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Editore: John Murray (Publishers), a division of Hodder Headline, London, UK, 2005
ISBN 10: 0719568218ISBN 13: 9780719568213
Da: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Sue Macartney-Snape (illustratore). First Edition First Printing. First edition. First printing. Printing line 1.
Editore: John Murray (Publishers), a division of Hodder Headline, London, UK, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719565855ISBN 13: 9780719565854
Da: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Sue Macartney-Snape (illustratore). First Edition First Printing. First edition. First printing. Printing line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
Editore: John Murray / Hodder Headline. London. ., 2004
ISBN 10: 0719565308ISBN 13: 9780719565304
Da: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
Libro Prima edizione
1st Ed. XIV, (4), 286 PP with 18 headpieces, 1 map and over 15 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7.
Editore: London. John Murray (Publishers) Ltd/Hodder Headline, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719568358ISBN 13: 9780719568350
Da: Libris Books, Bristol, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. John Murray (Publishers) Ltd/Hodder Headline. 2006. First Edition/First Printing (001 printed under first published 2006 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 594 pp. Dark violet boards with gilt titles to the spine. Touch of toning to the text block. Unclipped dust jacket has a flattened crease to thge front flap and small dent to the spine junction at the front. Book and jacket are near fine. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. This seems the stuff of dreams, until a chance discovery convinces Glyver that he was right: greatness does await him, along with immense wealth and influence. And he will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he now knows is rightfully his. Glyver's path leads him from the depths of Victorian London, with its foggy streets, brothels and opium dens, to Evenwood, one of England's most enchanting country houses. His is a story of betrayal and treachery, of death and delusion, of ruthless obsession and ambition. And at every turn, driving Glyver irresistibly onwards, is his deadly rival: the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt. The dust jacket will be protected with a new protective mylar sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: John Murray (Publishers)/Hodder Headline, London,, 2003
Da: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover 274pp. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Skill with the sword usually precludes much competence with the pen. For all that Sir Philip Sidney could write sequences of Petrarchan sonnets as well as lead buccaneering raids on the Spanish Netherlands, or Siegfried Sassoon write his anti-war memoirs while also winning the Military Cross, bookishness and military machismo are rarely found roosting together (after all, it's no secret, as the old joke goes, that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms). The great exception to this rule in our own time is Patrick Leigh Fermor. For though he is one of our finest prose stylists and - since the death this summer of his only possible rival, Norman Lewis - without question our greatest living travel writer, he was also responsible for one of the most audacious special operations coups of the second world war. Leigh Fermor's own account of the abduction of General Kreipe, the German commander of the Nazi occupation forces in Crete, is published for the first time in Artemis Cooper's wonderful new anthology of Leigh Fermor's work, Words of Mercury. The story is a famous one, and in the film version, entitled 'Ill Met by Moonlight', Paddy was played by the dashing Dirk Bogarde. But in Leigh Fermor's own account, the climax comes not as the general's staff car is stopped at night by a British SOE party dressed in stolen German uniforms, nor as the Cretan partisans help smuggle the general into the Cretan highlands and thence to a waiting British submarine; but instead as "a brilliant dawn was breaking over the crest of Mount Ida": "We were all three lying smoking in silence, when the General, half to himself, slowly said: ' Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Socrate'. It was the opening lines of one of the few Horace odes I knew by heart. I went on reciting where he had broken off . The General's blue eyes swivelled away from the mountain-top to mine - and when I'd finished, after a long silence, he said: 'Ach so, Herr Major!' It was very strange. 'Ja, Herr General.' As though for a moment, the war had ceased to exist. We had both drunk at the same fountains long before; and things were different between us for the rest of our time together." It is an archetypal Leigh Fermor anecdote: beautifully written, fabulously romantic and just a little showy. For Leigh Fermor's greatest virtues as a writer are also his greatest vices: his incantational love of great waterfalls of words, combined with the wild, scholarly enthusiasms of a brilliant autodidact. On the rare occasions he gets it wrong, Paddy has been responsible for some of the most highly coloured purple passages in travel literature. But at his best he is sublime, unbeatable" (William Dalrymple in The Guardian). 9780719561054.
Editore: John Murray / Hodder Headline, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719566320ISBN 13: 9780719566325
Da: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Libro
Paperback trade, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minimal foxing edges, minor edgewear, minor annotation one page, cover design differs from stock photo. 278 pp. Henry Hitchings relates the story of the first great dictionary of the English language. It is also the story of an heroic ordeal. Dr Samuel Johnson`s pioneering attempt to define each and every word was an extraordinary undertaking. In this brilliant book, the author describes Johnson`s adventure, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Editore: John Murray Publishers / Ian Fleming Publications Ltd / Hodder Headline, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 0719568153ISBN 13: 9780719568152
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Edward Bettison (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, price clipped, no inscriptions, rear endpaper and spine torn away from main body of page block, rear endpaper missing, internally page block tight and clean, overall a disappointing copy. 250pp, lavishly illustrated. For nearly 80 years, the Bond novels have entertained millions around the world. 007 has been a cultural phenomenon since the first publication of Casino Royale in 1953. But no book has celebrated Fleming's literary Bond in his own right. This is an authoritative and entertaining journey through the world of the original James Bond, from Moscow to Mayfair, the bedroom to the war-room, the casino to the villain's lair. Ian Fleming's archive has released never-before seen documents and material to create this book. Sources include research notes and diaries to annotated manuscripts and ephemera from Fleming's files. Illustrated with classy, contemporary images, the book is a visual feast, but it is also engaging, with a rigorous and satisfying text. It recaptures the glamour of an age, and offers a new insight into the twentieth century's most thrilling literary hero. Quite a scarce book, despite condition.
Editore: John Murray / Hodder Headline Ireland, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0719561868ISBN 13: 9780719561863
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 319pp. Ireland, 1950. Nina Hardy wakes in the big house where she grew up. Now aged fifty, she has returned to the fading beauty of her old home, and its unkempt gardens, its views of the wild Irish Sea, and its long buried memories. With her childhood friend George, she is seeking peace from a turbulent world. But by the end of the day, a brutal crime will have been committed, which will alter their lives forever. As Nina tries to make sense of everything that has happened, a remarkable story unfolds, a story of a childhood, of extraordinary friendships, and of a war. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: John Murray / Hodder Headline, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719554942ISBN 13: 9780719554940
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Edward Bettison (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, second impression with '2' on copyright page. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight lean. Not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 399pp, illustrated. Caesar Augustus is one of the most fascinating figures in history. Plucked as teenager from provincial obscurity by his great uncle Gaius Julius Caesar who adopted him posthumously in his will, Augustus transformed the chaotic civil war torn Republic into an orderly imperial autocracy. His consolidation of the Roman empire arguably laid the foundations of Europe. Although a sickly young man with a tendency to fall seriously ill at moments of crisis, Augustus taught himself to be brave and was intelligent, painstaking and patient. He worked extraordinarily hard, and, within a generation, had rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a splendid metropolis and centre for civil government and the arts. In this dynamic and engaging biography Anthony Everitt uncovers the deeply human character of this extraordinary man. It is also an exhilarating portrait of Roman social customs and politics.
Editore: John Murray / Hodder Headline, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0719561531ISBN 13: 9780719561535
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Jacket after Richard Dighton (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some minuscule edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£30.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 432pp, illustrated. When the German Jewish Rothschild family founded a chain of banks in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples, it made them the world's richest in the 19th century. Lionel, Anthony, Nathaniel and Mayer were the first British born members of this incredible family, this is the story of their triumph over prejudice and bigotry to become the first Jews accepted into the upper echelons of English and European society. Numbering among their friends Gladstone, Disraeli, Browning, Tennyson and Dickens, they lived in a style surpassing that of even today's richest. Written with the cooperation of the family and unique access to previously unseen archives, this biography reveals the intimate lives, lifestyles and difficulties of this most fascinating of families whose name remains a byword for wealth.
Editore: John Murray Publishers / Hodder Headline, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719564565ISBN 13: 9780719564567
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Petra Borner (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with '3' on copyright page. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE 'For Helen all the very best Lloyd Jones'. Some very slight edge wear to top of spine, spine very very slightly sunned, corners very slightly rubbed. Not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, looks unread. 223pp, red endpapers. Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers' safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a foreigner is coming to the island and prepare a list of much needed items. They are shocked to discover their acquaintance with Mr Dickens will be through Mr Watts' inspiring reading of Great Expectations. But on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns. Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished. The author's debut UK novel. Very scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).