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oxfam books & music salisbury orbital soundtrack see oxfam website for delivery information read more
6 €
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oxfam books & music norwich published to coincide with howard goodall's major new bbc tv series, this is an accessible history for all music loverssee oxfam website for delivery information read more the story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel -- and entertain for many of us, music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex and specialisedalong the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, what happens in harmony, why some chords sound discordant in his energetic tour through years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original forcehe focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made soundhoward goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of man's musical journey
25 €
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oxfam books & music aberdeen a man of hugely eclectic tastes, frank zappa was a lover of everything from doo-wop to heavy metal and from jazz-funk to new waveboth cds in excellent condition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluding fully illustrated 16 page booklet with extensive notes by music historian derek barker, this delightful package finally reveals what it was that informed so much of frank zappa s extraordinary musicon that same sunday evening more than 30 years ago, zappa also played records by edgar varese and igor stravinsky, representing his love of modern classical musicvarese was one of zappa s very earliest influences and after discovering the dissonant sounds that this french born composer created, he was hooked on a genre of music that for most of us is anything but easy listeningfeaturing nineteenth and twentieth century mavericks as diverse as wagner, holst, ravel, boulez, stockhausen, schoenberg, penderecki, harry partch and john cage in addition to the aforementioned stravinsky and varese this collection illustrates the impulse for many of zappa s own compositions and works as both an introduction to a style of music rarely heard outside of the most elite communities in the third millennium and as a guide to the music frank vincent took to his very heart and cherished throughout the major part of his tragically short lifebut while an acquired taste the tracks that fill this 2 disc compilation may be, the acquisition of such a taste is a rewarding journey with an even more rewarding destinationindeed a radio show he produced for the bbc in found him spinning records by artists as varied as frankie valli, howlin wolf, the channels, lene lovich, wild man fisher, uk subs, traffic and the rolling stones
9 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth in the late s and early '60s, in addition to publishing books, warne also produced a series of 9 picture cardsthe subject matter of each set reflected a popular title in the observer's series, and the pictures on the cards were often borrowed from the bookseach card bears on one side a picture in full colour of an individual example and on the back a panel of clear descriptive text explaining features of the insecteach set of 32 cards was bound together and protected by tracing paper and presented within either in a small box or a cardboard sleeve
19 €
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oxfam books & music fareham observer's books 2 titles: astronomy and the weathercondition of both books is goodsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished by warne list of other ttles has been annotated inkjacket is worn and faed with some marksjacket has been price clippedastronomy by patrick moorehardbacks with dust jacketsweather by reginald lester  jacket is faded and worn at edgespage edges arre markedpages are browned revised edition
8 €
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oxfam books & music islington galt macdermot ?– isabel's a jezebel - "a new music fable" "thirty-nine molten numbers ranging from the enigmatic, mystical "more the air" to the belting gut rhythms of "in another life" that's "isabel's a jezebel"barcode and other identifiers matrix / runout: side a (stamped): uag a-1 matrix / runout: side b (stamped): uag b-1 see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe condition of our copy is excellent, regarding both the playing surfaces and the sleeves" vinyl, lp, stereo released in in the uka fable for these times of the divided self, an ecstatic, electrifying phantasmagoria, a blow torch of lyrical energy that will sear your senses and maybe change your lifetracklist a1 more than earth / more than air a2 down by the ocean a3 oh fish in the sea a4 on the sand by the sea a5 isabel's a jezebel a6 in another life / nothing a7 sand a8 oh mummy darling a9 god, it matters now b1 the saddest moon b2 mama don't want no baby b3 these are the things b4 stanley irrit ability b5 use my name b6 the moon should be rising soon b7 my god when i think b8 hah b9 love knows no season b10 so ends our night the original london cast recording
12 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music totnes the sub-title is “being certain pages from the life and strange adventures of sir nicolas steele bart related by his valet hildebrand biggthis is something of a forerunner of hornung’s raffles bookshe was a famous novelist and catered for crime and boys’ booksharper hardback with no dj” although pemberton is credited as editor, he was, in fact the authorminimal wear to top and bottom of the spine coverthe remainder of the text is in good condition apart from minimal scattered foxingcovers have horizontal lines of red and black with gilt lettering to front and spinethe book is leaning slightly from shelvingthe fold of the first three pages lie loose and there is a modest damp stain along the lower spine marginthe final six pages are advertisements and, again, show some damp stains of their lower border
99 €
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Very good condition books and boxsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music salisbury this beautiful boxed-set contains three long out-of-print and influential books by the great british humourist, sir osbert lancaster () - pillar to post, the story of architecture through the ages, first published in and described by gavin stamp as 'one of the most influential books on architecture ever published'; homes sweet homes, a history of architectural interiors and a sequel to pillar to post, was first published in , and drayneflete revealed, first published in , which traces the development of one particularly typical (invented) english town
19 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield the s were the golden age of the american automobile, and the cars were faster, bigger, and more boldly styled than ever before this reprint of a chronicle books classic collects the "masterpieces" of automobile advertising, culled from the pages of such popular periodicals as life, the saturday evening post, collier's, look, and holidaytheir colorful illustrations and catchy copy give these ads a "power-packed beauty" all their own, offering a fun look at 50s culture and valuesthe economic prosperity of the country made for an "ultramatic" boom in car manufacturing, and the advertising industry followed suitsunday driving--cleaver-style--in the regal family ford, edsel or plymouth topped the list of national pastimes; and teenagers, behind the wheels of their daddies' thundering t-birds, had fun, fun, fun across america's highwaysso take a cruise down memory lane with this fond look back on a time when tail fins and chrome were the standard, and the american car was the true king of the road
6 €
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oxfam books & music wells uk pressingtracklist: a1 pipe on the hob / leitrim jig a2 the road to boyle / the happy couple a3 michael coleman's / mrs kinney's a4 across the shannon / mist in the glen a5 grehan's / the movin' bogs a6 the blackbird a7 lord mayo b1 the long note b2 the green groves of erin / the fox hunter b3 the hills of kesh / a walk in the country b4 frieze britches b5 lark in the morning b6 port na bpucai b7 si bheag si mhor / sonny's mazurka b8 the hills of clogher see oxfam website for delivery information read more the vinyl is in excellent condition - next to no surface marksthe sleeve is otherwise in very good conditionthe bottom edge of the outer sleeve has come unglued but this can easily be repaired
12 €
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oxfam books & music troon sharon maguire directs this third instalment of the romantic comedy series based on the characters created by helen fieldingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher love life takes another turn when she meets suave american jack qwant (patrick dempsey), who helps her out after getting into a spot of bother at a music festivalthe cast also includes sally phillips, shirley henderson and emma thompsonrenée zellweger reprises her role as bridget jones, the quirky forty-something who is learning to embrace adulthoodunsure if the father is long-term love interest darcy, or newcomer qwant, bridget is yet again faced with making some awkward and ultimately life-changing decisionswith a new relationship flourishing and everything seemingly under control, it's not long before there's a hitch - she discovers she's pregnantfollowing her break up with mark darcy (colin firth), bridget decides to focus on her career as a top news producer while also attempting to enjoy the single life with friends
2 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music aberdeen hardback book with dust jacket written by hugh trevor-roper published by yale university press in first edition a brilliant, unknown work by the great historian hugh trevor-roper among the papers of hugh trevor-roper, who died in , was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never publishedattracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of sir theodore de mayerne (), the most famous physician in europe of his time, trevor-roper pursued him across national and intellectual frontiers to uncover the details of his extraordinary lifeexploring an array of english and european sources, trevor-roper reveals the story of the pioneering swiss huguenot doctor who mixed medicine with diplomacy, with political intrigue, with secret intelligence, and with artistic interests at the courts first of henry iv of france and then of james i and charles i of englandthe most ambitious and perhaps the most original of all trevor-roper's books, written in his luminous prose, this is a major work of political and intellectual history that presents a whole period in a fresh and vivid lighta true "renaissance man," mayerne's interests were broad, and due to considerable conspiratorial talent, he became a participant in bluff and intrigue at the highest levels
9 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music fareham  my first steps to reading, set of 25 hardback books (29 pages per book) for each letter of the alphabet and 'my first book', with full colour illustrationscomes with a small paperback parent's guide to the series, including instructions for use of word cards (fully includedwritten by jane b) published in by the child's world incwhole set in very good conditionmoncure and illustrated by colin king
40 €
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oxfam books & music bedford sherlock holmes: classic collector's set box set starring basil rathbone as sir arthur conan doyle's super-sleuthsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'prelude to a murder' (aka 'dressed to kill'), when two people are killed after purchasing identical music boxes from an auction house, one of them being a friend of watson, the duo begin their investigation in 'woman in green' a series of gruesome murders takes place in london in which the little finger of every victim is cut offone clue that they do have is that they are after a womanscotland yard are unable to solve the crimes and so send for sherlock holmes who finds out that his rival professor moriarty is the mastermind behind the slayingsin 'the secret weapon' holmes is out to prevent moriarty from stealing the allies' new bomb during world war ii finally, in 'terror by night' holmes and watson have the task of protecting a jewel, the star of rhodesia, as they travel to edinburgh from londonnevertheless, the jewel is lost and a railway guard murderedthe murders all lead back to a beautiful but deadly woman who lures unsuspecting men to their death
4 €
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oxfam books & music troon visually inventive and stylised adaptation of the dark and sinister children's books, starring jim carreysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter their parents are killed in a fire, the baudelaire siblings, violet (emily browning), klaus (liam aiken) and the infant sunny, are taken in by a succession of relatives and guardians, including kindly snake expert uncle monty (billy connolly) and their nervous aunt josephine (meryl streep)imagining himself a master of disguise, count olaf undertakes a series of dastardly crimes to separate the baudelaire children from their kindly guardians, and hopefully from their livesworst of the lot though is the evil count olaf (jim carrey), obsessed with getting his hands on the baudelaire children's inheritance
2 €
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oxfam books & music lancaster oxford: clarendon presssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebridges's masterpiece, the crowning achievement of his long career as poet and essayist crisp, clean, and tightly boundno owner signatures, bookplates, or other markingsa philosophical poem in four parts by bridges (), poet laureate of great britain from191 pages, with 2-page "publisher's note on the text' tipped in at rear
24 €
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oxfam books & music berkhamsted edition of the automobiles version of observer's books see oxfam website for delivery information read moreslight bumping to the ends of the spinetwo small closed tears, one (2cm) to the top front edge, the other (1 cm) to the back bottom edge, have been repaired on the inside with transparent tape hardback book in very good conditionwith dust jacket in good to very good conditionnot price clipped (5/-)damp stain to inside of front fore edgewith a foreword by stirling mossends of spine bumped and creased, shelf wear and light creasing to edgesthe cover features a hillman imp saloon
30 €
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oxfam books & music wells this edition contains all 4 volumes within 2 books and is in good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more the text and illustrations are all in good condition volume 1 has the webbing showing immediately inside the front cover and also a hole in the first blank page inside there is a previous owner's name inscribed twice in each volume
100 €
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oxfam books & music berkhamsted these writings present the rationale behind lupukhov's attempt to develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and expressive elements of dance and music see oxfam website for delivery information read moretranslations by dorinda offord edited and with an introduction by stephanie jordanthey also show his finely detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generations paperback book in very good condition, slight shelf wear, with a small amount of scratching to the covers
18 €
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oxfam books & music bedford 15 music sheets 1the lambeth walk see oxfam website for delivery information read morecan't help loving that man 6on the sunny side of the street 13scarlet ribbons 9wrap your troubles in dreams 15best love songs of rodgers and hart, includes bewitched 10till there was you 12i've got a crush on you 2tonight - west side story 3look to the rainbow - finian's rainbow 7i'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair - south pacific 4the man i love 5
9 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music totnes temple records tp 012 the harper's land ann heymann, alison kinnaird record and sleeve are in excellent condition, the record probably needs a clean before playingthe record is complete with its insert
7 €
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oxfam books & music olney (what's the story) morning glory? - music cassette oasis creation label, catsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecassette shell has some light scratching insert is near mint jewel case has light surface scratches and some cracks but is fully intact and works perfectlyoverall grade (tape / packaging) excellent / very good cassette tape play-grading guide mint - no distortion, no hisspretty much cd qualityall photos are of the actual item and are not 'stock' photosc cre 189 published original release in a clear cassette shell with a 10 'page' full colour fold-out insert in a standard fully clear jewel case still a listenable tapecondition fully play-tested on a denon drr m10 cassette deckexcellent - minimal distortion and/or minimal hissgood - frequent and noticeable distortion, and/or hiss, and/or background noisefair - will play through but with a very poor sound quality on most of the tapepoor - will not play and is solely being sold to complete a collection plays excellent (see below) and a really great listenvery good - very mild distortion, and/or hiss, and/or other occasional background noise but still a very decent listen
9 €
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oxfam books & music olney paper vocal score published by williamson music, gb see oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally in very good condition, there is some light cover wearvendor's stamp on front covervocal score and piano selection in booklet with illustrated front cover
9 €
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oxfam books & music wells this hard cover book is in good condition and has a full title of "a thousand books on bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read more a selection of english books on book-making book-selling and book-collecting"this is a first edition which was limited to 500 copiesthere are no internal markings or annotations and no damage to the cover
15 €
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oxfam books & music romsey kerosina books, salisbury, wilts, first edition, first printing, ; no: 251 of a limited edition of 300see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe eleventh adventure of kaetiillustrated by the authorbook condition: finepaperback printed on tan coloured paper; 8vo
20 €
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oxfam books & music bedford *the first four diary of a wimpy kids in one boxset!*join greg heffley, his best friend rowley, evil big brother roderick and the rest of his family in the first four of greg's adventures! this amazing boxset includes:- diary of a wimpy kid - diary of a wimpy kid: rodrick rules - diary of a wimpy kid: the last straw - diary of a wimpy kid: dog daysabout diary of a wimpy kid:Â 50% words, 50% cartoons, 100% hilarious! see oxfam website for delivery information read more
9 €
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oxfam books & music hereford the watsons was an abandoned novel by jane austen, probably begun about(see photos) see oxfam website for delivery information read more john coates has finished jane austen's fragment of a novel in fine style, preserving the wit and satirical view of his co-author while adding some fine new characters dust jacket: good john coates, a writer with no family connection but who had earlier written a time-travel novel, here today (), featuring a man who claimed to have wooed jane austen wrote this book, the watsons: jane austen's fragment continued and completed which appeared from british and american publishers in4cm tear to top of dj at spine edgeburgundy cloth boards in very good conditionhe went to haileybury and then read english at cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became president of footlightsjohn coates was born in into a yorkshire engineering family jane austen's original fragment of this novel consisted of only 6 complete chapters and a few paragraphsgilt titles to spine minor foxing and spotting to outside edges of pageswatson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughtersyet it comprises a half of oulton's book and almost half of the browns' bookhe also points out that the tempo of jane austen's contribution had been "leisurely foxing to early and later pages but text block generally in clean, bright conditionchips to edges of dj at spine top and bottom and corners by flapsbut when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, emma is obliged to return to her father's housecondition: book: very goodit is the start of a long book, not of a short onethere she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisterseven before the manuscript fragment was eventually published in , a continuation based on it by austen's niece appeared in in his postscript he admits to having rewritten the original fragment in order to develop the characters differently, including renaming emma watson as emilythe youngest daughter, emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters jacket designed by charles mozley" as a result of giving himself this extra leg-room, this version of the story has been judged "more successful in capturing the feel of early 19th century society than many of the other sequels, but probably much lighter and cheerier than austen had originally intended the book to turn out"
30 €
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oxfam books & music perth 5 postcards from st john’s kirk, perth, scotland black and white postcards, photograph copyright pk mclaren, perth • saint john’s kirk, perth – looking east in the nave• war memorial shrine – saint john’s kirk of perth • the west porch and halkerston tower of saint john’s kirk of perth • st john’s kirk, perth • saint john’s kirk, perth – north side of the choir all postcards are unused and in good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
8 €
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oxfam books & music aberdeen june , and the gettysburg campaign is in its opening hourssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreharnesses jingled and hooves pounded as confederate cavalryman james ewell brown stuart leads his three brigades of troopers on a ride that triggers one of the civil war's most bitter controversiesdid the plumed cavalier disobey lee's orders by stripping the army of its"eyes and ears?" was stuart to blame for the unexpected combat that broke out at gettysburg on july 1? authors wittenberg and petruzzi, widely recognised for their study and expertise of civil war cavalry operations, have drawn upon a massive array of primary sources, many heretofore untapped, to fully explore stuart's ride, its consequences, and the intense debate among participants shortly after the battle, early post-war commentators, and modern scholarsfor days, neither lee nor stuart had any idea where the other was, and the enemy blocked the horseman's direct route back to the confederate army, which was advancing nearly blind north into pennsylvaniathe mission jumped off its tracks from virtually the moment it began when one unexpected event after another unfolded across stuart's pathby the time stuart reached lee on july 2, the armies had unexpectedly collided at gettysburg and one of the campaign's greatest controversies was bornrichard ewell's marching infantry corps and report on enemy activitystuart left virginia acting on genlee's discretionary orders to advance into maryland and pennsylvania, where he was to screen ltinstead of finding glory and victory, stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the confederacy's most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats
17 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster edward baines, journalist, author and business man, produced the first directory and gazetteer of lancashire to cover the whole county and to deal fully with its trade and industrya good condition pair of ex library books with the usual markingsincludes dust jackets, price clippedsignature and note by previous owner in front pagepublished in two substantial volumes in and , it of course portrayed a very important area at an interesting stage of the industrial revolutionstructurally soundsome of the general and political history has long become obsolete, but local and economic historians still find it an essential and mainly reliable refer- ence book, while the total of about pages produces much entertaining reading, including some of the classified lists of tradersthis is a reprint of a original all of the pages are intact and the cover is intactminor shelfwear660 pages + 738 pagesthis is complete in 2 volumes and is described as "a history, directory and gazatteer of the county palatine of lancaster"
15 €