Cecil Chesterton (513 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 256 pp. Orange boards lettered in black on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: Introduction by Gerald Durrell; Can I Be Your Dog by Eric Parker; Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry; Tricki Woo by James Herriot; Having No Hearts by Sir Hugh Walpole; Comet by Samuel A. Derieux; For the Love of a Man by Jack London; The Coming of Riquet by Anatole France; Jimmy, the Dog in My Life by Sir Arthur Bryant; Teem: A Treasure Hunter by Rudyard Kipling; Gone Wrong by P. G. Wodehouse; The Great Lad by Joyce Stranger; Bunch by James Douglas; Dogs in a Big Way by Kenneth and Anna Roberts; Montmorency by Jerome K. Jerome; Some Sunnybank Dogs by Albert Payson Terhune; Let Us Have a Mongrel Dog Show by Cecil Aldin; Dandy, the Story of a Dog by W. H. Hudson; Verdun Belle by Alexander Woollcott; The Oracle of the Dog by G. K. Chesterton; The Bitch by Colette; Intelligent and Loyal by Jilly Cooper; and The End by Virginia Woolf. Size: 8vo. William Geldart; (illustrator). Book.…

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Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Unread and unopened! 116pp. When men of percipience and courage disturb our mental comfort by exposing danger and corruption in public life, they are seldom thanked for their efforts on our behalf. When Hilaire Belloc, the Chesterton brothers and others, in the early years of this century, attacked scandals such as the sale of Honours; what is now called 'insider dealing' in the notorious Marconi affair, and the secret collusion between leaders of what were represented as being opposing political parties, they were assailed by some and ignored by many. Today, we are paying for that lassitude. The Party System was Uie strongest attempt to rouse the people of this country to action, but it was neither the first nor the last. In the previous year Gilbert Chesterton had written of the denial of choice to the voters: It is not the smallness or largeness of the suffrage that is at present the difficulty of Democracy. It is not the quantity of voters, but the quality of the thing they are voting about. A certain alternative is put before them by the powerful houses and the highest political class. Two roads are opened to them; but they must go down one or the other. They cannot have what they choose, but only which they may choose." GKC takes the humorous example of a proposal to paint the Prime Minister green: Then the party in opposition would adopt another policy, not a policy of leaving Mr. Asquith alone (which would be considered dangerously revolutionary), but some alternative course of action, as, for instance, of painting him red. Then both sides would fling themselves on the people, they would both cry out that the appeal was to the Caesar of Democracy. A dark and dramatic air of conflict and real crisis would arise on both sides; arrows of satire would fly and swords of eloquence flame. "There would be fights in the streets perhaps, an abundance of ribbons, flags, and badges of the two colours .then both sides alike would say that it is now for democracy to do exactly what it chose. Yet this might not be exactly true. England herself might really wish Mr Asquith to be pale blue. It might even have liked him as he is now. But a huge apparatus of wealth, power and printed matter has made it practically impossible for them to bring home these other proposals, even if they would really prefer them. "Nearly all the great newspapers, both pompous and frivolous, will declare dogmatically day after day, until everyone half believes it.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 256 pp. Orange boards lettered in black on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: Introduction by Gerald Durrell; Teem: A Treasure Hunter by Rudyard Kipling; Gone Wrong by P. G. Wodehouse; Some Sunnybank Dogs by Albert Payson Terhune; The Oracle of the Dog by G. K. Chesterton; The Bitch by Colette; Intelligent and Loyal by Jilly Cooper; Can I Be Your Dog? by Eric Parker; Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry; Tricki Woo by James Herriot; Having No Hearts by Sir Hugh Walpole; Comet by Samuel A. Derieux; For the Love of a Man by Jack London; The Coming of Riquet by Anatole France; Jimmy, the Dog in My Life by Sir Arthur Bryant; The Great Lad by Joyce Stranger; Bunch by James Douglas; Dogs in a Big Way by Kenneth and Anna Roberts; Montmorency by Jerome K. Jerome; Let Us Have a Mongrel Dog Show by Cecil Aldin; Dandy, the Story of a Dog by W. H. Hudson; Verdun Belle by Alexander Woollcott; and The End by Virginia Woolf. Size: 8vo. William Geldart; (illustrator). Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light wear to the binding. No slope, no twist, no distortion from reading or improper shelving. Spine title label chipped top edge. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket.…

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Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard cover. Published London: T.N. Foulis, 1912, (reprinted November 1912). 8vo., 139 pp., illustrated with tipped in portraits in b/w and color. Brown cloth with black and gilt tiles. Very good.

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