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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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Aesop's Fables.
London: William Heinemann, 1912. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xxx; 224. With 13 chromolithographic plates including and frontispiece, and 54 further wood engravings, in-text and individual plates. Publishers green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, illustrated endpapers... More about Aesop's Fables
Abishag.
London, Thornton Butterworth. 1925. First UK Edition. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to spine ends. Spotting to page edges. Internally clean. In a crisp, clean dustwrapper with chips and loss to upper right front panel and the head of spine just affecting top edge... More about Abishag
The Ball and the Cross.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., 1910. [Fantasy novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.403. Publisher's mid green cloth, titled in gilt, with errata slip to p.93. The second state with title page and pp.357/8 appearing as cancels. A fine copy with a little cracking to inside joints. Shows extremely well. Chesterton's... More about The Ball and the Cross
Tales of The Long Bow.
London: Cassell, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. 310pp. Publisher's green cloth titled and ruled in green to spine and front board. Lightly sunned along edges and spine. Cassell publisher's label to front board. In an extremely good copy of the scarce dustwrapper, bright, sharp and crisp, with minor edgewear to head... More about Tales of The Long Bow
The Bookman. Christmas Number 1932. Volume 75, no. 8.
Camden, NJ: The Bookman Publishing Co., December 1932. [Literary Magazine]. ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 759-886; xiii-xvi. With occasional wood engravings and photographic illustrations. Publisher's red paper wrappers with black titles to gilt label on front cover. Staples beginning to rust. Some tears to jacket edges, including... More about The Bookman. Christmas Number 1932. Volume 75, no. 8
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