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A is for Ox, a short history of the alphabet
- £15.00
- A short history of the western alphabet, starting with its earliest roots, Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs etc. A detailed explanation is given of the conceptual change from Logograms and Syllabograms (signs for words or syllables) to a true alphabetical script where each sign signifies a sound (ideally) invented by the…
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A Small Town in Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
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A Town like Alice
- £7.00
- A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Bestiary, in the Bodleian Library
- £15.00
- Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library , Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original Miniatures reproduced in Facsimile. Translated and introduced by Richard Barber.
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763
- £20.00
- Boswell's own account of his first year in London written when he was twenty-two years old. His actions are extravagant, but his reflections are shrewd. And he is never so thoughtlessly excitable, so over-stimulated by wine, feminine society, the bustle and glare of a crowded urban pleasure-garden that he fails…
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Brave New World
- £50.00
- EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE. Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover…
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Bugles and a Tiger – a personal adventure
- £10.00
- The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in…
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C. H. Spurgeon’s Forgotten College Addresses
- £13.00
- Spurgeon s magazine, The Sword and the Trowel, provided the material for various collections of his addresses and writings compiled after his death in 1892. Among these was An All-Round Ministry, published in 1900 and containing twelve of his Presidential addresses at the Annual Conference of the Pastors College. In…
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A is for Ox, a short history of the alphabet
- £15.00
- A short history of the western alphabet, starting with its earliest roots, Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs etc. A detailed explanation is given of the conceptual change from Logograms and Syllabograms (signs for words or syllables) to a true alphabetical script where each sign signifies a sound (ideally) invented by the…
- Add to basket
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A Small Town in Germany
- £40.00
- West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As…
- Add to basket
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A Town like Alice
- £7.00
- A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia…
- Add to basket
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
- Add to basket
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
- Add to basket
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
- Add to basket
-
Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
- Add to basket
-
Bestiary, in the Bodleian Library
- £15.00
- Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library , Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original Miniatures reproduced in Facsimile. Translated and introduced by Richard Barber.
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
- Add to basket
-
Bhowani Junction
- £15.00
- The tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India are grippingly evoked in John Masters' classic 'Bhowani Junction'. Set in the late 1940s and first published in 1954 in the wake of Partition, the novel has increased in stature over the years. 'Bhowani Junction', along with Masters' other…
- Add to basket
-
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
- Add to basket
-
Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763
- £20.00
- Boswell's own account of his first year in London written when he was twenty-two years old. His actions are extravagant, but his reflections are shrewd. And he is never so thoughtlessly excitable, so over-stimulated by wine, feminine society, the bustle and glare of a crowded urban pleasure-garden that he fails…
- Add to basket
-
Brave New World
- £50.00
- EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE. Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover…
- Add to basket
-
Bugles and a Tiger – a personal adventure
- £10.00
- The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in…
- Add to basket
-
C. H. Spurgeon’s Forgotten College Addresses
- £13.00
- Spurgeon s magazine, The Sword and the Trowel, provided the material for various collections of his addresses and writings compiled after his death in 1892. Among these was An All-Round Ministry, published in 1900 and containing twelve of his Presidential addresses at the Annual Conference of the Pastors College. In…
- Add to basket
