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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
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Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
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Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
- Add to basket
-
An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
- Add to basket
-
Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
- Add to basket
-
Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
-
Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
- Add to basket
-
Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
- Add to basket
-
Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
- Add to basket
-
Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
- Add to basket
-
Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
- Add to basket
-
David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
- Add to basket
-
Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
- Add to basket
-
Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
- Add to basket
-
Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
- Add to basket
-
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
- Add to basket
-
Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
- Add to basket