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A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns
- £12.00
- A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns for animals. Illustrated with MattÕs inimitable…
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A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible (facsimile)
- £25.00
- A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is an early American children's book. Published in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1][2] it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). This is a facsimile of an early British edition.
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A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
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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 Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
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A Thousand Miles An Hour
- £12.00
- Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of the writing team of George Herbert Ely (1866Ð1958) and Charles James LÕEstrange (1867Ð1947). In "A Thousand Miles an Hour," Herbert Strang masterfully intertwines adventure and exploration within the framework of early 20th-century scientific imagination. This captivating narrative follows the exhilarating journey of its protagonists…
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A Visit to Grandpa’s and Other Stories
- £20.00
- Thomas's paternal grandparents, Anne and Evan Thomas, lived at The Poplars in Johnstown, just outside Carmarthen. Anne was the daughter of William Lewis, a gardener in the town. She had been born and brought up in Llangadog, as had her father, who is thought to be "Grandpa" in Thomas's short…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
- £30.00
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Captives in Space (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #2)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
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Doctor Zhivago (Folio)
- £30.00
- Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled…
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Dolphin of the Sepulchre: a tale of the times of Becket
- £30.00
- An account of the martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, under Henry II. Colour frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, w tissue guard.
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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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Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
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Epitaphs from Oxfordshire
- £15.00
- This collection gathers verses or prosepieces that are beautiful, touching or ecceintric, telling us what people over the centuries have been moved to say about their dead.
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Eton of Old (1811-1822)
- £50.00
- A snapshot of a decade in the life of Eton College, the famous public school, during which the author attended.. Completed not long before the author died in his 100th year. With 14 illustrations.
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Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
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Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Ho Ho Hoffnung
- £25.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung in Harmony
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Acoustics
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Bookworms
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Constant Readers
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Little Ones
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Journey to Jupiter (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #3)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Jude the Obscure (Wessex Novels vol VIII)
- £350.00
- Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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L.A. Baby! (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green book. Amongst the glitz and glamour of…
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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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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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Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
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Lost City of Uranus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #6)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Novel Notes
- £25.00
- An early novel from Jerome K Jerome, who had been born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was…
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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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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £25.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £6.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
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Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
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Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
- £150.00
- Brings together all the pictures (paintings, drawings, designs) by Tolkien published in six calendars from 1973-1979. Many of the pen and ink pictures were coloured for the calendars and these are reproduced together with the originals on facing pages.
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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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Rhymes without Reason
- £40.00
- 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake
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Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
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Robots of Saturn (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #5)
- £20.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Rum ‘Uns to Follow. Memories of Seventy years in the Shires
- £25.00
- Memories of 70 years with the Leicestershire Hunts (Quorn, Pytchey, Fernie) by A Melton Roughrider (ie Dick Heathen) With illustrations and foreword by Guy Paget, drawn from The Tatler, Vanity Fair etc.
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Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £35.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £30.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £25.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £20.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Shirley
- £8.00
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) is perhaps the most admired of the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is her greatest and most loved novel. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male…
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Some Are More Human Than Others – a sketchbook
- £50.00
- A reproduction of a sketch-book by Smith with her drawings and captions.
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Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Winston Science Fiction #9)
- £25.00
- It might not have been so hard to sell Jon West on the Deeps Ñ if he hadn't had his heart set on the stars. Bitter disappointment over washing out of space school prompted his rash decision to join the Deepsmen who struggled to conquer Earth's last frontier and the…
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants
- £60.00
- Fourteen humorous portraits of typical theatre characters, including the hero, the villain, the lawyer, the Irishman, the comic lovers, the detective, and the heroine.
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Strange Gravity: Songs Physical And Metaphysical (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Paul Petrie (1928-2012) was an American poet and professor at the university of Rhode Island. The drawings are by Charles E. Wadsworth ('Waddy')was an american painter and poet in the Great Cranberry Isles artistic community.
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
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The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
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The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
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The Chocolate Wedding
- £12.00
- Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. Join Lulu on her very chocolatey escapades as she tries to…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
- £25.00
- The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.
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The English Gentleman
- £12.00
- Tongue in cheek treatment of the legendary upper class man which examines his habits, actions and viewpoints concerning such diverse considerations as wardrobe, war, the Church and domestic habits. "Extremely funny" Jilly Cooper "Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect…
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The Esther Scroll (Facsimile of 1746)
- £900.00
- A true discovery: The Esther Scroll of 1746. The use of scrolls dates back to ancient times, and one of the best known examples in history is the Esther scroll, or Hebrew megillah, which is devoted solely to the story of Queen Esther and is read on the feast of…
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The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
- £35.00
- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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The House at Pooh Corner
- £125.00
- One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing.' This is the second classic childrenÕs story by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. In…
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- £45.00
- The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his…
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The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
- £50.00
- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy (set, SIGNED by Alan Lee)
- £750.00
- Three-volume set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan LeeOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged…
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The Maestro
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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The Man Who Stopped To Help
- £16.00
- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
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The Modern “Rake’s Progress”
- £45.00
- Dame Rebecca West was a brilliant, versatile writer: columnist, reviewer, historian and travel writer as well as novelilst. She turns her hand, with the help of David Low's iconic images (on 12 full colour plates), to updating the narrative depicted by Hogarth in his famous 8-painting sequence.
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The Modern “Rake’s Progress”
- £45.00
- Dame Rebecca West was a brilliant, versatile writer: columnist, reviewer, historian and travel writer as well as novelilst. She turns her hand, with the help of David Low's iconic images (on 12 full colour plates), to updating the narrative depicted by Hogarth in his famous 8-painting sequence.
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A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns
- £12.00
- A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns for animals. Illustrated with MattÕs inimitable…
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A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible (facsimile)
- £25.00
- A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is an early American children's book. Published in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1][2] it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). This is a facsimile of an early British edition.
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A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
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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 Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
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A Thousand Miles An Hour
- £12.00
- Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of the writing team of George Herbert Ely (1866Ð1958) and Charles James LÕEstrange (1867Ð1947). In "A Thousand Miles an Hour," Herbert Strang masterfully intertwines adventure and exploration within the framework of early 20th-century scientific imagination. This captivating narrative follows the exhilarating journey of its protagonists…
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A Visit to Grandpa’s and Other Stories
- £20.00
- Thomas's paternal grandparents, Anne and Evan Thomas, lived at The Poplars in Johnstown, just outside Carmarthen. Anne was the daughter of William Lewis, a gardener in the town. She had been born and brought up in Llangadog, as had her father, who is thought to be "Grandpa" in Thomas's short…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
- £30.00
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and…
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Captives in Space (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #2)
- £25.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
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Doctor Zhivago (Folio)
- £30.00
- Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled…
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Dolphin of the Sepulchre: a tale of the times of Becket
- £30.00
- An account of the martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, under Henry II. Colour frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, w tissue guard.
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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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Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
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Epitaphs from Oxfordshire
- £15.00
- This collection gathers verses or prosepieces that are beautiful, touching or ecceintric, telling us what people over the centuries have been moved to say about their dead.
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Eton of Old (1811-1822)
- £50.00
- A snapshot of a decade in the life of Eton College, the famous public school, during which the author attended.. Completed not long before the author died in his 100th year. With 14 illustrations.
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Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
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Guns Wanted
- £18.00
- A comic novel, in which a British World War II vet returns home and is erroneously told that he has a year to live by his doctor. So naturally, he decides to pack in as much hunting and shooting as he can.
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Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt
- £40.00
- ÒThe best dialogue in Victorian fictionÕ says Raymond Carr in his excellent introduction to the SocietyÕs edition. he goes on to call this book Ôa great, if misshapen monument to (SurteesÕ) genius.Õ For Surtees himself it was much more, and he called it the best thing he had ever written.…
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Ho Ho Hoffnung
- £25.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung in Harmony
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Acoustics
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Birds, Bees and Storks
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Bookworms
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Constant Readers
- £20.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Little Ones
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Journey to Jupiter (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #3)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Jude the Obscure (Wessex Novels vol VIII)
- £350.00
- Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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L.A. Baby! (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green book. Amongst the glitz and glamour of…
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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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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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Letters from Italy
- £25.00
- Karel _apek (1890 -1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He also published a number of travel books, of which this was the first (originally published in Czech in 1923).
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Lost City of Uranus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #6)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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New York
- £50.00
- After four visits during the 1920s, Paul Morand wrote a profile of the city of New York in 1930. This English translation came out the following year. Theodore Purdy, Jr. wrote about the book: "There is a good deal in it that is inaccurate, and the spellings of American names…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Novel Notes
- £25.00
- An early novel from Jerome K Jerome, who had been born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was…
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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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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £25.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £6.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
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Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
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Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
- £150.00
- Brings together all the pictures (paintings, drawings, designs) by Tolkien published in six calendars from 1973-1979. Many of the pen and ink pictures were coloured for the calendars and these are reproduced together with the originals on facing pages.
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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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Rhymes without Reason
- £40.00
- 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake
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Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
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Robots of Saturn (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #5)
- £20.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Rum ‘Uns to Follow. Memories of Seventy years in the Shires
- £25.00
- Memories of 70 years with the Leicestershire Hunts (Quorn, Pytchey, Fernie) by A Melton Roughrider (ie Dick Heathen) With illustrations and foreword by Guy Paget, drawn from The Tatler, Vanity Fair etc.
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Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £35.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £30.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £25.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Scott-King’s Modern Europe
- £20.00
- Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Shirley
- £8.00
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) is perhaps the most admired of the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is her greatest and most loved novel. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male…
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Some Are More Human Than Others – a sketchbook
- £50.00
- A reproduction of a sketch-book by Smith with her drawings and captions.
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Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Winston Science Fiction #9)
- £25.00
- It might not have been so hard to sell Jon West on the Deeps Ñ if he hadn't had his heart set on the stars. Bitter disappointment over washing out of space school prompted his rash decision to join the Deepsmen who struggled to conquer Earth's last frontier and the…
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants
- £60.00
- Fourteen humorous portraits of typical theatre characters, including the hero, the villain, the lawyer, the Irishman, the comic lovers, the detective, and the heroine.
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Strange Gravity: Songs Physical And Metaphysical (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Paul Petrie (1928-2012) was an American poet and professor at the university of Rhode Island. The drawings are by Charles E. Wadsworth ('Waddy')was an american painter and poet in the Great Cranberry Isles artistic community.
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
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The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
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The Children of Hrin
- £25.00
- Painstakingly restored from TolkienÕs manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich…
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The Chocolate Wedding
- £12.00
- Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. Join Lulu on her very chocolatey escapades as she tries to…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
- £25.00
- The last of Eliot's Ariel poems, in its USA edition.
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The English Gentleman
- £12.00
- Tongue in cheek treatment of the legendary upper class man which examines his habits, actions and viewpoints concerning such diverse considerations as wardrobe, war, the Church and domestic habits. "Extremely funny" Jilly Cooper "Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect…
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The Esther Scroll (Facsimile of 1746)
- £900.00
- A true discovery: The Esther Scroll of 1746. The use of scrolls dates back to ancient times, and one of the best known examples in history is the Esther scroll, or Hebrew megillah, which is devoted solely to the story of Queen Esther and is read on the feast of…
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The Giant Crab and other tales told from Old India
- £35.00
- Rouse's collection of these short stories were based on the Buddhist collection called The Jātaka, about the Buddha's former births, and originally published in 1897 by David Nutt. This edition beautifully produced with Heath Robinson's illustations.
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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The House at Pooh Corner
- £125.00
- One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing.' This is the second classic childrenÕs story by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. In…
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- £45.00
- The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his…
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The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
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The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
- £50.00
- Washington Irving (1783Ð1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). One of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way…
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy (set, SIGNED by Alan Lee)
- £750.00
- Three-volume set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan LeeOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged…
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The Maestro
- £15.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. The Times obit said: Hoffnung was among other things an artist, a musician, a linguist, a raconteur, a Quaker, a bon viveur, a prison visitor and a mime. It is usual to say that…
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The Man Who Stopped To Help
- £16.00
- Enid Blyton's storybook retelling of Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan, with illustrations from Elsie Walker (who worked on 8 of Blyton's biblical storybooks).
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The Modern “Rake’s Progress”
- £45.00
- Dame Rebecca West was a brilliant, versatile writer: columnist, reviewer, historian and travel writer as well as novelilst. She turns her hand, with the help of David Low's iconic images (on 12 full colour plates), to updating the narrative depicted by Hogarth in his famous 8-painting sequence.
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The Modern “Rake’s Progress”
- £45.00
- Dame Rebecca West was a brilliant, versatile writer: columnist, reviewer, historian and travel writer as well as novelilst. She turns her hand, with the help of David Low's iconic images (on 12 full colour plates), to updating the narrative depicted by Hogarth in his famous 8-painting sequence.
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