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Decline and Fall
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PUBLISHER: Penguin
KEYWORDS: literature fiction dry humour Waugh
Work Suspended and other stories
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1963
KEYWORDS: literature fiction short stories dry humour Waugh
T.S. Eliot: the Man and his Work
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PUBLISHER: Pelican 1971
KEYWORDS: biography literature literary criticism Eliot
Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1974
KEYWORDS: Solzhenitsyn literature Russia Russian politics persecution censorship KGB
Dangerous Woman
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PUBLISHER: Softcover Library 1976
KEYWORDS: sexploitation literature fiction
And the Ass Saw the Angel
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PUBLISHER: Penguin2009
KEYWORDS: literature fiction parable tragedy gothic
The Cunning of the Dove
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PUBLISHER: New English Library 1974
KEYWORDS: literature fiction historical Edward the Confessor
Expatria
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PUBLISHER: Corgi 1992
KEYWORDS: literature fiction science fantasy
Selected Verse
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1961
KEYWORDS: literature poetry verse
The English Cyclopaedia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: Biography Volume V
THIS VOLUME ONLY, quarto, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine & raised bands, blind decorative rule to spine, marbled page edges & eps, 1034 paginated columns, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges/corners with some surface loss, moderate chafing & light staining to boards with some surface loss, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, cracks to gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Bradbury and Evans 1857
KEYWORDS: cyclopaedia cyclopedia England United Kingdom UK history literature
The English Cyclopaedia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: Biography Volume IV
THIS VOLUME ONLY, quarto, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine & raised bands, blind decorative rule to spine, marbled page edges & eps, 1046 paginated columns, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges/corners with some surface loss, moderate chafing & light staining to boards with some surface loss, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, cracks to gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Bradbury and Evans 1857
KEYWORDS: cyclopaedia cyclopedia England United Kingdom UK history literature
The English Cyclopaedia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: Biography Volume III
THIS VOLUME ONLY, quarto, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine & raised bands, blind decorative rule to spine, marbled page edges & eps, 998 paginated columns, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges/corners with some surface loss, moderate chafing & light staining to boards with some surface loss, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, cracks to gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Bradbury and Evans 1856
KEYWORDS: cyclopaedia cyclopedia England United Kingdom UK history literature
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Vol 1- The Birth of Britain: Vol 2- The New World: Vol 3- The Age of Revolution: Vol 4- The Great Democracies
4 VOLUME SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top of page edges stained red, xi-xxi + 322pp-416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board edges with sl surface loss, light foxing to page edges and prelims, slight foxing to pages throughout all vols) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing and chipping and occasional tears to covers- severe to vol 1, archival tape repairs to edges of vols 1, 7cm closed tear to cover of vol 2, moderate foxing & tanning to all covers)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1956-1958
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill history Great Britiain illustrated literature culture language grammar syntax pre-history
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination
Octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, 439pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light soiling to covers, owner's name in pencil to inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: literature China essays collection anthology Australasia orient oriental politics economy economics
Hornet's Sting
LIMITED NUMBERED COPY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, 410pp, VG (moderate creasing to spine & cover corners, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Whistle Books 2008
KEYWORDS: limited numbered edition signed inscribed literature fiction military war
Tender is the Night
FIRST EDITION THUS (SECOND UK EDITION), octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 278pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & light fraying to board edges, light discolouration to spine, moderate water staining to boards, 2cm bird droppings stain to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Grey Walls Press 1948
KEYWORDS: first edition thus UK literature fiction
H. P. B. Speaks: Volume II
FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue heavy card boards with blue buckram spine, black lettering to spine & front board, fold out frontispiece, xvi + 181pp, VG (moderate scuffing to spine, light soiling to boards, light bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm. price stamp in ink to bottom of fep)
PUBLISHER: Theosophical Publishing House 1951
KEYWORDS: literature Blavatsky collection anthology first edition thus correspondance
On Drink
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 109pp, illus, VG (light creasing & scuffing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, ex-libris name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing to covers, moderate foxing to flaps & internal sides, corners clippped)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1972
KEYWORDS: first edition Kingsley Amis literature humour illustrated drink alcohol
9th Judgement
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PUBLISHER: Century 2010
KEYWORDS: literature james petterson thriller
In the Mist of the Mountains
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PUBLISHER: Ward Lock & Co 1906
KEYWORDS: literature ethel turner