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Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: Little Brown and Company, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCustoms And Characters: Contemporary Portraits presents a collection of incisive biographical sketches, illuminating the lives...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the Anglo-Saxon poets who forged verse out of myth and battle-cry to the modernist writers who shattered the very form of the novel,...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublisher: NEWSWEEK, 1981Edition: 8th impr.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis historical account The Colosseum chronicles the monumental construction and enduring legacy of...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: G & C Merriam Company, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: mildew spotting on spine; plastic laminate is worn and has some dirt...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society, London, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of biographical sketches, offering insights into the lives and personalities...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling literary biography, A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait Of James Pope-Hennessy, uncovers the intricate life...

Peter Quennell has been fascinated by the subject of happiness since early childhood, when he first sought to understand its meaning, and to establish whether or not anyone ever actually...

Author: Peter Quennell & Hamish JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ferndale Editions, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume chronicles the vast and intricate tapestry of English literary tradition. It...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA compelling work of historical non-fiction, The Colosseum chronicles the monumental history of Rome's most iconic amphitheater. Peter Quennell, alongside...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerVictorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental...

A Superficial Journey is the result of a year spent in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Peking. "A kind of travel film, a sequence in which image suggests image," it describes, in...

Author: James Pope-HennessyBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a self-portrait of James Pope-Hennessy. Peter Quennell edits the compilation. The...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich work of historical correspondence and political biography, this meticulously edited collection presents the intimate letters exchanged between Princess...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century cast as long and luminous a shadow as Vladimir Nabokov — novelist, poet, lepidopterist, and exile —...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Inscriptions on fep, otherwise content...

In February 2009 Father Peter Kennedy, of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Brisbane, was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine. This book is an assembly...

Author: Peter Snow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle. In the vivid narrative style that is...

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library...

This is the long-awaited follow up to "The Sound of Laughter". Picking up from where Peter's massive bestselling autobiography "The Sound of Laughter" left off, "Saturday Night Peter" charts the...

Edition: 5th impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsAn illuminating historical account, Everyday Life In Prehistoric Times chronicles the daily routines and societal structures...

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Saskatchewan is filled with people who have ignored the world's values and expectations and lived their lives, in their own way, on the land they love. The Good Land tells...

INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called "one of the best...

Author: Beatrix Potter Format: Kit Number of Pages: 24 0

When Major-General Gannibal died in 1781 in his eighties, he could look back on a long and successful life. He was the godson of Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth...

One of the most difficult problems for managers to address is substandard work, where performance is weak enough to warrant improvement but not so bad as to justify termination. Too...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: worn and faded with some tears along the edge; Few figures in Australian political history provoke...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased cover and spineIn one of the darkest chapters of Australian colonial history,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen the fate of Olympus hangs in the balance, the last hero anyone expected to answer the call is a girl named Peregrine...

This updated edition of the first ever book about Queens Of The Stone Age takes in nine years of chaos. Since the first edition appeared in 2005, Josh Homme's band...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNavigating the labyrinthine world of government bureaucracy demands a guide who understands its unique terrain,...

Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He's raced...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first French gunboats that shelled Da Nang in 1847 to the grinding quagmire of American military...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodRising from the windswept plains and misty highlands of prehistoric Europe, the great standing stones of the ancient world have captivated and confounded scholars...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFour masterworks of pulse-pounding suspense are gathered in this complete and unabridged omnibus edition from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the rolling hills and windswept moors of Britain lie secrets that have endured for millennia...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew thriller writers of the twentieth century commanded the page with the assured grip of Desmond Bagley, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the aftermath of unimaginable loss, one woman's journey toward healing becomes a testament...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the polished doors of Whitehall lies a battlefield of euphemism, evasion, and exquisite bureaucratic sabotage — and The Complete...

'Bridget Jones meets menopause...sharp, funny and real' Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief nap. Woke up an hour later, the witch trials book I'm reading stuck to...