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High Windows by Philip LarkinUK Edition Faber & Faber London 1974, 1st edition reprint.ISBN 10: 0571105521 ISBN 13: 9780571105526Signed by the author.Condition:A very good tight copy in a very good jacket in a plastic protector (jacket is price-clipped) There is a gift dedication on the front free endpaper. Very clean apart from some spotting to the top edges.About:High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited. The readily available paperback version was first published in Britain in 1979. The collection is the last publication of new poetry by Larkin before his death in 1985, and it contains some of his most famous poems, including the title piece, "High Windows", "Dublinesque", and "This Be The Verse". The collection contains themes presented in his earlier collections, though the tone of the poems caused critics to suggest the book is darker and more "socially engaged" than his earlier volumes. It is currently on the AQA…
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High Windows: Signed by the author
by Philip Larkin
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The Whitsun Weddings
by Philip Larkin
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The Whitsun Weddingsby Philip Larkin
Faber & Faber, London MCMLXVIII
UK Edition, 1st edition 1964.
Signed Philip Larkin on the title page.
A fine book, in a fine unclipped jacket with a couple of faint stains and soiling marks. Tight and square binding in sharp red cloth; bright gilt; slight bruise crease to the front free endpaper, else delightfully crisp and clean. Name sticker on front free endpaper. Jacket unclipped. A lovely example of a very important poetry book.
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Heidi: A Child's Story of Life in the Alps, 'Boys and Girls Classics No 3.'
by Johanna Spyri; George Lawson
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The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron Ohio, New York, Chicago., 1933 Extremely scarce early US edition of important children's book with original jacket. Absolutely charming. Illustrated by George Lawson. 1st Edition 1933 (undated) Hardcover with original jacket. 'Boys and Girls Classics No 3.' noted on jacket spine. Condition: Two upper corners bumped, endpaper hinges weakened by sound. Gently toned and some scattered pale smudges throughout, otherwise clean and tight. Smudged gift inscription inside front. The jacket has scuffing and short closed tears now retained in an archival plastic protector. About: Heidi (/ˈhaɪdi/; German: [ˈhaɪdi]) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her…
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A Time of Gifts: 'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube'
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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A TIME OF GIFTS'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube'by PATRICK LEIGH FERMORHardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 9780719533488Published By John Murray, London 1977, Reprinted 1978Signed by the author.Condition: The dust jacket is not clipped, the jacket edges are rubbed and the corners are a little scuffed. Moderate sunning to the spine area of the jacket. The book is clean and tight internally, boards are not bumped or rubbed. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. About:In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable…
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Between the Woods and the Water 'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE': 'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE'
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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BETWEEN THE WOODS AND WATER'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE'By Patrick Leigh FermorPublished By Viking, Elizabeth Sifton Books, New York, 1986First Edition / First Printing. Hardback with dust jacket. ISBN: 0670811491Signed by the author.
Condition: Very good dust jacket, slight edge scuff, back panel a little rubbed.
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A Time to Keep Silence: Sojourns in monasteries across Europe
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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A Time to Keep SilencePatrick Leigh FermorLondon, John Murray, 1957. 95p.First trade hardcover UK.Signed by the author on the title page.Clean tight fine copy, cloth spine shows mild toning. No jacket.Sojourns in monasteries across Europe:"A Time to Keep Silence (1953) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. It describes Fermor's sojourns in monasteries across Europe, and is praised by William Dalrymple as a "sublime masterpiece".This was an early publication from the Queen Anne Press, a small private press, created in 1951 by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times. In 1952 Kemsley made Leigh Fermor's friend Ian Fleming its managing director. The press concentrated on producing finely printed and bound editions, often with small limitations. A Time to Keep Silence was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies with illustrations by John Craxton.After revision, an open edition was published by John Murray in 1957. The monasteries discussed include the Abbey of St. Wandrille,…
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BETWEEN THE WOODS AND WATER 'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE': 'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE'
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Signed by the author.Condition: Good dust jacket, just a few short closed tears on edges, back panel a little rubbed. Top edges clean, otherwise clean tight unread copy.
About:Between the Woods and the Water is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34.The first book in the series, A Time of Gifts, recounts Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube. Between the Woods and the Water (1986) begins with the author crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. The planned third volume of Leigh Fermor's journey to its completion in Constantinople, The Broken Road, was not completed in his lifetime, but was finally published in September 2013.Many years after his travel, Leigh Fermor's diary of the… Read More
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Doctor Dolittle's Return
by Hugh Lofting
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1949 Published 1933, 10th Imprint 1949. (9th book in series) Condition: Spine and board edges are sunned, some dust soiling to top edge, title page foxed. The jacket has sunned spine, chipping, now plastic protected. Charming illustrations throughout.
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A young man standing, drawing
by Lucas van Leyden, after
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Fine old master style drawing after Lucas van Leyden of a young man in Renaissance robes, similar drawing sold at Christie's Dec 2018. Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm, would fit in a standard A4 mat mount. Tan laid paper with no watermark.
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