2nd-Hand Books
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
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The Originals: Who’s Really Who In Fiction
- £9.00
- William Amos has had the obvious (now that he's done it) but brilliant idea of compiling an A to Z of literary figures who had real life originals. An ingenious index gives us the subjects and their fictional counterparts... This is the best kind of reference book, the sort that…
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The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
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The Other Side of You (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One…
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The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
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The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
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The Oxford Book Of Twentieth Century English Verse
- £20.00
- Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of…
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The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
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The Passage (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of AmyÑabandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her…
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
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The Passion Generation
- £10.00
- Millennials have disrupted almost every major industry. Whether youÕre a parent trying to raise them, a pastor trying to reach them, or an employer trying to retain them, theyÕre disruptive. As the largest living generation, millennials are one of the most studied but misunderstood groups of our day. And the…
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The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
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The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
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The Original (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- ÔThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Õ Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncleÕs home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude…
- Add to basket
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The Originals: Who’s Really Who In Fiction
- £9.00
- William Amos has had the obvious (now that he's done it) but brilliant idea of compiling an A to Z of literary figures who had real life originals. An ingenious index gives us the subjects and their fictional counterparts... This is the best kind of reference book, the sort that…
- Add to basket
-
The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
- Add to basket
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The Other Side of You (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One…
- Add to basket
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The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book Of Twentieth Century English Verse
- £20.00
- Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
- Add to basket
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The Passage (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of AmyÑabandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her…
- Add to basket
-
The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
- Add to basket
-
The Passion Generation
- £10.00
- Millennials have disrupted almost every major industry. Whether youÕre a parent trying to raise them, a pastor trying to reach them, or an employer trying to retain them, theyÕre disruptive. As the largest living generation, millennials are one of the most studied but misunderstood groups of our day. And the…
- Add to basket
-
The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
- Add to basket
-
The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
- Add to basket