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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Samuel Butler...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few Victorian writers provoked, amused, and unsettled their contemporaries quite like Samuel...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild foxing on cream cloth.This book is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, exploring themes of individuality and societal...

Author: Samuel ButlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSamuel Butler's The Way Of All Flesh presents a biting satirical novel that dissects Victorian society and its rigid conventions...

Author: Samuel ButlerBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsSamuel Butler's The Way Of All Flesh presents a biting satirical novel that dissects Victorian society and its...

A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published,...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA satirical Victorian novel, Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both By The Original Discoverer Of The Country And By His...

Author: HomerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 752 pagesPublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad and The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as...

'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...

* THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 * 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' - The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and...

* THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 * 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' - The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and...

She needs a home, he needs a bride ... neither wants to fall in love. 1402, the Anglo-Scottish border. To fulfil his father's dying wish, border laird Lachlan Elliot must...

'What I so like about Perfume River is its plainly-put elegance. Enough time has passed since Vietnam that its grave human lessons and heartbreaks can be-with a measure of genius-almost...

A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's extraordinarily prescient novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa. 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I...

Discover the revelatory royal autobiography of the year, with stories featuring Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and many more. From an early age, Grant Harrold was always obsessed with...

A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets have left as indelible a mark on...

The book titled The Black Angels by the author Rupert Butler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched veld to the thundering waters of the Zambesi, Guy Butler's South of the Zambesi: Poems from South Africa presents a powerful...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCaptain Nash And The Honour Of England plunges readers into the tumultuous world of Napoleonic naval warfare, chronicling...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew windows into the soul of a great artist are as intimate and illuminating as his private correspondence, and the...

"Salena Zito is the journalist who knows Trump-and his voters-better than anyone." - The Free Press From the acclaimed journalist standing only a few feet away from the stage when...

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Spanning centuries and continents, this timeless chronicle of Christian sainthood details the lives of martyrs and virgins, scholars and soldiers, bishops and priests, and Christians of all sorts. Regarded as...

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Author: J. Marjorie ButlerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Blue board in good condition. Faded DJ with wear. Yellowed endpapers. Time...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few figures in the English-speaking world cast as long a shadow as William...

John Butler Yeats was the father of the poet W.B. Yeats and the painter Jack Yeats. This selection of his letters covers the period 1898 to his death in 1922....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in the history of English-language poetry command the mystique and...

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first...

The book titled Selected Poems and Four Plays of William Butler Yeats by the author M.L. Rosenthal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Story of Danny Butler, a Catholic from Belfast, who unsuccessfully sought political asylum in New Zealand.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA swashbuckling work of historical adventure fiction, Captain Nash and the Honour of England chronicles the daring exploits of Captain...

"Salena Zito is the journalist who knows Trump-and his voters-better than anyone." - The Free Press From the acclaimed journalist standing only a few feet away from the stage when...

Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, mysterious and suffused with...

Author: Robert MelvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with light bumping on corners. All...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

In strange and uncertain times, where better to turn than Octavia E. Butler? Her honest, wise and hopeful words are for anyone who wants to shape our future into something...

Author: Richard ButlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, Sydney, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis sweeping historical fiction chronicles the tumultuous journey of the Macarthur family as they navigate the harsh...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the turn of the twentieth century, Dublin stood at the crossroads of...

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