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Leather Bound Classics

A selection of antiquarian books rebound in leather.

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  • KIM by Rudyard Kipling

    KIM by Rudyard Kipling

    £228.00
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  • CATCH -22 By Joseph Heller

    CATCH -22 By Joseph Heller

    £380.00
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  • The Beautiful And Damned

    The Beautiful And Damned

    £950.00
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  • The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

    The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

    £1,900.00
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  • Mind At The End Of Its Tether

    Mind At The End Of Its Tether

    £289.00
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  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    £370.00
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  • Stories From The Arabian Nights

    Stories From The Arabian Nights

    £252.00
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  • The Cocktail Party

    The Cocktail Party

    £220.00
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  • The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed

    £180.00
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  • The Water Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by Charles Kingsley

    The Water Babies – A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by Charles Kingsley

    £336.00
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She is cared for primarily by native servants, who spoil her and allow her to become aggressive, self-centred and unpleasant. After a cholera epidemic kills her parents, Mary is left alone when the few surviving servants flee.
Mary is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her “Mistress Mary, quite contrary”. She is sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, husband of her father’s sister Lilias. He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large country house, Misselthwaite Manor. On arrival, Mary discovers that Lilias is dead and that Archibald is a hunchback.At first, Mary remains angry and defiant.
She dislikes her new home, the people living in it, who do not pander to her as she was in India, and, most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits. Over time, however, she becomes healthier and less cantankerous. She befriends her maid, Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias, who would spend hours in a private walled garden growing roses. Lilias died after an accident in the garden ten years previously, and the devastated Archibald locked the garden and buried the key.Mary becomes interested in finding the secret garden herself, and her manners begin to soften as a result. Soon, she comes to enjoy the company of Martha, the gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and a friendly robin redbreast. Her health and attitude improve.

The robin draws Mary’s attention to an area of disturbed soil. Here she finds the key to the locked garden. After her first day exploring, she asks Martha for garden tools, which Martha sends with Dickon, her 12-year-old brother, who spends most of his time out on the moors. Mary and Dickon take a liking to each other. Eager to absorb his gardening knowledge, Mary tells him about the secret
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