Search Results: Authors starting with K from Eastleach Books

Julius Gjellerups Forlag, Københaven, 1930. 1st edition.. Hardback. Half dark blue morocco over marbled boards, VG+. 224pp, b/w illustrations, original covers bound in, an attractive copy in a fine binding. A childrens history of Denmark from Prehistoric times onwards.

Edition Axel Menges, 2007. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 224pp, colour illustrations throughout, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Text in English & German. A study of the work of the German architect Reinhard Gieselmann, noted for his housing & ecclesiastical architecture. Not happy with buildings simply neeting functioal needs, his architecture is characterised by powerful spatial effects, sophisticated handling of light & use of materials to provide interest & effects. His work always 'In Search of Style'.

Pickering & Chatto, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. 6 volumes, lxvi+305pp, vi+383pp, vi+415pp, vi+387pp, vi+408pp, vi+552pp, index for the set to volume 6, a nice fine as new set. The volumes consist of facsimile reprints of scarce pamphlets & tracts relating to the Corn Law passed in Britain in 1815 which tried to protect Bristish farmers from low prices but which instigated a Free trade movement and the begining of an economic movement in Britain.

Pickering & Chatto, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. 6 volumes, lxvi+305pp, vi+383pp, vi+415pp, vi+387pp, vi+408pp, vi+552pp, index for the set to volume 6, a nice fine as new set. The volumes consist of facsimile reprints of scarce pamphlets & tracts relating to the Corn Law passed in Britain in 1815 which tried to protect Bristish farmers from low prices but which instigated a Free trade movement & the begining of an economic movement in Britain.

Honore Champion, Paris, 1933. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. viii+329pp, covers a little foxed, internally fine. Collection de Manuels Publiée par l’Institut d’Études Slaves volume III. Overview of the history of Common law amongst the Slavic people. The opening chapters cover the early history before the foundation of the main Slavic countries & the latter chapters give a country by country legal history. Covers Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia & the defunct Republic of Ragusa.

Continuum, 2000. 2nd edition, revised.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 313pp, b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. New. Updated edition which includes Stone's newer films, Nixon & U Turn. The book charts Stones directing career, starting with Salvador. The first chapter covers his non directorial efforts as a script writer.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. xii+140pp, 2 b/w maps, index, a fine copy. A translation, with lengthy introduction & related appendices, of the basic charters which form the foundation of the Catalan Constitutions. Combining Visigothic & Roman law fragments with ecclesiastic & local laws from the Barcelona Courts they were compiled and codified by Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona [ 1035 - 1076 ].

Jonathan Cape, 1945. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. [x]+700pp, index, cloth a little rubbed & marked, occasional underlining in coloutred pencil, a solid reading copy. 'An attempt of write history as the biography of man, and from it gain a view of the future of man' - the first line of the introduction.

Aedibus A Franke, Berne, 1950. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 95pp, 2 b/w maps, index, cloth a little rubbed. Dissertationes Bernenses, series 1 ; fasicule. 2. A study of the Parthian prince Artabanus III who competed against his brother Pacorus II for the Parthian crown from 79 to 81 AD.

Gos. Uchebno-pedagog. Izd-vo, Moskva, 1949. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, G+. 503pp, b/w illustrations, pages tanned, covers a little marked, a solid copy. A handbook to Russian Literature, covering all aspects of the subject from its origins in Russian Folklore to the 18th century.

The Himalayan Institute Press, 2001. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 233pp, a fine copy. Good introductory text to the teachings of Vedanta, the realisation that all Human life is Divine.

Muzeum Okregowe W Rzeszowie, 1976. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, F. unpaginated, 1 linocut illustration, 1 originall linocut illustration laid in, copy 86 of 100 on Hosho-shi Japanese paper. SIGNED by the artist. POLISH text. small bookplate on tissue dustjacket. The piece of original artwork is a small linocutof a fish, signed in pencil, approx 2" square.

University of Toronto Press, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. xii+322pp, index, a fine copy. Study of the Book Of Reykjahólar, which is a translation of 25 Saint's lives into Icelandic from a German original. Completed in 1531 The book was the work of Björn þorleifsson and several of the lives he translated are now apocryphal.

University of Toronto Press, 1996. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. xii+322pp, index, a fine copy. Study of the Book Of Reykjahólar, which is a translation of 25 Saint's lives into Icelandic from a German original. Completed in 1531 The book was the work of Björn þorleifsson and several of the lives he translated are now apocryphal.

Rapp & Whiting, 1968. 1st English edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+144pp, index, a nice fine copy in a slightly rubbed dustjacket. The first book to look at the political legacy left by Hitler & the Nazi party. The author examined & looked for traces of Nazi Ideology in Post war Germany & found that it was more widespread than he had imagined. The first book to offer an interpretation of Hitler & his ideaology in the context of the history of thought.

Princeton University Press, 2003. 1st edition.. Hardback. Laminated boards, F. xiv+265pp, text figs, a fine copy. New. Annals Of Mathematic Studies volume 154. The book offers the first asymptotic analysis, via completely integrable techniques, of the initial value problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the semiclassical asymptotic regime.

T V Boardman, 1964. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 160pp, a nice fine copy. American Bloodhound Mystery number 468. A Peter Chambers caper.

Berg, Oxford, 1991. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, VG+. xii+256pp, index, edges a little bumped otherwise a fine copy. A collection of 15 essays on East German literature.

Kegan Paul International, 1989. 1st English edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 139pp, a nice fine as new copy. First English edition of a leading Korean novel, set in a rural fishing village.

Aubier, Éditions Montaigne, Paris, 1947. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 237pp, paper a little yellowed & spine laikewise, a good copy. Translations into French of 8 short tracts by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant [ 1724 - 1804 ], including 'Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment', 'Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose', 'The Contest of Faculties', etc etc