Cornforth m (8 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 3rd Edition. No marks in text. Nice clean small paperback. Not a library book. Ships today in a cardboard enclosure, from Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, USA--providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spot since 1991. Shelf LL.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 3rd Edition. Fine condition. Binding tight, pages clean, cover nice but with aging (see photo).

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 28 cm, viii, 72 pp, ills (some colour). From the introduction: "The British Embassy to France was the first to be established in its own house by the British Government. The house remains the finest of all British embassy residences and one of the most interesting in Paris. It has associations with many famous figures from French and British history, including Napoleon Bonaparte, whose sister Pauline owned the house, and the first Duke of Wellington, who persuaded his Government to purchase it.Having arrived in Paris on 4 May 1814, a month after the abdication of the Emperor Napoleon, knowing of his own impending appointment as ambassador to the King of France, the newly created Duke of Wellington looked for a suitable house in which to take up residence.[The purchase price] was paid in instalments, the last being settled a year after Waterloo, at the end of August 1816. Nearly two centuries later the house still retains the greater part of those contents including chandeliers, clocks, candelabra, as well as furniture. However the house came without pictures, because Pauline Borghese had relied on loans from the Roman collection of her much-exploited husband, Prince Camillo Borghese. The pictures and pieces of sculpture now displayed in the house are lent from, or through the agency of, the Government Art Collection. The majority are portraits, many of considerable historical interest within their present context." Near Fine.…

Etat : Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Signed Reprint, Paperback, blue covers, black titles, 140 x 220 mm., 550 g., 196 pp., wit Index, Bookplate on verso of front cover, signed and inscribed by the author, Maurice Cornforth, on prelim., VG copy.

OLwd. M. Rsign. u. mehr. St. 2: Historical materialism; 3: The theory of knowledge. Sprache: Deutsch 0 gr.

1965. Lawrence & Wishart. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - VG.

267 S. OLwd. Sprache: Englisch.