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The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book.When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle...

One Shilling: The Football Programme Design Revolution of 1965-85 is the first-ever exploration of this golden era of football programme design, when the humble football programme suddenly boasted a remarkable variety of eye-catching covers and layouts. ...

A memoir of life in the antiquarian book trade, in London, England, and, in keeping with Kociejowski's travel writing, a journey through people's lives. Beginning with his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the annual village jumble sale he would buy...

THE MODERN CLASSIC: OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLDA Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick'The real deal: one gorgeous read' Stephen King'This book will change your life. An instant classic' Daily Telegraph'A book lover's dream' The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602009Author Louisa May AlcottFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

A football fan's dream come true - every complete UK Panini sticker album 1986-1993 reproduced as facsimiles for the very first time. 'This book delivers a thousand memories' - Mark Lawrenson WELCOME TO THE GLORIOUS WORLD OF PANINI FOOTBALL...

'A heady brew of detective thriller, supernatural horror tale, magical realist fable and a heartbreaking love story' DAILY MAIL'Readers familiar with The Shadow of the Wind will find themselves back in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where, from a...

'This is is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them and what is lost when they are lost' GUARDIAN'Full of stylish writing, Gothic atmosphere and love letters to 19th-century novels' WASHINGTON POSTBarcelona, 1957...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIANAs a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an...

'Peculiarly hilarious!' - William Gibson'Every page is a pleasure' - Lindsey FItzharris'Utterly charming' - Tom Holland'Laugh-out-loud' - Garth Nix'A must read' - Fergus Butler-Gallie'Brims with self-effacing charm' - Caitlin Doughty'Unfortunately I have...

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275697Author Gisele DiAzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602047Author Various Keats etc.Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602078Author James Matthew BarrieFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602061Author George OrwellFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602030Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons... and others are simply mad. This...

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War,...

When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had...

The Lindisfarne Gospels is an extraordinary book and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It was hand-written and decorated over 1,300 years ago by a single supremely gifted scribe-artist. It inspires awe both as a pinnacle of book design and...

Editor's Choice, The BooksellerA mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity...

'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040241Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

For four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of...

Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty...

The Book of Kells is the richest and most copiously illustrated book of in the Celto-Saxon style that still survives. However, despite its rarity and fame, there is little that is known about it. Reproducing over sixty of the wonderful images from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957666559Author James RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Mainstone PressPublisher The Mainstone Press

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...

An illustrated history of football trade cards, an epic saga of 1,000 brands and myriad collections. The A-Z traces the earliest cards and stickers - British inventions, both - through a century of sports cards from tobacco cards to Panini stickers, via...

Book nerds rule! And what better gift than a book that celebrates bookishness? You know you're a Book Nerd when...-You have a minimum of 5 books on your night table.-You never once thought the movie was better.-Your favorite mug says "I'd rather be...

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations...

An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory,...

This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

This charming mini box set includes 3 of our Deluxe classic mini books for this special slipcase edition.These compact books contain comprehensive summaries of the complete plays of William Shakespeare, the complete novels of Jane Austen, and the...

Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion is a stunning memento, bringing the world and the characters of our favourite fictional country house to life. Featuring a foreword by creator Julian Fellowes, spectacular photographs from the production,...

From primitive pieces to elegant modernity, the definitive guide to 3,000 years of furniture designA glorious encyclopedia from expert Judith Miller, a regular guest on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, showcasing more than 3,000 years of design. From...

Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33, also known as the Tower Fechtbuch or the Walpurgis Manuscript, is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the western canon. Dated to c.1310, it is a stunning work of late medieval art and the Armouries' most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing