1st USA
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Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
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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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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
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Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
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Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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Parrot & Olivier in America
- £25.00
- Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.…
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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £15.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
- Add to basket
-
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
-
How to Become a Musical Critic: previously uncollected writings
- £25.00
- An anthology of GBS's music criticism previously uncompiled.
- Add to basket
-
Innocent Blood
- £20.00
- Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that…
- Add to basket
-
Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
- Add to basket
-
Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
- Add to basket
-
Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
- Add to basket
-
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
- Add to basket
-
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
- £13.00
- In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison…
- Add to basket
-
New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
- Add to basket
-
Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
- Add to basket
-
Parrot & Olivier in America
- £25.00
- Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.…
- Add to basket
-
Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
- Add to basket
-
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £15.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
- Add to basket
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