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Paperback. The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a 21st-century readership. Editor(s): Harrison, Gerry. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007558551
- ISBN
- 9780007558551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Paperback. The editors present a careful selection from Scudery's shorter writings, including her 'Amorous Letters', 'Famous Women', and her series of 'Conversations'. One of the most popular novelists of the 17th century, Scudery was the first woman to be honoured by the French Academy. Editor(s): Donawerth, Jane L.; Strongson, Julie. Translator(s): Donawerth, Jane L.; Strongson, Julie. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226144047
- ISBN
- 9780226144047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.12
€ 41.99
€ 32.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 870 pages, 4 halftones, 3 charts, 6 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 1248.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1952
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 870
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674014770
- ISBN
- 9780674014770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.03€ 180.88
€ 204.03
€ 180.88
Paperback. Utilizes Brown's life to illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479825233
- ISBN
- 9781479825233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.47
€ 29.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. This book traces 25 turbulent years (1821-46) in the Pacific Northwest's fur trade through the experiences of Archibald McDonald, a trader, cartographer and literate observer of his times. Series: The Pioneers of British Columbia. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; BGB; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; KCCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808330
- ISBN
- 9780774808330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.95
€ 38.99
€ 35.95
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543710
- ISBN
- 9780813543710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.82
€ 37.99
€ 34.82
The Spiritual Journals of Warren Felt Evans. From Methodism to Mind Cu...
Evans, Warren Felt. Ed(S): Albanese, Catherin...
hardcover. Editor(s): Albanese, Catherine L. Series: Religion in North America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HRAX; HRLK; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 641.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780253022431
- ISBN
- 9780253022431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.33
€ 39.33
Hardcover. This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BJ; HBJD1; HBLH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008350
- ISBN
- 9781137008350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.69€ 72.43
€ 101.69
€ 72.43
Hardcover. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives. Editor(s): Reid, Christopher. Num Pages: 784 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1025. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper. First edition
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0303688
- ISBN
- 9780571221387
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardback. The first accurate transcription of John James Audubon's 1826 journal. Editor(s): Patterson, Jerry Daniel. Num Pages: 536 pages, 22 illustrations, 3 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 922.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803225312
- ISBN
- 9780803225312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.45
€ 57.45
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wagtail Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953844319
- ISBN
- 9780953844319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.52
€ 14.52
Hardcover. Editor(s): Garlick, Kenneth; Macintyre, Angus. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 270 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AC; AGB; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 244 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Paul Mellon Centre BA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300027686
- ISBN
- 9780300027686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.84€ 73.84
€ 95.84
€ 73.84
Hardback. From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This work comprises a single manuscript notebook of nearly five hundred pages that Thoreau filled between March 9 and August 18, 1853. Editor(s): Rossi, William; Thomas, Heather Kirk. Num Pages: 480 pages, 38 line illus., 4 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691065373
- ISBN
- 9780691065373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.67€ 98.73
€ 129.67
€ 98.73
Hardcover. The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home. Editor(s): Boulton, James T.; McLoughlin, T. O. Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 293 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318504
- ISBN
- 9781846318504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Paperback. Documents their travels from the Three Forks of the Missouri River in present-day Montana and their progress over the rugged Bitterroot Mountains, along the nearly impenetrable Lolo Trail, and to the Cascades of the Columbia River on today's Washington-Oregon border. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 415 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; BG; BJ; GBCS; HBJK; HBLL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- new edition
- Number of pages
- 415
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280120
- ISBN
- 9780803280120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.59
€ 33.99
€ 30.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Terhune, Alfred McKinley; Terhune, Annabelle Burdick. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643472
- ISBN
- 9780691643472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 259.33€ 194.29
€ 259.33
€ 194.29
Hardcover. Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine. From mid-March to mid-May 1948, at his HQ in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, he wrote his diary under fire from Jews and Arabs alike, with both groups taking aim at the British Administration as the Mandate drew to a close and the country spiralled into violence. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJPG; BJ; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230209862
- ISBN
- 9780230209862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.84€ 43.27
€ 50.84
€ 43.27
Hardcover. This volume covers March-September of 1791, when Washington completed a tour of the southern states. On tour and when he returned to the capital, the heads of executive departments regularly reported to him about affairs of state, whilst friends and foreign correspondents sent news from Europe. Series: Presidential Series. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918105
- ISBN
- 9780813918105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.62
€ 124.62
Paperback. First title from new inspirational stories series Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; VFJJ; YXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9781849013239
- ISBN
- 9781849013239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931859738
- ISBN
- 9781931859738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.21
€ 15.99
€ 12.21
Hardback. Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T S Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot. This book offers a vivid and personal documentation of T S Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571316342
- ISBN
- 9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 30.50
€ 49.99
€ 30.50
Hardback. Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed. Series: Mark Twain Papers. Num Pages: 957 pages, 51 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 957
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237728
- ISBN
- 9780520237728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.39€ 90.42
€ 118.39
€ 90.42
Hardback. Editor(s): Eberle, Henrik. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648736
- ISBN
- 9780745648736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.86
€ 18.86
Paperback. Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 2009) under title: Becoming faithful: Christianity, literacy, and female consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 5 recorded music items, 2 maps, 11 photos, 2 maps, 5 char. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; BGX; BJ; HRCC7; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780295741758
- ISBN
- 9780295741758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.86
€ 35.99
€ 32.86