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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"mustard cloth covered boards with gilt text to spineboards have been covered at some point, leaving a residue on pastedownsendpapers discolouredneatly inked inscription on front endpaperlightly foxed and tanned throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelight discolourationlower corners bumpedsuperficial scuffs, marks and splashes
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 notessee oxfam website for delivery information read morean introduction and several articles about the organ are includedvery good condition for age
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 explanationclipped dust jacket is clean and intact with only minor signs of wearblack and white illustrations throughout (see images 2 for example)no highlighting or other notestext block is clean and bright, and spine is tight see oxfam website for delivery information read more good condition for its age
13 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a home cooking companion in three sections: basic cookery, picture cookery and a picture recipe bookcontains more than recipesvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationphotographic endpapersslightly shaken, probably through usewear to edges and cornerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreblack cloth-covered boards with blind embossed insignia and panel decoration to front and gilt text and illustration to spinewoven head and tail bandssporadic marks throughout text block, which is also lightly but evenly tannedtop edge coloured black
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 exmoorvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationmarbled endpapersneatly inked inscription on rear of front endpapergilt text within black panel on spineendpapers separated from flyleaf at hinge, although binding is still intactall edges marbledsee oxfam website for delivery information read morered leather covered boards with gilt insignia to front, gilt decoration to edges and banded spinewoven head and tail bandslight foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise text block is clean and lightly but evenly tannedspine faded and worn at edges
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 arrangedvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationgreen cloth covered boards with gilt text and black decoration to front and spinefoxing to endpapers and sporadically withinblind embossed panel to rear boardsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewoven head and tail bandssoiling to some individual leavesthis edition has revised terminology from earlier versionspictorial endpapers
24 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a dramatic story of love in the welsh coalfieldblack text within separately affixed white panel to spinevarious superficial scuffs, marks and discolourationbinding is clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedendpapers discolouredsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresnakeskin printed paper covered boards with black cloth covered spineneatly inked dedication to front endpaper
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a biography of the scottish psychiatrist, author and noted fourth way teacherwear to edges and top and bottom of spineblack cloth-covered boards with gilt text to spine, title within separately coloured text paneljacket is in two pieces, with various scuffs and marks, chips and discolourationlight foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelight scuffs and discolouration to boardscream dust jacket with green text and illustration
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 disputeand 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 pollutionthey explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risk between north and southgood tight bindingthis 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 professionalspaperback book in good overall conditionthis book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify issues involved and what might constitute appropriate actioncover shows signs of shelf wear, sticker ghost and light creases to laminate on spinethey examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable developmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinside contains no marks, annotation or marginalia
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 marriagejohn norman howard (kris kristofferson) is a fading rock star who drowns his sorrows in booze and self-pityhowever, as esther's star eclipses john's he grows increasingly resentful and self-destructivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone evening, he chances upon esther singing in a bar and gives her the opportunity to audition for a recording contract
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 spineso she doesn't lose herself completelyin character breakdown, zawe scrolls through a version of her lifetext block is clean and tightzawe ashton has been acting since she was sixor is it a version of her art? or something in betweenshe 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 vodto stay sane, an actress must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person beginssuperficial scuffs and marksblack endpaperssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all? photographic dustjacket
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport bl reissued with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographical supplementtwo surveys, 'land and people', cplanned and established by the late tthe third volume opens with a character study of early modern ireland and a panoramic survey of ireland in , followed by twelve chapters of narrative historythere are further chapters on the economy, the coinage, languages and literature, and the irish abroadwithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markingsmoody, a new history of ireland is harvesting of modern scholarship on irish history from the earliest times to the present the dust jacket is in good condition with minor sun fade to the spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are stickers on the title page, endpapers, and stamps on the text blockhowever, this is a good clean copy with no notes or highlighting throughoutthere will be ten volumes, six of which have been published to datethe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt lettering
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport this ten-volume series covers the history of ireland from earliest times to the presentthe 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 spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefurther 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 throughoutrepresenting 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 musicwithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markingsthe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt lettering
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 creativityone or two underlinings in pen; one or two marginal annotations in pencil - otherwise clean/intacthence low price for this item), as special cases of "bisociation"he regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etcsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunclipped d/j is tatty with a number of tears around the edgesfirst published in ; this is the scarcer danube edition, with a new preface by the authorfrom 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 metaphors
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 importanceminor foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise lightly but evenly tannedvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationrear free endpaper has been torn outendpapers discolouredshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spinegiven the choice between working in a factory or going into transport, she chose the latter and became a conductress on a tramsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea heart-warming and touching collection of anecdotes about life as a clippie, and how it impacted upon her life at homeblue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spine
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 geniusanyone 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 successfulthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutionexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of useno highlighting or other notesdust jacket unmarkedtext block clean see oxfam website for delivery information read morethousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutionlacking 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 landfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking
5 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a hideous evil has awoken in the forgotten realmsinvite up to 64 of your friends to traverse your world while you act as a dungeon master, managing the plot and characters in real-timeexperience the magic of the legendary dungeons and dragons on your home computer with this new role-playing gamesee oxfam website for delivery information read morecreate 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 survivethe 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 toolsetin very good condition overallcomplete with manual, quick ref card
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 heritagethe middle section of the triangle incorporates the names of 999 other important women in our cultural history see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 39 guests include sappho, emily dickinson, mary wollstonecraft, hildegarde of bingen and virginia woolf, to name only the prominent literary personaed/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 4no highlighting or other notes/markstext block clean/intact
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 beforefollowed by seven sequelsno sooner has the camp re-opened for business than the killing begins again, as the teens are picked off one by onedisc and box in excellent conditionsee 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 albumsvery good condition for age; a little foxing on back cover, otherwise clean/intactsee oxfam website for delivery information read morescarce item; second printing with just 'picture card album' on frontcomplete set of cards in album
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 islessticker ghost on rear of jackettext block is clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedmuch of it is pastoral and remote country, where the houses and churches are neither rich nor grand but have a strongly-marked, unsophisticated characterone in a series of shell guides glossy pictorial dust jacketsuperficial scuffs and marks, light discolouration, mainly to spineways of life here, and therefore landscape and architecture, have changed less than in most districts in the last hundred years (as of )see oxfam website for delivery information read moretan cloth covered boards with green text to spinepictorial endpapers
24 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport a six-volume set of works by the renowned victorian poet, playwright, novelist, and criticvolume 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 throughoutendpapers discolouredvolume 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; etctext blocks are lightly and evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevarious 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 youngpictorial front endpapersfoxing and tanning to text blockbrown patterned cloth covered boards with blank embossed panel design to front and rear and gilt text to spinea 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-termsbindling slightly loose in places but is still intactdiscolouration to front and rear endpaperssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresigns of water damage to rearshelf wear to top and bottom edgessuperficial scuffs, marks and discolouration
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 stationspictorial paper covered boardstext block is clean and tight and free from annotation and marginaliasuperficial scuffs, marks and signs of wearsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretextual/pictorial endpapers
14 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport complete set of 4 'mrs tim' books in the editionage browning evident on internal pages, but no highlighting or other notes/marksall covers are intact but one (mrs tim) is becoming slightly detachedall are protected by transparent wrappersall have a previous price in pen on the ffepsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith the minor faults taken into account this is a low price for this complete set of scarce itemsall are ex-library and have a library stamp on the ffep; two of them have small library sticker ghosts
40 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport first paperback editionunusual for a 'peanuts' book, in that it has full-page colour cartoons (see image 2 for a double page example)see oxfam website for delivery information read moregood condition; no scribble or other marks
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 tightthere 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 othersuperficial scuffs and markssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreslight discolouration to pastedowns
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 projectsgoing green has never been so much funsome 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 boxesminimal wear to cover from storage/usesee 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 jewelspaperback in very good condition overallinterior contains no markings, annotation or marginalia
4 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport bl reissued with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographical supplementplanned and established by the late twithdrawn ex-library with all the usual markingsmoody, a new history of ireland is harvesting of modern scholarship on irish history from the earliest times to the present the dust jacket is in good condition with minor sun fade to the spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are stickers on the title page, endpapers, and stamps on the text blockhowever, this is a good clean copy with no notes or highlighting throughoutthere will be ten volumes, six of which have been published to datethe book itself has grey covered boards and gilt lettering
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"hence relatively low price for this very scarce itemno highlighting or other noteslittle tear at top of spine area adjacent to back cover (1 inch); some tanning to end-papers plus owner's name in penscuffing to cover and some corner bumpssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
78 €