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	1 Ackroyd, Peter (Introduction by); Wright, Thomas (Edited by) A Traveller's Companion to London New York Interlink Books; Travellers' Companion Ser. 2004 1566565375 / 9781566565370 First edition thus Trade Paperback Good  li, 410 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 20 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Missing half-title page.  Price: 4.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Wright, Thomas (Edited by); Ackroyd, Peter (Introduction by) A Traveller's Companion to London London Robinson; Constable & Robinson Ltd. 2004 1841197890 / 9781841197890 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine  li, 410 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Vivid snapshots of the great city through the ages from letters, diaries and memoirs." - blurb.  Price: 14.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Ackroyd, Peter Albion : The Origins of the English Imagination London Chatto & Windus 2002 1856197212 / 9781856197212 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good  Cloth, gilt, xxii, 516 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus. (some col.), ports., biblio., index; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.  Price: 19.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Ackroyd, Peter Dickens New York HarperCollinsPublishers 1990 0060166029 / 9780060166021 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Very Good Fine  xvi, 1195 pp., illus., ports., biblio., index; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners mildly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.  Price: 14.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 Ackroyd, Peter Dickens New York HarperCollinsPublishers 1990 0060166029 / 9780060166021 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine  xvi, 1195 pp., illus., ports., biblio., index; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated "First U.S. Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.  Price: 19.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 Ackroyd, Peter English Music New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 1992 0679409688 / 9780679409687 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible  399 pp., illus.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Trade Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.  Price: 14.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7 Ackroyd, Peter London: The Biography New York Anchor Books 2003 0385497717 / 9780385497718 First edition thus Trade Paperback Very Good  xxvi, 801 pp., illus. (some col.), maps, bib. notes, index; 24 cm. First published, 2000. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly bowed. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Anecdotal, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, London is animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar 'echoic' quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.' / PETER ACKROYD is a best-selling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His most recent books include the biographies Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More, and the novels The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London." - Publisher.  Price: 11.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	8 Palmer, Alan; Ackroyd, Peter (Introduction by) The East End: Four Centuries of London Life New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press 2000 0813528267 / 9780813528267 Second Edition Trade Paperback Fine  xix, 200 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy.  Price: 19.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	9 Ackroyd, Peter The Life of Thomas More New York Anchor Books; Random House 1999 0385496931 / 9780385496933 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine  x, 447 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Anchor Books Edition, December 1999." "Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a magnificent reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a genre and a worldview (Utopia), and, most famously, a Catholic martyr, who paid with his life when he refused to follow his sovereign, King Henry VIII, in severing England's ties with the Catholic Church. Born into the professional classes, Thomas More (1478-1535) rose by dint of formidable intellect and well-placed connections to become the most powerful man in England after the king. An exponent of what was called in his day 'the mixed life,' More combined medieval piety with worldly mastery of legal argument and the art of negotiation. Ackroyd dramatically shows how the clouds of Lutheran reformation that swarmed over the continent unleashed the storm of the early modern period that swept away More's world and took his life. He clarifies the whirl of dynastic, religious, and mercantile politics that brought the autocratic Henry VIII and the devout More into their fateful conflict. And he narrates the unrelenting drama of More's final days--his detention, trial, and execution--with a novelist's mastery of suspense. In Ackroyd's hands, this renowned 'man for all seasons' emerges in the fullness of his complex humanity; we see the unexpected side of his character (a preference for bawdy humor) as well as his indisputable moral courage." - Publisher.  Price: 6.35 USD Add to Shopping Cart