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The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- 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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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
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The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
- £10.00
- The Scholar's Library edition of Hardy's masterpiece. 'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only…
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The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Longest Journey
- £15.00
- Forster's 2nd novel, published in 1907 two years after Where Angels Fear to Tread. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not…
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The Maestro
- £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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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
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The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
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The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
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The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
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The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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The Hoffnung Music Festival
- £12.00
- 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
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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
- Add to basket
-
The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
- Add to basket
-
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
- Add to basket
-
The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
- £10.00
- The Scholar's Library edition of Hardy's masterpiece. 'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only…
- Add to basket
-
The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
- Add to basket
-
The Longest Journey
- £15.00
- Forster's 2nd novel, published in 1907 two years after Where Angels Fear to Tread. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not…
- Add to basket
-
The Maestro
- £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
-
The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
- Add to basket
-
The Middle-Earth Treasury: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (gift set)
- £100.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of pocket leather-bound editions featuring J.R.R. TolkienÕs most popular works, which together tell the tale of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and of the War of the Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers…
- Add to basket
-
The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
- Add to basket
-
The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
- Add to basket
-
The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
- Add to basket
-
The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
- Add to basket