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London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. First edition. Very Good +/very good +. This engrossing anthology is the first together spectres from Gilgamesh to Ghostbusters, from all five continents, in drama, poetry, memoirs, and folk tales as well as the time-honoured ghost story. The expected names are here - Shakespeare, Dickens, Hardy or M.R. James - but ghosts stream through world literature from the Bible to the ballad, from prehistoric to post-modern, haunting writers as diverse as Home and Angel Carter, Rabelais and Seamus Heaney, Kipling and Goethe, Derek Walcott and Will Self. Allmanner of ghoses - gruesome, frisky, shadty and glum - stalk these pages; the loving and vengeful voices of the dead, clamouring for the attention of the quick. This book is supremely entertaining, but it is also surprisingly moving, showing how people have always summoned the ghosts and why, perhaps, they always will. blue boards with writing to spine. minor shelf wear. dj not price clipped, some bumping and rubbing. heavy…
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The Chatto Book of Ghosts
by Uglow, Jenny
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No Kiss For Mother
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London: Methuen, 1974. First UK edition. Hardback. Very good. A childrens story about a family of cats. Slim hardback with blackboards and writing to spine and front cover. Many illustrations in black and white throughout.Minor bumping to the corners, and back cover a bit rubbed.Clean pages and tight binding. First uk edition First UK Edition AB79
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PRINTING TYPES THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE (VOLUMES I AND II): A Study in Survivials
by Updike, Daniel Berkeley
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Toronto: General Publishing Co. Ltd, 1980. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Unabridged republication of the Second (1937) Edition. Based on lectures delivered as part of a course on the Technique of Printing in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University between 1991 and 1916 and recast by the author into a form suitable for publication. In two volumes with illustrations. Beginning with the invention of printing, Volume I considers how type was made, the sizes of types, the systems which have been devised for their measurement, the Latin Alphabet and types from Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium Spain and England; the Aldine Italic; and German, Italian and French types from 1500 to 1800. Volume II continues where the first volume leaves off, discussing the types from 1500-1800 in the Netherlands, Spain and England; analyzes types in the American Colonies, nineteenth century classical types, English types from 1800-1844, and the English andAmerican revival of…
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30 Healthy things to cook and eat
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London: Usborne, 2007. Very Good. 30 recipe cards, in a box. Very minor bumping to the corners of the box AB22
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Lady Butler: Battle Artist 1846-1933
by Usherwood, Paul & Spencer-Smith, Jenny
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Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Published for the exhibition Lady Butler - Battle Artist (1846-1933) held at the National Army Museum, London, 14 May-26 September 1987, the Durham Light Infantry Museum & Arts Centre, 10 October-8 November 1987, and Leeds City Art Gallery, 25 November 1987-14 February 1988. This book records the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Brtain's foremost battle painter of the 19th century, the first devoted entirely to Lady Butler's paintings since her death in 1933. Dr Germaine Greer has written of Elizabeth Butler, 'Many modern painters would envy her success; she is perhaps the last European painter to capture the imagination of the masses'. Lady Butler was not only extremely unusual in being a woman artist working in the highly masculine field of military art but she was also an innovator, particualrly in her sensitive and humae depiction of the ordinary soldier. large paperback. some shelfwear and…
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Monsieur Rene
by Ustinov, Peter
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Pocket Books, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A novel about a sharpwitted man discovering a new lease of life in his twilight years. Combining a compelling story with a moving evocation of falling in love in later life This is wickedly funny and acutely perceptive. Spine worn and slight tear at the bottom some bumping, nice tight copy. AB9
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The Loser
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London: william heinemann, 1960. Very Good/very good. the loser moves across the map of europe and embraces a cosmopolitan cast.its main setting is war ut its deep concern is peace.exravagantly funny and grimly seriuos. Blue boards with writing to spine.tight binding and clean pages. dj some minor shelf wear and fading.not price clipped. First Edition AB73
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The Squirrel, The Hare and The Little Grey Rabbit
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London: William Heinemann, 1992. Fine/fine. Lovely childrens story. Blue glossy boards with colour illustration. Dj same picture. Minor shelfwear. Beautifully illustrated. A really lovely little book.Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB29
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Moldy Warp The Mole: The Tales of little Grey Rabbit
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UK : Collins, 2000. First edition. Very Good/good. Moldy Warp finds a tiny square stone painted with a golden eye, and realises that it must be part of a bigger stone picture, from a long ime ago. Moldy Warp loves nothing better than finding things. All his friends agree to join him on the treasure hunt, He is about to find something quite wonderful, and more than he expected. Clean,slight curling to top dj, 2 cm tear to top edge corner dj First Edition AB18
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The story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog
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London: William Heinemann, 1992. Fine/fine. A woodland tale of little grey rabbit and her friends. Purple glossy boards with colour illustration. Dj same picture. Minor shelf wear. Beautifully illustrated.Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB29
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How little Grey Rabbit got back her Tail
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London: William Heinemann, 1992. Fine/fine. The first in yhe series of little grey rabbits adventures with her woodland friends. Pink glossy boards with illustration in colour. Dj same picture. Minor shelf wear, slight creasing to bottom front cover. Lovely little book. Tight binding and very clean pages. First Edition AB29
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The Adventure of Hare
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London: William Heinemann, 1992. Fine/fine. Classic childrens story. Green glossy boards with colouer illustartion. Dj same picture. Minor shelf wear. Lovely little book.Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB29
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