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A Mad Medley of Milligan
- £9.00
- A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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A Voyage Around the Queen (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- A very unusual masterpiece' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Brilliantly funny and well-researched' FINANCIAL TIMES Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix played her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with…
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Alan Partridge: Nomad (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In ALAN PARTRIDGE: NOMAD, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance. Diarising his ramble in the form of a 'journey journal', Alan details the people…
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
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Atlas
- £25.00
- A 1982 collection of cartoons first published in the Netherlands, featuring more of Baxter's Amazing People, more Great Failures of History, and more Great Culinary Disasters of Our Time
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Beautiful Children
- £14.00
- One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never…
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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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Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Felix in the Underworld (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To Felix Morsom stories now come as rarely as sex. During an interview on 'Good Morning Thames Estuary' his is accused of leaving the big dramatic events to other people's lives. Then a demand from PROD comes into his life demanding immediate payment of £20,000 for ten year's maintenance for…
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Floating down to Camelot (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection…
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A Mad Medley of Milligan
- £9.00
- A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and…
- Add to basket
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
- Add to basket
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A Voyage Around the Queen (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- A very unusual masterpiece' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Brilliantly funny and well-researched' FINANCIAL TIMES Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix played her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with…
- Add to basket
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Alan Partridge: Nomad (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- In ALAN PARTRIDGE: NOMAD, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance. Diarising his ramble in the form of a 'journey journal', Alan details the people…
- Add to basket
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
- Add to basket
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Atlas
- £25.00
- A 1982 collection of cartoons first published in the Netherlands, featuring more of Baxter's Amazing People, more Great Failures of History, and more Great Culinary Disasters of Our Time
- Add to basket
-
Beautiful Children
- £14.00
- One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never…
- 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
-
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
-
Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
- Add to basket
-
Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
- £15.00
- Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
- Add to basket
-
Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
- Add to basket
-
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
-
Felix in the Underworld (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To Felix Morsom stories now come as rarely as sex. During an interview on 'Good Morning Thames Estuary' his is accused of leaving the big dramatic events to other people's lives. Then a demand from PROD comes into his life demanding immediate payment of £20,000 for ten year's maintenance for…
- Add to basket
-
Floating down to Camelot (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection…
- Add to basket