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Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
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Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- £25.00
- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
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Three Gems in One Setting: The Poet’s Song (Tennyson); Field Flowers (Thomas Campbell); Pilgrim Fathers (Mrs Hemans)
- £150.00
- Beautifully illustrated collection of 3 poems: The poet's song (Tennyson); Field flowers (Campbell); Pilgrim fathers (Mrs. Hemans). In full colour with 18 Chromolithographs printed by David Brand in full colour. Engraved title-page and three separate title-pages printed also in full colour. Original dark-red cosway-style thick bound boards (with inlaid colour…
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Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
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Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
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Three Men on Wheels
- £15.00
- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
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Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
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Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
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Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
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Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
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Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
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Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991…
- Add to basket
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Time’s arrow, or, The nature of the offence
- £35.00
- In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history…
- Add to basket
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
- Add to basket
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Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
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Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
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To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
- Add to basket
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
- £8.00
- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
- Add to basket
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To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
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Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
- Add to basket
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
- Add to basket
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Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
- Add to basket
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Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
- Add to basket
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Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
- Add to basket
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Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
- Add to basket
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Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
- Add to basket
-
Thou Shalt Not Kill
- £20.00
- A searing indictment of war, set in the German army around the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was written by Igor Sentjurc, a Yugoslav artist who fled from enforced service in Hitler's armies. Eric Mosbacher translated so that it was published in the same year as the original…
- Add to basket
-
Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- £25.00
- A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. PeterÕs the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when heÕs trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the…
- Add to basket
-
Three Gems in One Setting: The Poet’s Song (Tennyson); Field Flowers (Thomas Campbell); Pilgrim Fathers (Mrs Hemans)
- £150.00
- Beautifully illustrated collection of 3 poems: The poet's song (Tennyson); Field flowers (Campbell); Pilgrim fathers (Mrs. Hemans). In full colour with 18 Chromolithographs printed by David Brand in full colour. Engraved title-page and three separate title-pages printed also in full colour. Original dark-red cosway-style thick bound boards (with inlaid colour…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)
- £280.00
- What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men on the Bummel
- £18.00
- Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions…
- Add to basket
-
Three Men on Wheels
- £15.00
- Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three…
- Add to basket
-
Three Novels: Angel Pavement; Bright Day; Sir Michael & Sir George
- £60.00
- Bright Day (1946): Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is holed up in a Cornish hotel writing a script he must finish. A chance encounter in the bar sends him back in time to the doomed world of his youth before the slaughter of The First World War. Caught in his own…
- Add to basket
-
Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
- Add to basket
-
Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
- Add to basket
-
Thrones, Dominations (A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery)
- £35.00
- An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal. 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with…
- Add to basket
-
Thy Servant A Dog (told by Boots)
- £15.00
- Apparently, a "delightful and touching story to pull at the heartstrings of dog lovers, told by 'Boots' in the most insightful 'dog-speak'". Make of that what you will.
- Add to basket
-
Till We Have Faces: a myth retold
- £450.00
- Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of PsycheÕs sister, Orual. ÔI saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that…
- Add to basket
-
Time to be in Earnest (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.
- Add to basket
-
Time Was Away – A Notebook in Corsica
- £500.00
- It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary,…
- Add to basket
-
Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
- Add to basket
-
Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991…
- Add to basket
-
Time’s arrow, or, The nature of the offence
- £35.00
- In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history…
- Add to basket
-
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- £50.00
- Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one…
- Add to basket
-
Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
- Add to basket
-
Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
- £30.00
- Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or…
- Add to basket
-
To Be Someone (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Waking in a hospital bed after a tragic accident to find herself deaf in one ear, blinded in one eye, badly disfigured and her career in tatters, an ex-rockstar and prime-time DJ turns to music to write her life story, using songs to represent the most important periods in her…
- Add to basket
-
To Capture What We Cannot Keep
- £8.00
- In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to…
- Add to basket
-
To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
- Add to basket
-
Told After Supper
- £90.00
- Told After Supper (1891) is a collection of short ghost stories written by the English writer Jerome K Jerome. The collectionÕs ÒintroductoryÓ starts as follows: ÒIt was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin [É] The experienced reader knows it was…
- Add to basket
-
Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #1)
- £25.00
- This brand new series of adventures for boys introduces Tom Swift Jr., son of the famous inventor of a generation ago. Young Tom is now an inventor in his own right. As an associate in his father's great enterprise at Shopton, his brilliant mind is seething with the inventive genius…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #13)
- £25.00
- A MIGHTY TASK faces Tom Swift Jr. in his exciting, new project - colonization of the moon. To accomplish this astounding feat, Tom must perfect his latest invention, the matter maker, which will be essential for life on the moon. Not only must this amazing solartron manufacture oxygen and fuel,…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift and his Spectro-Marine Selector (New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #15)
- £25.00
- "We're trapped a mile below the ocean's surface," Tom Swift announces to his companions as calmly as possible. His father and Bud Barclay exchange fearful glances in the air-bubble elevator stopped in its undersea descent by a jammed cable. This close call is only one of the many hazards which…
- Add to basket
-
Tom Swift in his Diving Seacopter(New Tom Swift Jr Adventure #7)
- £25.00
- In his unique invention the Ocean Arrow, an "underwater helicopter," Tom Swift Jr. embarks on a precarious search for a lost rocket from space. The rocket, containing evidence of living things on another planet, was directed to Swift Enterprises for scientific study. But its course was mysteriously changed while the…
- Add to basket