BALLANTYNE, R.M.

Twice Bought - a Tale of the Oregon Gold Fields

London, James Nisbet. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Dudley, M. Black titles with coloured ship pictorials to spine and front on red cloth boards. Boards have some light marks to back else unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown and foxing to closed edges and sporadic foxing to some page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Not dated nor edition stated but probably a late 1890's edition of the work first published in 1885. 256 pages and 16 page publisher's catalogue. 30 illustrations by M. Dudley. One of Robert Michael Ballantyne's (1825-1894) scarcer novels. An attractive copy in very good condition. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003987

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Oregon Gold Fields Adventure Dudley, M

BALLARD, J.G.

Miracles of Life - Shanghai to Shepperton - an Autobiography

London, Fourth Estate. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780007270729). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. viii + 278 pages. Illustrations in the text. For almost half a century J.G. Ballard has been one of this country's most important writers. In this revelatory autobiography, bookended by time spent in Shanghai - the city of his childhood and internment in a World War II prison camp, and setting of his novel Empire of the Sun - he charts the course of his remarkable life. L. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009006

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Shanghai, Lunghua Camp, Autobiography English Authors 9780007270729

BURKHARD, BALTHASAR ET AUTRES

Le Desert

Paris, Actes Sud/ Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain. 2000, First. (ISBN: 2742727477). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition le désert organisée par la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, cet ouvrage propose un choix exceptionnel de photographies anciennes ainsi qu'un ensemble d'oeuvres inédites de Lara Baladi, Balthasar Burkhard, Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi, Titouan Lamazou, Beat Streuli et Andrei Ujica, réalisées au Sahara et dans les déserts de Namibie, de Libye, d'Australie et de l'Ouest américain. Ce livre réunit des textes de Raymond Depardon, Mounira Khemir, Sir Wilfred Thesiger et Paul Virilio. UN GRAND LIVRE LOURD DE 1.9 KILO: EXTRA COÛT D'EXPÉDITION REQUIS 1. Très Bon/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010241

Catalogue: Photography/Photographers

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BALY, DENIS

The Geography of the Bible - a Study in Historical Geography

London, Lutterworth Press. 1959. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue title on brown cloth boards which have a little wear to spine head and tail. Internally ther is a small name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked.303 pages. 97 photographs. 47 maps and diagrams. Coloured endpapers of the Old Testament Palestine and the New Testament Palestine and coloured fold-out Simplified Geologicl Map. 1. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011150

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Palestine, Biblical Geography

BALZAC, HONORE DE

Albert Savarus / a Daughter of Eve

London, Caxton. 1897. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 395 pages. Private Life. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010494

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

Catherine de' Medici

London, Caxton. 1899. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards have some minor marks to rear with a cup stain to front. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 494 pages. Philosophic and Analytic Studies. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010491

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

Les Contes Drolatiques - Collected in the Abbeys of Touraine and Brought Forth Into the Light

London, Caxton. 1900. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards have minor light marks to Vol. I whilst Vol. II has many light marks particularly to rear. Both volumes have a quarter inch nick to head of spine. Internally one page of Vol. II has a small removal to the margin not affecting the text, there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. Volume I - 351 pages. Volume II - 353 pages. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. NOTE - A HEAVY SET OF 1.28 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010487

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Deputy from Arcis

London, Caxton. 1898. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean and unmarked apart from a very small mark to spine and front corner of Vol.II with no wear apart from a pinprick size mark to spine of Vol.I. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. Military and Political Life. Volume I - 362 pages. Volume II - 353 pages. [Of the three divisions of this story, as published in the Edition Définitive, upon which this edition is based, only the first - The Election - is by Balzac, the rest is by Charles Rabon. Much of the portion added by Rabon, including the whole of La Famille Beauvisage, is omitted in the Edition Définitive, as will appear by reference to the articles in Cerfberr and Christophe's Repertory, relating to Dorlange-Sallenauve, Cécile Beauvisage, Philéas Beauvisage and others of the characters who figure in these volumes.] Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. NOTE - A HEAVY SET OF 1.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010485

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Droll Stories of Honore de Balzac

London, Blue Ribbon Books. 1874, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Savage, Steele. Pictorial front with decoration spine on brown cloth boards with pictorial end papers. Wear to spine head and tail. Internally contents are slightly shaken, as front hinge is cracked, pictorial endpapersbut generally a clean copy. Good+. xi + 553 pages. Contains the translator's preface stating that 'the present is the FIRST ENGLISH VERSION ever brought before the public', dated January 1874, although the translator is not named. Not dated but does not appear to be the first of this new edition with new illustrations specially made for this edition by Steele Savage. which are profuse. Written between 1832 and 1837 and inspired by Rabelais. B2B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000376

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature Savage, Steele

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The House of the Cat and Racket / the Dance at Sceaux / the Purse / the Vendetta

London, Caxton. 1896. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards have light marks to front and rear, bumping to corners and light wear to spine head and tail and sides. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown, age darkening to endpapers, occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 340 pages. Private Life. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010508

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Illustrious Gaudissart / the Muse of the Department

London, Caxton. 1898. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with a minor mark to spine and rear and a little wear to spine tail. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 336 pages. Provincial Life. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010497

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Jealousies of a Country Town (Les Rivalites) Etc

Philadelphia, The Gebbie Publishing Company. 1899. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt leather title label on red cloth boards which have minor light marks to front, a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips, bumping to lower corner tips. Internally the contents page is loose and the front hinge is cracked but a clean unmarked copy. Fore and lower edges uncut. Tope edge gilt. Translated by Ellen Marriage with prefaces by George Saintsbury. xiv + 459 pages. Photogravure frontispiece and 4 other illustrations. Comprises The Jealousies of a Country Town - The Old Maid - The Collection of Antiquities and A Marriage Settlement. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.835 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST B2B. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000364

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature

BALZAC, HONORE DE

Lucien de Rubempre

Boston, Roberts Brothers. 1895. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean with just a light mark to lower front with no wear but with gold reference number to spine. Internally there are the remains of a removed label to front pastedown, slight evidence of a removal (possibly pocket) to rear pastedown, a single stamp to the lower margin of page 147 'The Library of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe', and foxing to top edge. Although ex library there are no removals (such as the usual removal of the front endpaper) and the book is very clean, tight and unmarked and well lept for its age. 367 pages. Translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Uniform with Roberts Brothers Balzac Novels all translated by Wormeley (believe there were 35). B2D. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000367

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Magic Skin

London, Caxton. 1899. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with some small white spots to rear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 393 pages. Philosophic and Analytical Studies. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010506

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Magic Skin

London, Caxton. 1899. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with some small white spots to rear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 393 pages. Philosophic and Analytical Studies. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010507

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine