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Now We Are Six
- £18.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
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Number Ten
- £20.00
- Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong.The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime…
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O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
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Our Man in Havana
- £35.00
- Graham Greene's classic 'entertainment'
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Paul Kelver: A Novel
- £20.00
- Jerome K JeromeÕs early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mould the young Jerome. After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk he had some minor success…
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Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (vols I & II)
- £40.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works Originally published in 1898, this set of George Bernard Shaw's plays Vol. 1. Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, a Topical Comedy; Mrs Warren's Profession Vol. 2. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, a comedy; Candida, a Mystery; The Man of Destiny, a Trifle; You Never Can…
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Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry
- £12.00
- Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by…
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Poetry Harbinger edited by Dorothy Cannibal
- £20.00
- Arthur Fairburn was a New Zealand poet and art historian and this work was completed by Denis Glover on the former's death in 1957
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Pomp and Circumstance
- £15.00
- Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. 'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is, with a Royal Visit expected on the Island of Samolo, and the narrator, a mother of three, dealing with everything from chicken-pox to the amours of a visiting Duchess' (Daily Telegraph); 'If…
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Pure Drivel
- £10.00
- Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From…
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Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
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Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities
- £10.00
- Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt. 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .'When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin…
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Restoration & Eighteenth Century Comedy (2nd ed.)
- £15.00
- The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of ÒContexts.Ó The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: ÒOn Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660Ð1775,Ó ÒThe Collier Controversy:…
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Robert’s Wife, a comedy in three acts
- £20.00
- St John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first…
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Rough Island Story: News Reel (and Unreal) of the Depression (1931-1935)
- £15.00
- A satirical collection of moments and observations from the Great Depression in Britain
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Now We Are Six
- £18.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
- Add to basket
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Number Ten
- £20.00
- Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong.The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime…
- Add to basket
-
O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
- Add to basket
-
Our Man in Havana
- £35.00
- Graham Greene's classic 'entertainment'
- Add to basket
-
Paul Kelver: A Novel
- £20.00
- Jerome K JeromeÕs early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mould the young Jerome. After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk he had some minor success…
- Add to basket
-
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (vols I & II)
- £40.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works Originally published in 1898, this set of George Bernard Shaw's plays Vol. 1. Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, a Topical Comedy; Mrs Warren's Profession Vol. 2. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, a comedy; Candida, a Mystery; The Man of Destiny, a Trifle; You Never Can…
- Add to basket
-
Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry
- £12.00
- Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by…
- Add to basket
-
Poetry Harbinger edited by Dorothy Cannibal
- £20.00
- Arthur Fairburn was a New Zealand poet and art historian and this work was completed by Denis Glover on the former's death in 1957
- Add to basket
-
Pomp and Circumstance
- £15.00
- Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. 'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is, with a Royal Visit expected on the Island of Samolo, and the narrator, a mother of three, dealing with everything from chicken-pox to the amours of a visiting Duchess' (Daily Telegraph); 'If…
- Add to basket
-
Pure Drivel
- £10.00
- Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From…
- Add to basket
-
Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
- Add to basket
-
Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities
- £10.00
- Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt. 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .'When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin…
- Add to basket
-
Restoration & Eighteenth Century Comedy (2nd ed.)
- £15.00
- The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of ÒContexts.Ó The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: ÒOn Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660Ð1775,Ó ÒThe Collier Controversy:…
- Add to basket
-
Robert’s Wife, a comedy in three acts
- £20.00
- St John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first…
- Add to basket
-
Rough Island Story: News Reel (and Unreal) of the Depression (1931-1935)
- £15.00
- A satirical collection of moments and observations from the Great Depression in Britain
- Add to basket