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A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £120.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Called to Serve: ministry and minsters in the church
- £12.00
- From the EFAC Christian Foundations series which sought to recover the church's dynamic witness, scriptural teaching and fellowship in worship. Michael Green's contribution on ministry.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £22.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £40.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Elizabethan Essays
- £30.00
- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Evelyn Waugh (2 vols): The Early Years 1903-1939; No Abiding City 1939-1966
- £100.00
- Martin Stannard's acclaimed 2-part biography of Evelyn Waugh. The fullest account of the author yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning.
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Galahad at Blandings
- £60.00
- Sam Bagshott, son of the late Boko Bagshott, had been at Blandings Castle only a short while, but long enough to know that anyone enjoying its hospitality must get the occasional shock. Sam braced himself as the possibilities flitted through his mind. The house was on fire? Empress of Blandings…
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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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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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If Thou Wilt Be Perfect… Talks on spiritual philosophy
- £20.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. This book articulates his theology of sanctification which lay at the heart of the holiness movement.
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King Edward VII: A Memory (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837Ð1916) was a British diplomat, politician, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters (known as Bertie, pronounced 'Barty'). He was made a peer in Edward VII's Coronation…
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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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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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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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…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
- £15.00
- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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Number Ten
- £20.00
- Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong.The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime…
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Poetry Harbinger edited by Dorothy Cannibal
- £20.00
- Arthur Fairburn was a New Zealand poet and art historian and this work was completed by Denis Glover on the former's death in 1957
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Quatro Quartetos (SIGNED by translator)
- £80.00
- The Portuguese translation of Eliot's iconic poems written during the Second World War. The English and Portuguese texts are printed on facing pages.
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Roll of Honour (Uncorrected Proof)
- £25.00
- Novel set in a small town in Scotland and the teacher's memories of pupils who are falling at Alamein and Matapan, at Cassino and on the Normandy beaches.
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Single & Single
- £45.00
- A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea.…
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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South from Grenada: seven years in an Andalusian village
- £100.00
- Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada has been hailed as a classic. Between 1920 and 1934, he lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
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The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
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The Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation
- £100.00
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was a Scottish minister, considered to be the greatest Scottish churchman of his age. He wrote on many different areas of theology, politics and economics.
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £250.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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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 Lessons & Gospels for LENT
- £25.00
- Commentary on the Missal readings for Lent by the renowned Dominican, Conrad Pepler, whose father had been a founding membero f the Ditchling community in Sussex with Eric Gill and others; he himself had been one of those who attended Wittgenstein's deathbed.
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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 Problem of Evil
- £50.00
- Reconciling belief in a good and all-powerful God with the obvious presence of suffering and evil in the world is one of the classic problems for Christian (and indeed Jewish) philosophy and theology. The Book of Job famously examines this problem from various angles, and rejects several inadequate explanations. Numerous…
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The Road to Damascus, the spiritual pilgrimage of fifteen converts to Catholicism
- £50.00
- Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila…
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The Road to Damascus, the spiritual pilgrimage of fifteen converts to Catholicism
- £50.00
- Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila…
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Triune Man
- £50.00
- Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey to the other side of reality that adds…
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Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
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A Fox Under My Cloak (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: 5)
- £120.00
- A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas…
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A Point of Law (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
- £100.00
- American mystery magazine with short story by Somerset Maugham (that had originally been published in 1903 in The Strand magazine)
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Approved Unto God
- £15.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. In Approved Unto God, he draws from the treasure-house of Scripture invaluable advice and encouragement for Christian workers.
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Called to Serve: ministry and minsters in the church
- £12.00
- From the EFAC Christian Foundations series which sought to recover the church's dynamic witness, scriptural teaching and fellowship in worship. Michael Green's contribution on ministry.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £22.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £40.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Elizabethan Essays
- £30.00
- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Evelyn Waugh (2 vols): The Early Years 1903-1939; No Abiding City 1939-1966
- £100.00
- Martin Stannard's acclaimed 2-part biography of Evelyn Waugh. The fullest account of the author yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning.
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Galahad at Blandings
- £60.00
- Sam Bagshott, son of the late Boko Bagshott, had been at Blandings Castle only a short while, but long enough to know that anyone enjoying its hospitality must get the occasional shock. Sam braced himself as the possibilities flitted through his mind. The house was on fire? Empress of Blandings…
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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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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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If Thou Wilt Be Perfect… Talks on spiritual philosophy
- £20.00
- Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish missionary and pastor who is best known for My Utmost for his Highest. This book articulates his theology of sanctification which lay at the heart of the holiness movement.
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King Edward VII: A Memory (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837Ð1916) was a British diplomat, politician, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters (known as Bertie, pronounced 'Barty'). He was made a peer in Edward VII's Coronation…
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
- Add to basket
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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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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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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…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
- £15.00
- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
- Add to basket
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My Apprenticeship
- £100.00
- My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an…
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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Number Ten
- £20.00
- Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong.The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime…
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Poetry Harbinger edited by Dorothy Cannibal
- £20.00
- Arthur Fairburn was a New Zealand poet and art historian and this work was completed by Denis Glover on the former's death in 1957
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Quatro Quartetos (SIGNED by translator)
- £80.00
- The Portuguese translation of Eliot's iconic poems written during the Second World War. The English and Portuguese texts are printed on facing pages.
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Roll of Honour (Uncorrected Proof)
- £25.00
- Novel set in a small town in Scotland and the teacher's memories of pupils who are falling at Alamein and Matapan, at Cassino and on the Normandy beaches.
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Single & Single
- £45.00
- A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea.…
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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South from Grenada: seven years in an Andalusian village
- £100.00
- Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada has been hailed as a classic. Between 1920 and 1934, he lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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The Ballad of the White Horse
- Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic Ñ the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly inclined to prophesy that 'The Ballad of the White Horse' will live very much…
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The Bull from the Sea (Uncorrected Proof)
- £20.00
- The sequel to The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea continues the story of the hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the…
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The Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation
- £100.00
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was a Scottish minister, considered to be the greatest Scottish churchman of his age. He wrote on many different areas of theology, politics and economics.
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £250.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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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 Lessons & Gospels for LENT
- £25.00
- Commentary on the Missal readings for Lent by the renowned Dominican, Conrad Pepler, whose father had been a founding membero f the Ditchling community in Sussex with Eric Gill and others; he himself had been one of those who attended Wittgenstein's deathbed.
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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 Problem of Evil
- £50.00
- Reconciling belief in a good and all-powerful God with the obvious presence of suffering and evil in the world is one of the classic problems for Christian (and indeed Jewish) philosophy and theology. The Book of Job famously examines this problem from various angles, and rejects several inadequate explanations. Numerous…
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The Road to Damascus, the spiritual pilgrimage of fifteen converts to Catholicism
- £50.00
- Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila…
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The Road to Damascus, the spiritual pilgrimage of fifteen converts to Catholicism
- £50.00
- Compilation of fifteen testimonies of famous men and women who converted to Catholicism. Includes: Evelyn Waugh, Fulton Oursley, Gretta Palmer, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Ross J. S. Hoffman, Theodore Maynard, M. Raphael Simon, Rosalind Murray, Owen Francis Dudley, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Douglas Hyde, Willis D. Nutting, George B. Harrison, Sheila…
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Triune Man
- £50.00
- Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey to the other side of reality that adds…
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Trieste (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- "Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York Times…
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Waugh in Abyssinia
- £75.00
- In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent…
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