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Nikolai: Portrait of a Dilemma
de William C. Fletcher
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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EUR 9.40
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The Macmillan Company, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 230 pages, with index, bibliography. From jacket blurb: "A portrait of the most praised and vilified of modern Churchmen--Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church--and of the dilemma he faced as religious leader in a militantly secular society." 8vo, deep red cloth with gilt lettering, maroon topstain, rough-cut edges,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Guns or Butter
de R.H. Bruce Lockhart
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1938
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 439 pages, with index. First American edition. Account by the famous British intelligence agent of his travels in Scandinavia, East Central Europe, and the Balkans on the eve of World War II. 8vo, metallic silver cloth with butter-yellow lettering, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, chips to… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
de Carl Bernstein
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Published
- 2008
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780307388551
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Vintage Books (Random House), 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 638 pages, with index, bibliography, note on sources. The book by Washington insider reporter Bernstein came out the previous year, when Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination against Barack Obama. Trade paperback, practically unworn, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages bright and unmarked.
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Mountbatten
de Richard Hough
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1981
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394511627
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- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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Random House, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with index and chronological table. Illustrated with b&w photos on 16 double-sided plates. Biography first published in the UK one year after Mountbatten's assassination in 1979; this is American first edition. 8vo, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine, sunned about extremities, faint… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
de Leon Edel
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1980
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780380500055
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Royal Victorians: King Edward VII, His Family and Friends
de Christopher Hibbert
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- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1976
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780397011117
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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EUR 7.52
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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 339 pages, with index, bibliography, reference notes. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2"), green paper over boards with blue quarter, rubbed gilt lettering on spine, green end papers, one spot of heavy wear along fore-edge of front board, text block chipped… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
de Lawrence Wright
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780375414862
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 470 pages, with index, bibliography, list of characters, author interviews. 16th printing (2007). Area map of the Middle East. B&w photo illustrations on eight double-sided plates. Pre-history of 9/11 attacks incorporates social and institutional history of Saudi Arabia and other countries, biographies of Osama bin Laden, Ayman… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Edward VIII
de Frances Donaldson
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1976
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Ballantine Books, 1976. Soft cover. Good. 624 pages, with index, genealogical table, source references. Second printing (1980) of Ballantine edition; book first published 1975. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Biography of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Prince of Wales/King Edward VIII, who abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, reading… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Robespierre and the French Revolution
de J.M. Thompson
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1962
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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EUR 4.70
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Collier Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 159 pages, with index. Fourth printing (1966) of first Collier edition. "A study of the ideals and the realities of the Revolution as revealed in the life of its most controversial spokesman" by the Oxford historian, author of longer works on the French Revolution and on Robespierre, as part of the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Crowley's Apprentice: The Life and Ideas of Israel Regardie
de Gerald Suster
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1990
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780877287001
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1990. Soft cover. Good. 189 pages plus x (10) pages front matter including introduction; with bibliography. First American edition stated. Biography of "one of the most complex and fascinating personalities of the esoteric revival" (back cover blurb), a friend and secretary to Aleister Crowley. Small (5-3/8" x 8-1/4") trade paperback, scant exterior wear, very faint… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Milosz's ABC's
de Czeslaw Milosz
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2001
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374199777
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 14.09
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Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 313 pages. An alphabet book by the Polish Nobel Prize laureate in literature comprises sketches and short essays on persons real and imagined, places (e.g. France, or Connecticut River Valley), concepts and emotions (curiosity, economy, fame), objects (gold, manors) - to mention only a few. The… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Sicilian Lives
de Danilo Dolci
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1981
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780394749389
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Pantheon, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages, with introduction by John Berger, map of Sicily across two pages. Translated from Italian by Justin Vitiello and Madeline Polidoro. Interviews with and monologues by residents of impoverished villages in western Sicily, collected by the Italian sociologist, poet, and apostle of non-violent action. Small trade paperback (~5" x 8"), shelf wear… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Kleist: A Biography
de Joachim Maass, tr. Ralph Manheim
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1983
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with index of names, index of works, illustrated with b&w reproductions of portraits on four double-sided plates. English translation of a work issued in German 1957, revised 1977. Trade paperback, creases to spine, foxing to edges, scant shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Updike: America's Man of Letters
de Pritchard, William H.
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2000
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781586420024
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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EUR 28.18
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Steerforth Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 351 pages, with index, biographical chronology. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, very scant shelf wear, a touch of dust soil to top edge, pale foxing to end papers. Unclipped dust jacket has very slight wear to bottom front corner.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective
de Jay Atkinson
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- Usado - Fair
- Published
- 2006
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9781400050765
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 2.82
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Three Rivers Press (Random House), 2006. Soft cover. Fair. 363 pages. An account of police investigations and conflicts with organized crime in Boston. Trade paperback, wraps worn/creased/soiled, dust soil to end papers, last ~150 pages wavy from water damage (but not musty). Pencil notation on front free end paper, writing observed on one page in text.
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The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer
de Willi Kurth (ed.)
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- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1946
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Crown Publishers, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 346 pages, with chronological index of the works. Chronological description of the works by the editor, interspersed with biographical notes. 4to (9-1/8" x 12-1/4"), beige cloth with red lettering, boards soiled and worn with losses to backstrip, which has been reglued to prevent further damage, faded red topstain, end papers foxed and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Winslow Homer, American Artist: His World and His Work
de Albert Ten Eyck Gardner
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- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1961
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 22.55
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Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 363 pages, with List of Illustrations, Bibliography, Chronology, Index of Illustrations, Index of Museums and Private Collections, general Index. Preface by James J. Rorimer. Scores of b&w art reproductions and 36 on color plates. 4to (9-1/4" x 12-1/4"), green cloth with rubbed gilt lettering, light green end papers, spine and upper margins… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Grandma Moses
de Otto Kallir
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Published
- 1975
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780517283202
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
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EUR 11.27
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Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 159 pages, with Biographical Outline, Selected Bibliography, List of Major Exhibitions, Index. Distributed by New American Library - "New concise NAL edition". On the life and work of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, with 193 illustrations (art reproductions and photos), of which 127 are in color. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11"),… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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George Luks 1867-1933 (Retrospective Exhibition)
de ACA Heritage Gallery
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1967
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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ACA Heritage Gallery Inc., 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 48 pages. Catalogue from Retrospective Exhibition, Nov. 27 - Dec. 23, 1967, at the ACA Heritage Gallery in Manhattan. B&w reproductions of 46 works by Luks, listed on inside back cover in catalogue format. Includes biographical note and two-page intro in the form of appreciations of Luks by collector… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Daumier: Man of His Time
de Oliver W. Larkin
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Published
- 1966
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 245 pages, with index, list of illustrations (100 b&w, 8 color plates). Written after the author's retirement as Professor of Art at Smith College, the book combines biography with discussion of Daumier's works, both cartoons and his scupture and paintings, in the context of 19th century French history. Super 8vo (7-1/2"… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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