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Careers for Men and Women Series : No. 26 Journalism & Publishing

By: Anon

Price: £10.50

Publisher: London, HMSO: 1945

Seller ID: 016560

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Very Good

Compiled by the Appointments Department and issued by The Ministry of Labour and National Service. 8 page stapled pamphlet with full index inside covers.
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Selected Modern English Essays

By: Anon

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1940

Seller ID: 018306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean, bright copy in buckram covers - 435 pages plus an index of other books in the 'World's Classic' series. Previous owner's details to ffep.
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An Open Letter to English Gentlemen

By: Anon

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, Williams & Norgate: 1910

Seller ID: 024595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A very good clean copy bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 47 pages. Agenda club bookplate (no writing within it) on front pastedown. One very small mark to front cover. A most attractive copy.
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On - Some Irresponsible Jottings - Scientific and Otherwise

By: Anon

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, A.E.I. News: 1944

Seller ID: 026367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"A collection of twenty nine short articles which were written monthly to amuse and interest the family of workers who read the A.E.I news. " Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. 164 pages. Spine strip has faded and there is a small stain to top of spine strip where it meets rear board. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper. Text block very clean. Binding square and tight.
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Triquarterly : An International Journal of Writing, Art, and Cultural Inquiry

By: Anon

Price: £12.50

Publisher: TriQuarterly,U.S.: 2004

Seller ID: 026475

ISBN: 0810159155

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: As New

TriQuarterly 118 features poetry by Lloyd Schwartz, D. Nurske, Kimiko Hahn, David Hernandez, and Geri Doran; stories by David H. Lynn, Richard Burgin, and Carolyn Alessio; a dramatic adaptation of "Crime and Punishment" by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, and much more. Still in shrink wrap. Next post dispatch from the UK.
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From a Collector : A Selection of Articles from the Saturday Column in The Times.

By: Anon

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1965

Seller ID: 028742

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Covers a wide range of objects aimed at inspiring the reader to fresh hunts of the shops and arcades. Internally clean and bright in a d/w which shows wear & tear and minor loss. 125 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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England's Essayists : Their life-Work, Toils and Triumphs, and Their Legacy to the World

By: Anton, Rev. Peter

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co: 1900

Seller ID: 042495

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No date - circa late 1890s. Looks at the lives of Addison, Bacon, De Quincy and Lamb. Good, clean copy with some spotting to page edges - 252 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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Poems of Matthew Arnold

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Nimmo Hay & Mitchell:

Seller ID: 043462

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Part of the Miniature Series. Bound in soft green suede over card. Undated. 116 pages. All edges gilt. A very good clean copy.
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Today and Tomorrow And.....

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Abelard-Schuman: 1974

Seller ID: 035733

ISBN: 0200722069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The result of thirty-two science essays written for a variety of publications over a six year period and all updated. Interesting to look back, thirty-five years on, to the major challenges envisaged on how to deal with developments in outer space as well as on earth. Clean, square copy in an unclipped d/w showing light shelfwear. Date to ffep. 321 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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Lay Sermons

By: Asquith, Margot

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth: 1927

Seller ID: 054181

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Reading Copy

A selection of writings on various subjects including: Carelessness, Health, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature etc. Sunned to spine strip and covers and previous owner's name on front endpaper. Text block clean. Binding tight. A good clean reading copy. 253 pages.
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Home and Away: A Miscellany

By: Attenborough, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Chislehurst, Kent, Author: 1988

Seller ID: 053853

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small collection of articles in two parts, firstly written for a parish magazine which has served a growing congregation in Chislehurst of the period of twelve years - 1975-1987, with the second reflecting some of the activities the author has been involved in during the course of his working life. Clean bright copy with some odd faint fold marks to prelims - 134 pages. Next post dispatch.
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Golden Sections

By: Ayrton, Michael

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1957

Seller ID: 065580

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A book of essays which record the impact upon the author of some splendours of the arts, some joys in things seen and friends known and some evaluation of the wonder and excitement of experiences gained from painting, sculpture, music, literature, travel and people. With an introduction by Wyndham Lewis. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w showing some shelfwear & tear and small loss to top of spine. Enclosed, laid in, are a couple of newspaper cuttings from The Times and a folded, single card guide for the exhibition held at the Christopher Hull Gallery together with a card for the pr...
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A Dear and Noble Boy : The Life and Letters of Louis Stokes 1897-1916

By: Barlow, R.A & Bowen, H.V (editors)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1995

Seller ID: 036842

ISBN: 0850524253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unique and penetrating insight of one person's transition from the cloistered portals of Rugby to the horrors of trench warfare on the Western Front. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w - 190 including index. Prompt dispatch.
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Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer : Jean-Baptiste Barres, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard

By: Barres, Maurice ( Edited and Introduced By )

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Frontline Books: 2017

Seller ID: 069293

ISBN: 1473882931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Part of the Frontline Napoleonic Library Series serving as an unparalleled collection of classic works on the Napoleonic Wars. Bright, square copy in an unclipped d/w - 219 pages including index. Appears unread. Prompt dispatch. 069293.
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Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

By: Barry, Iris

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1928

Seller ID: 065896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Looks at the life and times of the English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Good, clean copy - 294 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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And Even Now

By: Beerbohm, Max

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1920

Seller ID: 065471

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The author offers some of the essays he has written over the course of the previous ten years. Good, clean copy with previous owner's name/date to darkened endpapers. Sunning to spine. Fore and lower page edges remain untrimmed (a few uncut) - 320pp. Prompt dispatch.
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A Conversation with an Angel and Other Essays

By: Belloc, Hilaire

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1929

Seller ID: 036887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good +

Internally clean copy with some shelfwear to covers and sunning to spine. 285 pages. Next post dispatch.
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Writing Home (SIGNED COPY)

By: Bennett, Alan

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1994

Seller ID: 065861

ISBN: 0571173888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brings together the Diaries for 1980-1990 for the first time unveiling many surprises including his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service. Light tanning to page margins and previous owner's sticker to the ffep else a clean, square hardback which is SIGNED by the author to the title page. Light rubbing to the unclipped d/w - 417 pages including index. Prompt dispatch.
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Untold Stories

By: Bennett, Alan

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 2005

Seller ID: 065862

ISBN: 0571228305

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sequel to Bennett's classic Writing Home which contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds. Large volume hardback in an unclipped d/w showing light wear to corners. SIGNED by the author to the title page - 658 pages including index. Prompt dispatch.
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Arnold Bennett in Love: Arnold Bennett and his wife Marguerite Soulié: a Correspondence

By: Bennett, Arnold

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, David Bruce and Watson Ltd: 1972

Seller ID: 066126

ISBN: 0851270085

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Letters between Bennett and his wife. Very good clean hardback in price-clipped jacket which has faded spine. Gift inscription to front endpaper. 185 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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