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ROBERT BROWNING. Macmillan. 1903. £16.00

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. J Lane . 1910. 2nd Edn.
Covers & spine slightly used. End papers little foxed. £5.00

THE BALLAD OF ST BARBARA AND OTHER VERSES. C Palmer. 1922.
Base of boards a little rubbed by otherwise a very attractive copy. £12.00

TALES OF THE LONG BOW. Cassell. 1925. Name on front end paper. £12.00

A CHESTERTON CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY. 1928. Burns Oates & Washbourne. Edited by P Braybrooke with a foreword by O F Dudley.
Slight foxing of prelims. £8.00

DO WE AGREE? 1928. Cecil Palmer. A Debate between Chesterton & Bernard Shaw with H Belloc in the Chair. £12.00

UBI ECCLESIA. (1929) Faber. Illustrated by by D Murphy. Ariel poem in dusty original wraps. £20.00

THE RESURRECTION OF ROME . (1930) Hodder & Stoughton. £20.00

ST THOMAS AQUINAS. 1933. Hodder & Stoughton. £8.50

AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 1936. Burns Oates. 9 illustrations,including portrait frontis. £25.00

THE COLOURED LANDS. 1938. Sheedby & Ward. Covers rubbed and corners chipped. Bookplate on front paste down. Illustrated by in colour and black and white by G K C. £10.00

G K CHESTERTON. 1970. Faber. Dw. Introduced by W H Auden (7pp).
A Selection from his non-fictional Prose. £12.00

GREYBEARDS AT PLAY AND OTHER COMIC VERSE. 1974. P Elek. Dw.
Includes poems not printed by in the Collected Edition as well as five poems printed here for the first time. Preface by John Sullivan. Thirty line drawings by Chesterton. £15.00

POEMS. nd. Benn. Augustan Book of Poetry. Original wraps. £5.00

  BOOKS INTRODUCED by G K CHESTERTON.

EYES OF YOUTH . nd. Herbert & Daniel, London . 4pp foreword by G K Chesterton. Covers a little marked. StampEdited by on end paper, "With the Publisher's Compliments". First publication of 4 early poems of F Thompson with the others first book form by P Colum, S Leslie, V Meynell, etc. £12.00

FAMOUS PAINTINGS. 1912. Cassell. Paintings from the World's Great Galleries and Reproduced in Colour. 5pp intoduction by G K Chesterton together with descriptive notes on the paintings which include works by Botticelli, Constable, Landseer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian,Turner and Velazquez. Red cloth, gilt. Edges slightly rubbed. Slight marginal foxing to some pages not affecting the tipped in illustrations which are bright and clear. Name on front end paper . Large 4to . Very good copy. £80.00

COBBETT, William. COTTAGE ECONOMY. 1916. Douglas Pepler.
Edition limited to 250 copies. Hampshire House Workshop.
Contains a sketch by Eric Gill. £35.00

BOOKS containing contributions
by G K CHESTERTON .

BELLOC, Hilaire. THE GREAT INQUIRY. 1903.
Illustrated by G K Chesterton. Original wraps. £85.00

BENTLEY, E C.
THE COMPLETE CLERIHEWS OF E C BENTLEY. 1981. OUP. Dw. Introducted by G Ewart. Illustrated by by Nicholas Bentley, Chesterton, Reinganum. Inscription on front end paper. £10.00
THE FIRST CLERIHEWS. 1982. OUP.
Illustrations reproduced in facsimile from Chesterton's notebook. Contains 132 clerihews, most previously unknown. Fine in like pictoral dw. £18.00

WAYFARER'S LOVE . Ed. DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. 1904. Archibald Constable & Co Ltd,. Cover design by Walter Crane. Name on title page. Presentation copy inscribed to E P Henley from "her loving brother"(W E Henley? Contributions from living Poets:- W B Yeats, T Sturge Moore, W S Blunt, T Hardy, John Davidson, A Dobson, E Gosse, M Hewlett, E Watson, A E, H Trench, H Newbolt, A Lang, M Baring, J Masefield, E Lawless, G K Chesterton,
A E Housman, R Bridges, A Symons. £50.00

SONGS AND SONNETS FOR ENGLAND IN WAR TIME . being a Collection of Lyrics by various authors inspired by by the Great War; the majority being taken from Periodicals. 1914. J Lane . Original wraps. (A St J Adcock, L Binyon, G K Chesterton, C Chesterton, T Hardy, M Hewlett, R Kipling, E Philpotts, O Seaman, W Watson, etc.) Name on front end paper . Original wraps a little frayed. £16.00

LEST WE FORGET . Ed. H B Elliot. (1915) Jarrold. Introducted by Baroness Orczy. Inscription on front end paper. Contributors include L Binyon, M Hewlett, C Chesterton, Mary Booth, W Watson, R W Kauffman, G K Chesterton, O seaman, F Sidgwick, J McCarthy, E Phillpotts,W Archer, H D Rawnsley, T Hardy, B Pain, A P Graves, F W Bourdillon, S Phillips, J E Flecker, etc. £15.00

DUDLEY, Owen Francis. WILL MEN BE LIKE GODS ? 1924. Longmans,Green. Humanitarianism or Human Happiness? 6pp introduction by G K Chesterton. A little occasional very light foxng otherwise a very good copy of the very uncommon hardback issue of the first printing. £40.00

THE LEGION BOOK . Ed. H Ctton MINCHIN. 1929. Curwen Press.
Edition limited to 600 copies in red/brown buckram. (W S Churchill, R Kipling,
A E Coppard, D Garnett, H Wolfe, E Wallace, A Bennettt, P G Wodehouse,
E Blunden, A Huxley, W De La Mare, R Bridges, V Sackville-West, J Galsworthy,
H Walpole, J C Squire, J Drinkwater, L Binyon, G K Chesterton, H Belloc,
W H Davies,etc.) Illustrated by E Ravilious, C Leighton, J Epstein, W Nicholson,
E F Daglish, E Bawden , etc.)
Covers very slightly worn. An uncommon 1st impression. £65.00

THE FAME OF BLESSED BY THOMAS MORE. 1929. Sheed & Ward, London . Original wraps. Introducted by R W Chambers. Inscription on front end paper. (G K Chesterton-A Turning Point in History; Belloc-The Witness to Abstract Truth; Knox-The Charge of Religious Intolerance; etc) Index. Biblio. £15.00

BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1929 . 1930. Faber..
Covers a little worn. Contains stories by A Christie, A Berkeley, G K Chesterton,
J S Fletcher, E P Oppenheim, De Vere Stacpole, V Cornier, M Cumberland, R Durand, A Eadie, etc.. Most of these stories are first book-form, whilst Christie's S O S & The Third Floor Flat were not collected until some years later. £10.00

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE BALLADES . (1931) Cobden-Sanderson, London ."Very few of this Collection have ever appeared in a book. Those by Messrs Belloc, Chesterton, Baring, Bentley, & some others have been disinterred by from the files
of The Eye-Witness which briefly flourished in 1912 & its successor The New
Witness.,,,,," Contributors include C Chesterton, H S Mackintosh, T Maynard, J B Morton, C K Scott-Moncrieff, J C Squire, L Wharton, J S Phillimore, etc. with illustrations by John Nash. Name stamp on front end paper.
Yellow boards a little darkened around the edges otherwise very good. £10.00

SCRUTINIES . Ed. E RICKWORD . Vols 1 & 11. 1928 & 1931. All published.
Inscription on front end paper. (Rickword on Wyndham Lewis & J Barrie;
E Muir on A Bennett; D H Lawrence on Galsworthy; Graves on Kipling; Jack Lindsay on Joyce; Campbell on Contemporary Poetry; M Butts on Huxley; Empson on V Woolf; chapters on Masefield, Shaw, Wells, G K Chesterton, De la Mare). £50.00

THE GREAT VICTORIANS . Ed. H J & HUGH MASSINGHAM. nd. Ivor Nicholson & Watson. An impressive collection of essays on personalities from the humanities, literature, politics, science , etc. by Blunden, Chesterton, V Sackville-West, Charles Morgan, Middleton Murry, Wilenski, Rebecca West, Herbert Read, David Cecil, Collier, and several other authors prominent in their fields. 550 pp. Spine sunned, but a very good copy. £16.00

WHAT I THINK . Ed. H Greenhough SMITH. nd. G Newnes. Dw.
A Symposium on Books & Other Things by Famous Writers of To-day:-
J Galsworthy, W W Jacobs, Jack London, A Machen, R Sabatini, G A Birmingham,
G Frankau, P Gibbs, etc. Compton Mackenzie, H Walpole, R West, E Glynn , A E W Mason, A Bennett, A Conan Doyle, P G Wodehouse, G K Chesterton, T Burke, G B Shaw.) £16.00
 

GKC CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS .

AMERICAN REVIEW . Edited by T SOLATAROFF . NY. 1934. Summer . (Wyndham Lewis-The Dumb Ox-24pp study of Hemingway; G K Chesterton-The Masterless Man-4pp.)
Small section of original wraps torn out otherwise very good. Scarce. £16.00

THE BOOK MONTHLY . 1918. Autumn . (Quarterly during the War.)
A particulary interesting issue dominated by by the War. Includes:-R Brooke & the influence of War on Poetry - a 6pp article by Arthur Waugh. "My War Reading " by Chesterton, Dobson, Gosse, Conan Doyle, H G Wells, J Buchan, E Phillpotts, etc. "The Book in War France "; "A Lost Literary Legion"-the record of Soldier-poets killed in the war, listed in the compiler's order of precedence. Grenfell heads the list followed by Brooke then E Thomas. Some 100 entries appear, each with short bio-biblios. 70pp plus ads. Original wraps a little worn. Uncommon. £40.00

BOOKMAN.
v.21. Oct.1901-March 1902. Bound volume. (Articles on G Borrow(presentation plate), T Hardy(presentation plate), Famous Publishing Houses-Blackwood with facsimile of letter from Lockhart, Walter Scott(presentation plate), J Austen(presentation plate), R L Stevenson(presentation plate), Rossetti, R Kipling, R Buchanan, Byron's Last Letters & Journals, etc. by W Pett Ridge, G K Chesterton, R Garnett, Q, M H Spielmann, W Canton, J M Barrie, A Macdonell, T Seccombe, etc. £45.00
1903 Feb . (G K Chesterton & L Melville on Thackeray; W M Ramsay-A Note on Shelley.) Lacks wraps. £5.00
1904 Apr . (Cowper Number. William Cowper by T Seccombe-6pp; The House of Seeley; G K Chesterton reviews M Arnold. W Barry on Browning
A MacDonell on A.E., etc.) Original wraps loose. £8.00
1906 July. (William Hazlitt by.y Churton Collins with a presentation plate; Poem by W De La Mare; Japanese Poetry by Arthur Ransome, Reviews of new books by W Barry(Gissing's short stories, J H Lobhan, T Lloyd, A Noyes, W R Sorley, T Page, A St. John Adcock, L Melville, G K Chesterton(The Saint), etc.) £15.00
1906 Oct. Keats double number with article by H Buxton Forman & with 4 full pages pictorial llustrations & presentation portrait; A Noyes on Mr Chesterton's Dickens; W De La Mare reviews Tristram & Iseult by J Comyns Carr; other Reviews of new books by W H James, J Moffat, M Dods, C Grant Robertson, R Igpen, Arthur Ransome, etc.)
Pages loose, staples rusted, contents very good. £12.00
1929. CHRISTMAS NUMBER. (G K Chesterton-Magic & Fantasy in Fiction; A Noyes-The Supernatural in Poetry; M R James-Some Remarks on Ghost Stories; Dreams & Fairies by A Blackwood; E Wallace on Mystery Stories; The Mysterious in Real Life by J D Beresford, W W Jacobs, H De Vere Stacpoole, W Deeping, H A Vachell, E Jepson, H Williamson, etc. .J Moffatt on Meredith;
T Moult-The Magic Remains; R Church The Laureate Epic; E Pugh-Mixed Company; A E Waite on Mt Cagliostro; H L' Fausett on magic; R C Macfie-The Harley Street.alendar; K Tynan-a Christmas Budget; Coloured plates by A Rackham, R Hilder, C M Barker, R Green, etc. Full portraits of Oliver Lodge, Dean Inge, Gilbert Murray, A Blackwood, Owen Seaman, etc. Original wraps -spine frayed. No portfolio £50.00
1929 CHRISTMAS NUMBER. As above lacking 3 plates by R Hilder, C M Barker & R Green. Spine very frayed affecting spine edge of rear page . No portfolio. £30.00
1934. Christmas. (Contains review by Samuel Beckett, “Dylon” Thomas with other contributions from W Plomer, T F Powys, A J Cronin, R Graves, A G Street. J Hilton, O Blakeston, G Grigson, R Herring, I O Williams, J Lindsay, etc. Susan Buchan's dramatisation of The Wife of Flanders by J Buchan. Poems by R Todd, M Carpenter, P Lindsay, D Hawkins, D Delvin, etc. Profusely illustrated with portraits, etc. The “Retrospect” section contains the reprinting of 5 pieces by W B Yeats & others by Chesterton, Shaw, A Bennett, Conan Doyle, Compton Mackenzie, etc.) £50.00

THE BRITISH REVIEW . January 1913. V.1/1. (The Faery Poetry of W B Yeats by W T Stace, 14pp; Poems by K Tynan, G K Chesterton, Belloc, J C Squire; P Gibbs-The Secrets of The Bulgarian Victories; L Tolstoy-My Views..on..False Science.) £6.00

CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE . 6/6/13. v.2/25. (Dunsany-The Trouble in Leafy Green Street; A C Benson on T Hardy; Poems by H Monro & B Pain; Portrait of G K Chesterton by Lovat Fraser with an illustration by G K Chesterton; etc. £12.00

THE CHESTERTON REVIEW . The Journal of the Chesterton Society. Canada. Ed. Ian BOYD. Vol 1/1-V 6/2. Winter 1974-Summer 1980 . Issued twice yearly & containing articles dealing with all aspects of Chesterton's life & work with contributions from academics, collectors & authors.
12 issues in original wraps in excellent condition. £65.00

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS . 30/4/32. 90th Birthday Number celebrating in prose& illustrations 90 years of change in all aspects of English Life.
(Letters from R Kipling, H G Wells, O Seaman, M Sadleir, G K Chesterton-Tradition & Continuity 1842-1932;etc.) Original wraps. £20.00

THE NATION.
4/5/12. (Vanka by Tchekoff translatEdited by by S Kropotkin; Letter from G K Chesterton; Poems by H Trench, R C K Ensor,W W Gibson; etc.) £8.00
18/10/13 . (T Hardy-poem; Letter from G K Chesterton; etc.) £8.00

THE QUARTO. J S Virtue. 1896. An Artistic, Literary & Musical Quarterly. ‘Our chief endeavour is to bring before the world the work of young or unknown artists who have at some time or another receivEdited by instruction at the Slade. This does not in the least preclude the work of others'. (Cyril Goldie, G Clausen, J Pennell, G K Chesterton, Todhunter, Gleeson White, A B Woodward, N Syrett , Lord Leighton, etc.) Original boards soiled, rubbed by with the binding loosening yet internally clean & fox free. £25.00

G K CHESTERTON ASSOCIATIONS.

BENTLEY, Nicolas. A VERSION OF THE TRUTH. 1960. A Deutsch.
An autobiography by the son of E C Bentley, godson of G K Chesterton. Very good in a chipped & rubbed but almost complete dw which is a little stained rear panel. 208pp. £5.00

BROWN, Ivor. THE WAY OF MY WORLD. 1954. Dw. An autobiography containing reminiscences of a large number of contemporary literary, theatrical & political figures including Beerbohm, Belloc, Bennett, Chesterton, Compton Mackenzie, Shaw, Wells etc. Name on front end paper.£16.00

SIEVEKING, Lance De Giberne. THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. 1957. Hulton Press. Dw. Reminiscences of R Brooke, Beerbohm, Wells, Shaw, P Nash, Belloc, Chesterton, Crowley , E Marsh, etc. With loosely inserted publishers slip giving details of price & publication date & biographical notes on the Author. £16.00

G.K.CHESTERTON. 1974. P Elek. Dw. A Centenary Appraisal.
Contributors include W H Auden, Kingsley Amis, P N Furbank, Dudley Barker,
P Cahill, Brocard Sewell, W W Robson, Editor, etc. £17.50

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