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Anderson Chester G. James Joyce
London Thames and Hudson. 1986 0500260184 / 9780500260180 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover - CARD COVERS Very Good
Card covers, slight shelf wear to edges and corners. Despite the notoriety which he unintentionally inspired by his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce remains a mysterious figure. This is a fascinating, fully documented biography of a genius who- despite poverty, ill health, public indifference and personal conflict- was determined to follow his own chosen course.
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8.00 GBP
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Anderson Chester G. James Joyce and His World. With 124 Illustrations.
London Thames and Hudson. 1967 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
D/W is un-clipped and covered with a protective wrapper, a nice tight and clean copy. Despite the notoriety which he unintentionally inspired by his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce remains a mysterious figure. This is a fascinating, fully documented biography of a genius who- despite poverty, ill health, public indifference and personal conflict- was determined to follow his own chosen course.
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18.00 GBP
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Anderson E.w. Animals as Navigators.
London The Bodley Head. 1983 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
The science of navigation involves the purposefulcontrol of motion from place to place. In the animal world this motion is normally connected with the search for subsistence and for mating. Much has been learned about animals navigational skills, though much still remains to be learnt. A most interesting book in excellent condition.
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10.00 GBP
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Andreotti Giulio . Lives. Encounters with History Makers.
London Sidgwick and Jackson 1988 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
D/W is un-clipped, a nice tight and clean copy. This colourful collection of largely political pen portraits draws on Giulio Andreotti's experience and recollections of over forty years in the forefront of Italian political life. Several times Prime Minister of Italy, his travels around the world have brought him into contact with nearly all the major figures- both famous and infamous- on the post-war political scene. This book provides us with revealing word paintings of some of the world's most powerful personalities.
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Angel Heather and Others The Natural History of Britain and Ireland
London Peerage Books 1986 Hardcover Acceptable Very Good Photography By Heather Angel.
Generally Good but has a scuff on bottom front corner. This book contains 350 full-colour photographs. Together with a team of leading naturalists Heather Angel traces the history and variety of our landscape and then builds on to this the complex picture of Britain and Ireland's plant and animal life.
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Ann saddlemyr(editor) Letters to Molly. John Millington Synge to Maire O'Neill.
Cambridge. Massachusetts. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1971 1st.American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 7.23"x9.25"
When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen, Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease, of which he was to die in three years. Synge had already achieved recognition as a playwright translations of two of his plays has been performed in Berlin and Prague - and he was codirector, with Yeats and Lady Gregory of the Irish National Theatre Society. Molly had started her acting career the year before, in the newly opened Abbey Theatre, with walk-on parts in Synge's Well of the Saints. Synge and Molly faced disapproval of two widowed mothers, barring an occasional holiday trip or company road tour, they could seldom be alone together, except on secret afternoon meetings for long walks in the country. Hence their hundreds of letters. A very nice book.
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Anon Crimes of Passion
Leipzig. Verdict Press. 1975 First Edition Hard Cover Used Acceptable. Poor 8.75x11"tall
D/W is torn and taped but intact. This book tells of the shooting of the distinguished American architect Stamford White; Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain; the murder in the Red Barn - the killing of Maria Marten by the son of a local landowner and many more Crimes of Passion.
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Anon Irish Country Life. Recollections from the Past. a Photographic Record.
London Parkgate Books. 1997 1855853094 / 9781855853096 First Edition Paperback Very Good 7X8.75"Tall
96pp packed with beautiful photographs. These photographs of an Ireland of the past were taken in the years between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th. They illustrate some of the aspects beloved of Ireland's own people and of visitors to the Emerald Isle. This superb collection of over 100 photographs presents the well-loved images of Ireland in times gone by.
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Anon Proceedings of the British Academy 1980. VOL..LXVI
London Oxford University Press 1982 0197260136 / 9780197260135 First Edition Cloth on Board. Very Good None
493PP. book in Maroon cloth on board with Gilt lettering to spine edge. Title page ha a small piece from bottom edge, slight nick on bottom of next page. Generally a nice tight and clean copy.
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Anon Proceedings of the British Academy 1981. VOL..LXVII
London Oxford University Press 1982 0197260152 / 9780197260159 First Edition Cloth on Board. Very Good None
507PP. book in Maroon cloth on board with Gilt lettering to spine edge. Title page ha a small piece from bottom edge, slight nick on bottom of next page. Generally a nice tight and clean copy.
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Anon Rambles By the Riverside.
London Collins' Clear Type Press Hard Cover. Good None
Blue decorative cloth, spine is faded and covers have some light sport, wear to edges. Internally clean with coloured plates. ND but previous owner's book plate says Feb 1938.
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Anon Stand VOL 19 NO2
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Oxford University Press 1978 Paper Wraps. Good Pamphlet Signed Complement from Editor Inside.
Edited by Jon Silkin, numerous work from Irish poets plus letters , adverts, and articles.
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Anon The Encyclopaedia of Ireland.
Dublin Allen Figgis. 1968 First Edition Hardcover Used Acceptable. Good 8.5x11.5" Tall.
463pp packed with information and illustrations. Some wear to corners of book blue cloth with gilt lettering on front, back and spine. D/W worn around edges. Ends of pages slightly grubby.
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