2nd-Hand Books
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
- £12.00
- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
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Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
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With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
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Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
- Add to basket
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William Harvey: Englishman 1578-1657
- £12.00
- William Harvey (1578Ð 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the…
- Add to basket
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
- Add to basket
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William the Rebel
- £20.00
- Crompton's William series Book 15. Contains: Three dogs and William; A Rescue Party; Mistakes Will Happen; William and Cleopatra; The Outlaws and the Penknife; Wiliam and the Watch and Chain; William's Wonderful Plan; William and the Fisherman; William and the Drug Trafficker; April Fool's Day; William Makes Things Hum; It…
- Add to basket
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
- Add to basket
-
Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
- Add to basket
-
Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
- Add to basket
-
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- From dormouse hibernation to C.S. Lewis and solstice celebrations to Sylvia Plath, May deftly demonstrates how interconnected our personal contentment is with the pattern of the seasons. Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine…
- Add to basket
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
- Add to basket
-
With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
- Add to basket
-
With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
- Add to basket
-
Wodehouse: A Life (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from…
- Add to basket