Rochester, New York: D.S. Brewer, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Half-inch tear to rear board base, board corners bumped.
ix, 247 pp. Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rear board lightly soiled.
342 pp. Collection of critical and analytical scholarly essays on the music of Ravel by prominent scholars. Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by.....
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Board corners bumped.
260 pp. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an.....
Rye Brook, New York: Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2022. Rackham, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Fine.
126 pp. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Charles Dickens' timeless novella, A Christmas Carol, is a ghost story that celebrates the Christmas spirit through its iconic characters -- Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts.....
Ludlow: Classical Comics Ltd., 2022. Collins, Mike; Roach, David; Offredi, James; Wiley, Terry. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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157, [3] pp. One Christmas Eve, after being particularly cruel to his employee, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley.....
New York/London: Harper / Voyager, 2020. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprints. Lacks slipcase. The Burning God: UK edition; page ridges smudged.
530, 6; 636; 658 pp. Three volume set. When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Carey and Hart, 1844. Large Hardcover.
Volume I: Joints repaired with tape. All volumes: Spine wear, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pages foxed.
cxix, 455; viii, 589; xv, 584 pp. Three volume set. Francis Bacon, (born January 22, 1561, York House, London, England—died April 9, 1626, London), lord.....
New York: Vintage International, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Fine.
287 pp. "A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The.....
New York: Vintage Books, 1961. Trade Paperback.
Edges and covers rubbed, front cover creased, pages toned.
xv, 783 pp. Ulysses by James Joyce tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially.....
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Minor general wear.
xxvi, 523 pp. Come along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land and other locales renowned in history.....
New York: The Modern Library, 2001. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. Pages toned.
xxxii, 350 pp. ‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are.....
New York: Anchor Books, 2002. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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127 pp. As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man.....
New York: Vintage International, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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348 pp. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career.....
New York: Vintage International, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Ink note on dedication page verso.
120 pp. "A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of.....
Orlando, Florida: Harvest / Harcourt, 1962. Trade Paperback.
Ink underlining.
287 pp. First published in 1934, George Orwell’s first novel 'Burmese Days', presents a devastating portrayal of British colonial rule, inspired by his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. The story describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry.....
New York: Grove Press, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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176 pp. Author's first novel. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator.....