2012, ISBN: 9780593069486

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Collins, UK, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 477 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 2005. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifi… Mehr…

Collins, UK, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 477 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 2005. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England.One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire.On her release, Mary quickly became one of the most popular actresses of the day, famously playing Perdita in 'The Winter's Tale' for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. She later used his copious love letters for blackmail.This authoritative and engaging book presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who was variously darling of the London stage, a poet whose work was admired by Coleridge and a mistress to the most powerful men in England, and yet whose fortunes were nevertheless precarious, always on the brink of being squandered through recklessness, excess and passion. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 000720079X. ISBN/EAN: 9780007200795. Inventory No: 20100033.. 9780007200795, Collins, 2005, 3, London England: Rupert Hart Davies, 1966. Hardback. The Initials in the Heart. Previous owners name to inside cover. Wear and tear to edge of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Laurence Whistler, poet and engraver on glass, tells the astory of his life with Jill Furse, a young actress of great beauty and promise and of their five-year marraige cut short by death. Though tragic in brevity, it is a love-story of extreme happiness, still growing through the bitter separations of war. This is the portrait of a woman remarkable for her gifts and her gaiety. It is also 'a book by two authors written in the absence of one', for it describes a way of living and loving they explored together - and in her words as much as his. Her letters are brilliantly direct, tender and amusing, full of insight, and reveal both her impulsive temperament and her constant heart. Then the last chapter carries us beyond her death to explore with the same detachment an experience that is common, but seldom given accurate words. The great good they discovered, and lost, has become the inspiration of Laurence Whistler's best work in verse and in glass - notably his poems to her memory in The View From This Window and Audible Silence. Two of his glasses, depicting their Devon home, and included among the many portraits of this lovely girl. Illustrated. 248 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, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 2nd Edition Revised. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback., Rupert Hart Davies, 1966, 2.5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+ red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears - but a small closed tear to rear lower edge towards spine/ backstrip's gutter's edge.Top+fore- edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread -apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black+red striped headband and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-396pp [paginated] includes a prologue,118 chapters+epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and to the rear,a note about the author and a b/w pictorial publisher's advert for another of McNab's forthcoming title/book. Deep beneath the English Channel,a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris,taken four hundred hostages at gunpoint - and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep.One man stands in their way.An off-duty SAS soldier is hiding somewhere inside the train.Alone and injured,he's the only chance the passengers and crew have of getting out alive.Meet Andy McNab's explosive new creation,Sergeant Tom Buckingham,as he unleashes a whirlwind of intrigue and retribution in his attempt to stop the terrorists and save everyone on board - including Delphine,the woman he loves.Hurtling us at breakneck speed between the Regiment's crack assault teams,Whitehall's corridors of power and the heart of the Eurotunnel action,'RED NOTICE' is McNab at his devastatingly authentic, pulse pounding best. RED NOTICE: You have been warned . . . Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BANTAM PRESS,2012., 5<

2012, ISBN: 9780593069486

Bantam Press, 2012-10-25. Hardcover. Good. 3.7971 in x 23.5821 in x 15.1885 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover., Bantam Press, 2012-10-25,… Mehr…

Bantam Press, 2012-10-25. Hardcover. Good. 3.7971 in x 23.5821 in x 15.1885 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover., Bantam Press, 2012-10-25, 2.5<