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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
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Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
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Vagabond
- £20.00
- A witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump…
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Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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When we were very young
- £35.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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When we were very young
- £15.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
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Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
- £40.00
- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
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With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
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With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
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Uncle
- £200.00
- The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A classic in the great English nonsense tradition - Observer. Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He…
- Add to basket
-
Uncle Dynamite
- £85.00
- Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened…
- Add to basket
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Vagabond
- £20.00
- A witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump…
- Add to basket
-
Versus
- £15.00
- Another witty collection of verse by the celebrated poet of funny rhymes. Simultaneous publication in US & UK in 1949.
- Add to basket
-
Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
- Add to basket
-
When we were very young
- £35.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
- Add to basket
-
When we were very young
- £15.00
- Written with simplicity and gentle humor, A. A. Milne's poems recapture the innocence of childhood and the wonder of everyday situations, from putting on boots for a rainy day to birdwatching and gazing at a cloudy sky. Alert readers will recognize the narrator of Teddy Bear, a poem that originally…
- Add to basket
-
Who do you think you are? Stories and Parodies
- £20.00
- A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury's playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and an entire novel from Muriel Spark.
- Add to basket
-
Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
- £40.00
- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
- Add to basket
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £70.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt (Wilt 1)
- £35.00
- Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home…
- Add to basket
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Wilt on High (Wilt 3)
- £15.00
- Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable…
- Add to basket
-
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography Of Douglas Adams
- £15.00
- THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY launched Douglas Adams to instant superstardom when it came out in 1978, becoming a huge success as a novel, radio and TV series. Like all his best work it was funny, but seriously funny. But Adams the comic writer who worked with Monty Python…
- Add to basket
-
With an Eye to the Future
- £18.00
- Lancaster's 2nd autobiographical collection, personally illustrated with 35 b/w drawings and 2 full colour plates
- Add to basket
-
With These Hands: a collection of work
- £9.00
- a collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her present busy career as a writer and broadcaster.
- Add to basket