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  • Begat by David Crystal

    £4.00

    Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. 22cm by 14cm blue boards in illustrated wrapper, 327 pages. Sub-titled “The King James Bible and the English Language.” Condition: minimal shelf-wear to board edges and wrapper. Appears unread.

  • Enlightenment by Roy Porter

    £3.00

    Penguin, 2001. Reprint. 20cm by 13cm, 727 pages. Sub-titled: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World and described by one reviewer as “A sparkling compendium of eighteenth-century ideas-in-action….” Condition: Minor edge-wear to corners of wraps and page edges are uniformly browned/yellowed with age. Looks unread.

  • Granta 53, Spring 1996

    £3.00

    A paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue’s theme is News and features Zoe Heller, Gordon Burn, Fintan O’Toole and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Crease down front cover and covers slightly yellowed with age. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask…

  • Granta 54, Summer 1996

    £3.00

    A Paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Best of Young American Novelists and features Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Fae Myenne Ng, Mona Simpson and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 320 pages. Condition: A few pages to the rear of the book have creasing to the bottom corner plus…

  • Granta 72, Winter 2000

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Richard Ford, Olga Tokarczuk, Nik Cohn, A.L. Kennedy and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Clean contents but crease the spine of front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 73, Spring 2001

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Necessary Journeys and features Ian McEwan on Dunkirk plus Decca Aitkenhead, Dayanita Singh, Isabel Hilton plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges. N.B. We have more…

  • Granta 82, Summer 2003

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Life’s Like That and features Simon Gray, Lynn Barber and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: some shelf-wear. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Granta 89, Spring 2005 The Factory

    £3.00

    The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Isabel Hilton, Luc Sante, Tessa Hadley plus a rare interview with James Joyce. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: very clean and tight. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.

  • Jung by Anthony Storr

    £3.00

    Fontana, 1986. Reprint paperback, 19.5cm by 13cm, 124 pages. Fontana Modern Masters series. Editor: Frank Kermode. Condition: Some wear and creasing with use to covers, pages uniformly browned with age, previous owner has turned over a few page corners and left a neat ink signature on the fly-leaf.

  • Madness A Brief History by Roy Porter

    £3.50

    Oxford University Press, 2002. 17cm by 12cm illustrated wraps, 239 pages. Oliver Sacks described this as “ delightfully easy to read, witty, and small enough to fit in one’s pocket…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear.

  • Mainly for Teenagers by Dave and Susan Foster 1960

    £5.00

    Vintage  moral instruction manual from the 1960s. Published at the start of the Swinging Sixties this book by husband and wife team Dave and Susan attempt to guide teenagers through tricky years to adulthood. Chapter titles include “Babes With Bibles”, “Where Are You?” and “This Thing Called Love!” Published by Oliphants Limited in 1960 this…

  • The Interregnum The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660

    £5.00

    The Interregnum The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660 edited by G.E. Aylmer revised reprint from Macmillan, 1979. This paperback book measures 21.5cm by 14cm and has 247 pages. It is a 1979 reprint of the revised edition which came out in 1974. The first edition was published in 1972. Each chapter has a different author including…

  • The Renaissance by Walter Pater

    £2.50

    Oxford World’s Classics, [1990s]. 18.5cm by 11.5cm paperback with colour illustrated wraps, 174 pages. Edited with an Introduction by Adam Phillips. Condition: Some edge-wear to covers and pages uniformly browned at edges. Appears unread.

  • Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Fifth Series 1986

    £5.00

    Green cloth hardback 22cm by 14cm with 301 pages. Includes society President G.E. Aylmer’s Address entitled Collective Mentalities in mid Seventeenth-Century England: The Puritan Outlook. Condition: Minor shelf-wear to boards and spine but otherwise clean and bright.

  • Victor Burgin Mari Mahr Mitra Tabrizian 1986 Photographers’ Gallery exhibition catalogue

    £8.50

    PRESS & The Photographers’ Gallery. Published to accompany the exhibition Idle Times by Mari Mahr, Correct Distance by Mitra Tabrizian at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, January 1986. 21cm by 15cm white wraps 36 pages. Includes black and white images throughout plus article Diderot, Barthes, Hieroglyph by Victor Burgin written January 1985. Condition: Contents clean but…