Secondhand
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is about many things – the changing seasons, the beauty and fragility of nature, the thrill of the open road, and the creeping tide of suburbia – but it is the glorious adventures of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger that have enchanted children and their parents for more than a century. …
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Warhol by Galella: That’s Great!
Paparazzo—Italian for pesky—is synonymous with Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments. Famously banned from approaching Jackie Onassis and punched by Marlon Brando, Galella was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a…
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Hill Farm Story
The title of Ruth Janette Ruck’s first book Place of Stones is a translation of Carneddi, the name of the author’s eighty-three acre farm in the wild mountains of Snowdonia. She told us how, on leaving school in an English city at the end of the Second World War, with virtually no capital except the…
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Fy Hen Lyfr Cownt
Fy Hen Lyfr Cownt is described as a Welsh-language fictional diary of the 18th to 19th century hymn-writer Ann Griffiths. The book won the Prose medal at the National Eisteddfod, and is renowned for telling the daily life and concerns of a countrywoman and her spiritual life. This first edition volume is in good condition,…
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The History of Don Quixote
More often seen as a single volume in cloth, this is the seldom seen Morocco leather-backed double volume edition. A most attractive and collectable set with excellent imposing shelf presence, featuring elaborate scrolled floral gilt embossed dentelles and vignettes, and with the definitive illustrations of Don Quixote and Sanch Panza, considered by many to be…
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Buchanan’s Manual of Anatomy
Buchanan’s Manual of Anatomy, which first appeared in 1906, was designed as a guide to the structure of the human body as it is revealed in the process of dissection. It was written as a topographical or regional- as opposed to systematic- textbook of human anatomy and as such has been widely used by students…