The Alps
Alfred A.Knopf, 1973 First US Edition 288pp, VG in VG dw (Book ref. 6770) £15.00
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The Alps
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973 First Edition 288pp, VG+ in VG+ price clipped dw, owner's signature on title page (Book ref. 2323) £23.00
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The Alps
Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 First Edition US 288pp, VG in VG dw, tear on rear panel repaired (Book ref. 1367) £23.00
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The Rough Guide To Austria
Rough Guide, 2001 Second Edition 594ppm, paperback, Fine. (Book ref. 41448) £4.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1977 6th 208pp, slight sunning to spine, VG+ in VG+ price clipped dw. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 6946) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1969 3rd Imp 208pp, VG+ in VG price clipped dw with fading to spine. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 7534) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1991 5th 208pp, paperback, VG+, signed by Chris Bonington. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 6240) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1975 5th 208pp, F- in Fine price clipped dw. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 7935) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1966 First Edition 208pp, owner's signature, foreedges dusty, VG- in G dw with small tears and faded spine Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 42383) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1969 3rd Imp 208pp, private bookplate, inscr, VG+ in G+ dw with usual fading to spine and a little staining to rear. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 33627) £12.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1980 7th 208pp, VG+ in Fine dw. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 6254) £19.00
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I Chose To Climb
Victor Gollancz, 1987 rep 208pp, softback, F-, signed by Chris Bonington. Bonington's first autobiography, many early memoirs of days with Don Whillans and Ian Clough. (Book ref. 32368) £11.00
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Central Tyrol Including The Gross Glockner. Ball's Alpine Guides
Longmans, Green & Co, 1873 First Edition 139-314pp, original green cloth with gilt, G+. (Book ref. 32611) £65.00
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Austria (Peeps at Many Lands).
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1930. First edition (hardback). Small 8vo, vi, 90pp. 4 colour plates, 8 b&w plates. Original decorated blue cloth. Light rubbing to the edges of the spine, light foxing to the edges of the text block. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition. (Book ref. 23719) £10.00
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DEATH BY FAME:A LIFE OF ELISABETH EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.
LONDON.CONSTABLE,1998.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0094780609. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, subject colour portrait illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both hed+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright, tight and clean.Bright, clean, sharp-cornered, publisher's original, plain dark blue cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, headband and clean, pale grey eps.Accidental, diagonal crease to lower foot of page edges of ffe through to pp19 (with decreasing visibility and affectation).8vo, x-xii+ 2-224pp [paginated] includes illus list/table, author foreword, 14 chapters, 16pp of archival/ contemporary, subject b/w illustrations/photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp82/3 and pp178/9 respectively, acknowledgements, select biblio and an index, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, subject colour portrait frntis (Anton Romako, portrait painting, 1880.), dedication, contents list/table,Habsburg genealogy/family tree and 2pp blanks to rear. A hundred years ago an Empress was killed by a stalker.Elisabeth of Austria was a sad woman apart.She set the style for the royal rebels who would follow her, particularly the late Diana, Princess of Wales (then 1998).She went on starvation diets and suffered from anorexia, obsessed by the Greek ideal of physical perfection.She was married too young to the heir of the Austrian Empire.After giving him three children early, including the son who committed suicide at Mayerling, she found life at Court less and less tolerable.Increasingly erratic, she travelled incessantly, driven on. She supported the independence movements of Hungary and Ireland, where she hunted superbly, always accompanied by her close companion, the English cavalryman 'Bay' Middleton.On her travels to almost every European and Mediterranean city, she took a movable gym, exercising daily to achieve the bodily perfection which she enshrined in the statues of athletes in her Greek villa, the Achilleion on Corfu.Abandoning her husband to the attentions of the Viennese comic actress Katharina Schratt, she went on errands of mercy to the docks and slums of London and Liverpool, Barcelona and Naples, Smyrna and Marseilles.She was the despair of the local police, who could not protect her, even though she was anonymous and wore disguises. A year before her murder, her sister was burned to death in the Charity Bazaar blaze in Paris.Then in 1898, she was stabbed on the Mont Blanc Pier beside Lake Geneva.'I wanted to kill a royalty, 'said the young Italian with the knife.'It did not matter which one.' He had killed the most alluring royal figure of the Victorian age.Her celebrity had led to her death.Fame was her executioner.She had been driven into loneliness until she had lost all sense of reality.She had pursued a desperate liberty that her confined marriage would never allow her.Her murder was the tocsin of the Habsburgs.The death of that tragic beauty was the beginning of the end of imperial Europe. As the tragic and poignant life of the Empress Elisabeth unfolds, brilliantly conjured up in these pages by Andrew Sinclair, readers wil inevitably become aware of and sometimes disturbed by the parallels between her life story and that of Diana, Princess of Wales.The tragedy that befell the latter is fresh in the mind of the nation and the triumphs and disasters of her life help to illuminate those of her beautiful nineteenth-century predecessor. (Book ref. rja31708) £12.99
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ANDY WARHOL - ARBEITEN [WORKS] 1962-1986.**
AUSTRIA.SALZBURG,EDITION THADDAEUS ROPAC,1987.. AUSTRIA,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback,original cloth bds.. FINE./FINE.. Qrto. No ISBN. Art exhibition Catalogue edn. AUSTRIA, Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no clip - as no publisher price to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated black+silver subject portrait photographic illustrated upper wrap and silver+black lettering to silvered background, with negligible shelf-wear to edges - no nicks or tears present - some minimal indentations to rear wrap.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Publisher's original clean and unblemished, grey cloth bds with stamped, black ink letters to upper bd+spine/backstrip, headband, and immaculate, plain white eps.Qrto, 3-96pp [paginated] +title-page, contents list/table, author foreword, 27 full-page colour plates/lithos, 22 contemporary b/w photographic repoductions.Text is in parallel German and English on glossy paper, as are all the illustrations.Essays and reminicences by Anton Gugg, William Milie, Stuart Morgan, Glenn O'Brien, David Hockney, Leo Castelli and Dennis Hopper, catalogue and list of exhibitions to rear. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight - nearly 1Kg, unpackaged - and the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja27567) £35.00
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Castles,Mystery and Music - The Legend of Ludwig II.
GERMANY.MUNCHEN.F.BRUCKMANN KG,1983.. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st English edn.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. Slim Qrto. 3765418943. UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st English edn.[Originally published Munchen, Germany, 1961 by F.Bruckmann KG under title of Bayerns Marchenkonig.This is the 1st English edition, translated by Sheila Ickerott.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - inside of dw/dj also has publisher's b/w illustrated adverts for other books published, in German.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, text in English; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, unblemished, maroon paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters and white ink printed letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate blue+white illus eps.Slim Qrto, 7-176pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages, b/w full-page subject portrait illustrated frntis, contents list/table, profuse illustrations, with both b/w [over 100 - the majority]+colour illus, appendix, chronology, sources and illus credits. Bavaria's Dream King, Ludwig II, has through books and films long become Europe's Dream King. Millions know the dreamer on the throne, millions yearly visit his fairy-tale castles on the fringe of the Bavarian mountains. Anton Sailer's book is the most comprehensive pictorial documentation of Ludwig's life.It began royally for the brilliant, handsome youth of eighteen, and ended twenty-two years later, to the horror of his people and all his contemporaries, with his mysterious death in the lake at Starnberg.He lives on in the memory of his people, however, loved and honoured as in his lifetime, cherished and admired today even by realistic, objective thinkers who have little time for kings and other potentates. This book, now in its 3rd German and 1st English edition, combines the pictorial documents of a life both fantastic and tragic with the touching proof of the love and admiration enjoyed even today by the Unforgotten. Journalist and writer, Sailer was born in Munich and grew up during the reign of the Prince Regent Luitpold, when the tragedy in Lake Starnberg was officially ignored - thus giving rise to the most fantastic rumours.In years of study the author sought to solve the mystery which finally inspired this fascinating biography. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja26657) £14.00
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LOUIS XIV.
LONDON.CONSTABLE,2004.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. 8vo. 1841194255. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour, subject portrait illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing - no nicks or tears present - top+ bottom rear corners minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents near pristine.Clean, brown paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, vii-xvii+1-391pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages, contents+illustrations lists, preface, chronology, double-page genealogy tree, 3 b/w maps, 8pp mixed colour+b/w contemporary illustrations between pp138/9, 13 chapters, notes an index and 2pp blanks to rear. Levi's compelling new life of Louis XIV gives prominence to a very important question.Louis was four when he acceded to the throne in 1643 on the death of Louis XIII.While the facts of his acession are not in doubt, the identity of his father is.There is good reason to believe it was not in fact Louis XIII, but Cardinal Mazarin, the man with his hands on the reins of power during the regency.A psychological portrait of the king is explored in the context of this possibility, the historical consequences of which are extraordinarily reaching. In the 17thC,France was Europe's most glorious nation and Louis XIV was the incarnation of Apollo, the sun god, popularly referred to as Le Roi Soleil.He was invested with unprecedented power and privilege and endowed with life's finest pleasures, in the arts, music, poetry and material elegance. France was an exceedingly rich, diverse and powerful country: Louis was its magnificent public face, the pinnacle of its glory, for almost 50 years.But though he was one of the most politically effective monarchs ever to reign he was also a man irredeemably flawed and one who ultimately proved damaging both to France and its monarchy. Levi examines with an expert touch the lifelong clash between Louis' role as the sun king, custodian of the greatness of France, and his guilt, as a human being, at the effect of his reign on France and its people.He questions the wisdom of training one person to be the symbol of absolute authority without allowing or obliging them to act as the embodiment of that authority.Invested with such power, how did Louis use it? Was he tyrant or populist? What was behind the prodigal expenditure on pomp and finery - did he confuse his own glory with that of France? Levi creates a rich, intricate portrait of this legendary ruler, assessing his character and the mixture of devotion and promiscurity that is his hallmark.Detailed episodes reveal his relationships with women, the court, his ministers, subjects, the church and foreign powers. In a controversial and fascinating biography Anthony Levi shows how the ultimate monarch acquitted himself throughout the lengthy and testing role that fate cast him to play in European history. (Book ref. rja23186) £25.00
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Peter the Great.
LONDON.THAMES & HUDSON,1978.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. 8vo. 050087008X. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy, laminated, colour subject portrait photographic upper wrap, publisher's colophon to rear wrap with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges, a tiny closed tear to upper bd's bottom, right corner.Top edge lightly dust-soiled+lightly spotted; fore-edge bright and clean, contents bright, tight and clean. Clean, maroon paper-covered bds with publisher's gilt colophon to upper bd and bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with, plain white eps with minimal foxing.8vo, 10-207pp includes half-title+ title pages, contents list, preface, 8 chapters, 44 b/w contemporary illus between pp80-81, 2 b/w maps genealogical table+maps, chronology, notes to text, biblio and an index. Peter the Great seems to exemplify the completely autocratic ruler who, like certain Roman emperors, could in principle do exactly what he pleased with his inherited country.Yet he was subject to pressures of many kinds - social, political, economic, and even temperamental - which helped to shape his attitudes and to direct his actions.Though Peter is often made out to resemble a brilliant comet in European history, Professor Anderson is able to show that many innovations in the governing of Russia had begun before his time, and argues that Peter is best understood in the perspective of Russian history as a whole.This is the first English-language biography of Peter by an author in command of the great abundance of Russian materials, and it provides a thorough investigation into the domestic affairs of the country as well as a personal portrait of a highly gifted and enigmatic man.Peter's contributions to Russia's development are analysed in detail: his determination to westernize the country, to furnish it with the means of self-defence, to liberalize its religious and educational institutions, to give it a voice in international affairs, to create a new capital city of remarkable splendour.Professor Anderson also concentrates on another side of Peter's personality: the coarseness of his own behaviour, his frequent cruelty, his total lack of familial sentimentality.In assessing these two contradictory aspects of Peter the Great, the author shows his deep understanding of the problems which beset Russia at the dawn of the eighteenth century, and his unrivalled familiarity with the period. (Book ref. rja22456) £15.00
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Clock and watch trademark index: European origin : Austria, England, France, Germany, Switzerland
Antique Clocks Publishing, 1992. Paperback. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0933396279 967 pp. spine creased/concave, top page edges sl. marked (Book ref. 096737) £25.00
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