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he black cat is - and you will know At least as much as that - A pleasant, purry, furry beast, In fact he is a - cat. This classic children's book, first published in 1905, combines charming rhymes by Walter Copeland with beautiful illustrations by Charles Robinson. The little black cats of the title ...
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This elegantly produced collection of classic nursery rhymes is accompanied by richly imaginative drawings by Mervyn Peake. First published in 1940, and now reissued for the first time, this is a charming children's gift book that will also be sought after by enthusiasts for the work of the inimitable Peake.
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5796-8
EAN 9780712357968
'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!' Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5795-1
EAN 9780712357951
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5770-8
EAN 9780712357708
'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.' On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5750-0
EAN 9780712357500
A visual celebration of the mystery and magnificence of cats, from charming kittens and affectionate families to bold hunters and battle-scarred toms. More than 100 illustrations depict cats at play, in riotous roof-top gatherings, poised in cool, fashion-plate elegance and enjoying convivial tea parties. Images drawn from more than six centuries include medieval books of ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5856-9
EAN 9780712358569
The 20th century was a golden age of map-making, and maps permeated almost every aspect of daily life. It was a century overshadowed by war which was also marked by tremendous social and technological change to which millions of contemporary maps bear witness. Most were created for a specific and immediate purpose, and have never ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5745-6
EAN 9780712357456
'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.' Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5759-3
EAN 9780712357593
The Female Detective was published in 1864 and it introduces the first professional female detective in British fiction, Mrs Gladden. Typical of detective fiction of its time, Forrester's book features various cases narrated by Gladden, whose deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Mrs Gladden uses similar methods to ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5720-3
EAN 9780712357203
This collection of classic garden writing celebrates the garden as a place of solace in a busy world, a retreat for lovers and an earthly paradise. Gardens have been cherished in all times and cultures, and this anthology reveals a wide range of voices, from the classic to the little-known, the lyrical to the light-hearted. ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5726-5
EAN 9780712357265
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon, only to find the ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5725-8
EAN 9780712357258
'This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail.' Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934 When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5715-9
EAN 9780712357159
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5731-9
EAN 9780712357319
'There was an old person of Ischia, whose conduct grew friskier and friskier; He danced hornpipes and jigs, and ate thousands of figs, That lively old person of Ischia.' Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, originally published in 1845, is an exuberant collection of nonsense limericks, illustrated throughout with Lear's usual sharp eye for the fantastic, ...
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'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman, uniform blank!' When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5719-7
EAN 9780712357197
This new book is a celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic. The vintage imagery is drawn from a huge range of sources - fashion magazines, medieval illuminated manuscripts, book covers, paintings and cartoons - and it ranges ...
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This spoken word CD looks back over some of the great love affairs of literary history. The anthology includes readings of poetry, letters and extracts from works of fiction written by British poets and authors from Shakespearian times to the twentieth century. Here are real-life romantic couples, such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe ...
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'If then, there is to be a festival, why should it not be the festival of Christmas?', asked Arnold Bennett. For as long as Christmas has been celebrated poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it, whether the story of the nativity, or the festive traditions that have grown up over the ...
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When Miriam Lea falls on hard times, an advertisement calling for private agents catches her eye, and within weeks she finds herself in Mr Bazalgette's employ as a private detective, travelling on a train to Hamburg in pursuit of an audacious fraudster. What follows is a journey through some of the great cities of Europe ...
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