Search Results: Titles starting with K from Andrew James Books

Wildside Press, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In excellent condition, covers and spine crease free with only very slight bumping to corners, otherwise immaculate throughout and virtually as new. Please note postal rates will be reduced

Macdonald and Jane's, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing Very good in good unclipped dust jacket. Jacket has repaired tear to top rear edge and light rubbing along top and bottom edges. Black boards in very good condition and internally clean throughout. This is the first book in the English language that looks critically and in depth at one of the most important conductors of the twentieth century.

Evergreen Lives, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In unclipped dust jacket, red leatherette boards with gilt titles. No inscription very clean throughout. A delightful biography of Karl Marx in the Evergreen Press 'Lives' series. Reduced postal charges apply

United Kingdom: Sceptre, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In price clipped jacket, no inscription, very clean throughout. Set in Tuscany in 1936 during the time of Mussolini, Riviere's enthralling novel is about surviving under a dictatorship and retaining inner freedom, about history and stories, living a lie and telling the truth, keeping faith and betrayal. Vividly recreating a time of great drama, hardship and extreme emotion, it is a superb successor to ' Echoes of War'

Stacey International, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Light green paper covered boards with a little damage along rear top edge otherwise very good. Clean throughout. Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan at the time of writing, lays out, in this highly readable book, his detailed analysis and testament of what has guided him to guide and shape Kazakhstan and develop the nation in the future. Modern Kazakhstan is the success story of Central Asia, a country that has developed into a powerhouse both regionally and globally since separating itself from the old USSR.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. In very good condition with price clipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Internally clean throughout. This selection of his letters - witty, scandalous, intellectual, passionate - plunges the reader into the heady cultural life of his time. The selection traces the making of a scandalous intellectual persona, and a lifetime battle against the forces of convention and complacency. Never before published, the letters reveal a great range of subject and correspondent.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Covers and spine crease free immaculate throughout

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st thus, some soiling to cloth covers and faded to spine. Title label rubbed to spine generally a good reading copy. Text in English. The second volume in the Rougon Macquart cycle. Translated by A Teixeira de Mattos and taken from the text of the 1895 limited edition of 310 copies.

1st printing, signed by Denis Law to title page (without dedication) With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears , only very light creasing to top and bottom of jacket spine. The book itself is in very good + condition with only a small bump to lower front board fore edge corner, and age darkening to edges of text block. Very clean throughout.The autobiography of arguably Scotland's greatest centre forward, and part of the famous Manchester United forward line up including George Best and Bobby Charlton.

Cambridge Univ Press, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The New Cambridge Shakespeare Edition 7th prinitng. With minor handling wear to covers. One or two ink underlinings. Previous light pencil margin notes have been erased. With introduction and notes

Jonathan Cape, 1976. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket very lightly rubbed to top and lower edges but free from nicks and tears. Embossed stamp to ffep and half title otherwise clean and free from marks. The story of the succession to the leadership of the Bimbo gypsy clan following the death of King Tene Bimbo who on his deathbed appointed his successor, his grandson, Stev Tene. A move which caused hostility as the younger Tene had become 'Americanised' and urged the rest the rest of the clan to do the same and enter the modern world. Above all this a fascinating account of American Gypsy life, about a group of people who go largely unnoticed throughout America, unseen by the authorities.

London: Cresset Gollancz, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With price clipped dust jacket with some shelf wear to head and foot of spine. No inscription, text clean throughout. A novel based on the lives of Alexandre Dumas - Father and Son

Michael Joseph, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed to title page by the author NO dedication. 1st printing without dust jacket. Good condition some light rubbing to edges of boards and gilt titles to spine dulled. Internally clean other than one or two marks to a couple of pages.

Doubleday, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, free from nicks and tears. No inscription very clean throughout, with slight fade to page edges. A humorous novel based on the return of the Irish hero, Sir Roger Casement, who died a traitors death in an English gaol in 1916. Casement returns to haunt the Irish Republicans of Northern Ireland in the period before the peace talks, with the aim of knocking a few heads together and showing the terrorists the error of their ways. Carson's rich and poetic story captures both the essence of Ireland and the spirit of the times. Hilariously realized, profoundly moving, it is a novel of wit, wisdom and humanity.

U.S.A.: Faber & Faber, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, clean throughout. A rare behind the scenes view of how stars behave, filled with intimate daily detail, anecdotes, and revelations. It is also a writer's journey through the maze of the New York theater world and into the follies of Hollywood.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Spine crease free with some light handling wear to covers. Gift inscription to half title otherwise clean