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89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA Little Learning is the intimate and candid memoir of one of the twentieth century's most...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a work of extraordinary scope and singular imaginative vision, Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume I...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades bridging Imperial Germany and the Third Reich, a cadre of fiercely ideological publishers waged a cultural...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the crucible of Depression-era New York, a remarkable cohort of writers, critics, and thinkers gathered around a single radical literary journal to reshape...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume 1: Lost in the Dark Wood, Sacheverell Sitwell — one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of art, commerce, and democracy, Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America assembles a formidable...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark work of cultural and literary scholarship, Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe by Bettina Hürlimann presents a sweeping panorama of children's literature...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most electrifying works in the American dramatic canon are gathered in this essential Penguin Plays...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the living fabric of human culture meets the rigid structures of formal schooling? Culture and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the rigid ideological surface of Stalinist Russia, a quieter revolution was unfolding — one not of workers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would it mean if the greatest playwright who ever lived were not a relic of the past,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA haunting and intensely personal narrative, A Voice Through a Cloud is Denton Welch's autobiographical account of his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat drives the spark of human genius — and can it ever be explained? In The Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler presents one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated wits and cultural critics comes a collection of essays that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedRobert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to be truly noble in a world that no longer recognises nobility? Sons of Kings, originally published in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the sun-drenched glamour of Hollywood lies a world of ambition, compromise, and quiet moral erosion — and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat can humanity truly know — and where does that knowledge...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**In the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, on the night of January 30, 1945, the German passenger...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. A suffocating portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Text: English & Russian. Price clipped dj. From one of the Soviet Union's most daring and celebrated voices comes Stolen Apples, a...

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