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Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology Of His Writings On The Country And Its People
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew Western writers have penetrated the soul of Japan as deeply, or as tenderly, as Lafcadio...
The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World
Author: Steve Kemme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
Two volumes in one! This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write...
Some Japanese Ghosts
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat- yet there were no other signs of death.'...
Donald Horne: Selected Writings
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey This is the...
Introducing Shakespeare: A New And Revised Edition
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in the Western literary canon have inspired as much reverence,...
Prefaces And Prologues To Famous Books: With Introductions And Notes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary scholarship, Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes presents a carefully curated anthology of...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies
Author: John Lennon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon John Lennon...
Gallipoli: The Classic Account Of The Dardanelles Campaign With A New Introduction By The Author
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most catastrophic and haunting military operations of the First World War, Allied forces were...
William Wordsworth
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
Selected Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon carry the raw, sensory power of D. H. Lawrence, and Selected...
Selected Stories
Eighty short stories by a master of the genre O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories-about con men and tricksters and "innocent"...
An Introduction To Metaphysics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the...
Ladies Of The Rachmaninoff Eyes (Faber Editions): Introduced by Taino
When a peacock's days are over, they're over. Oliver is precocious, black and gay. He reads Baudelaire, plays with his pet peacock, eats smoked oysters and fends off the maid...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends...
An Introduction To Logic And Scientific Method
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, chipped and worn with some minor damage along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: unmkd. Binding...
Runes: An Introduction (SIGNED)
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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionLong before the Roman alphabet swept across Europe, the Germanic and Norse peoples carved a mysterious system of symbols...
Captions Courageous: Or Comments From The Gallery
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when two irreverent wits are let loose among the greatest masterpieces of Western art? Captions Courageous, or Comments...
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1884 in Bournemouth in a house of horrors called 'Sunny Lawn'. It was an unhappy childhood, until her father's death when Radclyffe inherited 200,000. She...
The Seas: An Introduction To The Study Of Life In The Sea
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the shimmering surface of the world's oceans lies a realm of breathtaking complexity and wonder — and The Seas: An Introduction to the...
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981).While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially...
Introduction to Superconductivity: v. 1
Well known for its accessibility to graduate students and experimental physicists, this volume emphasizes physical arguments and minimizes theoretical formalism. The second edition of this classic text features revisions by...
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Spookily topical' - Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENLondon is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and...
Introduction To Mistral
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good and foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few literary figures of nineteenth-century Provence command as much reverence as...
National Income: An Introduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and practical understanding, National Income: An Introduction presents a clear and accessible...
Piaget's Theory Of Intellectual Development: An Introduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of psychology and education lies one of the twentieth century's most transformative intellectual frameworks, and...
Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Power Generation Applications
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of this introductory text on air-breathing jet propulsion focuses on the basic operating principles of jet engines and gas turbines. A state-of-the-art review...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab Over 4 million copies sold ' The book I wish I'd written ' R F...
How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces language and linguistics - presenting...
Introduction To Accounting: Economic Measurement For Decisions
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the intersection of financial literacy and strategic thinking, Introduction to Accounting: Economic Measurement for Decisions...
Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power
'The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters' Tennessee Williams 'A modern legend' Truman Capote 'Bowles is a master of the unforgettable phrase that no one else...
Mort: Introduction by Neil Gaiman
One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett. Death comes to us all. When he came to...
Travels into Bokhara
Before Thesiger, T.E.Lawrence and Richard Burton, there was an even greater traveller in the heroic British tradition of the recklessly adventurous, amateur scholar - Alexander Burnes. This slightly built, wiry...
Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary Edition
A long-buried secret. A life-changing quest. JULY 1209. In Carcassonne, seventeen-year-old Alais Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains the secret of the true...
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew names in the literary canon carry the weight of Sherlock Holmes — the razor-sharp, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street whose...
Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary Edition
A long-buried secret. A life-changing quest. JULY 1209. In Carcassonne, seventeen-year-old Alais Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains the secret of the true...
Guards! Guards!: Introduction by Ben Aaronovitch
One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld novels introducing new readers to the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett. 'Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before...
Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4105
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Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4105 Fifteen art books, most large-format hardback: Treasures of the Louvre, Monet and the Impressionists, Taschen’s Courbet, the Prado and Rijksmuseum guides, Van Gogh...
The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! VIBE SHIFT! National Bestselling author Joe Concha hip checks the mainstream media to deliver the juicy truth about this important moment in history. Lawfare....
The Papers Of Tony Veitch
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingGlasgow is a city of shadows and secrets, and in William McIlvanney's The Papers of Tony Veitch, Detective Inspector Jack...