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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Stephens Format: Paperback...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt a time when the ancient world was barely accessible to Western eyes, American adventurer John Lloyd Stephens embarked on...

Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways,...

""The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping work of historical adventure and archaeology, Search for the Maya: The Story of Stephens and Catherwood chronicles the...

Chequered Lives is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of literature and ideas,...

Author: Leslie StephenBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly collection, Selected Writings In British Intellectual History, presents a rigorous examination of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA remarkable work of transportation history and visual documentation, Horsecars, Cable Cars and Omnibuses:...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Sutherland (University College...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

Author: K. J. M. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 2002Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a biographical account of James Fitzjames Stephen. It examines his intellectual contributions and...

Author: John Harris, Stephen Orgel And Roy StrongBinding: PaperbackPublished: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...

An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by his son, Matthew Spender, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and unpublished archives. Stephen Spender's life, with all its...

A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to the Cold...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its...

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'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...

Author: Stephen Murray-Smith And Anthony John DareBinding: HardbackPublished: Hyland HouseCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Tech: A Centenary History Of The Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology chronicles the...

As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...

The English Stage tells the story of English drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. John Styan analyzes the key features...

The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner This text is based on the Egoist Press second edition of 1918 James...

Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were friends; writers-in-arms, though they were polar opposites in terms of personality - Dos Passos' calm contrasting with Hemingway's machismo. They arrived in Spain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMelbourne's most storied technical institution comes to life in The Tech: A Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, a richly detailed...

Jacob Epstein ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. Stephen Gardiner knew the Epstein family intimately and draws on personal research and a mass of unpublished...

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Author: John Allyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike. Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

Author: James StephenBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1954Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Reading copy with minimal markings in...

Author: James Stephens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 James Shepherd's writing, particularly within his Irish Fairy Tales, was well regarded and praised as humorous and lyrical.

This book is a light-hearted but comprehensive guide to the best and the worst of the AFL national code. From the beginning, from "God" - Gary Ablett - to legions...

Author: Ann StephenBinding: HardbackPublisher: Powerhouse Publishing, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: small tear along dust jacket seam, faded or...

Just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off...

The phenomenal international bestseller FISH! told the story of a fictional company that transformed itself by applying lessons learned from Seattle's Pike Place Fish Market. The follow-up FISH! TALES told...

Author: Stephen J. SpignesiBinding: HardbackPublished: Bounty Books, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOn Target: Famous Assassinations And Attempts From Julius Caesar To John Lennon presents a gripping historical account...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Author: John ShawBinding: HardbackPublisher: Stephenson & Turner, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: No markingsJohn Shaw's Sir Arthur Stephenson Australian...

Author: John Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the...

In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...