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Paperback. The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. Series: The History of Middle-Earth. Num Pages: 400 pages, Index. BIC Classification: DCF; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780261102262
ISBN
9780261102262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631172857
ISBN
9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. .
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910996089
ISBN
9781910996089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. Series: Understanding Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848858909
ISBN
9781848858909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Hardcover. "Bound in maroon cloth; stamped in gold; top edges stained maroon. Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N.Y. The Erich T. Griebling Drama Collection. Commissioning organisation: edited by Christopher St. John [pseud.]. 3 p.B., v-xxx p., 1B., 3-334 p., 1B. 23.5 cm. Associated Names: Shaw, Bernard,. Associated Names: Marshall, Christabel,. Associated Dates: 1856-1950. Original cloth. Good clean copy, rubbed and fraying at spine ends, worn at edges." Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons New York
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1932
SKU
KEX0059175
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Shoestring Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904886297
ISBN
9781904886297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198127673
ISBN
9780198127673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 412.69

Paperback. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs and biographies, as well as the journalistic tradition of sketch-writing, this text covers all aspects of parliamentary life, from the landmark events of Britain's history to the eating and drinking habits of MPs. Editor(s): Silvester, Christopher. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DQ; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 864. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0006027
ISBN
9780712666435
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A programme text of Shinn's new play examining freedom of speech and set on U.S. presidential election night in the leading candidate's family. The play opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 3 September 2008. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 4. Weight in Grams: 60. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRA0010585
ISBN
9781408112687
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. A first volume of four plays from the Amercian playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006. The volume contains Other People, Where Do We Live, The Coming World and Dying City. Series: Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713683271
ISBN
9780713683271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.80

Paperback. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425293
ISBN
9781848425293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. An English-language introduction to the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. Editor(s): Wood, Christopher S. Num Pages: 488 pages, 58 illus. BIC Classification: ACX; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951153
ISBN
9781890951153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.86

Hardcover. This book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wumingshi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, and popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (Xinganjue Pai). Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748696369
ISBN
9780748696369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.72

hardcover. Signed and inscribed to Édith Fournier, Beckett's translator, by Eoin O'Brien, friend of Beckett. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Clarendon Press Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0029655
ISBN
9780198123583
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Paperback. Looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300171464
ISBN
9780300171464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.80

Paperback. This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245.
Publisher
Faber Faber Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571170357
ISBN
9780571170357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.53

Hardcover. Christopher Ricks's 'Oxford Book of English Verse' -- third in succession, after Arthur Quiller-Couch's original volume (1900) and Helen Gardner's new selection (1972) -- is a treasury from more than seven centuries of the poet's art. Poems that are also translations are included. Editor(s): Ricks, Christopher. Num Pages: 752 pages, index. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
742
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192141828
ISBN
9780192141828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.80

hardcover. Clustering around the letter 'C', this title features seventy poems that celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It includes tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571321452
ISBN
9780571321452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. "For and After" is Christopher Reid's seventh collection of poems. In a series of dedications and translations or "versions", Reid offers poems "for" friends and loved ones, as well as works "after" such influences as Homer, Aesop, Mallarme, Rimbaud and Baudelaire. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 196 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104. 8vo.Original printed wrappers.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0307296
ISBN
9780571218073
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

Hardback. Opens with a coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies..') in California. In this title, his strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him. Num Pages: 128 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
KSK0000320
ISBN
9780571281282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 9.92

Paperback. Offers a collection of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies..') in California. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571281299
ISBN
9780571281299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 72.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571210138
ISBN
9780571210138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Hardback. Follows the exploits of a group of hapless bards, more intimately connected than they themselves can possibly know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 255.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571304035
ISBN
9780571304035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Paperback. Clustering around the letter 'C', this volume includes a collection of seventy-some poems that celebrates a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It also features tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322961
ISBN
9780571322961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

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