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The Mafia Commission / A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa Nostra

Andy Petepiece · 2018 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Tellwell Talent. 2018, paperback, fine cond.. <p>A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa Nostra</p><p>Andy Petepiece</p><p> </p><p>The Mafia Commission is a well researched book on the nearly 100 year history of the Mafia's Board of Directors. It begins with the era befor…

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life

Richard Florida · 2003 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.01 | ¥1,056)

Basic Books. 2003, paperback, good copy. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new an…

A Book of Angels / Reflections on Angels Past and Present and True Stories of how They Touch Our Lives

Sophy Burnham · 1990 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€19.00 ($20.94 | £15.85 | ¥3,344)

Ballantine Books. 1990; Paperback; gebruikssporen aan kaft, vlekjes / wear on cover, small stains. "A GOLDEN CONJUNCTION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH...Reminding us that there are angels in every religion."<br>--The Washington Post<br>When Sophy Burnham wrote A BOOK OF ANGELS, she inspir…

Love in the Palm of Your Hand / How to Use Palmistry for Successful Relationships

Ghanshyam Singh Birla · 1998 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. 1998, softcover, goed exemplaar / good copy. A practical illustrated guide to finding meaningful relationships through the art of palmistry<br><br>• Hundreds of illustrations allow you to compare the palms of friends and loved ones to different pers…

Colossus Rise & Fall Americas Empire. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

Niall Ferguson, Niall Ferguson · 2009 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2009; Peng; 220pp.; Conditie: Goed; Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. This title reveals, is an empire running on empty, we…

Prospectus d'un nouveau dictionnaire de commerce.Including: Catalogue d'une bibliotheque d'économie politique.Paris, Les freres Estienne, 1769. 8vo. Contemporary tan calf, gold-tooled spine, gold triple fillet border on both sides, gold fillet on board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, decorative endpapers (block-printed in gold), edges gilt over marbling.

MORELLET, André. · 1727 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

VIII, 381, [3], 34, [2 blank] pp.Fine copy of an interesting and very extensive prospectus, by André Morellet (1727-1819), announcing a new commercial dictionary in 5 folio volumes and calling for subscriptions. He first explains why a new dictionary is needed, extensively descr…

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN STEFFENS

STEFFENS, Lincoln · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Complete in one volume, illustrated. Superbly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steffens, filling the front pastedown, to wealthy Boston surgeon and socialite, Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, and his wife, Mina "Margery" Cr…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his wife

GREY, Zane · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Pearl" (Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray) to his wife "Dolly" on three sheets of illustrated New Grand Hotel stationery with envelope postmarked March 1908. Grey discusses his rotten position: "I'm afraid I can't have Outing publis…

Hotspur: Sir Henry Percy and the Myth of Chivalry

John Sadler · 2022 · Winkles Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy - better known as Hotspur - led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down …

The gospel according to the son

MAILER, NORMAN · 1998 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€11.21 ($12.36 | £9.35 | ¥1,973)

London: Abacus 1998 First Abacus edition 242 p. . SOFTCOVER: Orig. paperb. Little traces of use. VERY GOOD For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, …

Escape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity.

SCHEIDEL, W., · 2019 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Princeton University Press, Princeton / Oxford, 2019. XV,670p. Gilt titled hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Fore edge with some smaller stains. 'Walter Scheidel says in his acknowledgements that he proposed to write a short book on this topic, but he ended up with this …

English Collusion and the Norman Conquest

Arthur C. Wright · 2020 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Book New New 1st Edition Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as exposed in the record of th…

Johann Hills Beschreibung der äusserlichen Theile der Pflanzen oder allgemeine Einleitung in die Botanik.

Hill, J. · 1782 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilschern, 1782. 8vo (20.0 x 12.0 cm). iv, 74, [ii] pp., 49 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands bordered with gilt lines, and morocco label with gilt title. Red edges. = An exceedingl…

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s

Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Feb. 18 to May 6, 2001 and two other locations · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardbound. Black cloth/boards. 252 pp. Over 150 color and bw plates. Winslow Homer's luminous watercolor seascapes and highly spirited portraits of children and outdoorsmen are some of the most recognizable and cherished works in the history of …

Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland

O Dochartaigh, Niall · 2021 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,178)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Dark nacy cloth inside illustrated jacket. 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated effort…

Guercino's Friar with a Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter and Art Dealer

Stone, David (and) Sarah Cartwright · 2023 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Scala, 2023. Softcover. A matte softcover book with French flaps. The title is printed in orange lettering down a mostly black spine. The inside covers are gray. Pages: (6), 7-143. Profusely illustrated with both full-color and black-and-white images. "Who is the intri…

Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland

Westfahl, Gary · 2000 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2000. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering; xiv, 157 pp. "Literature often is central to individual maturation. It typically reflects, in one way or another, the experiences of the reader and the larger strains of society. This book exa…

Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition

Ortiz de Montellano, Bernard · 1990 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,162)

New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; tan dj with black lettering and bw illustration, mylar cover; xvi, 308 pp, bw illustrations. Why were a handful of Spaniards able to overthrow the Aztec Empire? The dramatic destruc…

Voyage to Desolation Island

KAUFFMANN, JEAN-PAUL · 2001 · Little Lane Books

A$33.00 (€20.28 | $22.36 | £16.92 | ¥3,570)

Harvill Press. 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, Voyage to Desolation Island by Jean-Paul Kauffmann - Kauffmann, the author and literary explorer, follows in the footsteps of the eighteenth-century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago …

Mothering Sunday

STREATFEILD NOEL · 1950 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,705)

Collins, London. 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 256pp & less than 500g to post. This is the story of Anna Caldwell. She is the mother of five children, and when the book opens has taken to living alone. This makes her children anxious. Jane is…