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Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj) Rpt. In 1949 the author had been smuggling enemies of the regime out of his native Roumania. Soon he was forced to escape with police on his heels. In the west he fell in love but soon accepted an invitation to return to Roumania. Eventually he was caught and interrogated for four years. He escaped after severe torture...
BIBLIOTECA DE DIVULGACION CULTURAL.
AUTOBIOGRAFIA. BIOGRAFIA. SOFIA LOREN RELATA SU PROPIA HISTORIA A A E HOTCHNER. CONTIENE FOTOGRAFIAS B Y N
Fine/fine (fine copy in fine unclipped dj with bookseller's price sticker front of wrapper) octavo 166pp. Biography of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, the leader of the young conservative revolutionaries in Weimar Germany, and the inspiration of Hitler and the other Nazis.
SELECCIONES DEL READERS DIGEST. CONDENSADO DEL LIBRO DE STANLEY WOLPERT. VERSIONES ESPAÑOLA DE CONRADO E EGGERS LECOUR.
Vg/vg. dj is clean and sharp-cornered. not price clipped. contents are clean and bright . no marginalia or markings . tightly bound in and all pages present. Contains printed pages of delightful water-colour illustrations by the author, completed in November 1916, including a self-portrait and two-page history of the author with monochrome photograph of her granddaughter [unpaginated].
Vg/VG not price-clipped. no inscriptions. First Edition.Clean throughout with no inscription or annotation. Biography of Humphrey Bogart written by his son Stephen, with an introduction by his mother Lauren Bacall
VG/VG dj is not price-clipped. some edge-creasing but no loss. no inscriptions. good clean copy. the text is clean and tidy, fully bound and without annotations. Illustrated with photographs, illustrations and maps. xii 352 pages including notes incorporating bibliography and index. "Refeshingly honest in both its new research and its judgements, and of absorbing interest not only as biography but as a study of that fascinating area where fact and fiction mix; the genesisi of a modern myth." - John Fowles
Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 384 pages including index. 41 illustrations. With a very good bibliography. price-clipped. no inscriptions. First Edition hardback with dust wrapper. all enclosed in loose-fitting plastic cover. an affectionate study of the famous author - warts and all
Vg/Vg (clean unclipped dj has damp stain bottom corner of front cover and bottom of front flap, a near fine copy very clean tight and bright but small remant of paper from dj stuck to bottom of front board and faint browning page edges) octavo 305pp. Biography of Edward Lear, painter and poet, illustrated with 8 pp b/w photographs.
Near fine/near fine (few dust marks unclipped undamaged dj,beige boards with white backstrip, remainder mark underside of pages else all tight and bright without fault) 12mo 174pp. First edition first printing. A meditation on the meaning of home and a remembrance of the places the author has called home.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault save for slight speckling top edge) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over. not price clipped clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
NUMEROSE ILLUSTRAZIONI, STRENNA UTET
OME NUOVO
Near fine/fine (fine clipped dj, clean red cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, very tight bright clean copy with ink gift inscription front free endpaper, no other marks) octavo 236pp. Reprint with corrections. Biography of a remarkable woman writer. 16pp b/w plates on gloss art paper. SIGNED by the author on title page.
La autorade origen polaco y nacionalidad francesahija de hebreos conversosrelata en esta novela los avatares de su infancia y juventud singular.
COME NUOVO
IN BUONO STATO, PAGINE LEGGERMENTE INGIALLITE
VG/VG. First Edition. Well illustrated history of this theatrical family, founders of two famous London theatres.
Vg/G (lightly discoloured unclipped dj with light edgewear and few small chips top edge, clean bright green coth with bright gilt lettering on spine, a very good square tight clean copy with no marks or inscriptions, fairly heavy brown speckling top page edges) octavo 246pp. First British edition. Autobiography. The story of a Jesuit trainee who left the cloister for the factory floor in Germany and France, and whose fearless approach to industrial problems, coupled with a determination to treat the teachings of Christ as the yardstick for industrial action, brought him into collision with the authorities in Church and State.
Vg/Vg (clean unclipped dj. showing a small closed cut to top edge over the spine. no inscriptions, contents clean and bright) ex libris plate of private owner to reverse of front cover. no stamps or other similar indicators of ex libris
VG/VG. First Edition. Well illustrated history of this theatrical family, founders of two famous London theatres.