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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Chipped dj with some loss. A legend's mind laid bare on the...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the twilight years of Alexander Alekhine's reign as World Chess Champion, a series of games were played that stand as...

Author: Paolo Maurensig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minimal markings in grey lead. Few chess openings carry the mystique and daring of Alekhine's Defence, the provocative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the world of competitive chess are as compelling as that of Max Euwe, the mild-mannered...

Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt,...

Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark exhibition catalogue, The Search for Alexander presents a sweeping visual...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. This scholarly anthology presents a rigorous academic assessment of Alexander Zinoviev, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities have captured the imagination of Western writers and historians quite like Alexandria — and few guides...

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Fascinating and important' Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind 'Monumental and vividly imagined' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderfully entertaining' Sunday Times 'Lively and...

One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who...

Author: Paul Kingsnorth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' - Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' - London Review of Books One thousand years from...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...

Secondhand Modern Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2871 Twenty-three novels, mostly twentieth century: Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle, le Carré’s The Night Manager, Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, Waugh’s Officers and Gentlemen,...