Search Results: Authors starting with V from Denton Island Books

HarperBusiness, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First edition. A very clean, bright copy with crisp, unmarked pages. Bright jacket, small crease to lower front corner. "The perfect primer for the postindustrial age....an insightful assessment of the changing global economy, complete with recommendations for how companies can thrive in a perpetually disruptive environment....[An] exemplary narrative." --Kirkus Reviews 304 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN/EAN: 9780062075994. Inventory No: dscf4154. .

Faber and Faber , 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First edition, first printing. A Very good copy, tightly bound, crisp, unmarked pages, very light wear to jacket edges. Assembled by the poet's widow, this fascinating collection covers the period from Eliot's childhood to the end of 1922 and includes not only the most significant letters by Eliot that have survived from this period, but also revealing letters from his family, his first wife, as well as English and French friends and contemporaries. 671 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Overweight. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780571136216. Inventory No: dscf3926. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Paper Tiger, 1990. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Light creasing to covers, clean, bright pages. Large format, 15 dazzling full colour paintings by Boris Vallejo and a collection of boldly erotic stories by Doris Vallejo. 108 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9781850280071. Inventory No: dscf5606. . 9781850280071

Agenda Publishing, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. Creasing to top corner of about 10 pages, otherwise clean and unmarked, slight wear to jacket. Quite simply the most insightful book on Europe’s politics today. A unique blend of behind-the-scenes knowledge, compelling ideas and powerful political judgement. History is back, not as a script, Luuk van Middelaar shows, but as a living entity, and the choice is ours: do we want to play or be played? The book is a great toolkit, not only for a better performance of Europe’s political actors, but also to cope with the cheers and booing of the European public.” - DONALD TUSK, President of the European Council 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; ISBN/EAN: 9781788211727. Inventory No: dscf10958. . 9781788211727

Pen & Sword Military, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Clean bright pages; unclipped jacket, very small crease to top front corner. Almost as new. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9781473827813. Inventory No: dscf9176. . 9781473827813

Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Title:Winning Tales From Scottish Houses.Canongate, 1986.First edition, first printing.Hardcover, in pictorial jacket. 179 pages. Illustrated. Author:Various Condition: VERY GOOD book, in a VERY GOOD price-clipped jacket. Neatly written gift inscription to front endpaper. Book is tightly bound, with pages which are crisp, clean and unmarked.Lightly age toned at the edges.Jacket is clean and bright, slight ruffling to upper edge. About this book: The fourteen winning entries in a competition open to owners or near relatives of Scottish Historic houses, in which competitors had to set down a tale from the past about their family or house. Historic houses represented include Arbigland, Bemersyde, Finlaystone,Torosay Castle,and ten others. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0862411335. ISBN/EAN: 9780862411336. Inventory No: 4F-Z5YU-ZKRC. .

Hurtwood Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition. A few light handling marks to covers, contents are bright and unmarked. The Tosca Fund has been assembling one of the most important collections of photography - from its beginnings to todays major art pieces. Here many of these are reproduced, in four colour process, alongside essays on photography. Limited to 1000 copies. 208 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Photography; Inventory No: dscf7821. .

Dorling Kindersley, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. A great looking copy, in as new condition. Clean bright and glossy. Large and heavy. Hefty hardback Ultimate Marvel runs through every significant character, location and vehicle in the company's history, with lashings of comic art and cut-away diagrams. (SFX) The Avengers and various other superheroes have taken over the world with their appearances in films over the past few years and this huge tome is the definitive in-world guide to the Marvel comic book universe.Full of original artwork, it provides profiles of the heroes, villains, vehicles, weapons and technology that have helped make Marvel so magnificent. This hardback covers from 1939 to the present day and highlights all of the company's different eras including The Golden Age (1939-1950), The Atlas Age (1951-1959), The Marvel Age (1960-1969), The Bronze Age (1970-1985), The Modern Age (1986-1999) and The Heroic Age (2000 to the present… Read More

Music Sales Ltd, 2002. Soft Cover. Good. The Best of U2. Authentic record transcriptions.Vocals, guitar, bass. Softcover, 136 pages. Good. Covers are a bit dog-earred, but pages clean and unmarked. All your U2 favourites including Bad, New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, 10 in all, plus a notation guide. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music Sheets & Scores; ISBN: 0711913145. ISBN/EAN: 9780711913141. Inventory No: DSCF2890. .

Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. No jacket, as issued. A well-kept copy. Catalogue issued on the occasion of Art Basel Features, Basel. Switzerland, September 24-26, 2021. Explores Fontana's beginnings as a sculptor, and features works spanning the artist's career, including seminal ceramics, terracottas and bronzes from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Includes an interview with the artist by Carla Lonzi in 1967. (Text in Italian/English). 110 pages. Text is in multiple languages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: dscf11735. .

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Slight bumping to top corner of front and rear boards and jacket, firm binding, clean unmarked pages, slight curling to top rear edge of jacket, very small indent to front. This is a superbly illustrated retrospective of the last 15-years [pre-2013] of audiovisual installations works by Kelly Richardson. This first retrospective publication features an extensive look at the UK-based Canadian born artist's audiovisual installation works of the last fifteen years. Richardson's works play with the idea of the hyper-real, a notion that due to our increased use of new media can no longer be distinguished from the real or the constructed. In particular she is fascinated by the way in which we connect with landscape, and within her deeply layered practice, she draws on devices from Hollywood science-fiction and horror, landscape painting and wildlife cinematography. The results are complex cinematic… Read More

Tate Gallery, 1988. Softcover. Fine Condition. Clean unmarked pages, slight wear to covers, remains of removed sticker on rear.Introductory essays, Catalogue, further essays. Text in French and English. 116 pages. Text is in multiple languages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: dscf11373. .

Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury Krakow, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Crease to the top corner of front board, short scratch to rear, contents are unmarked. Text in Polish and English.Album ,, Swiat przed katastrofa. Zydzi krakowscy w dwudziestoleciu miedzywojennym" zabiera czytelnika w podróz w przeszlosc. Ksiazka przybliza historie ludzi, którzy bezpowrotnie znikli z miejskiego pejzazu. Ponad 200 zdjec, którym towarzysza szczególowe opisy opowiada historie przedwojennego Krakowa. Udowadnia, ze Zydzi to nie jedynie mieszkancy Kazimierza, przybysze bojacy sie asymilacji, a pelnoprawni obywatele odbudowujacy Polske po I wojnie 180 pages. Text is in Polish, English. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Polish, English Language; ISBN/EAN: 9788389273451. Inventory No: dscf7993. . 9788389273451

2009. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. SIGNED by Julio Saenz, La Rioja Alta 's oenologist, with a message to the previous owner. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, some moderate creasing and scuffing to upper edge of jacket. This is a beautiful tome to honor the rich history of one of Rioja's most well respected, grand old bodegas, La Rioja Alta. As much an historical account of the bodega as it is of Rioja, the book is full of interesting information about not only all the elements of terruño (terroir) which make Rioja so special, but also everything that goes into creating a bottle of wine at La Rioja Alta. From establishing a vineyard to harvesting, creating barrels all the way up to bottling and ageing the wine. Gorgeous color photography, informative charts and tables, as well as plenty of archival material makes this not only informative, but a joy to read - as much for the Rioja afficionado as for anyone who spies a copy of the book on the coffee table. The last several… Read More

Bodley Head, 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages;bright clean jacket. Almost as new, a well looked after copy."An absolutely splendid book… What Yanis really shows is that the European project had a democratic deficit from the origin and design… The Thucydides of our time" (Jeffrey Sachs) 336 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN/EAN: 9781847924032. Inventory No: dscf11517. . 9781847924032

Castletown Publications, 1981. The Victorian Watercolour: An Appreciation. Vassall-Adams, Rory. 1981. Hardcover, 75 pages, illustrated.Light creasing to jacket edge, small nicks to corners, spine sunned. Pages are clean, lightly age toned at the edges, colours remain bright. A 16 page appraisal of the Victorian Watercolour by the author is folowed by a selection of Victorian watercolourists-mostly 2 to a page, but sometimes 1, with brief biographical details and a colour example of their work on the page opposite. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0950780006. ISBN/EAN: 9780950780009. Inventory No: DSCF3524. .

Harvard University Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. FIrst edition, first printing. Clean unmarked pages, boards a little wobbly, firm binding; creasing to jacket at top of spine. One of the foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in a single volume. 464 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; ISBN/EAN: 9780674736566. Inventory No: dscf11485. . 9780674736566

Granta, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Crisp, clean, unmarked pages, very light shelfwear to top edge of jacket. 'Haunting… Told in sparse, Spanish-infused prose, Bulletproof Vest mythologies a family history that is compelling and [is full of] impact' --Financial Times 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781847083463. Inventory No: dscf5054. .

Edizioni Charta, 2008. Softcover. Fine Condition. Clean unmarked pages, very slight wear to covers. A well-kept copy. Enchanted gardens, splendid but aloof dames sans merci, solitary heroes in search of a lost love, magical apparitions immersed in blinding light and sudden visions: this is the surprising and prolific, eclectic and prodigiously generous artistic activity of Claudio Guarino, a "creator" with an unpredictable and original personality of objects, installations, films, and performances inspired by opera and gathered here for the first time.This publication documents the oeuvre of an artist who knows how to simultaneously discuss desire, pleasure, and eroticism, not opposed or merely compared to existing norms but instead re-imagined in a fantastical, fairy-tale, limitless world. Text in Italian and English. 168 pages. Text is in multiple languages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9788881586714. Inventory No: dscf11367. . 9788881586714

Hodder & Stoughton, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. First Edition, first printing. Clean unmarked pages, secure binding;slight shelfwear to jacket edges. 'I got as caught up in these distant but strangely evocative events as Vickers did . . . delicious in its way, recreating a lost world' -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham - The Times 352 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781529338027. Inventory No: dscf10635. . 9781529338027