Trans John Brownjohn (15 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Vintage, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Text unmarked. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear. Not from a library. 704 pages. Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw's breadth. In this remarkable book, Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first thirteen-and-a-half lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease and water flows uphill, where headless giants roam deserts made of sugar, and where only Captain Bluebear's courage and ingenuity enable him to escape the dangers that lie in wait for him around every corner. In company with our indomitable hero, we enter a realm of the imagination that combines the fantasy of The Lord of the Rings and The Neverending Story with the humor of Baron Munchausen, and where anything can exist except boredom. It's a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together and turned on its head. Walter Moers (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 434 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New - Very Good. Having found success with Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson set sail for the South Seas, writing accounts of his voyages over several months for an American magazine. During this time he yearned for home and yet, in 1890, spent the last of his savings on a plot of dense jungle in Samoa and remained there for the rest of his years. Alex Capus looks into the writer's life and seemingly odd decision as he uncovers the history of searching for the fabled treasure. Slightly off-mint.…

Hardcover. Condition: New - Very Good. When her estranged husband arrives on her doorstep asking for her help, Auntie Poldi's idyllic retirement in Sicily turns into a race against the mob to find her brother-in-law, armed with little more than a postcard with a phone number for 'Handsome Antonio'. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. …

1994 1st edition in tight binding with B&W illustrations; dust jacket not price-clipped with slight fading to bottom front corner and light wear to top edge; a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. LIGHT SHELF WEAR ON DJ COVERS, OTHERWISE NEAR FINE. 900 GRAMS.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on all edges of text with slight browning on upper edge of text. Dust jacket in mylar slightly worn on faicng. Otherwise VG 378 pp.

Condition: very good, good. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 269, illus., map, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. The true story of a Jewish doctor and mother in Hitler's Germany, comparable in importance to the diaries of Anne Frank and Victor Klemperer. When Lilli Jahn's husband and fellow doctor was separated from her under pressure from the Nazis, she and her children were left unprotected, and she was arrested and sent to Breitenau labor camp. Lilli was a prolific letter writer and, miraculously, almost all her letters to her children and friends have survived as well as many of their replies to her. The editor, Martin Doerry, was Lilli Jahn's grandson and also editor in chief of Der Spiegel.…

Condition: very good, very good. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 322, references, index. Shatters the myth of Swiss neutrality during World War II by showing how Swiss financial institutions laundered gold for Hitler and supplied the Germans with weapons and ammunition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Almost as new. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1992). 424pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

First English Language Edition. Quarto (30.5cm x 25cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with white titling on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 224pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; crease on inside flap corner and gentle wear to upper cover panel; else fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Claude Monet" held at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 14 March-16 June, 1996. 126 full color and 11 b&w illustrations.…