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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, one man dared to speak truth to power — and paid a devastating price. History's Carnival is the unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedOne of the most remarkable figures in the history of Western dance tells her own story in Come Dance With Me, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA firsthand account of one of cinema's most extraordinary and ill-fated adventures, With Eisenstein in Hollywood chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwo of Elizabeth Bowen's most intimate and enduring works of non-fiction are united in this volume,...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the gates of Jersey Zoo lies a world of glorious chaos — a roaring, squawking, slithering testament...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most candid and psychologically penetrating memoirs in the English language, Father and Son chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era when press freedom was under siege and corporate power shaped the news, Günter Wallraff became...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the electric world of late 1930s New York, a young woman navigates literary ambitions, romantic entanglements, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated journalists and broadcasters comes an intimate collection of portraits that...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in Australian political history have proven as polarising, tenacious, or enigmatic as Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, the Queensland Premier who held power...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the heart of British political life for nearly half...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA life spent wrestling with the great ideological currents of the twentieth century finds vivid and unflinching expression in Reading from Left to Right:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.Few figures in human history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century music history provoke as much fascination and moral unease as Wilhelm Furtwängler, the brilliant German...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century music provoke as much fascination and reverence as Alban Berg, the Viennese composer...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stories from the Cold War era are as chilling and consequential as that of Georgi Markov — a celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the autumn of 1837, the visionary English artist Samuel Palmer embarked on a two-year journey through Italy with his new bride,...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on blue cloth. Binding remains tight. From the shadow of imperial Russia emerges...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodSpanning one of the most tumultuous periods in Russian history, From Serfdom to Bolshevism: The Memoirs of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to build a life from the wreckage of a shattered dream? Instead of a Letter is...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it truly take to resurrect a life on the page? The Biographer's Craft by Milton Lomask is an authoritative and practical guide...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when a life lived quietly and observantly finally speaks? I Forgot to Tell You is the memoir of L. E....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a moment when the moral architecture of the modern world lay in ruins, Christopher Sykes turned his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a figure of towering eccentricity and volcanic talent — a poet who declared war on mediocrity and made herself into a living...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: New in shrink wrap. At the crossroads of two worlds — the glittering salons of Paris and the revolutionary ferment of St. Petersburg...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew memoirs capture the dizzying whirl of early twentieth-century bohemian artistic life with the candour and wit found...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMikhail Lermontov — poet, soldier, and brooding genius of Russian Romanticism — burned through life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary figures of the twentieth century cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats,...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great singer stands a pianist whose artistry is felt but rarely seen — and...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped djFew literary lives burned as fiercely — or as briefly — as that of David Herbert...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire, ideology, and international intrigue, Lord Humphrey Trevelyan spent decades navigating the treacherous waters of twentieth-century diplomacy, and Diplomatic Channels...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Russian history burn as fiercely as Alexander Herzen — exile, agitator, and prophet...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group picked up her pen and began recording...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to capture a life on the page? In The Nature of Biography, distinguished...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of memory and elegy, Closing Times by Dan Davin presents a luminous collection of reminiscences centred on the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the windswept shores of the Scottish Highlands to the untamed wilderness of the Western Isles, The Rocks Remain is Gavin Maxwell's...