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Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he...

This selection of letters by Edward Lear (1812-1888) is published on the centenary of his death. This collection, chosen from some 2,000 letters traced by the editor, covers the whole...

Author: Edward Lear Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and...

The book titled Edward Lear: A Biography by the author Peter Levi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian cultural life were as richly contradictory as Edward Lear — celebrated painter, tireless traveller, and the genius behind some of...

This is the first edition of Edward Lear's letters for nearly eighty years, and the first to draw on all his known correspondence, which is now scattered in private and...

First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy...

Author: Edward LearBinding: HardbackPublished: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick/tear on rear endpaper. The Complete Nonsense Book presents a...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few figures in the canon of English literature have delighted and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of Victorian comic verse, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense presents a riotous collection of limericks and illustrations that...

Author: Edward LearBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen Lane., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection of whimsical verse and playful prose, Bosh And Nonsense, presents the imaginative world...

Born in 1812, the twentieth child of a stockbroker, Edward Lear is known for his Nonsense rhymes, particularly the "Owl" and the "Pussycat". This biography offers an insight into the...

Only edition in print This volume, which collects the four books of "nonsense" published by Lear during his lifetime, contains all of his most celebrated verse and prose productions, from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gloriously unhinged mind of one of Britain's most beloved comic geniuses comes Silly Verse for Kids,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Laughter is the great equaliser, and The Fireside Book...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British royal history have captivated and confounded the public imagination quite like Edward VIII, the...

Edition: 2nd ed., 5th repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous life and brief reign of a monarch whose...

The Secret of Spandau by Peter Lear The narrative follows the high-stakes intrigue surrounding Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner held within the walls of Spandau Prison. When a daring plan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of natural history illustration command the reverence afforded to John Gould, the nineteenth-century...

Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "King Lear" with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have matched the shattering emotional power of The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare's towering masterpiece of pride, betrayal, and...

Author: Matthew HollisFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 233mm, 215g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his...

Author: Sue EburyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWeary: The Life Of Sir Edward Dunlop presents a compelling biographical account...

Author: L. E. JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN & CO LTD; ST MARTIN'S PRESS, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAn Edwardian Youth chronicles the formative years of an...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pages & binding clean. A charming work of autobiographical memoir, An Edwardian Youth chronicles...

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November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired...

'I really did have an empire, you know,? said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me? ? Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful...

A dazzling study of four figures who flourished in - and defined - the early years of the twentieth century. In his account of four characters, each of whose importance...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase - good. This three-volume "In Search Of" series presents biographical portraits of three towering Australian figures: Manning...

Freud is discredited, so we do not have to think about the darker strains of unconcious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to...

Author: George HutchinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Quartet Books., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor sun fading to spine, foxing on page edges.This biographical work...

Author: Andrew Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Foolish and bad-tempered, King Lear divides the kingdom between his two wicked daughters, disowns his honest youngest daughter and banishes his...

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Author: Frank BarlowBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket price clippedFrank Barlow's authoritative biography, The Life Of King Edward The Confessor, chronicles the...

A delightful Australian classic written by Sheena Knowles and illustrated by Rod Clement. Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change....

Author: L.E. JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsL. E. Jones’ four-volume autobiographical series—A Victorian Boyhood (1956, Reprint), An Edwardian Youth...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor staining to DJ.-