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Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
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On Chesil Beach
- £100.00
- It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt…
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poems (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £180.00
- All poems written between 1949 and 1958, except 'The table', written in 1963. Privately published in libimited, numbered edition (printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk). Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Selections from A. C. Swinburne
- £100.00
- A poetical anthology of lyrical work by English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne. Featuring a Prelude and Epilogue both written in verse. Includes Hymn to a Proserpine, Love at Sea, A Ballad of Bath, A Child's Future, and Trafalgar Day.
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Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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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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The Ballad of the Outer Dark
- £40.00
- A selection of unpublished and uncollectd poems by Vernon Watkins' widow, Gwen, drawn from the large number left at his death. Kathleen Raine's introduction notes, 'Wales gave Vernon Watkins muyth and landscape; but he is also one of the last poets to write the English language of the educated and…
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The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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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 Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
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The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
- Add to basket
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On Chesil Beach
- £100.00
- It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt…
- Add to basket
-
Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
-
Poems (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £180.00
- All poems written between 1949 and 1958, except 'The table', written in 1963. Privately published in libimited, numbered edition (printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk). Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Add to basket
-
Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
- Add to basket
-
Selections from A. C. Swinburne
- £100.00
- A poetical anthology of lyrical work by English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne. Featuring a Prelude and Epilogue both written in verse. Includes Hymn to a Proserpine, Love at Sea, A Ballad of Bath, A Child's Future, and Trafalgar Day.
- Add to basket
-
Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
-
South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
- Add to basket
-
The Ballad of the Outer Dark
- £40.00
- A selection of unpublished and uncollectd poems by Vernon Watkins' widow, Gwen, drawn from the large number left at his death. Kathleen Raine's introduction notes, 'Wales gave Vernon Watkins muyth and landscape; but he is also one of the last poets to write the English language of the educated and…
- Add to basket
-
The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
- Add to basket
-
The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
- Add to basket
-
The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket