Editore: Picador, 2014
ISBN 10: 1250045894 ISBN 13: 9781250045898
Da: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Editore: Griffin, 2012
ISBN 10: 1250013631 ISBN 13: 9781250013637
Da: PlumCircle, West Mifflin, PA, U.S.A.
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Editore: Henry Holt and Co., 2011
ISBN 10: 0805095446 ISBN 13: 9780805095449
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
ISBN 10: 0007305397 ISBN 13: 9780007305391
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007305362 ISBN 13: 9780007305360
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Henry Holt, book club edition, 2011
ISBN 10: 1620902001 ISBN 13: 9781620902004
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: Orion Publishing, 2008
ISBN 10: 0753823810 ISBN 13: 9780753823811
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Editore: W&N, 2017
ISBN 10: 1780224869 ISBN 13: 9781780224862
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Holt & Company, Henry, 2016
ISBN 10: 0805097600 ISBN 13: 9780805097603
Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Editore: W F Howes Ltd
ISBN 10: 1471246728 ISBN 13: 9781471246722
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007305370 ISBN 13: 9780007305377
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good.
Editore: St. Martin's Griffin
Da: Academic Book Solutions, Medford, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: LikeNew. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark.
Editore: Picador, 2017
ISBN 10: 1250143292 ISBN 13: 9781250143297
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 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: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0297847880 ISBN 13: 9780297847885
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Sylvia Brooke (1885-1971) was one of the more exotic figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the consort (and by custom, slave) of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, and each White Rajah had the power of life and death over his subjects - Malays, Chinese and headhunting Dyak tribesmen. The regime of the White Rajahs was long deemed superior to any in the British Empire, but by the 1930s there was a sharp decline in their power and prestige. At the centre of Sarawak's perceived decadence was Ranee Sylvia, author of eleven books, extravagantly-dressed socialite and incorrigible self-dramatist, described by the press as 'that most charming of despots', and by her own brother as 'a female Iago'. The Colonial Office branded her 'a dangerous woman, full of Machiavellian schemes to alter the succession, and spectacularly vulgar in her behaviour. Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters chronicles the extraordinary life of the Ranee, with a supporting cast including Sylvia's father, a celebrated courtier in love with his own son; her whimsical and sexually incontinent husband, Rajah Vyner; the Rajah's unhinged, Rasputinesque private secretary; and the Rajah's nephew, whose folie de grandeur as the young heir gave way (after he was thwarted) to an interest in world peace and flying saucers. 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: W&N 07/07/2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0297869205 ISBN 13: 9780297869207
Da: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Regno Unito
Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Editore: Picador, 2014
ISBN 10: 1250045894 ISBN 13: 9781250045898
Da: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Used - Very Good. 2014. 1St Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
Editore: Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 2016
ISBN 10: 0297609483 ISBN 13: 9780297609483
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 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: Reader's Digest Australia P/L, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922083674 ISBN 13: 9781922083678
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 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: Picador, 2014
Da: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0297847880 ISBN 13: 9780297847885
Da: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, Francia
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good +. First Edition. First impression. 8vo. Pp xxi + 362 + 24pp b&w plates. Black cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
Editore: HarperPress, 2011
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Reprint. 200 x 129mm, photographic wrappers, pp.xx, 344, 16pp black & white plates. Fine copy.
Editore: HarperPress, 2011
Da: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Regno Unito
Copia autografata
Condizione: Fair. 2011. No edition stated. 347 pages. Signed by the author. Photographic jacket over purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. Signed by the author to title page, with inscription "To Chris, with very best wishes". Includes photographic plates. Pages have slight foxing, pronounced tanning and minor thumbing. All pages slightly warped overall. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Some liquid stains and jacket traces to rear. Book has a heavy forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with small tears and creasing. Jacket is highly rubbed and marked overall. Some liquid staining overall. Grubby.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007, 2007
ISBN 13: 0978753823811
Da: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 362pp, b/w illusts, very good- paperback & cover Rajah Vyner (Brooke) and Ranee Sylvia were the third generation of White Rajahs of Sarawak, until they abdicated in 1946. This book seeks to tell all about the Ranee, because earlier histories and biographies feared libel suits.
Editore: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 0805097600 ISBN 13: 9780805097603
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 403 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Record # 2230315.
New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. `The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times.
Editore: New York: Henry Holt (2016), 2016
Da: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
240x160: xxvi,406pp. black and white plates, index. Textured papered boards (Hardback) in dust jacket, Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780 805 09760 3 , Weight: 700g. .
ISBN 10: 0816666652 ISBN 13: 9780816666652
Da: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Condizione: very good. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxvi,403 pp., 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm - Graham Greene hailed Waugh as the greatest novelist of my generation, and in recent years his reputation has only grown. Now Philip Eade has delivered an authoritative and hugely entertaining biography that is full of new material, much of it sensational. Eade builds upon the existing Waugh lore with access to a remarkable array of unpublished sources provided by Waugh's grandson, including passionate love letters to Baby Jungman, the Holy Grail of Waugh research - a revealing memoir by Waugh's first wife Evelyn Gardner (Shevelyn), and an equally significant autobiography by Waugh's commanding officer in World War II. Eade's gripping narrative illuminates Waugh's strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother; his love affairs with male classmates at Oxford and female bright young things thereafter; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his insane wartime bravery; his drug-induced madness; his singular approach to marriage and fatherhood; his complex relationship with the aristocracy; the astonishing power of his wit; and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. One of Eade's aims is to re-examine some of the distortions and misconceptions that have come to surround this famously complex and much mythologized character. This might look like code for a plan to whitewash the overly blackwashed Waugh, comments veteran Waugh scholar Professor Donat Gallagher; but readers fixated on atrocities will not be disappointed . . . I have been researching and writing about Waugh since 1963 and Eade time and again surprised and delighted me. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780816666652. Keywords : LITERARY CRITICISM, Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966).
Editore: London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 2016., 2016
Da: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxvi, 403; 24 pages of photographs some in colour, family tree, notes, select bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrapper, fine copy.
Editore: Picador, New York, 2014
Da: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Map; Family Tree; Preface; Author's Note; Prologue; Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographic plates, two-page map frontispiece and two-page family tree frontispiece. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. "The extraordinary tale of Sylvia Brooke, the last white ruler of the jungle kingdom of Borneo. Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, as well as the power of life and death over their subjects - Malays, Chinese, and headhunting Dyak tribesmen. The regime of the White Rajahs was long romanticized, but by the 1930s, their power and prestige were crumbling. At the center of Sarawak's decadence was Sylvia, author of eleven books, mother to three daughters, and an extravagantly dressed socialite whose behaviour often offended and usually defied social convention. Sylvia did her best to manipulate the line of succession in favor of her daughters, but by 1946, Japan had invaded Sarawak, sending Sylvia and her husband into exile, ending one of the more unusual chapters of British colonial rule. Philip Eade's Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters is a fascinating look at the wild and debauched world of a woman desperate to maintain the last remnants of power in an exotic and dying kingdom." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Biting biography .Draws on family archives to tell the full, jaw-dropping story of a family more than usually mischievous and dysfunctional." - The Times (London). The kind of gift subject that a biographer must dream of .Colorful anecdotes of eccentricity, lunacy, and infidelity crowd every page." - THe Sunday Times (London), Books of the Year. "Philip Eade is eminently readable, with a detective's pertinacity at finding the clues to forgotten secrets and a raconteur's gift for sustaining his narrative interest .A rollicking good read." - The Sunday Telegraph (London). "[Eade] traces this tangled tale with diligence, humor, and an easy style." - The Spectator (London). "Amazing and hilarious." - Daily Express (London).
Editore: Picador, New York,, 2014
Da: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo hardcover, 362pp., monochrome plates. Dustwrapper. New, remainder. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Sylvia Brooke was never actually a queen, and the headhunters over whom she was purported to reign had all but retired by the time she pitched up in their tiny jungle kingdom in 1912. Still, by getting married to the Englishman whose family had ruled over a remote patch of Borneo for three generations, Brooke did technically acquire the title 'Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak', together with the obligation to walk four paces behind her slightly unhinged husband, Sir Vyner. Together the Brookes exercised a crazy kind of last-days-of-the-Raj power over their raggle-taggle subjects, who included Malays, Chinese and Dyak tribesmen. It was all very Ruritanian, but with extra-big mosquitoes. The Dyaks were a tribe who were supposedly keen on cutting off heads and offering them as presents. However, thanks to the strenuous efforts of Vyner's father and great-uncle, the grisly custom had all but petered out. It was only with the arrival of the Japanese army during the second world war that the tribesmen buffed up their ancestral skills and lopped off 1,500 enemy heads. Pride of place went to the skull of the Japanese director of education, who had once worn glasses. Every day the Dyaks removed the director's spectacles and gave them a good polish before reverently replacing them on his increasingly withered nose. Of course the Brookes were careful to be somewhere else by the time the Japanese landed in 1941. Indeed, even in peacetime they spent at least half the year back home, timing their arrival in Britain for the beginning of the hunting season. In the non-Sarawak bit of her life Sylvia Brooke was a tireless and terrible literary celebrity. She pumped out middlebrow novels and seems always to have been on the point of getting one filmed in Hollywood. Her best books, and the ones that have lasted, are her two volumes of autobiography, Sylvia of Sarawak and Queen of the Headhunters. They are, however, risibly self-serving, and one of the biggest problems for Philip Eade has been tracking down source material that has not first been through her steel filter. For while she paints a charming picture of growing up as a naïf in a world of eccentric toffdom (think Mitford), most people who bumped up against the Ranee couldn't stand her. In 1930 the chief justice of Sarawak complained about the 'unbelievable amount of smut in Her Highness's conversation'. Sixteen years later, a visiting Tory MP who saw her dance the conga with a couple of tarts concluded that 'a more undignified woman it would be hard to find'. Being undignified was one thing, but what really bothered Sarawak-watchers (and there were more than you'd imagine) was how she hustled to secure the succession. Despite not enjoying sex she had managed to give birth three times, always to girls. It was Sylvia's dearest wish to see one of her daughters on the Sarawak throne in place of their cousin Anthony. This she never managed. Instead in 1946 the kingdom passed to the British government in return for a lifelong pension for the Brookes." - Kathryn Hughes 9781250045898.