BALZAC, HONORE DE

Z. Marcas / the Other Side of Contemporaneous History - First Episode - Madame de la Chanterie / Second Episode - the Novice

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 minor marking to front edge 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. 368 pages. Military and Political 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: 010505

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

A Princess's Secrets (Les Secrets de la Princesse Cadignan)

London, J. M. Dent. 1900, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ayton Symington. Gilt signature of Balzac on front cover with gilt decoration and title to spine on green cloth boards which have minor marks, fading to spine and some sear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers and to the margins of a few early pages, else clean, tight and unmarked. Fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. xii + 332 page. 3 tissue protected engravings by J. Ayton Symington. Translated by Ellen Marriage with a preface by George Saintsbury. Third edition printed August 1900. Uniform with Dent's series of the Comedie Humaine. C3A. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000370

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature Ayton Symington

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Village Rector

Boston, Roberts Brothers. 1893. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with gold reference number to spine. Internally there are the remains of removed labels to front pastedown and rear endpaper, 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. 346 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: 000365

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Village Cure

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 minor marks to rear. Internally there are some small removals to the edges of two pages (probably from bad opening of previously unopened pages)but not affecting the text, age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 371 pages. Country 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: 010503

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: Comedie Humaine

BALZAC, HONORE DE

The Wild Ass's Skin

London, J. M. Dent. 1903. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Boucher. Gilt signature of Balzac on front cover with gilt decoration and title to spine on green cloth boards which have wear to spine head and tail and to corner tips, fading to spine with some marks to front. Internally there is a contemporary signarure and date to front endpaper, age darkening to endpapers and some staing to the margins of some pages. lix + 288 pages. Fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Two tissue protected engravings by W. Boucher and a photogravure portrait of Balzac by H. Crickmore. Fourth edition printed August 1903. Translated by Ellen Marriage with a preface by George Saintsbury. Uniform with Dent's series of the Comedie Humaine. Despite its faults it is a good reading copy well translated. C3A. Fair TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000373

Catalogue: Balzac, Honoré de

Keywords: French Literature Boucher

SAUERMANN , BARBARA AND KOCH, CONNIE

2/15 the Day the World Said No to War

Oakland, California, AK Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1902593855). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 224 pages. Photographs and artwork from peace demonstrations on February 15, 2003 reflect the sentiment of the approximately thirty million people who demonstrated on that day against an imminent war in Iraq. 16. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009368

Catalogue: Photography/Photographers

Keywords: Iraq War Demonstrations 1902593855

GREENE, BARBARA AND GOLLANCZ, VICTOR (COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY)

God of a Hundred Names - Prayers of Many Peoples and Creeds

London, Gollancz. 1972. (ISBN: 057500987X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy with an inscription 'Confirmation by the Bishop of Taunton at St. Mary's Church Bruton on 22nd November 1975' with 3 signatures. Dustjacket has fading, wear, repaired closed tears, creasing and is price clipped. Fifth impression. A small treasury of prayers including Hasidism, Hinduism, Manichaeism, Marduk, Neoplatanism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Stoicism, Sufism, Zoroastrianism. R1. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 008021

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Prayers from Many Religions 057500987x

BARBER, NOEL

The Daughters of the Prince

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340425393). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy with Fine pictorial dustjacket which is not price clipped. Credited as the authors last novel it was in fact unfinished at his death in 1988 and was finished by Alan Wykes who had worked with him on ideas and research for many previous novels. The novel is set in Italy just prior to World War II and is a moving story of the art world and captures the times and places admirably. NOT A BOOK CLUB COPY 21. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001823

Catalogue: Fiction - English Authors Post 1980

Keywords: Alan Wykes, Italy, Art World 0340425393

BARBER, BARRINGTON

The Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits - a Practical and Inspirational Course

London, Arcturus. 2008. (ISBN: 9781841933191). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine copy in card covers (Fine apart from writing on top edge). 206 pages. An essential book for everyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. Written by a teacher and established artist, it contains a wealth of know-how and practical advice, supported by over 300 original illustrations. The aim throughout is to help you discover your artistic purpose while giving you the necessary technical skills. A1A. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010368

Catalogue: Art / Artists / Architecture

Keywords: Portrait Drawing, Art Techniques 9781841933191

BARBER, LUKE (EDITED BY)

Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 156 2018

Lewes, East Sussex, The Sussex Archaeological Society. First. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 250 pages profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Comprises: The Cross Dykes Project Interim Report - The River Cuckmere to Eastbourne; Excavations of a Chichester Entrenchment at Lower Graylingwell, Chichester; Further Investigations East of Fishbourne Roman Palace; Archaeological Investigations at Preston Roman Villa, Brighton; An Early Roman Pottery Assemblage and Possible Clamp Kiln at Ersham Farm, Hailsham; Roman and Late Medieval /Early Post Medieval Occupation at Goddards Green, Burgess Hill; The Widow and the Ward - the Perils of the Dunstanvilles at the Turn of the 12th and 13th Centuries; A Medieval Assemblage from the Lower Barn Farmhouse, Ringmer; The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Petworth and the Work of Charles Barry; The Nelond Family, Lewes Priory and East Grinstead; The Three Gunter Family Monuments at Racton. 20. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010928

Catalogue: Sussex and Kent Interest

Keywords: Cross Dykes, Fishbourne, Preston Roman Villa, Clamp Kiln, Goddards Green, St. Mary the Virgin Petworth

BARDAKCI, MURAT

Neslishah - the Last Ottoman Princess

Cairo, The American University Press in Cairo. 2017, First. (ISBN: 9789774168376). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy. 313 pages. 107 photographs. Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdulmecid; in 1924 Abdulmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 010950

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Turkey, Prince Abdel Moneim, King Farouk 9789774168376

BARDAZZI, MARCO

In the Vineyard of the Lord - the Life, Faith and Teachings of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI

New York, Rizzoli. 2005. (ISBN: 0847828018). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. Joseph Ratzinger, who chose the name Benedict XVI after Europe's patron saint from Norcia, served as John Paul II's most trusted colleague, was the theological leader of the Congregation fot the Divinity of the Faith for almost 20 years, and was the driving force behind the Catholic Church's new Catechism. In this compelling volume, the author reviews the life of Ratzinger, from his modest youth in Bavaria to his ordination in 1951; from his participation in the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's to his nomination for archbishop and then Cardinal of Munich in 1977, to his past 25 years in the Roman Curia. The title of the book is a quote from words spoken by Pope Benedict from the balcony of Saint Peter's upon being introduced as the new pontiff. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY R6. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 006170

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal of Munich, Roman Curia, Bavaria, New Catholic Catechism 0847828018

BARDENS, DENNIS

Psychic Animals - an Investigation of Their Secret Powers

London, Robert Hale. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709029225). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this unique study, well known psychic investigator Dennis Bardens presents a persuasive body of evidence revealing and explaining remarkable feats of animal telepathy, precognition and long-distance perception. Foreword by David Bellamy. 14 illustrations. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB C3A. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 007704

Catalogue: Animals

Keywords: Animal Telepathy, Precognition, Long-Distance Perception, Sixth Sense, Esp 0709029225

BARDENS, DENNIS

Psychic Animals - an Investigation of Their Secret Powers

London, Guild. 1987. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this unique study, well known psychic investigator Dennis Bardens presents a persuasive body of evidence revealing and explaining remarkable feats of animal telepathy, precognition and long-distance perception. Foreword by David Bellamy. 14 illustrations. 1. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011292

Catalogue: Animals

BARKER, THEO

Shepherd Neame - a Story That's Been Brewing for 300 Years

Cambridge, Granta. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857570626). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The tradition of brewing quality beers from local materials in Faversham dates back to before King Stephen and Queen Matilda founded the Great Abbey in 1147. Such was the excellence of the local spring water and barley for malting that, over the ensuing centuries, a number of brewhouses were established in the area. Shepherd Neame is a descendant of one of them. The book records the development of the Company over the past 300 years. Illustrated throughout. C3F. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008337

Catalogue: Sussex and Kent Interest

Keywords: Kent Brewery. Faversham, Captain Richard Marsh, Julius Shepherd 1857570626