2nd-Hand Books
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The Spy’s Bedside Book
- £100.00
- On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. Includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir…
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The State of Us (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A fascinating call to arms full of insight' Independent. After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad news. It is rare in history that so many nations…
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The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid…
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- £10.00
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
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The Story of the Household Cavalry (vol 1)
- £100.00
- From the introduction: The chief aim of this Book will have been fulfilled if its perusal should remind those now serving in the Household Cavalry that devotion to duty, alike in peace and in war, is for them an inherited tradition - that in long bygone days, not less than…
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Suburbans
- £70.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), he turns his piercing eye on inhabitants of suburbia
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The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
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The Tailor of Panama
- £15.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
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The Tailor of Panama
- £18.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
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The Tailor of Panama
- £15.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
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The Tailor of Panama
- £80.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
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The Tax Inspector
- £20.00
- The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that Tax Inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize.
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The Spy’s Bedside Book
- £100.00
- On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. Includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir…
- Add to basket
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The State of Us (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A fascinating call to arms full of insight' Independent. After four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad news. It is rare in history that so many nations…
- Add to basket
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The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid…
- Add to basket
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- £10.00
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her…
- Add to basket
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The Story of the Household Cavalry (vol 1)
- £100.00
- From the introduction: The chief aim of this Book will have been fulfilled if its perusal should remind those now serving in the Household Cavalry that devotion to duty, alike in peace and in war, is for them an inherited tradition - that in long bygone days, not less than…
- Add to basket
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
- Add to basket
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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-
The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
- Add to basket
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The Suburbans
- £70.00
- A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), he turns his piercing eye on inhabitants of suburbia
- Add to basket
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The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
- Add to basket
-
The Tailor of Panama
- £15.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
- Add to basket
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The Tailor of Panama
- £18.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
- Add to basket
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The Tailor of Panama
- £15.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
- Add to basket
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The Tailor of Panama
- £80.00
- A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that…
- Add to basket
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The Tax Inspector
- £20.00
- The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that Tax Inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize.
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