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G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) | First Editions
1874 - 1936
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton (and sometimes referred to as G.K.C.), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." He is most fondly remembered for the creation of fictional priest-detective Father Brown. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
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The Father Brown Stories. Comprises: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Incredulity of Father Brown, The Secret of Father Brown.
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. [Detective Fiction] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 1038. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf over matching cloth-covered sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge tinted red-brown. Contents clean, exterior as new. A near fine copy in an..... More
contribute to... The Strand Magazine. Issue 548. 'The Vampire of the Village' (A Father Brown story). ORIGINAL ISSUE IN WRAPPERS.
George Newnes Ltd., London, August 1936. [Literature/ humour / journal] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (26 x 19cm). Illustrated throughout in black and white. Magazine format in illustrated paper covers. Original price 1s. Various colour advertising inserts present. Illustrations (some in colour). Attractive colour cover (the only Father Brown story..... More
Knights of Madness. Further Comic Tales of Fantasy.
London: Souvenir Press, 1998. [Fantasy Satire Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.252 [4]. INSCRIBED by Terry Pratchett in black ink to the title page: 'To Robert | Esteemed company, indeed! | Best wishes.' Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
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