Publicado por Pheonix, London England, 2007
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback Amerigo The Man Who Gave His Name to America.Illustrated 235pp sunned spine .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Publicado por Pheonix, London England, 1993
ISBN 10: 1857990668 ISBN 13: 9781857990669
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Phoenix Edition. Paperback. Previous name and date to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Crease to front cover. Slight shelf wear to spine. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Scotsman Saltire Award. One of the Best Young British Novelists 1993.'We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in sprint. This is not enough'. The heroes and heroines of this book, the author's first book of stories are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on the screen, and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder the mysteries of sex, death and public transport at the end of the twentieth century. 138 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Publicado por Pheonix, London England, 2005
ISBN 10: 0753823209 ISBN 13: 9780753823200
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. PaperbaclBelle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary entries, revealing (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best knickers for the job. From debating the literary merits of Martin Amis with naked clients to smuggling whips into luxury hotels, this is a no-holds barred account of the high-class sex-trade, and an insight into the secret life of an extraordinary.
Publicado por Pheonix Books, London England, 2003
ISBN 10: 0753801981 ISBN 13: 9780753801987
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reissued. Paperback In the summer of 1625 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. In the coming weeks it was claimed that, after sending Sir Thomas Overbury poisned tarts and jellies, the Somersets had finally killed him by arranging for an enema of mercury sublimate to be administered. Four of the couple's supposed accomplices were hanged in connection with the murder. At her trial, the Countess of Somerset pleaded guilty, but her husband denied all responsibility for the death of Overbury. Despite this, he too was convicted. Like his wife, he was sentenced to hang, but the King caused public outrage by freeing them after short terms of imprisonment. In a vivid narrative, the author unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is, at once, a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. Infinitely more than a gripping personal tragedy, the Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history. Illustrated. 434 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature).
Publicado por Pheonix House Limited, London England, 1952
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
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Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Hardback First Edition 1952 The Simple Garden a Handbook for Amateurs Short of Time by Phoebe Fenwick Gaye illustrated with B&W plates green cloth boards some wear to Dustjacket 135 pp foxing to edege bumped corners.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Publicado por Pheonix Press, London England, 2002
ISBN 10: 1842126121 ISBN 13: 9781842126127
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback.Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500 Women in History Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored. MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Publicado por Pheonix, London England, 2011
ISBN 10: 140724454X ISBN 13: 9781407244549
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback 1st Paperback Edition YOUNG HENRY The Rse of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson .Illustrated with B&W plates. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).