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A Short and Beautiful Life
$50.00Few have heard of the Shakespeare Head Press, although it ranks alongside William Morris’s Kelmscott , Emery Walker and Cobden-Sanderson’s Doves, Eric Gill’s Golden Cockerel and St John Hornby’s Ashendene….
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Bill Wymans Chelsea
$25.95Bill Wyman has worked in the London borough of Chelsea onand-off since joining the Rolling Stones in 1962, and has lived in the area since 1982. Over the past few…
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Dock Life Renewed
$45.00Forty years ago, London’s Docklands had become 6,000 acres of forgott en wasteland aft er over a century as the busiest port in the world. Now these once-derelict docks are…
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Four French Holidays
$37.95Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fift ies, Rumer Godden basedThe Greengage Summeron…
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Glorious Graphics
$45.00, Glorious Graphics delves into the vast array of graphic design that surrounds us wherever we go, and has done so ever since printing was invented. Yet everyday graphics…
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Homage to Bangladesh
$45.00Bangladesh has been shunned by tourists from the moment it was created in 1971 out of East Pakistan. Henry Kissinger described it as a basket-case. Poverty and humanitarian disasters defi…
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Media and Truth
$75.00Why does global media feel a need to denigrate China? Why does discussion and analysis fall back on obvious tropes and polemics, when in reality China is raising living standards,…
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Renewal Architects
$52.95The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful and…
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Roger Bamber
$60.00, Roger Bamber, for fifty years one of Britain’s leading photojournalists, has poured his life’s work into this unique reflection of a career that encompassed not only riots and…
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Russia Accursed!
$60.00The Russian Revolution and Civil War as never seen before. Packed with jaw-dropping images, Russia Accursed! showcases the reaction of artist-reporter Ivan Alexeyevich Vladimirov (1869–1947) to the human suffering he witnessed…
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The Final Curtain
$45.00Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes surprising, selection of the best performers of our time, from Laurence Olivier…
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The Irish Railway Journey
$45.00Ireland embraced tourism from mid-Victorian times. Railways and cross-channel steamers between Europe’s two largest islands transformed the travel landscape of a country possessing a uniqueblend of attractive cultural, heritage, natural…
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