Non-Fiction

"Adventures of the well-known Belgian Ace," Major the Chevallier Willy Coppens de Houthulst, DSO, MC etc.

The autobiography of the pioneering female flyer. By the age of 28, she had achieved more long distance solo flights than any other pilot, including London to New Zealand.

Part travelogue, part imagination, this unusual book takes the form of letters written during the summer of 1936.

The account of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-6.

An account of the remarkable journey taken by three British women, driving 16000 miles to India and back, and trekking 300 miles in the Greater Himalayan Range. 

PUBLISHERLongmans, Green, and Co.
BINDINGBuckram covered boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITIONFair, with general wear to boards, especially to ends of spine. Faded, with marks and scratches. Hinges a little weakened, but binding secure. Some foxing and browning throughout, although text is mostly clear and little...

A classic and sympathetic description of the Mon / Talaing people of Burma (Myanmar)

An account of the authors time as a colonial official, with his wife, in Northeast India in the late 1800's. 

Uses Pounds translation from the Latin as an example of superlative creative translation, as opposed to the purely literal.

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot.

Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.

Arguing that Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin display a shared vision of Modernity.

Essays cover topics including strategies of madness and the plague in literature and myth.

A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.

A lovely edition of the famous anthology. Containing poetry, music, maps cocktails and all manner of other pleasantries.

A complete guide to the embroiderers art. With lucid text, clear diagrams and many examples of patterns and old embroideries to inspire.

Subtitled "A Book of Home Interests in General and of one Home in Particular." An account of Dora Owen's  -search for, and creation of a family home.