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The Silver Tassie – A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
- £25.00
- Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry…
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The Singing Swan: A Yachtsman’s Yarn
- £35.00
- Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (1890-1971), was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seaman in the First World War, becoming an officer in the Royal Naval Division.…
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Soldier’s Art [A Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £50.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Soldier’s Art [Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
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The Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
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The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
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The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
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The Spencer Family (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A full insider's history of the Spencer family, from the sheep-farmers of the sixteenth century through the Civil War and then the relationship with the Marlboroughs, on through the 19th century when the third Earl was one of the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill, to recent years and the…
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
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The Spy and the Traitor
- £15.00
- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- £75.00
- Alec Leamas has ended his time in Berlin. Or his time has ended him. The last of his Eastern agents has been killed, like the others, by the Abteilung. Back at the Circus, Leamas is put on the shelf. He turns to drunkenness and dishonesty and finally disappears from view,…
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- £50.00
- Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He…
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
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The Silver Tassie – A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
- £25.00
- Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry…
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The Singing Swan: A Yachtsman’s Yarn
- £35.00
- Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (1890-1971), was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seaman in the First World War, becoming an officer in the Royal Naval Division.…
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Soldier’s Art [A Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £50.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
- Add to basket
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The Soldier’s Art [Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
- Add to basket
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
- Add to basket
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The Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
- Add to basket
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The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
- Add to basket
-
The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
- Add to basket
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The Spencer Family (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A full insider's history of the Spencer family, from the sheep-farmers of the sixteenth century through the Civil War and then the relationship with the Marlboroughs, on through the 19th century when the third Earl was one of the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill, to recent years and the…
- Add to basket
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
- Add to basket
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The Spy and the Traitor
- £15.00
- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
- Add to basket
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- £75.00
- Alec Leamas has ended his time in Berlin. Or his time has ended him. The last of his Eastern agents has been killed, like the others, by the Abteilung. Back at the Circus, Leamas is put on the shelf. He turns to drunkenness and dishonesty and finally disappears from view,…
- Add to basket
-
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- £50.00
- Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He…
- Add to basket
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
- Add to basket