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A Mad Medley of Milligan
- £9.00
- A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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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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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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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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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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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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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- 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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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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Cuts: a very short novel
- £11.00
- 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
- £45.00
- 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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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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Drayneflete Revealed (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons
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Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
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Facades and Faces
- £15.00
- Lancaster journeys through parts of Europe and the Levant, as well as New York with his brilliant observations in the first half of the book; in the second half, he returns to the life of Maudie Littlehampton of Drayneflete
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Facades and Faces
- £15.00
- Lancaster journeys through parts of Europe and the Levant, as well as New York with his brilliant observations in the first half of the book; in the second half, he returns to the life of Maudie Littlehampton of Drayneflete
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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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Further Experiences of an Irish R. M.
- £25.00
- The follow up to Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. (1899) by writing duo, Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville & Violet Florence Martin). he various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate (R.M.) in Ireland, which at that stage…
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Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
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Greenlights
- £12.00
- From the Academy Award¨-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that…
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Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
- £60.00
- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
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A Mad Medley of Milligan
- £9.00
- A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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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.
- 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
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
- 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
-
Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
- 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
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- 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
-
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
-
Cuts: a very short novel
- £11.00
- 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
- £45.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
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
-
Drayneflete Revealed (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Seminal volume in Lancaster's Littlehampton saga in words and cartoons
- Add to basket
-
Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
- Add to basket
-
Facades and Faces
- £15.00
- Lancaster journeys through parts of Europe and the Levant, as well as New York with his brilliant observations in the first half of the book; in the second half, he returns to the life of Maudie Littlehampton of Drayneflete
- Add to basket
-
Facades and Faces
- £15.00
- Lancaster journeys through parts of Europe and the Levant, as well as New York with his brilliant observations in the first half of the book; in the second half, he returns to the life of Maudie Littlehampton of Drayneflete
- 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
-
Further Experiences of an Irish R. M.
- £25.00
- The follow up to Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. (1899) by writing duo, Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville & Violet Florence Martin). he various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate (R.M.) in Ireland, which at that stage…
- Add to basket
-
Goon for Lunch (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- An hilarious autobiographical collection of stories from Harry Secombe's life covering the whole period from his childhood in Wales to the 1970s
- Add to basket
-
Greenlights
- £12.00
- From the Academy Award¨-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that…
- Add to basket
-
Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
- Add to basket
-
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years
- £60.00
- The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning…
- Add to basket
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