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Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, confessions of a bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and loveoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardbackunfortunately, shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop iswith more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookwormsprofile books ltdthe diary of a bookseller (soon to be a major tv series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in booksshaun bythell is the owner of the bookshop in wigtown, scotlandsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein very good condition
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confessions of a chelsea boy&aposspencer matthewsthe autobiography
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" pooh fans everywhere are sure to be spinning with excitement over this very special "hunny" of a music boxlimited edition winnie the pooh hunny of a day music box by ardleigh elliott winnie the pooh and friends grace a "hunny of a day" ferris wheel collectible music box! a hundred acre wood exclusive first! - it's a hunny of a day whenever winnie the pooh and friends get together, and now you can join in with this first-of-a-kind musical ferris wheel collectible music box! pooh, piglet, tigger, eeyore, roo, rabbit and owl enjoy a special treat in the heart of the hundred acre wood, where every detail is sure to charm you! the "homemade" ferris wheel turns and everyone smiles as their barrel-style seats swing, while honeybees flit amongst the scenes of fun and friendship that grace the base! this exclusive, limited-edition winnie the pooh musical ferris wheel collectible music box from ardleigh elliott is crafted of triple-fired heirloom porcelain, richly accented in 22k gold, and plays the melody of "love makes the world go roundin very good condition certificate of authenticity read more
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Josef mengele performed sadistic medical experiments on them until their releasesurviving the angel of death: the true story of a mengele twin in auschwitz, paperback by kor, eva mozes; buccieri, lisa rojany, isbn , isbn-13 describes the life of eva mozes and her twin sister miriam as they were interred at the auschwitz concentration camp during the holocaust, where dr
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Based on the best seller the five dysfunctions of a teamauthor of death of a meeting, a field guide for leaders, managers and facilitators
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The far-out worlds of a3 million books, saving over tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill siteseach month we recycle over 2author:van vogt, aall of our paper waste is recycled and turned into corrugated cardboard
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The tragic tale of a genius 4:17for this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casingthe title is the tragic tale of a geniusthe item format is a cd
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This is the one: sir alex ferguson: the uncut story of a football genius of taylor, daniel on 25 july paperback ad id: delivery service consumer credit
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Catherine booth laying the theological foundations of a radical movement by john read (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Shadows in the vineyard the true story of a plot to poison the world's greatest wine by maximillian potter (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Title: coco chanel (the illustrated world of a fashion icon)catalogue number
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It is the definitive book on the history of american "exploitative" films and a unique contribution to motion picture historysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall covers, spine, end papers and pages in tactoxfam shop derby this book captures the core basic integrity, the wicked sense of humour, and the unerring sense of showmanship of this american original
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With his mental state continuing to deteriorate, ezra begins digging up further bodies to bring them to his gruesome home before his obsession eventually leads him to lure a number of women to his lair in order to murder themezra cobb (robert blossom) is devastated when his mother dies, and so digs up her corpse and installs it in his housesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music olney jeffrey gillen and alan ormsby co-direct this us horror based on the serial killings of ed geinthe cast also includes cosette lee, micki moore and robert warner
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In europe there are only sevenoxfam bookshop cheltenham in professor brian sykes, a leading world authority on dna and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern italyhow was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago?;in this work, sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and spaceafter plotting thousands of dna sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groupsnews of the discovery of the ice man and his age, which was put at over years old, fascinated the worldit is a book that presents the story of our evolution, striking right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced; how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived; what their lives were like; and how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our dna which has survived and prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us todaybut what made the story particularly extraordinary was that professor sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the ice man, a woman living in britain todaythe conclusions: amost everyone of native european descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the seven daughters of evesykes has named them ursula, xenia, helena, velda, tara, katrine and jasmine
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Pickwick' inthe pickwick papersnorton is a laughing stockafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalher beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbournein westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell vsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'the criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywherefor the next thirty years caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated victorian society, helping to write the infant custody act (), and influenced the matrimonial causes (divorce) act () and the married women's property act (), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first timeon trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteenoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifeby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirtcrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressesangry and humiliated he cuts caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitute
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Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution see oxfam website for delivery information read morein stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutionlacking 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 landthe 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 successfulno highlighting or other notesthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmakingtext block cleananyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesoxfam 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 geniusexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of usedust jacket unmarked
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Yambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgotthe red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditionthe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear onlyas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariescopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto ecothe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodhis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinsigned by author on title pagemultiple colour illustrationsthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergeracsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelbut a relapse occurs
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this story is a rare and utterly engaging experienceshe tells her story many years later from the waldorf astoria in new yorksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful menit tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from to the post-war years of japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradationa young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house
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The frame is in a good condition with no marks or damage and is no longer requiredthis picture was brought from a dealer in dinan, france back in the 'sthe diarama is of a thonier tuna fishing boat that worked out of le rochelle, france
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At the heart of the team is the tale of a beloved and effective soldier, ashley white
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Rear cover detachedextensively foxed throughoutoxfam bookshop newport the classic tale of a barber who murders and robs his clients, while his accomplice assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shopmost of spine missingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a traditional acting version, edited with an introduction by montagu slatersoiled, with signs of wear to edgespictorial paper dust jacket over paper covers
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There is a crack in the glassframed original portrait in the aieux style of a married womanworld war 1 the picture is in its original wooden frame with a material backingpicture in frame measures: 19 inches high x 15 inches wide picture itself measures: 16 inches high x 13 inches wide there is an accompanying picture of her husband in uniform - see my other advert(s) collection only read more(see pictures for condition)
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Condition: good size: 50 x 61 x 2 cmare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesold without frameour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeartist: kspersee title of the work: moment of a dream signature: hand-signed by the artist kspersee, a contemporary french painter with good referencesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitetechnique: mixed medium: canvas on wooden stretcher unique and original work
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Local collection to post is an additional £35 book (hardback) bundle: diary of a wimpy kid - wrecking ball diary of a wimpy kid - the getaway diary of a wimpy kid - the meltdown diary of an awesome friendly kid timmy failure - it's the end when i say it's the end all in excellent condition
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A few pencil notes in inside coveroxfam books & music wells first editionthis copy is in pretty good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreolive green leather outer cover is generally good - some staining and curling to the corners and the top 2" of the spine are tornthe inside pages are good, with some browning to the edges, but are still totally readable
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The second (smaller) of a pair of excellent, bespoke, hand-made sofas, covered in a high quality beige-mix woven fabric
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Posted by danny in books, comics & magazines, books in norwich£10 the lot diary of a wimpy kid books
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Perfect condition not had long partner just don't like itstunning pattern on doors photos dont do justice to the coloursbespoke handmade commissioned cabinetthere is no other cabinet the same one of a kind and is solidly built and beautiful
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the new confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of john james todd, a scotsman born in and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth centuryjohn james todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the western front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in london, to the electric excitements of the berlin film-world of the twenties, then moves on to hollywood'an often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstructionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreto ordeal by mccarthyism and eventual escape to europe' peter kemp, observer
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