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  • The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED) Quick View
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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 Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF) Quick View
    • The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF) Quick View

    • 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 Little Fire Engine

    • £80.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
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    • The Little Fire Engine

    • £25.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
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    • The Little Fire Engine

    • £35.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
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    • The Little Horse Bus

    • £35.00
    • Everybody for miles around Goose Lane used to buy their groceries at Mr Potter's shop. Things started to look grim with competitors opening over the road, until deliverance came in the shape of the little horse bus.
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    • The Little Steamroller

    • £35.00
    • Nobody at London airport knew that Mr King newly arrived was a wicked smuggler in the dreaded Black Hand gang. But thanks to the little steamroller, their Dirty Plan was foiled in the nick of time.
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  • The Littlehampton BequestThe Littlehampton Bequest Quick View
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    • The Littlehampton Bequest

    • £14.00
    • A tour of the portraits at Drayneflete, Lancaster's sublimely funny stately home, given added credibility by Roy Strong's foreword (as director of the National Portrait Gallery). Lancaster's mastery of the stages of European portraiture on display in these glorious pastiches. Dedicated to Antony and Violet Powell.
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  • The Looney: an Irish FantasyThe Looney: an Irish Fantasy Quick View
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    • The Looney: an Irish Fantasy

    • £25.00
    • The principal protagonist of the novel is Mick Looney, an Irish construction worker from Kilburn, London, who comes to the conclusion that he is the rightful King of Ireland. The first portion of the novel is set in Kilburn as Looney's fantasy of royal descent takes hold. He purchases a…
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  • The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three ActsThe Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts Quick View
  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View
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    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £45.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £30.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View
    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View

    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £30.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
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  • The MaestroThe Maestro Quick View
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    • The Maestro

    • £15.00
    • 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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  • The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED) Quick View
  • The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED) Quick View
    • The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED)The Last Kings of Sark (SIGNED) Quick View

    • 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
  • The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF) Quick View
    • The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF) Quick View

    • 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 Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View
    • The Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View

    • The Little Fire Engine

    • £80.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
    • Add to basket
  • The Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View
    • The Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View

    • The Little Fire Engine

    • £25.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
    • Add to basket
  • The Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View
    • The Little Fire EngineThe Little Fire Engine Quick View

    • The Little Fire Engine

    • £35.00
    • One day a shiny new fire engine arrives in Little Snoreing and Sam Trolley and the old-fashioned little fire engine are told they're not needed anymore. But one evening a fire breaks out and all the new firemen are busy . . . Will the little fire engine be able…
    • Add to basket
  • The Little Horse BusThe Little Horse Bus Quick View
    • The Little Horse BusThe Little Horse Bus Quick View

    • The Little Horse Bus

    • £35.00
    • Everybody for miles around Goose Lane used to buy their groceries at Mr Potter's shop. Things started to look grim with competitors opening over the road, until deliverance came in the shape of the little horse bus.
    • Add to basket
  • The Little SteamrollerThe Little Steamroller Quick View
    • The Little SteamrollerThe Little Steamroller Quick View

    • The Little Steamroller

    • £35.00
    • Nobody at London airport knew that Mr King newly arrived was a wicked smuggler in the dreaded Black Hand gang. But thanks to the little steamroller, their Dirty Plan was foiled in the nick of time.
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  • The Littlehampton BequestThe Littlehampton Bequest Quick View
    • The Littlehampton BequestThe Littlehampton Bequest Quick View

    • The Littlehampton Bequest

    • £14.00
    • A tour of the portraits at Drayneflete, Lancaster's sublimely funny stately home, given added credibility by Roy Strong's foreword (as director of the National Portrait Gallery). Lancaster's mastery of the stages of European portraiture on display in these glorious pastiches. Dedicated to Antony and Violet Powell.
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  • The Looney: an Irish FantasyThe Looney: an Irish Fantasy Quick View
    • The Looney: an Irish FantasyThe Looney: an Irish Fantasy Quick View

    • The Looney: an Irish Fantasy

    • £25.00
    • The principal protagonist of the novel is Mick Looney, an Irish construction worker from Kilburn, London, who comes to the conclusion that he is the rightful King of Ireland. The first portion of the novel is set in Kilburn as Looney's fantasy of royal descent takes hold. He purchases a…
    • Add to basket
  • The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three ActsThe Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts Quick View
  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View
    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View

    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £45.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
    • Add to basket
  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View
    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View

    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £30.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
    • Add to basket
  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View
    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American TragedyThe Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy Quick View

    • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

    • £30.00
    • From his time in the USA negotiating a possible film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction have such execrably bad taste…
    • Add to basket
  • The MaestroThe Maestro Quick View
    • The MaestroThe Maestro Quick View

    • The Maestro

    • £15.00
    • 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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  • The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED)The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (SIGNED) Quick View
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