Translated by Patrick O'brian (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Pages are quite tanned. 18 cm. 302 pages. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in protective packaging, with tracking and insurance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stated First Printing. "A Life of Marie Mancini, Louis XIV's First Love", translated from the French. Light edgewear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First US Edition. Foxing on outside edges of pages, half title page, and last couple pages. Dust jacket has slight edge wear and minor scratches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First US Edition. Name and date in ink on fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The pages of hte book are lightly tanned. There is edge wear and rubbing of the DJ. The corners are a worn with a small tear at the back top corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Translated from the French by Patrick O"Brian. 274 pages; Pages tight; clean; no page wear; no markings on pages; slight foxing on page edges. Orange inside end pages; Portrait by Mignard of Marie Mancini on frontispiece. Maroon hard covers with gild design on cover; gray spine with gild lettering on spine. No shelf wear; Bronze dust covers with pink and black lettering; illustration of Louis XIV on cover. Portrait of one of the most poignant heroines of French history, Marie Mancini is presented at the fascinating indomitalbw maverick of the Sun King's Court. Based upon Marie Mancini's own memoirs and correspondence. At a chance meeting, at the outset of his reigh, young Louis XIV and this sensitive, tormented, proud, cultivated Italian girl became the prelude of many years of intrigue. He vowed to marry her but when a matrimonial alliance with Spain was demanded, he abandoned her. Question remains whether she was his own true love. VERY RARE VINTAGE COPY.…

First edition 224 pages. Very close to fine fuschia boards with gilt titles in near fine dustjacket. Full back cover photograph of the author. Text clean and crisp throughout.

Condition: FINE. First US printing. A protrait of Andre Malraux as a young man, written by his companion and ex-wife - included is an account of their expedition to Cambodia, where he was arrested for the theft of state property. 372 pgs. Very good+ in a near fine dust jacket. (book- a nice tight copy, but slightly faded along top edges of the boards, blank bookplate over prev owner's name, dj- pc.).…

Hardcover. First American Edition [stated]. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. vi, [2], 615, [1] p. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "Jean Lacouture (born June 9, 1921 in Bordeaux, France) is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies. Jean Lacouture began his career in journalism in 1950 in Combat as diplomatic redactor. He joined Le Monde in 1951. In 1953, he worked in Cairo for France Soir, before returning to Le Monde as director for the overseas services, and grand reporter (the highest title in French journalism) until 1975. He is mainly known because of his biographies, including Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Leon Blum, De Gaulle, Pierre Mendès-France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Stendhal and Kennedy". From Wikipedia: "Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 9 November 1970) was a French general, writer and statesman. He was the leader of Free France (1940 44) and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944 46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France." Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Gift bookplate on fep.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Maroon cloth. 224 pages. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear at the corners.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st US Edition; First Printing. A first American edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with little shelfwear to the volume and adhesive residue on the front flyleaf in an alike dust-jacket with shelfwear as well; Simone De Beauvoir's Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre is a memoir of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. The book is written in both French and English and is a testament to the power of love and friendship.; 8vo; 453 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 372pp, edges browned, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, covers rubbed and corners bumped, Good condition in Fair dustwrapper, wrapper rubbed, and with two large closed tears.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. Good quality paperback, some minor creasing and wear to cover and spine, see photos.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. Good quality paperback, some minor creasing and wear to cover and spine, see photos.

mass market. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDmass market, first printing Warner paperback Library Edition, translated from French, small price sticker on front, excellent condition, 12mo, 123 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing hardback 256 pp Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (now in protective transparent sleeve). No inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo. hardcover. 228pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. The author discusses the phenomenon of earthquakes. Part One: The Great Chilean Earthquake. Part Two: The Geography of Earthquakes. Part Three; The Instruments and What They Show.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 280p Size: 16cm.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1961. First edition in English. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. Wrapper browned, worn and torn with selotape repairs. Ownership signature to front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small tear to DJ (which is not price clipped) - now repaired. Tape marks to endpapers. Minor marks to page edges, otherwise a very clean, bright copy.

First edition in English of the basis for the 1971 American adventure film starring Omar Sharif and directed by John Frankenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Graham Percy. Translated by Patrick O'Brian "Grandpere extraordinaire of the popular French novel, to whom apparently no secret corner of the world is hidden, Kessel has turned out a brutal whopper of a tale about pride, passion and filial-paternal destinies--in Afghanistan" (Kirkus).…