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Oxfam bookshop newport a philosophical commentary on richard wagner's der ring des nibelungen, by the irish writer george bernard shaw, offered to those enthusiastic admirers of wagner who "were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of wotan"see oxfam website for delivery information read moreendpapers discolouredlower corners bumpedboards have been covered at some point, leaving a residue on pastedownsmustard cloth covered boards with gilt text to spinelight discolourationsuperficial scuffs, marks and splashesneatly inked inscription on front endpaperlightly foxed and tanned throughout
14 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a symposium within a programme for the inaugural concert on 24 march , with adrian boult and the london philharmonic orchestrano highlighting or other notesan introduction and several articles about the organ are includedvery good condition for agesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
6 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport 'a dictionary of english plant names' is a comprehensive and informative record of the names of english plants (from trees to seaweed, plants from the wild, farm and garden) the scientific name of the species, date when the species was introduced into england, and where possible, an historical or etymological explanation see oxfam website for delivery information read more good condition for its agetext block is clean and bright, and spine is tightblack and white illustrations throughout (see images 2 for example)no highlighting or other notesclipped dust jacket is clean and intact with only minor signs of wear
13 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a home cooking companion in three sections: basic cookery, picture cookery and a picture recipe booksee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontains more than recipeswoven head and tail bandstop edge coloured blackvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationphotographic endpapersblack cloth-covered boards with blind embossed insignia and panel decoration to front and gilt text and illustration to spineslightly shaken, probably through usewear to edges and cornerssporadic marks throughout text block, which is also lightly but evenly tanned
60 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in devon and somerset, particularly around the east lyn valley area of exmoorgilt text within black panel on spineneatly inked inscription on rear of front endpaperred leather covered boards with gilt insignia to front, gilt decoration to edges and banded spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moremarbled endpaperswoven head and tail bandsvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationendpapers separated from flyleaf at hinge, although binding is still intactlight foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise text block is clean and lightly but evenly tannedspine faded and worn at edgesall edges marbled
14 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a unique work in its time: no other book could compare for the amount of illustrations and the order in which it is arrangedgreen cloth covered boards with gilt text and black decoration to front and spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis edition has revised terminology from earlier versionspictorial endpaperswoven head and tail bandsfoxing to endpapers and sporadically withinvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationblind embossed panel to rear boardsoiling to some individual leaves
24 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a dramatic story of love in the welsh coalfieldsnakeskin printed paper covered boards with black cloth covered spineneatly inked dedication to front endpaperendpapers discolouredbinding is clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevarious superficial scuffs, marks and discolourationblack text within separately affixed white panel to spine
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a biography of the scottish psychiatrist, author and noted fourth way teacherjacket is in two pieces, with various scuffs and marks, chips and discolourationlight scuffs and discolouration to boardscream dust jacket with green text and illustrationlight foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedblack cloth-covered boards with gilt text to spine, title within separately coloured text panelsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewear to edges and top and bottom of spine
14 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical disputethey examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable developmentand they warn the 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective, may degenerate into an effort to redesign and manage nature in order to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of resource plunder and pollutionthis is why some the world's leading environmental thinkers have come together in this volume to probe critically the new language being developed by the environmental professionalsthey explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risk between north and southpaperback book in good overall conditiongood tight bindinginside contains no marks, annotation or marginaliacover shows signs of shelf wear, sticker ghost and light creases to laminate on spinethis book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify issues involved and what might constitute appropriate actionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
19 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport musical drama starring barbra streisand as esther hoffman, an unknown bar singershe is a huge success, and romance between the two blossoms into marriagehowever, as esther's star eclipses john's he grows increasingly resentful and self-destructiveone evening, he chances upon esther singing in a bar and gives her the opportunity to audition for a recording contractjohn norman howard (kris kristofferson) is a fading rock star who drowns his sorrows in booze and self-pitysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary lifegrey paper-covered boards with black text to spinezawe ashton has been acting since she was sixsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreblack endpapersto stay sane, an actress must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person beginsshe has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', oscar wilde's salome to st trinian's schoolgirl by way of fresh meat's vodtext block is clean and tightin character breakdown, zawe scrolls through a version of her lifesuperficial scuffs and marksin it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all? photographic dustjacketso she doesn't lose herself completelyor is it a version of her art? or something in between
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport bl reissued with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographical supplementthe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt letteringthere are further chapters on the economy, the coinage, languages and literature, and the irish abroadtwo surveys, 'land and people', cmoody, a new history of ireland is harvesting of modern scholarship on irish history from the earliest times to the presentthere will be ten volumes, six of which have been published to datethere are stickers on the title page, endpapers, and stamps on the text block the dust jacket is in good condition with minor sun fade to the spinethe third volume opens with a character study of early modern ireland and a panoramic survey of ireland in , followed by twelve chapters of narrative historyhowever, this is a good clean copy with no notes or highlighting throughoutplanned and established by the late tsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markings
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport this ten-volume series covers the history of ireland from earliest times to the presentthe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt letteringthe present volume opens with a character study of the period, followed by twenty chapters of narrative history, with a survey of 'land and people, c 'Â the dust jacket is in good condition with minor sun fade to the spinerepresenting a harvesting of modern scholarship on the subject, its contributors are mainly historians, but include historical geographers and specialists in other related disciplines such as languages and literature, the visual arts, and musicfurther chapters cover the economy, legal developments, literature in english, education, administration and the public service, and emigration, ending with a study of ireland inthere are stickers on the title page, endpapers, and stamps on the text blockhowever, this is a good clean copy with no notes or highlighting throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markings
48 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the artsit lays out koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehence low price for this itemfirst published in ; this is the scarcer danube edition, with a new preface by the author), as special cases of "bisociation"from describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" - a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphorsone or two underlinings in pen; one or two marginal annotations in pencil - otherwise clean/intacthe regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etcunclipped d/j is tatty with a number of tears around the edges
18 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the story of a yorkshire woman who was called upon by the ministry of labour and national service to be directed to work of national importanceblue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreminor foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise lightly but evenly tannedshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spineendpapers discolouredvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationgiven the choice between working in a factory or going into transport, she chose the latter and became a conductress on a tramrear free endpaper has been torn outa heart-warming and touching collection of anecdotes about life as a clippie, and how it impacted upon her life at home
34 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniusno highlighting or other notes see oxfam website for delivery information read morefull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmakingthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of uselacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landanyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesthe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successfulin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutionthousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutiontext block cleandust jacket unmarked
5 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a hideous evil has awoken in the forgotten realmscreate your own magic world of neverwinter filled with characters, monsters, stories, weapons and legends, all designed by your imagination with the neverwinter toolsetnow, in order to save the inhabitants of the town of neverwinter you must uncover a sinister conspiracy, unmask your mysterious betrayer and complete an epic struggle to defeat the powerful forces that look to halt your quest and unleash an evil your people would surely never survivein very good condition overallinvite up to 64 of your friends to traverse your world while you act as a dungeon master, managing the plot and characters in real-timecomplete with manual, quick ref cardexperience the magic of the legendary dungeons and dragons on your home computer with this new role-playing gamesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe developers of hugely popular baldur's gate series have created a remarkable 60-hour single-player adventure in addition to the multiplayer experience of a lifetime featuring the revolutionary neverwinter toolset
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the author writes about her celebrated artwork comprising a triangular structure with 39 dinner placings for women who are fundamental to our heritage see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notes/markstext block clean/intactthe 39 guests include sappho, emily dickinson, mary wollstonecraft, hildegarde of bingen and virginia woolf, to name only the prominent literary personaethe middle section of the triangle incorporates the names of 999 other important women in our cultural historyd/j intact though scuffed at top and bottom ends of spinetwo of the plates in those placings are in images 2/3 and a detail of the endpapers in image 4
13 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a group of fun-loving teenagers take jobs at a recently re-opened summer camp, unaware of the circumstances that had led to its closure: the drowning of a young boy named jason and subsequent murder of two counsellors over twenty years beforedisc and box in excellent conditionfollowed by seven sequelsno sooner has the camp re-opened for business than the killing begins again, as the teens are picked off one by onesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
5 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport issued , the original 'a series' of brooke bond wild flowers tea card albumsscarce item; second printing with just 'picture card album' on frontvery good condition for age; a little foxing on back cover, otherwise clean/intactcomplete set of cards in albumsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport this is a descriptive guide to three welsh counties which have romantic hill, dale and river scenery unsurpassed in the british islesone in a series of shell guides glossy pictorial dust jacketsticker ghost on rear of jacketsuperficial scuffs and marks, light discolouration, mainly to spinepictorial endpapersways of life here, and therefore landscape and architecture, have changed less than in most districts in the last hundred years (as of )much of it is pastoral and remote country, where the houses and churches are neither rich nor grand but have a strongly-marked, unsophisticated charactertan cloth covered boards with green text to spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretext block is clean and tight and lightly but evenly tanned
24 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a six-volume set of works by the renowned victorian poet, playwright, novelist, and critictext blocks are lightly and evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevolume i: poems and ballads, first series volume ii: songs before sunrise; songs of two nations volume iii: poems and ballads, second and third series; songs of the springtides volume iv: tristram of lyonesse; the tale of balen; atalanta in calydon; erechtheus volume v: studies in song; a century of roundels; sonnets on english dramatic poets; the heptalogia; etcendpapers discolouredvolume vi: a midsummer holiday; astrophel; a channel passage; and other poems all six volumes: dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spineminor superficial foxing and occasional marks throughoutvarious scuffs, marks, discolouration and signs of wear to boards, edges and top and bottom of spines
100 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a book for old and youngshelf wear to top and bottom edgespictorial front endpaperssigns of water damage to rearbindling slightly loose in places but is still intactdiscolouration to front and rear endpapersfoxing and tanning to text blocksuperficial scuffs, marks and discolourationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea charming little volume explaining a wide range of historical facts, laws, rules and customs, including marvels of the heavens, sight and sound, trees and plants, church and state and art-termsbrown patterned cloth covered boards with blank embossed panel design to front and rear and gilt text to spine
5 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport with superb colour diagrams and an equally easy-to-follow text, this fascinating book shows how to make a transistor radio capable of receiving a number of stationstextual/pictorial endpaperssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresuperficial scuffs, marks and signs of wearpictorial paper covered boardstext block is clean and tight and free from annotation and marginalia
14 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport complete set of 4 'mrs tim' books in the editionall are ex-library and have a library stamp on the ffep; two of them have small library sticker ghostsall have a previous price in pen on the ffepwith the minor faults taken into account this is a low price for this complete set of scarce itemsage browning evident on internal pages, but no highlighting or other notes/marksall are protected by transparent wrappersall covers are intact but one (mrs tim) is becoming slightly detachedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
40 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport first paperback editiongood condition; no scribble or other markssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunusual for a 'peanuts' book, in that it has full-page colour cartoons (see image 2 for a double page example)
6 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the aim of this book is to draw out the structure and key statements of the various contact forms considered, in order to emphasise their practical effects glossy green paper-covered boards with stylised illustration to front, and pink and white text to front, rear and spinetext block is clean and tightslight discolouration to pastedownssuperficial scuffs and marksthere is now such an array of contract forms and supporting documents that it is useful to have a book pitched at a level somewhere between the legal treatises at the one extreme and the thumbnail sketch at the othersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a fun and easy-to-use book for crafters of all ages and experience levels that shows how to create wonderful eco-friendly projectspaperback in very good condition overallsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom back-to-school basics to holiday treats, richela morgan walks readers through 52 projects with easy-to-follow instructions to turn junk into jewelsgoing green has never been so much funminimal wear to cover from storage/useinterior contains no markings, annotation or marginaliasome green crafters ideas include transforming an old denim jacket into a tote bag, creating toy cars from discarded cardboard boxes and bottle caps, weaving a basket from plastic shopping bags and making unique folders from cereal boxes
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport bl reissued with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographical supplementthe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt letteringmoody, a new history of ireland is harvesting of modern scholarship on irish history from the earliest times to the presentthere will be ten volumes, six of which have been published to datethere are stickers on the title page, endpapers, and stamps on the text block the dust jacket is in good condition with minor sun fade to the spinehowever, this is a good clean copy with no notes or highlighting throughoutplanned and established by the late tsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markings
58 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport full title is "a treatise on the construction the history and the practice of the flute including a sketch of the elements of acoustics and critical notices of sixty celebrated flute-players"see oxfam website for delivery information read morescuffing to cover and some corner bumpshence relatively low price for this very scarce itemlittle tear at top of spine area adjacent to back cover (1 inch); some tanning to end-papers plus owner's name in penno highlighting or other notes
78 €