Search Results: Authors starting with A from Lansdowne Books

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good : Blue cloth hardcover with title stamped in gilt onto spine. Minor bumps and fading to top edge of spine. DJ with beautiful idyllic wrap-around tropical art work done by Biro, some wear to top edges, now in archival mylar. Previous owners inscription. Otherwise well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.

Stephanie Alexander's facsimile signature on title page. Illustrated and colour photography. There are detailed instructions on the numerous recipes, a bibliography and an index. "A passionate book of adventure and invention, a travel-cookery book in which French, Italian, Oriental influences and others are fused into a highly personal expression; the flavours and shapes of the food are often unusual and surprising, but fancy is always ruled by common sense and native refinement." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 306 pages. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; ISBN: 0043202071. ISBN/EAN: 9780043202074.Weight 1.2kg

2 volume set. Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front covers with pages clean and tight. DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve.boards Overall a very nice copy. .

Part of a Two volumes set. See Volume Two. Numerous B/W pictures, drawings, maps in separate folders. Introduction by Robin Bidwell.

Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. This volume encompasses his travels in North Africa and the Middle East in the early nineteenth century.

Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities

First American edition, first printing. Hardbound. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $7.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Orange cloth boards with delightful handout pages. A tight, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs.Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class Australian family in the Victorian era.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective mylar. First Edition, First Printing Illustrated with both colour and b/w photographs. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in mylar. 1st. Ed. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.
Contents: Gone with the wind, The portrait of a lady, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Blandings Castle, The castleBuddenbrooks, The leopard, Wide Sargasso Sea, Le grand Meaulnes

First Edition first impression. Black cloth boards. Silver lettering to spine with pages clean and tight. Near fine original dust jacket unclipped. DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy.