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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
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Katabasis (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and Ð inconveniently…
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Kate & Emma
- £18.00
- Monica Dickens's novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going…
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Kennedy 35 (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- *WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023* 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will…
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
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Krishna Fluting, a novel (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From flap: "Krishna Fluting is a very superior kind of book, all about exotic, barefaced India, where the ancient lunar cold of the Himalayas fights a losing battle against the life force, where Peter Bruff is battered at by gods, demigods and humans, and seems to enjoy it, and comes…
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Lady into Fox
- £50.00
- Early novella (and first in his own name) from a member of the Bloomsbury group, and co-founder (with Francis Meynell) of the Nonesuch Press (first published in Oct 1922). Lady into Fox dedicated to, Duncan Grant, his lover at the time, and subsequent father-in-law. The work won the 1922 James…
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Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
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Land from the Waters
- £20.00
- Wallace was an English novelist, grammar school teacher and social campaigner. In more than 40 novels she is seen to explore examples of "comic and tragic cross-purposes between different classes, sexes and generations". This historical novel is set against the backdrop of the draining of the fens.
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Lazarus is Dead (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime? Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know. But as Lazarus…
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Le Morte Darthur (2 vols)
- £120.00
- Two volumes in Macmillan's Library of English Classics, of Thomas Malory's classic fable. Central figures in the Matter of Britain, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory…
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Leaf Storm
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of…
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Les Diaboliques
- £15.00
- Les Diaboliques consists of six tales of female temptresses, or she-devils, in which horror and the wild Normandy countryside combine to send a shiver down the spine of the reader. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) gave up the law for literasture and left Normandy for Paris where he led a very dissolute…
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
- Add to basket
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Katabasis (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and Ð inconveniently…
- Add to basket
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Kate & Emma
- £18.00
- Monica Dickens's novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going…
- Add to basket
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Kennedy 35 (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- *WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023* 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will…
- Add to basket
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King Queen Knave
- £15.00
- A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the…
- Add to basket
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Krishna Fluting, a novel (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- From flap: "Krishna Fluting is a very superior kind of book, all about exotic, barefaced India, where the ancient lunar cold of the Himalayas fights a losing battle against the life force, where Peter Bruff is battered at by gods, demigods and humans, and seems to enjoy it, and comes…
- Add to basket
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
- Add to basket
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Lady into Fox
- £50.00
- Early novella (and first in his own name) from a member of the Bloomsbury group, and co-founder (with Francis Meynell) of the Nonesuch Press (first published in Oct 1922). Lady into Fox dedicated to, Duncan Grant, his lover at the time, and subsequent father-in-law. The work won the 1922 James…
- Add to basket
-
Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
- Add to basket
-
Land from the Waters
- £20.00
- Wallace was an English novelist, grammar school teacher and social campaigner. In more than 40 novels she is seen to explore examples of "comic and tragic cross-purposes between different classes, sexes and generations". This historical novel is set against the backdrop of the draining of the fens.
- Add to basket
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Lazarus is Dead (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime? Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know. But as Lazarus…
- Add to basket
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
- Add to basket
-
Le Morte Darthur (2 vols)
- £120.00
- Two volumes in Macmillan's Library of English Classics, of Thomas Malory's classic fable. Central figures in the Matter of Britain, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory…
- Add to basket
-
Leaf Storm
- £10.00
- Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of…
- Add to basket
-
Les Diaboliques
- £15.00
- Les Diaboliques consists of six tales of female temptresses, or she-devils, in which horror and the wild Normandy countryside combine to send a shiver down the spine of the reader. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) gave up the law for literasture and left Normandy for Paris where he led a very dissolute…
- Add to basket