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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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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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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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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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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
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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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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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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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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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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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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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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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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
- Add to basket
-
After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
- Add to basket
-
Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
- Add to basket
-
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
-
Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
- 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
-
Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
- 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
-
Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
- 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
-
Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- 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
-
English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
- Add to basket
-
Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- 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
-
Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
- Add to basket
-
Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
- Add to basket