Kalamos Books

The Cretan (a trilogy in one volume)

PREVELAKIS, PANDELIS · 1909

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Minneapolis MN, Nostos. 0, 1st.US Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Trans. Abbott Rick & Peter Mackridge. Book, NEW - Will be sent to you direct from the publisher."Pandelis Prevelakis (1909-86), a major Greek writer, has produced over forty volumes of poetry, novels, plays, and essa...

Minotaur And Crete

GRANTHAM, ROBERT · 1960

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Iraklion, Crete, Spiros Akexiou & Sons. 1960, 1st Greek Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Thomas Fanourkis. Book, As a resident of Crete the author recorded his impressions of Crete and its people from Minoan to modern times.Illustrations And Cover By Thomas Fanourkis. 146p.+4 p. of ...

The Moonspinners

STEWART,MARY · 1978

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

London, Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton. 1978, Reprint. (ISBN: 0340013613) Pbk. Book, While hiking through the beautiful, desolate hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across the prone form of a critically injured man. His name is Mark, and he and his brother Colin are on the run...

That Shining Place

POIRIER-BURES, SIMONE · 1995

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Ottawa, Oberon Press. 1995, 1st.Can Ed.. (ISBN: 0778010198) Soft cover. Book, The story of a 21-year-old woman's search for a simple, authentic life on the Greek island of Crete in the mid '60s. She is befriended by an older Greek woman who teaches her how to cook and dance, a...

The Traveller's Guide to Crete

BOWMAN,JOHN · 1978

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1978, 4th Edition. (ISBN: 0224016083) Soft cover. Ex-Library, Comprehensive and descriptive guide to Crete. 327p. maps, illus. bibliography. index. maps on end papers.Neat tight reading copy, but with library marks. Good>Very Good.

Talking About O'Dwyer

STEAD, C.K. · 2000

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London, Harvill Press. 2000, 1st UK Ed.. (ISBN: 1860467105) Hardcover. Book, What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealan...

The Island

HISLOP, VICTORIA · 2006

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

London, Headline/ Review. 2006, Reprint. (ISBN: 9780755329649) Soft cover. Book, "On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But, Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village b...

Zakros: The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete.

PLATON, NICHOLAS · 1971

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Scribner's. 1971, 1st.US Ed.. Decorative Cloth. Book, Account of the discovery and excavation of a Minoan Palace in Eastern Crete. Includes a chapter on Atlantis/Santorini.HC. 345p. Plates (some col.) diagrams. bibliography. index.Crisp tight copy. Fine.

The Secret of Crete

WUNDERLICH,HANS GEORG · 1974

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Macmillan. 1974, First US Edition. (ISBN: 0026316005) Hardcover. Book, English translation by Richard Winston of "Whoin der stier Europs Trug' "Hans Wunderlich is a geologist who happened to be in Crete in 1970, when he took the opportunity of visiting Sir Arthur Eva...

Greece and Crete 1941

BUCKLEY, CHRISTOPHER · 2002

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Athens, Efstathiadis. 2002, Re-issue. (ISBN: 9602260416) Soft cover. Book, After the Second World War the British HMSO issued a series of short military histories based on official documents and written for the general reader . This volume recounts the campaigns in Greece and ...

The Fall of Crete

CLARK,ALLAN · 1993

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Athens, Efstathiadis. 1993, Re-issue. (ISBN: 9602260904) Soft cover. Book, It was one of the most dramatic battles of the Second World War--a truly epic story. For both Allies and Axis powers, Crete offered immense strategic importance for controlling the Mediterranean, with g...

Secret of Crete

WUNDERLICH,HANS GEORG · 1987

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Athens, Efstathiadis. 1987, Reissue. (ISBN: 9602262613) Pbk. Book, "Hans Wunderlich is a geologist who happened to be in Crete in 1970, when he took the opportunity of visiting Sir Arthur Evan's celebrated reconstruction of the so-called Palace of King Minos at Knossos - the l...

Ahish Shel Sofiia =The Island

HISLOP, VICTORIA · 2008

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

Tel Aviv, Yediot Aharonot. 2008, Reprint. (ISBN: 9654824442) Soft cover. Book, ranslated into Hewbrew by Sharon Preminger. "On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But, Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to...

Zorba the Greek

KAZANTZAKIS,NIKOS · 1965

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

New York, Ballantine. 1965, Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Ill.: Trans. Carl Wildman. Book, "Everyman with a Greek Accent ..a long, lean fierce mustached Greek whose 65 years have neither dimmed his hawk eyes or dulled his pagan laughter" Translated by Carl Wildman. 348 p. Good.

Violent Retreat

BRADLEY, VERNON · 1959

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, G.M.Smith Publishing. 1959, 1st UK Edition. Soft cover. Book, [Combat Library Series # 3] War story about a group of British soldiers in Crete during the Nazi invasion. 64p. UK pulp fiction format. Text block is clean and complete, stapled inside rather flimsy paper co...

Ten Days to Destiny : The Battle for Crete, 1941

KIRIAKOPOULOS, G.C [GEORGE] · 1983

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Franklin Watts. 1983, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0531097854) Hardcover. Ex-Library, "The battle for Crete made history because it was the first Airborne attack without the benefit of ground troops. And it was the first battle in which the civilian populations stood shoulder to sho...

Poetic Localities : Photographs of the Adirondacks, Cambridge, Crete, Italy and Athens

STILLMAN, WILLIAM J., EHRENKRANZ, ANNE (EDITOR); EISLER, COLIN (EDITOR) · 1992

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Gordonsville,(VA), Aperture Foundation. 1992, 1st.US Ed.. (ISBN: 0893813168) Hardcover. Book, Catalogue published to accompany a 1988 exhibition of photographs by William James Stillman organized by the International Center of Photography. Catalogue notes by Anne Ehrenkranz, d...

The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis

DAVIS, WES · 2000

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Crown Publishers. 2000, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0307460134) Hardcover. Book, In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for Germa...

Gods,Graves and Scholars

CERAM, C.W. (KURT W.MAREK) · 1975

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, A.A.Knopf. 1975, Reprint. Library Binding. Ill.: Trans.E.B.Garside & Sophie Wilkins. Ex-Library, Some of the most dramatic and interesting archaeological finds around the world, including Troy,Mycenae and Crete. 441p. [+ xiv) illlus.bibliography.index. Neat and compl...

The Villa Ariadne

POWELL,DILYS · 1974

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1974, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0340177705) Hardcover. Book, The Villa Ariadne was built at Knossos, Crete, by Sir Arthur Evans soon after he discovered the Minoan palace, when the site was his own private property. The villa became home, in turn, to J...