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Paperback. "Women Beware Women" is a major tragedy of the period, anatomising lust, hypocrisy and moral blindness. It is a play of people corrupted by greed for sex, wealth and position. Editor(s): Counsell, Colin. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 108 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854597380
- ISBN
- 9781854597380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.30
€ 8.30
Paperback. An anthology of four Thomas Middleton plays in the New Mermaid Series, brought together with an introduction and commentary notes by William Carroll, which explores the plays' context, culture, politics and themes. Editor(s): Carroll, William C. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 41. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408156582
- ISBN
- 9781408156582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.68
€ 19.68
Paperback. Preposterous - and lewd - Jacobean "city comedy." Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 163 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854599667
- ISBN
- 9781854599667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.27
€ 7.27
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with nicks and tears but remains intact
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0009416
- ISBN
- 9780333118344
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. 246pp. Dust jacket is slightly discoloured. Keywords: International Literature, Fiction
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- SKU
- KON0827467
- ISBN
- 9780333118344
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615394
- ISBN
- 9780691615394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.90€ 59.92
€ 76.90
€ 59.92
paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0021887
- ISBN
- 9781853711251
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Written in the wake of Ireland's 2008 economic collapse, Thomas McCarthy's Pandemonium moves between lament and protest in search of a meaningful response in language. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 2. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784102968
- ISBN
- 9781784102968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.17
€ 14.99
€ 12.17
Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749386429
- ISBN
- 9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Slight Gap In Binding Pp 268-269, Otherwise Good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cardinal Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1954
- SKU
- KDK0013789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151961
- ISBN
- 9781857151961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
€ 26.99
€ 18.93
Paperback. Used Copies, Very Good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1963
- SKU
- KDK0013796
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A title, in which, the author predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, wherein humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. Editor(s): Mayhew, Professor Robert. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392820
- ISBN
- 9780141392820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Presents the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his forbidden love for the beautiful Queen Guenever. This book weaves a story of adultery, treachery and ultimately - in its tragic finale - death. Editor(s): Cowen, Janet. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 122 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140430448
- ISBN
- 9780140430448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. Presents an evocative version of the Arthurian legend. This book describes Arthur's ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table. Editor(s): Cowen, Janet. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140430431
- ISBN
- 9780140430431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardback. No date given. Very fine and handsome copy professionally rebound in quarter calf over modern marbled boards, gilted raised bands, attractive bright gilt tooling on the spine, top page edges gilted, gilted leather title labels, new end papers for tight and firm binding. Keywords: Ireland - Poetry and prose
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The Talbot Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0039631
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 340.00
€ 340.00
Hardcover. 86pp. Gilt top. Bumped, some shading, otherwise good. One of a limited edition of 500. Keywords; Poetry; Irish
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Irish Review
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1913
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS1003618
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 595.00
€ 595.00
paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1111.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Foul Play Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780393319736
- ISBN
- 9780393319736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 8.29
€ 16.99
€ 8.29
paperback. The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 122. From the library of Ivor Browne and Jane Levine. Signed by author with gift inscription. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025645
- ISBN
- 9780224039734
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardcover. A collection of essays that examine the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts. They explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be in a world that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003870
- ISBN
- 9780099273233
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of poems, in which, the author attends to the flora and fauna and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224090063
- ISBN
- 9780224090063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.62
€ 16.99
€ 12.62
Paperback. By the award-winning author of "The Undertaking", this second collection of Lynch's essays examines the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts, a relationship on which he has a unique perspective, being both a poet and a funeral director. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 119. Weight in Grams: 319. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KHS0037843
- ISBN
- 9780224059046
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 31.99€ 27.51
€ 31.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also a funeral director in a small Michigan town, and this is his testimony. It comprises 12 essays - each a lesson taught to the living by the dead. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099767312
- ISBN
- 9780099767312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.75
€ 20.99
€ 16.75
Paperback. First UK Selected Poems by one of America's leading poets, known for his highly entertaining and provocative poetry. Launched with a UK reading tour. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780371153
- ISBN
- 9781780371153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.16
€ 16.99
€ 13.16