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Set in the immense landscape of the Great Plains, The Prairie (1827) addresses many questions raised by the penetration of the American west: the displacement of the Indians, the destruction...

Author: James Fenimore CooperBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe classic American frontier novel, The Deerslayer, transports readers to the pristine wilderness of 18th-century upstate New York,...

One Parisian summer A building of separate lives All that divides them will soon collapse... In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls, people talk and...

Author: James Fenimore CooperBinding: HardbackPublished: Heritage Press, 1961Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Deerslayer is a prequel to the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring Natty Bumppo in the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner. A landmark work of American political thought, The...

Spike Falconer is in prison on the Isle of Wight - convicted of murder. What made him choose four innocent strangers, a family picnicking, as his victims? Why did he...

Cooper undertook a "hazardous experiment" in resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation. This book is noted as a classic...

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley romances, Cooper's novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British. For more...

Originally published in 1823, "The Pioneers" is the first of Cooper's five "Leatherstocking Tales", and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town...

Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry...

Author: James Fenimore CooperBinding: HardbackPublished: New York: State University, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis classic maritime adventure, The Red Rover, chronicles the...

Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's...

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain...

A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat, brilliantly told by the celebrated wartime statesman, historian and author William Maryngton has one dream in life- to...

In Bolt from the Blue , Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the savage and breathtaking wilderness of colonial America during the French and Indian War of 1757, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles...

Author: Christian Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Celebrating powerful voices- Represent! collects the revolutionary digital-first series! New voices present relevant, topical visions of social change and personal histories,...

The brand-new book from the legendary Jilly Cooper, featuring the iconic Rupert Campbell-Black. Be prepared for scandal, sex and sabotage - this time on the football field... Jilly Cooper's legendary...

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Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto cafe and then returns to his small flat on...

Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian, returns with Discord, a subjective journey through the world of classical music. On a night in August, an audience at the Royal Albert Hall...

The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society in the aftermath of the Second World War This last volume...

Author: Wendy Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 **Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward** William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He...

'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class:...

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Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...

High speed. Low altitude. No room for error. Jett Cooper lives to fly. When his father announces the first-ever Blue Wolf Junior Air Competition , held at their outback air...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in British sporting history command the same reverence as Henry Cooper, the Bellingham-born heavyweight who became...

Reissue of the collected stories, now including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the extraordinary fable of a man who lives his life backwards Encompassing the very best of F....

Author: Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.Binding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles humanity's enduring fascination with...

Author: Martin Nowak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of...

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Over sixty years ago a battle took place that, if it had succeeded, could have shortened the Second World war by six months. The operation to take the bridges at...

'What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again, who would you be?' In a series of...

On July 4, 1939, Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium. There is, for now, no known, intact film of Gehrig's speech, but instead, just...

Author: Noel B. GersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Arthur Barker, London , 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerNoel B. Gerson's State Trooper presents a gripping narrative that immerses readers in the...

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Evelyn Waugh was not only one of the foremost novelists of his generation, he was also one of the last great practitioners of the art of letter writing. This previously...

Author: Shin-Ja KimFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 540g, 386 pagesPublished: Peter Lang AG, Switzerland, 2010Practical Learning, Catholicism and classical Confucianism form the origin of Tasan Chong's philosophy in a uniform...

When James Gurney's Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time first appeared in 1992, it was immediately hailed as a fully imagined world of the caliber of J. R. R. Tolkien's....

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Extreme damage to dust jacket - half of jacket spine missing, rips along seams on jacket, stamps in...