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1066 and all that
- £8.00
- "Canute began by being a Bad King on the advice of his Courtiers, who informed him (owing to a misunderstanding of the Rule Britannia) that the King of England was entitled to sit on the sea without getting wet." 1066 And All That is a book that has itself become…
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All Done From Memory
- £8.00
- Collection of autobiographical pieces, some of which first published in Cornhill magazine, 10 years after private limited edition printing in 1953.
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Assorted Sizes
- £15.00
- Collection of Lancaster's wartime 'pocket cartoons' from the Daily Express (printed in landscape)
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Back to the Slaughterhouse and Other Ugly Moments
- £30.00
- Another collection of Searle's humorous drawings, of which 40 pages are of St. Trinian's cartoons.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
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Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
- £20.00
- Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and…
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Cuts: a very short novel
- £9.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Doctor Criminale
- £12.00
- Naive, anonymous, provincial Francis Jay has ambitions to break out of Camden and into the media. Writing a TV documentary about Doctor Bazlo Criminale - urbane polymath and the "Great Thinker of the Age of Glasnost", he steps into a world outside his experience and beyond his comprehension.
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Down with Skool!
- £40.00
- The first of the inimitable Molesworth books: "a guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents"
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Drayneflete Revealed
- £20.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons
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Drayneflete Revealed
- £15.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons (first published 1949.
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1066 and all that
- £8.00
- "Canute began by being a Bad King on the advice of his Courtiers, who informed him (owing to a misunderstanding of the Rule Britannia) that the King of England was entitled to sit on the sea without getting wet." 1066 And All That is a book that has itself become…
- Add to basket
-
All Done From Memory
- £8.00
- Collection of autobiographical pieces, some of which first published in Cornhill magazine, 10 years after private limited edition printing in 1953.
- Add to basket
-
Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
- Add to basket
-
Assorted Sizes
- £15.00
- Collection of Lancaster's wartime 'pocket cartoons' from the Daily Express (printed in landscape)
- Add to basket
-
Back to the Slaughterhouse and Other Ugly Moments
- £30.00
- Another collection of Searle's humorous drawings, of which 40 pages are of St. Trinian's cartoons.
- Add to basket
-
Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
- Add to basket
-
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
- £20.00
- Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and…
- Add to basket
-
Cuts: a very short novel
- £9.00
- Up in the north of England they are cost-cutting at the small provincial university where Henry Babbacombe, a writer, does some teaching. And in the great glass tower of Eldorado TV they are getting ready to cut and edit a major series that will outshine "Brideshead" and "The Jewel in…
- Add to basket
-
Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
- Read more
-
Doctor Criminale
- £12.00
- Naive, anonymous, provincial Francis Jay has ambitions to break out of Camden and into the media. Writing a TV documentary about Doctor Bazlo Criminale - urbane polymath and the "Great Thinker of the Age of Glasnost", he steps into a world outside his experience and beyond his comprehension.
- Add to basket
-
Down with Skool!
- £40.00
- The first of the inimitable Molesworth books: "a guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents"
- Add to basket
-
Drayneflete Revealed
- £20.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons
- Add to basket
-
Drayneflete Revealed
- £15.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons (first published 1949.
- Add to basket
