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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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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Living in a Calm Country (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The eighth 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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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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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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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Mditations Pour Tous Les Jours et Fetes De L’Annee: sur la vie et les mystres de notre-seigneur Jsus Christ
- £40.00
- Combined volume of the Abb de Brandt's Meditations for all days and annual holidays.
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Mind the doors: long short stories (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A new collection of short stories and novellas by the Russian writer follows the wanderings of Eastern Europeans after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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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…
- 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
-
Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
- Add to basket
-
Living in a Calm Country (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The eighth 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
-
Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
- 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
-
Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
- Add to basket
-
Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
- Add to basket
-
Mditations Pour Tous Les Jours et Fetes De L’Annee: sur la vie et les mystres de notre-seigneur Jsus Christ
- £40.00
- Combined volume of the Abb de Brandt's Meditations for all days and annual holidays.
- Add to basket
-
Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
- Add to basket
-
Mind the doors: long short stories (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A new collection of short stories and novellas by the Russian writer follows the wanderings of Eastern Europeans after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- Add to basket
-
Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
- Add to basket
-
Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
- Add to basket
-
News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
- Add to basket