2nd-Hand Books
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
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Verses (Christina Rossetti)
- £25.00
- Rossetti's poetry drawn from her collections 'Called to be Saints, 'Time Flies' and 'The Face of the Deep'. First published thus 1896
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
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Vienna
- £25.00
- Spender's long poem written while living in Vienna to celebrate the uprising of the Viennese socialists in 1934
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
- Add to basket
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
- Add to basket
-
Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
- Add to basket
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Vernon God Little
- £40.00
- uthor's first novel - a 'post-modern picaresque tale' which has been compared to 'The Confederacy of Dunces' as a fresh new voice. Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
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Veronika Decides to Die (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho Ð a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has…
- Add to basket
-
Verses (Christina Rossetti)
- £25.00
- Rossetti's poetry drawn from her collections 'Called to be Saints, 'Time Flies' and 'The Face of the Deep'. First published thus 1896
- Add to basket
-
Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
- Add to basket
-
Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
- Add to basket
-
Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
- Add to basket
-
Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
- Add to basket
-
Victory: An island tale
- £15.00
- A psychological novel first published in 1915, through which Conrad first achieved popular success. The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior…
- Add to basket
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Vienna
- £25.00
- Spender's long poem written while living in Vienna to celebrate the uprising of the Viennese socialists in 1934
- Add to basket
-
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
- Add to basket
-
Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
- Add to basket
-
Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
- Add to basket