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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013 This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance,…
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
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Fading Light, the tragedy of Spiritual Decline in Germany
- £15.00
- T. C. Hammond (1877-1961) was an Irish Anglican minister who moved to Sydney, Australia in 1935 to take up the position of Principal of Moore College. This volume is a compilation of talks given at St Philips church where he was also rector, in the middle of the 2nd World…
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Faith (Bernard Samson series)
- £35.00
- In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
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Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging
- £16.00
- A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' Ð TLS. Fans takes you on a journey into the world of superfans Ð in all of its strange, sometimes dark, and complicated forms. Fascinating and thought-provoking, Fans is a…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
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Felicia’s Journey
- £12.00
- WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological thriller. 'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the…
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Felix in the Underworld (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To Felix Morsom stories now come as rarely as sex. During an interview on 'Good Morning Thames Estuary' his is accused of leaving the big dramatic events to other people's lives. Then a demand from PROD comes into his life demanding immediate payment of £20,000 for ten year's maintenance for…
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Festivals and Prayers (6 vols) according to the ritual of the German and Polish Jews
- £250.00
- 6-volume set of Jewish liturgies from the traditions of Polish and German Jews, in Hebrew with parallel English translation by Rev. D. A. de Sola of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London. Ex-Library (Latimer Trust)
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Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
- £30.00
- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013 This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance,…
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- £12.00
- One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with…
- Add to basket
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Fading Light, the tragedy of Spiritual Decline in Germany
- £15.00
- T. C. Hammond (1877-1961) was an Irish Anglican minister who moved to Sydney, Australia in 1935 to take up the position of Principal of Moore College. This volume is a compilation of talks given at St Philips church where he was also rector, in the middle of the 2nd World…
- Add to basket
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Faith (Bernard Samson series)
- £35.00
- In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
- Add to basket
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
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Family Matters (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young…
- Add to basket
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Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging
- £16.00
- A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' Ð TLS. Fans takes you on a journey into the world of superfans Ð in all of its strange, sometimes dark, and complicated forms. Fascinating and thought-provoking, Fans is a…
- Add to basket
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
- Add to basket
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
- Add to basket
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Felicia’s Journey
- £12.00
- WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological thriller. 'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the…
- Add to basket
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Felix in the Underworld (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To Felix Morsom stories now come as rarely as sex. During an interview on 'Good Morning Thames Estuary' his is accused of leaving the big dramatic events to other people's lives. Then a demand from PROD comes into his life demanding immediate payment of £20,000 for ten year's maintenance for…
- Add to basket
-
Festivals and Prayers (6 vols) according to the ritual of the German and Polish Jews
- £250.00
- 6-volume set of Jewish liturgies from the traditions of Polish and German Jews, in Hebrew with parallel English translation by Rev. D. A. de Sola of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London. Ex-Library (Latimer Trust)
- Add to basket
-
Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
- £30.00
- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
- Add to basket
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
- Add to basket