faber amp faber ltd (5 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Good. Michael Frayn\'s classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.

Softcover. Condición: Good. Set in the port of Brest, this book is the story of a young sailor and the evil and mysterious people whom he attracts. The author has also written \"Our Lady of the Flowers\" and \"Funeral Rites\" and was closely allied to the French intellectuals led by the late Jean Cocteau.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First edition, first printing, and flat signed by author. Hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in good condition. General shelf and handling wear including light tanning and wear to DJ cover, edges and corners. Cover is foxed, causing dulling to colour. Pageblock notably tanned, leading into page edges. Boards are very clean, pages are tightly bound, and content is clear and unmarked. CN.

Softcover. Condición: Good. One of the key figures in rock music during the 60s and 70s recounts his life and experiences as leader of the group The Animals, describing his encounters with other legends of rock, life on the road, and the toll it took on him and others.

Softcover. Condición: Good. \"There are aspects of her book which probably influenced my sense of what it means to be human; once read they were never quite forgotten. That is true, in some way, of the whole thrust of her story.It struck me somewhat as The Golden Bough had done but its argument seemed even more immediate and pertinent, closer to the coherence of a work of art.Levy was also a classicist, and part of her story is concerned with the development--as seen through burial practices, symbols, and maps of return--of the concept of the individual soul, the person or aspect of a person that might be reborn, that suffered and hoped and was remembered in myths.\" W. S. Merwin.