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In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1036,MED4669,MED9154 Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970 'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical terms, so suitable for teh general readship, as well... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9205 Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964) First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series. Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his own. Contents - short fiction from -... 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In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1036,MED4669,MED9154 Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970 'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical terms, so suitable for teh general readship, as well... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9205 Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964) First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series. Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his own. Contents - short fiction from -... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7727 Charlotte H Fallon - Soul of Fire : A Biography of Mary MacSwiney - Mercier - Cork - 1986 Corkonian Mary MacSwiney was one of the central figures of teh Irish Revolutionary era and beyond - invloved in both Irish Nationalism ( and republicanism, and her role in keeping the memory of her brother Terence, who died on hunger strike . Her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9477 Brian Cleeve ( Editor) - Dictionary of Irish Writers -Book Two ( Non-Fiction Authors) Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A paperback first edition , 1969, Mercier Press, of Brian Cleeve's Dictionary of Irish Writers ( Volume 2 covering Irish non-fiction authors ( Volume One was fiction) ) - one of the first comprehensove books on the subject, aimed at a wide audience as a... 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In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1036,MED4669,MED9154 Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970 'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical terms, so suitable for teh general readship, as well... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9205 Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964) First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series. Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his own. Contents - short fiction from -... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7727 Charlotte H Fallon - Soul of Fire : A Biography of Mary MacSwiney - Mercier - Cork - 1986 Corkonian Mary MacSwiney was one of the central figures of teh Irish Revolutionary era and beyond - invloved in both Irish Nationalism ( and republicanism, and her role in keeping the memory of her brother Terence, who died on hunger strike . Her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9477 Brian Cleeve ( Editor) - Dictionary of Irish Writers -Book Two ( Non-Fiction Authors) Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A paperback first edition , 1969, Mercier Press, of Brian Cleeve's Dictionary of Irish Writers ( Volume 2 covering Irish non-fiction authors ( Volume One was fiction) ) - one of the first comprehensove books on the subject, aimed at a wide audience as a... 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In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1036,MED4669,MED9154 Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970 'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical terms, so suitable for teh general readship, as well... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9205 Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964) First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series. Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his own. Contents - short fiction from -... 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In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1036,MED4669,MED9154 Fergus J O'Rourke - The Fauna of Ireland : An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates - PB - 1970 'Describes all the amphibians, reptiles and land mammals known to occur in Ireland, as well as an overview of birds on the island. Well illustrated with b&w photographs with a minimum of technical terms, so suitable for teh general readship, as well... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9205 Robert Aickman (Editor) - The (1st ) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Vintage PB - 1972( Originally 1964) First published in 1964, this is a7th reprint -1972 , of the first book of the Fontana Ghost Stories Series. Selected and edited by Robert Aickman who also writes an introduction and one tale of his own. Contents - short fiction from -... 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It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... 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Quick view sku: MED9477 Brian Cleeve ( Editor) - Dictionary of Irish Writers -Book Two ( Non-Fiction Authors) Vintage Mercier PB 1967 A paperback first edition , 1969, Mercier Press, of Brian Cleeve's Dictionary of Irish Writers ( Volume 2 covering Irish non-fiction authors ( Volume One was fiction) ) - one of the first comprehensove books on the subject, aimed at a wide audience as a... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8093 Sean O'Casey - Three Plays : Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman ; The Plough and the Stars - Vintage Macmillan PB - 1961 Three early plays by Sean O'Casey- arguably his three greatest- demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... 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Quick view sku: MED1443 Peter L Berger - A Rumour of Angels : Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural - PB - Pelican - 1973 ( Originally 1969) A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural is a 1969 book about sociology by the sociologist Peter Berger. The book is one of Berger's most important works on the topic of the sociology of religion A Rumor of... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2454 Richard Jessup - The Cincinnati Kid - Vintage Pan PB 1965 ( Originally 1963 ) - Film Tie in The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark (“The Kid”) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3270 Stanley Ellin - Dreadful Summit - Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1964 ( Originally 1948) The protagonist of Summit is George LaMain, a New York teen brought up on Kipling, Haggard and Dumas whose traumatic journey into the adult world begins when his father is savagely beaten. George picks up a gun and decides that revenge for this... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8093 Sean O'Casey - Three Plays : Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman ; The Plough and the Stars - Vintage Macmillan PB - 1961 Three early plays by Sean O'Casey- arguably his three greatest- demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED818 H.J Eysenck - Uses and Abuses of Psychology - Vintage Pelican PB - 1967 ( Originally 1953) A vintage Pelican paperback edition, reprint 1970, originally published 1953, of Eysenck's Uses and Abuses of Psychology. Condition - some underlining internally, usual light page tanning, eternally front cover is very good, the spine shows a... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3270 Stanley Ellin - Dreadful Summit - Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1964 ( Originally 1948) The protagonist of Summit is George LaMain, a New York teen brought up on Kipling, Haggard and Dumas whose traumatic journey into the adult world begins when his father is savagely beaten. George picks up a gun and decides that revenge for this... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8093 Sean O'Casey - Three Plays : Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman ; The Plough and the Stars - Vintage Macmillan PB - 1961 Three early plays by Sean O'Casey- arguably his three greatest- demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8263 Erich Von Daniken - Chariots of the Gods? - Vintage Corgi PB -1973 This was the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. An immediate bestseller, Chariots of the Gods endures as 'proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9264 John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1967 A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a bad examination paper from a confused student - frequently hilarious, full of misspellings, the section obout Cromwell is... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9292 John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt the would-be emigrant out of any lingering... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED818 H.J Eysenck - Uses and Abuses of Psychology - Vintage Pelican PB - 1967 ( Originally 1953) A vintage Pelican paperback edition, reprint 1970, originally published 1953, of Eysenck's Uses and Abuses of Psychology. Condition - some underlining internally, usual light page tanning, eternally front cover is very good, the spine shows a... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3402 J.I.M Stewart - A Use of Riches - Vintage Penguin PB 1963 ( Originally 1957) Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, who treats problems of high finance and additions to his collection of paintings with equal seriousness. He is aware, however, that his wife’s first husband, who was killed in the war in Italy, was a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3270 Stanley Ellin - Dreadful Summit - Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1964 ( Originally 1948) The protagonist of Summit is George LaMain, a New York teen brought up on Kipling, Haggard and Dumas whose traumatic journey into the adult world begins when his father is savagely beaten. George picks up a gun and decides that revenge for this... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED8093 Sean O'Casey - Three Plays : Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman ; The Plough and the Stars - Vintage Macmillan PB - 1961 Three early plays by Sean O'Casey- arguably his three greatest- demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... 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It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... 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It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... 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Quick view sku: MED3402 J.I.M Stewart - A Use of Riches - Vintage Penguin PB 1963 ( Originally 1957) Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, who treats problems of high finance and additions to his collection of paintings with equal seriousness. He is aware, however, that his wife’s first husband, who was killed in the war in Italy, was a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3270 Stanley Ellin - Dreadful Summit - Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1964 ( Originally 1948) The protagonist of Summit is George LaMain, a New York teen brought up on Kipling, Haggard and Dumas whose traumatic journey into the adult world begins when his father is savagely beaten. George picks up a gun and decides that revenge for this... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9264 John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1967 A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a bad examination paper from a confused student - frequently hilarious, full of misspellings, the section obout Cromwell is... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9292 John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt the would-be emigrant out of any lingering... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9264 John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1967 A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a bad examination paper from a confused student - frequently hilarious, full of misspellings, the section obout Cromwell is... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9292 John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt the would-be emigrant out of any lingering... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: MED8595 Alexander Solzenhitsyn - Cancer Ward - Vintage Penguin PB - 1974 Reprint edition, Penguin UK, 1974, first UK edition was 1968, although written in Russian, it had not at that stage been published in Russia. Translated by Nicholas Bethell & Daniel Berg. Fade to the author's name to spine, usual light... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED7195 Jennifer Johnston - The Gates - Vintage PB - 1974 Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major's family were prosperous. Now the estate is slipping into peaceful decay... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED7446 Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front - Vintage PB 1976 ( Originally 1929) 1976 - a classic (arguably the classic) of WW1 fiction, first published in 1929. Page tanning, and previous owners name to the title page. One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: MED3830 John Cooney - The Crozier & the Dáil : Church and State in Ireland 1922-1986 - PB - 1986 John Cooney was religious affairs correspondent with the Irish Times from the 1970's - this is his concise study of the complex role the Church played in first actively influencing the new Irish state, and subsequently, as it's power waned, seeking... 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Quick view sku: MED8263 Erich Von Daniken - Chariots of the Gods? - Vintage Corgi PB -1973 This was the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. An immediate bestseller, Chariots of the Gods endures as 'proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9264 John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1967 A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a bad examination paper from a confused student - frequently hilarious, full of misspellings, the section obout Cromwell is... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9292 John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt the would-be emigrant out of any lingering... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2075,MED9475 John B Keane - The Gentle Art of Matchmaking - PB - Mercier 1st Ed 1973 A 1980 Mercier reprint, paperback edition of the 1973 collection of essays and short pieces by Keane, the Gentle art of Matchmaking ( and other important things) , published by Mercier Press, Cork. Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. Slight... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3850 Chaim Potok - In the Beginning - PB - Vintage Penguin - 1977 Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3732 Peter Dickinson - The Glass- Sided Ants' Nest ( a.k.a Skin Deep) - Vintage Crime PB -1981 A unique crime debut novel - original and very odd. Set in Notting Dale, West London; it sees the remnant of cult like “primitive” New Guinea tribe living in large Victorian house, and maintaining or adapting their tribal customs amid... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9264 John Feehan & Edward Delaney - The Comic History Of Ireland - Vintage Mercier PB Slight curl to front cover , published by Mercier Press. 1964, this reprint 1967 A 'history' of Ireland, written in the manner of a bad examination paper from a confused student - frequently hilarious, full of misspellings, the section obout Cromwell is... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9292 John B. Keane - Self Portrait - PB - Autobiography Mercier Press - 1976 ( Originally 1964) - Kerry In Self-Portrait Keane writes of his own experiences, addressing the reader in an intimate, confessional voice that often seethes with emotion, as in the following excerpt, in which he seeks to jolt the would-be emigrant out of any lingering... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: MED7256 J.P Donleavy - Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule - Vintage Penguin PB This is a vintage Penguin paperback, in this edition 1973, a short story collection , many originally published in the 1950's-1960's. Light edgewear only. In these short pieces J. P. Donleavy has given us lyrics to go with sad songs of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED2440,MED2464 J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966 A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers. A wily American driving his psychiatrist crazy in Vienna. Prey of a wealthy... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED8076 Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler, The Pillars of the Community, The Wild Duck - 3 plays - Vintage Penguin Classics - Drama - 1976 Reprint Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor, this edition 1976, first published iin this edition in 1950 under the title Three Plays. Black covers, cover art by Edvard Munch. There is heavy pencil underlining to the introduction by Ellis Fermor, and some... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view
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