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Brightwell, Emily
Mrs. Jeffries Learns the Trade: The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries
<p>First edition of this novel that collects the first three Mrs. Jeffries novels. Collected are "The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries." There is a light crease to the top of the corner on the back cover. Remainder marked otherwise in near fine unread condition.</p> Berkley paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio10457 ISBN : 0425203468 9780425203460
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Brightwell, Emily
Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney
New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Near Fine. 2004. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Paperback Original. No spine crease. 224 pages. A Mrs. Jeffries Mystery No. 18. Inspector Witherspoon is perplexed. No one seems to know the identity of the dead man dressed like a vicar and propped up against the outside wall of St. Pauls Church. A paper clutched in the corpses hand reveals the address of a dilapidated and seemingly abandoned cottageabandoned if you dont count the human skeleton stuffed in the chimney. To link these two bizarre incidents will take all of the resources at Witherspoons commandand a little help from the efficient Mrs. Jeffries. She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon . . . and keeps him on his toes. Everyones awed by his Scotland Yard successesbut they dont know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed Mrs. Jeffriess polished detection skills are up to the task proving that behind every great man theres a womanand that a crime-solvers work is never done. . Berkley Prime Crime paperback
Bookseller reference : 604497 ISBN : 0425193918 9780425193914
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Brigitte Gresy et Service des droits des femmes et de l'egalite France
Agir pour l'égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes : Guide d'appui à la négociation au sein des entreprises et des branches
Service des droits des femmes et de l'égalité 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book. Traces of creases on the cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Different cover. Edition 2003. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Service des droits des femmes et de l'égalité paperback
Bookseller reference : E-648-084 ISBN : 2878805267 9782878805260
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Brinton, Dr. D.G. and Naphey, Dr. Geo. H.
THE LAWS OF HEALTH IN RELATION TO THE HUMAN FORM.
pp. 346, (1). Frontis. 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding. Very worn and water stained. Text has some dampstain and foxing. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WOMEN 2
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Briscoe, Anne M.;Pfafflin, Sheila M.;New York Academy of Sciences;Association for Women in Science
Expanding the Role of Women in the Sciences: proceedings
New York New York U.S.A.: New York Academy of Sciences 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. trade paperback in very good condition. New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Academy of Sciences Paperback
Bookseller reference : 73515 ISBN : 0897660145 9780897660143
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BRISSAC (Elvire de).
Une forêt soumise.
Paris Grasset 1980 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, non coupé, 313 pp. Edition originale. Un des 29 exemplaires numérotés vélin chiffon de Lana, seul grand papier. Ex-libris contrecollé sur le premier feuillet. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 35018
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BRISSAC (Elvire de).
Une forêt soumise.
Paris Grasset 1980 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, non coupé, 313 pp. Edition originale. Un des 29 exemplaires numérotés vélin chiffon de Lana, seul grand papier. Ex-libris contrecollé sur le premier feuillet. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 35018
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Bristol Women Writers Group
Unchained: A Collection of Fiction & Poetry by Bristol Women Writers
Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Bookseller reference : GOR005919755 ISBN : 1906477779 9781906477776
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Britta Konau; National Museum of Women in the Arts
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
London: Scala Publishers 2006 This book is in excellent condition. 159 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Paperback. Very Good. Size G: 10"-11" Tall 254-279mm. Scala Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 166751 ISBN : 1857594428 9781857594423
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Broadwater Cattle Women
Broadwater County Brand Book
<p>This book is in very good condition. There are no markings in the book. Cover show very very minor signs of shelf/edge wear. Comb bound. 2002. First printing. Ships within 24 hours.</p> Broadwater Cattle Women
Bookseller reference : 50001ESCLA
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Brody Frances
Dying in the Wool
<p>First US edition second printing of the first novel in the Kate Shackleton series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. In fine unread condition.</p> Minotaur Books paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio4998 ISBN : 1250013097 9781250013095
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Brody, Celeste; Fuller, Kasi Allen; Moscato, Susan Randles; Nagel, Nancy G.; Pace, Glennellen
Gender Consciousness and Privilege
Paperback in very good condition: minor sheflwear, bookseller sticker on half - title: contents clean, sound, bright. Used
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Brody, Frances
A Death in the Dales
<p>First edition first printing of the seventh novel in the Kate Shackleton series. In fine unread condition.</p> Piatkus paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio5975 ISBN : 0349406561 9780349406565
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Brody, Frances
A Medal For Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
<p>First edition first printing of the second novel in the Kate Shackleton series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Published as a paper back original. In fine unread condition.</p> Piatkus paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio4997 ISBN : 0749941928 9780749941925
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Brody, Frances
Dying in the Wool
New York: Minotaur Books / Thomas Dunne. As New. 2009. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. 356 pages. A Kate Shackleton Mystery No. 1. Take one quiet Yorkshire villageBridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote nothing exceptional happens
Add a measure of mysteryUntil the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances never to be heard of again.A sprinkling of scandalNow Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress or was he murdered for his mounting coffersAnd Kate Shackletonamateur sleuth extraordinaire!Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed
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Bookseller reference : 609172 ISBN : 1250013097 9781250013095
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Brody, Rosalie.
WEDDINGS. (Emily Post Series).
113p. Numerous illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original slightly stained wraps. ETIQ 1
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Bronson, Enos
Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines; by E. Bronson and Others 3 volumes provenance: Sarah Reed
Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle 1809. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volumes 1 leaf of a plate: engraved portrait of Mirza Aboo al Hassan envoy of the King of Persia; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges yellow. "From the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson." Vol. 3 has vol. 4 title page with imprint stating "Published by Edward Earle corner of Chesnut and Fourth Streets." Title pages state sold by Mathew Carey in Philadelphia and a variety of other booksellers in other cities in the United States. Small oval paper label in first compartment of each volume with very faint handwritten number. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume indicating that the volumes were given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1851 by Mrs. Judge Reed Carlisle Pa. No other library markings. Vol. 1 contains as bound: issues of Jan. 1809 and Jan. and Feb. 1810 with no volume title page. Vol. 2 contains as bound vol. 2 title page table of contents index and: April July Sept. Oct. Nov. and Dec. 1809. Vol. 3 contains title page table of contents and index for vol. 3 and: July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. and Dec. 1810. Only volumes 1-8 were published from 1809 to 1812. The printer Enos Bronson 1774-1823 published the Gazette of the United States from 1801 to 1804; with Elihu Chauncey he published The United States' Gazette for the Country from 1804 to 1818. Select Reviews consisted primarily of reviews of recently published material taken from other publications. It also contained some original material including an obituary of Miriam Gratz poetry and advertisements for American and British publishers. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; 6.5-cm. tear from fore-edge of vol. 2 title page with loss at fore-edge not impacting printing; faint dampstain on a few pages of vol.1; ink stain extending through about 30 pages of vol. 2; occasional foxing; solid copy of this scarce publication. Hopkins and Earle hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003783
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BRONTE Emily
WUTHERIG HEIGHTS.
Bruxelles Editions de la Mappemonde 1943. 2vol in-8 carré broché couverture illustrée 265 266pp. Orné de 32 illustrations hors texte par Emilien Dufour dont les 2 frontispices. Tiré à 2000exp numérotés, celui-ci 1 des 1964 sur vélin pur fil. Non coupé. Bel exp.
Bookseller reference : GIT013dc
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BRONWYN AE GRIFFITH (sous la direction de)
Les ambassadrices du progrès : photographes américaines à Paris, 1900-1901.
Adam Biro Adam Biro, Musée d'Art Américain de Giverny, 2001, 199 p., cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette, environ 31x23cm, jaquette insolée, coins des plats un peu émoussés, bon état pour le reste et intérieur bien propre.
Bookseller reference : 107801
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Brooke, Rupert
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke; With an Introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington provenance: Katinka Loeser
New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1931. Hardcover. Good . Eighty-sixth thousand." 2 192 p. frontispiece portrait; 20 cm. Top page edges gilt. Polished black morocco over flexible boards with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration of spine and front cover. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Katinka Loeser. Written on the front free endpaper is the verse about Brooke by Frances Cornford beginning "A young Apollo." Katinka Loeser 1913-1991 was a poet and author of short stories. In Good Condition: edges rubbed with loss of leather at corners and upper edges of front cover; a few pencilled marginal marks; a few margins soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Dodd, Mead and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007572
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Broom, Dorothy H.
Damned if we do contradictions in women's health care
Paperback light blue octavo. xx, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Author inscribed on title page. || Women's health services -- Australia. Women -- Health and hygiene -- Community Health Centers. Delivery of Health Care.
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Broumas Olga
Perpetua
Port Townsend Wash: Copper Canyon Press 1993. Paperback. Fine. 2 108 2 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Second printing. Olga Broumas b. 1949 is a Greek-American poet who has received fellowships from the NEA the Vermont Arts Council and the Guggenheim Foundation a Lambda Poetry Award and has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University since 1995. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Copper Canyon Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 004517 ISBN : 1556590253 9781556590252
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BROUSSON Jean-Jacques
La chevalière d'Eon ou le dragon en dentelles.
Couverture souple. Broché. 284 pages.
Bookseller reference : 63292
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Brown, Dee.
THE GENTLE TAMERS. Women of the Old Wild West.
295 p. + Photographs. Paper browning but not brittle. XLib. 12mo. Original pictorial binding, XLib call marks on spine. Second printing. Hardbound. Good. W8 LT Front STK
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Brown, Dick; Young, Sybil; Sagi, Douglas; Hughes, Barry Conn; Steward, Hartley; Benoit, Jehane
The Canadian Magazine, March 17, 1973 - The Plot to Put Women in Big Business / Denis Potvin Feature
32 pages. Features: Make Way For the Charming, Emotional Company President - A Heroine With A Business Degree; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Dr. Ballard's cat food features Lion with kittens; Hit Man - Feature article on junior hockey star Denis Potvin; Colour fashion photos; Sculptress Helen Granger Young; Crazy Auto - article and colour photos of such features as foxtails, bullet holes and other delightful non-essentials to fluff up your heap; Doug Wright's Family; Moe Koffman feature article; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Brown, Duffy
Killer in Crinolines
<p>First edition first printing of the second novel in the Reagan Summerside series. In fine unread condition.</p> Berkley paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio1282 ISBN : 0425252159 9780425252154
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Brown, Katherine
Work of Faith, Labor of Love - the Spiritual History of the Firs Bible and Missionary Conference
229 pages including bibliography and some black and white illustrations. "Near the sleeping waters of Lake Whatcom the sentinel firs reach tall into the sky. Their strength comes from the nurturing earth, but their yearning is clearly for the heavens above. No symbol could be more appropriate for the men and women whose spiritual strength and towerintg faith have built, through six decades, the camp and conference ministry known widely as The Firs." - from Foreward. Book clean, square and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
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Brown, Lizbie
Turkey Tracks
<p>First edition first printing of the second novel in the Elizabeth Blair series. The pages are lightly tanned. Light edge wear. In near fine / near fine condition.</p> Constable hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio9518 ISBN : 0094737703 9780094737709
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Brown, Lyn Mikel
Raising Their Voices : The Politics of Girls' Anger
259 pages including index. Allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditional feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes. Usual library markings. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Brown, Martha Smith Brewer; McKay, Anne, ed.
She Went A-Whaling
Orient NY: Oysterponds Historical Society 1993. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. 8 104 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Forward by Joan Druett. Black and white illustrations. Fine bright clean copy. <br/><br/> [Oysterponds Historical Society] paperback
Bookseller reference : 002782 ISBN : 0963191128 9780963191120
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Brown, Michele & Ann O'Connor
Woman talk. 2: A woman's book of quotes
1st edition. Hardback in dust jacket. VG/VG. ISBN 0356106284. 14379. eng
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Brown, Rita Mae
Santa Clawed
New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Tan boards and dark teal spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . B&W Illustrations. 237 pages . Bantam Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 609270 ISBN : 0553807064 9780553807066
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Brown, Rosellen
Civil Wars.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Gr. 8°. 419 pages. Halfcloth with dust jacket. Die Versandkosten für Kunstwerke und mehrbändige Werke können von den Standard-Versandkosten abweichen. Good condition, but partly stained, foxing.
Bookseller reference : 21897AB
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Brown, Steve
Color Her Dead
<p>First edition first printing of the first novel in the Susan Chase series. In fine unread condition.</p> Chick Springs Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio2151 ISBN : 0967027314 9780967027319
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Brown, Victoria Bissell
The Education of Jane Addams
Philadelphia PA U.S.A: University of Pennsylvania Press 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. A biography of Jane Addams that challenges the received image of America's premier pacifist and urban reformer; the author argues for a careful re-examination of the evidence of Addams' life that realistically embeds her experience in a particular set of gender class and emotional constraints; based on a wealth of family letters she demonstrates the psychological social political religious and intellectual processes that formed the person who was Jane Addams; in this account Addams emerges as a complicated determined young woman who fashioned a vibrant civic career after casting off fantasies of individual heroism and merged her personal ambitions with the Progressive era's collective struggle for democracy gray cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket with photograph of Addams on the front cover University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001618 ISBN : 0812237471 9780812237474
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett ; Kelley, Philip (editor); Hudson, Ronald (editor)
Diary of E. B. B.
Athens: Ohio University Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. xlviii 2 358 pp. Bound in full green cloth title stamped in gilt on cover and spine in green dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white frontispiece portrait black and white plates and one black and white fold-out map. Very Good foxing to all edges of text block internally clean minor rubbing to extremities of binding in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few short tears to extremities light foxing and rubbing overall. <br/><br/> Ohio University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003545
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Browning, Sinclair
RODE HARD PUT AWAY DEAD AWARD FINALIST
New York NY U.S.A.: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 2001. 1st ed. reading creases a few page edges browning else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. The 3rd P.I. ATrade Ellis title. 370 pages. Arizona. A BARRY AWARD Nominee for Best Paperback Original. Even in sweltering June there's plenty of work for Trade Ellis on her Arizona ranch but right now her part-time P.I. practice is as dry as the desert -- until bull rider J. B. Calendar marries a candy heiress who's crazy to turn cowgirl. Abigail Van Thiessen nipped and tucked into great shape has thirty-two years -- and a few hundred million dollars -- on her husband. So when she meets her untimely death on a romantic horseback trip with her newlywed stud the cops suspect foul play. And J.B. hires Trade to prove him innocent. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Lovell Rick. Paperback Original. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 012433 ISBN : 0553583271 9780553583274
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Browning, Tovi
Femophobia : how women have become men ; on the fear of fat, fear of the feminie and the collapse of society
White octavo, 272 pages ; 22 cm. Femininity, Gender identity, Women -- Social conditions. || Very scarce.
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Brownley, Martine Watson
Deferrals of Domain; Contemporary Women Novelists and the State
St. Martin's Press 2000. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. <br/> <br/> St. Martin's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018990 ISBN : 0312228112 9780312228118
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Brownlow, Kevin; introduction by Robert Cushman
Mary Pickford Rediscovered. Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend
<p>New York: Harry N. Abrams 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 256 pages photos throughout 31cm tall folio. Black paper over boards with silver title photo endpapers. Rear cover has small abrasion rear panel of dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Very good in very good jacket.</p> Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00004782 ISBN : 0810943743 9780810943742
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Bruce, Harry
Maud : The Life of L. M. Montgomery
Toronto ON Canada: Doubleday Canada Limited 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean tight unmarked; very minimal shelfwear; "Maud explores the passionate nature and irrepressible imagination of Lucy Maud Montgomery that she tried to conceal from those she lived with. Drawn from her own journals this colorful biography vivdly portrays a woman ahead of her time a remarkable author who gave the world a unique character named Anne of Green Gables. <br/> <br/> Doubleday Canada, Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001149 ISBN : 0770424597 9780770424596
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BRUCHON, Eugène
Les Lyonnais en Algérie. Alger-la-Blanche - Le brouillard algérien - La main de Fatma - Tous frères - Lalsifis de Guignol - Le Sergent Blandan - Blida - Les singes - Bougie - Sangliers et panthères - Les gorges du Chabet - L'autophobie - Lambèse et Timgad - Le gros orteil de Jupiter - Biskra - Quatre femmes pour un mari - Sidi-Okha - Le Coran - Constantine, la Cité aérienne - La crainte du photographe - 365 femmes pour un pacha - Coquetterie féminine - Questions embarassantes
1912 A Lyon, àImprimerie et lithographie Aug. Geneste. 1912. 1 vol in-8. Broché. 14 pages. Illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte. Anciens tampons de bibliothèque et numéros de référencement dont un sur le dos de la couverture
Bookseller reference : 93731
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BRUEL (Léonie).
Personne ne répond. Roman.
Paris Editions de Minuit 1966 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, couverture à rabats, 162 pp. Édition originale de l'unique roman de l'autrice, tiré de ses souvenirs d'enfance, avec un envoi autographe signé daté du 13 juin 1966 à Nathalie Sarraute : "ce livre où une enfant-femme "dit" le concret non déçu mais touché. "Les rêves, c'est pour les grands". Sincères hommages". Enseignante de lettres née en 1927, Léonie Bruel a consacré sa thèse à Michel Butor. Petites rousseurs au dos.
Bookseller reference : 106815
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BRUEL (Léonie).
Personne ne répond. Roman.
Paris Editions de Minuit 1966 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, couverture à rabats, 162 pp. Édition originale de l'unique roman de l'autrice, tiré de ses souvenirs d'enfance, avec un envoi autographe signé daté du 13 juin 1966 à Nathalie Sarraute : "ce livre où une enfant-femme "dit" le concret non déçu mais touché. "Les rêves, c'est pour les grands". Sincères hommages". Enseignante de lettres née en 1927, Léonie Bruel a consacré sa thèse à Michel Butor. Petites rousseurs au dos.
Bookseller reference : 106815
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BRUN E. (Mademoiselle)
CHARLES ET FELIX ou les deux ateliers
1854 reliure plein veau marbré in-octavo, dos décoré or (fer spécial) - long - pièce de titre sur fond noir, tranches peignées, illustration : frontispice, très légères rousseurs sur les premières pages, 136 pages, 1854 Lille L. Lefort Imprimeur-Libraire,
Bookseller reference : 1064
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Brun, Friederike
Wahrheit Aus Morgentraumen. Supplement to an Encyclopedia of German Women Writers
This is a near fine hardcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Black cloth covers with gilt titles on the front cover and spine. Text in German. This is volume 11 in the German Women Writers series. With a contribution by Brian Keith-Smith. 13 Illustrations in black & white. 10" high X 6" wide, 109 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Brundage Frances
The Adventures of Jack; Drawings & Verses by Frances Brundage
Rochester N.Y.: Stecher Lithographic Co 1921. Paperback. Good . 14 p.: color illustration; 35 cm. Illustrated card covers stapled. "No. 28" -- at lower edge of front cover. Page count includes insides of covers. Each page contains an illustration and text telling the story of Jack the dog who was a present to Jimmie and Margie. In Good Condition: 1-cm. closed tear from spine into front cover; edges slightly rubbed; faint dampstain at upper edge of front cover not impacting text or illustrations; interior is clean and bright. Stecher Lithographic Co paperback
Bookseller reference : 005691
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BRUNET (Alexa)
Les Amoureux du canal.
Tirage originale pour le futur Goncourt 2020 [Somme, 2009]. 1 tirage en couleurs sur papier rag print (180 x 240 mm). Tirage d'auteur, légendé et signé : « Les Amoureux du canal, tiré de la série 'en Somme' ».
Bookseller reference : 30651
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BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio
Giuochi delle minchiate, ombre, scacchi ed altri d’ingegno
In -8°, pp. 128, cartonato. Prima e unica edizione di questo libro dedicato ai giochi, ma ricco di escursioni nel campo della matematica e delle scienze sociali: notevole per originalità l’ampio capitolo dedicato alle “minchiate”, ovvero i tarocchi toscani (arricchiti di una serie di carte rispetto ai tarocchi classici), in cui l’autore non si limita a descrivere il gioco e le sue regole, ma aggiunge delle lunghe e nutrite ‘note allegoriche’, in cui le carte e le varie situazioni di gioco vanno a comporre una parziale ma a volte non superficiale rappresentazione dell’universo. Matematico per formazione, scrittore prolifico, Francesco Saverio Brunetti da Corinaldo (n. 1693, non si conosce la data della morte) “visse quasi sempre in Roma, ove sotto i pontificati di Clemente XII, Benedetto XIV, e Clemente XIII, diede varj saggi della sua abilità” (Comolli, III, p. 43): al di là della sua attività di ricerca scientifica, è segnalata la capacità divulgatoria del B. che, come in questo caso, scrisse più di un trattato su istanza di (e dedicandolo a) una nobildonna “per facilitarne l’intelligenza” e renderlo “all’uso femminile, sull’esempio del Fontanelle, dell’Algarotti, e di tant’altri”. Nel presente trattato la parte matematica si limita in effetti ad alcuni esercizi di aritmetica, dando più spazio al discorso e, come nel caso degli scacchi, a una chiara esposizione delle regole (qui completata da un cospicuo repertorio di aperture). Comolli, Angelo, “Bibliografia storico-critica dell'architettura civile ed arti subalterne”, Roma, 1788-92 First and only edition of this book on games, with many excurtions in mathematics and social sciences: it’s remarkable the wide part dedicated to the “Minchiate”, i.e. tuscan tarots (with more cards than the classic ones): the author not only explains the game and its rules, but also adds some long ‘allegoric notes’, in which cards and game situations composes a short but not shallow representation of human types and events. Basically a scientist, Brunetti (born in 1693, death is unknown), was living in Rome, under protection of popes Clemens XII, Benedict XIV, Clemens XIII: his activity included disclosure works, as this one, in which mathematics are limited to basic arithmetics, giving more room to explanations and, as for chess, a plain exposition of rules (there’s also a nourrished openings list). See Comolli, III vol., p. 43
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Bruno DUMONS.
Les Dames de la Ligue des Femmes françaises (1901-1914)
Paris, Cerf, 2006. in 8°, broché. 526 pp., [1 f.], illustrations hors texte.
Bookseller reference : AMA-592
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