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The Blair Years Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

CAMPBELL ALASTAIR AND STOTT RICHARD · 2007 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

Hutchinson London. 2007, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780091796297) Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of Ne...

Shakespeare

BURGESS, ANTHONY · 1970 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 26cm. Book, 272 crisp pp & a kilo to post. Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's st...

Tibetan Journey

PATTERSON GEORGE N. · 1940 · Little Lane Books

A$10.00 (€6.15 | $6.78 | £5.13 | ¥1,082)

Readers Book Club, lONDON. Hardcover with dust jacket, 19cm. Book, George N. Patterson recounts his time spent in Tibet as a missionary during the late 1940s and his escape into India when the Chinese communists invated Tibet in 1950. Includes interesting historical photograph...

American Art Posters of the 1890s

KIEHL, DAVID W; WITH ESSAYS BY PHILLIP DENNIS CATE, NANCY FINDLAY · 1987 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 31.5cm. Book, This book ex-Alsager library, Alsager you ask? Alsager was recorded as 'Eleacier' in the Domesday Book, and was a small farming village until the 19th century when, due to its rail connections and ...

The Last Medici

ACTON, HAROLD · 1980 · Little Lane Books

A$19.00 (€11.68 | $12.87 | £9.74 | ¥2,055)

London, Macmillan. 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, Acton seems to have rowed in the same team as Norman Douglas, possibly a book about him will be just as readable as this insight into the Medici clan, originally a 1932 issue. Among his contemporaries at Eton w...

Nigella Lawson the Unauthorised Biography

SMITH, GILLY · 2005 · Little Lane Books

A$32.00 (€19.67 | $21.68 | £16.41 | ¥3,461)

Andre Deutsch. 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 250 crisp pp & 750g to post, several photo sections Strikingly beautiful and with an unashamed passion for food, Nigella Lawson continues to fascinate and inspire. Her cookery books are international bestsellers, s...

Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana Mccrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer

NIALL, BRENDA · 1998 · Little Lane Books

A$16.00 (€9.84 | $10.84 | £8.21 | ¥1,731)

Australia, Melbourne University Press. 1998. Soft cover with dust jacket. Book, Georgiana: Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer - 344 crisp pp & 750g packed to post. Details >> After a childhood among artists, French migrants and English radicals in Regency...

Sketches for Friends

ARDIZZONE, EDWARD · 2000 · Little Lane Books

A$35.00 (€21.51 | $23.71 | £17.95 | ¥3,786)

UK, John Murray. 2000, 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 14.5cm. Book, Edward Ardizzone, one of the 20th-century's best-loved illustrators, could never resist filling his letters, whether to family or friends, with sketches and vignettes. This volume presents a selectio...

The James Beard Celebration Cookbook

BEARD, JAMES · 1990 · Little Lane Books

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.39 | ¥3,245)

USA, William Morrow & Company. 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 26.5cm. Book, 415 crisp pp, 1.2 kg to post. Edited by Barbara Kafka. Recently a booksite foolishly listed a "Top 100 cookbooks", well anytime you do something along those lines it's bound to turn into a bun fight...

Self Portraits

FOSTER DAVID SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY · 1991 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1991, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0642105138) Card Cover , 27cm. Book, Fifteen well known Australian writers speak of their lives and of their writing. Good.

Luftwaffe Aircraft Paintings By Michael Turner

MASON, FRANK · 1986 · Little Lane Books

A$29.00 (€17.83 | $19.65 | £14.87 | ¥3,137)

UK, Newnes Books. 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29cm. Ill.: Michael Turner. Book, 1200g & 159pp with close to sixty paintings & many many pencil works. Fault is ruffled top edge to dj & corner wear to dj. Frank Mason, one time night fighter pilot & aviation writer provides...

Beatrix: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872-1959

BROWN, JANE · 1995 · Little Lane Books

A$35.00 (€21.51 | $23.71 | £17.95 | ¥3,786)

USA, Viking. 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29.5cm. Book, 252 pristine pp & 1.5 kg packed to post. A gorgeously illustrated biography of American landscape designer Beatrix Jones Farrand. Using Farrand's own drawings and plans, and marvelous full-color and black-and-white p...

Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and His Clients

BROWN, JANE · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$40.00 (€24.59 | $27.10 | £20.51 | ¥4,326)

UK, Penguin. 1997. Card Cover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 276 crisp pp & almost a kilo to post. This book is designed as a companion to the author's book about the association between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon". Lutyens was a humani...

Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners: A Practical Course By Audrey Quigley

QUIGLEY, AUDREY · 1991 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

Australia, Lothian. 1991. Soft cover with dust jacket, 27.5cm. Book, Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners: A Practical Course by Audrey Quigley - this book is 64 pages with black & white illustrations throughout. It's a practical course for artist beginners using the tradi...

Floyd - out of the Frying Pan an Autobiography

KLOYD, KEITH · 2000 · Little Lane Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

UK, HarperCollins Harper Collins. 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 278pp of Floydism, 700g packed for post. Keith Floyd's exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as author and as television presenter. Here he tells his ...

Valley of the Casbahs a Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara

TAYLER, JEFFREY · 2003 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

UK, Little, Brown. 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 335pp, photo section amidships, 650g packed to post. The Draa River valley, where Morocco meets the Sahara, is a place of astonishing natural beauty, jewelled with the remains of the ancient casbahs of ochre-co...

Wrestling with a Pencil the Life of a Freelance Artist

THELWELL, NORMAN · 1986 · Little Lane Books

A$39.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | £20.00 | ¥4,218)

London, Methuen. 1986, 1st. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, I can't do better than let you read this warm review >>> Norman Thelwell did in fact sell many of his paintings in his lifetime, but his brilliant artistic talent was not widely known or appreciated. Luckily, ...

Monet Or the Triumph of Impressionism

WILDENSTEIN, DANIEL · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$60.00 (€36.88 | $40.65 | £30.77 | ¥6,490)

Germany, Taschen Benedikt Verlag. 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 32.5cm. Book, 480 wonderful pp in great condition & close to 3kg to post. Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists...

Classic Raf Battles from World War One to the Present

ARMITAGE, MICHAEL (EDITOR) · 1995 · Little Lane Books

A$46.00 (€28.28 | $31.17 | £23.59 | ¥4,975)

UK, Arms and Armour Press. 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Ill.: Various. Book, This book chronicles the combat exploits of the RAF from World War I up to the Gulf War. Almost 40 different events are covered with an appropriate painting used to illustrate to illustra...

Comfort Me with Apples More Adventures at the Table

REICHL, RUTH · 2001 · Little Lane Books

A$21.00 (€12.91 | $14.23 | £10.77 | ¥2,271)

NY, Random House. 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 302pp, 600g to post, faults? a knock to top edge of boards & bumped corners. In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals...