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Promise at Dawn
A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic 'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,...
The Roots Of Heaven
$30.00 AUD
Author: Romain GaryBinding: HardbackPublished: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1958Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe novel The Roots of Heaven presents a...
King Solomon
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodParis hums with forgotten lives, and none is more quietly desperate than that of Jeannot, a young man adrift in the city who falls...
Promise At Dawn: A Memoir
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew memoirs capture the ferocity of a mother's love and its lifelong consequences with the raw,...
The Kites
A major rediscovered classic- a bittersweet, sweeping story of love, courage and resistance in wartime France A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with...
Lady L.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale' In the...
Hermann Hesse & Romain Rolland: Correspondence, Diary Entries And Reflections, 1915 To 1940
$120.00 AUD
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,...
Romain Rolland And The Politics Of Intellectual Engagement
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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...
The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects Of Roman Literary Tradition In Sixteenth-Century France
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of literary scholarship, The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France examines the profound...
Romola
One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels and the one she thought her best One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance...
Appointments In Rome
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Author: George SavaBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAppointments In Rome chronicles a series of compelling encounters within the Eternal City, presenting...
Roma
Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most...
The Gallican Saint's Life And The Late Roman Dramatic Tradition
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. At the crossroads of late antiquity and early medieval Christianity, The Gallican...
A Roman Journal
$35.00 AUD
Author: StendhalBinding: HardbackPublished: THE ORION PRESS LIMITED, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsA Roman Journal presents Stendhal's vivid observations and personal reflections on the Eternal City during his...
Notes From A Roman Terrace
Joan Marble has lived in a 16th century Roman Palazzo apartment with husband Robert, a sculptor, for thirty years. A lifetime of integrating with the Romans and gardening on her...
Romantic Garden
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...
Baroque and Later Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum
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,...
Secondhand Historical & Action Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4126
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Historical & Action Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4126 Twenty historical and action novels, half hardback: Wilbur Smith’s Nemesis, Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror, two Simon Scarrows, two Dan Joneses, Bernard Cornwell’s...
Secondhand Anne McCaffrey & Dragons Bargain Book Box SP4153
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand Anne McCaffrey & Dragons Bargain Book Box SP4153 Twenty-three dragon fantasies, with the Pern series at the centre: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums, Moreta, Get Off...
Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with
'By one of the great psychologists of our time, a book that shows us how we can answer the universal questions that define our lives: Can I succeed? Do I...
A Quentin Tarantino Dictionary: An A-Z of the iconic director and his
Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to "Zed's dead, baby" and everything in between. With hundreds of entries...
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany
A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner...
The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance
Love will find a way - 19 fantastic future-set romances. The good news is, in the future there will be no shortage of romance. On space ships, on newly-colonized planets...