Black swan uk (415 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. UK ed. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. NEAR FINE UK PB. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY! [REDUCED Charges for Standard International Delivery].

Paperback. Condición: 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.

Paperback. Condición: 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.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condición: 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.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 47122529. 1775997097. 4/12/2026 12:31:37 PM.

Paperback. First Edition Thus (1985). Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows the mildest rubbing to wrapper covers; a small scar at the middle of the front panel, where a sticker has been removed; two pages creased right at the upper tip; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, imperfections, one of them quite noticeable. Bright and Clean. Corners Sharp. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5 x 0.3 inches), 123 pages. Language: English. Weight: 4.5 ounces. First published in 1983 by Salamander Press. Trade Paperback. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial and the Hawtdhornden Prizes. This short collection of four short stories is connected by a theme of human littleness, provincialness, and self-deception. Music, art, and Italy are perhaps more basic links between the tales. Each of the stories features flawed human beings. The stories explore the relationships between people, exposing self-centered fantasies and delusions while at the same time showing the beauty of the human capacity to idealize and dream. The human pursuit of celebrity and celebrity-worship and the distance between celebrity and artistry are other themes that occur throughout the volume as well. Keates has mastered both the first-person and third-person narrative style. The stories also feature several homosexual characters and explores the problems of love both heterosexual and homosexual. First Edition Thus (1985). First published in 1983 by Salamander Press.…

Condición: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Very good.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. 5 x 7 3/4 "; 430 pages.

Paperback. Condición: 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.

Paperback. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; moderate rubbing to the wrapper covers; the pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging; a couple of very faint hairline creases top to bottom of the backstrip; the binding leans very slightly, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Not perfect, but remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 298 pages. Translated by Marget Sayers Peden. First Edition Thus [1988], Tenth Printing [1997]. Trade Paperback, not a Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus [1988], Tenth Printing [1997].…

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition Thus (1985) . Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows the very mildest rubbing to the extremities of the wrapper covers; a very faint crease near the bottom edge of the rear panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and Clean. Corners Sharp. Close to "As New" and could easily pass as such. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5 x 0.65 inches) . Cover illustration by John Jensen who we assume is also responsible for the deliriously humorous illustrations scattered throughout the text. Language: English. Weight: 7 ounces. First published in 1983 by Michael Joseph. Trade Paperback. This is Keith Waterhouse's parody of 'The Diary of a Nobody' by George Grossmith, written from Mrs Pooter's perspective. If you've read the latter - and you really must - then Mrs Pooter's comments are very amusing, giving a sense of a slight irritation with her husband and in particular his rather odd sense of humour but her love for him also comes through clearly. A very clever riposte to Charles Pooter's diary, with the added delight that unbeknownst to him, she regularly read his diary. If you, like myself, are a neo-Victorian, you will "laugh till the bed shakes", as the hero of this 'diary' (and yes, 'hero' is the right word) himself does at his own punny jokes. Ten pages in and half as many persons have tripped over the mud scraperan unmanageable young son with 'forward' slangsquabbles with servants, old friends and unpleasant new acquaintancestrouble at worksocial embarrassmentseverything a lover of all things Victorian could ask for and more. Even if you don't live and breathe top hats (Posh three-shilling hats, rather) , you will probably get a kick or two out of this, especially if you erupt in mirthquakes whilst paging through it in a public library or at the doctor's office. Keith Waterhouse CBE (1929 2009) was a British novelist and humorist (not necessarily in that order) and newspaper columnist and the writer of many television series. He was a noted arbiter of newspaper style and journalistic writing. Mr. Waterhouse fought long and high-spirited crusades to highlight what he perceived to be a decline in the standards of modern English; for example, he founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of such solecisms as "potatoe's" and "pound's of apple's and orange's" in greengrocers' shops. In February 2004, he was voted Britain's most admired contemporary columnist by the British Journalism Review. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages First Edition Thus (1985). First published in 1983 by Salamander Press;Second Printing.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Gentle reading creases to the spine.Some shelf wear.One corner crease to bottom back cover.Internally very clean.Spine firm. Sue Moxley (ilustrador). Fiction.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. London, UK: Black Swan, 2002. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for bookstore sticker on first free page and bookplate on title page. A memoir of a child, an Irish immigrantâ¦"a precise and deeply moving evocation of the vanished Irish immigrant world that once flourished in Scotlandâ¦Full of humour in the midst of grinding poverty." 249 pages.…

Condición: New. In English.

Paperback. Condición: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/Near New w/one folded corner & showing faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF w/light rubs to leading edges & wear to corner tips. Collection of three stories: 1, Django Reinhardt Played the Blues; 2, Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus; and, 3, Boxcar Blues. The first story is set in Paris of the 1920s, the second in Ancient Egypt, and the last, in the American West. The tales of fantasy are much enriched by the deft pen and ink creations of Joe Servello. Joe Servello (Illustrator) (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: Good. The sensual and provocative second volume in the Cairo Trilogy, PALACE OF DESIRE follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities.Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son. His rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination as they test the loosening reins of societal and parental control. And Ahmad's youngest son, in an unforgettable portrayal of unrequited love, ardently courts the sophisticated daughter of a rich Europeanised family. Some foxing. 432 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of 'Knowledge of Angels.' It is 1945. A group of refugees, from various backgrounds, take shelter in a castle somewhere in Central Europe. The group includes Count Michael Blansky, the castle's ancestral owner. But the war has changed things forever. In a storm of ideological change, the existing order and the aristocratic heritage of ten generations are brushed aside by the arrival of Communism, and Count Michael must join the flood of refugees if he is to survive. Told through the eyes of nine characters who live through the forty years between the end of the war and the fall of Communism, 'A Desert in Bohemia' is a complex and enthralling testament to the power and powerlessness of the individual in challenging times. 331 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Good +. Reprint. 266 pages. Small label abrasion to front cover. Some wear to spine-ends and covers' corners. Page-edges yellowed o/w contents clean.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 332 pages. Spine has reading creases and a bit scuffed at spine-ends, light wear to covers' corners. Page-edges lightly yellowed o/w pages clean and tidy throughout.

Condición: New. In English.

Paperback. Condición: Good. It is 8 September 1943 and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian and carrying a battered suitcase. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps towards Italy. There they hope to find safety now that Italy has made peace with the Allies. However, almost overnight, Italy will become a battleground for the occupying German forces, the advancing Allies, an increasingly confident Resistance, Jews in hiding and ordinary Italians simply trying to survive. Against this dramatic backdrop and through the experiences of a handful of fascinating, beautifully-drawn characters, Mary Doria Russell's first historical novel recalls the little known but true story of the Italian citizens who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during the final, desperate phase of the Second World War. Tanned; cover creased. 512 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. B1992:/B Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever. B1917:/B Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When Moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting? BDanny Scheinmann/B paints a dramatic portrait of two men sustaining their lives through the memory of love. Cinematic and brimming with raw emotions, it is the magnificent and emotive debut from a remarkable new writer. 432 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Gillon red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose longterm boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit. Before long Gillon has moved into their flat, replacing Henrys old mate William, Williams on-off-girlfriend Susie, and a lots of mess and disorganisation. Things are changing, and Tilly finds it difficult to accept that her dreams of settling down with Henry are receding further into the distance, especially when Henry announces that he is going to South Carolina to photograph the abundant wildlife of the area.There, Henry is wholly seduced by the charms of Charleston, by Gillons family, and by the old patrician way of life which presents itself. The rules seem to be changing, the time passing by, and the future is becoming less and less certain. 352 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. 284 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. 207 pages. Very clean white background soft covers with very light wear to covers' corners. Page-edges lightly yellowed o/w pages very clean.

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condición: Very Good ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed. TRADE PAPERBACK.…

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condición: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. This is the first edition of this edition. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.…