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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Short and Plain Instruction for a Better Understanding on the Lord’s Supper
- £40.00
- Full title: History Of The Book Of Common Prayer And Other Books Of Authority; With An Attempt To Ascertain How The Rubrics And Canons Have Been Understood And Observed From The Accession of George III. ALSO An Account of the state of religion and religio
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
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Caravan III: The First and the Last
- £10.00
- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
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Chasing Tales: The Lost Stories of Charles Lee (SIGNED by editor)
- £75.00
- Tender and funny stories about the working men and women of Cornwall, by the literary enigma, Charles Lee (1870-1956).
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Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations
- £40.00
- Collected by Henry Bull in 1566, these Anglican prayers and meditations were reprinted for the Parker Society in 1842.
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- £10.00
- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
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Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Great Odes, English and American
- £12.00
- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
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Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
- £20.00
- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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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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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
- Add to basket
-
A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
- Add to basket
-
A Short and Plain Instruction for a Better Understanding on the Lord’s Supper
- £40.00
- Full title: History Of The Book Of Common Prayer And Other Books Of Authority; With An Attempt To Ascertain How The Rubrics And Canons Have Been Understood And Observed From The Accession of George III. ALSO An Account of the state of religion and religio
- Add to basket
-
A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
- Add to basket
-
Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
- Add to basket
-
Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
-
Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
- Add to basket
-
Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
- Add to basket
-
Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
- Add to basket
-
Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
- Add to basket
-
Caravan III: The First and the Last
- £10.00
- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
- Add to basket
-
Chasing Tales: The Lost Stories of Charles Lee (SIGNED by editor)
- £75.00
- Tender and funny stories about the working men and women of Cornwall, by the literary enigma, Charles Lee (1870-1956).
- Add to basket
-
Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations
- £40.00
- Collected by Henry Bull in 1566, these Anglican prayers and meditations were reprinted for the Parker Society in 1842.
- Add to basket
-
Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
- Add to basket
-
Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- £10.00
- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
- Add to basket
-
Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
- Add to basket
-
Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
- Add to basket
-
Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
- Add to basket
-
Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
- Add to basket
-
Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
- Add to basket
-
Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
- Add to basket
-
From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
- Add to basket
-
G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
- Add to basket
-
Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
- Add to basket
-
Great Odes, English and American
- £12.00
- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
- Add to basket
-
Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
- £20.00
- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
- Add to basket
-
Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket