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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Sansom, William - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view E.M Forster- Howard's End - Penguin Modern Classics Ed - 1971 ( Originally 1910) The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities. Half German by birth and middle-class English by upbringing, Helen and Margaret Schlegel struggle to come to terms with the problems... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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. 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Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Roth, Holly - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - 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,... 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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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Forster, E.M - Abinger Harvest ( Essays & Reviews) - Vintage Penguin PB This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as Notes on the English Character, '' ''Adrift in India, and Me, Them and You. Also collected are essays on literary... MSRP: Now: €6.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Updike, John - 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: €6.50 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: €7.50 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. 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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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hornung, Ernest William - 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: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: v521 Dolores Pala / In Search of Mihailo (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: v476 D. H. Lawrence / The Lost Girl (Vintage Paperback) A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom, and winner of the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Vailland, Roger - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - 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... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view France Vailland, Roger - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - 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... 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Quick view Sansom, William - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view E.M Forster- Howard's End - Penguin Modern Classics Ed - 1971 ( Originally 1910) The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities. Half German by birth and middle-class English by upbringing, Helen and Margaret Schlegel struggle to come to terms with the problems... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Masters, John - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome Aeschylus - The Oresteian Trilogy ( Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB ( Translated by Philip Vellacott) Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stewart, J.I.M - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Masters, John - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome Aeschylus - The Oresteian Trilogy ( Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB ( Translated by Philip Vellacott) Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stewart, J.I.M - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Masters, John - 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: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome Aeschylus - The Oresteian Trilogy ( Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB ( Translated by Philip Vellacott) Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stewart, J.I.M - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome Aeschylus - The Oresteian Trilogy ( Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB ( Translated by Philip Vellacott) Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stewart, J.I.M - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Stewart, J.I.M - 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: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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