Search Results: Europe from Books of the World

New York: Minotaur Books, March 2015. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Giftable. x+294 pages. Olen Steinhauer's most intimate, most cerebral, and most shocking novel.

New York: Minotaur Books, March 2015. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Pristine inside and out. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x+294 pages. Olen Steinhauer's most intimate, most cerebral, and most shocking novel.

Cologne: Konemann, 1998. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not clipped. A beautiful volume, suitable for gifting. 463 pages. The collision of American innocence with European experience. Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de Vionnet. As the summer wears on, Mrs. Newsome comes to the conclusion that she must send another envoy to Paris to confront the errant Chad, and a Strether whose view of the world has changed profoundly. James' favorite novel and one of the greatest of his late works, "The Ambassadors" is a subtle and often witty exploration of… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light reading and shelfwear to covers. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 336 pages. Mintz's classic study of the lives of Andalusian campesinos who were swept up by one of the 20th century's pivotal social movements provided a new framework for understanding the tragic events that tilted Spain toward civil war.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, June 1996. Hardcover. Second Printing Before Publication (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 303 pages. Bennett is an English expatriate living in France with a champagne taste and a beer bankroll. Happy-go-lucky and a bit roguish, he places an ad in the International Herald Tribune offering his services -- any services. He pursues a response from a wealthy Englishman named Julian Poe who has developed a means of producing truffles and is close to cornering the immensely lucrative truffle market. Bennett signs on and finds himself in Monaco, where he is able to live in a style to which he has always wished to become accustomed. Soon the Sicilian and Corsican Mafiosi intrude and Bennett is joined by the beautiful and experienced (in all ways) Anna. Ham-fisted goons, gendarmes working at cross purposes, French village… Read More

London: Hachette / Orion, October 2016. Paperback. First Paperback Edition, first printing / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. Not clipped. 48 pages. Julius Caesar has finished writing the history of his campaigns in Gaul. His publisher, Libellus Blockbustus, foresees a huge success ... but there's a snag. The chapter about Caesar's defeats by the indomitable Gauls of Armorica. Cut it, Blockbustus advises, and everyone will believe that Caesar conquered all Gaul! Or will they? Newsmonger and activist Confoundtheirpolitix takes the chapter to Asterix's village. Can the Gauls make sure the truth is revealed?

London: Hakluyt Society, 2001. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Securely bound with two clean staples in heavy paper wraps. Not from a library. 24 pages, 11 figures. Lecture Delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Hakluyt Society, 4 July 2000.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, August 2004. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated). Blue linen over boards with gilt titles to spine. Gorgeous map endpapers. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Small stain to first page, otherwise interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket has light soiling to corners from reading. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 576 pages. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of love-between men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies. It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people-Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent-whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial… Read More

Surrey, Great Britain: Dragon's World Children's Books, March 1995. Hardcover in pictorial covers. Near Fine book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 81 pages. Illustrated

New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Near Fine. Interior lightly tanned, appears unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light crease at front hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 509 pages.

New York: Viking, 1956. Paperback. Thirteenth printing, December 1967. Good. Interior unmarked. Heavy reading wear. A nice reading copy. No library markings. 358 pages. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Press, May 1998. Flat signed by author on title page. First Edition / second printing. Very Good book in Fine jacket. Foxing to edges. Text pristine. Binding square and tight. Corners sharp. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 207 pages.Since his marriage to an Iowan ten years ago, Richard, Lord Acton has divided his time between England and Iowa. Much of his American life is spent writing the historical studies and whimsical observations of the worlds around him that have endeared him to Iowans. This collection of Acton's essays reflects the rich diversity of the author's interests and experiences. The first chapter, "Finding Myself in Iowa, " concerns the author's attempts to discover what on earth he was doing in the heartland of America and his growing affection for his adopted state. "London Bridges" describes something of the other half of the author's life in "the greatest city in the world." Other chapters invoke a southern… Read More

New York: Bantam Classic, March 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing, August 1981. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 122 pages. The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan.

Kaunas, Lithuania: Naujasis Lankas, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. No remainder mark. Not from a library. 327 pages. A collection of memories of sixteen Lithuanians, exiled to Siberia in their infancy or childhood - young victims of Stalin's genocide. 327 pages.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2002. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not a remainder. Not clipped. 96 pages.

London: Doubleday, March 2002. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, light edgewear to jacket, otherwise fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 479 pages. When Mado returns to Le Devin, a tiny island caught like a crab in the shallow seas of northern France, she brings with her an air of energy and change that ruffles the crusty local fisherman.

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, January 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Third Printing. Near Fine. Half-inch dog-ear to lower front corner, otherwise As New. Original bookseller's price sticker on back cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 396 pages.

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1992. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Third Printing. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 271 pages.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, May 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition. As new. No remainder mark. 228 pages. A concise, illustrated history of Great Britain over nearly three centuries since the union with Scotland in 1707. The general theme is the interaction of state and society--specifically the interplay of parliament and the electorate. The author argues that conservative politics prevailed largely in a deeply conservative society, and that reactionary causes generally obtained more support than radical campaigns.

Toronto: Random House Canada, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Fine. Black remainder dot to bottom edge. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. 304 pages. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.