Search Results: Authors starting with F from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1989. First Edition. New York, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1989. 15 x 22 cm. VIII,197 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains among others the following chapters: We the People; The First Congress; A Reluctant President; High Comedy; The Great Departments; Social Life; The Bill of Rights; Three Forgotten Americans; Hamilton Takes Command; The Rise of Political Parties etc.

1979. Première Édition. Paris, Éditions Masson, 1979. 21 x 13.5 cm. 149 pages. Broché / Softcover. Bon état général. Très bon exemplaire légèrement défraichie. Intérieur très propre. [Collection La Sphére Psychique]. Extrait ; je ne vois rien et je n'ai pas envie de rester là bien longtemps. En plus de ça, c'est quelque chose qui ne sert à rien. On peut y enfoncer des pointes, rien ne passe, si on ouvre, ça se referme à toute vitesse.etc..

1925. Milano/Firenze, Santa Lega Eucaristica, Collegio S. Bonaventura, 1925. 22.8cm x17.2cm. 149 pages with several coloured illustrations. Original, illustrated Softcover (by Luigi Zago). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Upper spine with minor damage. [I Santuari Francescani - Volume I].

1974. First Edition. Milan, Feltrinelli Editore, 1974. 14 x 22.5 cm. 250 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. "Il bambino dalle uova d'oro" raccoglie gli scritti e gli articoli pubblicati tra il 1965 e il 1973 da uno dei pensatori italiani più originali degli ultimi decenni. Nelle sue riflessioni teoriche, riferite ai segnali di un'epoca - la dissidenza giovanile, i fenomeni di settarismo e rifiuto del diverso, la ridefinizione del rapporto tra politica e vita, individuo e collettività -, è possibile cogliere una geniale anticipazione dell'oggi. Temi come il desiderio, la felicità pubblica, l'uscita dalla condizione di adeguamento passivo ai modelli imposti, l'allargamento dei concetti di cultura e di politica a tutte le manifestazioni dell'umano (la nascita, l'invecchiamento, la morte, la follia, ecc..), offrono al disagio prodotto da una cultura di massa sempre più magmatica e invasiva della vita privata una straordinaria chiave di… Read More

1985. London / Boston, Faber and Faber, 1985. 18 cm x 25.5 cm. XXII, 751 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor smudging and discolouration to endpapers and pastedowns only. An entertaining anthology of some of the world's best stories, a compendium of epigram, repartee and Bon Mots from hundreds of well known and less well known artists, writers, politicians, musicians etc.

1963. Erste Auflage. Zürich, Atlantis Verlag, 1963. 14 x 19,5 cm. 445 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Leinen. In originalen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Enthält unter anderem die folgenden Kapitel: Ahnen und Ahnungen; Westendterrasse; Ein Kindheitstag wie ein anderer; Helene; Der Bruder; Lichtstreifen; Nach Aussen, nach Innen; Vorspiele; Theater und Dichtung; Kameradschaft und Liebesspiel; Humanistische Schulung etc.

1996. Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. 20 cm x 25 cm. X, 493 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes the following chapters: The Antiquity of Humankind - Jacques Boucher de Perthes and John Evans, The Discovery of Australopithecus - Raymond Arthur Dart, The Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Jean Francois Champollion and Tomkyns Turner, Assyrian Palaces at Nimrud - Austen Henry Layard, The Tomb of Tutankhamun - Howard Carter, Excavating under Jerusalem - Charles Warren, Homeric Troy - Heinrich Schliemann, The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial - Charles Green, Great Zimbabwe - Carl Mauch, Late Ice Age Hunters in Tasmania - Rhys Jones, The Aztec Templo Mayor - Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, and Bridging Cultures at Carchemish - Leonard Wooley. Illustrated throughout both in colour and in black & white.

1910. Paris, Société Francaise d'Imprimerie et de Libraire, 1910. 18 x 12 cm. 380 pages. Hardcover / Relié demi-cuir marron. Bel exemplaire. Couverture défraîchie, tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Rousseurs et jaunissement sur tranches. Intérieur bon état malgré le jaunissement des pages. Titre et auteur en dorés sur dos á cinq nerfs orné de fleurons dorés. Belles gardes de papier marbré. Première page: IDÉES GÉNÉRALES M. Charles Turgeon a publié sur le Féminisme français (1) le livre le plus complet, le plus docu- menté, le plus compréhensif qui ait jamais été écrit, non seulement sur le féminisme français, mais sur le féminisme de toute la planète. Il a tout lu, tout noté, et il emploie tout ce qu'il a lu et toutes ses notes. Son livre est, ores et déjà, le livre classique sur la matière. Il ne faudra pas s'arrêter à ce qui pourra déso- bliger un peu ou égayer trop à la lecture des pre- mières pages, sans compter les autres. M. Turgeon… Read More

First edition. Dublin, Temple Press, unknown. 11 cm x 18 cm. 176 pages. Contains numerous photographs and a map, as well as a separat booklet "Index to Streets". Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Contains among others the following chapters: Dublin Brevities; Tabular History; The Story of Dublin; Roll of Honorary Freedom (Dublin City); Historic Streets and Houses; Ancient Cathedrals and Churches; A Cultural Metropolis; Dublin Libraries; Art Galleries; The National Museum etc.

1994. Belfast, Appletree Press, 1994. 17 cm x 24 cm. 208 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The Irish Romantics / Maclise: The Irish Victorian / The French Connection / The New Century / The Gold and Silver Age / Into the Modern Movement / Irish Sculpture / The Crafts Revival / The Modern Epoch / etc.

2013. London, Faber and Faber, 2013. 24 cm. xxi, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white). Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts.… Read More

1983. Walkinstown, Dublin, Helicon : Distributed by The Educational Co. of Ireland, 1983. 21 cm. viii, 230 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. [Helicon History of Ireland]. De Valera's Ireland / Independence, Civil War and Partition / The Irish Free State / etc.

1998. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1998. 24 cm. xxviii, 548 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes the period of 1919 - 1922 with The Anglo-Irish Treaty / Documents of the Years 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1922 / Glossary of Irish Words and phrases etc.

2010. Cork, Collins Press, 2010. 20 cm. 234 pages with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, full of the most remarkable newspaper-clippings related to this sectarian episode of irish history. The Fethard-on-Sea boycott was a controversy involving Sean and Sheila Cloney (née Kelly), a married couple from the village of Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland. It led to a sectarian boycott led by the local Catholic priest of some members of the local Protestant community in 1957. Sean Cloney, a Catholic, came from Dungulf, a short distance to the north of Fethard-on-Sea while Sheila, a Church of Ireland Protestant, came from Johns Hill in the village itself. They married at an Augustinian church in Hammersmith, London in 1949. They had three daughters: Mary, Eileen and Hazel, who was born after the controversy. At the time, non-Catholic spouses of Roman Catholics who wished to be married… Read More

2006. Dublin, Woodfield Press, 2006. 24 cm. XX, 267 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Minor staining to fore-edge. Otherwise: Excellent condition of this fantastic publication. Includes for example the following Essays: Toby Barnard - Gathering Ideas: a clerical library in County Cork, 1774 / W.N.Osborough - Publishing the Law: John Finlay, 1780-1856 / Raymond Gillespie - Printing History: Editing and Publishing historical Documents in 19th-century Ireland / Jean-Michel Picard - William Reeves and the edition of the Life of St.Columba - The Continental Connection / Bernadette Cunningham - "An honour to the Nation" - Publishing John O'Donovan's edition of the Annals of the Four Masters, 1848-1856 / etc. etc.

1998. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1998. 22cm. 208 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by author David O'Mahony. John Maynard Keynes's seminal The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money remains central to economic debate over sixty years after its publication. This book shows how Keynes's masterpiece is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of this age but to extend the range of thought available to economists. Understood as such, it continues to provide the most effective framework to the central issues about the functioning of the economy. The authors offer a clear exposition of Keynes's thought and its continuing relevance for economists in academic, business and government life.

1995. Toronto, Hounslow Press, 1995. 19 x 23 cm. XIII, 221 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes content such as: Oak Island and its Background / The French Connection: Rennes and Glozel / Francis Bacon's Secret Cypher / etc. It began innocently enough … in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an acient shaft on uninhabited Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The boys began to dig, and what they uncovered started the world’s greatest and stangest treasure hunt. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have so far failed to retrieve what is concealed there. The Oak Island curse prophesies that the treasure will not be found until seven men are dead and the last oak has fallen. That last oak has already gone - and over the years, six treasure hunters have been killed. What can the treasure be? Theories include Drake’s plate and jewels, Captain Kidd’s bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left… Read More

2009. California, PoliPoint Press, 2009. 21cm x 13.6cm. xiii, 242 (7) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition. The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious.

1971. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971, 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor fading to upper and lower outer hardcover. Foxing and fading to edges and both endpapers. Fading to spine of dustjacket and minor fraying. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen's Translator Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following chapters: Childhood / Eric A Boarder / Dormitory Life / Home Again / 'The Jolly Herring' / Sowing the Wind / The Last Temptation / Home at Last etc. The story of Eric, first published in 1858, traces the progress of Eric's downfall throughout his childhood and boarding-school days. It is 'in some respects autobiographical', according to Reginald Farrar. (From book introduction) Frederic William Farrar was a cleric of the Church of England, schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the… Read More

1997. London ; New York, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997. 22 cm. xiv, 191 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Contemporary political studies]. Comparing Electoral Systems examines the six principal types of electoral system currently in use: first past the post, alternative vote, second ballot, list, single transferable vote and the current favourite, the 'German' two vote system. A common format is adopted throughout dealing with explanations of how the system operates and its effects on the political system. The coverage is comparative, but particularly close attention is paid to the debate in the UK. The material is up-to-date and makes use of ballot papers and secondary literature sources with clear use of examples throughout. The book concludes with a detailed overview of the consequences of electoral systems and the politics of electoral reform. Comparing Electoral Systems is essential reading for all students of courses on comparative… Read More