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Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Ever 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... -
The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.13The origins of the game of rugby and the codification of the rules which defined the game have been glorified in numerous legends, some of which are little more than sporting hagiography. ... -
Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 by 9781851243358
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this... -
How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60First 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... -
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism Ashley Jackson (Professor of Imperial and Military History, King's College London) 9781851243341
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking... -
New York in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67'Make your mark in New York and you are a made man' wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more... -
Vintage Advertising: An A to Z by Julie Anne Lambert
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.99How 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... -
Rare & Wonderful: Treasures from Oxford University Museum of Natural History Kate Diston 9781851244843
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon... -
Veronica by Roger Duvoisin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Veronica 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... -
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster by Michael Hughes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Published 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... -
Paris in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67Over 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: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67'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... -
The Bay Psalm Book: A Facsimile Diarmaid MacCulloch 9781851244140
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62'The Bay Psalm Book' was the first book to be printed in North America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts. Now extremely rare - only eleven copies survive - it is... -
Staging History: 1780-1840 by Michael Burden
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of... -
Designing English: Early Literature on the Page Daniel Wakelin 9781851244751
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange... -
Dr Radcliffe's Library: The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Stephen Hebron 9781851244294
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings,... -
Heath Robinson: How to Make a Garden Grow by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the dustbin? Answers to these questions can be found in this compact and charming book of tips for the... -
An Englishwoman in California: The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 Zoe Klippert 9781851243440
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and settled in... -
Postcards from the Trenches: Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which... -
Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections Rita Ricketts 9781851244256
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a... -
The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty Hongping Annie Nie 9781851245246
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian... -
N is for Nursery by Blossom Budney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A is for all of us - everyone, Playing, learning, having fun. This beautifully illustrated alphabet book is perfect for children starting at nursery for the first time. Bright, animated pictures... -
Secret History of English Spas, The by Melanie King
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55English spas have a long and steamy history, from the thermal baths of Aquae Sulis in Bath to the stews of Southwark, the elegant pump rooms of Cheltenham and Buxton to the Victorian mania for... -
African Medical History: A Guide to Personal Papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford by Alistair G. Tough 9781851240517
Booksplease Price: £5.24A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9781851240517Author Alistair G. ToughFormat PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Jewish Languages and Book Culture Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 9781851246328
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic... -
Dickens: The Funny Bits Nick Hornby 9781851246434
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69With a foreword by bestselling author Nick Hornby, this brilliant anthology of the funniest extracts from Dickens’ novels features his famous comic characters, including the Artful Dodger, Mr... -
Mozart: A Bicentennial Loan Exhibition by 9781851240234
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £6.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240234Format PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Ten-Minute Book Club: Deep Dives into Short Reads Kirsten E. Shepherd 9781851246557
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Are 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.19First 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... -
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German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the 9781851243563 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.38I 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... -
How to Be a Good Parent by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.97'To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done.' 'The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten.' 'If there is room... -
How We Fell in Love with Italian Food Diego Zancani 9781851245123
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.58Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, it's hard to imagine any supermarket without these items. But how did these foods - and many more Italian ingredients - become so widespread and popular? ... -
The Princess who Hid in a Tree: An Anglo-Saxon Story by Jackie Holderness
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86This 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60This 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 Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Who 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... -
The Book Lovers' Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey
Booksplease Price: £12.07Ever wondered how ink is made? Or what is the bestselling book of all time? Or which are the oldest known books in the world? Highbrow to lowbrow, all aspects of the book are celebrated and... -
Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From by Mick Ashworth
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.91Many 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... -
Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 Ian Archie Beck 9781851242597
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver... -
Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of Apollo University Lodge Joe Mordaunt Crook 9781851244676
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo - the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as... -
Jane Austen: Writer in the World Kathryn Sutherland 9781851244638
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music...