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The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: slightly shaky, no loose pages. Few figures in the world...

Author: John L Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in...

Author: Clive JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton , 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVisions Before Midnight presents a collection of incisive and often humorous essays on television...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the turbulent final days of the American Civil War, a Confederate warship sailed into one of the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Clive James — poet, critic, broadcaster, and...

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Collecting verse written in the years 2008-2011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versatility, emotional poignancy and lightly-worn erudition as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in modern history cast as long a shadow as Winston Spencer Churchill, and William Manchester's monumental The Last Lion: Winston...

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...

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Author: Rubinstein, Hilary LBinding: HardbackPublished: Scottish Academic Press Limited, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis political biography presents the turbulent life of James, first Duke of Hamilton, a...

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A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...

Condition remarks: Overall Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded with minor soiling; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. This four-volume literary biography...

A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good, no tears, minor wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. No stickers or library stamps visible. A landmark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into a literary genius are as intimate or as revealing as a collection of personal correspondence, and Henry James Letters:...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe fifth and final volume of Leon Edel's monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Henry James: The Master 1901–1916, chronicles...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good - bright, minimal wear on both volumes. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact and firm. Both volumes presented together...

Henry James, Sr.'s children included William, the psychologist and philosopher; Henry Jr., the novelist; and Alice, author of a noted diary. What kind of father stood behind his epochally brilliant,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to Very Good. Jackets: Present on all three volumes — worn with some fading and minor edge wear. Pages: Yellowed. Markings: (in description). Binding: Appears intact...

Author: Clyde De L. RyalsBinding: HardbackPublished: Blackwell Pub, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography, The Life Of Browning, chronicles...

Lyndall Gordon investigates the writer's relations with two remarkable women who were close to him, and traces their effect and influence in his work. Both these women haunted James, his...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in colonial Australia embodied the Renaissance ideal as completely as James Edward Neild — physician, drama critic, journalist, and cultural...

A mysterious healer appears in Mecca, claiming to be the Mahdi, the Muslim redeemer. In Rome, a young man steps out of the Vatican declaring himself the second coming of...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century Britain, where loyalty was a currency as volatile as gunpowder, James Hamilton, First Duke...

Edition: 1st eds.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: djs - price clipped. A landmark scholarly edition, The Tales of Henry James (Volumes 1 & 2) presents the complete...

Author: John Sutherland Black And George ChrystalBinding: HardbackPublished: Adam and Charles Black, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks:...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis four-volume set—My Early Life, Thoughts and Adventures, Great Contemporaries, and Step by Step—published by...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few figures in Victorian England embodied the restless marriage of...

Author: James DarlingBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Joint Board of Christian Education, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has tanning along spine, light yellowing to top of pagesAfter...

Author: Frank Pash, Charles AmeryBinding: HardbackPublished: Kornada, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tears along some edges/corners and heavy tanning on front100 pages with colour and...