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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
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The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
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The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.' Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer…
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The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
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The Last Paragraph (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- I prefer not to forget, for then I don t suffer the pain of remembering. A random act of theft has put Tom s life into a tailspin. Stolen from his bookshop is the last photograph taken of him and his son Luke. A photograph that kept alive the memory…
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The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
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The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn
- £45.00
- The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrn, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. ÒMany years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first…
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The Legion of the Damned
- £25.00
- Legion of the Damned (original Danish: Fordømtes Legion) is the first in 14 World War II novels by Danish-born author Sven Hassel (pseudonym of Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen). The book covers a chronological period of a number of years, starting with the protagonist's arrest and time in German concentration camps,…
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The Leopard
- £200.00
- The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince…
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The Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson
- £12.00
- Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 Ð 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, bishop, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to…
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Vol 1:1898-1922
- £10.00
- Published on the centenary of his birth, this volume of the correspondence of T.S.Eliot covers the period from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, until the end of 1922 - the year of "The Waste Land" and seven years after he had married and settled in England. The text includes…
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The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army
- £25.00
- A former high-ranking Soviet Army officer who has defected to the West delineates Soviet tactical policy, armaments, and military technology, and esses army personnel and their training
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
- £25.00
- An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
- Add to basket
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The Last King of Scotland (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator. 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph. 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard. In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of…
- Add to basket
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The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.' Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer…
- Add to basket
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The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
- Add to basket
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The Last Paragraph (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- I prefer not to forget, for then I don t suffer the pain of remembering. A random act of theft has put Tom s life into a tailspin. Stolen from his bookshop is the last photograph taken of him and his son Luke. A photograph that kept alive the memory…
- Add to basket
-
The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
- Add to basket
-
The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
- Add to basket
-
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn
- £45.00
- The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrn, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. ÒMany years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first…
- Add to basket
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The Legion of the Damned
- £25.00
- Legion of the Damned (original Danish: Fordømtes Legion) is the first in 14 World War II novels by Danish-born author Sven Hassel (pseudonym of Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen). The book covers a chronological period of a number of years, starting with the protagonist's arrest and time in German concentration camps,…
- Add to basket
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The Leopard
- £200.00
- The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince…
- Add to basket
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The Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson
- £12.00
- Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 Ð 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, bishop, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to…
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Vol 1:1898-1922
- £10.00
- Published on the centenary of his birth, this volume of the correspondence of T.S.Eliot covers the period from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, until the end of 1922 - the year of "The Waste Land" and seven years after he had married and settled in England. The text includes…
- Add to basket
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The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army
- £25.00
- A former high-ranking Soviet Army officer who has defected to the West delineates Soviet tactical policy, armaments, and military technology, and esses army personnel and their training
- Add to basket
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
- £25.00
- An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For…
- Add to basket
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
- Add to basket