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	ALEXANDER, CAROLINE. The Way to Xanadu. London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo, black cloth, red title lettering, endpapers facsimile taken from 1618 edition of Purchas Pilgrimage, xiii + 194 pages, 4 maps, list of helpful sources. Fine copy in dustjacket. Cover illustration by Dennis Leigh. Was there really a place called Xanadu, with its 'walls and towers'? Literary travel book recounts the author's quest across three continents to discover 'the miracle of rare device', the source of Coleridge's inspiration. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.25 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 1734 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AMIS, MARTIN; SWIFT, GRAHAM (CONTRIBS); BUFORD, BILL (EDITOR). Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President. Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1991. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 256 pages, b/w illustrations, bright condition. Contributions from Martin Amis (Time's Arrow Pt 3 The Conclusion), Graham Swift ("Plastic" - excerpt from novel in progress), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Mark Malloch Brown, Sergio Larrain (In the Andes), Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), George Steiner, T.Coraghessan Boyle, David Grossman (Cairo). Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 4390 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	ASH, BRIAN Who's Who in H.G.Wells London, Elm Tree Books, Hamish Hamilton. 1979. (ISBN: 0241895979) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous owner marks, xviii & 299 pages, unclipped dustjacket, introduction by Brian Ash, A-Z of Characters, Appendix One - Novels, Appendix Two - Short Stories, Appendix Three - Cremation Address, bibliography. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.25 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 5651 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AURY, DOMINIQUE Literary Landfalls London, Chatto & Windus. 1960. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Very good clean condition, no previous owner name, with green & yellow dustjacket, chipped at head of spine. A collection of essays in literary criticism, including studies of Fenelon, Balzac, Constant, Proust and Colette. Translated from the French by Denise Folliot, 171 pages. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3972 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AUSTEN, JANE; WEST, MICHAEL; HART, E.P. Emma (New Method Supplementary Reader, Stage 5) London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1956. Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Ill.: W.Nickless. No previous owner marks, pictorial cover, xiv & 127 pages, map, b/w drawings, list of questions for the student.The text of this book was brought within the vocabulary of New Method, Stage 5. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6131 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BALZAC, HONORE DE. le pere Goriot. Paris; Le Live de Poche, 1991.. VG. Paperback reprint, xxxv & 406 pages. French text. Preface de Francoise van Rossum-Guyon et Michel Butor. Commentaires et notes de Nicole Mozet. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 \| JP¥ 445] Book number: 3892 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BARBER, RICHARD (ED.) Arthurian Literature VII Cambridge, D.S.Brewer. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0859912426) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket, 162 pages, footnotes, bibliographies. Includes: 1. Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King by Joanne Lukitsch. 2. The Arthurian Epitaph in Malory's Morte Darthur by John Withrington 3. The Lancelot legend in Heinrich von dem Turlin's Diu Crone by Elizabeth Anderson 4. New perspectives on the Didot Perceval by Linda Gowans. 5. Arthurian chivalry in Old Norse by Geraldine Barnes 6. Update: the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie by Julia Crick. Fine/Very Good. GBP 4.75 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 7.91 \| JP¥ 704] Book number: 6534 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	VARIOUS. ISTVAN BART (EDITOR) The Kiss: 20th Century Hungarian Short Stories Budapest, Corvina. 1993. (ISBN: 9631338029) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Bright pictorial covers, 426 pages; translated from the Hungarian, an anthology of stories from 31 Hungarian writers, with biographical notes. Very Good. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 6654 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BENNETT, JOAN Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 052109951X) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Second edition, reprint; x + 172 pages, index, very good clean copy. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2471 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOLTON, W. F. The Language of 1984 : Orwell's English and Ours Basil Blackwell. 1984. (ISBN: 063113722X) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright condition, no previous owner name, 252 pages, bibliography, index; this is the first study to analyse Orwell's work from a linguistic perspective, and, at the same time, to use Orwell as a key to our understanding of language ideas in general. Very Good. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 6809 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOYD, WILLIAM Transfigured Night London, One Horse Press. 1995, Limited. (ISBN: 0952925028) Paperback, 16mo - over 5Â¾" - 6Â¾" tall. No 694 of 2000, signed & numbered on title page by the author, as issued with original wraparound band intact, grey card wrappers, white title lettering and cover illustration by Christopher Wormell, 30 pages. Printed at St.Edmundsbury Press. Very nice unmarked condition. Very Good. Signed by Author. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 6759 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BUFORD, BILL (ED). Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists Volume 2. London, Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1993. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 308 pages, illustrated. Ten years after the publication of the first "Best of Young British Novelists", A.S.Byatt, Salman Rushdie, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford set out to identify the most talented writers of the 1993 generation. Includes Iain Banks, Louis de Bernieres, Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare and Jeanette Winterson. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3583 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNS, ROBERT; SCOTT, SIR WALTER; HOGG, JAMES; SPARK, MURIEL; KELMAN, JAMES; GRAY, ALASDAIR Canongate Classics: Boxed Set Edinburgh, Canongate Books. 2001. (ISBN: 1841951684) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Seven paperbacks, unopened, shrink-wrapped in slipcase; includes Fourteen poems and songs by Robert Burns; "Wandering Willie's Tale" and "The Two Drovers" by Sir Walter Scott; selected stories by Muriel Spark; selected stories by James Kelman; Four Tales by James Hogg; "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson; Alasdair Gray's specially commissioned survey of Scottish writing. The set also includes six postcards of the original cover artwork. As New. GBP 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.91 \| JP¥ 1326] Book number: 4051 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	ST JOHN BUTLER, LANCE York Notes on Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Longman. 1986. (ISBN: 0582782058) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 120 pages; slight wear to cover, no markings internally; includes section on life of Henry Fielding, literary background to Tom Jones, detailed summaries, commentary on Fielding and 18th Century politics, hints for study and suggestions for further reading. Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 6367 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CALANDRA, DENIS.: Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Lincoln, Nebraska; 1991.. VG. Paperback, 52 pages. Includes: life of Shakespeare, introduction to the play, brief synopsis, list of characters, summaries and commentaries, character sketches, suggested essay questions, selected bibliography. GBP 1.95 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.25 \| JP¥ 289] Book number: 3832 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CALANDRA, DENIS.: Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare's Richard II. Lincoln, Nebraska; 1993.. F. Paperback, 77 pages. Fine, as new. Includes: life of Shakespeare, general plot summary, list of characters, summaries and commentaries, character summations, questions for review, selected bibliography. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 3833 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	LE CARRE, JOHN; DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH; GORDIMER, NADINE; PHILLIPS, JAYNE ANNE; BERGER, JOHN (CONTRIBS); BUFORD, BILL (EDITOR). Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace. Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1991. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 256 pages, b/w illustrations, bright condition. Contributions from John Le Carre (The Unbearable Peace), Alex Kayser, Friedrich Durrenmatt (Vaclav Havel in Switzerland), John Berger & Jean Mohr (The Zoo in Basel), Jayne Anne Phillips (In Summer Camps), Nadine Gordimer, Patrick Suskind, Wolf Biermann, Allan Gurganus. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 4391 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY; SISAM, KENNETH (ED). The Clerke's Tale of Oxenford Oxford, The Clarendon Press. 1966. Hard Cover. Reprint, orange cloth, decorative cover, xxvi & 78 pages, frontis + 10 monochrome illustrations. Introduction, text, notes, glossary; bright condition, no previous owner name or marks. Fine/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 4613 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COOTE, S.H.: Penguin Passnotes. Shakespeare: Macbeth for GCSE. Penguin Books, 1984.. VG. Paperback, 88 pages. Revision aid specially designed for GCSE. Background, synopsis, scene-by-scene analysis, characters, commentary, discussion topics. GBP 1.75 [Appr.: EURO 2 US$ 2.92 \| JP¥ 259] Book number: 3827 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAVID, RICHARD The Janus of Poets: Being an Essay on the Dramatic Value of Shakspere's Poetry Both Good and Bad Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1935, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 164 pages, slight wear to corners, neat previous owner same on endpaper. "The very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." - Dryden. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 6789 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAVLIN, MARY CLEMENTE A Game of Heuene: Word Play and the Meaning of Piers Plowman B Cambridge, D.S.Brewer. 1989, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Piers Plowman Studies VII, 147 pages, index. A stylistic study of puns and other forms of word play in the B-version of the puzzling Middle English narrative poem: its word play is enigmatic and demands of the reader intense attention and play of mind. Fine/Fine. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 1478 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAY, DAVID A Guide to Tolkien London, Chancellor Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0753705621) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Reprint, bright pictorial cover, 272 pages, chronology, index, illustrated. Arranged in a handy A-Z format, this book explores and explains Tolkien's creatures, plants, events and places. Essential reading for anyone who loves Tolkien's works and wants to learn more about them. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DICKENS, CHARLES Martin Chuzzlewit Ware, Herts, Wordsworth Editions. 1994. (ISBN: 1853262056) Soft Cover. Paperback reprint, pictorial cover, 762 pages, introduction. Martin Chuzzlewit ((1843/44) is Charles Dickens's comic masterpiece and marks the climax of his literary phase as a writer. No previous owner marks, no creasing to spine. Very Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 4890 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DICKENS, CHARLES (COMPILED & EDITED BY PETER ROWLAND). My Early Times. London; Aurum Press, 1997.. F/F. Revised and expanded edition. Hardcover, 8vo, xxvi + 210 pages, 23 illustrations, sources and notes. Fine (as new) in illustrated dustjacket. In this masterly piece of literary reconstruction, illustrated with contemporary prints and portraits, Peter Rowland has combined the surviving fragments of the original text of Dickens' own account of his boyhood with passages from Copperfield, plus many of the autobiographical fragements that feature in much of Dickens' journalism, speeches and letters, to recreate a seamless narrative which tells the story of the author's life in his own words. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 2504 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DIMNET, ERNEST The Bronte Sisters London, Jonathan Cape. 1931. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Original green cloth boards, some fading, gilt lettering to spine & front, 256 pages, 4 monochrome illustrations, analytical table of contents; previous owner neat name; also contains 54 page list of books in the Life and Letter & The Travellers' Library Series published by Cape.Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill.The Life and Letter Series No.19. Good/No Jacket. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 6502 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.

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	ALEXANDER, CAROLINE. The Way to Xanadu. London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo, black cloth, red title lettering, endpapers facsimile taken from 1618 edition of Purchas Pilgrimage, xiii + 194 pages, 4 maps, list of helpful sources. Fine copy in dustjacket. Cover illustration by Dennis Leigh. Was there really a place called Xanadu, with its 'walls and towers'? Literary travel book recounts the author's quest across three continents to discover 'the miracle of rare device', the source of Coleridge's inspiration. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.25 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 1734 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AMIS, MARTIN; SWIFT, GRAHAM (CONTRIBS); BUFORD, BILL (EDITOR). Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President. Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1991. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 256 pages, b/w illustrations, bright condition. Contributions from Martin Amis (Time's Arrow Pt 3 The Conclusion), Graham Swift ("Plastic" - excerpt from novel in progress), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Mark Malloch Brown, Sergio Larrain (In the Andes), Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), George Steiner, T.Coraghessan Boyle, David Grossman (Cairo). Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 4390 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	ASH, BRIAN Who's Who in H.G.Wells London, Elm Tree Books, Hamish Hamilton. 1979. (ISBN: 0241895979) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous owner marks, xviii & 299 pages, unclipped dustjacket, introduction by Brian Ash, A-Z of Characters, Appendix One - Novels, Appendix Two - Short Stories, Appendix Three - Cremation Address, bibliography. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.25 \| JP¥ 734] Book number: 5651 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AURY, DOMINIQUE Literary Landfalls London, Chatto & Windus. 1960. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Very good clean condition, no previous owner name, with green & yellow dustjacket, chipped at head of spine. A collection of essays in literary criticism, including studies of Fenelon, Balzac, Constant, Proust and Colette. Translated from the French by Denise Folliot, 171 pages. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3972 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	AUSTEN, JANE; WEST, MICHAEL; HART, E.P. Emma (New Method Supplementary Reader, Stage 5) London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1956. Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Ill.: W.Nickless. No previous owner marks, pictorial cover, xiv & 127 pages, map, b/w drawings, list of questions for the student.The text of this book was brought within the vocabulary of New Method, Stage 5. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6131 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BALZAC, HONORE DE. le pere Goriot. Paris; Le Live de Poche, 1991.. VG. Paperback reprint, xxxv & 406 pages. French text. Preface de Francoise van Rossum-Guyon et Michel Butor. Commentaires et notes de Nicole Mozet. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 \| JP¥ 445] Book number: 3892 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BARBER, RICHARD (ED.) Arthurian Literature VII Cambridge, D.S.Brewer. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0859912426) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket, 162 pages, footnotes, bibliographies. Includes: 1. Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King by Joanne Lukitsch. 2. The Arthurian Epitaph in Malory's Morte Darthur by John Withrington 3. The Lancelot legend in Heinrich von dem Turlin's Diu Crone by Elizabeth Anderson 4. New perspectives on the Didot Perceval by Linda Gowans. 5. Arthurian chivalry in Old Norse by Geraldine Barnes 6. Update: the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie by Julia Crick. Fine/Very Good. GBP 4.75 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 7.91 \| JP¥ 704] Book number: 6534 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	VARIOUS. ISTVAN BART (EDITOR) The Kiss: 20th Century Hungarian Short Stories Budapest, Corvina. 1993. (ISBN: 9631338029) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Bright pictorial covers, 426 pages; translated from the Hungarian, an anthology of stories from 31 Hungarian writers, with biographical notes. Very Good. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 6654 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BENNETT, JOAN Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 052109951X) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Second edition, reprint; x + 172 pages, index, very good clean copy. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2471 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOLTON, W. F. The Language of 1984 : Orwell's English and Ours Basil Blackwell. 1984. (ISBN: 063113722X) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright condition, no previous owner name, 252 pages, bibliography, index; this is the first study to analyse Orwell's work from a linguistic perspective, and, at the same time, to use Orwell as a key to our understanding of language ideas in general. Very Good. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 6809 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOYD, WILLIAM Transfigured Night London, One Horse Press. 1995, Limited. (ISBN: 0952925028) Paperback, 16mo - over 5Â¾" - 6Â¾" tall. No 694 of 2000, signed & numbered on title page by the author, as issued with original wraparound band intact, grey card wrappers, white title lettering and cover illustration by Christopher Wormell, 30 pages. Printed at St.Edmundsbury Press. Very nice unmarked condition. Very Good. Signed by Author. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 6759 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BUFORD, BILL (ED). Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists Volume 2. London, Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1993. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 308 pages, illustrated. Ten years after the publication of the first "Best of Young British Novelists", A.S.Byatt, Salman Rushdie, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford set out to identify the most talented writers of the 1993 generation. Includes Iain Banks, Louis de Bernieres, Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare and Jeanette Winterson. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3583 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNS, ROBERT; SCOTT, SIR WALTER; HOGG, JAMES; SPARK, MURIEL; KELMAN, JAMES; GRAY, ALASDAIR Canongate Classics: Boxed Set Edinburgh, Canongate Books. 2001. (ISBN: 1841951684) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Seven paperbacks, unopened, shrink-wrapped in slipcase; includes Fourteen poems and songs by Robert Burns; "Wandering Willie's Tale" and "The Two Drovers" by Sir Walter Scott; selected stories by Muriel Spark; selected stories by James Kelman; Four Tales by James Hogg; "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson; Alasdair Gray's specially commissioned survey of Scottish writing. The set also includes six postcards of the original cover artwork. As New. GBP 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.91 \| JP¥ 1326] Book number: 4051 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	ST JOHN BUTLER, LANCE York Notes on Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Longman. 1986. (ISBN: 0582782058) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 120 pages; slight wear to cover, no markings internally; includes section on life of Henry Fielding, literary background to Tom Jones, detailed summaries, commentary on Fielding and 18th Century politics, hints for study and suggestions for further reading. Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 6367 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CALANDRA, DENIS.: Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Lincoln, Nebraska; 1991.. VG. Paperback, 52 pages. Includes: life of Shakespeare, introduction to the play, brief synopsis, list of characters, summaries and commentaries, character sketches, suggested essay questions, selected bibliography. GBP 1.95 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.25 \| JP¥ 289] Book number: 3832 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CALANDRA, DENIS.: Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare's Richard II. Lincoln, Nebraska; 1993.. F. Paperback, 77 pages. Fine, as new. Includes: life of Shakespeare, general plot summary, list of characters, summaries and commentaries, character summations, questions for review, selected bibliography. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 3833 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	LE CARRE, JOHN; DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH; GORDIMER, NADINE; PHILLIPS, JAYNE ANNE; BERGER, JOHN (CONTRIBS); BUFORD, BILL (EDITOR). Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace. Granta Publications / Penguin Books. 1991. Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 256 pages, b/w illustrations, bright condition. Contributions from John Le Carre (The Unbearable Peace), Alex Kayser, Friedrich Durrenmatt (Vaclav Havel in Switzerland), John Berger & Jean Mohr (The Zoo in Basel), Jayne Anne Phillips (In Summer Camps), Nadine Gordimer, Patrick Suskind, Wolf Biermann, Allan Gurganus. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 4391 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY; SISAM, KENNETH (ED). The Clerke's Tale of Oxenford Oxford, The Clarendon Press. 1966. Hard Cover. Reprint, orange cloth, decorative cover, xxvi & 78 pages, frontis + 10 monochrome illustrations. Introduction, text, notes, glossary; bright condition, no previous owner name or marks. Fine/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 4613 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COOTE, S.H.: Penguin Passnotes. Shakespeare: Macbeth for GCSE. Penguin Books, 1984.. VG. Paperback, 88 pages. Revision aid specially designed for GCSE. Background, synopsis, scene-by-scene analysis, characters, commentary, discussion topics. GBP 1.75 [Appr.: EURO 2 US$ 2.92 \| JP¥ 259] Book number: 3827 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAVID, RICHARD The Janus of Poets: Being an Essay on the Dramatic Value of Shakspere's Poetry Both Good and Bad Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1935, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 164 pages, slight wear to corners, neat previous owner same on endpaper. "The very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." - Dryden. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 6789 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAVLIN, MARY CLEMENTE A Game of Heuene: Word Play and the Meaning of Piers Plowman B Cambridge, D.S.Brewer. 1989, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Piers Plowman Studies VII, 147 pages, index. A stylistic study of puns and other forms of word play in the B-version of the puzzling Middle English narrative poem: its word play is enigmatic and demands of the reader intense attention and play of mind. Fine/Fine. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 1478 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAY, DAVID A Guide to Tolkien London, Chancellor Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0753705621) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Reprint, bright pictorial cover, 272 pages, chronology, index, illustrated. Arranged in a handy A-Z format, this book explores and explains Tolkien's creatures, plants, events and places. Essential reading for anyone who loves Tolkien's works and wants to learn more about them. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5925 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DICKENS, CHARLES Martin Chuzzlewit Ware, Herts, Wordsworth Editions. 1994. (ISBN: 1853262056) Soft Cover. Paperback reprint, pictorial cover, 762 pages, introduction. Martin Chuzzlewit ((1843/44) is Charles Dickens's comic masterpiece and marks the climax of his literary phase as a writer. No previous owner marks, no creasing to spine. Very Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 4890 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DICKENS, CHARLES (COMPILED & EDITED BY PETER ROWLAND). My Early Times. London; Aurum Press, 1997.. F/F. Revised and expanded edition. Hardcover, 8vo, xxvi + 210 pages, 23 illustrations, sources and notes. Fine (as new) in illustrated dustjacket. In this masterly piece of literary reconstruction, illustrated with contemporary prints and portraits, Peter Rowland has combined the surviving fragments of the original text of Dickens' own account of his boyhood with passages from Copperfield, plus many of the autobiographical fragements that feature in much of Dickens' journalism, speeches and letters, to recreate a seamless narrative which tells the story of the author's life in his own words. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 2504 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DIMNET, ERNEST The Bronte Sisters London, Jonathan Cape. 1931. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Original green cloth boards, some fading, gilt lettering to spine & front, 256 pages, 4 monochrome illustrations, analytical table of contents; previous owner neat name; also contains 54 page list of books in the Life and Letter & The Travellers' Library Series published by Cape.Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill.The Life and Letter Series No.19. Good/No Jacket. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 6502 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.