Search Results for: “A. G. Allbury”

It's a morning like any other, after the "Treaty of Neutrality and Cooperation" has been signed--except that the citizens of the United Kingdom wake up to find themselves suddenly on...

Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them - literally. Each morning, the last humans start their day with...

A literary critic and the author of The Savage God advises aspiring writers on a range of questions related to voice, covering such topics as writing with authenticity, engaging a...

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage...

Alfie's Search for Destiny is a delightful story that follows Alfie on a journey in search for his destiny. He leaves home, travels high and low and, after his long...

You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar man Cartwarra or...

On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection of literary criticism, Beyond All This Fiddle: Essays 1955-1967 presents the sharp, uncompromising critical voice of A....

A delightful picture book about a dog called Alfie who longs to be bold and brave like other dogs. From Australian of the Year Dr Richard 'Harry' Harris, a key...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally. Set in the vibrant, often harsh landscape of rural Jamaica,...

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light foxing on block but otherwise pages are fineIn this 1970 sequel to the iconic Alfie,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterwork of English literary fiction, Flowering Wilderness chronicles...

Wade Ashby inherits his grandfather estate in Oxfordshire, England, becoming 13th Baron of Ashby Manor. He travels from Australia with his friend Hugh to take up his birthright and find...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some moderate loss; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Intact but worn. A searing indictment...

Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of...

Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of...

Author: Rex BurnsBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: rubbing and mould on edges of dust jacke and cloth cover and spine; some wear to...

Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is...

My Name Escapes Me, the January 1995 to June 1996 diary of Alec Guinness, received wide critical acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA cherished work of early twentieth-century English essayism, Leaves in the Wind presents a warm and reflective collection of personal essays by...

Author: Harold NicolsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co, 1926Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis volume presents a comprehensive biographical study of Algernon Charles Swinburne. The narrative...

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...

Author: Edited By H. Allingham And D. Radford. Introduction By John Julius Norwich.Binding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1990Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Inscription on slipcase. This...

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the...