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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - HB UK 1st Edition - 1957 Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of artistic and intellectual Parisians whose individual... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. 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We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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A.E Popham was curator at the British Museum, this book contains large (black and white) photo reproductions of da Vinci sketches and notebooks, as well as detailed introduction. Lacks... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Raymond Keene - Aron Nimzowitsch 1886-1935 : A Reappraisal - HB - Chess Hardcover, published by G Bell and Sons , 1974. 071351793X. Nimzowitsch was a hugley influential grandmaster , chess thinker and author. Includes full beakdown of a number of his notable games , and opening theory . MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - HB UK 1st Edition - 1957 Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of artistic and intellectual Parisians whose individual... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... MSRP: Now: €30.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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Quick view Fiction in Translation Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - HB UK 1st Edition - 1957 Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of artistic and intellectual Parisians whose individual... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... 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Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wolfe Tone - The Autobiography of Theobold Wolfe Tone Volume II 1796-1798 ( Edited by R.Barry O'Brien) - HB Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Alcoholics Anonymous - HB 3rd Edition 1958 - Addiction 12 steps - Classic One of the most inflential books of the 20th century ( yes, seriously, given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' as its also known, third UK printing 'new and revised' ( from 1958), based on the US... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto - HB SLIPCASED 1976 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is... 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Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork Corporation - Cork : City by the Lee - HB Photography 1983 Co-published by Cork Corporation and Mercier Press, 1983. Photography is primarily in colour and by Richard Haughton, with introductions by Niall Toibín and Seán ó Tuama. Photography is parimnarily of Cork City, but with... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. 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Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cork Corporation - Cork : City by the Lee - HB Photography 1983 Co-published by Cork Corporation and Mercier Press, 1983. Photography is primarily in colour and by Richard Haughton, with introductions by Niall Toibín and Seán ó Tuama. Photography is parimnarily of Cork City, but with... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Federico García Lorca - Three Tragedies : Yerma | Blood Wedding | The House of Bernard Alba - HB Slipcased 1977 Translated from the original Spanish by Sue Bradbury, linocut illustrations by Peter Pendrey. Published in this edition by Folio Society 1977. ' MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions William Gaddis - JR - Hardcover UK 1st Edition 1976 The uncommon UK first edition hardcover of JR by William Gaddis, published by Jonathan Cape UK , 1976 (simultaneously with the trade paperback edition) Condition - a solid copy in good condition , no spine lean, internally unmarked, the original... MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view AA Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' HB 1970 3rd Edition - 12 Step Programme, Addiction, Alcohol , One of the most influential books of the 20th century (given the impact it had and the amount of editions produced) This is the 'Big Book' or 'Big Blue Book' as its also known, UK third printing 1970, based on the second US revised edition... 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Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... 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Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Brinsley Macnamara - Michael Caravan - HB 1st Edition 1946 Colour bleed from the cloth covers underneath into the front cover of the dustkjacket. Published by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1946. Small format hardcover. Period gift inscription on inside fronmt endpage. MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Kate O'Brien - Presentation Parlour - HB - 1963 With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five... 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Quick view Books about Books | sku: 73169K Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73167K Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts? Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73166K Christopher Somerville / The Road to Roaringwater: A Walk Down the West of Ireland In the spring of 1991, Christopher Somerville set out to walk the 700 miles from Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland, to Cape Clear Island in Roaringwater Bay, the southermost - through some of the loneliest, wildest and most beautiful... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73165K Elizabeth Knowles / The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations brings together quotations crucial to a picture of the twentieth century, offering the reader an overview of the social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of succeeding decades. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73162K Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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