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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated (illustratore). 1st. 8vo, 289 pp. Fine copy in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition (stated) and first printing (complete number line), hardcover in excellent condition (unmarked, slight handling), with silver VG+ dust jacket (mild wear). DJ protected by clear, removeable cover. 289 pages. [1.4 lbs]. Book.

black cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. couple of page corner turndowns, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. chipped at spine top, corners rubbed, 1cm tear rear bottom corner, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). deckled foredge (looks "hand cut") b&w frontis. portrait. ix+289p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. 3 appendices. a chopin calendar. bibliography. index. biography. musicology. history of poland. ~ "A well~written and thoroughly researched book about the short life of one of the greatest melodists music has ever known. It contains a great deal of hitherto unpublished material. I have read it with pleasure." ~ Winthrop Sargeant. Against the tumultuous background of Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century~political revolution and social upheaval~this beguiling biography presents the young Polish genius (and patriot) who arrived in Paris in 1831, at the age of twenty~one, and was instantly acclaimed and accepted by its circle of brilliant artists, poets and aristocrats. The tide of Romanticism was at its height~in literature, painting, manners and morals. The mistresses of great men were hardly less famous than their lovers, and extravagance was~in that segment of society~the order of the day. Despite his ingrained reserve and conservatism Chopin quickly absorbed the tastes of his new intimates. And a notable crew they were: Delacroix, Heine, Liszt, the superb Pauline Viardot~ Turgenev's muse~and the resident Polish grandees. The beautiful wife of one expatriate nobleman, Delfina Potocka, became a pupil of Chopin's not long after he settled in Paris and a newly discovered batch of letters to her ~ startlingly explicit in their eroticism ~ reveal unsuspected details about their relationship. Then came the nine years with George Sand~in Paris, Nahant, Majorca and Nahant again~years of marvelous creativity in Chopin's life but also the period when the onslaughts of tuberculosis, of which he was to die at the age of thirty~nine, first became menacing, exacerbated by the mounting tensions between the two lovers. Marek writes absorbingly of Chopin's relationships with Sand's son and daughter, with her former lovers, her friends and competitors~all of whom, like true Romantics, poured out their feelings in letters to (and about) one another. Chopin's last years, after his break with Sand, were marked by worsening health and increasing fame. But he was sustained by the unfailing tenderness of his friends, who outdid one another to protect, divert, and console him. And the drama of his life did not end with his death. The subsequent fate of his manuscripts, possessions and~ specifically George Sand's letters to him provide a tragicomic epilogue to the turbulent story. When George Marek's widely acclaimed Beethoven was published, a distinguished critic wrote: "Scrupulously levelheaded, it replaces many of the legends . with hard~earned facts and sensible interpretations of them. As always, the facts are more interesting than the myths." This new volume remarkably performs the same service for Chopin.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering in very good condition in like jacket/mylar protected; unmarked and bright copy. 1978 biography that provides comprehensive overview of Chopin's life and relationship with George Sand. 289 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Honi Werner (Jacket Design) (illustratore). 268 pp. Solidly bound copy without any visible damage. Minimal external wear. Price cut out from top corner of front flap. Small tears on top edge of dj. Previous owner's note inscribed.

Condizione: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover.

hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good(-). First. Frontis., illustrated. ix +289pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust jacket rubbed, chipped. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. A very good copy in a very good (-) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Large octavo. Full black cloth. 289 pp. With occasional illustrations. Spine slightly faded. Edges browned.

hardcover. Condizione: near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good(+). Chopin (illustratore). First. Frontispiece in b/w. 289 pages. 8vo, black cloth (lightly sunned on top edge, previous owner's signature on flyleaf), gray d.w. (tear on head). New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

1st edition. A nice, bright, clean copy in tight binding. Back free end paper and last half dozen pages bumped/wrinkled in bottom corner. Light shelf wear and foxing to top edge, inside dj flaps, and end papers. Dust jacket unclipped. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1978 hardcover with dust jacket. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. APPEARS UNREAD. Sturdy, well-bound copy with unmarked pages. Very minor shelf rubbing only to the face of the clean and glossy dust jacket. Front jacket flap is corner-clipped. First Printing is indicated by the full number line on the copyright page. Nice copy!

289 pages with b / w. plates. The book is in near fine condition - top corners very lightly bumped, and the d /w. is complete and bright but with three very minor repairs. Overall a very nice copy.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Wars. 1991/, pp.404, ill. Polish post-war theater and cultural administrator and patron (1882-1967) ISBN 8307017052.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. [1st ed., 1st printing ; ] ; 303 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm ; ISBN 9780394564265, 039456426X OCLC 16087189 ; LCCN 87042643 ; LC NK1980 .H63 1987 Dewey 747.2049 ; grass-green sunned cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; This extraordinary book features some of the most exciting work of the world's most talented and prestigious contemporary interior decorators. The selections are divided into two categories: work the decorators have done for clients and that which they have done for themselves. More than 250 full-color photographs. ; "Designers & Clients" chapters include Geoffrey Bennison for Baron & Baroness Rothschild, Denning & Fourcade for Oscar de la Renta, Mark Hampton for Ashton Hawkins, Mac II for Bill Blass, Peter Marino for Christopher Wittle, McMillen for Carolyn Farb, Renzo Mongiardino for Elsa Peretti, Parish Hadley for Enid Annenberg Haupt, Michael Taylor for Diana & Gorham Knowles, Piero Pinto for Laura Biagiotti, "Designers at Home" chapters include Mica Ertegun, Jacques Grange, Albert Hadley, William Hodgkins, Juan Pablo Molyneux, Renzo Mongiardino, Sister Parish, John Saladino, Stephen Sills, John Stefanidis. 9.5"W × 1"D × 12.25"H ; Book.

Condizione: BUONO USATO. IED. INGLESE Caricatura di Chopin all'antiporta, illustrazioni in nero, bordi leggermente ingialliti, taglio davanti non ben rifilato, coperta rigida con lievissimi segni di usura e con titoli d'oro al dorso, sovraccoperta leggermente ingiallita, usurata e con piccoli strappi lungo i bordi Numero Pagine 389.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. IRSA Publishing House, 2006. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket; 414 pages.

unknown_binding. Condizione: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Neu. 216 Seiten Restexemplar - Originalverschweißt - Jeder Lieferung liegt eine ordentliche Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt. bei Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1680.

416pp, with 392 colour and monochrome illustrations. Boards 31.2x23.8cms. ISBN: 8389831002. First modern monograph to give extended assessment of the full range and quality of the works of the 18th-century French artist Jean Pillement (1728-1808), much of whose career was spent travelling around the European courts working for the Ancien Régime. Hugely in demand in his lifetime, and widely influential from the many prints issued of his works that exemplify the Rococo and Chinoiserie fantasies so popular during the period. Collected from London to Lisbon and from Paris to St. Petersburg, many of his designs were reproduced on tapestries, silks and fabrics and domestic objects such as ceramics, silver and enamel were decorated using his works. Text in English.