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Paperback Edition. Near fine paperback copy. Cover detached. Particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 207 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Swift, Graham, 1949-. English literature 1945- Individual works. Authors, English 20th century. Fathers and daughters ; Fiction. Photographers ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 283 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Notes; Colored ill. on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index. Subjects; Fenton, James (1949-). Art History. Art Histoire. Art Philosophy of. Art Addresses, essays, lectures. Theory of art. Art criticism. Art History. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Tiny slight crease to corner front cover. 'Mortimer writes with enviable freshness and retains the capacity to send the reader off at interesting tangents and elicit sympathies from unexpected sources.' (Sunday Telegraph). 296 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. (Paperbacl Light crease on coverIntroduced by Richard Marius. Brilliantly written and suffused with subtle irony, More's Utopia proves that intelligent prose does not exclude humanity and a mischievous sense of humour. 142 pp.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 212 pages ; 25 cm. Subject: Irish fiction England. Middle-aged men ; Fiction. Pregnant women ; Fiction. Young women ; Fiction. Irish fiction 20th century. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subjects: Lively, Penelope 1933-. Novelists, English 20th century ; Biography. British Egypt History 20th century. Women authors, English 20th century ; Biography. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback 9780140285864 D-Day illustrated with B&W photos 592pp Contents, List of Illustrations and Maps Glossary, 1 The Decision, 2 Bearing the Cross of Lorraine, 3 Watch on the Channel, 4 Sealing of the Invasion Area, 5 The Airborne Assault, 6 The Armada Crosses, 7 Omaha, 8 Utah and the Airborne, 9 Gold and Juno, 10 Sword, 11 Securing the Beachheads, 12 Failure at Caen, 13 Villers-Bocage, 14 The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula, 15 Operation Epsom, 16 The Battle of the Bocage, 17 Caen and the Hill of Calvary, 18 The Final Battle for Saint-Lo, 19 Operation Goodwood, 20 The Plot Against Hitler, 21 Operation Cobra-Breakthrough, 22 Operation Cobra-Breakout, 23 Brittany and Operation Bluecoat, 24 The Mortain Counter-Attack, 25 Operation Totalize, 26 The Hammer and Anvil, 27 The Killing Ground of the Falasies Pocket, 28 The Paris Uprising and the Race for the Seine, 30 Aftermath, Acknowledgements, Notes, Select Bibliography, (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Viking Edition. Paperback. Contents: Preface. Prologue. A Very Brief History of Time. Time For a Change. Timewarps. Black Holes: Gateways to the End of Time. The Beginning of Time: When Exactly Was it? Einstein's Greatest Triumph? Quantum Time. Imaginary Time. The Arrow of Time. Backwards in Time. Time Travel: Fact or Fantasy? But What Time Is It Now? Experimenting With Time. The Unfinished Revolution. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 316 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Reprint. Rumpole a la Carte (Rumpole Ser.) wear and tear to price clipped jacket Six new tales of that Wordsworth-loving cigar-smoking Defender of the Faith - Horace Rumpole. This book will gratify the palate of the most discerning Rumpole connoisseur. Ingredients include She Who Must Be Obeyed in full sail; the towering genius of Claude Erskine-Brown; his fair wife, Phillida, the Portia of Equity Court; Miss Liz Probert, daughter of Red Ron Probert; Uncle Tom, still putting into the waste-paper basket in the clerk's room; and several encounters with old darlings on the Bench such as Sir Guthrie Featherstone, Mr. Justice 'Ollie' Oliphant, Mr. 'Injustice' Graves and their judicial bretheren. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of D/J. Dye from book to inside of D/J.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. 5th Impression. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Six new tales of the Wordsworth-loving cigar-smoking, irrepressible pillar of the british legal system, Horace Rumpole. And for the very first time, Hilda, She Who Must Ve Obeyed, tells a story all of her own. 261 pp.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Couple of tiny marks to D/J. from removal of old label. On 27 August 1883 the most terrifying volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Krakatoa, five muiles off the western tip of Java. The island was destroyed and almost 40,000 people were killed. The impact was truly global: ships sailing in the Red Sea were covered in ash; barometers went haywire in Washington; the seas were disturbed in Devon; stunning sunsets burned over London; immense rafts of pumice floated to Africa. In his wonderfully engaging and inimitable style, the author brings to life the drama, the people and the science behind this iconic event. He explains how Krakatoa is the key to answerinf our questions about why mountains explode, how life begins and what happens beneath the earth's surface; and hence why the word 'Krakatoa' has become embedded in the consciousness of the modern world. The world shifted, geologically, politically and socially on 27 August 1883. The recent completion of the global telegraph cable meant that, for the first time in history, an event on one side of the world could be communicated to the other within just a few hours. And there would be further, and even more far-reaching effects; the destruction wrought by this volcano would become the catalyst to a dramatic and bloody uprising of the region's Muslim community against their Western colonial masters. The author's book is the first to truly explain the eruption of Krakatoa. Bursting with anecdote, dramatic eyewitness accounts, illustrations of everything from tidal waves to pepper plants and with a wonderful cast of characters, this book is an informed and brillinatly vivid tale of science and high drama. It is the story of man's destruction and his ultimate survival. Illustrated. 432 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 2nd Impression Revised and Reset. Hardcover 0670807559 The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers edited by Arthur Jacobs wear to book corner wear and tear to D/J edges. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. price clipped. When Jane the mother of Zoe and Rebecca dies, the life script must be rewritten. The girls had been lovingly raised by their mom after their father set out to find new hope in a new relationship. The novel is set in New Zealand and London, begining about 1955. Mother, sister, daughter, father recollections keep getting in the way of strict chronology in this 349 page story. Cond: Creamy yellow paper wrapper with a cover illus. of Zoe sitting at a fancy continental European bar. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 167 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; British France ; Fiction. Gardens France ; Fiction. Gardens. English France ; Fiction. Gardens ; Fiction. France Social life and customs ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 175 pp.: illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Subjects; Vegetables Italy. Cooking, Italian. Fruit. Herbs. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover price clipped and Dedication to previous owner signed by the author. First Edition. Young Voices. Message to previous owner to title page. In Association With the Imperial War Museum. Using personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum's Sound and Document Archives, this book takes us beyond the home front and provides an insight into the lives of British children around the world during the Second World War. We learn what it was like to live in Nazi Germany as war was brewing. Children who lived under enemy occupation tell of their existence under the jackboot. With the spread of war after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, we hear of the brutal conditions experienced by those living under Japanese occupation and internment in the Far East. For many their wartime years have been the most powerful experience of their lives and even those who suffered great hardship and loss insist they wouldn't have missed it. Through the richly diverse voices and writings of over one hundred contributors, Lyn Smith has produced a powerful oral history of the war as seen from a child's perspective. Illustrated. 436 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Boards. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 2nd Impession. Hardback with Black& white and colour illustrations 359 pp plus illustration AcknowledgementsRodney Foster s The Read Dad s Army is the true-life account of Britain s Home Guard. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad s Army , the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad s Army . He records with a unique wit and wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity. It s magical . ( Dan Snow, The One Show ). If you lament the demise of the stiff upper lip, this is the book for you . (Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard ). Shaun Sewell is an avid antique dealer and social historian. Shaun lives and works in Northumberland. Rodney Foster was born in India in 1882 and spent his career in the Indian Army. In his retirement he went with his wife and daughter to live in Saltwood, near Hythe on the Kent coastline. Here in 1940 he enrolled in the Home Guard. He died in 1962. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Notes on a Scandal. 0670914061. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003. Previous owners name crossed out to inside cover. When Sheba Hart joins St. George's as the new pottery teacher, lonely Barbara Covett senses that she has found a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba. Before long Sheba is involved in an illict affair with a pupil. Barbara is powerless to stop Sheba from pursuing her foolhardy course of action. But when the liaison is found out and Sheba's marriage falls apart, Barbara is loyally standing by, ready to provide succor. This book is a story of repression and passion, envy and love. A complex psychological portrait framed by wicked satire. It is by turns funny, poignant and sinister. 245 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Jericho. In this book, his first novel for seven years, Dirk Bogarde evokes a world of intrigue and fearsome darkness under the brilliant sun of southern France. 278 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. A New Grand Tour. For more than two hundred years, from Inigo Jones to A Room With a View, British travellers combed Europe for the relics of classical antiquity and monuments of the baroque. That was the Grand Tour. With this book, the author proposes a new Grand Tour into the beginnings of our own world: the Europe of the modernists and the modern. He conducts it with a vitality inspired by visiting the cities of Europe afresh, and reflecting on the works of some of the greatest writers, painters and artists of our era. The tour takes the reader through seven cities: Rome, Paris and London, Berlin and Vienna, Prague and St. petersburg. This book comprises two interwoven journeys: a traveller's adventure in search of the sights and scenes of the great European cities, and a voyage of the mind, exploring our response to those poets and painters, writers and scientists, musicians and architects who shaped the modern world. In both, we share the author's delight in his travel and his discoveries, and return from the tour of a new past with a fresh perspective on our won future. 322 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 3rd Impession. Hardback The Sound of Trumpets. A Comedy of Modern Politics.The Sound of Trumpets represents the triumphant completion of a political trilogy that began with Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained. It provides a wonderfully entertaining and alert view of the comedy of modern politics. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 4th Impession. Hardback Shortlisted by Richard & Judy's bookclub. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. 252 pp plus a poem The death of Leopold Gursky .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are pround of the fact. Now they stand in a semi-circle round the bed of the very last of their nannies, who is quietly slipping away. Ada Stephens - known as Nanny grayle, and well into her nineties - is saying farewell. There they stand, the old, the young, all of them at one time or another 'her' children. In the strange clarity which comes with the last remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. She say that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war her 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is goging to get anything in her will. She has left everything to her nephew, Robert. Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. 282 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. This book brings together stories on erotic themes that have been written in the last hundred years by women from all over the world - from Japan, France, Botswana, Peru and Russia as well as Britain and the USA. They have been chosen because they are underpinned by the sexual passion and love defined in the dictionary as erotic, and also because they are written from a woman's point of view. 400 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Decorative Boards. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Tales with a special twist by Dunbar, Fine, Mark, Kemp, Bradbury and others, boards with no d/w as issued stories chosen by Julia Ecleshare. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Boards. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Nick Harris Ilustrador. First Edition. The ghosts here are not all just shadowy shapes floating down staircases of old mansions or conventional spooks rattling old armour and chains in dungeons. They all have their individual personalities - some are funny, some shy, some noisy and disruptive while others are grim, formidable and some are downright terrifying. The ghosts and ghouls come to life and cast a spell on us in these haunting tales and as they draw us into their world, they seem to become uncannily real and the living people in the stories uncannily ghostlike. Slight shelf wear to D/J. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Price clipped. Pictures by Gordon Beningfield. In this book over a hundred poems drawn from the work of poets spanning four centuries are combined with Godon Beningfield's fine pictures (eleven of which have been produced especially for this book) to evoke the England of meandering rivers, lush watermeadows, thick hedgegrows and burgeoning vegetation - an England that still exists here and there in places where the pursuit of intensive cultivation has not yet swept all before it. Illustrated. 125 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Isabel Burley returns to her childhood home to look after her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. There she finds an angry old woman, prey to the threats of failing memory, the inability to run her own life and the local villains, who are eyeing her isolated house. The real threat, however, comes from within. Isabel thinks she has gone home to do good, but really she is looking for the love she lacked as a child. Isolated by her mother's growing madness, the two women become locked in a relationship of hatred and simmering violence, with roots that go deep into the past. The author has written a chilling yet poignant portrait of the relationship between a mother and her daughter, a portrait of family dependency, of our desire to break away, and of the guilt that holds us back. It is a thought-provoking novel by a superb storyteller. 277 pp.Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Price clipped to D/J. This encyclopedia provides a compact guide to the events and developments of the past 140 years, covering the principal wars, campaign, battles and personalities of the period, along with descriptions of evolving strategy, tactics, intelligence handling, logistics, weapons and technology. it also supplies background information about such matters as military philosophy, law and the laws of war, training and educational methods, which will be invaluable to students of world history, as well as of the art of war. To those for whom knowledge of current affainst and a look into the future is necessary, or those involved with science and industry - indeed for anybody interested in how the modern world is shaped by the application of armed force - this easily assimilated, authorative reference work is essential. The encyclopedia is fully and clearly cross-referenced and indexed to make it simple to research less familiar subjects with relative ease and in considerable detail. To assis, there are eighty maps and diagrams, plus a chronology. And for those who wish to study in yet greater depth there is an entry on bibliography, plus a bibliography of major reference works and bibliographies. 373 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

3rd Printing. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 244 pages; 25 cm. Summary: 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town, assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny morning and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Subjects: Older men; Fiction. Actors; Fiction.Reminiscing in old age; Fiction. Loss (Psychology); Fiction. 1 Kg.