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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodDrawn from decades of private reflection, E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book offers an extraordinarily intimate window into the mind of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the rolling hills of the Māori heartland to the bustling streets of urban New Zealand, The New Net Goes Fishing presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: tape marks on FEP, long tear on fold of jacket.When the world plunged into its second catastrophic conflict...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Soviet Union's twilight years, The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories presents a remarkable window into the literary renaissance that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFirst published in 1870 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable stands as one of the most beloved and enduring reference...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat drives the strange, complex, and often contradictory creature we call the human being? In The Human Animal: The Mystery of Man's Behaviour, pioneering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat drives the human need to connect, to belong, and to love — and how has that need shaped civilisation across the centuries? The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light pencil underline throughout. At the volatile intersection of faith and governance, Catholic Action and Politics presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be French? Sanche de Gramont's The French: Portrait of a People is a sweeping, authoritative study of France and its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Victorian literature's most versatile and celebrated voices comes Memories and Portraits, a rich collection of autobiographical and critical essays that draws...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA landmark gathering of mid-century literary minds, The Craft of Letters in England presents a rich and authoritative symposium on the state of British writing in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew lives embody the agonising contradictions of the Second World War more profoundly than that of Adam von Trott...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodIn the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingBefore jazz found its voice in Britain, one man was there helping it speak...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the tense and volatile atmosphere of the Cold War Middle East, Red Mirage by John O'Kearney...

Edition: 3rd ed., revised and enlarged// Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionLong before the Western world developed the vocabulary to articulate it,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in modern history wielded as much shadowy power as Basil Zaharoff — arms dealer, spy, and billionaire manipulator whose influence stretched across the thrones...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA rare and intimate window into the private world of one of the twentieth century's most controversial intellectuals, Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat happens when the greatest scientific revolutions in human history are driven not by cold logic, but by mysticism, obsession,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFor students embarking on the rewarding journey of learning Russian, Elementary Russian Reader by George Z. Patrick,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodDeep in the ancient Knysna Forest of South Africa's Garden Route, a man and an elephant are bound together by a destiny neither...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of empire, nationalism, and modernisation, Alfred Bonné's State and Economics in the Middle East presents a rigorous...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew books capture the soul of a nation with the lyrical authority that Jan Morris brings to Spain — a masterful portrait of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: review copy. From the smoldering embers of the French Revolution to the turbulent political landscape of the twentieth century, France Since the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of European power, when great nations carved the globe into colonies and protectorates, a new world order was being written —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1905, a young Frenchman named Henri Alban Fournier — not yet the celebrated author he would become — arrived in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American literary culture, The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction assembles some of the sharpest critical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of America's most paranoid decade, Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Victorian London, a scandal of breathtaking proportions threatened to bring down the establishment: a male brothel...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the single masterpiece that captivated a generation lies the tragically short life of Henri-Alban Fournier — known to the world as Alain-Fournier —...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of France's most singular and subversive literary voices comes The...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLanguage has always been a mirror held up to society, and nowhere is its capacity for disguise more brilliantly revealed than in the art...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew English cities have inspired as much elegance, intrigue, and literary imagination as...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects in the history of human civilization are as vast, ancient, and misunderstood as Hinduism, and Nirad C. Chaudhuri's landmark study cuts through...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over Western civilization as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and...

Edition: presumed first. Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Note: Worn boards with rubbed edges. Slight lean...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew memoirs command the grandeur and literary audacity of Left Hand Right Hand!, Sir Osbert Sitwell's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the rugged, wind-swept landscapes of Ireland and Scotland, Maurice Walsh weaves a tale of quiet heroism and simmering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the chaotic summer of 1940, as Nazi forces swept through France and an entire nation collapsed into panic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA masterwork of restrained passion and psychological acuity, Dominique stands as one of the most celebrated French...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Second World War, one man ran the most audacious intelligence operation of the twentieth...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in modern history have inspired such fascination and tragedy as Alexandra Feodorovna, the last...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor anyone seeking to understand the rich and often deadly herpetofauna of the Australian continent, The Snakes of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA haunting meditation on displacement and identity, The Exiles follows a group of American expatriates adrift...