Books for sale: Literature, society, politics, Italy, collectible

 Books for sale. Double asterisk marks new entry, delivery in Rome possible, contact: jhghill@yahoo.com

 Travel:

 ** 1. The road to Oxiana, Robert Byron, introduction by Bruce Chatwin, Picador 1981, 10 euro

 ** 2. What am I doing here, Bruce Chatwin, Pengion, 1990, 7 euros

 3. The  Orphaned Realm, Journeys in Cyprus, Patrick Balfour, Hardback, Percival Marshall, London, 1951, 1st addition. 15 euros (Abe books 70 euros)

 4. Tuscan Places, Antipodeans seeking more than Michelangelo, Desmond O'Grady, Arcadia 2016, 5 euros

5. Colombia, Lonely Planet travel survival kit, 2nd edition, 1 euro (£9.95 new)

6. Middle East Guide, Lonely Planet, 4th edition, 1 euro (£16.99 new)

 7. Vanishing Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, Penguin, 1972, illustrated, 5  euros

8.   Cyprus, Lonely Planet guide, 3rd edition, 9 euros (£11.99 new)

9.   Hong Kong, Lonely planet guide, 1st edition, 1 euro (£6.99 new)

10. Campania, Franco Mancusi, Storie delle regioni italiane per ragazzi, Ciessetti, 1 euro (10,000 lire)

 11. Etats Unis, Guide du Routard, Hachette, 1990, 1 euro (in French) (57 FF)

 

Military history, espionage

** 1. The Impossible Victory, A personal account of the battle for the River Po, Brian Harpur, 1988, Coronet, 8 euros

** 2. The Friends, Britain’s post war secret intelligence operations, Coronet, 1988, out of print, 16 euros (abe books 53 euros) 

3. Guadalajara, La Prima sconfitta dell fascismo, hardback, Mursia, illustrated, 8 euros, in Italian

3. Folco Quilici, Tobruk, 1940, la vera storia della fine di Italo Balbo, 2005, Mondadori, with dvd, 6 euros

 5. The secret war for the Falklands, Nigel West, Sphere, 2007, 6 euros

6. Crete, The Battle and the Resistance, Anthony Beevor, John Murray, 2005, illustrated, 8 euros

7. The Flames of Calais, Airey Neave, Coronet, 1972, illustrated, The controversial story of the last-ditch stand which preceded Dunkirk, 7 euros

 

Fiction

** 1. Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, penguin, 2001, 6 euros

** 2 Johnny Sahib, Paul Scott, Grafton, 1986, 6 euros

** 3. Justine, O le Sventure della virtu, De Sade, Sugar editore, hardback, illustrated dust jacket, 1984, 10 euro (in Italian)

** 4. Ratking, An Aurelio Zen mystery, Miuchael Dibdin, 1988, Faber, 6 euros

** 5. A long Finish, Aurelio Zen mystery, 1998, Vintage, 6 euros

 ** 6. Judgement on Deltchev, Eric Ambler, 1974, 4 euros

7. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Penguin, 1977, 5 euros

8. Travels with my aunt, Graham Greene, Penguin classics deluxe edition, with an intro by Gloria Emerson, 8 euros

9. Polonaise, Pier Paul Read, Phoenix, 1976, 4 euros

10. On the Eve, Turgenev, 1950, Penguin classics, 5 euro

11. The crack in the column, George Weller, Random House, 1949, hardback, 8 euros

12. Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves, Penguin, 5 euros

8. Ulysses, James Joyce, The Bodley Head, 1949, hardback, 10 euros

9. The non existent Knight, and the cloven Viscount, Calvino, first English edition, Collins, 1962, Dust jacket in good condition, 12 euros

10. The Idiot, Dostoyevsky, William Heinemann, 1951, hardback, 7 euros

11. Short stories, Luigi Pirandello, OUP, London, 1965, first edition, 10 euros

12. The literary works of Machiavelli, Translated by JR Hale, OUP, 1961. 8 euros

13. Dante, the Inferno, Translated into English by Warwick Chipman, OUP 1961, hard cover, dust jacket in good condition, collectible, 18 euros.

14. A division of the Spoils, Paul Scott, Granada, 1977, 4 euros

16. You Only live twice, Ian Fleming, Panther, 1979. 7 euros

17. From Russia with Lobe, Ian Fleming, Panther 1979, 7 euros

18. The Clouds Above, Andrew Greig, Simon and Schuster, 2000, hardback, 1 euro.

19. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad, Penguin, 1965, 4 euros

20. The Sun also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, Scribner, 5 euros

21. The Things they carried, Tim O’Brien, Broadway books, 1998, 4 euros (dlrs14.95 new)

22. Cold Heaven, Brian Moore, 1990, Flamingo, 8 euros

23. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, Penguin, 1965, 5 euros

 24. Again Saunders, Edgar Wallace, Pan, 1961, 8 euros

 

 

Non Fiction

** 1 The dark heart of Italy, Tobias Jones, Faber 2003, 6 euros  

** 2. The rise, corruption and coming fall of the House of Saud, K.Aburish, Bloomsbury, 1994, 10 euros

3“Where God laughed,” The Sudan Today, hardback, illustrated, Anthony Mann, Museum Press, 1954, 10 euros.

  4. Iraq 1900-1950, A political, social and economic history, Stephen Hemsley Long Rigg, OUP, hardback, 1953, 8 euros

 5. Divorce Vatican Style, Olive Stewart, Hardback, Olivants 1971, 8 euros

 6. Vows of Silence, Abuse of power in the papacy of Pope John Paul II, Jason Berry, Gerald Renner, Free Press 2004, 6 euros

 7. Moneyland, Why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back. Oliver Bullough, Profile 2019,  4 euros

 8. The Golden Ring, The Anglo Florentines 1847-1862, Giuliana Antoni Treves, hardback, illustrated, first edition, Longmans, 1956, 14 euros

 9. Beyond the Empire, Rome and the Church from Constantine to Charlemagne, Desmond O’Grady, Crossroad, Hardback, 5 euros

 10. Albania and the Balkans, Essays in honour of Sir Reginald Hibbert, Ed. James Pettifer, Elbow publishing, 2013, 7 euros   

12. Whirlwind, Tito’s rise to power, Stephen Clissold, 10 euros (abe books 64 euros)

 13. Black Sea, Neal Ascherson, Vintage, 2007, 7 euros

 14. Church of Spies, The pope’s secret war against Hitler, Mark Riebling, 2015, Scribe, illustrated, 8 euros

 15. Naples 44, An Intelligence officer in the Italian labrynth, Norman Lewis, Eland, 9 euros

 16. Mussolini, Christopher Hibbert, 1962, Longmans, First Edition, Dust jacket in good condition with slight tearing, 10 euros

 19. The stripping of the Altars. Traditional religion in England, 1400 to 1580, Eamon Duffy, 1992, Yale University Press , hardback, illustrated, DJ, good condition,  8 euros.

 20. The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan, Turnstile Press, London 1951, First edition, second impression, with dust jacket, immaculate condition, 18 euros

 21. The Spanish Labyrinth, Gerald Brenan, 1950, 2nd edition, Cambridge, dust jacket slightly torn, 10 euros

 22. Mussolini’s Enemies. The Italian anti-Fascist Resistance. Charles F. Delzell, Princeton University Press, 1961, first edition, hardback, dust jacket, 14 euros

 23. Berlusconi’s Shadow, Justice and the pursuit of power, David Lane, Hardback, Allen Lane, illustrated, 2 euros, 2004.

 24. Gomorra, Italy’s other mafia, Roberto Saviano, Paperback English edition, 2007, 2 euros

 25. Borderland, A journey through the history of Ukraine, Phoenix, 1998, 8 euro

 26. Days of Wrath, The public agony of Aldo Moro. Robert Katz, hardback, Granada, illustrated, 12 euros

 14. La Fine di Savoia, (in Italian) How the Savoy Royal family lost power, Riuniti, 1975,  4 euros

 15. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age, a history, Nira Wickramasinghe, Hurst, 2006, 1 euro

 16. Kosovo, A short History, Noel Malcolm, 1999, University press, 5 euros,

 17. The Slavs, Roger Portal, Harper, Hardback, Illustrated, 1969, 1 euro

 18. The Kurds, Thomas Bois, 1966, Khayats, Beirut, hardback, illustrated, 6 euros

 19. The Algerian Problem, Edward Behr, Penguin special, 1961, 6 euros

 20. Qui a tué a Bentalha? Algerie: chronique d'un massacre annoncé,  Nesroulah Yous, La Découverte, 10 euros

 22. Macedonia , Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans, John Phillips, Yale University Press, hardback, 10 euros

 23. Algeria, Anger of the Dispossessed, Martin Evans and John Phillips, illustrated, hardback, 2007, Yale University Press, illustrated, 10 euros

 24. L'Algérie en guerre civile, Akram Belkaid-Ellyas, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou,Calmann- Levy, 2002, (38 euros new), illustrated, cover damaged, 4 euro

 25. La nouvelle guerre d'Algérie, Djallal Malti, La Découverte, 1999, 5 euros

 26. The Hilton Assignment, Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville, Temple Smith ,1973, hardback, 4 euro.

 27. Culloden, John Prebble, 1981, 6 euro

 28. Eddie Shah and the newspaper Revolution, David Goodhard, Patrick Wintour, Coronet, 1986, 1 euro.

 29. The papal state in the 13^th century, Daniel Waley, 1961, illustrated, hardback, 14 euros

 Collectible:

 1. 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, 30 euros

   3.  A burnt out case, Graham Greene, First edition, hardback, 1961,  DJ in good condition, 25 euros

4.     Twenty-one stories, Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1954, first edition, 24 euros, without DJ

5.      Collected essays including the Lost Childhood, Graham Greene, Viking, New York, 1969, hardback, dust jacket in good condition, first edition 25 euros

6.  A Time of gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor, First impression, 1977, John Murray, London, Dust jacket in good condition, hardback, collectible, 48 euros

8. A Sort of LIfe, Graham Greene,  first edition, Heinemann, 30 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. 25 euros.

11. Yeats, Collected poems, 2nd edition, hardback, with later poems added, Macmillan, 1950, with illustration of the poet by Augustus John, 12 euros.

 

 Memoir, biography, poetry and literary criticism:

 **1. Shelley and his world, Claire Tomalin, Penguin, 1992, 10 euros

 2. Jane Austen, the World of her Novels, Deirdre La Faye, Frances Lincoln, illustrated, 2003, 7 euros

 3. Ezra Pound, the last rower, a political profile, David Heymann, Viking Press, 1976, Hardback, dust jacket slightly torn, illustrated, 8 euros.

 4. 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. 30 euros

 5. A short history of Italian literature, JM Whitfield, Pelican, 1960, good condition, 1 euros

 6. Selected Poems, John Dryden, Hardback, The Gray Wallis press, Crown Classics, 1950, 7 euros.

 7. T.S.Eliot, Collected poems 1909-1935, Faber, 12th Impression, 1948, Hardback, no DJ, very good condition, 11 euros.

 8 Yeats, Collected poems, 2nd edition, hardback, with later poems added, Macmillan, 1950, with illustration of the poet by Augustus John, 13 euros.

  9. Boris Pasternak, The collected prose works, Lindsay Drummond, 1945, 12 euros.

  10. White Eagle over Wimbledon, John Phillips, Lume Books, 2018. 10 euros

   11.. The great war and modern memory, Paul Fissell, 1977, OUP, 1 euros

   12.. World within World, Stephen Spender, Faber, 1991, 7 euros

 13. Rupert Brooke, Christopher Hassall, Faber, 1996, 5 euros

 14. I miei giorni a Palermo, Antonino Caponnetti, Garzanti, 1992, illustrated, 2 euro (24,000 lire) (in italian)