Lond penguin (30 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine first British edition of this novel by the winner of the 1985 Booker Prize. Tight, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. First Thus. A chivalric romance that was written anonymously and first published in the late 14th century as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This modern English translation by Bernard O'Donoghue was re-issued to coincide with the release of a movie based on the legend. Foreword by David Lowery. writer and director of the movie. xxiii, 94p. New except for tiny remainder mark.…

(revised ed.) Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. 64b/w plates. Very good copy. King Penguin No.28.

8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket (top corner sl. chipped) 398pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. How new regulations devised in an attempt to control a modernised British finance industry in the 1980's led to a dramatic shift in the present-day financial landscape.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 309pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 279pp. Col.plates. Name on ffe., else Fine. 1st ed. The author tells of her brave & moving journey through the Thar Desert in India with the Rajasthani nomads.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 165pp. Fine. paperback edition. A Maigret story.

Green wrappers. 279pp. Fine. 1st paperback ed. A Van der Valk story.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 261pp. Fine. 1st ed. Can economists teach us how to live a good life? The author believes so.

(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 349pp. Very good copy. Virgil composed The Aenid between 29 & 19BC, an epic poem in Latin about the wanderings of Aeneas, a Trojan who travels to Italy to battle the Latins, & then become the mythological founder of Rome.

Or.dec.cloth. 446pp. Bound-in marker ribbon. Fine. Jane Austen's brilliantly sophisticated teenage writings constitute her beginnings as a writer. The title on the front board and title page misprinted as "Freindship".

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 316pp. (sl foxing) Very good copy. 1st ed. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur made the legend of King Arthur immortal. Peter Ackroyd's new retelling transforms this medieval epic into a dramatic modern tale bringing life to a world of bravery.

(revised ed.) Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. 64b/w plates. Very good copy. King Penguin No.28.

VIII,278 S., Ln. 2, OU.

Or.dec.bds. (a little rubbed) 36pp. + 72 b/w plates. Sl.foxing, else a very good copy. 1st ed. King Penguin no.34.

wrapps. 466pp. Fine. An excellent reference.

(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 300pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. Examines the bizarre ways of thought in "the age of enlightenment".

Col.Ill.wrapps. 579pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1961 was a pretty tense time during the Cold War & the construction of the Berlin Wall initiated by Khrushchev in 1961 became a faultline along which a wrong move could trigger a nuclear war.

broschiert/Taschenbuch. VIII, 390 S. Taschenbuch. Schnitt leicht gebräunt; sonst guter Zustand. Sprache / Language: Englisch.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 535pp. b/w plates. Very good copy.

(rep) Ill.wrapps. 183pp. Pages tanned else a good copy. First published 1931. Waugh's travels in Africa.

(rep) Thick 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 1090pp. b/w ills. Sl.foxing to edges, else a Very Good copy. One volume edition. The famous Japanese tale describing court life in Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.

(rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 388pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Inscript on ffe, else a Very Good copy.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 308pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. Geoffrey Beard's learned & well reasearched study of the interior of the English country house is full of essential facts from over 200 National Trust properties in England, Wales & Northern Ireland.

(rep) Oblong. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated with maps. Very good copy. After the French Revolution, Europe became a mess of disputed territories. With various Kings & Queens trading off land after every war, this shifting of territory helped shape modern Europe today.

Oblong 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated with maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Between 1483 & 1815, Europe came to dominate the high seas, then much of the land around the globe. From 1483 the Venetians began trading in gold ducats & by 1815 the English sterling silver Pound.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 368pp. Sl.foxing) to top edge. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Although founded during a deep recession & with war looming, Allen Lane's gamble with Penguin Books succeeded magnificently. Books were the mass medium for the 1st time. A look inside Penguin's archive.

(8th imp) wrapps. 218pp. A little rubbed else a good copy of an early printing of Penguin No.1. Brilliant study of the life of Shelley, accepted as the best book on the poet. Masterly, ruthless, absorbing.

broschiert/Taschenbuch. 303 S. OKt. 1st Edition. Außen minimal gealtert, Rücken lesefaltig; sonst guter Zustand. Auflage: 1 Sprache / Language: Englisch.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 403pp. With bound in marker-ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. English author, Philip Pullman has chosen 50 of his favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm & given them a fresh translation for the modern reader. Includes, Snow White, Cinderella, & many more.