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A delightfully attractive book presenting the bookplate – a neglected art form that has nevertheless been practised by leading artists of their generation, from Albrecht Dürer to Edward Burne-Jones. A bookplate, or Ex Libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book to express ownership. The first books were highly valuable and prestigious objects to own, hence the first bookplates usually incorporated the decorative coats of arms of the fabulously wealthy. By the late nineteenth...

Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice.

A Cryptic Summons From Lady Marchamont Launches A London Bookseller Isaac Inchbold On An Odyssey Through The Back Alleys Of 17th-century Europe. He Suddenly Finds Himself In A Game Where Forces Are Anonymous, Motives Inexplicable But The Outcome Deadly.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Author) Format: Paperback (144 pages) Edition: New Ed ISBN 10: 0140283706 ISBN 13: 9780140283709 Publisher: Penguin Published: 02 Mar 2000 6 in stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.59List Price: £8.99You Save:£6.40 (71%) Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Other Formats and Conditions Format Used Price New Price Paperback -- £7.73 Paperback £2.59 £9.38 Description:The author is the...

Edition: 1st edition. The first Haunted Library booklet for 15 years. This 40pp booklet contains two stories inspired by the tales of M R James

One of a series of nine specialist maps for walkers covering the entire French alpine regions, plus Corsica. Each map is designed to cover fully the regional national parks, and details the complete route of the Grande Traversee des Alpes together with all the other FFRP routes. These are a very high quality product based on IGN material and fully GPS compatible.

The astonishing story of the imcomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library. From ancient Egypt, where his beloved Hypatia was murdered, to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books, Rex upholds his vow to fight the forces of ignorance and darkness. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe from zombies to renegade literary characters...

Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. Ex Libris wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. 'One of the most delightful volumes to have come...

'Make it your own' with the seal of quality that comes with the esteemed Very Peculiar History collection. Stick these ornate ex libris into your books so you can be the proud owner of titles which appear to be from a aged library. Add your name in faint handwriting to truly give the impression your books are from another time.

Excerpta E Libris Domicilii Jacobi Quinti Regis Scotorum, Mdxxv-mdxxxiii (Paperback)

Small octavo (155x100mm) contemporary calf blind-ruled (tips quite worn/hinges cracked but holding firm/head & foot of spine repaired to strengthen) TP +(14pp) +377pp +(19p index) +(4pp blanks) [*8 +A-Bb8] Newer EPs possibly recased, TP with signature blacked out and sl.rough to edges with library stamp to Verso TP & dedication page + 2 shelf numbers. Minor toning to page edges but most unusual Text in Latin but shoulder notes in Greek throughout. This is obviously a text book and as such has some...

Price comparison results for Bruce R. Cordell - Libris Mortis: The Book of the Undead (Dungeons and Dragons v3.5 Supplement) are listed below. The cheapest price including postage is listed first, this assumes that the purchase does not qualify for free delivery. Many of the retailers offer free delivery above a certain total order value. If you are thinking of purchasing more books than just Bruce R. Cordell - Libris Mortis: The Book of the Undead (Dungeons and Dragons v3.5 Supplement...

Fine copy of the first edition of the literary masterpiece, which together with Solzhenitsin's earlier works brought him the Nobel Prize in 1970. Written in 1963-66, it was based on the recollections about Tashkent oncological hospital, where the author underwent treatment in 1954. This novel was forbidden in the USSR due to its controversial ideological content.

Chartreuse, Bauges, Belledonne, Maurienne Map: Libris

One of a series of nine specialist maps for walkers covering the entire French alpine regions, plus Corsica. Each map is designed to cover fully the regional national parks, and details the complete route of the Grande Traversee des Alpes together with all the other FFRP routes. These are a very high quality product based on IGN material and fully GPS compatible.

Libris Walking Map covering upload areas and some coast, use for GR20. Balagen, Monte Cinto, Restonica, Casagniccia, Fium'Orbo. Does not cover peninsula north of Bastia.

Libris Walking Map covering upland areas and some coastal area - Port, Sagone, Pays d'Ajacci, Vallee de Taravo, Alto Rocca, Aiguilles de Bavella, Rivages du Sud. Use for GR20

Walking map for summer/winter use. Reverse has aerial photo of region.