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Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9780544311916
RRP: £35.00£24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544311916Author Loren EiseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women by Myriam J. A. Chancy 9780813523408
RRP: £31.00£22.81Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a... -
The Craft of Lymmyng and The Maner of Steynyng: Middle English Recipes for Painters, Stainers, Scribes, and Illuminators by Mark Clarke 9780198789086
£60.02This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and... -
The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors, and Their Applications to the Arts (1855) by Michel E Chevreul 9781169973367
RRP: £41.95£33.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169973367Author Michel E ChevreulFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 576g -
Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay by T Fleischmann 9781936747269
RRP: £11.99£8.10"T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive herald a new world, one in which we are... -
Coastal Maine in Words and Art: Gallery Fukurou's Reflections by Maine Writers, 2019 by Yohaku Yorozuya 9781882190249
RRP: £28.00£19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882190249Author Yohaku YorozuyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Polar Bear & CompanyPublisher Polar Bear & CompanyWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)... -
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Volume 1 by H P Lovecraft 9781614980605
RRP: £30.00£27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980605Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev
RRP: £34.95£28.40In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiivka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate... -
Days & Nights: Stories of classic Japanese women's literature by J D Wisgo 9781737318200
RRP: £7.22£6.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737318200Author J D WisgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Arigatai BooksPublisher Arigatai BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee 9780374517199
RRP: £23.00£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517199Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Break of Day by Andre Breton
RRP: £15.99£14.46Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is Andre Breton's second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist... -
Passage of Tears Abdourahman A. Waberi 9780857425317
RRP: £14.50£12.85Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense of... -
Thin Places: Essays from in Between by Jordan Kisner 9781250785909
RRP: £18.00£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250785909Author Jordan KisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm -
Festive Drama - Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, by Meg Twycross
£106.89Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material. Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and folk-customs as well as full-blown plays, from Spain, the... -
McSweeney's Issue 68 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle 9781952119415
RRP: £26.00£18.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119415Author Claire BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing -
Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge by Nicholas Allen 9780198795155
RRP: £83.00£75.74In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation,... -
You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) by Eleni Sikelianos 9781566893602
RRP: £12.99£11.29This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an... -
Folktales from Syria by Samir Tahhan
RRP: £15.99£14.24Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea. Afraid these stories would disappear with the passing of this generation, Tahhan also went to halls and events to hear professional... -
Selected Poems by Ronald Vroon 9780674497955
RRP: £48.00£47.73Dubbed "a Columbus of new poetic continents" because of his search for a poetics as diverse as the universe itself, Velimir Khlebnikov is the creator of some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language. Sometimes surreal, sometimes esoteric,... -
The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker 9780521102957
RRP: £44.99£38.54This was the first edition of Dekker's plays to appear in print since the late nineteenth century. Thus, for many years prior, Dekker had been the least accessible of the prominent Elizabethan dramatists, with the result that his anthologized plays had... -
Damned for Dreaming and Other Essays Nigel Jenkins 9781999952280
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999952280Author Nigel JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Hmm FoundationPublisher The Hmm Foundation -
Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie by Chip Livingston 9780826364166
RRP: £25.95£20.25At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, a... -
365 Days of Bliss: The Complete Journal of Gratitude, Dreams, Goals, Thoughts, Inspiration and Self Care Check-In for the Entire Year by Florance Philip 9781739620837
RRP: £24.99£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739620837Author Florance PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Triniti PublicationsPublisher Triniti PublicationsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)... -
The First Quarto of Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780521653909
RRP: £28.99£25.82The first quarto of Hamlet is radically different from the second quarto and Folio versions of the play, and about half their length. But despite its uneven verbal texture and simpler characterisation, the first quarto presents its own workable... -
Spirit of Flame by E Allison Peers 9781610975117
RRP: £20.00£15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610975117Author E Allison PeersFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Suzanne M. Waldman
RRP: £31.00£27.36Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti offers a new... -
Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 1: Vol. 1, 1904-1912 by Virginia Woolf 9780156290548
RRP: £32.50£23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290548Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Shakespeare on Love: A Personal Selection by Simon Callow by Simon Callow 9780711215351
RRP: £1.99£1.82A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this anthology cuts... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: £70.00£55.73The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by... -
The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites by William Harmon
RRP: £18.99£15.12Here in one volume are the top one hundred poems, as determined by a survey of more than 1,000 anthologies-the poems in English most frequently anthologized, the poems with the broadest, most enduring appeal. From Shakespeare to Dickinson to Frost, from... -
How to Die Alone: The Foolproof Guide to Not Helping Yourself by Mo Welch 9781523504268
RRP: £12.95£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm... -
In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930 Barbara T. Gates 9780226284460
RRP: £36.00£35.23From the late 18th to the early 20th century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some - like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits - are still... -
Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist by Albert Camus
RRP: £9.00£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897381Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 51gDimensions(mm) 158mm * 111mm... -
Verisimilitudes: Essays and Approximations by James Gallant 9780999136508
RRP: £15.00£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999136508Author James GallantFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer by Rosemary Mayer
RRP: £20.00£13.36An intimate account of everyday life and art in 1970s New York from a pioneering feminist artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist's books, lyrical... -
The Monstrous and the Marvelous by Rikki Ducornet 9780872863545
RRP: £13.99£12.29With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and... -
Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground by Charles Bowden
RRP: £13.99£12.59Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes,... -
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors Greg Sarris 9781597145671
RRP: £17.99£14.87A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris-whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones-presents a book about his... -
Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: An Anthology by Geoffrey P. Nash 9780857283931
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857283931Author Geoffrey P. NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Chaucer and his World by Derek Brewer 9780859913669
RRP: £24.99£17.61Subtle and illuminating life of Chaucer, drawn against the turbulent backdrop of 14th century England. `Brewer brings to his task a full scholarly knowledge of the sources of Chaucerian biography... Of obvious value to students reading Chaucer and to...