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Hardback. The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes's pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 592 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616732
- ISBN
- 9780748616732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.40€ 108.36
€ 112.40
€ 108.36
Paperback. Allan Marriot Hutchins was one of thousands of young men who, in 1900, volunteered to fight the Boers in a war that foreshadowed the later carnage of the twentieth century. This book offers an eyewitness account of a soldier's life at a pivotal moment in the history of the British Empire. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJC; BJ; HBJH; HBWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752465180
- ISBN
- 9780752465180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Hardcover. An edited anthology of Charles Dickens' varied writings on France, exploring the writer's fascination with French culture and history. This book brings together short stories and extracts, from novels and travel writing. Among its journalistic highlights, are accounts of a train journey from London to Paris; a rough Channel crossing; and others. Editor(s): Edmondson, John. Num Pages: 448 pages, 20 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: BJ; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 31. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955061
- ISBN
- 9781904955061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.00
€ 23.99
€ 22.00
Paperback. 'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' This title features profound and lyrical letters the author wrote to a young friend with advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241252055
- ISBN
- 9780241252055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.53
€ 5.53
Paperback. A collection of 850 letters of the author to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures. It opens with letters that were written during the author's early years in California, and closing with and unfinished 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York. Editor(s): Steinbeck, Elaine; Wallsten, Robert. Num Pages: 928 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 55. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 928
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186290
- ISBN
- 9780141186290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300097429
- ISBN
- 9780300097429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.11
€ 20.99
€ 17.11
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Unicorn Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910500453
- ISBN
- 9781910500453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.10
€ 18.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. This book features the full wartime diaries of Esther Rowley who had, it seems, independent financial status and influential friends in Devon society. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; 3JJH; BJ; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752448831
- ISBN
- 9780752448831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
€ 20.99
€ 19.60
Hardcover. Contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell - a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut - rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Editor(s): Bush, Harold K., Jr.; Courtney, Steve; Messent, Peter. Num Pages: 512 pages, 14 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820350752
- ISBN
- 9780820350752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 42.10
€ 48.99
€ 42.10
Hardback. This volume, ninth in the Yale Research Series of Boswell's correspondence, contains more than 150 letters, verse epistles and other items. Editor(s): Hankins, David; Caudle, James J. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JF; BJ; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618057
- ISBN
- 9780748618057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.56€ 163.72
€ 171.56
€ 163.72
Paperback. "Each week the editors of Slate, one of the first and best on-line literary magazines, ask a different person to keep a diary. The Slate Diaries is a selection of some of the best of those diaries." Editor(s): Kinsley, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; JFD; JP; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 459. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KRA0012670
- ISBN
- 9781586480073
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF7; JFFK; PST; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173865
- ISBN
- 9780231173865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.38€ 75.66
€ 99.38
€ 75.66
Hardcover. This volume presents documents written during the final sessions of the First Congress. Congress passed legislation that established a national bank and federal excise, and increased the size of the army. Washington also gave a lot of time to the new federal city on the Potomac. Editor(s): Twohig, Dorothy; Chase, Philander D. Series: Presidential Series. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1216.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917498
- ISBN
- 9780813917498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.61
€ 128.61
Hardcover. Leabhar a thugann spas ar leith do gach la den bhliain (365 la) agus a sholathraionn mireanna gearra eolais faoi ghneithe eagsula de stair agus de shaiocht na hEireann in aghaidh gach lae. Num Pages: 148 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Cois Life Teoranta
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907494307
- ISBN
- 9781907494307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.61
€ 17.99
€ 13.61
Hardcover. Originally published: Hans von B'ulow. Die Briefe an Johannes Brahms. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994. Editor(s): Hinrichsen, Hans-Joachim. Translator(s): Klohr, Cynthia. Num Pages: 170 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH; BGF; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810882157
- ISBN
- 9780810882157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.11
€ 145.11
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848680067
- ISBN
- 9781848680067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.16€ 44.35
€ 59.16
€ 44.35
paperback. In 1813 George Walton joined the Rifle Brigade at a recruiting party outside St Philip's Church in Birmingham and subsequently kept a journal of his daily life throughout the years of his army service until 1839 when he retired. Editor(s): Coleman, Peter. Num Pages: 94 pages, 7 mono illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGHA; BJ. Dimension: 171 x 253 x 10. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Brewin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781858585482
- ISBN
- 9781858585482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.74
€ 15.74
Paperback. During the troubled time of war, many ordinary people move away from the safety and comfort of home to the harrowing theatre of war. This account follows the life of a Second World War B-17 bombardier, Fred Lull, from the beginning of the war to its conclusion through the letters he wrote home to his mother. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BJ; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752464688
- ISBN
- 9780752464688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Hardback. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 492 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 35. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802097019
- ISBN
- 9780802097019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.36
€ 80.36
Hardback. The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio--a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli--are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. Editor(s): Daneloni, Alessandro. Translator(s): Davies, Martin. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: BJ; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058361
- ISBN
- 9780674058361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.91
€ 40.99
€ 34.91
Paperback. "Originally published as Letters from Fighting Hoosiers by Howard H. Peckham and Shirley A. Snyder, Indiana War History Commission, 1948." Editor(s): Peckham, Howard H.; Snyder, Shirley A. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024480
- ISBN
- 9780253024480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Hardback. Editor(s): Gelles, Edith B. (Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University). Num Pages: 1000 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; BJ; DN; HBTV; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 124. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- The Library of America
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598534658
- ISBN
- 9781598534658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.61
€ 36.99
€ 33.61
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916194
- ISBN
- 9780813916194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.26€ 42.62
€ 118.26
€ 42.62
Hardcover. Part of the "Revolutionary War Series", this work documents a period that includes the Continental Army's last weeks at Valley Forge, the British evacuation of Philadelphia, and the Battle of Monmouth Court House. It begins with George Washington's army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, celebrating the alliance between the United States and France. Editor(s): Crackel, Theodore J.; Lengel, Edward G. Series: Revolutionery War S. Num Pages: 832 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925226
- ISBN
- 9780813925226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.41€ 78.31
€ 125.41
€ 78.31