picador london england (228 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.7.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Paperback Edition. In Argentina in the time of the generals, Richard Garay lives quietly with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Wear at edges, reading creases, sticker remnants on front cover, rubbedl. Size: 4 1/4" x 7". PAPERBACK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ in mat illustrated covers. smudged, Very lightly shelf-rubbed. Top front cover edge bumped, creased. Spine square, tight, uncreased. Interior cream-colored, clean. Very nice reading copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; contributors include Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. British First. Bound in light blue covers with white lettering on front cover and one spine; complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Richard Williams (illustrator). This book is straight and tight with no marks noted, pages a bit yellowed, and it has wonderful drawings throughout. Nasrudin was devised as the central figure in a series of jokes used to illustrate the teaching of the Sufi School of philosophy. Whether studied for their hidden wisdom or enjoyed for their exhilarating humour, they remain an incomparable delight! Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Condition: Wie neu. Englische Erstausgabe. First Imprint. 201 Seiten. 20,5 cm. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Sehr guter Zustand. Very Good. - In Margriet de Moor's exquisite (and exquisitely translated) The Virtuoso, a love affair with a castrato becomes the last thing one would expect: thoroughly, almost overwhelmingly physical. A bestseller in Europe, this Dutch writer's novel overflows with the sights and smells, tastes and textures of an 18th-century Naples caught in intellectual and sensual ferment. Here, thieves take shelter in churches, carriages race through the narrow streets, and aristocrats gamble, discuss Descartes, cross-dress, and swoon over their favorite male sopranos. Into this heady milieu comes Carlotta, Duchess of Rocca d'Evandro, married at 15 and a firm believer that "your body is what you are and all knowledge begins with desire." What, then, to do with a body like Gasparo's? A native of the same village as Carlotta, at age 11 Gasparo underwent the infamous operation that would keep his soprano suitably pure. Years later, Carlotta hears him sing in the San Carlo theater and immediately falls into a fever of desire. One expects such a passion to be primarily metaphorical, and there is indeed something quixotic about her love for Gasparo, with his voice that "attests to a world beyond this world but which comes none the less from a body like every other: warm, full of obscure desires." Well, not quite like every other. A product of both prodigious natural gifts and prodigiously unnatural intervention, Gasparo is closer to a work of art than a man--but that doesn't prevent Carlotta from lusting after his bod. With some coaxing on her part, they manage to have an affair, the mechanics of which Carlotta by no means ignores in her breathless narration. De Moor writes compellingly about beauty and art, but the book's real strength lies in her almost offhand depiction of Neapolitan aristocracy--its decadence, its playfulness, and even its casual cruelty. ("Only one boy in four fails to survive" Gasparo's operation, Carlotta breezily notes.) Reading The Virtuoso is like immersing yourself in another world entirely, one in which the central love affair makes beautiful sense. History is full of mutilation in the name of art; de Moor's triumph is to make the mutilation itself a subject of desire. --Mary Park. - - Margriet de Moor (* 21. November 1941 in Noordwijk als Margaretha Maria Antonetta Neefjes) ist eine niederländische Schriftstellerin. Leben: Margriet de Moor ist eines von zehn Kindern eines Lehrerehepaares. Ihre Schwiegermutter war die Schriftstellerin Anna Margaritha Annie de Moor-Ringnalda. Sie studierte zunächst am Königlichen Konservatorium in Den Haag Klavier und Gesang. In ihrem Zweitstudium belegte sie Kunstgeschichte sowie Archäologie in Amsterdam, das sie mit Klavierunterricht finanzierte. Mit ihrem Ehemann eröffnete sie 1984 in 's-Graveland bei Hilversum einen Salon für Künstler. Für den Salon machte sie eine Reihe von Film- und Video-Portraits der ausstellenden Künstler. Nachdem die Subventionen für die Filmprojekte eingestellt worden waren, begann sie mit dem Schreiben. Ihr Debütwerk war der 1988 erschienene Erzählungsband Rückenansicht, der gute Kritiken erhielt und als am besten verkauftes literarisches Debüt mit dem Goldenen Eselsohr ausgezeichnet wurde. Für ihren ersten Roman Erst grau dann weiß dann blau (1991) erhielt sie den AKO Literatuurprijs. Dieser Roman wurde 2016 Ein Buch für die Stadt Köln und Umgebung. Margriet de Moor war mit dem Bildhauer Heppe de Moor (19381992) verheiratet, aus der Ehe gingen zwei Töchter hervor. De Moor spricht fließend Deutsch. Ihre Tochter Marente de Moor (* 1972) ist Slawistin, Zeitungskolumnistin und debütierte 2010 mit einem Roman. Die Schriftstellerin lebt und arbeitet in Amsterdam. . . . Aus: wikipedia-Margriet_de_Moor. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350 Schwarzes Leinen mit farbigen Vorsätzen und Schutzumschlag. Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.469 with index and notes. "A major work which challenges a vast number of contemporary assumptions about the family, child rearing, contraception, sexual activity, the ethics of family planning, the question of over-population, and where it all may be leading us". former owner name on frontpiece. clean tight copy-foxing.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Condition: Wie neu. 3. Auflage. 382 pages. Very Good Condition. 19,6 cm. Very Good. Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. When Thomas Wavery arrives in Gibralter on his way to take up his posting as HM Consul General to Abyla his passport is stolen by a barbary ape. Ignominy and shame have dogged his steps since he lost both the coveted Lisbon Embassy and his wife as a result of his infatuation with a younger woman. - Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born March 3, 1957 in Worcester) is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on The Times as assistant arts and literary editor. From 1988 to 1991 he was literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. His time in South America is represented in two novels, The Vision of Elena Silves (1989, Somerset Maugham Award, Betty Trask Award) and The Dancer Upstairs (1995, American Library Association Award). Other less well known works from this period are The Men Who Would Be King (1984), Londoners (1986) and The High Flyer (1993). In 1999, Shakespeare published his biography of Bruce Chatwin to widespread critical acclaim. This was followed by the novel Snowleg (2004, long-listed for the Booker Prize, Dublin IMPAC Award) a 'place' book, In Tasmania (2004) and Secrets of the Sea (2007). Shakespeare has also produced several extended biographies for television on Evelyn Waugh, Mario Vargas Llosa, Bruce Chatwin and on the actor Dirk Bogarde (Arena 2001, BAFTA "Best Arts Documentary Award", RTS "Best Documentary Award"). The Dancer Upstairs was made into a film in 2002 for which Shakespeare wrote the screenplay and which John Malkovich directed. Shakespeare was nominated as one of Granta's Best of British Young Novelists in 1993 and has written articles for Granta, the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement among others. Shakespeare's novels place ordinary people against a background of significant events, as with The Dancer Upstairs, which deals with Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru's Sendero Luminoso; and Snowleg, set partly during the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic. In 1999, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2009, he donated the short story The Death of Marat to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Shakespeare's story was published in the 'Earth' collection. - wikipedia-Nicholas_Shakespeare. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; signed by Robin Robertson on the title page with no inscription; a solid, clean copy in collectible condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs; Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In Very Good Condition. Name Inside Front Cover In Pencil. May Have Minor Wear/Tear to Edges and/or Corners. For More Information on Condition, Please See All Photos. Vintage 1982 In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. May contain remainder mark. Discount Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Picador of London in 2005. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st impression. See inside number sequence "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2." Book condition: Fine. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Fine. Price unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 205mm x 133mm x 13mm. 96 pages. Poetry by the Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Picador of London in 2009. Hardcover. 1st edition, 2nd impression. See inside number sequence "3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2." Book condition: Near Fine. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Near Fine. Price unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 220mm x 140mm x 22mm. 216 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Picador of London in 2004. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st impression. See inside number sequence "1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2." Book condition: Good to Very Good. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order apart from marks to the page edges. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. Price unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 220mm x 140mm x 28mm. 320 pages.