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The essential works of a master of English prose, reissued in Penguin Classics This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in English literature possess the warmth, wit, and tender eccentricity of Charles Lamb, and The Essays of Elia stands as the supreme...

First time in Black Classics for this famous Victorian retelling of the stories of Shakespeare's plays - sells 8-10,000/year in its PPC edition As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took...

Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.First published in 1807, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and...

By turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating and philosophical, in these essays Lamb offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth and...

Secondhand Biography & History Bargain Book Box This collection of eighteen volumes offers a scholarly journey through the social, political, and cultural shifts of British and Australian history. You will...

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few works have made the genius of William Shakespeare as universally...

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When Andrew - a second-hand-book dealer - comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She...

'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing...

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The book titled Churchill as War Leader by the author Richard Lamb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: L. J. Blake (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: The Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor rips to DJ. Tanning...

At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs- Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge...

Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew journeys in the history of science have altered the course of human understanding as profoundly as Charles Darwin's five-year expedition aboard HMS Beagle, and...

Author: J. BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLetters Of Charles Joseph La Trobe presents a compelling collection of correspondence from...

Author: L. J. BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of historical correspondence presents the personal and official writings of Charles Joseph...

Author: L.J. Blake (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis collection, Letters Of Charles Joseph La Trobe, chronicles the personal and official correspondence...

Author: La Trobe Charles Joseph.Binding: HardbackPublished: The Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsLetters Of Charles Joseph La Trobe presents...

Author: L.J. BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: Government of Victoria., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tears and chips to DJ.This collection, Letters Of Charles...

Author: Newman RosenthalBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, Robertson And Mullens, 1968, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life and contributions of Sir Charles Lowe, a...

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Author: John TregenzaBinding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne University Press., 1968Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this masterful and deeply engaging historical biography, noted scholar John Tregenza delivers Professor of Democracy, the definitive chronicle of...

The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. In this biography, Jeremy Lamb examines time the nature of Rochesters alcoholism and its implications for the...

On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God...

Author: Charles DickensFormat: Leather / fine binding, 152mm x 236mm, 1496 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2010Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas...

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Author: A. De Q. RobinBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Western Australia Press, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA definitive biography, this volume chronicles the life and enduring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodDame Janet Baker once said of Sir Charles Mackerras that he is one of the very best — and Charles Mackerras: A Musicians' Musician...

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Political journalists Chris Lamb and Will Moredock have mined the past few centuries of political history and unearthed a treasure trove of humorous exchanges. The Art of the Political Putdown...

Author: J. David Archibald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She...