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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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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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Rhymes without Reason
- £40.00
- 16 Chapters each with Rhyme and full-color plate, both by Mervyn Peake
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Some Are More Human Than Others – a sketchbook
- £50.00
- A reproduction of a sketch-book by Smith with her drawings and captions.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket