CHRISTINE, DE PIZAN (PISAN).

Epistle of the Prison of Human Life with an Epistle to the Queen of France and Lament on the Evils of the CIVIL War.

NY:: Garland Publishing, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 0824094123. Edited and translated from the Old French by Josette A. Wisman. First edition thus. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. ; 99 pages. Fine .

Grendel Books

Book number: 38556

Catalogue: Literature in Translation

Keywords: 0824094123 Old French Literature Translation

CONFUCIUS, SUN-TZU, PLATO, LUCRETIUS, CICERO, JOB, POLO MARCO, PIZAN CHRISTINE DE, CASTIGLIONE BALDESAR, BACON FRANCIS, HOBBES THOMAS, BROWN THOMAS, VOLTAIRE, HUME DAVID, CLAUSEWITZ CARL, KEIRKEGAARD

Penguin Great Thinkers the First Ten Books Art of War the Symposium an Attack on the Enemy of Freedom Revelation and the Book of Job Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan City of Ladies How to Achieve True Greatness of Empire of Man Urne-Burial

Penguin, 2005. 20 vols (vols 21 - 40): The First Ten Books, The Art of War, The Symposium, An Attack on the Enemy of Freedom, Revelation and the Book of Job, Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan, City of Ladies, How to Achieve True Greatness, Of Empire, Of Man, Urne-Burial, Miracles and Idolatry, On Suicide, The Nature of War, Fear and Trembling, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Conspicious Consumption, Myth of Sisyphus, Eichmann and the Holocaust. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (unread in original shrinkwrap). Pp. various..

Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

Book number: 69253

Catalogue: Philosophy

DE PIZAN CHRISTINE

The Book Of The City Ladies

New York, Persea Books. 1992, Reprint. (ISBN: 089255066x) Paperback. 281 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Written In 1405, This Is A History Of Western Civilization From The Point Of View Of Women. De Pizan, The Author Of This Remarkable Volume, Is Considered France's First Woman Of Letters. As New/None Issued.

Marlowes Books

Book number: 057428

Catalogue: Literature - Classic

Keywords: 089255066x

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE

The Book of the City of Ladies

1998, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0892552301). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. pp.281 with index of proper names. clean tight unread copy. Fine.

Judith Patton Books

Book number: 012301

Catalogue: Women Studies

Keywords: Imaginary Conversations Women_history Women_conduct of 0892552301

DE PIZAN CHRISTINE

The Book Of The City Ladies

New York, Persea Books. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 089255066x) Paperback. 281 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Written In 1405, This Is A History Of Western Civilization From The Point Of View Of Women. De Pizan, The Author Of This Remarkable Volume, Is Considered France's First Woman Of Letters. As New/None Issued.

Marlowes Books

Book number: 037203

Catalogue: Literature - Classic

Keywords: 089255066x

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE; FENSTER, THELMA S. (TRANSLATOR); MARGOLIS, NADIA (TRANSLATOR)

The Book of the Duke of True Lovers

Paperback. Very Good. Softcover 1st edition 1991 Persea Books. Only light wear. Very clean; no marks or creases; pages bright; binding tight. 162 pages; Glossary; Bibliography; 6 black-and-white plates. Language: English (translated from the French and with an Introduction by Thelma S. Finster; lyric poetry translated by Nadia Margolis). ISBN: 0892551666

Brainiac Books

Book number: 0123A756970

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction/Poetry/European

Keywords: Middle Ages, Medieval, France, French literature, courtly love, courtly romance, poem, women writers, women authors, de Pisan 0892551666

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE

The Book of the City of Ladies Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards Foreword by Marina Warner

Persea Books, New York, 1982. Hardcover, 281pp., b&w illustrations. Light wear to board edges and corners; faintly spotted upper page edges; endpaper clipped. Light wear to dustwrapper edges with some chipping. Very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film.

Lamdha Books

Book number: 66462

CHRISTINE; PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE

The Book of the City of Ladies

New York, New York, U.S.A. Persea Books. 1998. (ISBN: 0892552301). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book, NO Highlights, NO underlinings, NO annotations Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and her literary activit. Very Good.

Pinacle Books

Book number: 062259

Catalogue: Nonfiction

Keywords: 0892552301 Imaginary Conversations Women History Conduct

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

The Book Of The City Of Ladies

Picador 1982 Paperback. (ISBN: 0330283243). Fair.

Book Haven

Book number: 731899

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "Fiction, Womens"0330283243 0330283243

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE.

The Book of the City of Ladies.

New York. Persea Books. 1982. 8vo. 281 pp. with notes and index of proper names. Hardcover in cloth boards. Good in good dust jacket. Book is square & tight. Damp stain effecting rear panel of both the book & jacket. Front jacket panel very bright.
¶ Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards. Foreword by Marina Warner. Black & white illustrations.

Robert Erwin, Bookseller

Book number: 10738

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE;DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE

The Book of the Duke of True Lovers

New York, New York, U.S.A. Persea Books. 1997. (ISBN: 0892551666). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book, Whatever the theoretical reverence for women in the lore of courtly love, the reality was quite different. For the married lady, courtly love amounted to adultery; for the unmarried, shame, as marriage was never the goal of her suitor. Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies had already criticized the thinly veiled allegory of Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose (ca. 1275) when around 1403 the ``Duke of True Lovers'' asked her to fashion a romance based on his affair with... Fine.

Pinacle Books

Book number: 086489

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0892551666 Fiction

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE

The Book of the City of Ladies

1992. Paperback. Pp: 282. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Polare

Book number: U3061322

Catalogue: Literatuur anderstalig

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

The Book of the City of Ladies

Quality Paperback Publishing. 1982. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1982/Gd. condition/281 pages - The author intersperses her tales of formidable and exemplary heroines of the past with down-to-earth remarks about the wrongs done to women by societys attitudes and opinions. This is a work of optimism that i s still by no means entirely justified by events. [KE118983]. Good.

Mike Long Books

Book number: 18983

Catalogue: Non-Fiction

Keywords: literature, adventure, ladies, formidable, articulated, opinions, thriller, romance, historical, fantasy, novel, non-fiction

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE.

The Book of the City of Ladies. (Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards).

New York: Persea Books, 1982. 0892550619. "The first work in praise and defense of women, translated from the medieval French of more than five centuries ago and now available for the first time in print and in modern English.." Pp.lii/281, black & white frontispiece + 3 further illustrations. Cream cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Beckham Books

Book number: 38472

Catalogue: Women

Keywords: Christine de Pizan Book City Ladies Earl Jeffrey Richards Women Reason Rectitude Justice 26362 Women

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE (TRANSLATED BY JEFFREY RICHARDS)

The Book of the City of Ladies

Persea Books. 1993. (ISBN: 089255066X). paperback. Book, paperback, bottom corner bumped towards rear, neat signature on short-title page o/w very good, 281pp, ISBN:089255066X. Good.

Pendleburys Bookshop

Book number: 137236

Keywords: 089255066X medieval france french

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE (?1363-1431?)

The Book of the City of Ladies. Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards. Foreword by Marina Warner. [Le livre de la cité des dames]

Quality Paperback (1992), 12 mo., li,281 pp., frontis. & illus., notes, index; BC; NF/paperback; ISBN: 089255066X

Aurelius Books

Book number: LR51067

Catalogue: Literature

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE (?1363-1431?)

The Book of the City of Ladies. Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards. Foreword by Marina Warner. [Le livre de la cité des dames]

Persea (1982), 12 mo., li,281 pp., frontis. & 2 illus., notes, index; BC; F/NF; ISBN: 0892550619

Aurelius Books

Book number: LR43689

Catalogue: Literature

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE

The Book of the City of Ladies

New York: Persea Books, 1990. Soft Cover. ISBN: 089255066X. About new book, unmarked. 281 pp History of the West written in 1405, translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards.. Fine .

B-Line Books

Book number: 15401

Catalogue: History-Europe

Keywords: 089255066x

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE.

The Book of the City of Ladies. Foreword by Marina Warner.

Pcador, London, 1983. Pb 8vo. li, 271pp Very good. very faint tanning to page edges. Soft cover. Very Good.

The Bowral Bookmen (formerly Antiquariat Fine Books)

Book number: 110703

Keywords: Women's Issues

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE

The Book of the City of Ladies

New York, New York, U.S.A. Persea Books. 1982. (ISBN: 0892550619). Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book, Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and her literary activities. She was only twenty-five when she was widowed and left without an inheritance. Very Good/Very Good.

Pinacle Books

Book number: 085920

Catalogue: History::Empires and Civilizations

Keywords: 0892550619 Utopias Women History Political Science

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE

The Book of the City of Ladies

New York, New York, U.S.A. Persea Books. 1983. (ISBN: 089255066X). Ppbk, 8vo. pp. 281, b/w illustrations. Very Good/No Dj.

The Edmonton Book Store

Book number: 067829

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Women's History 089255066x

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE. EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY KATE LANGDON FORHAN.

The Book of the Body Politic.

Cambridge University. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. 1st edition. 1994. Hardback. 8vo. Pp.,xli. Publishers blue, glazed, paper covered boards. FINE, near mint. (Tiny annotation in red to name of series editor on page iv). We specialise in Scholarly Books

Clevedon Books (Member of PBFA)

Book number: 6130

Keywords: history of ideas, politics, philosophy, education, behaviour, princes, nobility, society, responsibilities, government, governing,

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE.,

The Book Of The City Of Ladies.

N.Y.:, PERSEA BOOKS, 1982. 1st U.S. Ed. Hard Cover, Fine in Fine Dj. Owner Inscription.

Mark Post Bookseller

Book number: 4191

Catalogue: European History: Medieval

Keywords: European History Women Renaissance France

PIZAN, CHRISTINE DE & EARL JEFFREY RICHARDS & NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS

The Book of the City of Ladies

Persea 1998, Paperback. . 9780892552306 Store stamp bottom page edge. Light shelfwear to cover. Binding tight and inner pages crisp and unmarked. ; Revised Edition; 7.80 X 5.20 X 0.70 inches. Very Good with no dust jacket.

Books On The Boulevard

Book number: 40785

DE PIZAN, CHRISTINE.

The Book of the Body Politic.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2001. 8vo, 113pp. A near fine paperback copy with a remainder mark.

Sainsbury's Books

Book number: 72090

Keywords: Politics