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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...

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The authorized life of Ronald Reagan written by America's most innovative and Pulitzer Prize-winning political biographer. This unprecedented book breaks through all conventional definitions of biography. 'Poor dear. There's nothing...

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as...

One of the most significant examples of English writing on Utopia Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...

Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel....

Author: E.P. ThompsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Merlin Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageE.P. Thompson's seminal work, William Morris: Romantic To Revolutionary, chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingEdmund Wilson, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, steps beyond his celebrated role as critic and chronicler to present...

Author: Desmond MorrisFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 550g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark anthology in American literary culture,...

From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHeaven's Command: An Imperial Progress is a sweeping, magisterial chronicle of the British Empire at its zenith, tracing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt sixty, one of America's most formidable literary minds...

***A TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025*** 'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES , BOOKS OF THE...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary genius and political conscience stands Edmund Wilson, one of twentieth-century America's most formidable intellectual voices, and Letters on Literature...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Large chip at back of jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few American critics of the...

Desmond Morris has combined his deep understanding of human behaviour and his love of art to create a narrative of the evolution of artistic endeavour. The Artistic Ape features over...

From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew American literary figures possessed the intellectual range and unflinching honesty of Edmund Wilson, and The Fifties stands as a remarkable testament to both...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the turbulent literary decades between the two World...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of culture, politics, and literature, The Shores of Light stands as one of the most...

Author: Edmund HillaryBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling memoir chronicles the extraordinary life and expeditions of a legendary adventurer, presenting a philosophy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA titan of twentieth-century American letters, Edmund Wilson presents in The Shores of Light a brilliant and panoramic survey of the literary landscape that defined two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching...

Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...

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Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...

Author: Jan MorrisBinding: HardbackPublished: VIKING, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscription'Sydney presents a vivid and multifaceted portrait of one of the world's most iconic cities. Jan Morris,...

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Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens to a human animal when it is crammed into the dense, noisy, and artificial environment of a modern city? In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to touch and be touched — and why, in an increasingly disconnected world, are human beings starved of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to touch and be touched? In Intimate Behaviour, renowned zoologist and anthropologist Desmond Morris presents a fascinating scientific investigation into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: edges chipped and worn with some loss on rear panel....

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light chipping on jacket edges...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat if the beautiful game is less a sport and more a primal ritual, a theatre of tribal identity played out on grass? In The...

The book titled Pleasures of a Tangled Life by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Doors Unhinged , New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Damaged jacket in mylar sleeve. At the twilight of...