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Pictorial Chinese-Japanese Characters: A New And Fascinating Method To Learn Ideographs
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor anyone determined to unlock the visual logic behind one of the world's most complex writing systems, Pictorial Chinese-Japanese Characters: A New and Fascinating...
The Madonna of The Mountains
Author: Elise Valmorbida Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father has left the village to find her a husband. He has taken his mule, a...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers...
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing...
Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
This book examines the oevre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two...
The Rossetti Letter
$10.00 AUD
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. A description of our secondhand...
A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the...
Caravan to Vaccarès
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markings"Caravan to Vaccares" is a British thriller that follows a mysterious convoy of gypsies travelling through the south of France,...
War In Val D'Orcia: A Diary
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Ex library edition with usual markings. Binding: Intact. A gripping firsthand account of life in wartime...
The Last Attachment: The Story Of Byron And Teresa Guiccioli As Told In Their Unpublished Letters And Other Family Papers
$30.00 AUD
Author: Iris OrigoBinding: HardbackPublished: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained book block. The acclaimed historical work The Last Attachment:...
Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella
Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with...
An Impossible Woman: The Memories Of Dottoressa Moor Of Capri
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding condition: Intact. Stickers/labels: None visible. A remarkable work of memoir and biography, An Impossible...