Rare English books for sale on Italy, Vatican, the mediterranean, from 1 euro
English books about Italy and much else, sale from 1 euro, delivery in rome area possible, ** marks new entry, reply to email jhghill@yahoo.com
Non Fiction
** 1. Spies in the Vatican, Espionage and intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust, David Alvarez, University press of Kansas, 10 euros
2. Mussolini, Christopher Hibbert, 1962, Longmans, First Edition, Dust jacket in good condition with slight tearing, 19 euros
**3. Italian painters of the Renaissance, Bernard Berenson, OUP, Hardback 1952, 9 euros
** 4. Connoisseurs and secret agents in 18th century Rome, Lesley Lewis, 1961, Chatto and Windus, First Edition, Dust jacket in good condition with slight tearing, 25 euros.
** 5. The stripping of the Altars. Traditional religion in England, 1400 to 1580, Eamon Duffy, 1992, Yale University Press , hardback, illustrated, DJ, good condition, 18 euros.
** 6. The papal state in the 13th century, Daniel Waley, First edition, Hardback, 1961, illustrated, Macmillan, Dust jacket, good condition, 30 euros.
** 7. The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan, Turnstile Press, London 1951, First edition, second impression, with dust jacket, immaculate condition, 40 euros
** 8. The Spanish Labyrinth, Gerald Brenan, 1950, 2nd edition, Campridge, dust jacket slightly torn, 40 euros
9. ** Daily life in papal Rome in the 18th century, MAurice Andrieux, Allen Unwin, 1968, hardback, illustrated
10. Mussolini’s Enemies. The Italian anti-Fascist Resistance. Charles F. Delzell, Princeton University Press, 1961, first edition, hardback, dust jacket, 48 euros
** 10. Berlusconi’s Shadow, Justice and the pursuit of power, David Lane, Hardback, Allen Lane, illustrated, 10 euros, 2004.
11. Gomorra, Italy’s other mafia, Roberto Saviano, Paperback English edition, 2007, 8 euros
** 12. The medieval papacy, Geoffrey Barraclough, 1000 illustrations, 24 in colour, Thames and Hudson, 1968, first edition, hardback, dust jacket slightly damaged, 16 euros.
13. Borderland, A journey through the history of Ukraine, Phoenix, 1998, 8 euros
14. Days of Wrath, The public agony of Aldo Moro. Robert Katz, hardback, 1980, illustrated, Doubleday, 8 euros
15. The Spanish Civil War, Hugh Thomas, Pelican, 1971,illustrated, 6 euros
16. The World's most dangerous place. The outlaw state of Somalia, James Fergusson, Black Swan, 2014, 5 euros.
17. La Fine di Savoia, (in Italian) How the Savoy Royal family lost power, Riuniti, 1975, 7 euros
18. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age, a history, Nira Wickramasinghe, Hurst, 2006, 3 euros
19. Kosovo, A short History, Noel Malcolm, 1999, University press, 6 euros,
20. The Slavs, Roger Portal, Harper, Hardback, Illustrated, 1969, 3 euros
21. Lifting the Veil, Life in Revolutionary Iran, John Simpson & Tira Shubart, Coronet, 1995, 1 euro
22. The Kurds, Thomas Bois, 1966, Khayats, Beirut, hardback, illustrated, 7 euros
23. The Algerian Problem, Edward Behr, Penguin special, 1961, 8 euros
24. Qui a tué a Bentalha? Algerie: chronique d'un massacre annoncé,
25. Nesroulah Yous, La Découverte, 10 euros
26. Macedonia , Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans, John Phillips,
Yale University Press, hardback, 10 euros
27. Algeria, Anger of the Dispossessed, Martin Evans and John
Phillips, illustrated, hardback, 2007, Yale University Press, illustrated, 10 euros
28. L'Algérie en guerre civile, Akram Belkaid-Ellyas, Jean-Pierre
Peyroulou,Calmann- Levy, 2002, (38 euros new), illustrated, 6 euro
29. La nouvelle guerre d'Algérie, Djallal Malti, La Découverte, 1999, 6
euros
30. The Hilton Assignment, Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville,
Temple Smith ,1973, hardback, 6 euro.
31. Culloden, John Prebble, 1981, 4 euro
32. Eddie Shah and the newspaper Revolution, David Goodhard, Patrick Wintour, Coronet, 1986, 1 euro.
Collectible:
1. If this is a Man, Primo Levi, First English edition, Orion Press, 1959, with hand stamp added: "printed in Italy bny Rianzi in Florence." Original dust jacket slightly torn at edges, 300 euros.
2. The Wanderer (Le grand Meaulnes) Alain Fournier, First Edition in English, Paul Elek, London, 1947, with dust jacket which is damaged but possibly only extant copy with dust jacket, 200 euros
3. A burnt out case, Graham Greene, First edition, hardback, 1961, 70 euros, DJ in good condition
4. Twenty-one stories, Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1954, first edition, 100 euros, without DJ
5. Collected essays including the Lost Childhood, Graham Greene, Viking, New York, 1969, hardback, dust jacket in good condition, first edition 100 euros
6. A Time of gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor, First impression, 1977, John Murray, London, Dust jacket in good condition, hardback, collectible, 150 euros
7. The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, First Edition in English translation, Collins and Harvill Press, London 1960, with dust jacket in good condition, 100 euros
8. A Sort of LIfe, Graham Greene, first edition, Heinemann, 100 euros
9. T.S. Eliot on Dante, by T.S. Eliot, 1929 First edition, Faber and Faber, No.2 in the Poets on Poets series. Hardcover. Illustrated paper boards. 140 euros.
10. The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan, Turnstile Press, London 1951, First edition, second impression, with dust jacket, immaculate condition, 50 euros
11. Yeats, Collected poems, 2nd edition, hardback, with later poems added, Macmillan, 1950, with illustration of the poet by Augustus John, 50 euros.
12. The road in Tuscany, M.Hewlett, collectible, hardback illustrated, Macmillan, 1906, Reprinted One Volume Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good +. Joseph Pennell. Thick crown 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering and engraved castello [Montepulciano?] atop a mount on front cover, 120 B&W illustrations and plates by Joseph Pennell, top edges gilt, 658pp, index, adverts at rear. Originally published in two volumes in 1904; then reissued as a one-volume edition; then this convenient reprint of a popular and useful title. Touches on art, architecture, Dante, the Brownings, gardens, and other appealing features. Good solid copy with clean pages though slight foxing as seems typical of this now scarce volume. 35 euros.
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Non Fiction
** 1. Spies in the Vatican, Espionage and intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust, David Alvarez, University press of Kansas, 10 euros
2. Mussolini, Christopher Hibbert, 1962, Longmans, First Edition, Dust jacket in good condition with slight tearing, 19 euros
**3. Italian painters of the Renaissance, Bernard Berenson, OUP, Hardback 1952, 9 euros
** 3. Connoisseurs and secret agents in 18th century Rome, Lesley Lewis, 1961, Chatto and Windus, First Edition, Dust jacket in good condition with slight tearing, 30 euros.
** 4. The stripping of the Altars. Traditional religion in England, 1400 to 1580, Eamon Duffy, 1992, Yale University Press , hardback, illustrated, DJ, good condition, 19 euros.
** 5. The papal state in the 13th century, Daniel Waley, First edition, Hardback, 1961, illustrated, Macmillan, Dust jacket, good condition, 40 euros.
** 6. The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan, Turnstile Press, London 1951, First edition, second impression, with dust jacket, immaculate condition, 48 euros
** 7. The Spanish Labyrinth, Gerald Brenan, 1950, 2nd edition, Campridge, dust jacket slightly torn, 48 euros
8. ** Daily life in papal Rome in the 18th century, MAurice Andrieux, Allen Unwin, 1968, hardback, illustrated
9. Mussolini’s Enemies. The Italian anti-Fascist Resistance. Charles F. Delzell, Princeton University Press, 1961, first edition, hardback, dust jacket, 50 euros
** 10. Berlusconi’s Shadow, Justice and the pursuit of power, David Lane, Hardback, Allen Lane, illustrated, 10 euros, 2004.
11. Gomorra, Italy’s other mafia, Roberto Saviano, Paperback English edition, 2007, 8 euros
** 12. The medieval papacy, Geoffrey Barraclough, 1000 illustrations, 24 in colour, Thames and Hudson, 1968, first edition, hardback, dust jacket slightly damaged, 16 euros.
13. Borderland, A journey through the history of Ukraine, Phoenix, 1998, 8 euros
14. Days of Wrath, The public agony of Aldo Moro. Robert Katz, hardback, 1980, illustrated, Doubleday, 8 euros
15. The Spanish Civil War, Hugh Thomas, Pelican, 1971,illustrated, 6 euros
16. The World's most dangerous place. The outlaw state of Somalia, James Fergusson, Black Swan, 2014, 5 euros.
17. La Fine di Savoia, (in Italian) How the Savoy Royal family lost power, Riuniti, 1975, 7 euros
18. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age, a history, Nira Wickramasinghe, Hurst, 2006, 3 euros
19. Kosovo, A short History, Noel Malcolm, 1999, University press, 6 euros,
20. The Slavs, Roger Portal, Harper, Hardback, Illustrated, 1969, 3 euros
21. Lifting the Veil, Life in Revolutionary Iran, John Simpson & Tira Shubart, Coronet, 1995, 1 euro
22. The Kurds, Thomas Bois, 1966, Khayats, Beirut, hardback, illustrated, 7 euros
23. The Algerian Problem, Edward Behr, Penguin special, 1961, 8 euros
24. Qui a tué a Bentalha? Algerie: chronique d'un massacre annoncé,
25. Nesroulah Yous, La Découverte, 10 euros
26. Macedonia , Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans, John Phillips,
Yale University Press, hardback, 10 euros
27. Algeria, Anger of the Dispossessed, Martin Evans and John
Phillips, illustrated, hardback, 2007, Yale University Press, illustrated, 10 euros
28. L'Algérie en guerre civile, Akram Belkaid-Ellyas, Jean-Pierre
Peyroulou,Calmann- Levy, 2002, (38 euros new), illustrated, 6 euro
29. La nouvelle guerre d'Algérie, Djallal Malti, La Découverte, 1999, 6
euros
30. The Hilton Assignment, Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville,
Temple Smith ,1973, hardback, 6 euro.
31. Culloden, John Prebble, 1981, 4 euro
32. Eddie Shah and the newspaper Revolution, David Goodhard, Patrick Wintour, Coronet, 1986, 1 euro.
Fiction
** 1. Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, TL Peacock, Hamish Hamilton, Hardback, 1947, 10 euros.
The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, First Edition in English translation, Collins and Harvill Press, London 1960, with dust jacket in good condition, 100 euros
** 2. Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo, hardback, Dust jacket, good condition, 3rd English edition, Secker and Warburg, 1962, 50 euros
** 3. Ulysses, James Joyce, The Bodley Head, 1949, hardback, 30 euros
**4. The non existent Knight, and the cloven Viscount, Calvino, first English edition, Collins, 1962, Dust jacket in good condition, 40 euros
** 5. The Idiot, Dostoyevsky, William Heinemann, 1951, hardback, 25 euros
** 6. Short stories, Luigi Pirandello, OUP, London, 1965, first edition, 20 euros
** 7. The literary works of Machiavelli, Translated by JR Hale, OUP, 1961. 20 euros
** 8. Dante, the Inferno, Translated into English by Warwick Chipman, OUP 1961, hard cover, dust jacket in good condition, collectible, 80 euros.
** 9. A division of the Spoils, Paul Scott, Granada, 1977, 5 euros
** 10. The 13th Gun Salute, Patrick O’Brien, Harper Collins, 2003, 2 euros
** 11. Her privates we, Frederic Manning, 1999, Sphere, 6 euros
** 12. You Only live twice, Ian Fleming, Panther, 1979. 7 euros
** 13. The Chinese love pavilion, Paul Scott, 1985, Collins, 5 euros
** 14. The Clouds Above, Andrew Greig, Simon and Schuster, 2000, hardback, 5 euros.
** 15. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad, Penguin, 1965, 4 euros
** 16. The secret agent, Joseph Conrad, Wordsworth, 1993, 3 euro
16. The Sun also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, Scribner, 6 euros
17. The Things they carried, Tim O’Brien, Broadway books, 1998, 6 euros (dlrs14.95 new)
18. Cold Heaven, Brian Moore, 1990, Flamingo, 7 euros
19. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, Penguin, 1965, 6 euros
20. Again Saunders, Edgar Wallace, Pan, 1961, 6 euros
21. The Trial, Franz Kafka, hardback, 1956, Modern library "Definitive Edition," Dust jacket, 15 euros.
Memoir, biography, poetry and literary criticism:
** 1. Ezra Pound, the last rower, a political profile, David Heymann, Viking Press, 1976, Hardback, dust jacket slightly torn, illustrated, 15 euros.
T.S. Eliot on Dante, by T.S. Eliot, 1929 First edition, Faber and Faber, No.2 in the Poets on Poets series. Hardcover. Illustrated paper boards. Slight staining to cover. 130 euros
2. Bernini, His life and his Rome, Franco Mormando, University of Chicago Press, 2011, hardback, illustrated, 25 euros, as new.
** 3. Images and Shadows, Part of a Life, Iris Origo, NYRB, 2017, paperback, 9 euros
** 4. The Quest for Corvo, AJA Symonds, hardback, Cassell and Co., Second edition, March 1934, 25 euros
** 5. A short history of Italian literature, JM Whitfield, Pelican, 1960, good condition, 8 euros
** 6. Selected Poems, John Dryden, Hardback, The Gray Wallis press, Crown Classics, 1950, 9 euros.
** 7. T.S.Eliot, Collected poems 1909-1935, Faber, 12th Impression, 1948, Hardback, no DJ, very good condition, 14 euros.
** 8. Yeats, Collected poems, 2nd edition, hardback, with later poems added, Macmillan, 1950, with illustration of the poet by Augustus John, 45 euros.
** 9. Boris Pasternak, The collected prose works, Lindsay Drummond, 1945, 14 euros.
6. Child of my love, an autobiography, Sue Ryder, Harvill, 1997, 5 euros
7. White Eagle over Wimbledon, John Phillips, Lume Books, 2018. 10 euros
8. Lost in Translation, life in a new language, Eva Hoffman, Minerva, 1989, 6 euros
10. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan, Arrow, 1990, 5 euros
11. The great war and modern memory, Paul Fissell, 1977, OUP, 2 euros
12. Enemies of Promise, Cyril Connolly, 1961, Penguin modern classics, 3 euros
13. World within World, Stephen Spender, Faber, 1991, 6 euros
14. Rupert Brooke, Christopher Hassall, Faber, 1996, 4 euros
15. Here lies Eric Ambler, An autobiography, 1985, Weidenfeld, 5 euros, illustrated, hardback (£10,95)
16. I miei giorni a Palermo, Antonino Caponnetti, Garzanti, 1992, illustrated, 3 euro (24,000 lire) (in italian)
Travel:
**1. Roman Palaces, HC Stewart, Aberdeen University Press, 1950, hardback, illustrated, 18 euros
2. A Time of gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor, First impression, 1977, John Murray, London, Dust jacket in good condition, hardback, collectible, 140 euros
3. Sicily in Shadow and in Sun, Maude Howe, 1910, first edition, hardback, condition: Very Good Plus. Illustrated By John Elliott Including Pictures from Photographs Taken in Sicily and Original Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. Includes matter on the Earthquake and The American Relief Work. Original cloth with pasted on photo. 25 euros.
4. The road in Tuscany, M.Hewlett, collectible, hardback illustrated, Macmillan, 1906, Reprinted One Volume Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good +. Joseph Pennell. Thick crown 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering and engraved castello [Montepulciano?] atop a mount on front cover, 120 B&W illustrations and plates by Joseph Pennell, top edges gilt, 658pp, index, adverts at rear. Originally published in two volumes in 1904; then reissued as a one-volume edition; then this convenient reprint of a popular and useful title. Touches on art, architecture, Dante, the Brownings, gardens, and other appealing features. Good solid copy with clean pages though slight foxing as seems typical of this now scarce volume. 30 euros.
** 4. Old Calabria, Norman Douglas, Picador, hardback, with dustjacket, condition good, 20 euros
5. Tuscan Places, Antipodeans seeking more than Michelangelo, Desmond O'Grady, Arcadia 2016, 9 euros
6. Colombia, Lonely Planet travel survival kit, 2nd edition, 1 euro (£9.95 new)
7. Middle East Guide, Lonely Planet, 4th edition, 1 euro (£16.99 new)
8. Vanishing Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, Penguin, 1972, illustrated, 4 euros
9. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus, Lawrence Durrell, 5 euros
10. Cyprus, Lonely Planet guide, 3rd edition, 9 euros (£11.99 new)
11. Hong Kong, Lonely planet guide, 1st edition, 1 euro (£6.99 new)
12. Campania, Franco Mancusi, Storie delle regioni italiane per ragazzi, Ciessetti, 2 euro (10,000 lire)
14. Bolsena, Antonietta Puri, Bonechi, 163 colour illustrations, 3 euro
15. Etats Unis, Guide du Routard, Hachette, 1990, 3 euro (in French) (57 FF)
Military history, espionage:
1. Seven men at day break, Alan Burgess, Companion book club, 1960, 4 euros
2. The Forgotten Few, the Indian Air Force in World War 2, Harper Collins, hardback, illustrated, 2019, 8 euros
3. Battlefields of the Second World War, Richard Holmes, BBC, 2001, 2 euros
** 3. The secret war for the Falklands, Nigel West, Sphere, 2007, 5 euros
4. Crete, The Battle and the Resistance, Anthony Beevor, John Murray, 2005, illustrated, 5 euros
5. Pursuit, The sinking of the Bismarck, Ludovic Kennedy, hardback, illustrated, Book Club, 1970, 4 euros
6. The Flames of Calais, Airey Neave, Coronet, 1972, illustrated, The controversial story of the last-ditch stand which preceded Dunkirk, 5 euros
7. Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies. Commander "Sharkey" Ward. Cassell, 2000. 8 euros (£8.99)
8. Culloden and the '45, Jeremy Black, Sutton publishing, illus.,1997, 6 euros (£10.99)
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