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London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. Dustjacket edges slightly rubbed, small scratch on the back of the d/j (approx 1 inch). Was first published in the UK in 2002 by SixForty Press as 'The Bones in the Womb'. It was shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2003. This is an intense story of a fifteen year old girl whose abductor decides after twelve years to return her to her parents. It is a riveting meditation on the themes of loss and reunion, parents and children, and nature versus nurture.

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with slight shelf wear around the top edges of the jacket. Book pages have very slight tanning around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not faired well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with age and shelf wear around the edges also has a very small indentation to the front near the spine. Book pages have yellowing around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not fared well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1989 This book club edition published by arrangement with Alan Sutton Publishing Limited. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Corners and edges of dj slightly bumped and rubbed. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Illustrated throughout - 350 engravings, paintings, drawings and photographs - b/w and some colour plates. With Index. "This is the first major work on the period to challenge the established views of the Reformation, and to look at it from a broader, international viewpoint. A collection of studies, written by eminent international historians and theologians and edited by the French academic Pierre Chaunu, presents a fascinating panorama of the world of the Reformation: pre-Reformation Europe; politics and crisis in the Holy Roman Empire; Luther, Calvin and the Protestant Reformers; diffusion, failure, Catholic Counter-Reformation and the survival of the Reforming convictions; England's 'via… Read More