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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe eighteenth century was an age of revolution — not only political, but visual — and Graphic Art...

One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Western intellectual history cast...

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**Few works in the Western literary canon carry the weight of a...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

Author: John HouseBinding: HardbackPublished: Art Exhibition Australia, 1994Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biographical work chronicles the life and artistic evolution of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a pivotal figure in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Cover protected in plastic sleeve. Light rubbing on spine. Binding remains...

This is a vivid and highly readable account of the most complex and disturbing series of events in French history since the Revolution, which makes use of literature and films...

The book titled Sartre: A Life by the author Solal Annie Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The luxurious volume En Passant par la Demeure is a vivid photographic tour of the noted French interior designer Jean-Loup Daraux's country home. Located in the south of France, in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBorn into the glittering Habsburg court of Vienna and thrust onto the treacherous stage of Versailles, Marie Antoinette remains one of history's most captivating and tragic...

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Author: Louis Adhémar Timothée Le GolifBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical adventure...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. Few lives have burned with such romantic intensity as that of François-René de...

Edition: No. 61 of 90 copies. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. ** GERMAN TEXT ONLY**. Three softback catalogues in a...

Author: Annie Cohen-SolalBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear and marks to cloth cover; some tanning...

Author: Jeanne DelaisBinding: HardbackPublished: Paris-Match, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: FRENCH TEXT ONLY.Jeanne Delais's Alfred De Musset presents a comprehensive biographical and critical examination of the...

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Poetry that explores our "post-truth" society, NMLCT holds up a mirror not only to nature, but also to its unnatural distortions and facsimiles. Imagine The Matrix retold by the reanimated...

JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world...

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In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past - and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic new...

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An insightful, honest and funny journey around the globe and into the heart. Eat Pray Love meets Want . Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir...

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JACK TAYLOR WOKE UP. HE WISHED HE HADN'T. In the private-detective business, you get on the wrong side of some dangerous people. For Galway investigator Jack Taylor, that meant a...

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