British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as William Butler Yeats, and Memoirs offers an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore the age of the computer, there was Ada — a woman of breathtaking intellect born into the shadow of literary legend, whose genius would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent literary world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, satire was not a gentle art — it was a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA restless Yorkshire farmer, a spinster escaping her dreary small-town life, and a schoolmaster with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as brilliantly contradictory as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester — a Restoration court wit, libertine poet, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew Victorian novelists have been as persistently underestimated—and as richly rewarding upon reappraisal—as Anthony Trollope, and A. O. J. Cockshut's landmark critical study sets out to...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of nationalism and artistic vision, Poetry and Ireland brings together two of the most vital literary voices of the Irish Literary Revival...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the twilight of the Victorian era to the turbulent heart of the twentieth century, Missing Persons is the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt a time when Britain stood on the precipice of industrial transformation, T. S. Ashton's An Economic History of England:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the grand tradition of English letters, few stories are as richly layered as the rise and decline of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFor every reader who has ever wondered where Hardy walked, where Keats found his inspiration, or where Shakespeare's world truly began, The Oxford...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the scandalous heart of the Restoration court stood John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester — rake, libertine, and one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been so persistently misunderstood as George II, a king who reigned for thirty-three turbulent years yet has long languished...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedOne of the most extraordinary partnerships in modern military history comes to life in Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves's authoritative account of T.E. Lawrence —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedOne of the most searingly honest portraits of a generation scarred by war, The Complete Memoirs of...

Edition: Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in Victorian England rang with such passionate authority on art, architecture,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew men embodied the spirit of wartime Britain with the quiet, steely resolve of Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire — and The Face...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as electrifying — or as scandalous — as John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, the Restoration court...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in English history have provoked such fierce and enduring debate as Sir Thomas More — scholar, statesman, martyr, and saint — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodTo mark one hundred years of one of Britain's most distinguished publishing houses, A Century of Writers: 1855–1955 presents a rich and carefully curated centenary volume...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodSet against the roaring backdrop of Elizabethan England and the treacherous seas of the Spanish Main, Westward...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly — or as eccentrically — as Sir Cecil Beaton, the legendary...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerRaymond Williams's Second Generation is a quietly powerful novel of class, identity, and the painful friction between where...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the grimy industrial heartland of post-war northern England, Christina Stead's Cotters' England presents a world...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Light foxing on book block. Cowardice has never been so entertaining — and so...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been so misunderstood, so caricatured, and so consequential as the man who presided over...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets of the English Restoration have provoked as much fascination, scandal, and scholarly debate as John Wilmot, the second...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodLong before the age of steam and industry reshaped the world, Britain's economic foundations were being laid across centuries of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of art, literature, and cultural ambition, The Victorian Treasure-House presents a richly argued account of Victorian aesthetics, chronicling the extraordinary creative outpouring of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew Victorian writers possessed Anthony Trollope's gift for dissecting the social rituals of English country life with such sharp-eyed affection, and Hunting Sketches stands as a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: good binding, clean pages. In the gaslit shadows of Victorian England, a brutal social crisis festered beneath the veneer of imperial respectability...

Edition: 2nd printingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWithin the drawing rooms and cricket pitches of Edwardian England, one figure stands apart from the rest — the magnificently imperturbable Psmith,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of Restoration passion and feminine literary defiance stands Anne Wharton — niece of the Earl of Rochester, poet, and one of the...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...

Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small chip at bottom corner - otherwise fine.Few figures of the British colonial era...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most audacious deception operations of the Second World War comes to life in I Was Monty's Double, the remarkable true account...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the gilded facades of the late seventeenth-century European courts lay a world of political intrigue, forced marriages, and devastating personal tragedy — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of human expression have cast as long a shadow as William Shakespeare, and Ivor Brown's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Large tears now repaired with non-acidic tape.In an era of sweeping industrial transformation and imperial ambition, William Ashworth's An Economic History of...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Chipped along spine - still...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA literary giant of New Zealand letters, Dan Davin brought the same unflinching honesty to his memoir as he did to...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Small glue residue on fep. Binding remains tight. In the autumn of 1934, the skies...