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The Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55Who 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: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.66Many 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55Many 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31Opening 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51'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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28'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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47The 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51'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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47'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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51We'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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31A 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: $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... -
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.58I 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.30Within 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Ever 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: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.69The 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... -
Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns' poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's... -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.30How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious... -
Oxford Botanic Garden: A Guide Simon Hiscock 9781851245208
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $10.24Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.48What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.55In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without... -
A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti by Caroline Ball
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.74Succulents, especially cacti, are the current focus of serious ecological studies but also the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their endearing, characterful looks have given them the... -
What Can Cats Do? by Abner Graboff
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55There are many things cats can do which children can't, such as lap up milk and use their tongues as combs. There are also a number of things that cats can't do, like sing children to sleep, or get... -
Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, A: Illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury by Caroline Ball
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.31Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed... -
Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52This 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,... -
Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories behind the symbols on our keyboard by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts, calculations and online... -
Just the Job: How Trades got their Names by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets? The story behind these... -
The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.55The 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. ... -
Einstein in Oxford Andrew Robinson 9781851246380
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.68Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several... -
Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 by 9781851243358
Booksplease Price: $8.03In 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... -
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The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $2.93The 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. ... -
How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52First 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... -
New York in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.60'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... -
Ye Berlyn Tapestrie: John Hassall's satirical First World War panorama by John Hassall
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black humour. Among these, John Hassall, a pioneering British illustrator and... -
112 Gripes about the French by Bodleian Library
Booksplease Price: $4.02When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French... -
What is Red? by Suzanne Gottlieb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55Little Jonny ponders the meaning of colours as he explores the landscape. He dips his toes in a blue brook, picks purple flowers, digs brown earth and finds an enormous orange pumpkin. Finally yellow... -
Museum Miscellany, A by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51Which are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts Hampton Court? What is on the FBI's list of stolen art? 'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing... -
Heath Robinson: How to Make a Garden Grow by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51Ever 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... -
The Original Rules of Golf by Dale Concannon
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.55The first known rules of golf were drawn up in 1744 in Edinburgh for the world's first open golf competition at Leith by the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh, who became The Honourable Company of... -
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.31'Long Live Freedom!' - Hans Scholl's last words before his execution The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in...