Golden Age by Hugh Thomas (71 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg and Major Andre, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and. from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim. There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout this period of over two hundred years, Hugh Thomas analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with extraordinary insight and panache, covering subjects ranging from sugar, tobacco and education to slavery, war and occupation. Encyclopaedic in range and breathtaking in execution, Cuba is surely one of the seminal works of world history. 'An astonishing feat . the author does more to explain the phenomenon of Fidel's rise to power than anybody else has done so far' Spectator 'Brilliant' The New York Times 'Immensely readable. Thomas's notion of history's scope is generous, for he has not limited himself to telling old political and military events; he describes Cuban culture at all stages . not merely accessible but absorbing. His language is witty but never mocking, crisp but never harsh' New Yorker 'Thomas seems to have talked to everybody not dead or in jail, and read everything. He is scrupulously fair' Time Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), An Unfinished History of the World (1979), and the first two volumes of his Spanish Empire trilogy, Rivers of Gold (2003) and The Golden Age (2010). A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Spanish empire was the greatest the world had seen since Rome. This final volume of Hugh Thomas's acclaimed history describes how conquistadores, viceroys, nobles, judges, inquisitors and priests ran a vast global empire stretching from the Americas to the Philippines, in an extraordinary epic of war, riches and religion.Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. More significantly, it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome - as well as conquistadores, the book is people with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors and administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organise the native populations into towns, to build cathedrals, hospitals and universities. Behind them - sometimes ahead of them - came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and finally the Jesuits, builders of convents and monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, and reminders of the pervasiveness of religion and the self-confidence of the age.Towering above them all, though moving rarely from the palace of the Escorial outside Madrid, is the figure of King Philip II, the central figure in the book. The Venetian ambassador thought him 'the arbiter of the world'. Once the Philippines had been consolidated, Philip's advisors contemplated an invasion of China- the Jesuit Father Sanchez called it 'the greatest enterprise which has ever been proposed to any monarch in the world'. It was an enterprise never undertaken, but never explicitly abandoned.Was it a great or a terrible empire? In contrast to other empire builders, the Spaniards entered upon arguments with each other about their right to rule other peoples, and their ruthlessness was often tempered by humanity. Hugh Thomas's conclusion is unequivocal- 'The speed with which the sixteenth-century conquistadores conquered such large territories on two vast continents, and the comparable success of missionaries with large populations of Indians, stands as one of the supreme epics of both valour and imagination by Europeans.'%%%Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. More significantly, it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome - as well as conquistadores, the book is people with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors and administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organise the native populations into towns, to build cathedrals, hospitals and universities. Behind them - sometimes ahead of them - came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and finally the Jesuits, builders of convents and monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, and reminders of the pervasiveness of religion and the self-confidence of the age.Towering above Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The second part of Hugh Thomas' magisterial history of the Spanish EmpireCharles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles's death in 1558. In the decades between, the Spaniards conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile, and control the banks of the mighty River Plate; the audacious conquistador Francisco de Orellana journeys down the Amazon, Cabeza de Vaca walks from Florida to Mexico, Juan Vazquez Coronado pioneers into New Mexico and Hernando de Soto vainly pursues worldly riches in Florida, Mississippi and Georgia.Hugh Thomas writes vividly, conveying the conquerors' almost disbelieving sense of what they were achieving. The discovery and subjugation of so many native peoples raised enormous controversy within Spain about how they should be treated, a debate Thomas explores perceptively, with an eye for resonances have lasted centuries. Hugh Thomas brings alive one of the most extraordinary and influential moments in High Renaissance and world history. Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles' death in 1558, the author brings to life the periods of the Renaissance, revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile and why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from , edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 57.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE OF FICTION AND TRUE STORIES THAT WILL LIVE Vol. IX, nos. 49-54, January ? June 1929, Henry Wysham Lanier (editor), hardcover binding, illustrated. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in near fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog-ears, but the pages are age-toned as are the endpapers. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY BOOK nor a remainder. The reddish-brown cloth boards are in good condition (bumping of some corners, edge wear; some spots). Good binding. 9 ½ x 7, 864 pages, 48 ounces. NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOK WEIGHS THREE POUNDS, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU REQUIRE PRIORITY MAIL OR LIVE OUTSIDE THE U.S. XX [Wikipedia] The GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE, was an American magazine publishing short fiction that ran from January 1925 to 1935. Based in New York City, the magazine was published on a monthly basis. The publisher was Review of Reviews Corporation. In October 1935 the magazine merged with Fiction Parade; Fiction Parade and Golden Book ceased publication in 1938. XX Among the writers whose work can be found in this volume are Christopher Morley, Katherine Mansfield, H. G. Wells, Anatole France, Theophile Gautier, Robert Frost, Harold Chapin, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Dumas, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Walter de la Mare, Fannie Hurst, Wilkie Collins, Eugene O?Neill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Honore de Balzac, Saki, William Blake, Rafael Sabatini, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Carl Sandburg, John Galsworthy, Stephen Crane, August Stringberg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, James Branch Cabell, Michael Arlen, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Aldous Huxley, Mark Twain, John Keats, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Benchley, George Santayana, Lady Augusta Gregory, and dozens of other writers long forgotten.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Nick Hardcastle (illustrator). First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with cream titling to the spine and blocked with a design by the artist. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not called for this copy is encased in a robust brown paper covered slip case which is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg and Major André, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and. from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim. There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era. Ref K 5.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City New York, 1960. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Introduction by Mazo de la Roche. Very good gray hardcover. Very good blue DJ. Light wear, soiling chipped rear panel of DJ. (1960), 8vo, 736pp. Watters p. 352 A Checklist of Canadian Literature 1628-1960, Contents: The sacrifice / Adele Wiseman --A trip for Mrs. Taylor / Hugh Garner --The firing squad / Colin McDougall --Farewell to Ville Marie / Thomas B. Costain --An open letter to husbands / Marion Hilliard --The gadabouts / Gabrielle Roy --The legend of Headless Valley / Pierre Berton --Private Turvey becomes acting senior officer / Earle Birney --Integrity / Flora McCrea Eaton --Judith Hearne / Brian Moore --Grey owl / Howard O'Hagan --The people behind this peculiar nation / Hugh MacLennan --"This may hurt a little" / Eric Nichol --Call off your cats / Eva-Lis Wuorio --Lies my father told me / Ted Allan --Ten days from Samuel Marchbanks/ Robertson Davies --The Huckelmeyer story / Vera Johnson --The golden age / Thomas H. Raddall-- M'Lord, I am not guilty / Frances Shelley Wees --Rip cord / Arthur Hailey --The wild ones / Robert Christie --A tribute to Lionel Shapiro / Ralph Allen --Battle tactics / Farley Mowat --The old woman / Joyce Marshall.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from , edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 381.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1836 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 388 Language: English Volume 1 Pages: 388 Volume 1.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1836 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 428 Language: English Volume 2 Pages: 428 Volume 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First English Edition. No Dust Jacket, As Issured. The Horizon History of China: 415 pp, b&w map, chronology, Introduction: the Approach to China; A Portfolio: Beyond the Great Wall; 1. Land and Language; 2. The Dawn of China (to 200 B.C.); 3. The Sages; 4. The Family with A Portfolio: The Second Sex; 5. The Three Ways; 6. The Early Empire (200 B.C. to A.D. 600); 7. The Spirit of Invention; 8. The Golden Age (A.D. 600 to 1260) with A Portfolio: The Confucian Ideal and An Anthology: The Confucian Way; 9. Travelers and Traders; 10. The Later Empire (1260 to 1912) with A Portfolio: Life in the City; 11. The Scholars World; 12. Artists and Writers with An Anthology: The Voice of the Poet; 13.The Impact of Europe with a Portfolio: East and West; 14. Modern China (1912 to the present) with a Portfolio: The East is Red; acknowledgments and index. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China: 383 pp, map of China, The Light from the East: An Introduction by Hugh Honour; Symbols and Traditions: The Background of Chinese Art; Bronze: Treasures from the Tomb; Jake: The Stone Heaven; Sculpture: From Tomb to Temple; Calligraphy: The Art of the Brush; Painting: Harmony with Nature and an Anthology: The Painter and His Art; Rubbings: Shadows of the Past; Woodcuts: The Printer's Art; Ceramics: The Art of the Potter; Decorative Arts: The Sense of Beauty; The Art of the Craftsman: His Tools and Techniques; Architecture: Pagodas and Pavilions; The Legacy: The Influence of Chinese Art; a chronology of Chinese art, acknowledgments and index. First English Edition, 1969. Inked name on ffep. In Fine Original Slipcase with tipped-in color illustration on front panel. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black textured decorative cloth with gilt lettering spine. Size: 4to. Book.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1836 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 478 Language: English Volume 3 Pages: 478 Volume 3.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Nick Hardcastle (illustrator). Reprint. 2018 Reprint. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine slipcase. 261 pages with illustrations by Nick Hardcastle throughout. Introduction by Stella Rimington. 'On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's "The Spy's Bedside Book" provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim.There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era.' Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to Rest of the World £20.00 (except the EU, where we no longer export due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit) We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DARK DREAMERS: FACING THE MASTERS OF FEAR, Photos by Beth Gwinn, Commentary by Stanley Wiater, Intro by Clive Barker with short contributions by Forrest J. Ackerman, Joan Aiken, Peter Atkins, Rick Baker, Clive Barker, Jill Bauman, Rick Berry, Stephen R. Bissette, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Gary Braunbeck, Poppy Z. Brite, Edward Bryant, Jack Cady, Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Joseph A. Citro, Alan M. Clark, Simon Clark, Douglas Clegg, Larry Cohen, Nancy A. Collins, Roger Corman, Matthew J. Costello, Wes Craven, Peter Crowther, Les Daniels, Frank Darabont, Ellen Datlow, Tananarive Due, Bob Eggleton, Harlan Ellison, Dennis Echison, John Farris, Christa Faust, Jo Fletcher, Neil Gaiman, Mick Garris, H.R. Giger, Christopher Golden, Stuart Gordon, Charles Grant, Martin H. Greenberg, Paula Guran, Laurell K. Hamilton, David G. Hartwell, Rick Hautala, James Herbert, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Stephen Jones, Jack Ketchum, Nancy Kilpatrick, Stephen King, Kathe Koja & Rick Leider, Dean Koontz, Ed Kramer, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Christopher Lee, Edward Lee, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, Elizabeth Massie, Richard Matheson & R. C. Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, Thomas F. MOnteleone, David Morrell, Pat Morrisey, Harry O. Morris, Yvonne Navarro, Kim Newman, William F. Nolan, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Reaves, Wayne Allen Sallee, AL Sarrantonio, John Saul, David J. Schow, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Dan Simmons, Lisa Snellings, Craig Spector, Joseph Stefano, R. K. Stine, Peter Straub, Whitley Strieber, Lucy Taylor, Melanie Tem & Steve Rasnic Tem, Thomas Tessier, Edo Van Belkom, Karl Edward Wagner, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson, Stan Winston, Douglas E. Winter, Bernioe Wrightson, Chelsea QUinn Yarbro, Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater , copyright 2001, stated First Printing (complete 10 - 1 numberline on copyright page), published by Cemetery Dance, bluish grey endpapers, black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine, $40.00 price on DJ front flap. Book appears unread with pages that are white with sharp corners, no creased page corners, no dust soiling to outer page edges, no spine lean, no internal hinge splits, no former owner's markings or used bookstore stamps/stickers inside, no scotch tape marks or other discoloration to endpapers, no wear to board edges or corners or spine tips, no glue tearing at internal spine creases, no bumped board corners, internal hinges are still tight. Dust jacket has no chipping, tearing or creasing, no wear to spine tips, no wear to front flap crease, no age yellowing, no soiling or staining, no edge wear, no spine sun fading. Overall a N-FINE book in N-FINE condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a rare Dean Koontz related book appearance. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Dean Koontz 1st printing hardcover/paperback/magazine appearances up for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Condition good with dj. ref ZKVQ.

tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Biografķas. Carlos Espańa. I (929 Carlos (460) I) Historia de la Edad Media y Moderna. Espańa. Ańos 1516 a 56 (94(460)"1516/56") El imperio espańol de Carlos V (1522-1558) Planeta. Barcelona. 2010. 24 cm. 748 p., [16] p. de lįm. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Thomas, Hugh 1931-2017. Traducción de Carmen Martķnez Gimeno y Jesśs Cuéllar. Bibliografķa: p. [613]-631. Ķndice. Tķtulo original: The Golden Age. Rey de Espańa. Historia. 1516-1556 (Carlos I) . ISBN: 9788408094609 (=2875553=) HK22.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5 in. x 7 1/2 in., frontispiece is the woodcut & a page of blackletter text of: "An excellent Ballad of St. George for England, and the King of Egypt's Daughter," from the Roxburghe Ballads; xxvi, 163 pp., including notes, indexes. Dark blue, textured cloth with titling gilt on the spine; unclipped, color & design printed dustjacket, with printed UK price present. Small, inked number in upper right corner of the front endpaper; dustjacket spine shows some age-related tanning, rubbing, light wear to dustjacket edges. Titles of the Ballads: 1 The False Knight on the Road 2 The Twa Sisters of Binnorie 3 Lord Rendal 4 Clerk Colvill 5 Kemp Owyne 6 Thomas the Rimer 7 Sir Patrick Spens 8 The Twa Corbies 9 Hugh of Lincoln 10 The Cherry Tree Carol 11 The Demon Lover 12 Robin & Gandelyn 13 The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge 14 The Golden Vanitie 15 Young Beichan 16 Johnny of Cockley's Well 17 The Unquiet Grave 18 Graeme & Bewick 19 The Wife of Usher's Well 20 The Heron 21 Johnny Faa, the Lord of Little Egypt 22 King John & the Abbot 23 Get Up & Bar the Door 24 Loving Mad Tom 25 The Dead Brother 26 Chevy Chase 27 Waly, Waly 28 Barbara Allan 29 Robin Hood & the Three Squires 30 The Holy Land of Walsinghame 31 Sir Andrew Barton 32 Bruton Town 33 The Death of Robin Hood 34 The Gaberlunzie Man 35 Admiral Benbow 36 Wednesday Cocking 37 The Children in the Wood 38 The Banished Duke of Grantham.

Original brochure. Condition: Gut. 2332 p., w/ fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: Minimally scuffed and rubbed binding. Otherwise in good condition. / Zustand: Minimal beriebene und bestoßene Einbände. Ansonsten im guten Zustand. - Content: Number 1: Musical materials and cultural spaces - Richard Wistreich; The order of the book: materiality, narrative and authorial voice in John Dowland s First Booke of Songes or Ayres - Kirsten Gibson; The Ricreationi per monache of Suor Annalena Aldobrandini - Laurie Stras; Affordable splendour: editing, printing and marketing the Sarum Antiphoner (1519-20) - Magnus Williamson; My Ladye Nevells Booke, music, patronage and cultural negotiation in late sixteenth-century England - Yael Sela Teichler; Revealing their hand: lute tablatures in early seventeenth-century England - Elizabeth Kenny; E in rileggendo poi le proprie note : Monteverdi responds to Artusi? - Tim Carter; Number 2: Bringing the house down: religion and the household in Marlowe s Jew of Malta - Chloe Preedy; Whose wonderful news? Italian satire and William Baldwin s Wonderfull Newes of the Death of Paule the III - Anne Overell and Scott C. Lucas; Thomas More and the problem of charity - Evan Gurney; Uncovering beauty: Titian s Triumph of Love in the Vendramin collection - Catherine Whistler; St Joseph, St Peter, Jean Gerson and the Guelphs - Carol M. Richardson; The pope, the painter, and the dynamics of social standing in the Stanza della Segnatura - Daniel M. Unger; Jan Gossaert s Renaissance - reviewed by Helen York; Cranach et son temps - reviewed by Heike Schlie; Michelangelo. The drawings of a genius - reviewed by Juliana Barone; Margret Fetzer, fohn Donne s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Hugh Adlington; Eric Klingelhöfer, Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Ciaran Brady; Gert Jan Van der Sman, Lorenzo and Giovanna. Timeless Art and Fleeting Lives in Renaissance Florence, trans. Diane Webb. (Florence: Mandragora, 2010) - reviewed by Catherine Lawless; Christopher Marsh, Music and Society in Early Modem England, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Beth Quitslund; Richard A. McCabe (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Matthew Woodcock; Number 3: The massacre of St Bartholomew on the English stage: Chapman, Marlowe, and the Duke of Guise - Shona McIntosh; Public and private, divine and temporal in Justus Lipsius De Constantia and Politica - Natasha Constantinidou; Th accession of these mighty States : Daniel s Philotas and the union of crowns - Daniel Cadman; Reading Philippe Desportes in Le Rencontre des muses de France et d Italie - Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich; Rereading Lucretia in the Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d amours (1538) - POLLIE BROMILOW; All is not fun and games: conversation, play, and surveillance at the Montefeltro court in Urbino - Jennifer D. Webb; Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese - reviewed by Lilian Armstrong; Lorenzo Lotto - reviewed by Beverly Louise Brown; Stronger than we thought: revisionist studies in women s history Phyllis Rackin Galina I. Yermolenko (ed.), Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by Stephan Schmuck; Elizabeth Spiller, Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) - reviewed by Louise Dennfead; Robert S. Sturges (ed.), Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 28. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.) - reviewed by Andrew Zurcher; Number 4: Neither neo-Roman nor Liberal empire - Andrew Fitzmaurice; Republican empire: colonialism, commerce and corruption in the Dutch Golden Age - Arthur Weststeijn; Corporate virtue: the languages of empire in early modern British Asia - Philip Stern; The true temper of empire: dominion, friendship and exchange in the English Atlantic, c. 1575-1625 - David Harris Sacks; Greatness and decadence in French America - Saliha Belmessous; Exempt from time and from its fatal change : Spanish imperial ideology, 1450-1700 - Eva Botella-Ordinas; Number 5: Interrogating The Soddered Citizen - Barbara Wooding; The Semaines Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641 - Peter Auger; Fadrique Furio Ceriol s Machiavellian vocabulary of contingency - Keith David Howard; Descartes s account of indifference - Emma Gilby; Tristis Amor: an unpublished verse love letter from Lady Elizabeth Dacre Howard to Sir Anthony Cooke - Elaine Treharne; The melting pot of science and belief: studying Vesuvius in seventeenth-century Naples - Jane E. Everson; Strong stomachs: Arthur Golding, Ovid, and cultural assimilation - Joseph Wallace; Bronzino: pittore e poeta alia corte dei Medici - reviewed by Dennis Geronimus; Dürer - Cranach - Holbein. Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500 - reviewed by Bridget Heal; Stephen D. Bowd, Venice s Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia, (Cambridge, MA apd London: Harvard University Press, 2010) and Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi (eds.), Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Gabriele Neher; David H. Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) - reviewed by Robert Bonfil; Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys (eds.), Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period. 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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. The Golden Age The Spanish Empire of Charles V Special Collection by Hugh Thomas. Published by Penguin in 2020. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Dark olive/Brown cloth with black banding to boards and spine, gilt lettering and pictorial designs to front and spine. The front cover: one of Thomas?s illustrations, depicting a man crumbling to dust after returning from a long spell in fairyland, has been engraved on the front in gilt, black and ghostly white. The spine shows another illustration, of a will o? the wisp, similarly rendered. In very good condition. Professionally repaired and rebacked, repairs to ends of spine. Corners slightly chipped and bumped. Reinforced inner hinges. Some light mild foxing spots to pages throughout. A couple of sellotape marks from old repairs between pg?s: 66-67, and 82-83. One or two neat pencil notes in text. Else a clean and tight copy. Please note: This volume has come from a smokers library so does suffer slightly from this. xvi + 412pp + 32pp Adverts. With a B&W frontis plate and many text illustrations by T.H. Thomas. Book I. The Realm Of Faerie: Chapter I. Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology - The Compensations of Science - Existing Belief in Fairies in Wales - The Faith of Culture - The Credulity of Ignorance - The Old-Time Welsh Fairyland - The Fairy King - The Legend of St. Collen and Gwyn ap Nudd - The Green Meadows of the Sea - Fairies at Market - The Land of Mystery, ?? Chapter VII. Fairy Music - Birds of Enchantment - The Legend of Shon ap Shenkin - Harp Music in Welsh Fairy Tales - Legend of the Magic Harp - Songs and Tunes of the Tylwyth Teg - The Legend of Iolo ap Hugh - Mystic Origin of an old Welsh Air, ? Chapter X1. Origins of Welsh Fairies - The Realistic Theory - Legend of the Baron's Gate - The Red Fairies - The Trwyn Fairy a Proscribed Nobleman - The Theory of hiding Druids - Colour in Welsh Fairy Attire - The Green Lady of Caerphilly - White the favourite Welsh Hue - Legend of the Prolific Woman - The Poetico-Religious Theory - The Creed of Science. Book II. The Spirit-World. Chapter I. Modern Superstition regarding Ghosts - American 'Spiritualism' - Welsh Beliefs - Classification of Welsh Ghosts - Lady Stradling's Ghost - The Haunted Bridge - The Legend of Catrin Gwyn - Didactic Purpose in Cambrian Apparitions - An Insulted Corpse - Duty-performing Ghosts - Laws of the Spirit-World - Cadogan's Ghost. CHAPTER III. Spectral Animals - The Chained Spirit - The Gwyllgi, or Dog of Darkness - The Legend of Lisworney - Crossways - The Gwyllgi of the Devil's Nags - The Dog of Pant y Madog - Terrors of the Brute Creation at Phantoms - Apparitions of Natural Objects - Phantom Ships and Phantom Islands, ? Chapter IX. The Corpse Candle - Its Peculiarities - The Woman of Caerau - Grasping a Corpse Candle - The Crwys Candle - Lights issuing from the Mouth - Jesting with the Canwyll Corph - The Candle at Pontfaen - The Three Candles at Golden Grove - Origin of Death-Portents in Wales - Degree of Belief prevalent at the Present Day - Origin of Spirits in General - The Supernatural - The Question of a Future Life. Book III. Quaint Old Customs. Chapter I. Serious Significance of seemingly Trivial Customs - Their Origins - Common Superstitions - The Age we Live in - Days and Seasons - New Year's Day - The Apple Gift - Lucky Acts on New Year's Morning - The First Foot - Showmen's Superstitions - Levy Dew Song - Happy New Year Carol - Twelfth Night - The Mari Lwyd - The Penglog - The Cutty Wren - Tooling and Sowling - St. Valentine's Day - St. Dewi's Day - The Wearing of the Leek - The Traditional St. David - St. Patrick's Day - St. Patrick a Welshman - Shrove Tuesday ) ? Chapter VII. Death and Burial - The Gwylnos - Beer-Drinking at Welsh Funerals - Food and Drink over the Coffin - Sponge Cakes at Modern Funerals - The Sin-Eater - Welsh Denial that this Custom ever existed - The Testimony concerning it - Superstitions regarding Salt - Plate of Salt on Corpse's Breast - The Scapegoat - The St. Tegla Cock and Hen - Welsh Funeral Processions - Praying at Cross-roads - Superstition regarding Criminals' Graves - Hanging and Welsh Prejudice - The Grassless Grave - Parson's Penny, or Offrwm - Old Shoes to the Clerk - Arian y Rhaw, or Spade Money - Burials without Coffin - The Sul Coffa - Planting and Strewing Graves with Flowers. Book IV. Bells, Wells, Stones, and Dragons. Chapter II. Mystic Wells - Their Good and Bad Dispositions - St. Winifred's Well - The Legend of St. Winifred - Miracles - St. Tecla's Well - St. Dwynwen's - Curing Love-sickness - St. Cynfran's - St. Cynhafal's - Throwing Pins in Wells - Warts - Barry Island and its Legends - Ffynon Gwynwy - Propitiatory Gifts to Wells - The Dreadful Cursing Well of St. Elian's - Wells Flowing with Milk - St. Illtyd's - Taff's Well - Sanford's Well - Origins of Superstitions of this Class, ? Chapter IV. Early Inscribed Stones - The Stone Pillar of Banwan Bryddin, near Neath - Catastrophe accompanying its Removal - The Sagranus Stone and the White Lady - The Dancing Stones of Stackpool - Human Beings changed to Stones - St. Ceyna and the Serpents - The Devil's Stone at Llanarth - Rocking Stones and their accompanying Superstitions - The Suspended Altar of Loin-Garth - Cromlechs and their Fairy Legends - The Fairies' Castle at St. Nicholas, Glamorganshire - The Stone of the Wolf Bitch - The Welsh Melusina - Pare y Bigwrn Cromlech - Connection of these Stones with Ancient Druidism, ? Chapter V. Baleful Spirits of Storm - The Shower at the Magic Fountain - Obstacles in the way of Treasure-Seekers - The Red Lady of Paviland - The Fall of Coychurch Tower - Thunder and Lightning evoked by Digging - The Treasure-Chest under Mod Arthur in the Vale of Clwyd - Modern Credulity - The Cavern of the Ravens - The Eagle-guarded Coffer of Castell Coch - Sleeping Warriors as Treasure-Guarders - The Dragon which St. Samson drove out of Wales - Dragons in the Mabinogion - Whence came the Red Dragon of Wal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Director of the Arab Bureau 1916-1920. A Limited Edition; 1 of 500 copies, this being copy number 102. 4to. (253*188 mm), original quarter aquamarine morocco over cream cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, raised bands, gilt tooling. [2], 3-50 pp, [1], [1] limitation. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, Rolls Passage, London, E.C.4. in Perpetua type on Arnold s mould-made paper, and finished on the 30th day of April, 1940.  The spine gently sunned, some light markings to the boards; a very good copy. Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), "traveller, archaeologist, and diplomatist, was born at Washington Hall, co. Durham, on 14 July 1868, the elder child and only daughter of (Thomas) Hugh Bell (1844 1931), an ironmaster, who succeeded his father as second baronet in 1904, and his first wife, Mary (or Maria; 1844 1871), daughter of John Shield of Newcastle. (ODNB.) Bell developed an interest in the Middle East from a young age, learning the Arabic and Farsi languages "as though they were French or German" (Robinson, p. 5). A good friend of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), Bell famously held several important positions after moving to Baghdad in 1917, including as Chief Political Officer to the British Resident and as President of the Baghdad library.  This work covers the following subject areas: I. The basis of government in Turkish Arabia. II. Note on the tribal authority of the Sheikhs of Muhammerah and Kuweit in the occupied territories. III. The rebellion against the Sultan of Muscat. IV. Ibn Saud. V. Tribal fights in the Shamiyah. VI. Ismail Bey. VII. The situation in Hail. Loosely enclosed is a catalogue description from Asprey which partially reads, It will be of great interest to the many friends and admirers of the late Gertrude Bell to read something from her pen which has not before been published; and those of us who were in the Middle East during the last war will find delight in reading once again these vivid pictures of happenings in the Arab would and in contrasting them with the conditions of today. Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.

A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1957. Describes the hazards and rewards of the spy trade, along with many tricks of the trade. Also includes several short stories and poems by various writers who have touched on the subject. Inscribed to British actor Alan Cooke by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene (no relation) on the front endpaper. Hugh Greene was head of The German Service at the BBC during WWII, became Director-General of the BBC, and in 1969 became chairman of The Bodley Head. An uncommon title in the Greene canon, with signed copies rarely if ever surfacing. About fine in a near fine (or better) dust wrapper. On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's "The Spy's Bedside Book" provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg and Major Andre, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim. There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia?.