Search Results: Titles starting with L from Denton Island Books

Mercatorfonds, 1992. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Slipcase is missing. Text in French. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight creasing to rear top edge of jacket. The works cited in the correspondence are reproduced in b & w vignettes in text and in full page colors out of text. 425 pages. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; French Language; ISBN/EAN: 9789061532828. Inventory No: dscf10559. . 9789061532828

Musee Des Beaux-Arts Et De La Dentelle, 1998. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Clean unmarked pages, very slight wear to jacket edges. A nicely kept copy. Text in English and French. 117 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9782911716157. Inventory No: dscf9855. . 9782911716157

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; Four 3" x1"water stain marks on rear edges of jacket plus a smaller one on front rear edge-please see my image for an example. Interior of book remains unmarked. A contemplative, multifaceted study of the house, gardens, and estate of La Foce. It includes a historical essay and memoir by the daughter of La Foce's creators, Antonio and Iris Origo, along with photographs, sketches, and a critical analysis of the gardens. The volume not only focuses on the beauty of the gardens themselves and their indisputable merit as fascinating works of landscape architecture but also sees them within the context of both the larger Tuscan topography and the wider landscape of geography and history. 312 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Architecture; ISBN/EAN: 9780812235937. Inventory No: dscf11187. . 9780812235937

William Collins, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Firmly bound, with clean unmarked pages; unclipped jacket with slight surface wear. ‘Clay navigates the maze-like story with perspicacity and ease … It's a gripping story of two talented individuals, their fascinating, often troubled, but ultimately enduring partnership, and how together they shaped the brave new world of psychoanalysis’ Observer 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780007510665. Inventory No: dscf8595. . 9780007510665

Rider , 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First edition, fourth printing. A very bright, clean copy; crisp, unmarked pages, priceclipped jacket with minimum edgewear, 1" scrape mark to rear. "The definitive and superbly written account of one of the most intriguing and admirable political and moral figures of our times."--Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire 464 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1kg. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781846042485. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: dscf5880. . 9781846042485

Ashfield Press, 2004. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight shelf wear to jacket. A nicely kept copy. 268 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781901658385. Inventory No: dscf11753. . 9781901658385

Walker & Company, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Clean unmarked pages; two very short tears to lower front edge of jacket. The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. 365 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780802716705. Inventory No: dscf8146. . 9780802716705

Sutton Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Pages are clean and bright; moderate creasing to lower rear corner of jacket, a few shallow indent marks also on rear. A study of the role of the lady in 11th and 12th century society, how she related to predominant male culture, interacted with gentlemen, and suffered at the hands of rogues of her own class. The text is illustrated by contemporary drawings from manuscripts and documents. 224 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780750908023. Inventory No: dscf8726. . 9780750908023

Cambridge University Press, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Some grubbiness to the side closed page block, but otherwise a very clean bright and unmarked copy. This book brings an interdisciplinary team of fifty-eight international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle. It discusses contemporary theories and approaches combined with state-of-the-art technologies. The central theme is that land use and land management are tightly integrated with the carbon cycle and it is necessary to study these processes as a single natural-human system to improve carbon accounting and mitigate climate change. 586 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Environment & Ecology; ISBN/EAN: 9781107648357. Inventory No: dscf8071. . 9781107648357

Hubei Changjiang Publishing Group, 1991. Softcover. As New. In as new condition, complete with CD. Text is in Chinese. 66 pages. Text is in Chinese. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Chinese Language; ISBN/EAN: 9787539420028. Inventory No: dscf9078. . 9787539420028

AA Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Very clean and bright, unmarked pages, half-inch tear to jacket at top of spine-repaired but still visible, light surface scratches to cover. A wonderful collection of inspirational images taken in the UK ,and a must for any aspiring landscape photographer. 224 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; ISBN/EAN: 9780749567361. Inventory No: dscf3788. . 9780749567361

Hirmer, 2018. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Clean unmarked pages, very slight shelfwear to boards. A well-kept copy. In Landscapes after Ruskin a joyful experience of nature is now mixed with a certain terror as the earth and its atmosphere are increasingly touched by human activity. Essays by Lynn Gumpert, Director of Grey Art Gallery; Dale Jamison, NYU Professor of E nvironmental Studies and Philosophy; Joel Sternfeld, renowned and influential artist; Chris Wiley, acclaimed contemporary art writer; explore contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, and video through the lens of influential English art critic and so cial thinker John Ruskin (1819 – 1900), who argued that the artist’s principal responsibility is “truth to nature.” Illustrated. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9783777429892. Inventory No: dscf10372. . 9783777429892

Black Shuck Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Slight bumping to top corners of boards, book's contents are clean and bright. In a slaughterhouse a group of men find they can tell fortunes from entrails; an invisible shark haunts a children's book author; redemptive magic is discovered in the ancient chalk horse of the Oxfordshire hills; a woman vicar is possessed by the soul of a reactionary priest - in these seventeen stories of the weird, uncanny and fantastical, British Fantasy Award winner Jonathan Oliver takes the reader into imagined lives and worlds. Horrifying, weird and darkly humorous, The Language of Beasts is the first collection of stories from this critically acclaimed editor. 392 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9781913038533. Inventory No: dscf10532. . 9781913038533

Hatje Cantz, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. SIGNED by Andreas Schmidt to the title page. Two shallow 1" long scrape marks to rear board, contents are clean and bright. Text in English and German. 144 pages. Text is in English and German. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Photography; English and German Language; ISBN/EAN: 9783775715942. Inventory No: dscf7556. . 9783775715942

Faber & Faber, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Clean unmarked pages, firm binding, clean bright jacket. In as new condition. 'Crisply written and meticulously researched, Shawcross's engaging book tells a lively story that will appeal to most history buffs.' - Library Journal 336 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780571360574. Inventory No: dscf10979. . 9780571360574

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

1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book is tightly bound, with pages which are crisp, clean and unmarked. Smart, clean jacket, small tear to top rear corner. About this book:Wonderfully entertaining account of the eight year struggle to build a railway that ended in one man’s shocking and very gory demise. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; ISBN: 0571210481. ISBN/EAN: 9780571210480. Inventory No: DSCF2438. .

Faber, 2011. Softcover. As New. Very clean bright and unmarked, in as new condition. A well-kept copy.This magnificent and deeply felt biography brings with it a sense of completion, not least in its account of one of the greatest and most fruitful Victorian friendships. --Rosemary Hill, Guardian 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780571228621. Inventory No: dscf10190. . 9780571228621

Limelight Editions, 1990. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight corner wear to covers, a few small light stains to closed page block. Interviews with fifty-six great operatic divas of the twentieth century illuminate their lives, their art, and the world of modern opera. 654 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: dscf11622. .

Cape, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Clean, tight and bright, unclipped jacket with light shelfwear to edges. A vivid canvas of England's last great political struggle, bringing to life the revolutionary world of the late seventeenth century. Illustrated. 464 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780224071956. Inventory No: dscf4637. . 9780224071956