Oxford
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Death is Now My Neighbour (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Death is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens Ð the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death…
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Dirty Tricks
- £18.00
- Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and compulsive. Our pleasures are brief and incomplete. Our frustrations are…
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Émile Zola
- £25.00
- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
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Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, excluding the eight dramas
- £35.00
- 2nd edition of the Oxford complete works of Robert Bridges (excluding 8 dramas) including Prometheus the Firegiver, and the Growth of Love.
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Service of All The Dead
- £200.00
- The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone…
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The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an Oxford Undergraduate
- £20.00
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley (1827Ð1889). It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same…
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The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
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The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
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The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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Death is Now My Neighbour (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Death is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens Ð the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death…
- Add to basket
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Dirty Tricks
- £18.00
- Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and compulsive. Our pleasures are brief and incomplete. Our frustrations are…
- Add to basket
-
Émile Zola
- £25.00
- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
- Add to basket
-
Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
- Add to basket
-
Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
- Add to basket
-
Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
- Add to basket
-
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, excluding the eight dramas
- £35.00
- 2nd edition of the Oxford complete works of Robert Bridges (excluding 8 dramas) including Prometheus the Firegiver, and the Growth of Love.
- Add to basket
-
Service of All The Dead
- £200.00
- The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone…
- Add to basket
-
The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an Oxford Undergraduate
- £20.00
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert M. Bede, a pseudonym of Edward Bradley (1827Ð1889). It covers the exploits of Mr Verdant Green a first year undergraduate at Oxford University. Different editions have varying titles, including Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman. The same…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
- Add to basket