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Drawing Masterclass: 100 Creative Techniques of Great Artists
- £14.00
- Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows you how to weave some of this magic into your own drawings. Drawing Masterclass analyses some of the most fascinating drawings by some of the best artists the world has ever known: the way they were made, what…
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
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Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
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Europe Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues
- £16.00
- Written in late 2004, shortly before Joseph Ratzinger's election as Pope Benedict XVI, this book addresses the serious issues concerning the new European Union and the drafting of a European Constitution, events with far-reaching consequences for the West and, indeed, the world. The main questions Cardinal Ratzinger raise include: How…
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
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From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
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Galgenlieder (‘Gallows songs’) Nebst Dem “Gingganz”
- £25.00
- A collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer. And illustrations in a different edition were done by the famous Switzerland Cuban and surrealist artist, Paul Klee in 1914. These poems are weird and half macabre…
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Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Drawing Masterclass: 100 Creative Techniques of Great Artists
- £14.00
- Analyses the visual approaches and techniques of 100 great artists, and shows you how to weave some of this magic into your own drawings. Drawing Masterclass analyses some of the most fascinating drawings by some of the best artists the world has ever known: the way they were made, what…
- Add to basket
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
- Add to basket
-
Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
- Add to basket
-
Europe Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues
- £16.00
- Written in late 2004, shortly before Joseph Ratzinger's election as Pope Benedict XVI, this book addresses the serious issues concerning the new European Union and the drafting of a European Constitution, events with far-reaching consequences for the West and, indeed, the world. The main questions Cardinal Ratzinger raise include: How…
- Add to basket
-
Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
- Add to basket
-
From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
- Add to basket
-
Galgenlieder (‘Gallows songs’) Nebst Dem “Gingganz”
- £25.00
- A collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer. And illustrations in a different edition were done by the famous Switzerland Cuban and surrealist artist, Paul Klee in 1914. These poems are weird and half macabre…
- Add to basket
-
Golden Hill (SIGNED – Faber Members)
- £250.00
- A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious…
- Add to basket
-
Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
- Add to basket
-
Gregorius
- £18.00
- Ageing and unattractive, the widowed Pastor Gregorius seems to have been granted a second chance at happiness when Helga, the young girl he has been fascinated by since her childhood, accepts his offer of marriage. Yet before long, the relationship turns sour and brutal and Gregorius suspects that his wife's…
- Add to basket
-
Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
- Add to basket
-
Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
- Add to basket
-
Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
- Add to basket
-
Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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