From one of the twentieth century s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edit... more

PORTRAIT IN SMOKE Danny April is obsessed. He buys out a little collection agency in Chicago, and th... more

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of a... more

Nicholas Shrimpton, gathers together the principal publications of the distinguished scholar-critic Stephen Wall. Wall was...... more

In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) ... more

The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight... more

BORROW THE NIGHT Judge Ralph Addison has been receiving threatening letters for the past six days, b... more

THE BABY DOLL MURDERS Cliff Tierney was trained by Markham to be the best, a carny s carny. Then Hol... more

Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me. Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner....... more

In an age of rampant corruption and violence, Richard "Bo" Dietl was the strongest cop on New York’s... more

condemnation. In his Introduction Nicholas Cronk considers the nature of Voltaire’s engagement in political debate, literary style...... more

The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Britain’s leading contempo... more

"Too frequently a multi-author work on a composer obscures rather than illuminates its subject. This... more

In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasra... more

In Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, Constant explores the subjects of law, sovereign... more

lasted for over thirty years. With a foreword by Nicholas Dromgoole....... more

Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi conte... more

Robert M. Young’s critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities... more

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these ... more

, and includes a chronology and an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare. The character of Johann Voss is based on an actual...... more

A collection of ancient Greek poetry that chronicles some of the major episodes from Greek mythology... more

In 1922, following a decade of political ferment and open bloodshed, the Irish Free State was establ... more

A veritable multiverse of odd scribblings, encompassing forgotten British filmmakers, cartoons and c... more

Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven’s gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, ... more

This volume features a series of abstractions created over the past two years by British abstract pa... more

editor-in-chief, and by Nicholas Goldberg, the paper s editor of the editorial pages. When read in sequence the arguments gain force...... more

, this is the book s first English translation--with a new introduction by Scott Nicholas Nappalos and Joshua Neuhouser...... more

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of Worl... more

"This book was first published to accompany an exhibition in the Sunley Room at the National Gallery... more

and on the stage, and Nicholas John compares the libretto with the play to show how skilfully it was adapted for the...... more

players, family members, and fans to capture fifteen years (1946-1961) of baseball at its finest. Nicholas Dawidoff s...... more

The approximately 77,000 photographs in The Library of Congress collection from the (FSA), later th... more

At the age of 17, rejecting nineteenth-century materialism, Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) left her na... more

This volume includes essays by leading scholars - Barkhoff, Boyle, Byrne, Canisius, Duerr, Fischer, ... more

In Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, Constant explores the subjects of law, sovereign... more

’s fans. Here too is a brief history of the restaurant by Nicholas Pileggi and a Preface by Dick Schaap. Both will...... more

Everything you need to know about collecting books, in one classic guide. Modern Book Collecting off... more