British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when painting, theatre, and literature were bound together by a shared visual language, Martin Meisel's Realizations presents...

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Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding: front hinges cracked; binding slightly shaky; no loose pages; some...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFour centuries of craftsmanship, elegance, and evolving taste come to life in British Furniture 1600-2000, a sweeping visual and historical survey...

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'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...

The extraordinary tale of Philip Augustus, one of medieval Europe's greatest monarchs, and the part he played in the downfall of four Plantagenet kings of England. Philip II ruled France...

'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...

The book titled The Laurel and the Ivy: Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish by the author Robert Kee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj; light foxing on book block. Amid the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a murder shatters...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAnthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of power and public opinion stands the British press — and few figures were better placed to examine that relationship than...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Dublin, Farewell Companions chronicles the intertwined lives of a group of Irish men and women as they...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some pages folded, minor tears.At the turn of the nineteenth century, Ireland was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA treasury of the English-speaking world's finest verse, The Poets' World: An Anthology of English Poetry is a landmark collection that chronicles the rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, witnessing the tremors that would shake the world into war — Leonard Woolf's Downhill All...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into the Victorian literary mind are as intimate and unguarded as a collection of private correspondence,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the first half of the nineteenth century, London blazed as the intellectual and creative capital of the world — and London Lights...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Tudor England's political machinery stood Sir Nicholas Bacon, a figure whose shrewd legal mind and formidable administrative talents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the world's most celebrated repositories of Western European painting, the National Gallery in London houses a collection that spans seven centuries...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ is damaged with multiple tears to spine.At the glittering heart of the Restoration stage stands William Congreve, a...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and aesthetics, Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire, ideology, and artistic expression, Creditable Warriors presents a sweeping anthology of English literature produced between 1830 and 1876 — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew institutions in the world embody the ambition and aesthetic vision of Victorian Britain quite like the Victoria...

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