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Diefendorf Jeffry M. 1945
In the wake of war : the reconstruction of German cities after World War II / Jeffry M. Diefendorf
New York : Oxford University Press 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx 403 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 365-392 and index. Contents; Bombs and Rubble: The Air War and Its Consequences -- The War from the Air -- Cities of Rubble -- Work Amidst the Rubble -- Rubble Clearance and the Repair of Utilities -- Material for Rebuilding -- Labor in the Construction Industry -- Legal and Illegal Building -- The Face of Reconstruction: Architectural Style -- The Bauhaus and Deutscher Werkbund -- Heimatschutz and Traditional Architecture -- Nazi Architecture and Neoclassicism -- Postwar Architecture -- The Face of Reconstruction: The Role of Historic Preservation -- Principles of Historic Preservation -- Modernizing Cities -- Determined Preservationism -- Modernization and Preservation -- The Housing Problem -- Cooperative Housing -- Housing Policy under the National Socialists -- Postwar Housing -- Town Planning to 1945 -- Planning Traditions before 1933 -- Urban Planning during the Third Reich -- The Representative Cities Program -- From Representative Cities to Reconstruction -- Reconstruction Planning -- Planning and Planners after 1945 -- The Postwar Planners -- Planning Models -- The Extremes -- Pragmatic Planning -- Traffic Planning -- Reconstruction and Building Law -- The Framework: Building Law and Proposals for Reform to 1945 -- The Postwar Debate: Defining the Scope of a New Building Law -- Opposition to the New Laws: Property Rights and Politics -- The Strugle for a National Building Law -- Politics Democracy and the Law -- Organizing Reconstruction -- The Role of the Allied Occupation Governments -- State and National Reconstruction Agencies. Subjects; Reconstruction 1939-1951. 1900-1999. Geschichte 1945-1960. Urban renewal Germany History 20th century. City planning Germany History 20th century. Reconstruction 1939-1951 Germany. New York : Oxford University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 426151 ISBN : 0195072197 9780195072198
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Mount, Ferdinand (1939-)
Full circle : how the classical world came back to us / Ferdinand Mount
London : Simon & Schuster 2010. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Civilization Modern Ancient influences. Social change. Civilization Modern 21st century. Social evolution. London : Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 428031 ISBN : 184737798x 9781847377982
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Mount Ferdinand 1939
The tears of the Rajas : mutiny money and marriage in India 1805-1905 / Ferdinand Mount
London : Simon & Schuster 2015. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 773 pages 24 pages of plates : illustrations some color ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Aunt Ursie and the elephants -- Low country -- Massacre in a fives court -- White mutiny -- Lord Minto takes a trip -- Tin men -- Mutton and the baronet -- Peshwa's last sigh -- Augusta and John -- Midnight in Lucknow -- Richmond the rescuer -- Short opium war -- Crash city -- Cotton-picking -- Charlotte returns to India -- Theo and Charlotte -- Cherry ripens -- 1857: Theo Edward Robert Malcolm -- Theo at Delhi -- Edward: a sapper's war -- Robert and the Santals -- Ridge and the siege -- Robert and Edward at Lucknow -- Malcolm in the mofussil -- Post mortem -- Homecoming. Subjects; Lows family. Lows family History. HISTORY. India History British occupation 1765-1947. London : Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 427647 ISBN : 1471129454 9781471129452
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Lloyd Christopher 1945
Camille Pissarro / Christopher Lloyd
Geneva New York : Skira ; Rizzoli 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 151 pages : illustrations some color ; 35 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; St. Thomas and Venezuela -- Arrival in France -- Camille Pissarro and the birth of Impressionism -- Camille Pissarro and the crisis of Impressionism -- New interests : new horizons -- Resolution : the late paintings. Subjects; Pissarro Camille 1830-1903. Pissarro Camille. 1800-1899. Painters France ; Biography. Painting French 19th century. France. French paintings Pissarro Camille Critical studies. French paintings Pissarro Camille 1830-1903. Geneva New York : Skira ; Rizzoli hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 427408 ISBN : 0333319087 9780333319086
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Turberville Arthur Stanley 1888 1945
English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A.S. Turberville
Oxford : Clarendon Press 1926. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xxiii 531 pages illustrations 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Outline of events -- The social scene -- Wigs and Tories in Queen Anne's day -- Walpole and the opposition -- Pelhams and yorkes -- The great commoner -- Rockinghams and radicals -- The divines -- Two philanthropists -- Grub street -- The artists -- Drama stage and music -- Empire builders -- The soldiers -- The admirals. Subjects; 1700-1799. Eighteenth century. Eighteenth century. Manners and customs. England Social life and customs 18th century. English life & manners 18th Century History. History. 18th Century. Culture. Foreign Policy. Religion. Customs. Social Life. Politics. Oxford : Clarendon Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 427125
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Martin, Steve (1945-)
Born standing up : a comic's life / Steve Martin
New York : Scribner 2007. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 209 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Martin Steve 1945-. Entertainers United States ; Biography. Actors United States ; Biography. New York : Scribner hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 427522 ISBN : 1416553649 9781416553649
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Edelman, Robert (1945-)
Serious fun : a history of spectator sports in the USSR / Robert Edelman
New York : Oxford University Press 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 251-276 and index. Contents; 1. Socialism and Spectator Sports -- 2. The Search for a Mode -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Spectator Sports -- 4. Internationalism and High Stalinism -- 5. Professionals and Amateurs -- International Competition -- 6. Entertainment in the Age of Soviet Normalcy -- 7. Perestroika and Professionalism 1985-1991 -- 8. Bread or Circuses Choose One!. Subjects; Sports Soviet Union History. Sports and state Soviet Union. Sport. Soviet Union. New York : Oxford University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 426066 ISBN : 0195079485 9780195079487
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Nicholas, David (1939-)
The evolution of the medieval world : society government and thought in Europe 312-1500 / David Nicholas
London ; New York : Longman 1992. 1st edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv 544 pages : maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Title on half t.p.: The evolution of the medieval world 312-1500. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; PART ONE: The precursors of a civilisation. Introduction ; The Roman heritage of Medieval civilisation ; Forging a Christian synthesis ; Tribal Europe before the eighth century: the Germans and the Celts ; The eastern heritage. PART TWO: The birth of a civilisation: early Medieval Europe c. 700-920. Introduction ; The Carolingian west: Europe inthe eighth and ninth centuries ; Changes on the land. PART THREE: The maturity of a civilisation: Europe in the central middle ages c. 920-1270. Introduction ; Government and politics: emperors and popes ; Government and politics: England and France in the central middle ages ; Nobles and crusaders ; The social and economic changes of the central middle ages ; The intellectual awakening of Medieval Europe ; The spiritual life of the central middle ages. PART FOUR: The old age of a civilisation: The late middle ages 1270-1500. Introduction ; Economic reorientation and social crisis in the late middle ages ; Government and politics in the late middle ages ; State mind ad spirit in later medieval Europe. Subjects; Middle Ages. Civilization Medieval. London ; New York : Longman paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 428386 ISBN : 0582092566 9780582092563
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Oz Amos 1939 2018
A tale of love and darkness / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
London : Chatto & Windus 2004. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 517 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects: Oz Amos 1939-2018 Childhood and youth. Authors Israeli ; Biography. Hebrew fiction ; Translations into English. Literature Hebrew. Jerusalem Israel Social life and customs ; Fiction. London : Chatto & Windus hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 428983 ISBN : 0701174218 9780701174217
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Wright, Christopher (1945-)
Old master paintings in Britain : an index of continental old master paintings executed before c. 1800 in public collections in the United Kingdom / compiled by Christopher Wright
Totowa N.J. : Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi 287 pages : maps ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 267-287. Contents; Part 1 Index of painters - Part 2 Cross reference index of locations. Subjects; Painting European ; Indexes. Painting Great Britain ; Indexes. Painting. Painting European. Art Great Britain Galleries and museums. Painting Great Britain ; Catalogs. Painting European Great Britain Catalogs. Art museums Great Britain. Art Great Britain Museums. Totowa, N.J. : Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 428101 ISBN : 0856670243 9780856670244
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Tadgell, Christopher (1939-)
Ange-Jacques Gabriel / by Christopher Tadgell
London : A. Zwemmer 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxv 215 pages 75 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations some color ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages xiii-xvi and index. Subjects; Gabriel Ange-Jacques 1698-1782. Architecture. Architecture France History 17th century. Architecture France 18th century. London : A. Zwemmer hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424634 ISBN : 0302027815 9780302027813
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Storey Robert F. 1945
Pierrots on the stage of desire : nineteenth-century French literary artists and the comic pantomime / Robert Storey
Princeton New Jersey : Princeton University Press 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 317-333 and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Deburau -- II. Paul Legrand Champfleury and Pantomime after Deburau -- III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles Nodier and Charles Baudelaire -- IV. Pierrot posthume: TheÌophile Gautier -- V. Pierrot narcissique: TheÌodore de Banville -- VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert -- VII. Pierrot glaceÌ: Edmond de Goncourt -- VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-M. Huysmans -- IX. Pierrot pubeÌ re: Paul Verlaine -- X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and SteÌphane MallarmeÌ -- XI. Epilogue: Eclipse -- Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios -- Index. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424040 ISBN : 0691066280 9780691066288
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Payne, John (1945-)
Catalonia : portrait of a nation
London : Century 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; v. 180 pages. Subjects; Catalans. Catalonia Description and travel. Catalonia History. Catalonia Spain Civilization.Catalonia Spain Description and travel. Catalonia Spain Intellectual life. Barcelona Spain Description and travel. Catalonia Spain History.Catalonia Spain. 20th century travel literature. London : Century hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424371 ISBN : 0712638261 9780712638265
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Thomson, Peter (1939-)
Following the Fulham : around the grounds / Peter Thomson
Twickenham : Ashwater 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 144 p. : ill. ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Fulham Football Club History. Twickenham : Ashwater hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425341 ISBN : 0953884074 9780953884070
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Higgins, George V. (Vincent) (1939-)
Bomber's law
London : Little Brown 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 296p. Subjects; English fiction. United States. London : Little, Brown hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424215 ISBN : 0316908509 9780316908504
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Cunliffe Barry 1939
The Danebury environs programme : the prehistory of a Wessex landscape. Vol. 1. Vol. 1 Introduction
Oxford : Oxford Univ. Institute of Archaeology 2000. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 240p : ill. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Iron Age hill forts Great Britain Danebury Archaeological investigation. Archaeology. Oxford : Oxford Univ. Institute of Archaeology hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 424965 ISBN : 0947816488 9780947816483
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Southard, Robert (1945-)
Droysen and the Prussian School of History / Robert Southard
Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii 247 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Droysen and the Problem of Freedom; 2. Droysen: Interpretation and Prediction; 3. Parallel Careers: Duncker Haym Sybel; 4. Expectation and Action: March to May 1848; 5. In the National Assembly: May to August; 6. Crisis and Reconstruction; 7. Toward the Prussian School; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. Subjects; Droysen Johann Gustav 1808-1884. Prussian School of History. 1800-1899. Historiography Germany Prussia. History Philosophy. Historians Germany. History Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines 19th century. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425837 ISBN : 0813118840 9780813118840
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Weinberg, David H. (1945-)
A community on trial : the Jews of Paris in the 1930's / David H. Weinberg
Chicago : University of Chicago Press 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xvi 239 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 223-232 and index. Translation of: Les Juifs à Paris de 1933 à 1939. Subjects; 1870-1940. Jews France Paris History. Jews France. France Paris. Paris France History 1870-1940. Paris France History. Chicago : University of Chicago Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425830 ISBN : 0226885070 9780226885070
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White Stephen D. 1945
Custom kinship and gifts to saints : the laudatio parentum in western France 1050-1150 / Stephen D. White
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv 313 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 235-298 and index. Contents; Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- The Laudatio Parentum -- Gifts to Saints and the Laudatio Parentum -- Custom -- Kinship -- Earthly and Heavenly Inheritances -- The Decline of the Laudatio Parentum -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Land titles Registration and transfer France History. Transfer Law France History. Kinship Law France History. Law Medieval History. Kinship France History. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425834 ISBN : 0807817791 9780807817797
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Tann, Jennifer (1939-)
Gloucestershire woollen mills: industrial archaeology
Newton Abbot Devon : David & Charles 1967. 1st edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 254 pages illustrations maps facsimiles tables diagrams 22 cm. Notes; Bibliographical references included in ""Source notes"" p. 75-79. Subjects; Woolen goods industry England Gloucestershire. Industrial archaeology England Gloucestershire. England. Gloucestershire. Wool industry. Industrial archaeology. Woolen goods industry. Newton Abbot (Devon) : David & Charles paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425272 ISBN : 0715358456 9780715358450
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Holmes, Richard (1945-)
The age of wonder: how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
London : HarperPress 2008. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xxi 554 pages 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations chiefly color 1 map portraits chiefly color ; 25 cm. Notes; Maps on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Joseph Banks in paradise -- Herschel on the moon -- Balloonists in heaven -- Herschel among the stars -- Mungo Park in Africa -- Davy on the gas -- Dr. Frankenstein and the soul -- Davy and the lamp -- Sorcerer and apprentice -- Young scientists. Subjects; Banks Joseph 1743-1820. Herschel William 1738-1822. Davy Humphry Sir 1778-1829. Science Great Britain History 18th century. Scientists Great Britain. Intellectual life. Science. Science -- History. Voyages and travels. Romanticism Great Britain. Literature and science Great Britain History 18th century. Discoveries in science Great Britain History 18th century. History of science Great Britain 1775-1850. Great Britain History George III 1760-1820. London : HarperPress hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 420605 ISBN : 0007149522 9780007149520
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Goldman, Alan H. (b. 1945- )
Moral Knowledge
London : Routledge 1988. Hardback edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; Kant Immanuel 1724-1804 Morale. Hobbes Thomas 1588-1679 Ethics. Hume David 1711-1776 Ethics. Emotivism. Realism. Truth Coherence theory. London : Routledge hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 355059 ISBN : 0415013100 9780415013109
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Yeats W. B. William Butler 1865 1939
The Land of Heart's Desire. The Countess Cathleen
London : Benn 1929. 25th impression Essex Library. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 156 pp.; 18 cm. Subjects; Poetry. Irish. London : Benn hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 418186
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Ungar Steven 1945 ; McGraw Betty R. editors
Signs in culture : Roland Barthes today
1989. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xxv 164 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographies and index. Contents; ""To philosophize is to learn to die"" / Gary Shapiro -- Remembering Roland Barthes / Richard Howard -- In memoriam Roland Barthes the contract : a stele for Roland Barthes / Mary Lydon with Lori Woodruff and Susan Warren -- System vs. code : semiologists's etymology / Jean-Jacques Thomas -- The two Barthes / Antoine Compagnon -- Public parks and private gardens : Sartre's Nausea and Barthes's ennui / Betty R. McGraw -- The discourse of desire and the question of gender / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Amplification : Barthes Freud and paranoia / Mary Lydon -- Persistence of the image : Barthes photography and the resistance to film / Steven Ungar. Subjects; Barthes Roland 1915-1980. Semiotics. Languages & Literatures. Philology & Linguistics. Semiotics and literature. Language Arts & Disciplines. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 420986 ISBN : 0877452458 9780877452454
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Goldemberg, Isaac (1945-)
Tiempo al tiempo
Hanover N.H. : Ediciones del Norte 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy with French flaps; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 172 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; American literature Hispanic American authors. Jews Identity. Fiction Social aspects. Fiction in Spanish. Hanover, N.H. : Ediciones del Norte paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 418866 ISBN : 0910061181 9780910061186
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Todorov Tzvetan 1939 2017
Mikhail Bakhtin : the dialogical principle
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Series: Theory and history of literature ; v. 13. Physical description: xiii 132 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects: Bakhtin M. M. Mikhail Mikha lovich 1895-1975; Philosophers Russia 20th century; Literature Philosophy; Futurism Literary movement In Russian literature; Women Treatment of Russian literature 20th century. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 421487 ISBN : 0816612900 9780816612901
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Bragg Melvyn 1939
The maid of Buttermere / Melvyn Bragg
London : Hodder & Stoughton 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 414 pp.; 24 cm. Subjects; Robinson Mary ; Fiction. Crime England History 19th century. Women England. Lake District England. London : Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 417935 ISBN : 0340401737 9780340401736
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Skidelsky, Robert (1939-)
John Maynard Keynes. Vol. 1 Hopes betrayed 1883-1920
London : Macmillan 1992. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge- and dust-dulled dust-wrapper not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 1 vol.; xxviii447p : illusrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946. Economics Biographies Economists. London : Macmillan hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 420774 ISBN : 0333115996 9780333115992
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King, John N. (1945-)
Spenser's poetry and the Reformation tradition
Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Light stain to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xv 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 239-252 and indexes. Subjects; Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 Criticism and interpretation. Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 The faerie queene. Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 Religion and ethics. Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 Studies. Christian poetry English Early modern 1500-1700 History and criticism. Protestantism in literature. Reformation in literature. Christian poetry English History and criticism. Christian poetry English Early modern. Tradition. Iconoclasm in literature. English poetry. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 419564 ISBN : 0691068003 9780691068008
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Atterbury, Paul (1945-)
Poole pottery : Poole in the 1950s
London : Richard Dennis Gallery 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine pamphlet copy; edges very slightly dulled. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright and clean. Physical description; 32p. colour illustrations ; 24cm. Notes; Catalogue of an exhibition arranged by John Clark and Richard Dennis at the Richard Dennis Gallery Spring 1997. Exhibition catalogue price list: 1 sheet as loose insert. Subjects; Poole Pottery catalogs. Pottery England Poole ; Exhibitions. London : Richard Dennis Gallery paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 418811 ISBN : 090368554X 9780903685542
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Knoblock Edward 1874 1945
A war committee / Edward Knoblock
New York : Samuel French 1915. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 32 pp. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Drama. Great Britain. New York : Samuel French paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 417841
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Greer, Germaine (1939-)
Shakespeare's wife / Germaine Greer
London : Bloomsbury 2007. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 406 pp.; 24 cm. Subjects; Hathaway Anne 1556-1623. Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Marriage. Marriage. Authors' spouses England ; Biography. Women England Social conditions 16th century. London : Bloomsbury hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 412588 ISBN : 0747590192 9780747590194
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Hazleton, Lesley (1945-)
The first Muslim : the story of Muhammad / Lesley Hazelton
London : Atlantic Books 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Corners slightly bumped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 320 pages : map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references 305-320 and index. Contents; Orphan -- Exile -- Leader. Subjects; Mu ammad Prophet -632 ; Biography. Muslims ; Biography. Islam History. Islamic Empire. London : Atlantic Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 413272 ISBN : 1782392297 9781782392293
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Goodstein David L. 1939 ; Goodstein Judith R.
Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun / David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein
London: Jonathan Cape 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 191 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Feynman Richard P. Richard Phillips 1918-1988; Planets Orbits.; Celestial mechanics; Conic sections. London: Jonathan Cape hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 413406 ISBN : 0099736217 9780099736219
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Moorcock Michael 1939
The English assassin : a romance of entropy / Michael Moorcock ; illustrated by Richard Glyn Jones
London : Quartet Books Ltd 1973. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright and clean. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 230 pp. : ill. ; 18 cm. Subjects; Fiction in English 1900 Texts. London : Quartet Books Ltd paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 415679 ISBN : 0704310392 9780704310391
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Nicholson T. C.; Turberville A. S. 1888 1945
Charles Talbot duke of Shrewsbury / by T.C. Nicholson and A.S. Turberville
Cambridge England : University Press 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vij 249 1 pages 2 portrait including frontispiece; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references pages 236-241. Subjects: Shrewsbury Charles Talbot Duke of 1660-1718; Shrewsbury Charles Talbot 1st Duke of; 1689-1714; Great Britain History 1689-1714; Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1689-1714; Great Britain. Cambridge [England] : University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 413276
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Walden George 1939
Lucky George : memoirs of an anti-politician / George Walden
London : Allen Lane 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 401 pp. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Walden George 1939-. Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Biography. Politics and government. London : Allen Lane hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 415948 ISBN : 0713993162 9780713993165
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Atterbury, Paul (1945-)
The dictionary of Minton / Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin
Woodbridge : Antique Collector's Club 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 370 pp.: illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Minton Ltd. ; Dictionaries. Pottery English. Collectors and collecting. Encyclopedias. Woodbridge : Antique Collector's Club hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 415923 ISBN : 1851490736 9781851490738
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Skidelsky, Robert (1939-)
John Maynard Keynes : a biography / by Robert Skidelsky. Vol.2 The economist as saviour 1920-1937
London : Macmillan 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 731 pp. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations portraits ; 25 cm. Subjects; Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946. Biography. Economic history 20th century. London : Macmillan hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 412339 ISBN : 0333371380 9780333371381
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Vollard Ambroise 1867 1939 author. Rouault Georges 1871 1958 artist
Réincarnations du Père Ubu. / texte d'Ambroise Vollard ; eaux-fortes et dessins sur bois de Georges Rouault
Paris : Ambroise Vollard 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Artist book in fine illustrated printed boards with loose folded leaves as issued in a somewhat torn and frayed glassine wrapper. Internally bright and clean; a very good example overall. Further images and additional bibliographic data available upon request Physical description; vii 211 pages illustrations plates facsimile letter ; 45 cm. Notes; Extensively and impressively illustrated with 22 etchings and 104 wood-engravings by the artist. All leaves numbered. Only 350 numbered copies officially printed: ""305 exemplaires numérotés en chiffres arabes . Trente exemplaires hors commerce numérotés en chiffres romains . Quinze exemplaires hors commerce marqués de A à O."" This is an out-of-series unnumbered copy. Contents; With a facsimile of a letter from Rouault to Vollard. Added title page illustration musical annotations table of contents and note to the binder. Subjects; Rouault Georges 1871-1958. Illustration of books. Bookbinding Binding. French drama. Drama in French 1900-1945 Texts. French graphic arts 1900-1945 Texts. Paris : Ambroise Vollard hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 409886
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Schneider Norbert 1945
The art of the still life : still life painting in the early modern period / Norbert Schneider ; English translation Hugh Beyer
Köln : Benedikt Taschen 1994. Softcover. Fine paperback copy with French flaps. Particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 215 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references page 215.Translated from the German by Hugh Beyer. Contents; Introduction -- Origins and early stages of the still life -- Kitchen scenes -- Game still lifes -- Depictions of the five senses -- Vanitas still lifes -- Dessert and confectionery still lifes -- Ontbijtjes : laid tables -- Fruit still lifes fruit baskets -- Flower still lifes -- Religious still lifes of flowers and fruit -- 'Museums' wonder chambers and natural history collections -- Musical instruments -- Weapons -- Books -- Forest still lifes. Subjects; 1500-1699. Still-life painting 16th century. Still-life painting 17th century. Still-life painting History. Still-life painting. Art European - 16th/17th centuries. Köln : Benedikt Taschen paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 407203 ISBN : 3822802964 9783822802960
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Holmes, Richard (1945-)
Coleridge : darker reflections / Richard Holmes
London : HarperCollins 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 622 pages 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Sequel to: Coleridge: early visions. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Adrift in the Mediterranean -- The sense of home -- The lecture shirt -- The friend in need -- In the dark chamber -- Hamlet in Fleet Street -- Phantom purposes -- True confessions -- Climbing Highgate Hill -- Magic children -- Glide rich streams away! Subjects; Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834. Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 ; Biography. 1800-1899. Poets English 19th century ; Biography. Poets English. Authors English 19th century ; Biography. Critics Great Britain ; Biography. Lake poets ; Biography. Critics Great Britain Biography. Poets English 18th century ; Biography. Authors English. Hamlet Shakesperean character. Romanticism Poetry. Biographies < bibliographical forms & other media < books & literature < artistic & cultural themes < intellectual life < personal existence < mankind. Drug addiction. Opium. Photo illustrations and portraits. Travel. Romantic poetry. London : HarperCollins hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 407523 ISBN : 0002555778 9780002555777
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Gibson Ian 1939
The erotomaniac : the secret life of Henry Spencer Ashbee / Ian Gibson
Cambridge Massachusetts : Da Capo Press 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: xv 285 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations black and white 1 map black and white ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Ashbee Henry Spencer 1834-1900 Sexual behavior; Ashbee Henry Spencer 1834-1900; Pornography Great Britain History 19th century; Erotica Great Britain History 19th century; Bibliographers Great Britain ; Biography; Bibliographers; Erotica; Manners and customs; Pornography; Twentieth century; Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century; Great Britain. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Da Capo Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 408607 ISBN : 0306810646 9780306810640
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Furst Herbert 1874 1945
Portrait Painting Its Nature and Function / by Herbert Furst : illustrated with 166 reproductions of portraits
London : John Lane The Bodley Head 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xviii 155 p. 49 leaves of plates : ill. ports. ; 30 x 23 cm. Contents; A brief survey of the history of portrait painting -- The sitter -- The artist: General argument ; Tools media and technique ; Drawing: colour light and shade ; Design: proportion of spaces ; Design: method of space-filling ; Portrait painting as a psychological adventure. Subjects; Portrait painting. Painting Human figure. Portraits. Painting - Technique. London : John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 406184
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Howell, Anthony (1945-)
Spending : poems / Anthony Howell ; drawings by Dilys Bidewell
London : Menard/Medames 2001. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 54 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Poetry. Erotic poetry. Illustrated poetry - illustrated. London : Menard/Medames paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 409700
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Schama, Simon (1945-)
A history of Britain vol. 3 : Fate of the Empire 1776-2000 / Simon Schama
London : BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2002. First Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 576 p. : illustrations chiefly colour maps portraits genealogical tables ; 25 cm. Notes; First published in 2002. Reprinted 2002. ""This book is published to accompany the television series A history of Britain first broadcast on BBC2 in 2000.""-- title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Ch. 1. Forces of Nature: The Road to Revolution -- Ch. 2. Forces of Nature: The Road Home -- Ch. 3. The Queen and the Hive -- Ch. 4. Wives Daughters Widows -- Ch. 5. The Empire of Good Intentions: Investments -- Ch. 6. The Empire of Good Intentions: The Dividend -- Ch. 7. The Last of Bladesover -- Ch. 8. Endurance. Subjects; Great Britain History. British history. Victoria Queen of Great Britain 1819-1901. Industrial revolution. International relations. Politics and government. Social history. Great Britain Colonies. Great Britain History 18th century. Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain History 20th century. London : BBC Worldwide Ltd. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 410359 ISBN : 0563534575 9780563534570
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Yeats William Butler 1865 1939
Stories of Michael Robartes and his friends : an extract from a record made by his pupils: and a play in prose / by W. B. Yeats
Shannon : Irish University Press 1970. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth with a protective glassine cover. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 4 45 1 p. 2 leaves of plates : illustrations plates 2 rubricked pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Facsimile reprint of edition originally published Dublin: Cuala Press 1931 by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Title page vignette. The play is ""The resurrection"": p. 27-46. Subjects; English drama Irish authors 20th century. English literature Irish authors 20th century. Robartes Michael. English fiction 19th century. Ireland Social life and customs ; Fiction. Ireland ; Drama. Shannon : Irish University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 408147 ISBN : 0716513730 9780716513735
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Gabor Mark 1939
The pin-up : a modest history / by Mark Gabor
London : Pan 1973. Second Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-toned and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright and clean. Physical description; 222 pages 44 pages of colour plates : illustrations some colour portraits ; 31 cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Deutsch 1972. Subjects; Pin-ups 1852-1973. Pinup art. Pinup art History. Glamour photography. Nude in art. Women in art. Glamor photography. History. Photography of women. Nudity. Posters - History. Erotic art. Photography of the nude. Visual arts special subjects men and women to 1972. London : Pan paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 410181 ISBN : 0330237616 9780330237611
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Holmes, Richard 1945-
The age of wonder : how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes
London : HarperPress 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxi 554 pages 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations chiefly color 1 map portraits chiefly color ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Joseph Banks in paradise -- Herschel on the moon -- Balloonists in heaven -- Herschel among the stars -- Mungo Park in Africa -- Davy on the gas -- Dr. Frankenstein and the soul -- Davy and the lamp -- Sorcerer and apprentice -- Young scientists. Subjects; Banks Joseph 1743-1820. Herschel William 1738-1822. Davy Humphry Sir 1778-1829. Science Great Britain History 19th century. Scientists Great Britain ; Biography. Romanticism Great Britain. London : HarperPress hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 405812 ISBN : 0007149522 9780007149520
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Dorr Robert F 1939
Grumman A-6 Intruder / Robert F. Dorr
London : Osprey 1987. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright and clean. Physical description; 200p : ill ; 27cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Intruder Bomber. Intruder Jet attack plane. Aircraft - Landplanes. Grumman A-6 aeroplanes. London : Osprey paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 405814 ISBN : 0850458161 9780850458169
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