Search Results: Titles starting with A from KALAMOS BOOKS

Athens: Kauffmann, 1945 Book. Illus. by Photographs Dimitris Harissiades. Very Good. Original Wraps. 3rd.ed.. Vintage guide to the Acropolis with photographs by Dimitris Harissiades. Issued by Kauffmann, Bookseller & Publisher, 28 Churchill St Athens.,in 1945, a year when Athens was perhaps still not much frequented by tourists, and from an address reflecting recent political events. 18p. illus & fold out plan + advertising pages.[4 copies fund in WorldCat].

Toronto: Panarcadian Federation of Canada, 1988 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus.. Publication celebrating the first PanArcadian Convention and the 29th Panarkadiki Omospondia Kanada held 24-31 July 1988, Tripoli,Arkadias Produced by the Arcadian community in Toronto. Includes sponsorship pages from Greek businesses and organizations. Unpaginated [NO copies found in WorldCat].

Jerusalem: Ariel, 1992 Book. Fine. Soft cover. A selection of articles on art, literature, music and culture in Israel This issue has a nice article on Sephardic " ketubot" - the lovely illuminated marriage contract documents.96p. illus [some col] .

New York: Signet, 2003 Book. Very Good. Pbk. First Pbk. Amy Armstrong doesn't enjoy being sold off to a prosperous farmer like a prized cow at a county fair. But what choice other than marriage has she when he's the only man willing to take in a woman with no dowry and a dependant mother? Certainly no one as beautiful as Amy wants to be plunged into abject poverty. Far from being left with no options, Amy indeed has a way out that she could never have imagined. Even if it is by force. A secret suitor with a secret past has her all to himself in the comfort of his carriage. Now, a simple trip to London is about to be delayed by a passionate man with a team of horses, a whip, and an irreversible mission-a savior who's whisking Amy away on the ride of a lifetime, with a slight detour of the heart..

Nicosia: Press and Information Office, 2004 Book. New. Soft cover. Information about Cyprus provided through the work of the various government departments as well as about the people, their history and culture, and the Cyprus .

Athens: Greece: Ministry of Press and Mass Media, 1999 Book. As New. French Wraps. Facsimile Edition.. Comprehensive official guide to modern Greece [ISSN 1108--4871] issued annually. 530p. illus.tables.

London: Arrow, 1975 Book. Fair > Good. Pbk.. Reprint. Childhood memories of growing up in a typical small corner grocer's shop in a Cheshire town in the years before the Second World War.192p. Text neat and complete but title page missing, scuffed covers.

New York : William Morrow & Co, 1983 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. These are the stories of nine men, all in their thirties, all moderately successful and all from New England ... nine versions of the same vision. Ninemen at the crossroads, all attempting to go on' s essfyll s none man ESE ARE THE STORIS OF NNE MEN .

New York: HarperCollins, 2001 Book. As New. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof. Cal Cunninghman has always fantasized about being a novelist. But at twenty-five, he's far from realizing his dream. Newly arrived in Manhattan, he toils as a bookstore stockboy, lives in a dire neighborhood, and never seems to write anything. How curious, then, that Cal should shortly publish a rollicking autobiographical novel that shoots to the top of bestseller lists and sells to the movies for a million dollars.[here is] Cal's first-person account of how he achieved this remarkable feat. A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success. Deception, blackmail and murder all play a role in Cal's desperate bid to hold onto that success. A wickedly funny psychological thriller that not only casts a knowing eye on the excesses of the current Manhattan publishing world, but touches on deeper themes of literary envy, identity, guilt, and… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 2001 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Ed.. Cal Cunninghman has always fantasized about being a novelist. But at twenty-five, he's far from realizing his dream. Newly arrived in Manhattan, he toils as a bookstore stockboy, lives in a dire neighborhood, and never seems to write anything. How curious, then, that Cal should shortly publish a rollicking autobiographical novel that shoots to the top of bestseller lists and sells to the movies for a million dollars.[here is] Cal's first-person account of how he achieved this remarkable feat. A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success. Deception, blackmail and murder all play a role in Cal's desperate bid to hold onto that success. A wickedly funny psychological thriller that not only casts a knowing eye on the excesses of the current Manhattan publishing world, but touches on deeper themes of literary envy, identity, guilt, and the fatal… Read More

Pescara IT: Carsa Edizion, 6 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 3rd Edition. "Le citta, i paesi,l'arte, i monumenti, la natura, per scopire e conoscere la regione piu verde d'Europa" A comprehensive well illustrated guide to Abruzzi 383p. illus. maps, index.Heavy volume [900gr].

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret. .

London: Penguin, 1987 Book. Fine. Pbk.. "Brilliant, witty and stimulating modern Platonic dialogues that portray a fanatical young Plato and a wise, old Socrates discussing the problems of the twentieth century" Art and Eros had its debut at the National Theatre Platform performance 1980.131p..

New York: Zebra Books, 2004 Book. Fine. Pbk.. 1st Pbk Edition. At twenty-four, Miss Phillida Morgan is comfortable in her spinsterhood. Yet if she must wed, she intends to choose well. Alas, most of the ton's candidates are bores, poseurs, or both. So Phillida enlists her abigail's assistance, for who better to gauge a man's character than his servants? But her strategy flies out the window when she encounters handsome Lucas Strathedene, a legendary rake who is definitely not marriage material. If only he weren't possessed of a delicious wit. If only she could remain sensible and rein in her runaway heart..

Toronto: Pocket Books., 1973 Book. Good>Very Good. Pbk. Reprint.

London: Century, 2003 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... Set in Vespasian's Rome. yet another adventure involving the detecting skills of Marcus Didius Falco (and Helena) 283p..

London: Arrow Books, 2003 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. Another adventure involving the detecting skills of Marcus Didius Falco (and Helena).

Athens: Arlekin, 2010 Book. New Book from Greece. Pbk.. Harlequin romance - Chryssa Special series #218.

Corfu: Voula Papathanassiou, 1991 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Illustrated guide to the Achilleion, Corfu, built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria..

Athens: Kedros (Modern Greek Writers), 1991 Book. Illus. by [Translated By Gail Holst-Warhaft]. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Thus.. The scene is Paris, sometime after the 1967 military coup in Greece. Eleni, together with a group of her friends and fellow political exiles, finds herself working as an extra in a French film: The Horror Train. It is not the first time Eleni has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a "horror train." As the director waves his arms, shouting directions and re-shouting the sequence, Eleni's mind wanders to her first train ride: "Athens-Piraeus. My first big trip by train. - You're Eleni? I'm Achilles. They don't ask which Achilles. One name is enough." For the rest of her life, Eleni will be "Achilles' Fiancee," fiancee of the guerilla leader, the brave, handsome kapetanios whose code-name is Achilles. In the demonstrations against the German occupiers of Greece, in prison where she waits for a… Read More