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LUCIA by E. F. Benson By the author famous for Mapp & Lucia here is a novel which may first appear mere reportage of trivia. Lucia learns to ride a bicycle and we live through the saga of Blue Birdie, Mrs Wyse’s dead budgerigar [parakeet] invoked in a séance. Lucia and Georgie renew their acquaintance with the operatic diva Olga Braceley and the
composer Cortese, but nobody in Tilling believes her when she claims to have entertained a duchess over night. Lucia becomes Mayor of Tilling and Miss Mapp is appointed her Mayoress. The sixth volume in the Lucia series. 231pp in paperback reprint of the 1939 original.
$12.95 NOW £2.50
65528 COMPLETE MAPP & LUCIA: Volume One by E. F. Benson
In Lucia in London, the prudish, manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society. A perfect comic vehicle for Benson’s free-wheeling satire of salon societ, and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s, including vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism,
séances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science. Includes Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Lucia in London. 632 page paperback. ONLY £2
65529 COMPLETE MAPP & LUCIA: Volume Two by E. F. Benson
These three wonderful comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Progress and Trouble for Lucia, drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art-exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on ‘a very agreeable rack of suspense’. Concentrates on the novels’ disturbing, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour whenever ‘that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised’. 665 page paperback. ONLY £2
75791 GREAT SHORT
NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES introduced by Philip Rahv Author, essayist and critic, Henry James is one of the most prolific American authors ever to have lived. He believed that the short novel was the perfect literary form. Born in New York City, he elected to live in Europe for most of his life and often wrote about the cultural divide between the two continents.
His characters experienced the same social stigmas that he was eventually to overcome while living in London. The ten novellas in this marvellous hardback omnibus are: Madame de Mauves, Daisy Miller, An International Episode, The Siege of London, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, The Aspern Papers, The Pupil, The Turn of the Screw and The Beast in the Jungle. With biographical introduction, 2014 new well bound hardback reprint, 382pp. $30 NOW £10
75788 GREAT NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM by Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence, The Magician, Liza of Lambeth are the three novels plus five short stories The Pool, Rain, Macintosh, The Fall of Edward Bernard and Red are combined into a huge omnibus hardback, well bound and 665pp. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago, in Samoa or Malaya, or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic and mysterious worlds, and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the human heart. The Moon and Sixpence is widely considered Maugham’s masterpiece, based on the life of painter Paul Gauguin whose artwork is featured on the cover of this book.
$30 NOW £10 75789 GREAT NOVELS OF E.M. FORSTER
introduced by Louis Auchincloss Four must-read novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View and Howards End. When a young English widow takes off on the Grand Tour and along the way marries an Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have a baby and that the baby should be raised an Italian are matters requiring immediate correction. Here familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse under foot. The second novel The Longest Journey is highly autobiographical. In the third novel A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch has lost her Baedeker and her very proper chaperone in Florence. With the final novel, Forster established his reputation as a writer. Who is to inherit Howards End, a charming old country house in Hertfordshire? Well bound hardback with gold tooling on the spine. 898pp. $30 NOW £9.50
75887 ART OF THE EPIGRAPH: How Great
Books Begin edited by Rosemary Ahern ‘Child, knowledge is a treasury and your heart its strongbox.’ - Hugo of St Victor. ‘Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.’ - Jules Renard, 1890. Montaigne one famously said, ‘Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.’ Here a New York scholar has done exactly that for us collecting more than 250 examples from across 500 years of
literature. There is no more pleasing a start to a book than a well chosen epigraph, quotation, saying, snippet from a song or poem. It informs us about the author’s sensibility but are we in the hands of a literalist or a wit, a cynic or a romantic? The epigraph hints at hidden stories and frequently comes with one of its own. From Herodotus to Hemingway, Jane Austen to Karl Marx, A. A. Milne to Marcel Proust, here is a book that allows us a glimpse of the great writer as a devoted reader. 235 roughcut pages. US first edition. $16 NOW £5
76171 SIGNATURE
SHAKESPEARE ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare
edited by Mario Digangi A striking and heavyweight hardback with purple and red decorated with borders and capital initials in intricate, laser-cut paper art, tipped in illustration, which is
repeated to beautiful design effect between acts of the play. Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s incomparable story of ill-fated love and class conflict which has captivated audiences for more than 400 years. Now this elegant edition, beautifully illustrated as never before the entire text is presented complete with scholarship, commentary, notes and essays about Shakespeare’s language and significant performances of the play. 390 quality pages measuring 7" x 10". £25 NOW £6.50
76177 VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE by Hugh Lofting
Join the enchanting voyage of the great Doctor Dolittle, a remarkable man who can talk with animals. Accompanied by his seafaring friends including a wise parrot, a clever monkey and food-loving pig, he encounters fantastic creatures, mysterious lands and great danger. Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, a poor cobbler’s son, who has come to Dolittle hoping that the Doctor can heal a wounded squirrel. The helpful lad becomes the Doctor’s assistant and joins him and Jip the dog and Chee-Chee the monkey and Crown Prince Bumpo Kahbooboo on the voyage of a lifetime. A charming gift edition with fabulous woodcuts illustrations by Scott McKowen. First published in 1922, our 248 page handsome edition has an ex-Libris frontispiece and satin bookmark. £5.99 NOW £3
75310 SECRET GARDEN: Bonded Leather
Edition by Frances Hodgson Burnett ‘Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.’ When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too… Mistress Mary Quite Contrary, The Cry in the Corridor, The Key to the Garden, A Young Rajah and Magic are among the chapter headings in this memorable and very special classic tale. With a black silhouette illustration on a purple bonded leather cover with silver tooling and ribbon marker and the evocative Victorian illustrations of Charles Robinson. Silver gilt edged pages and rope on spine. With dedication page and eight colour plates, 292pp.
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75463 MANSFIELD PARK: The Winchester Austen by Jane Austen
With a bonded leather embossed cover, easy-to-use elastic closure, a colour map of Jane Austen’s England, an illustrated section on the church, a timeline and four clear introductions by renowned Austen scholars, here is the complete text of Mansfield Park in a modern, readable typeface. Like a slave, Fanny Price was a property, brought to Mansfield to serve the new inhabitants, ‘standing and stooping in a hot sun’ at the bidding of her Aunt Bertram. In this novel, Jane Austen shows herself aware of new movements in religion, building and gardening and seems to suggest that the best of the new can be accommodated along with what is worth keeping of the old. With beautiful endpapers, 429 pages.
£12.95 NOW £5.50 MISCELLANY 76305 ERTÉ POSTCARDS IN
FULL COLOUR: Ready-to-Mail by Dover Publications For more than 70 years, Erté has dazzled the world with the wit and technical brilliance of his art. Theatrical conceits, flamboyant fashions and novel interpretations of old themes all rendered in opulent colours have long been his trademark. The works reproduced
on these postcards represent such exotic tableaux as Oriental Tale, Adam and Eve, Nature’s Vanity, Harlequin and Stolen Kisses as well as designs for Rigoletto, Manon and more. Seductive female figures, sensual and provocative, dramatic fiery colour, each card is identified with a caption on the reverse. Perforated for easy removal, each of these 24 high quality laminated card measures 4" x 6". Large softback. £7.99 NOW £4
75746 EMBOSSED LEATHER PASSPORT
COVER by Mudlark Hayden Leigh In presentation box with nostalgic travel stickers decorating the box, inside is a very soft burnt orange stitched and embossed leather passport cover. Inside is a very simple strong elasticised band, a slot to the left side and corners to the right so you can easily detach your passport when going through Passport Control, but keep the passport clean and neat with a little pocket for your boarding pass, receipts etc. The embossed Mudlark’s Hayden Leigh curvy design is a wavy line and inside are different size dotted circles. With good heavy stitching and of superb quality, suit ladies or gents. ONLY £5
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73454 CHRISTMAS CARD AND TAG: Set of Four by Reader’s Digest
The four designs are a beautiful poinsettia, a close up of a Christmas pud with holly, Christmas baubles and a beautifully packaged gift. The cards are 5" x 7" and are good quality, blank inside for your own message, four white envelopes, four pieces of red string and matching gift tags one of each design to match the cards. ONLY £2.50
73371 THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS:
Book and CD by Clement C. Moore The Night Before Christmas was published in 1823 and is a heart warming poem, here magnificently illustrated by the painter Eric Puybarat. Stockings hung by the chimney with care, visions of sugar plums dancing, a miniature sleigh with eight tiny reindeer and Santa with his twinkly eyes and merry dimples - Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without this classic tale. The legendary trio Peter, Paul and Mary provide a musical and narrative CD with their classic favourite ‘A’ Soalin’ and an enchanting reading by Mary Travers over a special score. Huge colourful pages. $19.95 NOW £5
76377 CRACKERS AT CHRISTMAS by Hazel Wheeler
Sub-titled ‘The Festive Trials of a Yorkshire Housewife’, here is the latest instalment of Hazel Wheeler’s ever popular diaries, this time spanning Christmases 1949 to 1996. “More tears. No apple sauce with the turkey, only cranberry and everything else. A small boy who cracked his mother across her face allowed to get away with it. I’ve seen better manners in a pigsty. Then Father Christmas arrived to great applause. Secretly I’d have cheered the arrival of Pierrepont the Hangman.” Welcome to the Huddersfield housewife’s season of goodwill, mistletoe and bulging stockings. Santa in his munificence also brings with him a sleighful of suffering and breakdown. The jolly season is laid bare. Lovely monochrome family photos, line art, posters, recipes, letters and verse decorate the pages. 160pp in paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3.50 75531 COUNTRY COTTAGES 2015
CALENDAR by Annes Publishing Thatched, timbered, ivy clad, wisteria clad, rambling rose clad, beside a babbling brook, of old Cotswold stone, with thatched roofs, one wishing well, one millstone, one dark grey sky but mostly bright blue skies in these images of quintessentially English country cottages. Measuring 14" square, this 12 month calendar features fabulous photographs in the top section and plenty of space below in the grid for your important dates plus notes. Gives bank holidays and special days like the Jewish New Year, USA Labor Day etc. and a tiny month before and after planner. All key calendar dates given at the end for both 2015 and 2016 and year- at-a-glance planner. ONLY £5
2015 76243 ZEN: 16 MONTH 2015
CALENDAR by Gifted Stationery “Your treasure house is in yourself, it contains all you need.” “Life is journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.” Featuring lotus flowers, lit candles, stacked stones, sand, reflective water, a Buddha, Buddha’s golden palms decorated, a meditating yogi, the 16 images in this full size 12" x 12" wall hanging calendar are restful, beautiful, tranquil. Bank holidays and forward planner marked, all in spectacular colour. £9.99 NOW £4.50
75532 WORLD’S BEST PAINTINGS 2015
CALENDAR by Annes Publishing 14" square with Mona Lisa on the front cover the inside front is J. M. W. Turner’s The Hoe at Plymouth 1829 with lots of merriment, singing and dancing. With a big clear grid space for every day of the calendar month, public holidays and special days noted, the best paintings include The Birth of Venus, a Cézanne still life, Contable’s Flatford Mill, a Van Eyck, Garden with Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt and Van Gogh’s Bedroom among them. Big bright and colourful and with hanging hole and all key calendar dates given at the end for both 2015 and 2016 and year-at-a-glance planner. ONLY £6
75749 MEHNDI HAND
POCKET BOOK by Walter Robertson
Much like the bride’s wedding hand, hennaed for her wedding, the design on this front cover notebook is in blue and yellow paisley with green, red, black Indian patterned background design and borders. Unlike most journals, it is a pocket book which opens across the top, like a policeman’s notebook. There
are 60 lined pages and it is palm sized, approx 3" x 4" and 100% recycled paper. Suitable for ladies or gents. ONLY £1.50
76088 ORNAMENTS: 10 Sheets Exclusive Gift
Wrapping Paper by Ullmann Publishing A new addition to this series which has proved really popular on Bibliophile. These heavy quality sheets of paper are neatly folded, and open out to over 27½ x 19½”, 50 x 70cm. With inventive suggestions for use, the ten sheets pull out easily from the softback cover. Ten different designs, they originate from the Grammar of Ornament, textile books, some classical Victorian looking, others more tribal and ethnic and one a little Greco-Roman with its burnt orange and black geometric pattern. Great value. ONLY £5
73993 SAVE TREES PENCIL SET by Fabrica Nicely packaged set of five black writing pencils, one eraser and one pencil sharpener, this is an attractive kit for the environmentally-minded. ONLY £4
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76144 WOMEN’S INSTITUTE COMPLETE CHRISTMAS
by Sian Cook and Margaret William Many recipes are prepared with busy lifestyles in mind, and we begin with ‘must-haves’ such as Mince Pies and Rum Sauce. For each recipe there are serving numbers, using up leftovers, cooking methods and a clear layout. We could start with Smoked Salmon Mousse with Cucumber Dressing, make some Chestnut Stuffing, a Christmas Fruit Compote, Buttered or Boned Turkey Roll, Broccoli and Stilton Roulade. 192pp in large paperback, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £6
76128 TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Card
and Poem: Pack of Six by Sarah Conner This is a new Cardooo which incorporates not only a beautifully colour illustrated Christmas card, but also a tiny booklet in the tri-fold showing the entire poem which begins ‘On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: a partridge in a pear tree...’ Glossy paper, beautiful illustrations, be thrilled with this card- cum letter-cum book design. Pack of six. ONLY £6
76106 LITTLE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS GAMES by Mike Munro
Switch off the TV set and play great family games like I spy, pass the parcel, call my bluff, oranges and lemons, charades, in the activity games section, bingo, doublets, consequences and hangman in the two plus player section, lots of card games and games with music, guessing, props and pen and paper. 120 page softback with cartoons and elastic fastener. £5.99 NOW £2.25
75509 5 MINUTE CHRISTMAS STORIES from Little Tiger Press 10 enchanting short stories. Children will love joining Little Rabbit as he builds a magic snowman, and urging on Little Mouse as he tries to decorate the best Christmas tree ever. But poor Little Mouse goes from one disaster to another. First, he cannot find any holly, then he is terrified because he thinks the Mouse Ness Monster is following him. 288 pages 22.5cm x 22.5cm, glorious colour, with gold edging and sturdy covers. £14.99 NOW £7
75533 SCRAP BOOK: Coloured Pages by W. F. Graham
Alongside our bestseller which we have stocked for over 25 years code 27592, we are proud to present a 24 page colour version of the same scrap book measuring 8½” x 12". The better paper quality pages are turquoise blue, yellow and pink. Ideal for all scrapbooking, preserving postcards, photos, letters etc. ONLY £1.50
70236 VENEZIA / FLORENCE
STATIONERY BOX SET by Red Clover No Venice design here but rather a lovely pale blue and brown and cream attractive floral Red Clover leaf design. Measuring 7½” square, open the magnetic lid to find neatly presented beneath plastic an 80 sheet lined notepad, 16 notecards with envelopes, 16 decorative envelope seals and 100 sheets of stickable notes. Perhaps best of all is the nearly 4" long silver coloured biro enclosed in this elegant box set. Apologies if there is a sticker on reverse of box which is removable. ONLY £6
72836 BAG A BARGAIN
NAVY SHOPPER BAG An exclusive design from Bibliophile. Attractive navy shopper bag with the words ‘Bag A Bargain Book’ with cat and books design and
www.bibliophilebooks.com website details printed in white. 37cm square, handle long enough to fit over shoulder or hang down, good
capacity for medium weights (of several books). Wipe clean.
ONLY £3
73594 M. C. ESCHER JOURNAL: ORANGE AND TEAL by Pomegranate
Turquoise, blue, brown and black geometric design by the famous Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972) amply demonstrates his experimentation in duality, rhythm and perception in this geometrical structured, playful design. Sturdy hardbound journal with a folding pocket on the inside cover, lined notepaper, a cream satin bookmark and very snazzy magnetic strip ‘clamshell’ fastening. With two elasticated loops to insert your favourite pen, this is a notebook to jot down your thoughts while relaxing. 5" x 7". $14.95 NOW £4.50
74378 WILLIAM MORRIS GIFT WRAP: Ten
Sheets by Ullmann Publishing William Morris (1834-1896) was a designer and craftsman. His designs for paper, fabrics, carpets and tapestries, ten of which are included in this book, have won him lasting renown. In beautiful subtle shades of blue, green, mustard and yellow, each sheet of gift wrapping paper has been folded into four and measures when opened 50 x 70cm or 27½ x 19½”. Good quality and easily detached from the softback book which begins with a 12 page introduction. ONLY £5
74379 FAUVE BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES AND
FLOWERS GIFT WRAP: Ten Sheets by Ullmann Publishing
The Fauves were the sensation of Paris. Diaghilev and Bakst were among those who set off a fashion rage that was to last from 1909 through to the 1920s. The 10 distinct designs feature superbly coloured butterflies in blues, yellows, greens, pinks and white, parrots in a flowering tree, jungle birds, hyacinths and colourful flower borders, and an arboretum of dark greens and purples with trees at sunset executed in gouache on paper. 12 page introduction. Sheets are 50 x 70cm, 27½ x 19½” easily detached from the softback book. ONLY £5
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