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London, U.K. : Piatkus Books, 1997 First edition. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Coloured photographs/illustratons throughout. The garden is the world's oldest medicine chest. The book shows you how to choose the appropriate herbal remedy for a wide range of common health problems and to grow and prepare plants for their treatment. Anne McIntyre shows you how to plan an appropriate herb garden for both large and small growing spaces. With a comprehensive glossary, this is the perfect companion for everyone who enjoys gardening. Anne McIntyre is a member and former director of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. Her garden has over 300 different varieties of herbs.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 2008 339 pages. Original dustjacket not price clipped - on spine of d/j three very small indentations. Pictorial dustjacket. This is the 9th novel in the Fethering Mysteries series. As the title suggests - a body is found in the local bookies has all the mystery and intrigue of a Brett novel. Colin Dexter reviewing the book said: "Murder most enjoyable ... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry."

Wales: Gwasg Carrech Gwalch, 2015 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to edges. This is the story of the Llandudno Town Band from 1900 with a Foreword by Gregory, Seventh Baron Mostyn. The history of the Llandudno Town Band's first 100 years is told through unprecedented access to the Band's archives and reveals the previously hidden story of the amateur musicians who became the very public face of Llandudno.

Bourne End, United Kingdom: Etna Publishing, 1975 Collectible. Some shelf and age wear to the card wrapper - wrapper edges light rubbing with creases around edge and spine - internally the pages are in very good condition - clean pages with no internal markings.
First edition, no date on the front endpaper, but the drawings are dated 1975, unpaginated. The twelve b/w line drawings by Michael Bayley are secured in a paperback black card wrapper with cream writing - wrapper designed by David Howden. The drawings are of old surviving buildings in the Thames valley, with his handwritten captions, reproduced one per page. Contents: Foreword with a hand drawn map; The Old Manor House Mapledurham; Henley Church and the Red Lion; The Dog and Badger, Medmenham; The Guildhall and Red Lion, High Wycombe; Hurley Church; Marlow Bridge and Church; Cookham High Street; a riverside house, Maidenhead; Jesus Hospital, Bray; Oakley Court; The Cockpit, Eton; Church Street, Windsor.

London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson, 1981 328 pages with 353 illustrations: 85 in colour, 268 photographs, drawings and maps in b/w; with index, sources of illustrations and select bibliography. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - dj edges and corners worn - slight tanning to the dj's front and back flaps. Slight water damage to the lower edges of the back board of the book. Otherwise tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. " Professor Barraclough's book is not written specifically for Christians or for non-Christians; it takes Christianity as a historical fact and uses the resources of modern research to trace the way in which it has moulded men and events. The thirteen authors, all leading historians in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals and kings."

London, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976 [First published in 1976 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd] Now out of print. 181pp with index, notes, calendar of witch trials. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Very good copy except that there is no dustjacket. Contents: Introduction; Chronological Survey; Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions; The Content of Popular Tradition; The Imposition of Learned Notions; The Social Context of Witch Trials; Conclusion; Calendar of Witch Trials; List of Abbreviated Titles; Notes; Addenda; Index. The book explores the relationship between clerical and lay notions of witchcraft in late medieval Europe. Richard Kieckhefer is a professor of religion and history at Northwestern University, and a world renowned historian working on the late Middle Ages in Western Europe.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 [First published in 1989 by Faber and Faber Limited]. 364 pages with indexes, editor's note and introduction. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased; original dustjacket not price clipped; dustjacket's edges are rubbed. Edges of the pages have tanned through age. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Anthology of poetry and prose on illness divided into sections (Generalities; Illnesses, Greater and Lesser; Eyes, Ears and Teeth; Doctors and Cures; Hospitals and Patients; Philosophers and Kings; Intellectual and Spiritual Frets; Strange Complaints, Mishaps, Embarrassments; Imaginary, Feigned, Psychological; Melancholy and Love Sickness; Manias, Phobias, Fantasies, Fears; Breakdown and Madness; Young and Old; Animals; Invalids and Convalescents; Short and Sharp). Some of the writers included are: Virginia Woolf, Proust, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Susan Sontag, Brecht. Many of the pieces are light-hearted, even comical - it will amuse,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name." Welsh is the author of 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House'

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1986 [First published 1986]. This edition is now out of print. 218pp. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - jacket has slight browning around top edge. Jacket design: Claudia Zeff; illustration by Michael Munday. The top edge has some brown spotting. Clean text pages no internal markings. In this novel the sense of alienation and uncertainty which lies beneath and beyond politics and the struggle for power is compellingly evoked. By exploring the themes of love, loyalty and betrayal, and of tradition versus modernity, Christopher Hope creates a world where illusion and game-playing are not merely a refuge, but the means for self-preservation.

New York, U.S.A.: Madison Books, 2000 206 pages with index, notes, bibliography. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. ".. David Stuart traces Nash's life from his idyllic boyhood in upstate New York through his rise to literary fame in the rapidly expandig publishing industry in New York City of the 1950s and 1960s to his gradual retirement to family homes in Baltimore and New Hampshire. Stuart includes selections and complete poems from the poet whose astute observations of American society earned him the title "Master of Light Verse".

London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1973 Translated from the French by Francine Barker. B/w illustrations. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j edges rubbed, corners bumped. Book cover at spine top and tail slighted bumped. Top left hand corner of front endpaper has previous owner's name and address in blue ink - otherwise no internal markings, clean text pages. Top edge of pages has age spots. Tight copy. "In The Big Supposer, a distillation of six hours' conversation with Marc Alyn (a leading French poet and book critic of the Figaro), Durrell draws an astonishing picture of himself, playing with words, trifling with reputations and literature. Durrell himself says of Marc Alyn's book that it at first seems arbitrary but in fact has a shape of its own. He aimed at a sort of collage composed of many snapshots. At the back of the book is a horoscope of Durrell, composed by astrologer Moricand from a date provided by Henry Miller (Moricand did not meet… Read More

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990 First Edition. Some shelf wear. Tight copy. Original Dust Jacket not price clipped has small crease in middle of spine- book boards in very good condition. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Edited by Jacqueline Simms. This is a collection of twenty-one essays by poets, novelists, critics, and former colleagues (ie A.S. Byatt, Donald Davie, Douglas Dunn, P.N. Furbank, Naoimi Lewis, Blake Morrison, Peter Porter, Paul Theroux, Anthony Thwaite, Gavin Young, John Bayley, to name a few).

Eire: Bayleaf Publications, 2006 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to the edges. This is Power's fourth collection of poems. The first nine poems in this collection were written between 1962 and 1970. This is his final collection of poems; he died a year after its publication. Brian Power was a retired priest.

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Classics, 2006 Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. As new with very slight age and shelf wear to cover edges, otherwise tight copy with no internal markings. The Los Angeles Times considered this volume as "The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from 'the greatest twentieth-century writer ..'." Pessoa was the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valery, Lorca, Pasternak or Hart Crane. This is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 Minimal shelf and age wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. No internal markings, clean text pages. Colour and black & white photographs; black & white illustrations by Danny McBride. David writes on the flap "This book is my opportunity to print something from my heart, to tell the truth about what happened to me on the long and winding road from Baltimore to Baywatch to Broadway - and beyond. And the truth is not to be found in tabloid stories but in my actions: I am a good father and have tried to be a good husband. I love people and the emotional rollercoaster that goes with human relationships. I love all the bewildering, crazy, and wonderful things that life has to offer. This book is about my successes and my failures. And, above all, it is about the hope contained in the Knight Rider slogan: "One man can make a difference"." David Hasselhoff (The Hoff) has been descirbed as a 'living legend', this… Read More

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 1989 Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped. B/w illustrations throughout. "Our medieval ancestors moved about far more than we might expect. The many sources quoted reveal the diversity of the medieval traveller : princes and their armies, pilgrims, merchants and envoys, even fugitives and spies. Norbert Ohler lets the travellers speak for themselves, and from the many sources builds up a picture of what travel was really like - why people travelled, and how they prepared for the journey; means of transport; hospices and inns; and defence against attack and natural hazards, sickness and starvation. Based largely on material from western Europe, although Byzantium, the Far East, the West Indies and the Islamic world are also included, this book offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on a fascinating aspect of the medieval world."

London, U.K. : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982 Original dustjacket - not price clipped. Slight age and shelf wear to dustjacket - edges of dj slightly rubbed. Tight copy. Front endpaper has initial and date in black ink of previous owner in upper right hand corner - clean text pages. B/w illustrations, Index. Contents: I Contact and Impact; II The Muslim View of the World; III On Language and Translation; IV Media and Intermediaries; V Muslim Scholarship about the West; VI Religion; VII The Economy: Perceptions and Contacts; VIII Government and Justice; IX Science and Technology; X Cultural Life; XI Social and Personal; XII Conclusions. "Using journals, letters, diaries and dispatches, many newly translated, Bernard Lewis reveals the impact of the great Muslim civilization on primitive Europe and explores the subtle ways in which two great societies influenced each other."

London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1982 First Edition. 578pp. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Slight shelf and age wear especially to jacket. Paper has tanned with age especially around edges. Initial and date of previous owner on first endpaper on the top right hand corner. Otherwise no internal markings - clean text pages. Contents: Prologue; Part One: The Forties - Original Sin, The Act of Obedience, A Most Deadly Illusion, The Atomic Archipelago, The Poor Relation, The One-Eyed Kings; Part Two: The Fifties - The Fates and the Furies, The Power of Les X, A Separate World, The Admiral, The Perennial Fountain, What Are You Doing, The Uncertified Possibility, The First Ice Age, The Outcasts; Part Three: The Sixties - Like Butter in the Sun, Foolish Dreams, Transitory, Dangerous and Degrading, Listen World; Part Four: The Seventies - The Boom Years, A Shell of the Atom, A Tale of Two Dynasties, A Certain Event, The Buddha is Smiling, Pride and Prejudice, The Second Ice Age, In the… Read More

London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages.
This was Pritchett's third novel about a provincial tannery and people whose lives are centered around it - the main character: Mathew Burkle. It was based on his own work experience in the leather trade. One of last century's masters of the short story. He was knighted in 1975 and died in 1997 at age 96. The novel is divided into four sections: Book 1: The Innocence of Mathew Burkle; Book 2: The Temptation of Mathew Burkle; Book 3: The Fall of Mathew Burkle; Book 4: The Rise of the Women.