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Amongst Women
- £60.00
- AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' Sunday Telegraph Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm…
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Amsterdam
- £20.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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Amsterdam
- £25.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
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An Answer To A Challenge Made By A Jesuite In Ireland; And With A Discourse Of The Religion Anciently Professed By The Irish And British
- £850.00
- Full title: An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland wherein, the judgment of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the new Romish doctrine plainly discovered (1686) To which is added A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish…
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An Egyptian Journal
- £10.00
- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
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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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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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An Exposition of the Creed (in 2 volumes)
- £150.00
- John Pearson (1613-1686) was an English clergyman in the seventeenth century, regarded as one of the most erudite theologians of the era, becoming Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge as well as Master of Jesus College and then Trinity College, before becoming Bishop of Chester. His Exposition of the…
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An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
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An Eye for An Eye – the place of Old Testament Ethics Today
- £18.00
- Written while Chris Wright was still a professor in India, this is the forerunner of what became his classic Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (2004).
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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire
- £35.00
- Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa…
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An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
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An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
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Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
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Amongst Women
- £60.00
- AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' Sunday Telegraph Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm…
- Add to basket
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Amsterdam
- £20.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
- Add to basket
-
Amsterdam
- £25.00
- On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon…
- Add to basket
-
An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
- Add to basket
-
An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
- Add to basket
-
An Answer To A Challenge Made By A Jesuite In Ireland; And With A Discourse Of The Religion Anciently Professed By The Irish And British
- £850.00
- Full title: An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland wherein, the judgment of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the new Romish doctrine plainly discovered (1686) To which is added A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish…
- Add to basket
-
An Egyptian Journal
- £10.00
- Golding's account of his journey down the Nile. Colour & monochrome photo illustrations, map.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
- Add to basket
-
An Exposition of the Creed (in 2 volumes)
- £150.00
- John Pearson (1613-1686) was an English clergyman in the seventeenth century, regarded as one of the most erudite theologians of the era, becoming Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge as well as Master of Jesus College and then Trinity College, before becoming Bishop of Chester. His Exposition of the…
- Add to basket
-
An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Add to basket
-
An Eye for An Eye – the place of Old Testament Ethics Today
- £18.00
- Written while Chris Wright was still a professor in India, this is the forerunner of what became his classic Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (2004).
- Add to basket
-
An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire
- £35.00
- Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa…
- Add to basket
-
An Ice-Cream War: a tale of the Empire (uncorrected proof)
- £85.00
- Uncorrected proof of Boyd's 2nd novel. 'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times. 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914: On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But…
- Add to basket
-
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
- Add to basket
-
An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
-
An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
- Add to basket
-
An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
- Add to basket
-
An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
- Add to basket
-
An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
-
An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
- Add to basket
-
An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
- £50.00
- Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets…
- Add to basket
-
Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
- Add to basket
-
Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
- Add to basket
-
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning: Reading the Bible in Translation
- £45.00
- For readers of Bruce FeilerÕs Walking the Bible and Kathleen NorrisÕs The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of…
- Add to basket
-
Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
- Add to basket
-
Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
- Add to basket
-
Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket
-
Anil’s Ghost (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an…
- Add to basket