Editore: John Murray Press, United Kingdom, 2021
ISBN 10: 152937877X ISBN 13: 9781529378771
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself. 'A wonderful book, full of good stories and burning with passion' SUNDAY TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Compelling, fascinating and rewarding' LITERARY REVIEW 'When books burn, it is more than just words under attack . . . this extraordinary book should stir us to thinking and to action' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A tale of ingenuity and deep courage' GUARDIAN 'A stark warning - the truth itself is under attack' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Editore: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (edition ), 2020
ISBN 10: 0674241207 ISBN 13: 9780674241206
Da: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
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Editore: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 0674271106 ISBN 13: 9780674271104
Da: Idaho Youth Ranch Books, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.
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Editore: John Murray, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529378753 ISBN 13: 9781529378757
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
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Editore: John Murray (Publishers)/Hachette UK Ltd., 2020
ISBN 10: 1529378761 ISBN 13: 9781529378764
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
Condizione: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Editore: Suhrkamp Verlag AG, 2021
ISBN 10: 3518430076 ISBN 13: 9783518430071
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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ISBN 10: 3518473395 ISBN 13: 9783518473399
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Editore: The Book Collector, London, 2004
Da: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Disbound. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 7 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy, and does not have a title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Book Collector; Inventory No: 324119. Cosmo Books : 27 years selling on ABE; 27 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Editore: Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, 2021
ISBN 13: 9798200186310
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: Edinbrugh, National Library of Scotland., 1997
Da: Manfred Nosbuesch, Kuchenheim, Germania
4to. XVI, 222 S. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Orig.-Leinwand mit Orig.-Umschlag. Neuwertiges Exemplar.
Editore: Solferino, 2021
ISBN 10: 8828205997 ISBN 13: 9788828205999
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Editore: The Stationery Office/Tso, 1997
ISBN 10: 0114958335 ISBN 13: 9780114958336
Da: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. ***Please Read*** some pages are slightly wavy - No marks on text - My shelf location - k-6-b*.
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Editore: British Library, London, 1994
Da: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Disbound. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 33 pages, 3 figures. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: 19 x 24cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: British Library Journal; Inventory No: 623447. Cosmo Books : 27 years selling on ABE; 27 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Editore: Editorial Crítica, 2021
ISBN 10: 8491993037 ISBN 13: 9788491993032
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Editore: Orion Publishing Group Ltd, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1474612636 ISBN 13: 9781474612630
Da: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Holly Ovenden (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy. 360pp. Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother, opinionated, fearless, ever so slightly annoying Audrey, and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided, as lines are drawn, long buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. Then Anthony Bowness, cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton, is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together and catch a killer. The author's debut novel, a future classic.
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Editore: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023
ISBN 10: 0300273398 ISBN 13: 9780300273397
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2022
ISBN 10: 1851245650 ISBN 13: 9781851245659
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: New.
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Editore: British Archaeological Reports, 2011
ISBN 10: 1407307673 ISBN 13: 9781407307671
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: Oxford, Bodleian Library University of Oxford. 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1851244034 ISBN 13: 9781851244034
Da: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Paesi Bassi
Original publisher's sewn white paperback, illustrated spine & covers, large 4to: frontispiece, 360pp., introductory chapters - with illustrations - notes & references, catalogue of 130 items depicted page-large & described - with notes & references, bibliography, index, concordance, credits, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new.
Editore: Hamburg, Berlin: Parey, 1982
ISBN 10: 3490216180 ISBN 13: 9783490216182
Da: Druckwaren Antiquariat, Salzwedel, Germania
Membro dell'associazione: GIAQ
kart., broschiert. Condizione: Gut. 240 S., zahlr. Ill. (z.T. farb.), Kt., 19 cm. Einband leicht berieben/gebräunt, Seiten altersb. etwas gebräunt, ansonsten gut erh. ISBN: 9783490216182 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 330.
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Editore: Tauchnitz, 1976
Da: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Richard Doyle & others (illustratore). 1st Edition. 1st edition softcover in excellent condition, tipped in is the original postcard with the image eproduced on page 25.
Editore: Piter, 2022
ISBN 10: 5446129830 ISBN 13: 9785446129836
Da: Ruslania, Helsinki, Finlandia
Condizione: new. Pages: 384 Language: Russian. Na protjazhenii vsej svoej istorii ljudi ne tolko sozdavali knigi, no i unichtozhali ikh. Polnaja istorija unichtozhenija pismennykh znanij ot antichnosti do nashikh dnej - v glubokom issledovanii britanskogo literaturoveda i bibliotekarja Richarda Ovendena. Perevodchik: Pleshkov Kirill 9785446129836.
Editore: John Murray 2020, 2020
Da: Pali, Roma, RM, Italia
Softcover. Condizione: New. 8vo, br. ed. 320pp. Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries are far more than stores of literature, through preserving the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this fascinating book, he explores everything from what really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, from Donald Trump's deleting embarrassing tweets to John Murray's burning of Byron's memoirs in the name of censorship. At once a powerful history of civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters -- and, of course, librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives. From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert, hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to the medieval manuscript that inspired William Morris, the knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons to teach us and we ignore it at our peril.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion Publishing Group, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1474612679 ISBN 13: 9781474612678
Da: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Holly Ovenden (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON 'SIGNED FIRST EDITION' PAGE. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, 'Signed Copy' sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£18.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 415pp, illustrated endpapers. CANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK. It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother, headstrong, fearless Audrey, is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Brotherhood of Ruralists, 1990, 1990
Da: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Regno Unito
Limited numbered edn (471 of 500). 4to. Original card covers with printed wraps (softback) (near Fine). Pp. 46, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
ISBN 10: 6588016220 ISBN 13: 9786588016220
Da: Distribras, NESPOULS, Francia
Brochura Com Orelhas. Condizione: New. Usually dispatch in 4/5 days.
Editore: Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1999, 1999
Da: Peter Bell Books, PBFA, est. 1974, Edinburgh, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Quarto. 222 pages, 81 magnificent plates, 31 figures, a fine copy in dust jacket.
Editore: The Stationery Office/Tso, 1997
ISBN 10: 0114958335 ISBN 13: 9780114958336
Da: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. 220pp with b/w photographs and illustrations.
Editore: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1997
ISBN 10: 0114958335 ISBN 13: 9780114958336
Da: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Foreword by Sir David Puttnam. Specialist photographic printing and a chapter by Michael Gray. 149 photographs, with 36 figures. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1997. First edition. Published to accompany and exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, this work draws attention to John Thomson's role as one of the most crucial innovators in the art of photography. Born in Edinburgh, John Thomson travelled with his camera to the far edges of the British Empire, taking many photographs and writing large quantities of text to accompany them. His subject matter covers an impressive sweep, ranging from architecture, archaeology and landscapes, to formal portraiture and street and salon photography. Inscribed by Michael Gray on the title page. Quarto. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Editore: [Edinburgh]: National Library of Scotland, [1997]., 1997
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xvi, 222. profusely illus. in b/w. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.