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Florentine History: From the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( six volume set)

Napier, Henry Edward · 1846

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Edward Moxon , London, 1846-7. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Green Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jackets. Bound in green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped decorated outer borders (front & rear covers.) To front of each volume are title pages; preface (volume one); extensi...

Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain (Translated Texts for Historians - Volume 9)

Wolf, Kenneth Baxter (translation,introduction & notes by) · 1999

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1999. Second Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780853235545 To front: list of series titles; b/w. frontis. photo. of Visigoth script; titles; contents list; preface; map & introduction. The volume contains a 60 page...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library 138) Introduction by Peter Washington

Calvino, Italo · 1993

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780679420255 Translated from the Italian by William Weaver "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino is a metafictional novel about a Reader (the "You"...

Lavengro / by George Borrow; containing the unaltered text of the original issue; some suppressed episodes now printed for the first time; MS.variorum, vocabulary and notes by the author of The life of George Borrow

Borrow, George · 1902

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

John Murray, London, 1902. Second Impression, Hardcover (Original Green Cloth), Illustrated by: Edmund J. Sullivan. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. B/w. frontis. photograph of the author from a portrait by R. Phillips, titles; preface; lists of chapters & illustrations; 'L...

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (The New Windmill Library edition)

Gosse, Edmund · 1930

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Heinemann, London, 1930. Third Impression, Hardcover (Original Brown Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, sepia frontis. illustration & preface to front. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son is a 1907 memoir detailing his isolated childhood within a devout, Plymouth Brethre...

Queen Lucia

Benson, E. F. · 1970

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Heinemann, London, 1970. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Grey Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. One of a series re-issuing Benson's novels. The series is the "Mapp and Lucia" series by E. F. Benson, a collection of humorous novels set in the 1920s and 30s that satirize th...

Zionism : The Formative Years (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Vital, David · 1988

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. 9780198277156 To front: titles. preface, contents list, list of maps, note on transliteration & translation, & abbreviations. This sequel to David Vital's The Origins of Zionism (Clarendo...

The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe

Geary, Patrick J. · 2003

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Princeton University Press, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK, 2003. Second Edition, Hardcover (Original Black Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780691114811 Titles & contents list to front.Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities t...

The Bachelor of the Albany (by the author of 'The Falcon Family' and 'My Uncle the Curate')

Savage, Marmion Wilme · 1927

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1927. First Edition, Hardcover (Half Black Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half Black Cloth (on Red Cloth sides). Introduction by Bonamy Dobree. The Bachelor of the Albany is a novel written by Marmion Wilme Savage and first publishe...

Dead Souls - (Everyman's Library Volume 726)

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich · 1927

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1927. Reprint, Hardcover (Original Green Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. To front: title pages, introduction by John Cournos, & author's preface. "Dead Souls," by Nikolai Gogol, tells the story of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a seeming...

Virgin Soil - (Everyman's Library Volume 528)

Turgenev., Ivan S (R. S. Townsnd - translator) · 1929

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1929. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Green Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles & introduction to front. "Virgin Soil," Turgenev's final novel, portrays the struggles of young revolutionaries in 1870s Russia as they attempt to ...

The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam [Bacon's Essays] - (Everyman's Library Volume 10)

Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam) · 1906

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1906. Second Impression, Hardcover (Original Brown Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. the first reprint in April of the same year as the first Everyman edition. Illustrated end-papers. To front: titles, table of contents & a lengthy int...

Oblomov - (Everyman's Library Volume 878)

Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovitch · 1932

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1932. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Green Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece--a magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed--brilliantly employs humor to explo...

Religious Faith and Twentieth-Century Man

Happold, F. C. · 1966

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1966. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, contents list & preface to front. In this, the second volume in his 'mystical trilogy;, Happold delves into various philosophical and theological perspectives, consid...

Ironwork, Fer Forgé, Schmiedeeisen, Hierro Forjado

Wheeler, William · 2002

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

l'Aventurine, Paris, 2002. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9782914199230 Foreword (Avant Propos//Vorwort/Indice) to front in four languages. A volume in the 'Library of Ornament' series which covers the 17th through the early 20th centuries, each ...

The Cheat

Capek, Karel {Weatherall, M. and R. -Translators] · 1941

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Allen & Unwin, London, 1941. Second Impression, Hardcover (Original White Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. First edition, second impression (published in June, the same month as the first printing). Karel ÄOEapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playw...

The Drug-Like Bronte Dream

Lane, Margaret · 1980

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

John Murray, London, 1980. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Red Cloth), Illustrated by: Joan Hassall. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780719537684 Illustrated end-papers. In four studies, Lane considers the unique circumstances that led to the flowering of passionate art we ...

This Narrow World

Moffitt, John · 1958

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Editions Poetry, London, 1958. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Red Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. John Moffitt is a contemporary writer who is known for ‘To Look at Any Thing.’ Little to nothing is known about Moffitt’s life besides his interest in free verse poetry...

An Ethiopian Saga

Haigh, Richmond · 1919

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Allen & Unwin, London, 1919. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Black Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. An Ethiopian Saga (1919) is a historical novel written by Richmond Haigh. The story is set in Ethiopia and revolves around the life of an Ethiopian prince named Me...

Les Fiançailles de Mr Hire

Simenon, Georges · 1947

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Artheme Fayard , Paris, 1947. Early Edition, Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. "Les Fiançailles de M. Hire," also known as "Monsieur Hire's Engagement," is a novel by Georges Simenon about a lonely, isolated man, Monsieur Hire, who becomes the prime suspect in a young ...