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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
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Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
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Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
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Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
- Add to basket
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
- Add to basket
-
Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
- Add to basket
-
Vintage Stuff (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that…
- Add to basket
-
Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
- Add to basket
-
Virginia Woolf: Her art as a novelist
- £8.00
- Virginia Woolf's vision of human life, and it is about her sense of values. It attempts to analyse the form of her novels.
- Add to basket
-
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
- Add to basket
-
Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
- Add to basket
-
Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
- Add to basket
-
Voices in the Garden (signed)
- £35.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 2nd novel, set in one of the last great villas of the 1920s on Cape Ferrat, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall. The novel is a human comedy, as well as a compassionate story of mature…
- Add to basket
-
Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
- Add to basket
-
Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
- £8.00
- One of the world's leading voices of faith and social activism also happens to be one of its biggest rock groups. The band members drink, smoke and swear - yet a radical biblical agenda and faith fuel their life and work. Welcome to the dichotomy of U2, arguably the greatest…
- Add to basket
-
Walking on Sunshine
- £8.00
- Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy…
- Add to basket
-
Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
- Add to basket
-
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
- Add to basket
-
War Horse: 40th anniversary edition (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A Beautiful 40th annniversary edition of the modern classic. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic and nationÕs favourite childrenÕs novelÉ In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.…
- Add to basket