profile books serpent's tail (128 results)

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.

Paper Back. Condition: Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Paperback Printing. AS NEW trade paperback, 347 pages including black-and-white photographs.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9781800810167 N.A.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most secretive of countries.Bandi's profound, deeply moving, vividly characterised stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the absurd theatre of their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare.The Accusation is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in North Korea. It is also a reminder that humanity can sustain hope even in the most desperate of circumstances - and that the courage of free thought has a power far beyond those seek to suppress it.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOn a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box.Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family and even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past.A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Brixton, twenty years after the race riots. Teenager Dennis Huggins drifts into the easy, dangerous life of the shotta - or drug dealer - and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends drift through life with no positive influences or moral code; their only 'family' their fellow dealers. Wheatle brilliantly evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in London's 'Dirty South' - this is a fast, compelling novel that offers no easy answers, but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9781800812819 N.A.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Brand New Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has light bumps to the tail of the spine and lower cover corners, and slighter bumps to the head of the spine and upper corners, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to the spine ends and corners, and a hint of edge wear. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Condition: New. Brand New! Fast Delivery and ship within 24-48 hours. Deliver by FedEx and Dhl, & Aramex, UPS, & USPS and we do accept APO and PO BOX Addresses. Order can be delivered worldwide within 7-12 days and we do have flat rate for up to 2LB. Extra shipping charges will be requested if the Book weight is more than 5 LB. This Item May be shipped from India, United Kingdom & United States. Depending on your location and availability.

Condition: Good. 2021. First Edition. 340 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards with lettering. Flat signed by author to title page. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Textblock edges dyed pink. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Condition: New. Brand New! Fast Delivery and ship within 24-48 hours. Deliver by FedEx and Dhl, & Aramex, UPS, & USPS and we do accept APO and PO BOX Addresses. Order can be delivered worldwide within 7-12 days and we do have flat rate for up to 2LB. Extra shipping charges will be requested if the Book weight is more than 5 LB. This Item May be shipped from India, United Kingdom & United States. Depending on your location and availability.

Paperback. Condition: VG++/VG++/ND. y 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. FNL. Serpent's Tail, Profile Books., 2017-04-20. 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. FNL. VG++/VG++/ND. Box X43 SOFTBACK "HISTORICAL NOVEL" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. 1st. Imp FNL.* Date of Publication: 2017.* Publisher: Serpent's Tail (Profile Books Ltd.) * Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers showing a serpentine path with flowers. Cream titles to face & black titles to spine. Minimal shelf wear to corners & to head and tail of spine. VG++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning. Light reading wear and minimalt age to edges. VG++.* Illustrations: None except colour illustrations to inside of covers.* Pages: 417pp. text. xviii pp. authors notes, advertisements etc. at rear.* Description:- London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Retreating to the countryside with her son, she encounters rumours of the "Essex Serpent", a creature of folklore said to have returned to roam the marches.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st thus. 1st. imp. fnl. with minor age and wear reducing it to VG++.* 0 435 pp. 2017-04-20. n.

Paperback, very good condition, rear cover corner creased. 182 pp. A ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the Internet. Argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways that we haven't yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and byproducts - such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the bourgeois bohemian - have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused self-expression with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine. This book will force you to see our culture - for better and worse - in an entirely new way. (Later subtitle: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- And Why It Matters.).

Updated ed. Paperback thick trade, very good plus condition. 550 pp. Blackwater is the private army and business that the US government has quietly hired to operate in war zones and on American soil. It has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, nevertheless, have led to unprecedented expansion. This updated edition includes Scahill's continued investigative work into the disturbing privatisation of war.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light bumping to top of the spine and a few tiny discoloured spots to the rear panel of the boards. Tiny crease to the top corner of one page but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Light surface and edge wear only to the jacket. First printing.

1st ed. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (front fore-edge slightly rubbed). 209 pp. The remarkable story of the Yazidi women whose lives have been turned upside down by ISIS, and the man who risks everything to save them. Until 2014, Abdullah Shrem made his living as a beekeeper, selling wild honey across the mountainous Iraqi region of Sinjar. Abdullah turned his knowledge of the local terrain to a more dangerous use. Cooperating with a secret network of helpers, he smuggled women through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria and Eastern Turkey and back to safety, one by one. In this powerful testament of courage in the face of terror, the author tells the harrowing stories of these brave women and the man who refused to accept their fate.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. 417pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

368 Seiten. 8°. Gut erhalten. O-Pappband mit O-Schutzumschlag. Text englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - Ever since Willy Novinsky picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been her one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at the age of eighteen. They marry. Married life starts well but soon gives way to full-tilt competition.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Thus. Excellent, clean and tightly bound book. Brand new. Gift quality. Size: Approx 5" Wide - 8" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Would be a mint copy in unread condition save for a faint ring stain, probably from a glass of water by the shape of it, on the front board a tiny area of discolouration at the edge of the front board. Dust jacket is excellent and not price clipped. 12th impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Jstock (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 416pp, illustrated endpapers. The classic epistolary novel, told in text, emails and whatssapp messges. Everyone knows the sad story of the Alperton Angels, the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl and convinced her that her newborn baby was the Anti Christ. Believing they had a divine mission to kill the infant, they were only stopped when the girl came to her senses and called the police. The Angels committed suicide rather than stand trial, while mother and baby disappeared into the care system. Nearly two decades later, true crime author Amanda Bailey is writing a book on the Angels. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen and can finally be interviewed, if Amanda can find them, it will be the true crime scoop of the year, and will save her flagging career. But rival author Oliver Menzies is just as smart, better connected, and is also on the baby's trail. As Amanda and Oliver are forced to collaborate, they realise that what everyone thinks they know about the Angels is wrong. The truth is something much darker and stranger than they'd ever imagined. And the story of the Alperton Angels is far from over. A future classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Peter Dyer (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, slight lean, some slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 288pp. Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet. Melmoth the loneliest being in the world. Condemned to walk the Earth forever, she tries to beguile the guilty and lure them away for a lifetime wandering alongside her. Everyone that Melmoth seeks out must make a choice, to live with what they've done, or be led into the darkness. Helen can't stop reading, or shake the feeling that someone is watching her. As her past finally catches up with her, she too must choose which path to take. Exquisitely written and gripping until the very last page, this is a masterpiece of moral complexity, asking us profound questions about mercy, redemption, and how to make the best of our conflicted world. Already quite scarce in this first impression.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Creasing and edge wear to cover and spine (matt lamination lifting along rear fore edge and particularly at bottom left corner). A reading copy.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Very slight bumping to top corners and some slight marking to boards near the top of the rear panel . An unread copy that is otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Peter Dyer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Waterstones 'Exclusive' first edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Page fore edges dyed green as issued. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, some lean, signed by the author sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy. 288pp, illustrated endpapers. What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years? And who would agree to be part of such an experiment? Herbert Powyss lives on a small estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable cultivation of exotic plants and trees. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science, something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation. For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the cellar of the manor house, fitted out with books, paintings and even a chamber organ. Meals will arrive thrice daily via a dumbwaiter. The solitude will be totally unrelieved by any social contact, the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. The pay? Fifty pounds per annum, for life. Only one man is desperate enough to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi literate labourer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included. In this seductive tale of self delusion and obsession, Alix Nathan has created an utterly transporting historical novel which is both elegant and unforgettably sinister. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. SIGNED and LINED by the author and dated 24.V.21. No dedication. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Condition: BUONO USATO. I ED. INGLESE Buono stato, sovraccoperta originale illustrata in carta patinata, elementi della grafica in rilievo, Grafica: Peter Dyer, illustrazione su recto Getty Images, cima e piede appena sfregati, coperta rigida in tessuto con fregio dorato in bassorilievo su piatto anteriore, fregio e caratteri dorati in bassorilievo sul dorso, lievi ammaccature, tagli e pagine ottimamente conservati. I edizione. Numero Pagine 278.