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Biography
Paperback. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) was a goldsmith and sculptor whose autobiography is one of the most vivid and interesting ever written. In it he describes artistic techniques such as bronze casting as well as a fascinating account of life and intrigue in 16th century Italy. This new translation is based on the latest critical edition of the text. Translator(s): Bondanella, Julia Conaway; Bondanella, Peter E. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGB; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555314
- ISBN
- 9780199555314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.98
€ 18.99
€ 14.98
Hardcover. Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio. This autobiography gives an account of his daily life in Renaissance Florence and Rome, its studios, and its taverns. Num Pages: 540 pages. BIC Classification: ACND; AFKB; AGB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 207 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 540
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593289
- ISBN
- 9781841593289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. The Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith describes his life and career. Series: Arts and Letters. Num Pages: 582 pages. Dimension: 186 x 113 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 582
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714833644
- ISBN
- 9780714833644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.37
€ 10.99
€ 9.37
Paperback. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, celebrated Italian goldsmith (1500-1571), in which Cellini tells the story of his life and art and also depicts the manners and morals of both the rulers and their subjects in 16th Century Italy. This new edition includes new notes on the text and a chronology. Editor(s): Bull, George. Translator(s): Bull, George. Num Pages: 496 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: 1DST; AFKB; AGB; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447187
- ISBN
- 9780140447187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.66
€ 19.99
€ 15.66
Hardback. The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition ~1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300137231
- ISBN
- 9780300137231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.31
€ 26.99
€ 20.31
There's a Fax from Bruce: Edited Correspondence Between Bruce Beresfor...
Beresford, Bruce, Milliken, Sue
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925005660
- ISBN
- 9781925005660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.93
€ 25.99
€ 17.93
paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks and creases. Small scoring to back endpapers, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press Dublin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0014057
- ISBN
- 9780862785956
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In Provence, December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has come to define him. Yet for more than a century biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened that night have been left with more questions than answers. The author sets out to discover exactly what happened that night in Arles. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702229
- ISBN
- 9781784702229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.84
€ 19.99
€ 14.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1. BIC Classification: BJ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- TarcherPerigee
- Edition
- Gjr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780399176821
- ISBN
- 9780399176821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.78
€ 16.99
€ 14.78
Paperback. Heartwarming nostalgia book about a young and idealistic teacher transforming the lives of her pupils in deprived 1960s Liverpool. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 119 x 23. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444741384
- ISBN
- 9781444741384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Editor(s): Mayo, Bernard. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813903101
- ISBN
- 9780813903101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.26
€ 23.26
Hardback. Contains profiles and reading lists for 100 popular nonfiction authors. This book focuses on such contemporary authors as Bill Bryson. Series: Popular Authors Series. Num Pages: 452 pages, 51 illustrations (b&w). BIC Classification: BGL; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1098.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591584872
- ISBN
- 9781591584872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.06€ 75.24
€ 78.06
€ 75.24
Hardcover. This biography explores the life and work of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Bernard Adams brings light to the extraordinary secret life of a complex, self-doubting individual. Num Pages: 320 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 234 x 44. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866674
- ISBN
- 9781901866674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.00€ 25.25
€ 32.00
€ 25.25
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Doctor, Bernard Aquina. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- For Beginners United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934389041
- ISBN
- 9781934389041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.89
€ 17.99
€ 16.89
Paperback. Wexford History. 8vo. Illustrated .Very good clean copy.
- Publisher
- Sean Ros P.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0266570
- ISBN
- 9780952577126
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647968
- ISBN
- 9780691647968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.54
€ 197.54
Hardback. A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 48 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393240719
- ISBN
- 9780393240719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.46
€ 27.99
€ 24.46
Hardcover. Dairies charting the daily life of a working peer under Blair Num Pages: 408 pages, 25 bw in 16pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; BGHA; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 233 x 35. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784536503
- ISBN
- 9781784536503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.22€ 48.25
€ 53.22
€ 48.25
Hardcover. Mayes, a gay activist and former priest, recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HRCC91; HRCX6; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920047
- ISBN
- 9780813920047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.84
€ 49.84
Hardcover. 334pp
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- C.Chivers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Edition
- First Thus
- SKU
- KEX0196486
- ISBN
- 9780859970518
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in original cloth
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- C.Chivers
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0257318
- ISBN
- 9780859970518
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. This collection of true stories illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801863103
- ISBN
- 9780801863103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.35
€ 37.35
Paperback. An eye-opening, jaw-dropping account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands by an insider, as funny and inspiring as it is heartbreaking. 'Another CITY OF GOD, this time for Britain rather than Brazil.' Observer Num Pages: 320 pages, integrated. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340837351
- ISBN
- 9780340837351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Bestselling novelist Michel Houellebecq, and bestselling philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy ('BHL'), are two of the most celebrated and controversial intellectual figures in France today. In Public Enemies they clash head on in an awe-inspiring, hilarious and revealing battle of the literary titans. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 342. 320 pages. Bestselling novelist Michel Houellebecq, and bestselling philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy ('BHL'), are two of the most celebrated and controversial intellectual figures in France today. In Public Enemies they clash head on in an awe-inspiring, hilarious and revealing battle of the literary titans. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF. Dimension: 211 x 132 x 24. Weight: 342.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848871601
- ISBN
- 9781848871601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.08
€ 26.99
€ 20.08