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Author: Henri TroyatBinding: HardbackPublished: W. H. ALLEN, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsHenri Troyat's Tolstoy chronicles the tumultuous life of one of Russia's most celebrated literary giants. This...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. Few literary lives burned as brilliantly — or as briefly — as that...

Author: Henri TroyatBinding: PaperbackPublished: MERIDIAN PRESSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography, Pushkin, chronicles the tumultuous life and enduring literary legacy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rulers in history have seized power with such audacity and wielded it with such brilliance as Catherine...

Author: Henri TroyatBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerGogol: The Biography Of A Divided Soul presents a compelling portrait of the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: glue residue on endpapers;Few literary lives burn as brilliantly—and end as tragically—as that of Alexander Pushkin, the towering genius of...

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: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. Few rulers in history have commanded power with the audacity and brilliance of...

Two of the greatest collections of Rousseau's work come together in a new exhibition that offers fresh insights into the painter's art and life The Barnes Foundation is home to...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Miller's first novel is a Penguin Modern Classic for the first time One of the most scandalous and influential books of the...

Author: Ronald AlleyBinding: HardbackPublisher: Book Club Associates, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling art history volume presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew lives embody the agonising contradictions of the Second World War more profoundly than that of Adam von Trott...

By uncovering what he claimed to be Homer's Troy and Mycenate, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) became one of the dominant personalities of his age. Yet this biography shows him to have...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear, some minor fading on edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. The World of Henri Rousseau is a richly...

In his short and eventful life Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) scandalized the conservative establishment with his paintings and lithographs depicting the music halls, circuses, brothels, and cabarets of Paris. He...

Author: Jean BouretBinding: PaperbackPublished: Thames & HudsonCondition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pagesn 249-264 manufactured upside down, light foxing to page edges, general wear to...

'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel,...

Author: Frank James PriceBinding: HardbackPublished: Louisiana State University Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrank James Price's Troy H. Middleton: A Biography...

Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,...

Edition: 1st ed., Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: boards - good. Binding - tight. DJ - worn...

Author: Henri MatisseBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1978Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clean pages. Strong board. Light foxing. Wear on corners of slipcase.This...

Author: Peter TomoryBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some slight chips to edges of DJ and some yellowing.This...

Bestselling novelist Margaret George here imagines the story of Helen of Sparta and Troy, one of the most amazing female mythical characters, ancient or modern. A war, which lasted for...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Pro Hart Format: Hardback...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback...

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work The first novel in the autobiographical Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Sexus depicts Miller's first...

Author: Michael MeyerBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe Making of a Dramatist 1828-1864; The Farewell to Poetry 1864-1882; The Top of A...

Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...

Eighty short stories by a master of the genre O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories-about con men and tricksters and "innocent"...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched outback to the weatherboard pubs of the bush, While the Billy Boils presents 87 of Henry Lawson's most celebrated prose works,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sun-scorched bush and dusty shearing sheds of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson gave voice to the larrikins, battlers, and wanderers that defined a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodNew York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does...

Horrid Henry receives a most unwelcome present . . .

Edition: Second Impression.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor tape marks to FEP and original price sticker to back of DJ.A cornerstone of biblical scholarship since its first publication,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew dynasties have captivated the historical imagination quite like the Tudors, and at the centre of their most...

From the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV show and movie, and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. ' Deary's storytelling is...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the quiet aftermath of World War II, Elizabeth Goudge's The Herb of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew works in the history of Christian literature have endured with the authority and reverence commanded by Matthew Henry's Commentary...