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A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...

Secondhand Arts, Culture & Historical Biography Bargain Book Box (15 Books) Spanning the creative spectrum from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the foundational poets of the nineteenth century, this...

Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 832 Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly — or as eccentrically — as Sir Cecil Beaton, the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark work of biographical non-fiction, Hugo Vickers' exhaustive and authoritative portrait chronicles the extraordinary life of Cecil...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: DJ - price clipped; Through the lens and pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew men straddled the worlds of science and power with such...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn Far East, the legendary British aesthete, photographer, and wartime chronicler Cecil Beaton turns his singular eye...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA wartime odyssey captured through the lens of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated visual artists, Near...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century culture possessed the singular eye and social access of Cecil Beaton — photographer to royalty, designer...

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Penguin Classics relaunch The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement...

Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...

Author: Revd Robert EastonBinding: HardbackPublished: PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some wear on back external cover; pages...

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Author: Cecil BeatonBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book, "Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton...

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The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...

Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of art and politics in twentieth-century Europe stands Romain Rolland — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, pacifist, and one of France's most...

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With a new introduction and concluding chapter from bestselling medieval author Dan Jones. Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the...

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Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian. Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of...

Author: Colin RoderickBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Australia., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor fading to DJ, Colin Roderick's Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career chronicles the fascinating life of...

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever sportspeople, Roger Federer is a global phenomenon. From his humble beginnings as a temperamental teenager to becoming symbol of enduring greatness, The...

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Author: Pierre Salinger, Edwin Guthman, Frank Mankiewicz And John SeigenthalerBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, An Honorable Profession: A Tribute...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives bridge two worlds as dramatically as that of Charles Henry Pearson — Oxford don, Victorian intellectual,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm and intact. Few Victorian intellectuals led lives as richly varied as Frederic Harrison —...

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'Beatrice Faust', said Helen Garner, 'is not scared of anybody.' Faust was the transformative feminist activist, writer and intellectual who founded the Women's Electoral Lobby in Melbourne in 1972. She...

Author: Felicity Owen & David Blayney BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: Paul Mellon Centre BA by Yale University Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a comprehensive account...

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Author: Mike ButcherBinding: PaperbackPublished: Holland House Publishing for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Bendigo and District Branch, 2000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the dramatic elopement, the passionate verse, and the towering reputation of Victorian poetry's most restless genius lies a far more complex human story...

Author: Peter GoodchildBinding: HardbackPublished: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'shatterer Of Worlds', chronicles the life and profound impact of...