 224pp., llustrations, Conyngham family tree, chronology, notes a& refernces, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy. For a decade Elizabeth Conyngham was offical mistress of George IV.

Original publisher's dark-red paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: 432pp., photographs, list & references illustrations, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.,

Condition: Good. Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to.

Original publisher's green paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: 270pp., illustrations, acknowledgements, list illustrations, notes, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.,

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 208, [8], with 8 pages of photographs. A book in Near Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.

16 x 24cm. 216 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Illustrated endpapers. Excellent condition. Includes inserted newspaper reviews of this book and of other works by the author. Shusaku Endo was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. In this, his last novel, a trip to India becomes a journey of discovery for a group of Japanese tourists playing out their "individual dramas of the soul." Isobe searches for his reincarnated wife, while Kiguchi relives the wartime horror that ultimately saved his life. Alienated by middle age, Mitsuko follows Otsu, a failed priest, to the holy city of Varanas, hoping that the murky Ganges holds the secret to the "difference between being alive and truly living." Looking for absolutes, each character confronts instead the moral ambiguity of India's complex culture, in which good and evil are seen as a whole as indifferent to distinction as the Ganges River, which washes the living and transports the dead. This novel is a fascinating study of cultural truths revealed through a rich and varied cast. [From The Library Journals] Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Sound overall. Publisher's note: Hailed by Choice as "a fascinating story," this profile of Cervantes will captivate both scholarly and lay readers. It traces the stranger-than-fiction adventures of the "Spanish Shakespeare" - as a spy, soldier, hostage, tax collector, poet, playwright, and creator of Don Quixote - incorporating original research and previously unpublished material. Size: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm. 320 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616; Authors, Spanish -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- Biography.; ISBN: 0720610850. ISBN/EAN: 9780720610857. Add. Inventory No: 250819RE5930.

First Edition. American Issue, with US distributor's sticker at lower title page and lower front flap of dustjacket. Octavo (22.25cm); dark red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [8],9-231,[1]pp. Crown very gently nudged, else Fine. Dustjacket shows some trivial wear, with some pinpoint touch-up to the black portions of the spine ends and corner tips; Very Good+. Anthology selected and edited by Peter Owen, celebrating 40 years of publishing. Includes contributions by Paul and Jane Bowles, Marc Chagall, Shusaku Endo, Anna Kavan, Hermann Hesse, Colette, Anais Nin, James Purdy, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Octavio Paz, and others. 7844.