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Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
ISBN: HB: 9781851245017, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
256 pp., 24.2x19 cm, 23 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
The much-loved tales from "The Thousand and One Nights" first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the backdrop of Baghdad, a city of wealth and peace, stoked...
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£30,00
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Talking About Detective Fiction
ISBN: HB: 9781851243099, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
144 pp., 19.6x12.9 cm
To 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 craft of detective writing and sharing her personal...
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£12,99
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Original Frankenstein
ISBN: HB: 9781851243969, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2008
448 pp., 12.8x12.6 cm
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, wrote the first draft of "Frankenstein" after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost writing competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Returning to England in the autumn...
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£14,99
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St Margaret's Gospel Book The Favourite Book of an Eleventh Century Queen of Scots
ISBN: HB: 9781851243709, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2006
112 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 67 colour illus.
A beautiful little manuscript in the Bodleian Library, which was purchased for GBP 6 at auction in 1887, was discovered afterwards to belong to none other than Margaret, Queen of Scotland and was, according to her biographer, her favourite book. The...
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£25,00
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Father Christmas ABC A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851243259, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
24 pp., 14.3x11.8 cm
This very special picture book is an unusual and utterly enchanting ABC, entirely devoted to the theme of Christmas. Each image opens a window onto some form of festive celebration, from the lighting of the candles on the tree, to bell-ringing, ice s...
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£5,99
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