Search Results: Titles starting with A from Ari Dictum

Good. Clean unmarked copy with scuffs and marks to cover.

Very good, unmarked copy. Tanned pages. 219 pp

Good with foxing to endpapers. Signed by the author James Leasor and another signature not identified. Includes pages of notes presumably by Leasor. (Pictured). Reilly has a fascinating story and is said to have been the model for Fleming's James Bond. Dustcover with marks, some tears and edgewear.

Very good unmarked copy

Good with some marks and wear to cover.

Very good. Endpapers tanned and slightly foxed. Front hinge cracked. Spine sunned and a little rubbed. Well illustrated with paste down plates by Hugh Thomson.

251pp. Penguin Crime C1908good condition with some minor folds, bumps to cover. Good clean copy with shelfwear to lower spine.

Very good. Bookplate for the English author and editor of this series Gordon Home. Half titles, gilt top edge. 12 colour illustrations by Charles Folkard. Cover lightly rubbed and marked. Spine a little sunned. Scattered light foxing to endpapers. All over a very nice copy. Foreword by Gordon Home

Good condition. Clean unmarked copy. Slight wear to upper and lower spine.

Good with embossed bird to cover. Scattered foxing throughout. Edgewear and bumps to corners. Spine lightly rubbed. Pasteboard with inscription and dated July 1928

A good copy with red cloth and gilt lettering to spine. Slightly tanned endpapers. Good binding and unmarked bar some pencil annotations to FEP. Illustrated in b/w. Partly sunned cover. Dustcover in fair condition with tanned interior with some tears and losses. 280pp. With fold out map at the end.

403pp., US ed. Good condition with some shelf wear to dustcover. Previous owners name to FEP Synopsis:Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 Arthur Ross Book AwardA vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation
From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that… Read More

The discovery of gold by a team of Mormon mill workers in 1848 sparked a frenzy that shook the world. People swarmed to California from as far as China and Australia. They came from England and France, from Ireland and Chile, leaving behind their families and everything they owned in the hope of making their fortunes in the new world. They came by ship and overland, braving Tierra del Fuego and the pestilences of Panama, lured by the promise of gold. In a spellbinding narrative that spans several continents, Brands brings the fervour and excitement of the gold rush vividly to life. The Age of Gold is narrative history at its best -- the astonishing tale of one of the most extraordinary speculative frenzies in history, told by a master historian.Very good with minor wear to dustcover. Illustrated sparsely in b/w

Very good with original dustcover. Dustcover slight faded with edgewear and creases

Good with slight tanning to pages. Wear to spine edges with creases to cover. Unmarked apart from previous owners name to prelim.

Very good unmarked copy, tight binding. Minor tears and edgewear to dustcover

Very good. Original 18th century volume in 20th century binding. From the library and inscribed by Gordon Home 1930. Annotated with identification of the author in ink by Gordon Home and that the play was first rejected by Garrick in 1747 but then produced by him on 21st February 1758. The original endpaper with a list of works by Home? The book with some scattered spotting and foxing. Overall in very good condition with an introduction by Garrick and epilogue by Pritchard.

Very good with light sunning to spine and upper cover. Faint bumps to corners. Clean unmarked copy with tight binding.

703pp. In good condition with cover slightly bumped and minor shelf wear. Slight tear to inside front cover. Tightly bound copy and clean interior.

Very good. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine lightly rubbed and cover with minor shelfwear and faint ring mark. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding.