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USA: Purnell Books, 1985 Some shelf and age wear, slight crease on back cover. Clean text pages, no markings on pages. Tight binding. Published in 1985 at the time of the release of the Disney film of the same name. Cover and pages are fully illustrated in colour. "When his pig, Hen Wen, is captured by the Horned… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Classics, 2006 Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. As new with very slight age and shelf wear to cover edges, otherwise tight copy with no internal markings. The Los Angeles Times considered this volume as "The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from 'the greatest twentieth-century writer ..'." Pessoa was the equal of… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze,… Read more about this item

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj -… Read more about this item

Bourne End, United Kingdom: Etna Publishing, 1975 Collectible. Some shelf and age wear to the card wrapper - wrapper edges light rubbing with creases around edge and spine - internally the pages are in very good condition - clean pages with no internal markings. First edition, no date on the front endpaper, but the drawings are dated 1975, unpaginated. The twelve… Read more about this item

London, U.K. : Piatkus Books, 1997 First edition. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Coloured photographs/illustratons throughout. The garden is the world's oldest medicine chest. The book shows you how to choose the appropriate herbal remedy for a wide range of common health problems and to grow and prepare plants for… Read more about this item

Eire: Bayleaf Publications, 2006 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to the edges. This is Power's fourth collection of poems. The first nine poems in this collection were written between 1962 and 1970. This is his final collection of poems; he died a year after its publication. Brian Power was a… Read more about this item

Wales: Gwasg Carrech Gwalch, 2015 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to edges. This is the story of the Llandudno Town Band from 1900 with a Foreword by Gregory, Seventh Baron Mostyn. The history of the Llandudno Town Band's first 100 years is told through unprecedented access to the Band's archives and reveals the previously… Read more about this item

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990 First Edition. Some shelf wear. Tight copy. Original Dust Jacket not price clipped has small crease in middle of spine- book boards in very good condition. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Edited by Jacqueline Simms. This is a collection of twenty-one essays by poets, novelists, critics, and former colleagues (ie… Read more about this item

Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 2003 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text page. Slight edge wear to top right corner of cover. This is Elisabeth Rowe's first volume of poetry which includes a wide range of form and tone and embraces a fine balance of descriptive, intellectual, and emotional content. The poems convey an intense relationship with landscape, a… Read more about this item

Canada: HarperCollins, 2002 Original dustjacket. Age and shelf wear to d/j - edges worn, corners bumped. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Tight copy. First Edition. Canadian Edition. "Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. The book features relatively new advances… Read more about this item

London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages. This was Pritchett's third novel about… Read more about this item

London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson, 1981 328 pages with 353 illustrations: 85 in colour, 268 photographs, drawings and maps in b/w; with index, sources of illustrations and select bibliography. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - dj edges and corners worn - slight tanning to the dj's front and back flaps. Slight water… Read more about this item

London, U.K. : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982 Original dustjacket - not price clipped. Slight age and shelf wear to dustjacket - edges of dj slightly rubbed. Tight copy. Front endpaper has initial and date in black ink of previous owner in upper right hand corner - clean text pages. B/w illustrations, Index. Contents: I Contact… Read more about this item

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 1989 Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped. B/w illustrations throughout. "Our medieval ancestors moved about far more than we might expect. The many sources quoted reveal the diversity of the medieval traveller : princes and their armies, pilgrims, merchants and envoys, even fugitives and… Read more about this item

London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1973 Translated from the French by Francine Barker. B/w illustrations. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j edges rubbed, corners bumped. Book cover at spine top and tail slighted bumped. Top left hand corner of front endpaper has previous owner's name and address in blue ink - otherwise no… Read more about this item

London, U.K. : Jonathan Cape, 1980 With a foreword by the English historian C.V. Wedgwood who worked at Cape. Tight Copy. No internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped. At the age of 50 towards the end of the First World War, the poet W.H. Davies decided it was time for him to effect a… Read more about this item

Oxford, UK: Lion Hudson, 2011 238 pages. New book - no internal markings, clean text pages - recently published. "The poems in this anthology - chosen by sufferers themselves - powerfully respond to the deepest and most private thoughts and feelings that commonly preoccupy the seriously ill but are difficult to articulate or even recognize. Among them are poems… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 Minimal shelf and age wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. No internal markings, clean text pages. Colour and black & white photographs; black & white illustrations by Danny McBride. David writes on the flap "This book is my opportunity to print something from my heart, to tell the truth about what happened to… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: Madison Books, 2000 206 pages with index, notes, bibliography. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. ".. David Stuart traces Nash's life from his idyllic boyhood in upstate New York through his rise to literary fame in the rapidly expandig publishing industry in New York City of the 1950s and 1960s to his gradual retirement to… Read more about this item