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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... 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Quick view Details Joyce Cary - Spring Song : Vintage Penguin Short Stories - Paperback 1963 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... 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Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. 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In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED4516 H.G Wells - The History of Mr Polly / Kipps ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 2 Book Lot Kipps - 1946, originally 1905, Penguin Number 335 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED2868 Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 ) The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and writer, and the unfaithful Anna, actress of cinema and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Snow, C. P. - The Masters ( Vintage Penguin ) 1959 ( Originally 1951 ) ( Strangers and Brothers series) The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3401 John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973 The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess." That story won the O. Henry First Prize,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960) 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the... MSRP: Now: £6.70 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1959 ( originally 1954) It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3267 David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948) The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3630 Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 ) Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view France | sku: MED2458 Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 ) Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the French could play it. In the pursuit of love, as evoked... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED3755 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier - Vintage Penguin PB - 1981 ( Originally 1915) When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
Quick view sku: MED2462 John Masters - Bhowani Junction - Vintage Penguin PB -1962 ( Originally 1954 ) Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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
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
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