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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 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: 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: 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: 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...

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: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have burned as brightly — or as dangerously — as George Gordon, Lord Byron, the Romantic poet whose genius was matched...

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 —...

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...

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...

Spanning three generations, Love in One Edition is a grand, lyrical story of passion and betrayal. When Jasmine joins the staff of the Monument Gazette, she finds herself falling in...

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...

Quinlan's critically acclaimed novel Smoked was an explosive debut, but his follow-up is a roller coaster ride of a novel that twists and turns toward a stunning showdown readers won't...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsAt the age of thirty-three, a young man stepped into the empty editorial chair of the New Statesman...

Penguin Classics relaunch. \"Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!\" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor bumps to spine. Yellowed cover.At the crossroads of philosophy, history, and political theory stands one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Stain on top of block that does not bleed into pagesThis compelling autobiography chronicles the professional...

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

Author: Jolyon ConnellBinding: HardbackPublisher: Self Published , 2007Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling collection, Short And To The Point: A Selection Of The Editor's Letters...

Peter Campbell was the resident designer and art critic for the London Review of Books. He worked for the magazine from its first appearance in 1979 and wrote more than...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A landmark work in British political autobiography, Editor chronicles the remarkable career...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Two Small stains on block side. some foxing on block...

Author: Frank Holland, M.B.E., Peter Stone (ed)Binding: HardbackPublished: Oceans EnterprisesCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Dust jacket has light tanning along spine and one spot of tearing front...

Sir Alec Guinness was one the greatest actors of the twentieth century. With a talent recognised by discerning critics from his very first appearance on the stage he gained a...

An absolute original' - MICK HERRON 'Hallett at her very best' - ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Witty, creepy and oh-so-clever' - TOM HINDLE Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now... The...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. Few American writers have wielded a...

The talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe among numerous others. But the man himself remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served...

Author: Wendy WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 230g, 256 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Absolutely splendid storytelling, a book to entertain, to immerse, and to challenge' AJ FINN'Wendy Walker...

Author: EditorBinding: PaperbackPublished: P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive volume chronicles the evolution and...

Author: Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Arthur Adams, Gary Erskine, Dustin Nguyen, Trevor Scott, Richard Friend, Laura MartinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Wildstorm, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing and tanning on block, wear and tear of jacket localised to...

The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the author's life can tell us nothing about his or...

"Nothing special" is the best way to describe Owen Reeder--at least that's what he's been told all his life. When a stranger visits his father's bookstore, Owen's ordinary life spirals...