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Beautiful reissue of this unique classic collection, featuring a newly translated essay not included in previous collections 'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and...

Author: Roland Barthes, R. HowardBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977, First English EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book offers an insightful exploration of the works and ideas of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds turns his gaze upon an entirely foreign...

Barthes and the Empire of Signs follows him in exploring the nature of 'representation' itself. Is it possible to reconcile appearance and reality? Or imaginative recreation and fact? How do...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and philosophy, Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed...

The Artful Eye Bargain Book Box T J Clark on art and politics. A forensic study of how a chair is actually built. The feuds that shaped art history. And...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew artists of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination and controversy as Balthus — the enigmatic, aristocratic painter who spent decades...

The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the author's life can tell us nothing about his or...

Author: Vin DarrochBinding: PaperbackPublished: LothianCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image-

Author: Hermann Hesse & Romain RollandBinding: HardbackPublished: Oswald Wolff, Humanities Press, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume presents the profound intellectual exchange between two Nobel laureates,...

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. It is a guided tour of the people...

Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations...

Author: Ellis WaterhouseBinding: HardbackPublished: PHAIDON, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis richly detailed study maps the flourishing world of Roman Baroque painting through its artists, commissions,...

Author: Bertrand RussellBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1946Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards show yellowing with...

Secondhand Psychology & Ethics Bargain Book Box SP4296 Twenty-one psychology and philosophy paperbacks, many in vintage Pelican and Penguin editions: Jung’s Man and His Symbols, Laing’s Divided Self, Berne’s Games...

Discusses the life and work of Hungarian violinist Zoltan Szekely, who gained fame as the leader of the Hungarian String Quartet, and explores his working relationship with composer Bela Bartok

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated art monograph, The Baroque World of Fernando Botero presents a comprehensive examination of the Colombian master's singular...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of art and politics in twentieth-century Europe stands Romain Rolland — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, pacifist, and one of France's most...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears but some chipping. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A sweeping and authoritative biography, this work chronicles the...

BARTLETT'S WORDS FOR THE WEDDING is an essential resource for anyone planning a wedding ceremony or renewing vows. Comprising passages from Plato, Sappho, Shakespeare, Shelley, Auden, Rilke, and many others,...

Author: Laurence WhistlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Art & Technics Limited; B. T. Batsford Limited, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the creative genius...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists in Western history command the draftsmanship and raw expressive power of Peter Paul Rubens, and this...

A young queen who rules seven kingdoms is far too busy and important to leave her palace, so her loyal subjects send gifts from far and wide: monkeys, flamingoes, giraffes,...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning, some foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few accounts of artistic...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Note: fep missing, damaged front pastedown - otherwise internally sound. Clean and bright copy. At the intersection of towering intellect and profound...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew vessels have sailed through history with as much resilience and romance as the iron-hulled barque Polly Woodside — also known as the...

Author: Peter LalorBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin., 2010Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ. Signed by Ron...

The book titled The Australian Light Horse by the author Roland Perry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Secondhand Poetry & Drama Bargain Book Box SP4155 Twenty volumes of poetry and plays, with six Shaws and Eliots in the original Penguin and Faber editions, Four Quartets in the...

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Secondhand Drama & Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119 Twenty-four Penguin plays and classics: Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinter, Miller’s Crucible, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Wilde, Ben Jonson, Thornton Wilder, Richard II, three volumes of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: FEP missing.In an era when polyphonic grandeur met mathematical precision,...

Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When...

This comprehensively illustrated volume tells the story of two people - Sandra Bardas (nee Smorgon) and David Bardas - who inherited from their parents a deep appreciation of the visual...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 a vivid and engrossing novel. Patricia Rolfe, Bulletin...

Masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Domenichino, Giambattista Tiepolo and Francesco Guardi feature in this detailed catalogue of Baroque and later paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. The collection of Italian,...

'He has everything - pleasantry, seriousness, reason, vigour, pathos, eloquence of every kind' Voltaire A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling...

The book titled Barchester Towers: Includes the Warden And Barchester Towers by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Barchester Chronicles by the author Anthony Trollope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.