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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese, 2007 481pp. B&W and Color Illustrations. The DJ is a 3/4 size wrap-around . Small red remainder dot on bottom edges, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ Stock number: 032600. ISBN: 9780385526234 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2008. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners,no nicks,tears or splits present.Publisher's circular,'Author Signed' white adhesive sticker to upper wrap of dw/dj.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean,minimal,miniscule light colour stain to bottom edge towards foot of spine/backstrip; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy.Described fairly and honestly - not as bad as it reads or sounds! Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-296pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,4pp blanks at rear. Whilst not being as prolific a signee as other authors,this particular title is uncommon SIGNED. Victor Frankenstein,a serious-minded student from Switzerland,meets 'Mad Shelley',a poet and atheist,at Oxford University.Soon,the two young men are deep in discussion of electrical science and natural philosophy.In this fervid and fervent atmosphere Frankenstein begins to contemplate new principles and new beliefs. Frankenstein embarks on his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington,just outside Oxford. But the cadavers supplied by the local coroner are frequently damaged or decaying,so he moves his coils and fluids to a deserted pottery manufactory in Limehouse.Here he makes contact with the Doomsday men - the resurrectionists - who now cross the Thames in the dead of night to bring him fresh corpses of the recently dead . . . . . 'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein', with its spine-chilling narrative and its ingeniously clever twists of plot and character,will become a classic of the twenty-first century.It is another brilliant example of the power of Peter Ackroyd's imagination. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja410512. ISBN: 9780701182953. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2008. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners,no nicks or tears present. Publisher's circular,white adhesive 'Author Signed' sticker to upper wrap of dw/dj.Both head +foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy.Publisher's bright, clean,sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-296pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [ubnpaginated] half-title+title page,4pp blanks at rear. Victor Frankenstein,a serious-minded student from Switzerland,meets 'Mad Shelley',a poet and atheist,at Oxford University.Soon,the two young men are deep in discussion of electrical science and natural philosophy.In this fervid and fervent atmosphere Frankenstein begins to contemplate new principles and new beliefs. Frankenstein embarks on his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, just outside Oxford.But the cadavers supplied by the local coroner are frequently damaged or decaying,so he moves his coils and fluids to a deserted pottery manufactory in Limehouse.Here he makes contact with the Doomsday men - the resurrectionists - who now cross the Thames in the dead of night to bring him fresh corpses of the recently dead . . . . 'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein', with its spine-chilling narrative and its ingeniously clever twists of plot and character,will become a classic of the twenty-first century.It is another brilliant example of the power of Peter Ackroyd's imagination. Want more Peter ACKROYD titles? Please check my SIGNED,BIOGRAPHY,MODERN FIRSTS2, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar, SIGNED and unsigned titles. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja724617. ISBN: 9780701182953. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: Chatto & Windus, 2003 Wraps are shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Tightly bound.Pre-publication copy.[R.K]. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover Stock number: odli. ISBN: 1856197069 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chapter1
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2004 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 213 pp. Stock number: BOOKS058635I. ISBN: 9780385511216 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: New York, Nan. A. Talese, 2004 213pp. A novel set in medieval London of 1399, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ Stock number: 028597. ISBN: 0385511213 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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Imprint: Random House, 2001 The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound.EM.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: lm88. ISBN: 0701173009 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chapter1
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Imprint: London, United Kingdom, Chatto & Windus, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AO4 - A first edition hardcover book SIGNED by author in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. The Fall of Troy is a dazzling work of the imagination which, like the ancient epics so loved by Obermann, is in part accurate and in part fantastic. 9.5"x6.5", 215 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: EC42854BB. ISBN: 0701179112 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Bookmarc's
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, 1982 The author's first novel. A fine unread copy in a fine d.w. A scarce book. Stock number: 49479. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Collectors Treasury
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Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 2004 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 216 pp. Stock number: BOOKS038563I. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: London: Chatto & Windus, 200, 2004 A crisp clean signed first edition no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of nineteenth-century London, Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000020482. ISBN: 9780701177447 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Infinity Books Japan
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Imprint: Lomdon, Hamish Hamilton, 1983 In a fictionalized autobiography,the controversial Irish/British writer considers the accomplishments and misfortunes of his life.185p. Paper age toned. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine - Price Clipped Stock number: 042950. ISBN: 0241109647 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Kalamos Books
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Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd, 1993 Oscar Wilde never wrote a last testament during his isolation in Paris. Thi s book takes the known facts about Oscar Wilde and converts them into a fic tional portrait of the artist and memoir of a life of great contrast - a ca reer which ended with a catastrophic fall from public favour., Good Stock number: RWARE0000032267. ISBN: 9780140171112 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Infinity Books Japan
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Imprint: 1998 First edition. Chatto & Windus, London. 1998. Hardback with DW. 435 pages. Colour plates. Index. Very clean and sound. Stock number: 88048. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Addyman Books
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Imprint: London, Chatto and Windus, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket. 435 pages + 27 illustrations. Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history, but his life and career bear little resemblance to the myth of the saint or of 'the man for all seasons'. In this biography Peter Ackroyd reveals a man more troubled and more perplexing than that of any previous account, and offers a portrait as decisive as Holbein's famous drawing. **** NOT EX LIB **** *** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.93 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008043. ISBN: 1856197115 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Goldring Books
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Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 1998 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 435 pp. Stock number: BOOKS112336I. ISBN: 9781856197113 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS,1998. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten, blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial subject illustrated dw/dj upper ppanel,with black+gold woodcut illustrated rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with some miniscule foxing/ spotting,fore-edges lightly and sporadically spotted/foxed - less so than top edge - but generally bright and clean - contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered - apart from lightly bumped top,upper board's corner,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain,dark green endpapers.UK,thickish 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,xi+1-434pp [paginated] includes list of illustrations,33 chapters,16pp b/w+ colour contemporary illus/plates in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp148/9 (all b/w) and pp276/7 (majority colour - and 3 in b/w),source notes,a bibliography,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table, acknowledgements,and last page of index unpaginated. Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history,but his life and career bear little resemblance to the myth of the saint or of the 'man for all seasons'.In this remarkable new biography Peter Ackroyd reveals a man more troubled and more perplexing than that of any previous account. More was the most brilliant Englishman of his age,but one who remained guarded and silent in the matters that most concerned him.He was an eminent lawyer who wore a hair shirt and who,in the privacy of his library,whipped himself. More was a man of the Renaissance,the author of 'Utopia' and a supporter of the new learning; but he was also a profound traditionalist who gave his life in the service of the old faith.He was a man of great spirituality and deep piety; yet he was an ambitious and successful careerist who,as Lord Chancellor,dominated the court of Henry VIII. A magnificent achievement,'The Life of Thomas More' brings us closer to a man who has remained an enigma for 500 years.It offers a portrait as decisive as Holbein's famous drawing,while also brilliantly recreating the conditions of Catholic England at the end of the fifteenth century. Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja424712. ISBN: 1856197115. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1998 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 447 pp. Stock number: BOOKS054692I. ISBN: 9780385477093 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: London, Vintage, 1999 435pp. B&W and Color Illustrations. Trade PB. Front cover bottom corner lightly creased . Saint Thomas More (1477? -1535) , was a great English author, statesman, and scholar. He served as lord chancellor, the highest judicial official in England, from 1529 to 1532. But More resigned because he opposed King Henry VIII's plan to annul his marriage to the queen. More was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to accept the king as head of the English church and has become an example of the individual who places conscience above the claims of secular authority. The Roman Catholic Church declared him a saint in 1935. In 2000, the church named him patron saint of statesmen and politicians, 8vo, Very Good with no DJ Stock number: 024718. ISBN: 0749386401 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1998 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 447 pp. Stock number: BOOKS056106I. ISBN: 9780385477093 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1999. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,author SIGNED+dated, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.Author's handwritten,black ink signature and date [1,April,1999] to title page below his name.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3-138pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,pale pink endpapers. Set 2,000 years in the future,Peter Ackroyd's imaginative new novel is by turns lively and surprising.Plato,the orator,summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city.He dwells particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500 - 2300),which existed before the dimming of the stars and the burning of the machines.He lectures upon the Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and upon the pantomimimic routines of Sigmund Freud. He even provides a glossary of twentieth-century terms,and explains such early myths of creation as 'super-string theory' and 'relativity'.But then something happens.He has a dream,or a vision,or he goes on a real journey - opinions are divided - and enters a vast underground cavern, where citizens of Mouldwarp London still live. When Plato returns with stories of this lost world he is put on trial for corrupting the youth by means of lies and fables,since his words have spread consternation among them.Are their lives part of some greater reality? And,if they learn to doubt,perhaps they will be able to recognise a truth beyond that of their own world.All will depend upon the judgement of Plato by his fellow citizens. Want more Peter ACKROYD titles? Please check either my SIGNED,BIOGRAPHY,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar,SIGNED and unsigned titles. Want more DICKENS-related titles? For similar and other available titles use keywords q52_Charles Dickens - or please search my BIOGRAPHY,GENERAL and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja22016. ISBN: 1856197018. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2000 Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 173 pp. Stock number: BOOKS068211I. ISBN: 9780385497688 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2013. UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 8 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with black+silver gilt lettering to front+spine,rear panel with siLver gilt lettered prose extract; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+ foot of spine/backstrip gently pushed with minimal reciprocal creasing and a couple of small indents to rear panel's gutter's edge/fold - but without penetration to board beneath. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished, sharp-cornered original plain grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black letters to spine/backstrip,and with immaculate plain charcoal black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-246pp [paginated] includes XXII (22) chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with publisher's b/w colophon,title page,a contents list/table,and to the rear,4pp blanks. Harry,Daniel and Sam Hanway are a trio of brothers born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town.Marked out from the start by curious coincidence,each boy is forced to make his own way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business,of criminal gangs and crooked landlords,of newspaper magnates,back-biters and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives,reinforcing Ackroyd's grand theme that place and history create,surround and engulf us.From bustling,cut-throat Fleet Street to hallowed London publishing houses,from the wealth and corruption of Chelsea to the smoky shadows of Limehouse and Hackney, this is an exploration of the city, peering down its streets,riding on its underground,and drinking in its pubs and clubs. Everything is possible - not only in the new freedom of the 1960s but also in London's timeless past. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja939421. ISBN: 9780701186937. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 2009 1st printing. 8vo. Pp 403 + 16pp colour plates and 16pp b&w plates. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is showing just a touch of rubbing along the top edge. Stock number: 89694. ISBN: 978 0 701 17285 5 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: The Glass Key
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009 Fine copy in fine dust jacket (wrap-around band), 8vo, 403 pp. Stock number: BOOKS064412I. ISBN: 9780385531528 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2009. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,b/w+colour montage'd artwork illustrated dw/dj,with gilt,brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of any light creasing to top edges of dw/dj,head of spine/backstrip of same,minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,original plain pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a yellow headband and immaculate contemporary medieval artwork colour illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-403pp [paginated] includes Pts I-XI - each with a b/w line illustration headpiece,comprising 37 chapters in total,32pp contemporary & medieval colour+b/w reproduction illustrations in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp52/3,pp116/7, pp276/7 and pp340/1 respectively,a Venetian chronology,a bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication with acknowledgements to it's verso,contents list/table,illustrations list/table with a b/w city map to it's verso,and b/w line illustrated Part separator pages. In this sumptuous vision of Venice,Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames to Italy and the city of myth,mystery and beauty,set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts,conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and sunlit squares,the churches and the markets,the fiestas and the flowers. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the 4thC to the rise of a great mercantile state and trading empire,the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today. Everything is here: the merchants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto; the mosaics of St Mark's and the glass-blowers of Murano; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of lepers; the doges and the destitute,and the artists with their passion for colour and form - Bellini, Titian,Tintoretto,Tiepolo. There are wars and sieges,scandals and seductions,and crowds thronging the markets,but always with a dark undertone of shadowy corners, dead ends,prisons and punishment. The language and way of thinking of the Venetian sets them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people,linked to the sea and the tides rather than to the land.This book,like a magic gondola, transports its readers to that sensual,surprising realm.We could have no better guide - reading Ackroyd's 'Venice' is,in itself, a glorious journey to the ultimate city, glittering,evocative and forever fascinating. Want more Peter ACKROYD titles? Please check either my SIGNED,BIOGRAPHY,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar,SIGNED and unsigned titles. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja613716. ISBN: 9780701172855. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: New York, Anchor Books, 2011 Fine copy, 8vo, 403 pp. Stock number: BOOKS114151I. ISBN: 9780307473790 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Abacus Bookshop
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Imprint: LONDON.EBURY PRESS/in Association with the IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM,2006. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate contemporary b/w photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-486pp [paginated] includes author's preface,acknowledgements,a 2pp introduction by Peter Ackroyd,Pts 1-3 comprising 6,13 and 7 chapters respectively,profuse contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index of contributors and a general index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/ table and Pts separator pages. In June 1940,British citizens prepared for an imminent German onslaught.Hitler's troops had overrun Holland,Belgium and France in quick succession,and the British people anticipated that an invasion would soon be upon them. From July to October,they watched the Battle of Britain play out in the skies above them,aware that the result would decide their fate.From September through to the following May.the Blitz killed more than 43,000 civilians.For a year,the citizens of Britain were effectively front-line soldiers in a battle which united the country against a hated enemy. Now Joshua Levine brings us both British and German voices from this extraordinary period of history.he has delved deep into the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive to unearth previously unpublished accounts from the men and women who witnessed the battles and the bombs.We hear first-hand testimonies from the soldiers, airmen,fire-fighters,air raid wardens and civilians, people in the air and on the ground,giving us a thrilling account of Britain under siege. 'Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain' is the definitive oral history of a period when Britain came closer to being overwhelmed by the enemy than at any other time in modern history. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja751117. ISBN: 9780091910037. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY
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Imprint: Ferry Press, London, 1978 First edition of the author's second book, limited to 350 copies. Thirty-three pages stapled into card wrappers featuring a design by Michael Craig-Martin. Wrappers very lightly tanned and handled, and staples a little rusted, but in fine state internally. Nineteen poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover Stock number: ARC91117. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1992 The deluxe issue of the first edition, issued under the London Limited Editions imprint and limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #9). 8vo. 400pp. Cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and occasional black and white illustrations in the text. Some spotting to the edges, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but with the original unprinted tissue protector, lightly tanned, and nicked at several extremities. The author's sixth novel.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover Stock number: 20168. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989 First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 328pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A little light tanning to paperstock, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just lightly faded at spine panel.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 19923. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989 First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 328pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges lightly spotted and with some inevitable tanning to lesser-quality paperstock. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fifth novel.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 20038. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989 First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 328pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with powder blue endpapers. Top edge spotted and with some inevitable tanning to the lesser quality paperstock, hence thus a good copy only in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fifth novel.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 20095. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1985 First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page, beneath which is his personal inked inscription: "For Libby from Peter. London: November 6 1985". 8vo. 217pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of bruising to the backstrip ends, and with some tanning to the lesser quality paperstock as is so often the case. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little light corresponding rubbing to the spine panel ends. The author's third novel, winner of the Whitbread Award for Best Novel.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: BC17303. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: Vision Press Ltd., London, 1976 First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book, preceded by just a slim volume of verse. 8vo. 152pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Indentations from a former dealer's pencil marks to the front free endpaper, and a former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front pastedown. Two small indentations to the board margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little chafed and nicked, lightly marked in places and with an area of surface abrasion to the front panel where the publisher's advertising sticker has been removed. A scholarly essay on Modernism, the result of Ackroyd's Yale University fellowship, written when he was just twenty-two years old and published whilst he was still literary editor of 'The Spectator'.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Stock number: ARC92935. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale grey boards the titles in bright silver gilt to the spine. A tight and perhaps unread copy. There are no marks of any kind.. Book Condition: As New In a Like Dust Jacket. Binding: Hard Cover Stock number: 901273. ISBN: 0701173009 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Mulberry Books
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982 First Edition (first printing) of the author's scarce first novel, a re-working of 'Little Dorrit'. 8vo. 169pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy, with no trace of the usual paperstock tanning, housed in the dust wrapper, which is lightly faded at the spine panel and with a small retail sticker over the original price printed to the base of the front flap.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: ARC93410. Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Clearwater Books
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Imprint: New York, Nan A. Talase / Doubleday, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BS1 - A bound galley paperback book in very good condition that has light shelf wear. A tour de force in the tradition of Hawksmoor and Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd's new novel of deceit and betrayal is a witty reimagining of a great nineteenth-century Shakespeare forgery. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Paperback. Jacket: No Jacket as Issued Stock number: EC11434BB. ISBN: 0385514611 Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Bookmarc's
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