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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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Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
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Bring on the Empty Horses
- £40.00
- From the Hollywood's first-ever million-copy bestseller, another riotous look at the golden age of Hollywood from a quintessential English gentleman. 'Might easily be the best book ever written about Hollywood.' New York Times Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest memoirists of all time, David Niven's eye for an anecdote…
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
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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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Cuts: a very short novel
- £15.00
- 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
- £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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Down Cemetery Road (Zo Boehm 1 – SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching…
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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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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
-
Blue Shoes and Happiness (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES. The one with the witch who flew away . . . Mma Ramotswe is happily married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, but her work seems more hectic than ever. Among the raft of cases coming the way…
- Add to basket
-
Bring on the Empty Horses
- £40.00
- From the Hollywood's first-ever million-copy bestseller, another riotous look at the golden age of Hollywood from a quintessential English gentleman. 'Might easily be the best book ever written about Hollywood.' New York Times Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest memoirists of all time, David Niven's eye for an anecdote…
- Add to basket
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Calendar Girl, in which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined…
- 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
-
Cuts: a very short novel
- £15.00
- 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
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
-
Down Cemetery Road (Zo Boehm 1 – SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching…
- Add to basket
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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