Literature from Lansdowne Books

Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Pages tight and very clean and sound with minimal wear. Overall a fine copy. Subjects Mar, M. Elaine, 1966- | Chinese American women -- Biography. | Chinese Americans -- Biography. | Denver (Colo.) -- Biography. | Hong Kong (China) -- Biography.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

JUSTINE Folio Society. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Folio Society, New York 2008 Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing Justine, first published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Justine is one of four interlocking novels which each tell various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from various points of view. The quartet is set… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket.

Toi & Moi by Paul Geraldy, Paris 1947; Limited Edition no.1384 printed on Velin Chiffon Paper with frontispiece and thirty-three colour illustrations by Georges Lepape. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text is in French. Leather boards with gilt title and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpages. Shelf wear on leather edges [see photos ] with pages clean and tight. Overall… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Summary : After two years in their barely comfortable stable in San Casciano, Marlena and Fernando de Blasi know it's time to move on. They are looking for a home… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy. Contents: The Letters I Marina's Afterword 243 Postscript 252 Chronology 255 Slava's Amnesty International case-file 257 Amnesty's letter-writing campaigns 262 Acknowledgements 264.Consists of correspondence mainly between the English antiquarian… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy. British Great War fund-raising… Read more about this item

Ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red; gilt back. Pages clean and tight and bright. A very good copy in publisher's board slip-case with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured illustrations (a number double- or full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps. With the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not… Read more about this item

First UK Edition First Impression. English translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry. As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. A fine copy. When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan,… Read more about this item

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

Hardback Near Fine. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket. This book is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning artist, Bagram Ibatoulline. This lovely first printing of this award-winning book is protected in a Brodart cover.

Cloth cover with pages clean and tight and 249 marginal sketches. Dust jacket (price-clipped) with a few chips and now in a protective sleeve. A light hearted autobiography.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective mylar. First Edition, First Printing Illustrated with both colour and b/w photographs. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: F. D/J protected in mylar. Heavy book, black line-embossed cloth boards, embossed title at top front, very bright gilt lettering at spine. Uncut quality pages clean and tight. 1st US. (Originally published in Italian, 1957, a First Thus) New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Velokhonsky. Includes translation… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Stated Collector's First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Leather Bound with gilt lettering. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges for this milled edition. The endpapers of moire fabric with silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines with pages clean and tight. A fine collector's copy. This… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Introduction. Book is divided into 2 sections: The Obstacles and How They Ran. 327 pp. plus: List of Illustrations (326), List of Colour Plates (32), Acknowledgments, Notes, Index. Subjects: Kauffman, Angelica. Goncharova, Natalia 1881-1962. Valadon, Suzanne 1865-1938.… Read more about this item

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Cloth boards with red and white lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Illustrator: Nick Bantock. A delightful book a part mystery and a part romance and a complete work of art. But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How… Read more about this item