2nd-Hand Books
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
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An Eye for An Eye – the place of Old Testament Ethics Today
- £18.00
- Written while Chris Wright was still a professor in India, this is the forerunner of what became his classic Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (2004).
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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
- Add to basket
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
- Add to basket
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An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Add to basket
-
An Eye for An Eye – the place of Old Testament Ethics Today
- £18.00
- Written while Chris Wright was still a professor in India, this is the forerunner of what became his classic Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (2004).
- Add to basket
-
An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
- Add to basket
-
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
- Add to basket
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
-
An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
- Add to basket
-
An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
- Add to basket
-
An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
- Add to basket
-
Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
- Add to basket