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Author: Anthony BurtonBinding: HardbackPublished: André Deutsch; British Broadcasting Corporation, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The Rise & Fall Of King Cotton, chronicles the profound...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of economic and social history, The Rise & Fall of King Cotton chronicles the extraordinary dominance...

Author: Anthony BurtonBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe compelling non-fiction work The Past At Work by Anthony Burton presents a meticulous analysis of how historical...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe compelling non-fiction work The Past At Work by Anthony Burton presents a meticulous analysis of how historical forces continue to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe compelling non-fiction work The Past At Work by Anthony Burton presents a meticulous analysis of how historical...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe National Trust Guide To Our Industrial Past presents a comprehensive overview of Britain's rich industrial heritage. This...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe fifth instalment of Penguin's landmark Penguin Modern Stories series gathers a bold and eclectic quartet of voices...

Brought up by a wonderful group of animals on a hidden island somewhere deep in the Caribbean, Jim knows no other life or who his real parents are. He washed...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly entertaining work of social and travel history, The Green Bag Travellers: Britain's First Tourists chronicles the remarkable rise...

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of stories from the famous 'One Thousand and One Nights,' translated by the renowned scholar...

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A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...

Secondhand Biography & History Bargain Book Box This collection of fifteen volumes offers a factual survey of historical developments, spanning from the imperial court of Russia and the Baroque age...

Author: Anthony TrollopeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Inscription on slipcase. This monumental work, The Anatomy Of Melancholy, presents a comprehensive and intricate...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in...

Adrian Warburton (known to all as Warby) was one of the most highly decorated pilots of World War II. A below-average misfit with 22 Squadron of Coastal Command Warby was...

The first mile-that critical time when an idea moves from concept to paper to market, the real world, where it will fly or fail, and maybe take a company with...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some yellowing/tanning noted. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. A landmark work in political sociology, Theories of Nationalism presents...

'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...

Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in...

In this memoir of personal discovery, loss and renewal, Claire Bloom looks beyond the stage and unveils her true identity. One of the most beautiful and gifted actresses of her...

With sympathy and care, Trollope observes the romances of two controversial heroines in the first of his Palliser novels 'Anthony Trollope knew more about women than any other novelist of...

Around the world the foundations of democracy, freedom, civil liberties are being eroded - what can be done? Are we living through the end of the democratic moment? While democracy...

Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success;...

From New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree - the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series. 'A fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ......

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew mediums capture the raw pulse of a nation quite like its cartoons — and A Cartoon History of Australia by Jonathan King...

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times -bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin **The instant...

Edition: LE - No. 291 of 800 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the rugged and untamed landscape of colonial Tasmania, one man carved out a life that would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to forge a truly Australian aesthetic in the shadow of European tradition —...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have channelled the subconscious into printmaking with the visionary intensity of Odilon Redon, and...

2025's most-anticipated new debut romantic fantasy is the epic, unmissable story of hope after heartbreak, secrets, betrayal, dancing - and the touch of a goddess of death. My protector is...

NEW IN PAPERBACK 'Here's how I do it and why': this is the premise behind John Howe's very first practical exploration of his artistic inspirations, approaches and techniques. Will appeal...

A stunning new edition of the fourth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series with gorgeous new cover artwork and updated text, by the bestselling author of The Priory of...

Since October 7th, 2023, the world witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation, from sit-ins in Congress and Grand Central Station, to petitions and marches in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat if the most extraordinary architecture on Earth was never designed by an architect? The Prodigious Builders by Bernard Rudofsky presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePoetry has always held two essential powers in perfect tension — the architectural precision of pattern...

' Boudicca's Daughter is Elodie Harper's masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, author of Babylonia 'One of the best books I have ever read.' Bea Fitzgerald, author of Girl, Goddess, Queen 'Certainly my...