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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155760
ISBN
9780691155760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.29
€ 44.51

Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: Michael Swan. 287 p. 23 cm. Original cloth. Good clean copy, spine sunned, ex-libris with plate and stamps." Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1957
Edition
1st
SKU
KEX0059379
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.99
€ 4.99

Hardcover. "96 p. 19 cm. Original cloth. Cloth soiled and faded, edges bumped, ex. library, tight binding with clean text." Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
1st
Publisher
Barker London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1952
SKU
KEX0023847
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW and pages edges showing light shelf wear, remains in good condition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st
Publisher
Barker London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1952
SKU
KSG0011218
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Features an introduction to Old English and a starting-point for the discussion of life and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. This book traces the history of early England from the migration of the Saxon war-lords, through Roman Britain, the onslaught of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest and on through the reign of Stephen. Editor(s): Swanton, Michael. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 36 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
36
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859893534
ISBN
9780859893534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.02

Paperback. This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be of use to both students and the general reader. Series: Manchester Medieval Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719051463
ISBN
9780719051463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.03

Paperback. Presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. This title gives an account of the Ruthwell Cross, the sources for which are scattered and not normally familiar to students of Old English. Editor(s): Swanton, M. J. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895033
ISBN
9780859895033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.06

Paperback. Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title describes mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking us on a journey to marvel at these mysterious regions in our midst. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539773
ISBN
9780099539773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Collects poems that engage in a search for meaning and order in the everyday and in the extraordinary - a locust officer tracking swarms in an African desert, a hobbyist building a replica of the world out of matchsticks, and a chance encounter with the French mystic Simone Weil playing video games in a Torquay arcade. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224090018
ISBN
9780224090018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Includes poems which takes into a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224085670
ISBN
9780224085670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.52

paperback. Like the medieval psalters echoed in its title, this collection of poems contains both the sacred and profane. It includes hymns of praise and lamentation, songs of wonder and despair, journeying effortlessly through physical and metaphysical landscapes, from financial markets and urban sprawl to deserts and dark nights of the soul. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear. Text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cape Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0030432
ISBN
9780224093590
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 14.00

Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.61

Hardback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776349
ISBN
9780804776349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.96

Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776356
ISBN
9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.80

Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325628
ISBN
9780822325628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 108 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293967
ISBN
9780226293967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.62

Hardcover. How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226294131
ISBN
9780226294131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.81
€ 77.43

Paperback. Argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226101699
ISBN
9780226101699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.28

Hardcover. First edition, nice copy, dustwrapper slightly worn
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hutchinson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1959
SKU
KTK0094360
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

Paperback. In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790046
ISBN
9780226790046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.43

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