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Paperback. In 1970s Ireland the British establishment conducted its struggle with the IRA in the "dirty war". This novel, set around the real-life figure of Captain Nairac, recreates the intrigue, loyalism and violence of a time when friend could turn foe overnight and nothing was ever quite as it seemed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 195.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571221752
ISBN
9780571221752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

hardcover. The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The Ulysses Trials chronicles the progress of the trials and adds not only to the understanding of Joyce but also to the history of the laws of obscenity, censorship and freedom of speech. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Signed and inscribed to Ivor. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031535
ISBN
9781843516682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846973505
ISBN
9781846973505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.46

Paperback. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845231682
ISBN
9781845231682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.48

hardcover. Documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire, and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0030397
ISBN
9780571333844
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

Paperback. Irish writers who were considered Irish by the English, and English by the Irish are discussed here - including Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sheridan le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen and James Joyce. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530 Paperback, white spine. Keywords: 20th Century Ireland. 280pp
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KON0819945
ISBN
9781900621076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 28.00
€ 22.00

Hardcover. In publisher richly decorated cloth. Spine in gilt. Covers are like new. ffep has a very small tear. With slipcase which has some light shelfwear. Illustrated with frontispeice
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Folio Society
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1978
Edition
FOLIO FIRST EDN.
SKU
KST0020343
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

Paperback. Features Leonardo da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. This book explores his sexuality - 'why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way he did?' and 'What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Translator(s): McLintock, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AGB; BGH; DNF; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182377
ISBN
9780141182377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 colour illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HRQX; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055614
ISBN
9780719055614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Grenville, Bruce. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20col.ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551521169
ISBN
9781551521169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890650063
ISBN
9781890650063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.65

Hardback. In this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take him to the workhouse, the theatre, and further afield to the Liverpool docks and the Paris morgue. Combining autobiography with reportage, the book showcases Dickens's characteristic wit, humour, and social concerns. Editor(s): Tyler, Daniel. Num Pages: 440 pages, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 204 x 31. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199686650
ISBN
9780199686650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.62

Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415192095
ISBN
9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. Dimension: 218 x 150. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Publisher
WW Norton
Edition
1. Ausgabe.
SKU
V9780393293050
ISBN
9780393293050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.69

Paperback. W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 406 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Zisselsberger, Markus. The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 560.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
404
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135667
ISBN
9781571135667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.08

Hardback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136389
ISBN
9780231136389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.68
€ 79.32

Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674492004
ISBN
9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.97

Hardcover. The Undressed is a poetry collection inspired by a cache of antique nude photographs of women. King studied the photographs ranging from the 1840s to the 1930s and attempted to return voices to these mostly anonymous women lost to history. Num Pages: 100 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909844803
ISBN
9781909844803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.36

Hardcover. The author's essays in this book describe elements of the natural world: wind, water, ice, fire, and trees. The "unequal hours" are of the changing seasons. Other essays explore a nature reserve, a garden, backyard wildlife, and a hot air balloon ride. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820320403
ISBN
9780820320403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.47

Paperback.
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780573014673
ISBN
9780573014673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.71

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