Chesterton
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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Father Brown on Chesterton
- £15.00
- After meeting G. K. Chesterton in 1904, O'Connor became the model for the Father Brown character and the two men maintained a friendship for over 30 years. O'Connor was also associated with the Catholic authors Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring and the (convert) typographer and engraver Eric Gill. O'Connor published poems,…
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G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Heretics
- £20.00
- Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905. While the loci of the chapters of Heretics are personalities, the topics he debates are universal to the "vague moderns" of the 21st century century as it was to those of the 20th
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Paradox in Chesterton
- £50.00
- The renowned Canadian literary scholar and critic, Hugh Kenner, would go on to publish many books after this one, his first. The introduction was by his friend and mentor, Marshall McLuhan.
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St Francis of Assisi
- £15.00
- Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. After Mary…
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St Thomas Aquinas
- £15.00
- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
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The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
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The Club of Queer Trades
- £25.00
- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
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The Early Lives of Dante (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio. Along with the other sources included in this volume, they provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his…
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The Father Brown Stories
- £35.00
- Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This collection of Father…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
- Add to basket
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
- Add to basket
-
Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
- Add to basket
-
Father Brown on Chesterton
- £15.00
- After meeting G. K. Chesterton in 1904, O'Connor became the model for the Father Brown character and the two men maintained a friendship for over 30 years. O'Connor was also associated with the Catholic authors Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring and the (convert) typographer and engraver Eric Gill. O'Connor published poems,…
- Add to basket
-
G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
- Add to basket
-
G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
- Add to basket
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Heretics
- £20.00
- Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905. While the loci of the chapters of Heretics are personalities, the topics he debates are universal to the "vague moderns" of the 21st century century as it was to those of the 20th
- Add to basket
-
Paradox in Chesterton
- £50.00
- The renowned Canadian literary scholar and critic, Hugh Kenner, would go on to publish many books after this one, his first. The introduction was by his friend and mentor, Marshall McLuhan.
- Add to basket
-
St Francis of Assisi
- £15.00
- Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. After Mary…
- Add to basket
-
St Thomas Aquinas
- £15.00
- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
- Add to basket
-
The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
- Read more
-
The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
- Add to basket
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The Club of Queer Trades
- £25.00
- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
- Add to basket
-
The Early Lives of Dante (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio. Along with the other sources included in this volume, they provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his…
- Add to basket
-
The Father Brown Stories
- £35.00
- Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This collection of Father…
- Add to basket
