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Oxford China And Italy: Writings In Honour Of Sir Harold Acton
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. A distinguished tribute volume, Oxford China...
Lectures On Modern History
$60.00 AUD
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg ActonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1952Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book compiles a series of insightful lectures on the evolution...
Letters Home
Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...
The Adventurers
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Author: Harold RobbinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Blond, 1966, First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Adventurers is a captivating epic by Harold Robbins, published in 1966. This...
Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric,...
Secondhand Biography & History Bargain Book Box SP2551
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand Biography & History Bargain Book Box This collection features seventeen volumes of biography, correspondence, and historical studies, documenting the lives of influential figures in politics, the arts, and social...
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of...
Scoop: Popular Penguins
One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...
Tuscan Villas
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew architectural treasures encapsulate the grandeur and romance of the Italian Renaissance quite like the storied villas of Tuscany, and Harold Acton...