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paperback. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville's own life. Editor(s): Levine, Robert S.; Weinstein, Cindy. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Critical
- SKU
- V9780393938944
- ISBN
- 9780393938944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Paperback. Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and canals of Venice. In this book, the author portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present, as he observes everyday life beside ancient monuments. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140434316
- ISBN
- 9780140434316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso provides an account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. It also reveals his working methods and attitudes. Editor(s): McCully, Marilyn. Num Pages: 288 pages, 55 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD5; AFC; AGB; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691003481
- ISBN
- 9780691003481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Photojournalism in Today's World provides an intelligent and practical look at photojournalism and the newsroom. Langton's book is an essential guide for aspiring photojournalists and professionals to newsroom culture, and how that culture influences assignments, production, and editing. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405178969
- ISBN
- 9781405178969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.56
€ 46.56
A collection of short personal essays on complex issues that range from humorous to poignant Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611173710
- ISBN
- 9781611173710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.68
€ 33.68
Paperback. This book contains pieces published over 20 years, from 'Boys on Islands', on his childhood influences, to 'Before I Went Blind', the Going West keynote address giving his impressions of New Zealand on his return from five years in Berlin. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864735676
- ISBN
- 9780864735676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.56
€ 29.56
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both 24, he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly 2000 letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship. Editor(s): Thwaite, Anthony. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 43. Weight in Grams: 770. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper. First edition
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 496
- SKU
- KEX0303689
- ISBN
- 9780571239092
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardcover. Offers an analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates by focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; DNF; JFC; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554054
- ISBN
- 9780230554054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Paperback. This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study, explanatory notes and a glossary. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 84 pages, 1 b&w halftone, glossary. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894883
- ISBN
- 9780859894883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.95
€ 40.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Rowe, Christopher. Translator(s): Rowe, Christopher. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140449747
- ISBN
- 9780140449747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Features an appendix that contains the fragments of early Greek love poetry which helps the reader appreciate the rich, and perhaps elusive, meaning of eros. Editor(s): Nehamas, Alexander; Woodruff, Paul. Translator(s): Nehamas, Alexander; Woodruff, Paul. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 141
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872202207
- ISBN
- 9780872202207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Hardback. A new edition of Scott's longest, and arguably most intriguing, novel. Editor(s): Lumsden, Alison. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 704 pages, None. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605781
- ISBN
- 9780748605781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.88€ 109.40
€ 112.88
€ 109.40
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213174
- ISBN
- 9780253213174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.49
€ 51.99
€ 46.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 74 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 74
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559138
- ISBN
- 9781875559138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
paperback. One of the greatest 19th-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his descriptions of the flora and fauna of the continent'. Translator(s): Wilson, Jason. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DNF; PD; RGR; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445534
- ISBN
- 9780140445534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. "Perfect Catch" is a bundle of poems, plays and collaborations between Ian McMillan and various musicians, theatre groups, radio producers and ordinary and extraordinary people. Poetry is a community art for this writer, not a craft pursued in a lonely room. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 187. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KEX0281282
- ISBN
- 9781857544961
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Hardback. This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners. Editor(s): Hepburn, Allan. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635689
- ISBN
- 9780748635689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.64€ 131.38
€ 136.64
€ 131.38
Paperback. Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a travel writer, a story teller and memoirist of the first order, and his work is a record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society. This volume is a condensation of the 6-volume autobiography was published between 1899-1903 in England. Editor(s): Mille, Anita; Papp, James. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; DN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Academy Chicago Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897335492
- ISBN
- 9780897335492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.06
€ 19.99
€ 19.06
Paperback. From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like-minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. They decide to call themselves The Goons.. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DN; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 7th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958155
- ISBN
- 9780241958155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardback. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. Editor(s): Mangan, Timothy; Herrmann, Irene. Num Pages: 310 pages, 1 music example. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236554
- ISBN
- 9780520236554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.36€ 65.36
€ 84.36
€ 65.36