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Emma in Winter
Penelope Farmer
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Jan. 1, 1975)None
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination
Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Colman Smith
(Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Sept. 11, 1986)This essential reference by the designer of the most widely known Tarot deck contains a detailed description of each card in the popular 78-card Rider-Waite deck. Rich in symbolism and detail, this handy guide also discusses regular and reversed meanings and features 78 black-and-white illustrations of the cards.
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Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus
Robert Coover
Paperback (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), June 1, 1989)None
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Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in the American Electoral System
James A. Michener
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Dec. 31, 1969)Examines the American system for electing a President and Vice-President, its dangers, and possible methods of improvement
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New Poems: A Selection from 'Satura' and 'Diario Del '71 Et Del '72'
Eugenio Montale, G. Singh
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Aug. 26, 1976)English renditions of selected poems from Montale's three most recent collections, including poems evoked by the memory and absence of his wife, poems centering in formal and linguistic invention, and poems of historical and social theme
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Kilvert's Diary: Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert
Francis Kilvert, William Plomer
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), March 15, 1977)Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Folio Edition Thus, 1977. Royal 8vo. 3384pp. Coloured map endpapers, double sepia frontispiece and many furhter illustrations from photgraphs by Tim Stephens. Very good condition, clean tight sound square, firmly held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered brown cloth sepia illustrated boards.Housed in very good original slipcase gently rubbed to open end. A highly appropriate purchase from our bookshop here in Hay-on-Wye, which is at the foothills of the Black Mountains and featured in this book.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Jan. 1, 1962)Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three British prisoners of war who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway '
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Village in Jungle
Leonard Woolf
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Jan. 1, 1975)None
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Alexander and the Magic Mouse
Martha Sanders, Philippe Fix
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Sept. 9, 1971)None
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Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Nielsen Jerri
Paperback (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), March 28, 2001)The dramatic and inspiring true story of Dr Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station, whose amazing rescue in October, 1999 made headlines around the world.
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Uncle and Claudius the Camel
J. P. Martin, Quentin Blake
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Aug. 28, 1969)None
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Uncle and the Treacle Trouble
J. P. Martin, Quentin Blake
Hardcover (Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), Nov. 9, 1967)A great mural, commissioned by the King of the Badgers after the defeat of the Badfort crowd at Crack House, is to be painted on the wall at Homeward by Waldovenison Smeare. To protect the mural while it is being painted Uncle employs a watchman called Sleepy Sam, who sleeps in a wheelbarrow and is paid two loaves of bread and two quarts of Koolvat. Sleepy Sam is immediately put to work when Beaver Hateman tries to climb in through Uncle's window . . .