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Published by Williams Collins Sons & Co Litd and the Harvill Press Ltd, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0002624575ISBN 13: 9780002624572
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. Dust jacket unclipped but some small closed tear to edges. Black cloth with silver titles to spine. Previou owner's name to upper FFEP. 64 pages clean and tightly bound. Jacket design by Ronald Clark. Photograph by Robert Harding. Size: 8vo.
Published by Harvill Press and William Collins and Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0002721155ISBN 13: 9780002721158
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. XXII, 282 pages, last blank, acknowledgements, chronological table, maps of China's boundaries, note on Chinese names and terms, preface by author, notes, illustration credits and index. Map illustrated frontispiece, showing China and her various borders. Illustrated title page by Patrick Trocktor. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white and coloured photography, reproductions of contemporary illustrations, paintings and sculpture, maps and paintings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Bumping into the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners. The spine is very slightly cocked. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese dragon as drawn by Ean Taylor, photographic back dustwrapper panel. Green and white writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and there is crinkling to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. A few marks to the dustwrapper. On the lower right-hand corner of the front panel there has been a sticker placed at an angle stating " A Channel Four Book ". A book about China, its history, social life and Customs and most of all its people. The book is based upon a Channel Four documentary series of the same name. This is the first UK edition. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Social History; Art -- History and Theory; History -- China; China; ISBN: 0002721155. ISBN/EAN: 9780002721158. Inventory No: 0105185.
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Published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd/Harvill Press, London UK, 1983
ISBN 10: 0002166623ISBN 13: 9780002166621
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 288 pages incl. index. Red background dustjacket with only light wear to edges. Very light wear to spine-ends, leading edge of back board has a few very small dents o/w book is in very clean condition. Colour plates & B&W illustrations.
Published by Collins Harvill (William Collins & Sons & Co. Ltd), London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0002710307ISBN 13: 9780002710305
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
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Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. Translated from the Turkish by Thilda Kemal.
Published by Harvill Press / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 000272748XISBN 13: 9780002727488
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£9.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 208pp, illustrated. Holmes's autobiographical account of the missing years between the Reichenbach Falls and turning up in Watson's study alive and well three years later.
Published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd / The Harvill Press, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 0002625075ISBN 13: 9780002625074
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Alan Peacock (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 2" creased tear to bottom back jacket, some scratches to folds, corners rubbed with small loss, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 223pp. A biography and memoir of Boris Pasternak by Alexander Konstantinovich Gladkov (1912-76), Russian playwright, theatrical impresario and author.
Published by Collins Harvill/William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London,, 1990
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, full-cloth with gilt spine titles; 946pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; some spotting to the cloth; lightly scuffed text block edges and top edge dusted. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Collins Harvill / William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1988
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean black cloth on boards with silver titles. Edges: light touch of foxings. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 164p Dj: light dusting of soiling and rubbing.
Published by London-Glasgow-Sydney, Collins Harvill [William Collins Sons & Co Ltd] 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0002720868ISBN 13: 9780002720861
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
Book
Original publisher's black cloth hardback, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large thick 8vo: frontispiece portrait, xxviij, 944pp, [ij], 102 illustrations, acknowledgements, abbreviations, list illustrations, afterword, glossary, chronology, notes & references, list of 100 works on the Russian Revolution, index, textual acknowledgements, about the author. Untrimmed.
Published by Collins Harvill / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0002720949ISBN 13: 9780002720946
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.00), small gift inscription to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks hardly read. 441pp, illustrated endpapers. Count Helmuth James von Moltke was an authentic German hero. A brilliant young Oxford educated international lawyer, he was in 1939 a rising star in the German Foreign Ministry and passionately opposed to Hitler. Unable, by faith and political foresight, to condone the use of violence in the struggle against the Nazis, he turned his formidable political and lawyerly talents loose in two great campaigns. By wielding his expertise in law like a bureaucratic monkey wrench to counter the deportation and murder of Jews and the execution of captured prisoners, he saved thousands of lives. And, as the war dragged on, he brought together in secret the best possible minds among fellow resisters to plan the new Germany that would have to be ready when chaos and defeat overtook Hitler. Almost every day that he was separated from his young wife, Freya, he wrote to her, vivid detailed, remarkable letters about all he saw, all he knew, all he was doing. Betrayed and arrested in 1944, he wrote her his extraordinary farewell on the morning of his execution in 1945. Quite a scarce book.
Published by Collins / Harvill Press / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0002710315ISBN 13: 9780002710312
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Gustave Moreau (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'With best wishes from Nicholas Shakespeare, November 1989'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded, not price clipped (£11.95), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 250pp. In the Amazon city of Belen in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember, Elena Silves the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since. But the old men remember something else. They remember that Elena had been in love at the time with Gabriel, a student revolutionary who became the most wanted man in Belen. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harvill Press / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 000272362XISBN 13: 9780002723626
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE 'Mrs Ramsey - With good wishes from Arthur Tarnowski'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight yellowing to extremities and spine of largely white jacket with photo of the author seated in his wheelchair on the back of a pony, being led up a snowy mountain, folds and corners very slightly rubbed. Not price clipped (£3.25), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 320pp, illustrated. The extraordinary autobiography of the indomitable Count Arthur Tarnowski (1930-2012), Polish aristocrat, founder of charities and author. As a child, he served as an messenger boy for the Polish underground Home Army and narrowly escaped death after his country fell under the Soviet yoke. After the war he moved to Britain where, having contracting polio in 1958, he became paralysed from the waist down. Despite his disability, in 1964 he embarked on a two year, 94,000 mile expedition in order to assess the situation of the handicapped around the world. His travels took him across the Himalayas, into remote Nuristan and on to Anandwan in Central India where, inspired by Baba Amte, a famous Indian social activist, he founded a charity, Take Heart India, which provides education and vocational training to the physically handicapped, and established several homes. When Tarnowski expressed a wish to go to the summit of Amarnath, the 17,000ft mountain in Kashmir, he was strapped, still in his wheelchair, onto a pony. As they made the ascent, 'my wheelchair kept slipping backwards, and Jocelyn had to keep making adjustments' (jacket photo). Extremely scarce signed. It had taken Tarnowski three years to raise the funds needed for his expedition, but in July 1964 he finally set off in a specially converted Austin Gypsy with Jocelyn Cadbury, a scion of the chocolate family (and later a Conservative MP). They travelled through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and India, then on to Thailand and Japan. Signed by Author(s).