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USA: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition wi… Mehr…

USA: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Sixteen pages of historic illustrations on coated paper. Binding of Burgundy half-cloth gilt titled, with cream paper-wrapped boards. Reddish one inch line on lower edge of front board, no other wear to edges. Solidly bound, square with sharp corners. Fore edge of text block has pale smudge. Internals spotless and completely free from any markings--fine condition. Fine unclipped jacket. An account of madness, catastrophe and creativity in 19th century England-a true narrative. Mary Lamb, sister of essayist Charles Lamb, was at the center of a literary circle in her day. madness took over and she killed her mother with a carving knife; she went on to read and write for several decades and made her way back to a semblance of sanity. A fascinating story of a tortured life. 333 pages with Index. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc., New York and London, 2005., W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005, 4, London: John Murray, 2000 0719557119. First edition. Hardback. No annotations or inscriptions. 655 pp plus 32pp b/w plates and lengthy index. Slight bumping of two corners but otherwise a fine copy. No DW. Biography of the English author, essayist & travel writer Mary Shelley [ 1797 - 1851 ] who is famed for, at the age of 18, having created the story of Frankenstein's monster on a stormy night whilst talking horror with Byron, Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley & Claire Clairmont. This is a heavy volume which will require extra postage. "Mary Shelley's own life was as passionate and dramatic as her fiction. Drawing on unexplored sources, this biography presents a picture of a woman misunderstood, intense, loyal, generous; a woman possessed of a dark and brilliant imagination which gave the public a myth for her time and for today." ., London: John Murray, 2000 0719557119, 0, Boston, MA: David R. Godine Publisher. Very Good. 1983. First Edition Thus; Third Printing. Paperback. Very Good in Wraps: shows a couple of creases to the backstrip and another at the lower front corner tip; mild rubbing to the panels; the binding leans slightly but the sewn binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, marks, or marginalia in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive, imperfections. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, marks, or marginalia in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive, imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.15 x 5.35 x 1.3 inches). Xxxii, 365 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Language: French & English. Weight: 23.2 ounces. Trade Paperback. American Book Award Winner. Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems exhibit mastery of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) is most famous work, a book of lyric poetry which expresses the changing beauty of nature in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxxii, 365 pages; Not Inscribed or Signed by Author ., David R. Godine Publisher, 1983, 3, Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications Book. Good. Soft cover. 3 3/8" x 5". Cover is faded, interior is very good. 62 pages.., Haldeman-Julius Publications, 2.5, Boston New York Chicago : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback 1902 Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. Illustrations, charts, diagrams and maps. Remarkably well-preserved book in gilt-blocked dark olive-green full cloth, gilt title to front, title on spine rubbed, hard to see; quite clean with light wear to corner tips and spine head and heel. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Hinges intact. Pages only faintly toned, completely clean and unmarked, no creases. English literature, criticism and interpretation, from the Anglo-Saxon Period up through the 19th century's Romantic Period; the great essayists Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin; the maturity of the novel--Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot; the Victorian Poets Browning and Tennyson. 483 pages indexed. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1902, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston., Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, 2.5, Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Good in Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. Hardback; edge of pages yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise very good in faded and lightly creased dustjacket. ; Biography of England's greatest essayist. Illustrated. ; 399 pages ., Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000, 2.5, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. cloth. Fine/VG-. 8vo. Numerous black & white illustrations., Houghton Mifflin, 1965, 4, Soft cover. Good. Published John Humphries, Caithness, no date but as George Mackie, then MP for Caithness & Sutherland, is mentioned as a sponsor, presumably around 1962-1964; 148 x 200mm, 48pp, stiff card covers, stab stiched; covers somewhat dust marked but still a copy in good condition; frontispiece portrait sketch of Henderson, unattributed; neat ownership inscription (Helena Celli, Smithton) in ink on the title page. ... ... ... Reay is a village and parish around Sandside Bay on the north coast of Caithness, close to its border with Sutherland and close to both Dounreay Castle and the eponymous nuclear power stations. The name, Bard o'Reay, was taken by Henderson on his own account following his growing reputation as a poet, essayist and letter writer of the area, his frequent support of the underdog and of less popular groups (such as the Boers, in the late 19th century) coupled with his often fiery writing making him also often notorious. ... ... NOTE that as the book is slim and light, postage will be reduced from the defaults shown., 2.5, Owings Mills, Maryland: Stemmer House Publishers. 1982. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is complete [NOT price-clipped] and now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A very nice copy. Colour and black & white illustrations by R.W.Alley. Selected and with an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. 307 pages Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819-20. Along with James Fenimore Cooper, he was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. . 1st Edition. Hardback., Stemmer House Publishers, 1982, 0, New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 395 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects: English poetry 19th century History and criticism. English essays., New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1968, 0, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russian as SMERT AKHILLESA in 1998 by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow 1998 and EDIZIONI FRASSINELLI,Milan, Italy.This is the first English,UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edition.Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to top edges - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with light thumbing at top of spine/backstrip else generally bright and clean without foxing/ spotting,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-330pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 and a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and individual Pts separator pages and 2pp blanks at the rear. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. Fourth mystery in the bestselling Erast Fandorin series. See also rja373410, rja534915, rja581915, rja584515, rja731817, and rja861620 - rja862020 inclusive for other and similar related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn titles by this author. International intrigue,professional rivalry,the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow,and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin were hoping for a quiet homecoming,he is about to be disappointed.Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics and scandal.His old friend General Sobolev - the famous 'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room,and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years - Fandorin embarks on an investigation,in which the political and the personal become dangerously blurred.With the assistance of some formidable martial-arts skills,acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan,our eccentric and ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit,as why. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Please contact seller,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'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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2005., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russia as Leviafan in 1998 by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow.This is the first English,UK 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edition appearance (but the second title in the series to be released in English).Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/ toned are still fairly bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - tiniest of accidental corner creases to lower corners of pp205-9 inclusive - else the book would appear unread.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-236pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages.Author's 3rd Erast Fandorin title/novel and the 2nd to be published in English. See also rja581915 for another similar condition/state example of this same title and further book IDs' rja24107, rja373410, rja534915, rja581915, rja584515, rja861820, rja861920 and rja862120 respectively,for other related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn titles by this author. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted.3rd title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin.Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. It takes love and wit to revive the corpse of the country-house murder; Akunin has both and his borrowings from Agatha Christie and Conan-Doyle have already earned him an 8 million strong readership in his native Russia. The mysterious murder in 1870's Paris of an eccentric collector and his entire household yields a single clue that sends Commissioner Gauche,'Investigator for Especially Important Cases',on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan.Cooped up on board,the prime suspects exhibit all sorts of odd behaviour: drug-taking,paranoia,a refusal to admit to visiting Paris and wearing non-European clothes are enough to rouse suspicion. Only one passenger,a stuttering Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin, has an eye for a telling discrepancy. Though the red herrings stink and the scenario is ridiculous,Akunin's affection for the genre's conventions and his elegant skits on national stereotypes and political rivalries make for an amusing voyage. 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Contents: A Fenian Unionist: Standish O'Grady.--AE: Mystic and economist.--An Irish essayist: John Eglinton.--Lord Dunsany: Fantaisiste.--An Irish Protestant: Bernard Shaw.--A lonely Irishman: Edward Dowden., The Talbot Press, 1917, 2.5, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original publisher's title-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Provenance; from the City of Leeds Public Libraries with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; xiv, 387 p. : illustrations. Contents; Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviatons -- 1. The Beginnings of The Bodley Head -- 2. The Bodley Head Book -- 3. Belles-Lettres to Sell -- 4. The Birth of a Book -- 5 The Bodley Head Poets: The Books of The Rhymers Club -- 6. The Bodley Head Poets: Poisonous Honey and English Blossoms -- 7. The Bodley Head Authors: a Gathering of Playwrights, Essayists, and Fictionists -- 8. The Breakup -- Appendices Notes Illustration Credits -- Appendix A. Check List of Bodley Head Books (1889-1894) -- Appendix . The Bodley Head Artists and Illustrators -- Appendix C. The Bodley Head Periodicals -- Appendix D. The Reception of Bodley Head Books in America -- Appendix E. Bodley Head Exports and Imports: England, America, Australia -- Appendix F. Transfers -- Appendix G. Production Costs and Final Inventory -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index. Subjects; Bodley Head. Lane, John (1854-1925). Mathews, Elkin (1851-1921). Lane, John (1854-1925). Mathews, Elkin (1851-1921). Bodley Head (Firm) History. Elkin Mathews. Bodley Head (Firm) History 19th century. Bodley Head (Firm) ; Bibliography. Geschichte (1887-1894). Publishers and publishing. History. Miscellaneous. Publishers and publishing England ; London ; History 19th century. Bibliography England London Early printed books 19th century. Publishers and publishing Great Britain. Early printed books England London 19th century. Bibliography England London 19th century. Publishers and publishing History 19th century. Bodley Head Publishers Late Victorian period English literature. Publishing - [Late 19th Century - United Kingdom]. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Charles Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931). Charles Shannon, R.A. (1863-1937). Walter Crane (1845-1915). Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945). William Strang, R.A. (1859-1921). London (England) Imprints. England London. Publishing industry. Literature publishing. Bookselling. Publishing industries Bodley Head Great Britain, (1887-1894). English literature, (1887-1894) Critical studies. Publishing industries Great Britain Bodley Head, (1887-1894). English literature History & criticism 19th c. Publishers and publishing History 19th century England London. Presses, Private and select British Isles. Genres; Bibliography. History., Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971, 0, IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. The essay as deemed by the writer, offers what will usually be deliberated as reasonable indication, although not every evidence, of what the Common Law trial by jury actually is. In an upcoming text, if it must be denoted for, it is formed to confirm the basis brought in this; provide a brief outline of the English structure; reveal the unconstitutional nature of the present rule in England, and the unconstitutional ways by which the trial by jury has been divided into legal profession; attesting that, neither in England nor the US, have politicians ever been financed by the persons ever powerful to prejudice the authorities, alter the pledges, or with some exclusions, curtail the dominion, of adjudicators, or choose jury members on some except Common Law standards; and, therefore, that, in both countries, lawmaking continues to be constitutionally inferior to the judgment and principles of Common Law adjudicators, in every lawsuit, both civil and criminal, in which adjudicator sit. The similar book will perhaps also detail many administrative and lawful queries, which will simply presume the significance if the trial by jury must be reinstated. </br></br>Lysander Spooner was a United States political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet author, Unitarian, abolitionist, legal theorist, and merchant of the 19th century. He was a formidable supporter of the labor movement and seriously anti-authoritarian and individualist in administrative standpoints. </br></br>Lysander, IDB Productions, 2017-01-01, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though toned are bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierachy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles,introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin, the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startlingly original new talent in thriller writing. Please contact seller,because of the weight/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,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 or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA 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., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2003., 5, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John C. Winston Co., 1914. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers in Winston's "Children's Bookshelf" series, each illustrated by famous artists of the day, each with a colorful paper pastedown to the front board. This one contains 20 prose renditions (each with 1 full color illustration by "a famous German artist"--unnamed) of William Shakespeare's comedies & tragedies by the brother-sister 19th-century essayist team, Charles & Mary Lamb, which became one of their most famous works following its initial publication in England in 1807. This edition, orig. issued in 1914, has a colorful frontispiece & 18 full-color, full-page plates throughout the 323 pages of text. The hardcover book has deep green cloth-covered boards with colorful front paper pastedown. Condition is overall Good: generally very clean, pages surprisingly white & unmarked, binding tight & square. All plates are intact & beautiful & unfoxed, but the frontispiece is completely loose, as is the title page & pgs i-ii of the Introduction. General light rubbing to extremities, bumped corners; former owner's bookplate & name in pen on ffep. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day., John C. Winston Co., 1914, 2.5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russia as Leviafan in 1998,by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow.This is the first English,UK 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edition (but the second title in the series to be released in English).Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE-/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of unfaded spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges minimally aged/toned,light thumbing to fore-edges but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-236pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Author's 3rd Erast Fandorin title/novel. See also rja24107,rja373410, rja534915, rja584515 and rja731817 respectively,for similar or other related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn titles by this author. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. 3rd title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond, Erast Fandorin.Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. It takes love and wit to revive the corpse of the country-house murder; Akunin has both and his borrowings from Agatha Christie and Conan-Doyle have already earned him an 8 million strong readership in his native Russia. The mysterious murder in 1870's Paris of an eccentric collector and his entire household yields a single clue that sends Commissioner Gauche,'Investigator for Especially Important Cases',on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan.Cooped up on board,the prime suspects exhibit all sorts of odd behaviour: drug-taking,paranoia,a refusal to admit to visiting Paris and wearing non-European clothes are enough to rouse suspicion.Only one passenger,a stuttering Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin,has an eye for a telling discrepancy. Though the red herrings stink and the scenario is ridiculous,Akunin's affection for the genre's conventions and his elegant skits on national stereotypes and political rivalries make for an amusing voyage. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and 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,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 customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA 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., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 2004., 5, Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1890 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Limited printing of 300 copies printed for America, of which this is No. 170. Light blue/gray paper covered boards with three quarter white cloth, and paper spine label. Light exterior marks, previous owner's name on free endpaper; glue discolored on front pastedown; interior is in very good condition. "Large Paper Edition". Volume II of a ten volume set, containing the essays entitled "New England Two Centuries Ago", "Carlyle", "Swinburne's Tragedies", "The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival", "Lessing", "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists", "A Great Public Character", and "Witchcraft". 398 pages.., The Riverside Press, 1890, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russian as TURIETSKY GAMBIT in 1998 by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow.This is the first English,UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edition.Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red,black,tan lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edges with very faint dust speckling but still very clean without foxing or spotting,fore-edges bright and clean also without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-230pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and 6pp blanks at rear. Author's 2nd Erast Fandorin title/novel. See also my book IDs' rja24107,rja373410, rja534915, rja581915 and rja731817 respectively,for other similar related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn titles by this author. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. 2nd novel in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture,and Erast Fandorin,broken-hearted and disillusioned,has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows.Captured by the Turks,he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon,before finding himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara Suvorova,a `progressive` Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her fiance.Fandorin's efforts to steer clear of affairs of state are thwarted when a traitor is discovered in the Russian camp.Within days,Varvara's fiance has been accused of treason,a Turkish victory looms on the horizon,and there are rumours that one of Lady Astair's Azazel orphans may be making his own bid for power.Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to resurrect all his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor,help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love in this, the third,sparkling page-turner from Boris Akunin. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2004., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; 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.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierarchy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles, introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin.Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin,the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startingly original new talent in thriller writing. Please contact seller,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'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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2003., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russia as Leviafan in 1998 by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow.This is the first English,UK 8vo HB+dw/dj,st edition (but the second title in the series to be released in English). Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean, matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-236pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Author's 3rd Erast Fandorin title/novel.See also rja24107,rja373410, rja534915,rja584515 and rja731817 respectively,for similar or other related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn titles by this author. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted.3rd title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. It takes love and wit to revive the corpse of the country-house murder; Akunin has both and his borrowings from Agatha Christie and Conan-Doyle have already earned him an 8 million strong readership in his native Russia. The mysterious murder in 1870's Paris of an eccentric collector and his entire household yields a single clue that sends Commissioner Gauche,'Investigator for Especially Important Cases',on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan.Cooped up on board,the prime suspects exhibit all sorts of odd behaviour: drug-taking,paranoia,a refusal to admit to visiting Paris and wearing non-European clothes are enough to rouse suspicion.Only one passenger,a stuttering Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin,has an eye for a telling discrepancy.Though the red herrings stink and the scenario is ridiculous,Akunin's affection for the genre's conventions and his elegant skits on national stereotypes and political rivalries make for an amusing voyage. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 2004., 5, Philadelphia/Chicago: John C. Winston Co., 1925. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Godwin, Frank. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers from the early 20th century, each illustrated by famous artists of the day, with a colorful paper pastedown to the front board. This one contains 20 abridged prose renditions of William Shakespeare's comedies & tragedies by the brother-sister 19th-century essayist team, Charles & Mary Lamb, which became one of their most famous works following its initial publication in England in 1807. This edition from 1924 (c.1925 printing) has 323 pages + a Preface by the Authors, as well as decorative duotone endpapers, a colorful frontispiece, & 11 color or duotone glossy, full-page illustrations by Frank Godwin. Hardcover book has ORANGE cloth-covered boards with a colorful front paper pastedown. Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & unmarked, with very minor edgewear & rubbing to extremities. Corners are bumped but cloth intact. Both front & rear hinges are cracked, but text block intact. A very attractive copy! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day., John C. Winston Co., 1925, 3, London: Blackie and Son, 1907. Leather. Good Only. 6" by 4". None. A copy of literary critic Leigh Hunt's Imagination and Fancy, with a design by decorative book designer Talwin Morris. Talwin Morris was a prolific book designer and decorative artist working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly known for his Glasgow Style furniture, metalwork and book designs. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer. Contains chapters such as, An Answer to the Question, What is Poetry, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Milton, and other literary figures. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse. Decorative front and rear pastedowns and free-endpapers. In a maroon calf binding with gilt decorative board. Externally generally smart with some wear to the extremities. Joints weak. Pages bright and clean throughout. Good Only, Blackie and Son, 1907, 2.5, Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND PRINT SPINE. WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE AND LOWER RIGHT CORNER FRONT. FORMER OWNER LABEL INSIDE FRONT, COUPLE SMALL ERASED PENCIL MARKS INSIDE VERY FRONT. NO OTHER MARKINGS. PAGES AND BINDING TIGHT. AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. RIVERSIDE EDITION. VIGNETTE TITLE PAGE. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE FRONTISPIECE. published in 1822 under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Resembling its predecessor, The Sketch Book, the collection includes stories with English, French, and Spanish settings, but is chiefly remembered for ¿Dolph Heyliger¿ and its sequel, ¿The Storm-Ship,¿ which recount the adventures of a New York lad who undertakes to discredit the legend of a haunted house, but encounters its ghost and recovers a fabulous buried treasure, as well as marrying an heiress. Americanized versions of the Flying Dutchman theme are presented in ¿The Storm-Ship,¿ and other stories in the volume are also based on European folklore. Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 ¿ November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists. A collection of forty-nine sketches and stories in the manner of his earlier Sketch Book with the same narrator, Geoffrey Crayon. It is chiefly remembered for "Dolph Heyliger," "The Storm Ship," "The Stut Gentleman," and "Student of Salamanca." ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES., J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870, 2.5, Limni,Evvia,Greece: Denise Harvey, 2013 Book. Illus. by Translated by Liadain Sherrard. New Book from Greece. Soft cover. 1st Greek Edition. 19.3 x 12.0 Cm. Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004), essayist, thinker and poet, was arguably Greece's most significant man of letters in the twentieth century. In the Aegean Notebooks, a record of his observations and reflections while sailing among the Greek islands in the 1970s and 1980s, the special quality of his literary and philosophical gifts, and of the man himself, are vividly present. Along with everything a mariner yearns to bring ashore, all he has felt and experienced at sea with the wake of the boat unfurling behind him, Lorenzatos brings us in addition a lifetime's learning and contemplation. For him, life, and the living of it, was of the essence. As he observes in his foreword to these notebooks: '. . . life itself writes nothing, it erases everything that is written about it, and simply, irreplaceably lives, like the inaccessible "well of water springing up".''Zissimos Lorenzatos was the wisest Greek critic of his generation, and he left us a legacy of elegant thinking that extended beyond literature to the broader issues at the center of the human heart.' Edmund Keeley, Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus, Princeton University. 138 pages, with a fold-out map of the Aegean, Denise Harvey ,., Denise Harvey, 2013, 6, Kingston, New York: McPherson & Company, 2006. First Edition, First Printing / Limited to 1250 Copies / #310. Cloth. Like New/Like New. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colorful floral pattern, dark green endpapers, Notes, Glossary, Index and Names of Plants, xii + 340 pages. Rudolf Borchardt (1877 - 1945) was a German-Jewish essayist, poet and cultural historian. He is well known for translating Dante's Divine Comedy and The Passionate Gardiner..<br /> <br /> The Passionate Gardiner (1938) is "part essay, part handbook, part treatise, part quest; it is presented with the practiced eye of a naturalist, the disciplined understanding of a philosopher, and the inspiration of a poet."-jacket.<br /> <br /> New: Very tight, bright, and clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks., McPherson & Company, 2006, 5, Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ivory board binding rubbed at spine ends & corners; slightly cocked; boards smudged; owner's name in ink on front free endpaper; leaf edges browned & soiled, else very tight & crisp. No dj. Slipcase rubbed at extremities; surface foxed & smudged; backstrip & edges browned; corners chipped. ; Boxed; from 925 limited edition. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 135 pages ., Thomas B. Mosher, 1908, 3, London: George Routledge & Sons. 1900. 1st ed., thick octavo, pp.634, b&w fronts. port., foxing to prelims, t.p., edges and first and last 25 pages, pencil pres inscr to ffep, ink inscr to front paste-down, orig cl bds., rubbed, bumped. Good condn. 19th century American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist 1st edition. Cloth Boards., George Routledge & Sons, 1900, 0, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. B&W glossy photos. Royal 8vo, tan cloth with gold lettering on spine,Preface by P.D. James, illustrated with 8 pages of glossy B&W photographs, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped),xix, [xx] + 421 pages. 1 lb. 12 oz. Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was one of the finest mystery writers of the 20th century. She was also a poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, translator (most notably of The Divine Comedy), and Christian humanist with a profound knowledge of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. Eva Mary "Barbara" Reynolds (1914 - 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator. She completed Sayers' unfinished translation of Dante's, Divine Comedy. A great friend and colleague of Dorothy, she also wrote and edited several books about Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L Sayers Society. Condition: Fine overall with very slight rubbing to the unclipped dust jacket. Internally the book is very clean and unannotated. Slight bumping to its corners. [See also our letter by Sayers about Lord Peter, dated April 16,1967.]., Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, 4.5<

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. B&W glossy photos. Royal 8vo, tan cloth with gold lettering on spine,Preface by P.D. James, illustrated with 8 pages of glossy B&W photographs, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped),xix, [xx] + 421 pages. 1 lb. 12 oz. Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was one of the finest mystery writers of the 20th century. She was also a poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, translator (most notably of The Divine Comedy), and Christian humanist with a profound knowledge of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. Eva Mary "Barbara" Reynolds (1914 - 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator. She completed Sayers' unfinished translation of Dante's, Divine Comedy. A great friend and colleague of Dorothy, she also wrote and edited several books about Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L Sayers Society. Condition: Fine overall with very slight rubbing to the unclipped dust jacket. Internally the book is very clean and unannotated. Slight bumping to its corners. [See also our letter by Sayers about Lord Peter, dated April 16,1967.]., Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, 4.5<

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