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London, U.K. : Jonathan Cape, 1980 With a foreword by the English historian C.V. Wedgwood who worked at Cape. Tight Copy. No internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped.
At the age of 50 towards the end of the First World War, the poet W.H. Davies decided it was time for him to effect a change in his life-style and to seek a wife who would share a new life in the country. With disarming honesty, not to say bluntness as to the acts, yet with humour and delicacy, Davies records his trial runs with three women before he finally meets Emma, then pregnant, as she alights from a bus in the Edgware Road. He describes with beguiling innocence the love that develops before calamity overtakes them. When Jonathan Cape first received the manuscript in 1924, he feared that its publication might damage Davies' reputation. At Davies' death in 1940 Cape tried to publish it again but were advised against publication. In 1979, Davies' widow (Emma) died and Cape were… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Charles Letts & Co Ltd, 1981 Revised edition. 96 pages, b/w photos and maps. Some shelf and age wear - edges rubbed and bumped. Pictorial cover - front cover picture of a windmill; on back cover map of Holland. "This little book sets out to do three main things. It tries to tell you enough about what you can see and do in Holland and about the people you will meet there to enable you to decide where you want to go and what you want to do. It gives you an outline of how to travel to and in Holland, so that you can decide your own routes. And it indicates costs sufficiently to allow you to budget your visit accurately enough." The towns and cities of Holland are listed alphabetically.

Oxford, UK: Lion Hudson, 2011 238 pages. New book - no internal markings, clean text pages - recently published. "The poems in this anthology - chosen by sufferers themselves - powerfully respond to the deepest and most private thoughts and feelings that commonly preoccupy the seriously ill but are difficult to articulate or even recognize. Among them are poems of quietness and gratitude, prayers and spiritual verse." The editor of this anthology was a musician and publisher's editor before falling ill with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than 20 years ago. The anthology grew out of his fortuitous discovery of the extraordinary healing effect of Poetry Therapy, which makes use of verse that is relevant to the reader's experience - in this case, poems written by poets who themselves experienced illness or other life challenges.
The collection is divided into 7 parts reflecting the emotional and spiritual path most sufferers from serious illness follow: Part I: O Rose, Thou Art… Read More

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 215-398). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: The Colonial History of the Norman Conquest by Francis James West; The Treaty of Edinburgh and the Disinherited (1328-1332) by Sonja Cameron and Alasdair Ross; Fenianism in North America in the 1860s: The Problems for Church and State by Oliver Rafferty; The Importance of Being Serious: The Unexplored Connection between Gladstone and Humour by Joseph S. Meisel; The Rise, Fall and Rise of Political Consensus in Britain since 1940 by Brian Harrison; Reviews and Short Notices: Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Cherchez la femme. Queens, Queens' Lands and Nunneries: Missing Links in the Foundation of Reading Abbey by Pauline Stafford; What Happened to English Catholicism after the English Reformation? by M.C. Questier; Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) by Margaret Mehl; Social Democracy and Labour Politics in Britain, 1892-1911; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996 (page numbers 507-737). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Why Was Sir Francis Bacon Impeached? The Common Lawyers and the Chancery Revisited: 1621 by Damian X. Powell; Political Dinners in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: Platform, Meeting Place and Battleground by Peter Brett; Roads to Democracy: Electioneering and Corruption in Nineteenth-Century England and Ireland by K. Theodore Hoppen; Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern; Index

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 393-543). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: H.H. Asquith and Britain's Manpower Problem, 1914-1915 by John Gordon Little; Revising Orwell's Wigan Pier by Robert Pearce; 'A Goddamned Electable Person': The 1966 California Gubernatorial Campaign of Ronald Reagan by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Joint Action against 'Bad' Lordship: The Peasants' Revolt in Essex and Norfolk by Herbert Eiden; Cement or Solvent? Kinship and Politics in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Nevilles by Michael Hicks; Party Politics, Political Economy and British Protectionism, 1919-1932 by W.R. Garside; The British Popular Press and the Early Cold War by Tony Shaw; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 (page numbers 391-581). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'To solemnize His Majesty's Birthday': New Perspectives on Loyalism in George II's Britain by Bob Harris and Christopher A. Whatley; Englightenment and Freedom of the Press: The Debate in the Berlin Mittwochsgesellschaft, 1783-1784 by Eckhart Hellmuth; The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Fiction, British Conservatism and the Revolution in France by M.O. Grenby; 'A new language in Politicks': George Canning and the Idea of Opportunities, 1801-1807 by Stephen M. Lee; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 399-568). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany by C. Scott Dixon; Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher; The British Secret Service and the Escape of Sir Sidney Smith from Paris in 1798 by Michael Durey; Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Ridge and Romantic Revolution by Iain McCalman; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'Adultery a-la-Mode': Privilege, the Law and Attitudes to Adultery 1770-1809 by Donna T. Andrew; Narratives of Women: English Feminists of the 1790s by William Stafford; 'An idyllic and unruffled atmosphere of complete Anglo-German misunderstanding': aspects of the Operations of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop in Great Britain, 1934-1938 by G.T. Waddington; 'I Love the Scent of Cordite in Your Hair': Gender Dynamics in Mixed Anti-Aircraft Batteries during the Second World War by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 545-750). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Locality Metropolis and Nation: The Impact of the Military Camps in England during the American War by Stephen Conway; Women's Place in the American Labour Force, 1870-1995 by Margaret Walsh; 'All you soldiers are what we call pro-Boer': The Military Critique of the South African War, 1899-1902 by Keith Surridge; Thatcher and the Victorians: A Suitable Case for Comparison? by Stephen Evan. Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern. Index to Volume 82.

USA: Purnell Books, 1985 Some shelf and age wear, slight crease on back cover. Clean text pages, no markings on pages. Tight binding. Published in 1985 at the time of the release of the Disney film of the same name. Cover and pages are fully illustrated in colour. "When his pig, Hen Wen, is captured by the Horned King, Taran sets out to get her back before she reveals the whereabouts of the Black Cauldron with which the Horned King could destroy the world. The Black Cauldron (also known as Taran and the Magic Cauldron) is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 25th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are, in turn, based on Welsh mythology.

London, U.K. : Collins, 1930 No dustjacket. Some age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn and corners bumped - spine top and tail worn with a small tear at the top of spine. Boards are burgundy artificial leather. Clean text pages - no internal markings. No date or copyright page in this edition - circa 1930. Part of Collins' "Illustrated Pocket Classics" series. With b/w illustrations. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews; Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Translated from the French. A French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French author in the world.