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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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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 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 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 Acts
- £15.00
- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
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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 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 Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
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The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
- Add to basket
-
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
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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 Acts
- £15.00
- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
- Add to basket
-
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 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 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
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The Mating Season
- £75.00
- It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent. At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village…
- Add to basket
-
The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor…
- Add to basket
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The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
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