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Philadelphia: D. C. Heath, 1910. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j, olive clothbound boards clean (apart from cup stains); black cover and spine titling clear; text block firm, pages unmarked (some sunning on endpapers and edges); neat owner's inscription ffep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature.Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Phdre
by Racine (intro. & notes Irving Babbitt)
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Inside Russian Politics (Inside Global Politics)
by Bacon, Edwin
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London: Biteback, 2016. 1st. paperback. Very good, as new.. C (216 x 135). Is there more to Russian politics than Putin?Revealing the Russia beyond Moscow and the West s sensational headlines about Putin, Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London offers a succinct yet thorough exploration of power politics in and beyond the Kremlin.Inside Russian Politics is an intelligent and engaging account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics. Presenting Russia on its own terms rather than through the standard prism of comparison with the West, Edwin Bacon widens our view of Russia beyond the standard account of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace.Moving on from clich and misleading historical analogy, this concise and accessible guide illuminates Russia s relationship with its political past and the likely trajectories of its future.
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Master Georgie, a novel
by Bainbridge, Beryl
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London: Duckworth, 1988. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, text block and pages good. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted for 1988 Booker Prize and winner of James Tait Memorial Prize
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Injury Time
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London: Duckworth, 1977. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, clipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); black boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked if a little sunned.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life, to socialise with some of his friends (the discreet ones). Things are a little awkward to begin with - a late start and him having to be away by half past ten - but everything seems to be going well. But then some uninvited, and reather forceful guests arrive, and it doesn't look like Edward is going to make it home on time.
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Master Georgie, a novel (SIGNED)
by Bainbridge, Beryl
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London: Duckworth, 1988. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, signed on title page, unclipped d/j, text block and pages good. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted for 1988 Booker Prize and winner of James Tait Memorial Prize
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Master Georgie, a novel
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New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988. 1st USA. hardback. Fine, 1st USA edition, unclipped d/j, blue/black boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, untrimmed pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.Shortlisted for 1988 Booker Prize and winner of James Tait Memorial Prize
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Albert Moore, his life and works
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London: George Bell & Sons, 1883. 1st. hardback. Very good, no d/j, original light green boards with dark green/yellow and gilt printed design and titling on cover & spine (some rubbing and wear on edges); text block firm with reset endpapers;pages crisp and unmarked (8 photogravure illustrations incl f'pce; multiple plates); occasional foxing.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). Biography and account of Albert Moore's influential paintings written by a former student in the year of Moore's death. He was known for his classical portraits often in the context of luxury and decadence.
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
by Banks, Iain
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London: Little, Brown, 1995. 1st. hardback. Pristine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
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The Algebraist (SIGNED)
by Banks, Iain M.
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London: Orbit, 2004. 1st. hardback. Near fine, signed, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., slight bumping at base), brown boards, white spine titling bright, text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. Signed on title: To Jim, Iain M Banks. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic…
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The Business
by Banks, Iain
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London: Little, Brown & Co, 1999. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, white spine titling and decoration, black/red impressed design on black ffep, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the…
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Les Diaboliques
by Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules (intro. Peter Quennell; illus Dodie Masterman)
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London: Paul Elek, n.d. (?1947). 1st thus. h/b. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, red clothboards, some sunning at edges and spine; black spine titling; text block firm (slight forward lean); pages crisp and unmarked; donor's inscription ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Les Diaboliques consists of six tales of female temptresses, or she-devils, in which horror and the wild Normandy countryside combine to send a shiver down the spine of the reader. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) gave up the law for literasture and left Normandy for Paris where he led a very dissolute life until he converted to Catholicism. A dandy, literary critic and writer he was one of the most well-known figures of his days. The publication of Les Diaboliques when he was 66 made him famous as a writer and also very rich.
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This Ever Diverse Pair
by Barfield, Owen
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Edinburgh: Floris, 1985. paperback. Very Good. Slight browning of pages, but unread and spine unbroken. C (216 x 135). Intro by Walter de la Mare. First publ. in 1950, when Barfield was as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer's office, the novel's true subject is what C.S. Lewis described as ""the rift in every life between the human person and his public persona - between, say, the man and the bus conductor or the man and the king..."" Owen Barfield is one of the twentieth century's most significant writers and philosophers. Widely renowned for his insight and literary artistry, Barfield addresses key concerns of the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and arts in our time. His fellow Inklings, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, are among the leading figures influenced by Barfield's work. ""A work of art and more original than anything I have read for a long time"" - C.S. Lewis
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
by Barker, Granville
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, n.d. (?1909). 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j, pink cloth boards (scuffed and bumped), blindpressed ruling, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and tight, foxing on endpapers. Owner's inscriptions on pastedown & ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; Waste tells the story of a young man's whose life has been thrown away; The Marrying of Ann Leete, is a thinly veiled costume drama, using an 18th-century tale to reflect on 19th-century reality. It follows the story of Ann, a 'new woman' who is surrounded by a society…
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News of the World
by Barker, George
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London: Faber & Faber, 1950. 1st. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling a little rubbed; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Provenance: inscribed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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Border Crossing (SIGNED)
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London: Viking, 2001. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition signed, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; pages crisp and tight, unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy 2)
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London: Viking, 1995. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition 1st printing, unclipped d/j (slightly scuffed, in protective sleeve), black boards, spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.
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The Silence of the Girls
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London: Penguin, 2019. reprint. paperback. Near fine, early reprint, paperback. B (198 x 129). There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?
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Border Crossing (SIGNED)
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London: Viking, 2001. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition signed, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve; pages crisp and tight, unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The novel explores the controversial issue of children who have committed murder, in particular the aftermath after their sentence is served out. A tense psychological thriller, Border Crossing investigates the crimes of particularly violent children, the notion of evil and the possibility of redemption.
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The Noise of Time
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London: Jonathan Cape, 2016. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping on edges and rubbing on cover); black boards clean, rose gilt spine titling bright; pages unmarked and tight.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.So begins Julian BarnesÕs first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.
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Arthur and George
by Barnes, Julian
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London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing, no d/j, black/cream impressed decorative cloth boards, text block firm, unmarked pages crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the…
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