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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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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
- £35.00
- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Burns (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Burns includes: - Vol I: Tam o' Shanter, Farewell to Ayrshire, On the death of a favourite child, etc - Vol II: A Winter Night, There was a Bonnie Lass, A red…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Byron (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Byron includes: - Vol I: Childe Harold, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Lara - Vol II: Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, Hebrew Melodies; Miscellaneous
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Milton (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Milton includes: - Vol I: Paradise Lost - Vol II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Psalms, Misc poems and translations, Latin poems
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Kim
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
- Add to basket
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Louise de la Vallière
- £8.00
- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
- 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
-
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the…
- Add to basket
-
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
- Add to basket
-
In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
- £35.00
- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
- Add to basket
-
Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
- Add to basket
-
Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
- Add to basket
-
Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
- Add to basket
-
Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
- Add to basket
-
John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
- Add to basket
-
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Burns (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Burns includes: - Vol I: Tam o' Shanter, Farewell to Ayrshire, On the death of a favourite child, etc - Vol II: A Winter Night, There was a Bonnie Lass, A red…
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Byron (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Byron includes: - Vol I: Childe Harold, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Lara - Vol II: Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, Hebrew Melodies; Miscellaneous
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Milton (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Milton includes: - Vol I: Paradise Lost - Vol II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Psalms, Misc poems and translations, Latin poems
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
- Add to basket
-
Kim
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
- Add to basket
-
Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
- Add to basket
-
Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
- Add to basket
-
Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
- Add to basket
-
Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
- Add to basket
-
Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
- Add to basket
-
Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
- Add to basket
-
Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
- Add to basket
-
Louise de la Vallière
- £8.00
- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
- Add to basket
-
Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
- Add to basket
-
Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
- Add to basket
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