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Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries
- £25.00
- Gibson was one of the Georgian poets and a close friend of Rupert Brooke (becoming literary executor after his death); this was his 8th published volume of poetry.
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Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa with their Letters
- £250.00
- The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa (comprising a period of 84 years) from 1079 to 1163) with their genuine Letters from the collection of Amboise (second edition)
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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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Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A new, fully updated narrative edition of David AttenboroughÕs seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make…
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
- £18.00
- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
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Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
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Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
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Look Back With Gratitude
- £50.00
- Volume IV of her autobiography, Dodie Smith was one of the most successful dramatists of her generation (born in 1896). Perhaps best known today for writing 101 Dalmatians.
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
- £14.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover! (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Looking at Art (with your eyes closed)
- £15.00
- LOOKING AT ART (WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next…
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Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
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Loose Canon: the Extraordinary songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin
- £10.00
- For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs Ð witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic Ð with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. TheyÕve written more than 200 together, releasing the first album of their work in 1970 and the last in 2015. John Peel loved…
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Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta
- £50.00
- George Meredith OM (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This was his 17th novel.
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
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- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Loser takes all
- £25.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Loser Takes All
- £50.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Lost City of Uranus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #6)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Lost Connections: Why YouÕre Depressed And How To Find Hope
- £10.00
- Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that…
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Louise de la Vallière
- £8.00
- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
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Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
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- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Ludmila’s Broken English (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev accidentally kills…
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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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Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Luther: a Play (PROOF)
- £45.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Lyrics 1964-2008 (Paul Simon)
- £25.00
- A comprehensive volume of lyrics by a leading folk icon includes coverage of each of his ten original studio albums as well as the Simon & Garfunkel records and the Songs from the Capeman recordings, in a collection that is complemented by album art.
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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
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Mac (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £200.00
- A prose memoir of the actor-manager Andrew McMaster. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Machines Like Me
- £12.00
- "A a dazzling account of our interaction with technology… He marries a gripping plot, handled with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence." The Independent. Charlie, drifting through life…
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MaddAddam, a novel (The MaddAddam Trilogy 3/3)
- £35.00
- Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman,…
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The BelgicaÕs Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- £9.00
- The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the…
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Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
- £15.00
- Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to…
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Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’Medici
- £25.00
- A brilliant and ruthless statesman, Lorenzo deÕ MediciÕ s dexterous wielding of power helped nurture the Italian Renaissance. A statesman, scholar, poet and philosopher, Lorenzo was a generous and discerning patron to many of the most creative minds of this most creative age. But despite this, he lived surrounded by…
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Making Money (Discworld Novel 36)
- £12.00
- The Discworld is very much like our own Ð if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.…
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Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World
- £20.00
- What should be the Christian's attitude toward society? When so much of our contemporary culture is at odds with Christian beliefs and mores, it may seem that serious Christians now have only two choices: transform society completely according to Christian values or retreat into the cloister of sectarian fellowship. In…
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MAMista
- £15.00
- Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator - while the CIA see an opportunity. Amid the turmoil, three very different people - a doctor, a young firebrand and an educated revolutionary - find themselves thrown together and trapped…
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Man and Nature on the Broads
- £60.00
- A portrait of the nature in the late-Victorian-era Norfolk Broads. Many beautiful drawings by the author who was also known by his pseudonym 'John Knowlittle' and is widely regarded as the foremost naturalist of his time in Norfolk and the Broads. Man and Nature on the Broads
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
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Manfred
- £500.00
- A Dramatic Poem set in the higher Alps, started in 1816 soon after the famous holiday with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley (during which she started Frankenstein) - (1st issue with no Hamlet quotation)
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Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Mantissa
- £20.00
- Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even…
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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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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
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Many Long Years Ago
- £20.00
- An early collection of some of Ogden Nash's wittiest poems all previously released in several journals and outlets from 1931-1945
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Mao Zedong (Life & Times)
- £7.00
- Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists…
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Marcel Dupr: The Works of a Master Organist
- £25.00
- Murray's penetrating biography is the first comprehensive treatment of the life of the French composer and organist Marcel Dupr. The author, a former student of Dupr, has drawn upon is long association with his teacher and upon a wealth of secondary material to produce a portrait sensitive to the delicate…
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Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle vol 2)
- £22.00
- Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles turns to the Cazalet children. Sixteen-year-old Louise, Edward and Villy's daughter, moves out into the world, discovering at drama school a casualness towards language and sex that would shock her parents - as much as their secret lives would shock her. And Polly, now…
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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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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
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Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
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Mary Anne
- £45.00
- Like its heroine the book is possessed of such unforgettably vivid charm that one is seduced' L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from…
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Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
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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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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Master Georgie, a novel (signed)
- £20.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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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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Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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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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May We Borrow your Husband?
- £15.00
- Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
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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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Meanwhile in Dopamine City (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann - his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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Meditations on a Theme: A Spiritual Journey
- £12.00
- Metropolitan Anthony (Anthony Bloom) caught the imagination of countless people by his broadcasts. Their content was uncomfortable and challenging but they drew huge audiences. He then started publishing books and one of his first was was Meditations on a Theme.
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Meditations on a Theme: A Spiritual Journey
- £12.00
- Metropolitan Anthony (Anthony Bloom) caught the imagination of countless people by his broadcasts. Their content was uncomfortable and challenging but they drew huge audiences. He then started publishing books and one of his first was was Meditations on a Theme.
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Meet my folks
- £100.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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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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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart.
- £200.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786Ð1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £175.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of The Life and Correspondence of Mrs H. More (4 vols) (SIGNED LETTER)
- £1,000.00
- 3rd edition (revused with new preface). The first edition of a biography of Hannah More (1745-1833) by William Roberts (1767-1849). More's reputation rests firstly as a bluestocking poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick; secondly as an immensely successful author of moral and religious works; and,…
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Memoirs Of The Rev. David Brainerd: With An Introduction On The Life And Character
- £25.00
- An edition of Jonathan Edwards' classic biography of the missionary to Native Americans, David Brainerd. Edited and introduced by J. M. Sherwood with an essay 'On God's Hand In Missions' by Arthur T. Pierson.
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Memories of Bygone Eton
- £30.00
- Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist.…
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Men and Sharks
- £20.00
- Hans Hass (1919Ð2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays, octopuses and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater and led the development of a type of rebreather. He is also known…
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Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
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Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War
- £18.00
- First edition of this classic anthology of World War I poems is suitable for general study in fifth and sixth forms and colleges of further education.
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Meredith
- £20.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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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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Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries
- £25.00
- Gibson was one of the Georgian poets and a close friend of Rupert Brooke (becoming literary executor after his death); this was his 8th published volume of poetry.
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Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa with their Letters
- £250.00
- The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa (comprising a period of 84 years) from 1079 to 1163) with their genuine Letters from the collection of Amboise (second edition)
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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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Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A new, fully updated narrative edition of David AttenboroughÕs seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make…
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
- £18.00
- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
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Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- £350.00
- Churchill's popular memoir of his experiences in the first 5 months of the 2nd Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the…
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Long Life, Memoirs
- £20.00
- Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots.
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Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
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Look Back With Gratitude
- £50.00
- Volume IV of her autobiography, Dodie Smith was one of the most successful dramatists of her generation (born in 1896). Perhaps best known today for writing 101 Dalmatians.
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
- £14.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Look We Have Coming to Dover! (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Winner: FORWARD PRIZE for individual poem 2004. Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures…
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Looking at Art (with your eyes closed)
- £15.00
- LOOKING AT ART (WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next…
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Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
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Loose Canon: the Extraordinary songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin
- £10.00
- For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs Ð witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic Ð with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. TheyÕve written more than 200 together, releasing the first album of their work in 1970 and the last in 2015. John Peel loved…
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Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord of the Rings (3 vols)
- £190.00
- Tolkien's classic trilogy with author's original fold-out maps
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta
- £50.00
- George Meredith OM (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This was his 17th novel.
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Loser takes all
- £25.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Loser Takes All
- £50.00
- Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for…
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Lost City of Uranus (Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure #6)
- £30.00
- Much like Greene's earlier creation, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the series chronicles the adventures of a group of intrepid adolescent boys, led by boy hero Digby "Dig" Allen. The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft. In every installment, the boys embark…
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Lost Connections: Why YouÕre Depressed And How To Find Hope
- £10.00
- Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that…
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Louise de la Vallière
- £8.00
- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
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Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
- £18.00
- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Ludmila’s Broken English (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev accidentally kills…
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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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Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Luther: a Play (PROOF)
- £45.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Lyrics 1964-2008 (Paul Simon)
- £25.00
- A comprehensive volume of lyrics by a leading folk icon includes coverage of each of his ten original studio albums as well as the Simon & Garfunkel records and the Songs from the Capeman recordings, in a collection that is complemented by album art.
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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
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Mac (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £200.00
- A prose memoir of the actor-manager Andrew McMaster. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Machines Like Me
- £12.00
- "A a dazzling account of our interaction with technology… He marries a gripping plot, handled with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence." The Independent. Charlie, drifting through life…
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MaddAddam, a novel (The MaddAddam Trilogy 3/3)
- £35.00
- Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman,…
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The BelgicaÕs Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- £9.00
- The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the…
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Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
- £15.00
- Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to…
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Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’Medici
- £25.00
- A brilliant and ruthless statesman, Lorenzo deÕ MediciÕ s dexterous wielding of power helped nurture the Italian Renaissance. A statesman, scholar, poet and philosopher, Lorenzo was a generous and discerning patron to many of the most creative minds of this most creative age. But despite this, he lived surrounded by…
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Making Money (Discworld Novel 36)
- £12.00
- The Discworld is very much like our own Ð if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.…
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Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World
- £20.00
- What should be the Christian's attitude toward society? When so much of our contemporary culture is at odds with Christian beliefs and mores, it may seem that serious Christians now have only two choices: transform society completely according to Christian values or retreat into the cloister of sectarian fellowship. In…
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MAMista
- £15.00
- Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator - while the CIA see an opportunity. Amid the turmoil, three very different people - a doctor, a young firebrand and an educated revolutionary - find themselves thrown together and trapped…
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Man and Nature on the Broads
- £60.00
- A portrait of the nature in the late-Victorian-era Norfolk Broads. Many beautiful drawings by the author who was also known by his pseudonym 'John Knowlittle' and is widely regarded as the foremost naturalist of his time in Norfolk and the Broads. Man and Nature on the Broads
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
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Manfred
- £500.00
- A Dramatic Poem set in the higher Alps, started in 1816 soon after the famous holiday with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley (during which she started Frankenstein) - (1st issue with no Hamlet quotation)
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Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Mantissa
- £20.00
- Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even…
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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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Many Long Years Ago
- £15.00
- First UK edition of Nash's poems to enable all his published works to be in print here.
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Many Long Years Ago
- £20.00
- An early collection of some of Ogden Nash's wittiest poems all previously released in several journals and outlets from 1931-1945
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Mao Zedong (Life & Times)
- £7.00
- Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists…
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Marcel Dupr: The Works of a Master Organist
- £25.00
- Murray's penetrating biography is the first comprehensive treatment of the life of the French composer and organist Marcel Dupr. The author, a former student of Dupr, has drawn upon is long association with his teacher and upon a wealth of secondary material to produce a portrait sensitive to the delicate…
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Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle vol 2)
- £22.00
- Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles turns to the Cazalet children. Sixteen-year-old Louise, Edward and Villy's daughter, moves out into the world, discovering at drama school a casualness towards language and sex that would shock her parents - as much as their secret lives would shock her. And Polly, now…
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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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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
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Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
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Mary Anne
- £45.00
- Like its heroine the book is possessed of such unforgettably vivid charm that one is seduced' L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from…
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Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
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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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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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Master Georgie, a novel
- £12.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted…
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Master Georgie, a novel (signed)
- £20.00
- In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.…
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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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Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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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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May We Borrow your Husband?
- £15.00
- Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
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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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Meanwhile in Dopamine City (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann - his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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Meditations on a Theme: A Spiritual Journey
- £12.00
- Metropolitan Anthony (Anthony Bloom) caught the imagination of countless people by his broadcasts. Their content was uncomfortable and challenging but they drew huge audiences. He then started publishing books and one of his first was was Meditations on a Theme.
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Meditations on a Theme: A Spiritual Journey
- £12.00
- Metropolitan Anthony (Anthony Bloom) caught the imagination of countless people by his broadcasts. Their content was uncomfortable and challenging but they drew huge audiences. He then started publishing books and one of his first was was Meditations on a Theme.
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Meet my folks
- £100.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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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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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart.
- £200.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786Ð1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £175.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of The Life and Correspondence of Mrs H. More (4 vols) (SIGNED LETTER)
- £1,000.00
- 3rd edition (revused with new preface). The first edition of a biography of Hannah More (1745-1833) by William Roberts (1767-1849). More's reputation rests firstly as a bluestocking poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick; secondly as an immensely successful author of moral and religious works; and,…
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Memoirs Of The Rev. David Brainerd: With An Introduction On The Life And Character
- £25.00
- An edition of Jonathan Edwards' classic biography of the missionary to Native Americans, David Brainerd. Edited and introduced by J. M. Sherwood with an essay 'On God's Hand In Missions' by Arthur T. Pierson.
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Memories of Bygone Eton
- £30.00
- Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist.…
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Men and Sharks
- £20.00
- Hans Hass (1919Ð2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays, octopuses and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater and led the development of a type of rebreather. He is also known…
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Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
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Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War
- £18.00
- First edition of this classic anthology of World War I poems is suitable for general study in fifth and sixth forms and colleges of further education.
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Meredith
- £20.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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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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