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Item #323828 The White Tiger. Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger.

London: Atlantic Books, [2008]. This is the 5th impression of the first edition which was issued as a signed limited edition of 1500 copies here it is numbered 794/1500 limitation on title-page and signed by the author. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Read More about The White Tiger

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Item #220704 Selected Poems. Conrad Aiken

Selected Poems.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. Inscribed by Aiken on the flyleaf to ALLEN TATE, who supplied the lengthy blurb on the rear panel of the dust jacket ("ALLEN TATE says of Conrad Aiken ... 'he represents the perfection of a vanishing American type: the complete man of letters ... '")..... Read More about Selected Poems

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Item #220698 Thee. Conrad Aiken

Thee.

New York: George Braziller, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed by the author to poet ALLEN TATE, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967." Read More about Thee

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Item #241379 Collection. Gustave Aimard

Collection.

London: George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand OR, John & Robert Maxwell, 1877. Vol. II: The Guide of the Desert, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John,, 1876; The Insurgent Chief, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John, 1876; The Flying Horseman, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St..... Read More about Collection

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Item #236658 Behind the Bungalow. Edward Hamilton Aitken, "Eha"

"A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service"

Behind the Bungalow.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a...... Read More about Behind the Bungalow

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Item #339644 Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book]....

Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book].

[Peterburg]: [Alkonost], 1922. Third edition, published in 1922. First published in 1917, it was Akhmatova’s third book, written during the disintegration of her marriage and as a world war raged on, it is a deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Uncommon edition. Read More about Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book

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Item #339451 Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos...

Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain.

Paris: A l'Emancipatrice, 1917. First edition. Alain was the pseudonym of French educator and philosopher Émile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951). He was a professor at the Lycée Henri IV, Paris, from 1909 to 1933 and had a profound influence upon the thinking of his students, who included Simone Weil, Raymond Aron, André..... Read More about Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain

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Item #322556 La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo. Luigi Alamanni

La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo.

Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Read More about La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo

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