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Edition: First Facsimile EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Slight tear to edge of DJ.First published in 1848 and now preserved in this facsimile...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the...

Moving from the Modern Classics into the successful Wells series in the Penguin Classics. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis collection presents the imaginative breadth of H.G. Wells, a master of speculative fiction. Within...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This novel is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time.

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth board in good condition, teal/green binding. Page Condition: Yellowed, some tanning; fep clipped. Markings: No markings noted. Binding: Intact, pages...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew writers have commanded the imagination quite like H. G. Wells, and The Short Stories of H. G. Wells presents the full, dazzling range...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few figures in modern literature cast as long a shadow as Herbert...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I...

Author: Patrick ParrinderBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsH.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage presents a comprehensive collection of critical responses to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis handsome omnibus collects four of H.G. Wells's most celebrated works of social fiction, showcasing his remarkable range as a...

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An Apothecary of Art is the beautiful debut collection from Ravenous Butterflies featuring 80 exquisite works of art from the likes of John William Waterhouse, Henri Rousseau and Rockwell Kent...

Author: Anthony WestBinding: PaperbackPublished: Meridian., 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: FEP is cut in corner, rubbed edges...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his...

Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with...

*Now with an exclusive extract of Elizabeth Chadwick's next novel, The Royal Rebel - only in the paperback!*Wales, 1093.The warm, comfortable family life of young Nesta, daughter of Prince Rhys...

A rich selection of poetry from the golden age of English poetry. The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in...

William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee...

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Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor physician's daughter cures the King of France, and in return is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in Victorian England burned with as fierce and multifaceted a brilliance as William Morris — poet, craftsman, socialist,...

Author: Christine WellsBinding: SoftbackPublished: William Morrow & Co, 2023, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn this dazzling novel, a young woman named Cleo Davenport seeks...

Author: William Shakespeare, Stanley W. WellsBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis anthology presents a comprehensive collection of William Shakespeare's works, edited by Stanley W....

Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed boards. "The Happy Turning" is a late philosophical...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of Edwardian fiction, Ann Veronica chronicles the bold rebellion of a young woman who defies her father's authority and...

Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry...

A compelling blend of philosophical discussion and imaginative narrative While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In...

In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper...

COMING TO BBC ONE IN AUTUMN 2019! 'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by...

Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring and important. 'From 1939 to 1941, with Europe at war and the United States...

Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Two scientists develop a foodstuff that causes unparalleled growth in animals and humans. The results of their experimentation lead to chaos...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of...

Until the middle of the 19th Century, control of the land was the key to power and wealth. This sometimes provocative book outlines the tax-gathering skills of the Anglo-Saxon Earldomen,...

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