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The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson ...

Anna Nyburg

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This beautifully produced folio catalogue of a small part of Ömer Koç's library focusses on fictional prose and poetry, written mainly by Europeans, in which Constantinople/Istanbul is t... read more

Istanbul in the Western Literary Imagination 1547-2024: Books and Manu ...

Sven Becker

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An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the centur... read more

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel ...

Edwin Frank

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Six decades of letters to family, friends, editors and lovers, from the author of Couples and many others.

A Life in Letters

John Updike

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In this paean to the joys of reading, Douglas-Fairhurst recounts his life with books, sharing techniques to slow down, take note, and gain more from the experience. The Oxford don pairs rig... read more

Look Closer

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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The poet, translator and editor of Nemo's Almanac is astonishingly well-read; if books do furnish a room, this man's memory palace will be vast and labyrinthine... With a book habit that beg... read more

Books – A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library ...

Ian Patterson

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A lavish presentation of the finest medieval manuscript in existence, which includes the findings from detailed analysis undertaken during its recent restoration.

The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry: The Masterpiece of Medi ...

Mathieu Deldicque

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An exploration of darkness through literature, in which memory, history and myth are deployed as instruments of illumination.

Night Vision: In Search of the True Dark

Jean Sprackland

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First edition. As new.

William Beckford: A Bibliography

Jon Millington

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First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket - marred only by creases to the lower back of the jacket.

Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S.Eliot And Their Circle ...

John Smart

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A useful narrative of the book's writing, reception and legacy.

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel

Mark Hussey

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Rare books and manuscripts in the Bodleian's magnificent holdings. Large format, well illustrated.

Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library ...

Various

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A scrapbook, a net of ideas, a cabinet of fragments both literary and artistic. The book is a small, stocky, gorgeous work of art. "Wholeness is an impossibility"...

An Archive

Edmund de Waal

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From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.

The Book-Makers

Adam Smyth

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'The greatest literary biography of the twentieth century' and its intriguing author.

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker ...

Zachary Leader

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As one of the few who can actually read Pepys's shorthand, KL is well-placed to tell the history of the legendary diary, which, had it been discovered at the time, could have destroyed Pepys... read more

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary

Kate Loveman

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Recently republished, Barley Patch was Murnane's first work of fiction in fourteen years. A paradoxical, generous book about reading, writing and not writing.

Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the centur... read more

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel ...

Edwin Frank

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A charming guide to writing and editing from the great le Guin.

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of ...

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Ursula K.

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A fine and substantial survey of children's literature from Aesop on, by the Literary Editor of The Spectator.

The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading

Sam Leith

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From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives ...

Adam Smyth

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The 40-year relationship between the prodigious writer and scholar (biographer of Gandhi, amongst other things, and a JS customer) and his original editor at Oxford University Press.

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

Ramachandra Guha

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Like a detective novel of the time, the story of two booksellers who uncovered the forgeries of a pompous bastion of the literary scene in 1930s' London.

The Book Forger

Joseph Hone

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A small book on this miraculous library, filled with 300 tiny books commissioned by Lutyens and Princess Marie Louise from some of the greatest authors of the time - Hardy, Conan Doyle and m... read more

The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House ...

Elizabeth Clark Ashby

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A vivid portrait of a complex man approached through twelve books, including his mother's diary and Lolita. Beguiling and intriguing, he did not shun controversy.

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing ...

Thomas Harding

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Several of the principal compilers of the OED have already been sung - not least the editor James Murray, who took over two decades to reach the letter 'T'. It is his newly-discovered addres... read more

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford Englis ...

Sarah Ogilvie

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A vast array of material is expertly woven together in this illuminating look at embattled authors and their literature: Anne Frank, Orwell, Biggles...

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict ...

Andrew Pettegree

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A sharp scrutiny of the recent literary phenomenon by the emeritus Professor of Modern English at UCL makes clear the distinction between responsible warnings and censorship, as well as expo... read more

Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Wa ...

John Sutherland

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Windows into the minds of 60 illustrators. In the same attractive format as Explorers' Sketchbooks.

Illustrators’ Sketchbooks

Martin Salisbury

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Explores the history of the translation of classical Greek literature into Latin. Far from being inevitable, as it seems seen from the C21st, the Roman adoption of Hellenic classics was an e... read more

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Denis Feeney

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The title could pass off as a short story by M.R. James or as one of the exploits of Robert Louis Stevenson's little-known, rather Ruritanian sleuth called Prince Florizel. It is in fact a d... read more

The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

Christopher de Hamel

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Another new Everyman anthology: this time Oyeyemi, Borges, Beerbohm, Teffi, Cortazar, Weldon...

Stories of Books and Libraries

Jane Holloway

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A charming self-published book about Great Bardfield, the Essex village that became home to several artists, including Ravilious and Bawden; like a picture within a picture, it's also about ... read more

Looking at Life in an English Village: Edward Bawden and Great Bardfie ...

Robjn Cantus

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A fascinating account, rich in anecdote, of the excitement of literary culture in the ancient world.

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World ...

Irene Vallejo

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Translation and interpretation are not straightforward, and never were... With matchless scholarship and sensitivity, Dr Barton compares multiple readings to reveal their ambiguities and int... read more

The Word: On the Translation of the Bible

John Barton

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