1998, ISBN: 9781568580142

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London: Fount Paperbacks / Collins, 1989. 157 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Erratum slip laid in. " 'The Dance of Love is the glory of God's heart, but it is also the patte… Mehr…

London: Fount Paperbacks / Collins, 1989. 157 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Erratum slip laid in. " 'The Dance of Love is the glory of God's heart, but it is also the pattern which is reflected in everything He has created.' In this book Stephen Verney, former Bishop of Repton, looks at the original meaning of some Christian words. These show how we can relate the two sides of our nature, the human and the divine - and show, too, that this is only possible if we abandon our pretensions and our pride. Thus we can fully recognise our calling by God to accept both ourselves and our fellows; thus we can step out of darkness and into the glory of God." Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - soft crease on front cover, light browning to edges of textblock.. Soft Cover. Very Good., Fount Paperbacks / Collins, 1989, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 491 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. "In this account of the scandalous life and the violent times of the Marquis de Sade, novelist, essayist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray resurrects this legendary man's relationship with his family - his devoted wife, his iron-willed mother-in-law, and his three children. Gray draws on thousands of pages of letters exchanged by the two spouses, few of which have been published in English, to explore in the fullest historical and psychological detail what it was like to be the Marquise de Sade, a decorous, upright woman married throughout the decades preceding the French Revolution to one of the most maverick spirits of recent times. In the vast literature inspired by the marquis's fictional and real-life libertinism, relatively little attention has been given the two women who were closest to him: Renee-Pelagie de Sade, his adoring wife for more than a quarter of a century, and his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. Gray brings to life these two remarkable women and their complex relationship with Sade as they dedicated themselves, each in her own way, to protecting him from the law, curbing his excesses, and ultimately confining him. After years of indulging a variety of sexual aberrations, experiences he used in novels such as Justine, Philosophy in the Boudoir, and The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade was imprisoned on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Louis XVI at his mother-in-law's instigation. Throughout his thirteen years in jail, Madame de Sade was her husband's principal solace and his only lifeline to reality. It was only upon the onset of the French Revolution, when Sade was finally freed from the Bastille, that Pelagie made a sudden about-face from her decades of abject devotion. In the course of telling this remarkable story, Gray vividly re-creates the extravagant hedonism of late eighteenth-century France; the ensuing terror of the French Revolution, when her protagonists lived in fear of imminent destruction; and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which Sade spent his last decade." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Simon & Schuster, 1998, 4, New York, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994. First Edition, !st Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Number line in the work reads as follows: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Volume itself has green covers with silver lettering on the spine. 215 pages, book is clean, fresh, tight and bright. No underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, not ex-libris, no remainder marks, no folded or dogeared pages, no foxing, no smudges. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. DJ is not price-clipped. A very fine copy; available for immediate shipment., Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994, 5<

2018, ISBN: 9781568580142

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New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. -----Large soft cover, (xiv) 224 pages, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, no names, minor edge wear, errant ink mark on bottom edge, price sti… Mehr…

New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. -----Large soft cover, (xiv) 224 pages, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, no names, minor edge wear, errant ink mark on bottom edge, price sticker on back cover lower right edge. "Like all of Stephen Oates's books, this one is marked by solid scholarship and felicitous style. Most striking is the portrait of the human Lincoln, separated from so much the myth, and so very human. I found myself identifying frailties of my own in Oates's touching picture of the man. Perhaps that is part of the reasons that he holds such an enduring grip on our affections - there is a piece of Lincoln in all of us. This book can help us find it." (William C Davis) Contents include: Prelude / Part One: Myth / Man of the People / Arch Villain / White Chief & Honky / Part Two: Many-Mooded Man / Resurrecting Life / A Matter of Profound Wonder / All Conquering Mind / Mr. Lincoln / Part Three: Advocate of the Dream / The Beacon Light of Liberty / This Vast Moral Evil / My Dissatisfied Fellow Countrymen / Part Four: Warrior for the Dream / The Central Idea / Death Warrant for Slavery / The Man of Our Redemption / Necessity Knows No Law / The Warrior / Toward a New Birth of Freedom / Part Five: Final Act / The Theater / Aftermath / Stanton / Without Him / References / index. "Inside was pandemonium. we can almost hear Miss Harris screaming, "The President is shot!" and Mary Lincoln shrieking from the box in terror, "Help! Help! Help!" People were yelling, shoving one another into the aisles, and rushing for the exits. In all the commotion, two doctors fought their way to the state box and one resuscitated Lincoln with mouth-to-mouth respiration. But he never regained consciousness, for Booth's bullet had destroyed his brain and lodged behind his right eye." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 1st HarperPerennial 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"., HarperPerennial, 1994, 3, AnnMarie Wyncoll, 2018-06-14. Paperback. Very Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Gift inscription by the author. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging., AnnMarie Wyncoll, 2018-06-14, 3, New York USA: Pocket Books, 2000. Hardback. Message to previous owner to inside cover. An original novel based on the televsion series created by Joss Whedon. It's 1940 and Europe is ravaged by World War II - an ideal environment for two gleefully destructive monsters. Drusilla's birthday - that is, the anniversay of her resurrection as a vampire - impends and her devoted paramour Spike wants to celebrate in style. 305 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth & Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback., Pocket Books, 2000, 3, New York, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994. First Edition, !st Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Number line in the work reads as follows: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Volume itself has green covers with silver lettering on the spine. 215 pages, book is clean, fresh, tight and bright. No underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, not ex-libris, no remainder marks, no folded or dogeared pages, no foxing, no smudges. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. DJ is not price-clipped. A very fine copy; available for immediate shipment., Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994, 5<

1994, ISBN: 9781568580142

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows 1994 Hardcover. 1568580142 . First edition. An alternate history fantasy novel: "The year is 1968. Leon Trotsky, the revered leader of the U.S.S.R. h… Mehr…

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows 1994 Hardcover. 1568580142 . First edition. An alternate history fantasy novel: "The year is 1968. Leon Trotsky, the revered leader of the U.S.S.R. has just died in Moscow. In Rome, Mussolini presides over his slowly dying Empire. In the United States, ex-U.S. Senator for Illinois Adolf Hitler is plotting a political comeback with the help of his old ally, German emigre Joseph Gable, alias Joseph Goebbels". 215 pages. Fine or better copy in Fine jacket bx268, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994-09, 5<