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From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 Mike Webb 9781851243938
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $12.81Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be 'the... -
The March Wind by Inez Rice
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.63One windy day a little boy happens upon a large black hat, lying in the street. When he tries it on, he becomes a whole host of different characters he's always wanted to be: a soldier marching... -
Readers: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by David Lodge
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52To 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... -
The Original Laws of Cricket Mike Atherton 9781851243129
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.55Of all the rules governing sport, the laws of cricket are among the oldest. The first written rules of 1744 survive uniquely on the border of a piece of linen at the MCC Museum of Cricket. They were... -
Talking about Detective Fiction P. D. James 9781851243099
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the... -
Radcliffe Camera Stanley Gillam 9781851240265
Booksplease Price: $8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240265Author Stanley GillamFormat PaperbackImprint -
Wisdom from the Ancients by Emilie Savage-Smith 9781851246144
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.30Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Plenty of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of... -
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The Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms by Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851244980 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.95The English language is rich with eponyms - words that are named after an individual - some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens,... -
The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey's 'A Table Alphabeticall' by Robert Cawdrey
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05Here 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51At 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: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52What 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51'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: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.07How 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Most 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: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.93'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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.70Many 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: $5.25'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... -
How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52Shepherd 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: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.04Rachel 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: $7.02A 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28Are 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: $13.40Booksplease Price: $2.93First 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... -
Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book Jane Jakeman 9781851240753
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and... -
The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against John Pinfold 9781851243167
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of... -
Father Christmas' ABC: A Fascimile by F. Warne & Co.
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.57Q is the Quadrille, danced at our party R for the Reindeer, of Santa Claus hearty This very special picture book is an unusual and utterly enchanting ABC entirely devoted to the theme of... -
Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life by Jane Potter
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he... -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this... -
Veronica by Roger Duvoisin
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.55Veronica the hippopotamus lives with her large family on the cool muddy river bank, swimming in its clear waters. But she is not happy. She dreams of becoming a conspicuous hippopotamus, even... -
Making of Handel's Messiah, The by Andrew Gant
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.73The first performance of Handel's 'Messiah' in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit... -
Paris in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.60Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world', for Hazlitt, 'a... -
Chicago in Quotations by Stuart Shea
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.60'I have struck a city- a real city - and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,' so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From... -
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine by Melanie King
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.91Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men 'unfit to do their business' and blamed for women... -
Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52To 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... -
Bicycles: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52To 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... -
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall Andrew Roberts 9781851243228
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of... -
Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Edward Ullendorff 9780900177200
Booksplease Price: $7.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900177200Author Edward UllendorffFormat HardbackImprint -
Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide by Geoffrey Tyack 9781851242740
Booksplease Price: $16.44This richly illustrated guide to the historical buildings of the Bodleian Library not only makes an attractive keepsake but is also packed with fascinating architectural details about one of the... -
A Library Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851244720
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories,... -
Mozart: A Bicentennial Loan Exhibition by 9781851240234
RRP: $8.71Booksplease Price: $8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240234Format PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942 by 9781851243952
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.69Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to re-capture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of...