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Quennell, Peter (editor)
History Today : September 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Thomas Barnes and the Times 1817-1841, George Smith of Coalville, the Fall of the Noble House of Desmond 1579-1583, Sir Rowland Hill and Postal Reform, Gilbert Burnet - Bishop and Historian, The Martello Towers, the First English Lottery, Notes on Battlefields VI the Battle of Ramillies May 23, 1706 plus book reviews and letters.
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Flavell, Linda & Roger
Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 216pp. With over 400 phrases, tracing each one's source and history through the chronological use of examples.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : February 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Commissioner Lin and Opium, William Augustus - Duke of Cumberland 1721-1765, American Loyalists in Canada, 'Madame' Elizabeth Charlotte of Orleans, The English in Padua 1222-1660, Northumberland House - London, The Norman who became Prince of Monaco plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : November 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Cologne and the British 1918-1926, Feminists in Elizabethan England, Jacob Blumkin in Russia 1892-1929, the Mamluk Sultans 1250-1517, The Grosvenor Estate, the Colonial Robespierre - Victor Hugues on Guadeloupe 1794-98, an English Arctic Expedition 1553 plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : December 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on the Blockade of the Smugglers frpm 1817, Ashurnasirpal II and 9th century Assyria, English refugees at Geneva 1555-1559, Bossuet and Fenelon as tutors to French Royalty, Portrait of Lord Althorp 1782-1845, General Count Ignat'yev 1832-1908, the Plague and the Fire - 17th century reminiscences of William Taswell plus book reviews and letters.
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Taylor, Basil
Painting in England 1700 - 1850 : Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon (2 volumes)
Two volumes - paintings and descriptions. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to upper rear corner of text volume. 231 +231 pp, Detailed examination of the collection of 18th and 19th century English art by Paul Mellon and his wife. Volume one includes a twenty page introduction followed by a listing of over 400 paintings and their description and provenance. Volume two comprises about 220 of the paintings displayed full-page, mostly black & white but a few in colour. A heavy set. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Nichol, John
English Composition
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to slightly rubbed spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards and a little rubbing to corners. 128pp. Literature primer - or how to put words together in order to convey our thoughts to others.
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MANSION, J. E. (ed.).
HEATH'S STANDARD FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 2 Volumes: Part One French - English, Part II English - French with Supplement (1962). Dictionnaire français- Anglais et anglais- Français, en 2 Tres Fort volumes)
Two large volumes hardcover in original blue cloth. Part one is French to English and has 912 pages; part two is English to French and has 1488 pages. very good set in original blue cloth gilt letters. dizionario dictionnaire francese-inglese, français- anglais. heavy would require extra shipping.for international orders
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Boatner, Maxine Tull; Makkai, Adam; Gates, John Edward
A Dictionay of American Idioms
pp-xiii-392.
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Gunn, Edward M., Jr. (editor)
Twentieth-Century Chinese Drama : An Anthology (Chinese Literature in Translation Ser.)
Paperback, out of print. 9.25 X 6 with 517 pp.
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Seierstad Asne
The Bookseller of Kabul
Hardback; pp. 245; 12mo; In the spring of 2002, journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to live with a family for several months. Here she reveals her experiences, telling the story of Sultan Khan - who defied the authorities for 20 years to supply books to the people of Kabul - and his family. new/nuovo/neu/nouveau New DJ reprint ISBN: 0316726052
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GOLDSMITH Oliver
Le pasteur de Wakefield
Stock, Bibliothèque anglaise, 1946, 274 pp., broché, légères traces d'usage, état très correct.
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Levi, Peter
Shakespeare's Birthday
The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained meditations on matters of life and death as Peter Levi has done in these personal yet formal poems. "Shakespeare's Birthday" collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre - written since those included in "The Echoing Green" (1983), to which this forms a companion volume. 40p Book
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Wales, Tony
Sussex as She Wus Spoke : A Guide to the Sussex Dialect
A deligtful account of the local dialect and its humour. 112p. illus..bibliography. Book
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Cecil, David
A Portrait of Jane Austen
" He has combined biography, criticism and social history in a delightful narrative which all jane Austen's admirers will wish to enjoy" Second impression. 207pp. illus (some col) index Book
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Pemble, John
Miss Fane in India
Isabella fane, only daughter of gerneral Sir Henry Fane accomapnied her father to India on his appointment os Commander-in-Chief in 1835 and spent three years as his hostess. Her letters home and her journal ....are a fascinating record... containing a wealth of domestic and social detail, complete with intimate revelations about mosquito bites and boils, and entertainingly acid comments about some of her distinguished contemporaries. Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Mistress
Hilarious send up of the hidden habits and lifestyle of British aristocracy. 75p. illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Child
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the offspring of the British upper classes 84p.illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Child
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the offspring of the British upper classes 84p.illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the British upper classes 97p.illus Book
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Daiches, David & Flower, John
Literary Landscapes of the British Isles : A Narrative Atlas
A delightful literary excursion, carefully charted with words and maps to deepen our appreciation and understanding of both the literature and the landscape of the British Isles. The London of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. Bath in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen through the eyes of Smollett, Jane Austen and Dickens. The Lake Poets, the Romantic Poets Abroad, Bronte Country, Hardy's Wessex. The Blackening of England, Scotland in Literature, the Dublin of Joyce and Yeats. Walking tours through Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. Plus a comprehensive Atlas and Gazetter section featuring information on more than 225 leading authors and more than 475 cities, towns and villages of the British Isles. Illustrated. 287p. illus maps Book
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Royle, Trevor
Precipitous City : The Story of Literary Edinburgh
Celebration of Edinburgh's literary evolution from the Renaissance Poets to the novelists and poets of the 20th century, the pubs and taverns and market-places - Edinburgh as reflected in the work of major Scottish writers. 210p. plates bibliography. index Book
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Hieatt, Constance B
Essentials of Old English Readings With Keyed Grammar and Vocabulary
90p. Clean crisp copy. Name of previous owner on rear endpaper else fine. Book
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Timpson, John
Timpson's English Villages
"In this enchanting book John Timpson has chosen his favourite English villages their part in English history, their beautiful churches and village greens, their colourful fairs and customs." Illustrated with photographs by Michael Stead. 192 p. index. Book
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Pepys, Samuel, Charkes II
King Charles Preserved : An Account of His Escape After the Battle of Worcester Dictated By the King Himself to Samuel Pepys.
Dictated by the King himself to Samuel Pepys; Illustrated by Maurice Bartlett. 44p.illus Book
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MacColl, Gail & Wallace, Carol McD.
To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
This delightful account of how American heiresses in the post-Civil War era packed up their trunks and went husband-hunting in England demonstrates that our national infatuation with British aristocracy is nothing new. The young women had good looks and big bucks; the often debt-ridden Brits had titles, castles and a society that was "more stimulating and more permissive, more leisurely and more sophisticated than Old New York." MacColl and Wallace (editor of and contributor to, respectively, The Preppy Handbook ) chronicle the lives of the rich and famous on both sides of the ocean, dishing up spicy gossip, pithy social commentary (by 1910, "Society in America became more sure of itself. Social climbers no longer needed titles for legitimacy") and obscure historical tidbits (because they were almost never allowed to sit in Queen Victoria's presence, her ladies-in-waiting "habitually bought shoes a size too big since their feet swelled so badly"). The book also includes witty profiles of leading American ladies and their British lords, piquant period photographs and handy tips on proper etiquette, such as "Any man who reverses changes the direction in which he's spinning his partner during a waltz is a cad." 403p. illus. bubliography.index. Small crease of front cover, else fine Book
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Trollope, Anthony
Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)
Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Bishop Proudie and the amiable Stanhope family.Introduction by John Sutherland. Edited by Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page eat neat unmarked tight copy. Book
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Thorne, Tony
Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English
"A wonderfully entertaining compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out the common identity that unites the English, to define what makes us who we are, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores. Despite attempts by politicians and writers, despite lessons in citizenship enshrined in the national curriculum, we have famously never been able to define for posterity precisely what Englishness is.[It] takes certain well-loved and crucial expressions such as sorry, nice, common, posh, cuppa, and chippy, explores their strange and wonderful origins, and demonstrates with wit and charm how they are emblems of an era or an attitude, of a heritage and of the traits and quirks essential to all our notions of Englishness. 345p. Book
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Dong-A
Tonga met'uro Yong Han, Han Yong sajon = Dong-A's Metro English-Korean Dictionary
Comprehensive dictionary. Includes a section with vocabulary and phrases for specific subject areas. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing spelling and translations skills.Compact, comprehensive format.[1] English-Korean.910 pages [2] Korean-English 906 pages +map. Thumb indexed..Flexible cover protected inside a clear plastic sleeve and in a box. [Only 7 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Hole. Christina
English Custom & Usage
Vintage copy of this excellent popular work on traditional English Folk customs and festivals Illustrated with prints & photographs . 152p plates bibliography index. Donor inscription on business card on ffep. Book
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Spencer,Terence
Fair Greece,Sad Relic : Literary Philhellenism from Shakespeare to Byron
(New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) "Scholarly and brilliantly written account" of the influence of Greece on the development of English literature. This absorbing book presents the picture of Greece from the fall of Constantinople to the arrival of Byron as seen through the eyes of English poets, essayists and travellers, and shows that "philhellenism" has a much longer history than most people realize. The author reveals how our conception of Greece has been moulded by generations of writers when the country was under Turkish occupation and when its people, temples and traditions were regarded as witnesses both to its ancient splendour and its contemporary sadness.312p.Illus. Bibliography.index. Book
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MacColl, Ewan; Seeger, Peggy
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.387p. bibliography.index Book
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Bryson,Bill
Mother Tongue : English and How it Got That Way
"With dazzling wit and astonishing insight . Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, re silience and sheer fun of the English language . the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries" 270p. bibliography.index Book
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Bryson, Bill
Made in America : An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
"Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood.and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni.". 417p. bibliography.index. (tiny damged bit on rear cover) Book
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Grose, Francis; Crome, Robert [ed]
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue : A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence
Facsimile reprint of "Lexicon balatronicum; a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence compiled originally by Captain Grose . printed by C Chappel, Pall Mall. 1811" Modern foreword by Robert Cromie . A fascinating survey of popular language at the time of the "Regency Bucks" Book
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Crystal, David; Crystal, Ben
The Shakespeare Miscellany
An upbeat exploration of Shakespeare's life and times covers a wide range of topics, from descriptions of his educational studies and discussions about his lost plays to the reasons behind the Globe fire and the difference between a Folio and a Quarto. 214p. bibliography. index Crisp copy Name of previous owner, else as new. Book
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Miller, Jeffrey
Street Talk : The Language of Coronation Street
A necessary dictionary for fans of Coronation Street which translates some of the distinctive dialect and native expressions for Canadians and other innocent English speakers.95p. illus. Book
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Mackie, Clare
Bingo Boys And Poodle Fakers - A Curious Compendium Of Historical Slang Collected From The Best Authorities
Attaboys, Gorgers, Night-Hawks and Widos, the street argot of the past is every bit as colourful and irreverent as todays hip hop and bling. Slang has always aroused strong opinions, but whether you agree with Alan Bennett that there is something suspect about those in the vanguard of slang or with John Galsworthy that it is vigorous and apt, this fascinating new compendium unveils a wealth of information about the fads and peccadilloes of bygone days. What does it say, for instance, about the English that they once had over 100 terms for gin, including Stark Naked, Stinkious, and Wind? Always inventive, frequently hilarious and occasionally utterly outrageous slang is an exuberant celebration of the comic possibilities of everyday life. From Monday Mice to Marriage Music, Wiffle-Woffles to Bummaree, dip into the pages of Bingo Boys and Poodle-Fakers and discover the rough and rumbustious delights of Shakespeare's man of fire-new words, fashions own knight: the ever-changing underworld of the English language.117p. illus. decorated endpapers Book
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Villages (The British Postcard Collection)
22 full colour mailablable postcards with photographs of lovely traditional English village scenes. 1p.+ 22 detachable leaves in tight card covers [NO copies found in WordCst] Postcard
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Galsworthy, John
The Burning Spear
First published in 1919 under the pen name 'A.R. P-M' ; uniform edition 1925 and first printed in [this] Grove Edition 1927. Gilt titles etc on leather style boards, some shelfwear to extremities Book
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
Some of his travels, beginning with an account of his railway journey across the USA. memories of Monterey and including essays about other places and topics. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 295p.Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep. Book
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Smith, William
The Wordsworth Classical Dictionary (Reference Library)
First published as "A Smaller Classical Dictionary" by John Murray in 1852. (18th.ed 1880) Facsimile reprint. 464p. (It was also re-issued.under the title " Everyman's Smaller Classical Dictionary " in 1952) Book
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Murray, Gilbert
The Classical Tradition in Poetry
A survey of the influence of Greek classical poetis metres and literary forms on English literature . Produced for the Charles Eliot Norton lectures on poetry at Harvard, first published in 1927.x. 229p + x p, index. Crisp neat tight original vintage copy. Name of owner on ffep. Book
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Harris, Victor & Husain, Itrat
English Prose 1600-1660
".designed to offer a substantial introduction to the prose of nine major writers of the 17th. century" it includes selections from Francis Bacon, Robert parsons, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor. 514p. Bibliography. Clean tight text. Book
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Geromichas, Ph.
Grammatike Anglikes Glosses : Pleres & Systematike : di archarious kai prochoremenous spoudastas tes Anglikes, me plethos paradeigmaton = English grammar for Greek students
Vintage guide to help Greek students to master English Grammar. 200p. Fold out chart. [ 5 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Thomas, Dylan
Collected Poems 1934-1952
182p, frontis. Crisp tight copy, name of previous owner on ffep, else fine. Book
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Pratt, T. K.
Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other colourful words and phrases give the English language as it has been spoken in Canada's smallest province a flavour all its own. T.K. Pratt makes a major scholarly contribution to the growing list of regional dictionaries that enable us to discover the rich heritage of the language as spoken throughout North America; at the same time it offers a splendid general introduction to the historical and sociological life of the island.. 192p. bibliography Book
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Sellar, W.C & Yeatman, R.J.
1066 and All That : A Memorable History of England,Ccomprising all the Parts That You can Remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates. (Illus. John Reynolds)
Hilarious send up of the highlights of English History - a classic book of British humour. HC. 115p. illus Book
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Scarfe, Francis
Auden and After The Liberation of Poetry 1930-1941
A guide and appreciation of English poets in the 1930's. Includes : Cecil Day Lewis, W.H.Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis Macneice, Geoffrey Grigson, Frederic Prokosch, Kenneth Allott, Dylan Thomas, George Barker, Julian Symons, Henry Treece and others. 208p, plates. Neat tight copy, overall very good, but some underlinings. DJ protected by old lamination Book
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Psimikakis-Chalkokondylis, Laonikos [ed]
poem.a
A collection of printed artistic material allconnected to the Arctic.It includes poems , prose, journal entries, drawings, mixed art and a comic. Presented in English, French,Finnish, Swedish. Norwegian, it constitutes a selection of works from 29 artists and eleven different countries.Confusing pagination - seems mis-bound from publisher. [NO copies found in WorldCat Book
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