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Thirty Five Years on the Job
by Patrick Campbell
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1978
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- 9780140040654
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Owner's name to inside. 1978 reprint. In very good condition. 389 pages including index, plus Penguin advertisements at rear. Item Price
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The Emperor Charles V
by Brandi, Karl
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1970
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- Paperback
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£10.00
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1970 printing of the 1968 edition. In very good condition with distinctive bright cover. No markings, tiny crease to rear cover bottom corner. 655 pages including index, plus 6 catalogue pages to back. Translated from the German by CV Wedgewood. Item Price
£10.00
Chaliapin (the Lively Arts)
by Maxim Gorky
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 03/03/1988
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780862873967
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320 pages including index. In near fine condition. Illustrated with many photographs. Item Price
£5.00
Carrington: Selected Letter & Extracts from her Diaries
by Carrington, Dora
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1974
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9783452426292
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£14.00
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1974 US publication of Carrington's letters and diaries, selected by David Garnett. Focus on Carrington and Strachey. Includes photos and drawings. 650 pages. In very good conditions, no markings, some yellowing to pages. Lovely sketches in the letters included. Item Price
£14.00
Catherine of Aragon
by Mattingly, Garrett
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- reprint
- Published
- 1971
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780224605670
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£8.00
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1971 reprinting of the 1963 edition. 343 pages including index. In very good condition with a modern, almost pop, cover! No markings at all. Item Price
£8.00
Queen Elizabeth I
by Neale, J. E.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1961
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- Paperback
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1961 reprint of this 1960 Pelican book. 415 pages. Some yellowing to pages, in very good condition. Item Price
£5.00
Enemies of Promise
by Connolly, Cyril
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1961
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- Paperback
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283 pages including index. First Penguin printing. In very good condition. Some yellowing to pages. Literary criticism. Item Price
£8.00
Diaries & Letters 1945-62
by Nicolson, Harold
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- First thurs
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- 1971
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- Paperback
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415 pages, including index. In very good condition, unmarked. Volume three of the Diaries & Letters. Harold was married to Vita Sackville-West. Item Price
£5.00
Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel
by Vaclav Havel
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1990
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780571144402
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£6.00
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In very good condition, 315 pages. Item Price
£6.00
Boswell's London Journal 1792-63
by Boswell, James; Pottle, Frederick A.
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second impression
- Published
- 1986
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- Hardcover
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Hardcover, without slipcase, in very good condition. With pictorial binding. Folio Society edition. 365 pages. Item Price
£5.00
Voltairine de Cleyre
by Kinna, Ruth; Harper, Clifford
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 2018
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- Paperback
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- 9772631349902
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Stapled binding, near fine copy of this small volume in the Great Anarchists series. Biography of a woman anarchist philosopher. 22 pages. Item Price
£5.00
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
by Pearce, Joseph
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 2001
- ISBN
- 9780002740517
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Biography of the poet and author Oscar Wilde, with a focus on Wilde's lifelong search for emotional and spiritual fulfilment, including an examination of several of his works and discussion of religion. 301 pages includes index. In very good condition, as unread. Item Price
£12.00
The Life of Samuel Johnson (English Library)
by Boswell, James
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1979
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- Paperback
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£15.00
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375 pages. Edited and abridged by Christopher Hibbert, based on the 1799 edition. Frontispiece drawing from National Portrait Gallery London. In very good condition, no markings or writing. Item Price
£15.00
The Life of William Blake
by Wilson, Mona
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1978
- ISBN
- 9780586082973
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First published in 1927, long considered the definitive biography of Blake. 415 pages. Unmarked, in very good condition. Item Price
£5.00
The First & The Last: Isaiah Berlin
by Isaiah Berlin
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9781862072701
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Includes tributes by Annan, Hampshire, Margalit, Williams and Kelly. 141 pages. Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Item Price
£5.00
Midnight Oil
by Pritchett, V.S.
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- First
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First thus as Penguin. Autobiography covering Paris in the 20's, Ireland during the Civil War and Spain - the writer as a young man... In very good condition, slight wear and creasing to cover as seen in photo. 222 pages Item Price
£10.00
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Edmund Campion
by Waugh, Evelyn
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1953
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1953, first thus. Waugh's study of Roman Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I. In very good condition. Item Price
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Lord Byron's Jackal: the Life of Edward John Trelawny
by Crane, David
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1998
- ISBN
- 9780002556316
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398 pages. Fading to jacket spine as seen. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Item Price
£8.00
Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1987
- ISBN
- 9780241123928
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632 pages. Award winning biography of Wilde. Jacket neatly price-clipped. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Item Price
£12.00
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An Indian Dynasty: the Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family
by Tariq Ali
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1985
- ISBN
- 9780399130748
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First US, first printing. 318 pages, illustrated with black and white photos. Crease and small tears to back of jacket at the top un-repaired as seen in photo. Owners name inside. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Item Price
£10.00