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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 9781851245079
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the... -
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 by 9781851240852
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.44In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. The guide was intended to... -
The Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01Who has fallen into the rain puddle? Is it plump hen, turkey gobbler, curly sheep or beautiful fat pig? When all the animals peer into the puddle at the same time, they see the entire farmyard... -
Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From by Mick Ashworth
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.81Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them... -
What is Round? by Blossom Budney
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01Many things in the natural world are round - the moon, the sun, a nest, a bubble. And so are many delicious things to eat - a ball of ice-cream, a doughnut, a pie. And so too are more decorative... -
Postcards of Political Icons: Leaders of the Twentieth Century Andrew Roberts 9781851243273
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Opening in the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and continuing to the eve of the second Gulf War, Postcards of Political Icons tells the story of the twentieth century through images of its most... -
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds by Bill Oddie
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08'A murder of crows', 'a charm of goldfinches', 'an ostentation of peacocks': collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in... -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Gray
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.56'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of... -
The University of Oxford: A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This... -
Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by The Bodleian Library
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08'Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted.' Much loved for the romantic plot lines of her novels and witty observations on... -
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93'Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos' - Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and... -
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals by Samuel Fanous
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more... -
Postcards of Lost Royals Andrew Roberts 9781851243327
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. The royal houses of Europe, Africa, and Asia once ruled continents and the dominions beyond the seas. Today, just ten monarchs still... -
Women & Hats: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by Philip Treacy
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000... -
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.26I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. - Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his... -
Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.65Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance... -
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an... -
How to Be a Good Wife by 9781851243815
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.44The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with... -
The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey's 'A Table Alphabeticall' by Robert Cawdrey
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.60Here is a real treat for lovers of English - the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755,... -
The College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge by Reginald H. Adams
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in... -
Can Onions Cure Ear-ache?: Medical Advice from 1769 by William Buchan
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck... -
Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin by The Bodleian Library
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08'Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.' Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of... -
Vintage Advertising: An A to Z by Julie Anne Lambert
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.47How did the advertisers of the past sell magnetic corsets, carbolic smoke balls or even the first televisions? Which celebrities endorsed products? How did innovations in printing techniques and... -
It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their... -
The Food Lovers' Anthology: A literary compendium by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.48'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the... -
Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.04Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What... -
London in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $5.06'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a... -
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster by Michael Hughes
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.06Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian... -
How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow... -
Rachel Owen: Illustrations for Dante's 'Inferno' by David Bowe
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.95Rachel Owen's hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dante's Inferno take a radically new approach to representing the world of Dante's famous poem. The images combine the artist's deep cultural and... -
African Medical History: A Guide to Personal Papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford by Alistair G. Tough 9781851240517
Booksplease Price: $6.76A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9781851240517Author Alistair G. ToughFormat PaperbackImprint -
Ten-Minute Book Club: Deep Dives into Short Reads Kirsten E. Shepherd 9781851246557
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.56Are you looking to join a book club, but short on time to read every book? This rich and diverse selection of unforgettable writing is carefully curated for a ten-minute hit of literary wonder. ... -
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How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey 9781851240869 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $2.83First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by... -
Postcards from Utopia: The Art of Political Propaganda Andrew Roberts 9781851243372
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretary Generals of totalitarian states in the twentieth century have been highly conscious of the need to present a national image suited to the new political... -
Whale's Way by Johanna Johnston
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.47'That is the way of the largest creature on earth. That is the whale's way.' The humpback whales journey through polar seas, diving, spouting and leaping. As winter comes they swim through... -
The Princess who Hid in a Tree: An Anglo-Saxon Story by Jackie Holderness
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01This story is about a brave and kind Anglo-Saxon princess called Frideswide who lived in Oxford a long time ago and just happened to be brilliant at climbing very tall trees. Her talent came in... -
Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which,... -
The Hungry Goat by Alan Mills
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pigs swill to frying pans and even barbed wire. As a result he grows fatter and fatter... -
Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters by Kathryn Sutherland
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.45In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to the post - Jane Austen's letters and novels have... -
Botany of Gin, The by Chris Thorogood
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.67From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained...