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Paperback. Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in history. Representing the work of more than 190 poets, he offers a comprehensive history of love poetry through the ages. Editor(s): Stallworthy, Jon. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195042320
ISBN
9780195042320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.56

Paperback. It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042190
ISBN
9780141042190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The Roman dramatist Terence (c 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. This title includes his romantic play, "The Girl from Andros" that portrays a love affair saved by a startling discovery. Translator(s): Radice, Late Betty. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Rev Rep
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443240
ISBN
9780140443240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. "Daphnis and Chloe" has been a European bestseller for centuries and vastly influential in literature, art and music. It has proved an enduringly fertile source for artists from Henry Fielding to Corot and Ravel and is recognizably the masterpiece among early Greek novels. Translator(s): Turner, Paul. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780140440591
ISBN
9780140440591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099751816
ISBN
9780099751816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.82

Paperback. Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780099425151
ISBN
9780099425151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007415588
ISBN
9780007415588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. Some shelf wear but remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTK0095954
ISBN
9780586087862
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ0008772
ISBN
9780905140780
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing some shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hutchinson
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0015579
ISBN
9780091795153
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. In good condition. A well read copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Tivoli
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRS0010847
ISBN
9780717137503
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. " The best publisher alive or dead".... C P Snow.Good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.First edition.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1950
Publisher
Gollancz
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First British Edition
SKU
KEX0304100
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

paperback. Explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain. The author, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92. Good copy signed by the author
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303733
ISBN
9780571231225
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 196. Good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303706
ISBN
9781843911487
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both 24, he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly 2000 letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship. Editor(s): Thwaite, Anthony. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 43. Weight in Grams: 770. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper. First edition
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
496
SKU
KEX0303689
ISBN
9780571239092
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Paperback. Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. This poetic sequence illuminates a period in British colonial history. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102. Very good copy .Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEX0303664
ISBN
9780224084444
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 8.00

Paperback. Anthony Hecht has long been regarded as one of the great modern American poets. Divided into two parts, the first section of this work contains poems on the subject of death, accompanied by illustrations by Leonard Baskin, and the second part contains all Hecht's other poems since 1990. Illustrator(s): Baskin, Leonard. Series: Oxford Poets S. Num Pages: 88 pages, 22 woodcuts. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 146. Weight in Grams: 174. Very good copy .Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
OxfordPoets
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303646
ISBN
9780192880321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. Poems consider the past, travel, reading, criticism, warfare, memories, natur aging, childhood, and language. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 120. . Very good copy with some neat newsclippings about the author.Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303584
ISBN
9780571135462
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. A collection of poems. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 134. Very good copy with some neat newsclippings about the author.Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303579
ISBN
9780571244089
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Hardback. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.First edition
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main Market
SKU
KEX0303503
ISBN
9781447207573
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

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