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Thornton's Bookshop( W A & J S Meeuws ) ( ABA, BA, ILAB )
Established in Oxford in 1835 - Member of the ABA since 1907
The Old Barn - Walnut Court - Faringdon, SN7 7JH
A small market town near the Cotswolds, about 20 miles from Oxford
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Vincent van Gogh the letters 
6 volumes


 
 
 
New Arrival Tolkien: Lord of the Rings. 3 volumes
First edition 1954/1955
 
 


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The Red Book
the art of psychology

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sample pages of this wonderful book 


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PRINTS and other works of ART
Ackermann's A history of the 
university of Oxford etc..

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Catalogue Faringdon - 3 ( E -  F ) 
Catalogue Faringdon - 4 ( G - H )
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

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Just acquired:
Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 
The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia volumes 1- 5

Published by Thornton's on 12th June 2009
John Ogden: Silken Dalliance. ISBN 978-085455-040-1  £17.99 
( the 2nd volume in the trilogy; the 1st volume "On fire" also still available)

Helmut Ricke: Glass Art. Reflections of the Centuries. £12.50

James Joyce Ulysses Limited and Numbered Edition In full turquoise-blue leather £375

Vincent van Gogh - The Letters. The Complete Illustrated 
and Annotated Edition. 
Six volumes slipcased with a CD-ROM of the letters in their original languages

Complete collection of the Albums de la Pléiade
48 volumes £3000

The last Costume ball in the Winter palace. (1903)
2 volumes. (Kostiumirovannyi bal v Zimnem dvortse )
Bi-lingual English-Russian edition.  £395

Maria Feodorovna Empress of Russia. An exhibition about 
the Danish princess who became Empress of Russia. Kejserinde Dagmar £150

Jews and Slavs 21 volumes

List of c. 750 books in the field of Slavic studies at greatly reduced prices

 

 


 
 


 
 

Ulysses
 


Pleiade set

A selection of our books 
is for sale in the White Horse Bookshop in Faringdon 

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Jan Bok: Waarde Broer
 

Vincent M. Holt 
Why Not Eat Insects ?
ISBN 0854550240

C F Jung The Red Book - the art of psychology see:Video introduction
click here to order

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