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New York, London: The New Press, 2007. 1st. paperback. Fine, as new and unread.. C (216 x 135). Praised by leading academics in the field as ""extraordinary,"" ""a brilliant analysis,"" ""fresh, provocative and iconoclastic,"" Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural critic and scholar of Iranian history and Islamic culture_traces the story of Iran over the past two centuries with unparalleled analysis of the key events, cultural trends, and political developments leading up to the collapse of the reform movement and the emergence of the new and combative presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Written in the author's characteristically lively and combative prose, Iran combines ""delightful vignettes"" (Publishers Weekly) from Dabashi's Iranian childhood and sharp, insightful readings of its contemporary…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
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A Harlot's Progress
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London: Vintage, 2000. 19th imp. p/b. Fine, as new. B (198 x 129). A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity. He refuses however to supply parade of grievances, and to give a simplistic account of beatings, sexual abuses, etc. He will not embark upon yet another fictional journey into the dark nature of slavery for the voyeuristic delight of the English reader. Instead, the old man ties the reader up in knots as deftly as a harlot her client: he spins a tale of myths, half-truths and fantasies; recreating Africa and…
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
by Daiches, David; Duby; Thorpe; Brewer; Burke; Hargreaves, Rutherford; Strickland
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London: UCL, 1967. 1st. p/b. Good, stiff paper wrappers, fabric tape spine. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, fabric tape spine. variously paginated. Typescript, browning on edges, otherwise unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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The Best Adventure
by Dale, Norman (illus. Diana John)
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1947. 2nd imp.. hardback. Very good, good clipped d/j (some taping), yellow boards good with black titling and design clear; pages unmarked (gift inscription on ffep), very good for wartime paper.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Successor to Secret Service, and Dangerous Treasure. Once again Peter and Ginger become involved in dramatic happenings which start when they set out at midnight to try and catch the mysterious visitor to their own private, secret cave.
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Broome Stages
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London: Heinemann, 1931. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, brown boards good, gilt titling on front and spine bright; pages unmarked and tight, a little foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A biography of this theatrical family, opening with the first Richard Broome born in 1715 who seemingly made brooms during his childhood. Follows the lives of the rest of the Broome family.
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Lascaux and Carnac
by Daniel, Glyn
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London: Lutterworth Press, 1955. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, chipping at edges); red boards and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked. 14 b/w plates and several text images.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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The Problem of Evil
by D'Arcy SJ, MC
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London: Catholic Truth Society, 1936. 1st. p/b. Very good, pamphlet, cover slight crease, some yellowing at edges; pages stapled but intact and in good condition.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Reconciling belief in a good and all-powerful God with the obvious presence of suffering and evil in the world is one of the classic problems for Christian (and indeed Jewish) philosophy and theology. The Book of Job famously examines this problem from various angles, and rejects several inadequate explanations. Numerous philosophers and theologians have attempted to answer the question; Martin D'Arcy draws on this rich tradition, and tries to give an account that is both acceptable to an unprejudiced reader, and also (what is more difficult) allows for the possibility not only of accepting the existence of evil in the world, but of giving praise to God for all we experience, good and bad alike. He argues that the Cross shows that God enters into pain and suffering so that evil is not a defeat but an…
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England's Constable (Folio Society)
by Darracott, Joseph
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London: Folio Society, 1985. 1st. h/b. Fine in grey clothbound boards, in printed board slipcase.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Folio Society publication of Joseph Darracott's Life and Letters of John Constable (in ful colour)
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White
by Darrieussecq, Marie (trans. Ian Monk)
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London: Faber & Faber, 2005. 1st. paperback. Near fine, 1st edition with unclipped d/j, publ. 2 years after French original; pages clean, unmarked and tightly bound.. C (216 x 135). It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica, Project White. Pete has come to find peace among the practical rituals of life on the station. Edmee, the only woman on the base, works to secure communication with the outside world. Both are running from tragic events at home, and yet even as they try to escape the past, they are under scrutiny from the spirits haunting the station. These ghostly voices draw the reader ever more tightly into the story. In this setting of magnificent desolation, just fifteen kilometres from the South Pole, a love affair begins to flourish - until there is a catastrophic power failure at the base...
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
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London: Harper Press, 2013. 1st. p/b. Near fine, owner's neat inscription on half-title, small taped repair to d/j. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned morality. But a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub hostesses mixing with aristocrats, and middle-class professionals dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia gripped the public imagination. The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm, and when it broke it rocked the Establishment. In An English Affair , the author of the critically-acclaimed Titainic Lives Richard Davenport-Hines brings Swinging London to life. The cast of players includes the…
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The Poems of W. H. Davies 1940
by Davies, W. H.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (some browning, in protective sleeve), blue clothbound boards (small bump on top of spine), gilt spine titling, text block firm, untrimmed & uncut pages crisp and unmarked, but browning on endpapers.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Published the year Davies died, this volume contains the whole of The Poems of W.H. Davies, 1934, and also all the subsequent poems which Mr. Davies has published, in Love Poems (1935), The Birth of Song (1936) and The Loneliest Mountain (1939). It is therefore a complete collection of the author's published work to 1940. Includes an index of first lines.
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The Song of Love
by Davies, W. H. (illus. Dora M. Batty)
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. 1st. hardback. Good, no d/j, marbling covered boards wth titling labels on front and spine good, though browning and rubbing on spine; untrimmed pages clean and unmarked, tight binding, some sunning on endpapers. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
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The Co-Op's Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
by Davies, Hunter
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London: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, 1st printing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the dreariness of life on rationing, very little luxuries and an archaic educational system, should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain. In the same vein as…
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Poems 1930-31
by Davies, W. H.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. 1st. hardback. Good, no d/j, patterned cloth boards a little tanned at edges; untrimmed pages clean, tightly bound and unmarked, a little foxing on endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Small anthology by the Welsh poet, W. H. Davies, one of the best loved of his time.
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Collected Poems of W. H. Davies
by Davies, W. H.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. 1st reprint. hardback. Good, no d/j, blue boards faded on edges, silver spine titling rubbed, untrimmed pages in firm text block, a little sunning. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a much-loved Welsh poet, whose style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The first edition of this anthology was published in the year of his death, with this, the first reprint, in 1942.
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Why I Am A Protestant
by Davies, Rupert E.
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London: Epworth Press, 1957. 1st. hardback. Good, ex-library book (Latimer Trust), unclipped d/j bright but tearing residue from labels; pages unmarked and tight, ffep cut. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). This book is in two parts. In the first I try to set out my reasons for being a Protestant; in the second are my reasons for rejecting Roman Catholicism. I make here a personal profession of faith, which binds nobody but myself. But it may be that the reasons for which I must be Protestant and cannot be a Roman Catholic will be of interest to to other Protestants who wish to be surer of their faith, and to those people who are attracted by some parts of Roman Catholic doctrine. I even dare to hope that some who have embraced the Roman Catholic faith will read what I have written, with their minds open to truth. I am a Methodist, a Protestant and a Catholic. I therefore pray that this book may tend, not to further division, but to the greater unity of the Holy Catholic Church, which is the Body of…
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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
by Davis, Margo (photography); Davis, Gregson (text)
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San Francisco, CA: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (some chipping), mushroom clothbound boards, black cover/spine titling with tipped in print on cover; text block firm, pages crisp and clean; some slight foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a ""straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled plots where the descendants of slaves labor with strength and ingenuity to extract a life of dignity and meaning from an eroded landscape of unfullfilled promises and fragmented hopes."" While this is centered around the photographs, it also contains much on the history of the island - the sugar plantations, slave uprisings, emancipation and more. Limited to 5000 copies.
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Collected Poems 1954 (Day Lewis)
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London: Jonathan Cape and the Hogarth Press, 1954. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, missing d/j, light blue boards a little tanned at edges/spiine; gilt/dark blue spine titling bright; text block firm, pages tight and unmarked. Neat owner's inscription on ffep. Loose inserts newspaper reviews, obit and interview with 2nd wife, actress Jill Balcon.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He was also the father of celebrated actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis.
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An Italian Visit
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. 1st. hardback. Near fine, missing d/j, blue boards, blue spine titling on cream; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Provenance: inscribed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005). 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A Letter from Rome'; 'Bus to Florence'; 'Florence: Works of Art'; 'Elegy Before Death: at Settignano'; 'The Homeward Prospect'. The whole resembles a suite in music; various metres are used, and each part is self-contained, though all are on the same subject - a journey to and in Italy. The poet has used his first impressions of the country to illustrate certain deeper themes indicated by the epigraph: '... an Italian visit is a voyage of…
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Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine
by de Balzac, Honor (tr. Alec Brown; illus. Mervyn Peake)
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London: Folio Society, 1961. 1st thus. hardback. Near fine, Folio edition, no slipcase, brown cloth boards, green/brown impressed design, gilt spine titling on brown plate; text block reasonably firm, pages unmarked; top edge blue.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Full title: Droll Stories, collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honor de Balzac. Short stories collected under the first, second and third decade. Dedicated by the translator to 'all who understand the spirit of humane laughter'.
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