Search Results: Authors starting with P from Ari Dictum

192pp with illustrations and map. Dust cover price clipped. Dustcover intact with some foxing and shelf wear - dustcover protected in plastic cover, Book in good condition with foxing - more severe to page edges. Annotated to front endpaper by previous bookseller in pencil

Very good. Inscribed with owner's name. Slight wear to dustcover

Good with inscription to FEP. Cover with wear and light spotting. Dustcover with shelfwear, minor tears and losses.

Good Condition with small tear to upper cover and minor shelf wear

Very good with minor bumps. Clean copy with tight binding. Several plates by Salvan.

Good with tanned pages and page edges. Light marks to cover.

1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill is concealing from the country the number of British ships sunk. He is concealing the number of British men killed. And worst of all, unless something changes, he knows that Britain is weeks away from being starved into surrender to the Nazis.
This is the story of the game of battleships that won the Second World War. In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and a clutch of brilliant young women, the youngest only seventeen years old - gather to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a bomb-bruised HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spends days and nights designing and playing wargames in an effort to crack the U-boat tactics.
A Game of Birds and Wolves takes us from the sweltering fug of a U-boat as the German aces coordinate their… Read More

312pp. Tanned pages. Minor shelf wear to lower boards. Shelf wear to lower spine.

Very good unmarked copy with tight binding. Dustcover foxed and marked with edgewear and tear to lower right front cover.

- An introduction to the history of Porcelain including advice for collectors. 132pp with b/w and colour illustration. Gilt tooled Cloth Spine and cover.Cooper-Hewitt Museum: The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design

Good condition with sunned spine and cover, minor shelfwear. Page edges slightly marked in places. Unmarked copy with tight binding. Literature/Colonial Studies/Gender Studies"Paxton has written a book whose rich hybridity and interdisciplinary crossingsecho and extend the goals of postcolonial theory."-JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE, University of Southern CaliforniaWriting under the Raj is the first study to challenge the long-held criticalassumption that the rape of colonizing women by colonized men was the first,or the only, rape script in British colonial literature. Nancy Paxton asks whyrape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790sand charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between1830 and 1947. She then documents the reemergence of representations of rapein literature about English life in the 1890s and shows how rape themes weresuppressed by the emergence of British modernism. In her examination ofnovels such as Kipling's Kim and Forster's A… Read More

As new. Digital issue of the 1995 original edition.

Very good. Applied paper title label to cloth spine. Title label sunned. Deckled edges.

Good clean copy with owners name inscription and signed "with best wishes Boris Kathmandu October 21st". Cover with creases and marks, sunned spine. Slight loss to lower spine.

Good with slight bumps and scuffs to cover. Very few pencil notations. Good binding. Spine creases.

Very good. Slight edgewear to dustcover and minor spotting to fore edge.

Fair copy. Good binding but with some marks in crayon to FEP and marks to text. Watermarked cover

No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Boards are black with gilt lettering at spine. End-papers with maps of Palestine and Jerusalem. Top and fore-edge lightly dustmarked. Dustcover very good, lightly tanned in parts.

As new. 2 Volumes from the Paris gallery of Patrick Perrin. Volume IV with original price label to back cover.

Good unmarked copy with tight binding. Foxing to top and fore-edge. Dustcover good with very minor edgewear