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Buddhism: The Wisdom of Compassion and Awakening

Chin Kung, Venerable Master · 2003

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, Yaipei, Taiwan, 2003. Reprint, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. A collection of teachings introducing Buddhism as a practical path to wisdom and compassion. The book emphasizes that all beings possess inher...

Buddhist Scriptures. Selected and Translated by Edward Conze

Conze, Edward (translator) · 1959

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Penguin, London, 1959. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780140440881 Titles, contents list & introduction to front. Edward Conze’s Buddhist Scriptures (often published in the Penguin Classics series) is a curated anthology designed to provide an a...

Buddhist Scriptures. Selected and Translated by Edward Conze

Conze, Edward (translator) · 1959

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Penguin, London, 1959. Reprint, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780140440881 Titles, contents list & introduction to front. Edward Conze’s Buddhist Scriptures (often published in the Penguin Classics series) is a curated anthology designed to provide an accessi...

Tales of Secret Egypt

Rohmer, Sax · 1924

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Methuen, London, 1924. 6th Edition , Hardcover (Original BlueCloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. Titles, list of Methuen's half-crown novels & contents list to front. Tales of Secret Egypt by Sax Rohmer is a collection of twelve mystery/adventure short stories set in early 20th-...

Monsieur Martin. A Romance of the Great Swedish War

Carey, Wymond (Sir Charles Grant Robertson) · 1902

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1902. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Title pages & contents list to the front. The story is set in the early 18th century during the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia. The ...

Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons: Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors: With Portraits (LIMITED EDITION)

Boaden, James · 1893

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Gibbings and Company Ld. London, 1893. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Pink Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The first & limited edition of this biography of the 18th century Welsh actress Sarah Siddons (limited print of 500 copies - 350 foe England & 150 for Ame...

Leonardo da Vinci, the Codex Hammer, formerly the Codex Leicester & Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle

Roberts, Jane · 1981

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1981. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780384205901 Two volume set in slipcase. The Codex Hammer, formerly the Codex Leicester, is a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci that explores his scientific observations on water,...

The Naked Truth and Eleven Other Stories

Pirandello, Luigi · 1934

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

John Lane/The Bodley Head, London, 1934. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Red Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles & contents list to front. Translated from the Italian by Arthur and Henrie Mayne, "The Naked Truth and Eleven Other Stories" by Luigi Pirandello i...

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (LIMITED EDITION) Edited with Introduction and Notes by J. Paul de Castro

Fielding, Henry · 1929

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Scholartis Press, London, 1929. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding here published in a limited edition (of 760 copies on Mercury Press No.4 paper) by the Scholartis P...

Positives

Gunn, Thom (verses) & Ander Gunn (photographs by) · 1973

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Faber & Faber, London, 1973. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780571103911 Positives is a 1966 collaborative book by poet Thom Gunn and his brother, photographer Ander Gunn, featuring a series of black and white photographs of everyday life i...

Everybody's Book of the Navy (SIGNED COPY)

Eldred, Charles E. · 1914

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Brindley & Howe Ltd./ Saxon & Co., London, undated but circa 1914. Presumed First Edn. Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. A book in the Saxon's " Everybody's" series. Inscribed by the author on the titles page with the words:...

The Dry Savages

Eliot, T. S. · 1941

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Faber & Faber, London, 1941. Reprint, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First reprint in the same year as the first edition. T. S. Eliot's poem "The Dry Salvages," the third of his Four Quartets, is a contemplative meditation on the nature of time...

The Rock. A Pageant Play Written for Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9 June 1934 on Behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London

Eliot, T. S. · 1934

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Faber, London, 1934. First Edition, Softcover (with flaps). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. One of 2,000 copies of the first edition, as this work was published simultaneously in two issues, 1,000 issued in boards, and 1,000 in wrappers. Printed price of 1s. net to front f...

The Three Voices of Poetry

Eliot, T. S. · 1953

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Cambridge University Press for the National Book League, London, 1953. First Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Eleventh Annual Lecture of the National Book League delivered by T. S. Eliot at Central Hall, Westminster on Thursday 19th Novem...

Animula. Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes

Eliot, T. S. · 1929

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Faber & Faber / Curwen Press, London, 1929. First Edition, Softcover (with flaps) sewn wrappers, Illustrated by: Gertrude Hermes. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Ariel Poems series number 23 printed at the Curwen Press and published by Faber. b&w. wood cut by Gertrude Herm...

Human Sciences and Philosophy (Cape Editions 30)

Goldmann, Lucien · 1969

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1969. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9780224615488 "The Human Sciences and Philosophy" by Lucien Goldmann is a 1969 work that explores methodological approaches to the human sciences, arguing for a synthesis of Marxist theory, L...

Histoire Extraordinaire: Essays on a Dream of Baudelaire's. Translated by Richard Howard (Cape Editions 33)

Butor, Michel · 1969

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1969. First English Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9780224616645 Discusses 'the three stages in the life of Charles Baudelaire and relates them to his three important works and the three major factors in his inspiration: "Les Lesbienn...

The Recluse. Translated from the German by David Luke (Cape Editions 26)

Stifter, Adalbert · 1968

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1968. First English Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Adalbert Stifter's novella The Recluse, also known as Der Einsiedler, tells the story of young Victor, who visits his misanthropic uncle living in isolation in a decaying monastery on...

The Supermale. A Modern Novel. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. (Cape Editions 19)

Jarry, Alfred · 1968

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1968. First Thus, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The Supermale by Alfred Jarry tells the story of André Marcueil, who tests the limits of human endurance and sexuality by participating in a 10,000-mile bicycle race against a train and engaging...

Mouse House

Godden, Rumer · 1964

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Macmillan, London, 1964. Reprint, Hardcover (Original Yellow Cloth), Illustrated by: Adrienne Adams. Good Condition/Fair. Rumer Godden's Mouse House is about a little mouse named Bonnie who, tired of living in a crowded flowerpot, discovers a discarded doll's house for mice in...