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| SOPHIE DIVRY Book Number: 76689 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £1.00
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'To all those men and women who will always find a place for themselves in a library more easily than in society, I dedicate this entertainment.' 'Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest co...
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| WILL KWIATKOWSKI Book Number: 79509 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Firdausi's epic poem The Shahnama is a celebration of Iran's ancient tradition of kingship. The Eckstein Shahnama is a lavishly illuminated and illustrated Ottoman copy of the work, completed in t...
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| KENNETH SISAM Book Number: 80726 |
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Tutor to J.R.R. Tolkien, Kenneth Sisam's volume, first published in 1953, brought together papers spanning over 30 years of research by the medieval literary scholar. Many of the essays are concer...
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| CHRISTINA HARDYMENT Book Number: 81355 |
Published price: £17.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Britain's landscape is a constant inspiration to writers, whether they find themselves in the slums of Victorian Whitechapel or on the wildest peaks of the Cairngorms. This fascinating book accompa...
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| JENNIFER WORICK Book Number: 82369 |
Published price: £5.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Super soft dark orange leather bound hand sized pocket book to indulge every bibliophile's love of the written word. Here are grand openings: 'Call me Ishmael'. 'Happy families are all alike; ever...
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| ROBERT DARNTON Book Number: 82568 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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Censorship by the state has never been a more urgent issue as we confront the problems of internet pornography and terrorist propaganda. On the other hand, we proudly boast of our commitment to fre...
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| MICHAEL LEAPMAN Book Number: 83322 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of 18th century scholars and booklovers, the British Library's extensive collection incorporates not only books and manuscripts, ...
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| CHRONICLE BOOKS Book Number: 83439 |
Published price: $10.95
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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With dedication page, on spiral binding and with two little insert pockets at the back for receipts, review clippings, bookmarks etc. this perfect bibliophile's book is for all those who 'read in o...
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| AMY GARY Book Number: 83232 |
Published price: $26.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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Author of the popular American children's stories "Goodnight Moon" and the "Noisy" series, Margaret Wise Brown's sudden and early death in 1952 was a great loss to fiction. The author of this penet...
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| JOHN CAREY Book Number: 82424 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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John Carey writes a witty and moving memoir not on the history of literature but on his life and literature, his memories as told through the books that made him. This is not only a history of book...
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| JOHN MULLAN Book Number: 83689 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid' and finding joy in the intellect of one of the nation's beloved authors is something that is ...
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| D. B. C. PIERRE Book Number: 83748 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Sub-titled 'A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out of It' this brilliantly funny book is about writing fiction and navigating the trickiness of the whole occupation. '...Scenes like this where cha...
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| OLIVIA LAING Book Number: 83758 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Hilary Mantel said of this, 'One of the best books I've read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring.' Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, this terrific w...
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| DROR WAHRMAN Book Number: 83992 |
Published price: $34.95
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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The Baroque artist Edward Collier specialised in trompe l'oeuil, pictures so realistic that they were designed to deceive the viewer into thinking they were looking at a three-dimensional object. ...
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| MELVYN BRAGG Book Number: 84335 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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The King James Bible has been called the Book of Books and has a good claim to the title. It consists of 66 'different books' and has sold more than any other single book since its publication in ...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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A big beautiful British Library and British Museum UK first edition 2005 paperback with 20 colour and 178 black and white woodcut illustrations, this beautiful book catalogues 110 of the most impor...
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| JON CRABB Book Number: 84594 |
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Medieval woodcuts collectively give comment on the fervour, horror and obsessions of the Dark Ages and beyond and perceive the world through very different eyes from our own. This book is a real t...
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| RODERICK CAVE & SARA AYAD Book Number: 84595 |
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Classic examples such as Gutenberg's 42-Line Bible and The Book of Kells, Egyptian books on papyrus like Book of the Dead of Ani, bone, bamboo and bark extraordinary books of the people of Sumatra,...
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| DENIS BOYLES Book Number: 84663 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica's Eleventh edition, published to great acclaim in 1910, was both a beginning and an end. It was the obituary of the Victorian age, published in association with the Tim...
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| EDITED BY MATHIEU LOMMEN Book Number: 84427 |
Published price: £45
Bibliophile price: £22.00
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"A bibliophile's dream" said Creative Review of this exceptional visual history of more than 500 years of Western book design. Beginning in 1471 with an edition printed by the influential Nicolas ...
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