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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. Silver title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear or bumping. Second impression September 1963 (first was August 1963). 23 0 pages. 5 illustrations. Translated from the Italian by Evelyn Gendel. Sister Virginia Maria was an Italian nun. She gave birth to two children fathered by a local… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape/The Book Society, 1948. A Very Good + copy unmarked.The author is the pseudonym of Mark Alexandrovich Landau (1889-1957) a Russian emigre noted for his historical novels, who lived in France, Germany and the USA. In this work, originally entitled 'Istoki', he presents a picture of Europe in the 1870's. Translated by Catherine Routsky.First published in 1948.… Read more about this item

London: Companion Book Club, 1964. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a circular stain to front and a closed tear to lower back and is not price clipped. In Comrade Don Camillo, the Quixotic parish priest from the Po river valley, blackmails his way aboard a Red pilgrimage to Russia. The result, as might be expected,… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1959. A Very Good copy with a small contemporary name to reverse of front cover. Internally there is foxing to closed edges and sporadically to margin edges.else a clean, tight copy. Dustjacket has age toning and chipping and is not price clipped. 294 pages. Map endpapers. 1959 reprint of the first edition which was also in… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 245 pages. First US Edition. Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili and his Erast Fandorin novels have achieved great success in Russia and this is his first American publication. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Second impression.… Read more about this item

London: Canongate, 2016. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 332 pages. In Lisbon in 1904 a man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artefact that - if he can find it - would redefine history. Travelling… Read more about this item

London: Century, 2017. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 328 pages. Princeton, 1987: renowned psychologist Professor Joseph Wieder is brutally murdered. New York, twenty-five years later: literary agent Peter Katz receives a manuscript. Or is it a confession? Today; unearth the secrets of The Book of… Read more about this item

New York: Balzer and Bray, 2012. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. First US Edition, First Printing. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. 451 pages. Despite inciting their families' wrath and putting themselves in grave danger, rival clan leaders Rosa Alcantara and Alessandro Carnevare refuse to give up on their love for each other. But when… Read more about this item

Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1904. Ottime condizioni. Mezzo cuoio e coperture marmorizzate. età al bordo della pagina. timbri a inchiostro alle prime tre pagine. Alcuni segni di sfregamento sulle coperture anteriori e posteriori. 280 pagine. Francesca da Rimini è una tragedia in versi e in cinque atti di Gabriele D'Annunzio scritta nel 1901. Racconta la storia di come Francesca da… Read more about this item

London: Angus and Robertson, 1951. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to endpapers with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 245 pages. The book is the enthralling sequel, complete in itself, to the Australian author's earlier novel of pioneering life, Beyond the Nineteen Counties. Again the strong, vital character of Rosalind Stewart dominates the story… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1956. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little spotting to top and fore edges and age toning to endpapers) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 218 pages. Translated by Anthony Powell. A fictional biography of Beethoven written in the form of imaginary memoirs by Herr von Zmeskall, a Viennese civil servant who… Read more about this item

London: Everyman's Library, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xliii + 1313 pages. Page marker bound in. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), was a prolific Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. This magnificent trilogy, appearing for the first time in one volume, is his masterwork.… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1993. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 382 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. The Chilean author's magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. A Fine unmarked copy which has a small bookseller's label to front endpaper with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Warmly received by its French audience, this is the first English translation of the Canadian author's work by Joyce Marshall. Stamped with the genius of one of Canada's major cultural celebrities, these… Read more about this item

London: Flamingo, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 315 pages. Illustrations by Robert Shekter. Recipes by Panchita Llona. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. First edition, first printing. Encompassing a multicultural history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories about sex and eating, titillating recipes, and tantalising revelations of the… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider, but when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the 16 year old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the Shrawis trust to bring her home.… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from one page with crease to top corner) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. In a house on a narrow street in Calcutta, lit by the half light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby one day old, wrapped in its hospital… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. A Very Good+ copy which has some light foxing to top edge else unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. Mario Soldati (1906-1999) was an Italian writer and film director. The book is an autobiographical tale set against the film industries in Turin and Rome and is his most ambitious novel, covering the… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Orange title and motifs on black cloth boards which have slight raising of the surface to front else clean with no wear. Internally there is a name and year to front endpaper else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is age darkened and has chipping and losses to the top edges. 319 pages. Comprises : Lucky… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. A vivid and powerful collection brings some of the finest voices from Latin America, gathered from Mexico to Argentina, from Peru to Brazil, where worlds of iridescent beauty and terrible desolation, of modern cities and lost villages are revealed. Included… Read more about this item