Smithies michael (53 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that e…

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. The city of Yogyakarta is in the heartland of Central Java and is the cradle of Javanese culture. Founded in the eighth century, it is within reach of the great Hindu-Buddhist monuments of the eighth and ninth centuries of Borobudur and Prambanan. The author, who lived in the city, d…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Blue hard covers in dust jacket. 90 pp. With a few black and white illustrations throughout. A collection and reprinting of various English language accounts, from the mid to late 1800s, of the city of Phetchaburi…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ix, 101 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 20 cm, Summary:The ancient city of Yogyakarta has remained relatively untouched by the modern world. This book gives an account of its history, and a guide to its monuments, and the classic arts and crafts to be seen in the area…

Hardbound. Zustand: Fine. Second edition. Borobudur in Central Java is one of the largest religious monuments in the world, and has been a focus of interest and a prime destination for tourists since its restoration under the auspices of UNESCO in the 1960s. The author, a former member of the EFEO and a consultant architect to t…

Second Edition. Very good copy in a good, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 379 pages; Description: 379 p., [22] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 16 cm. Subject: Thailand -- Guidebooks. Thai…

Zustand: New. This account of Kosa Pan's journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive report of the activities of the embassy written for King Narai. Editor(s): Cruysse, Dirk van der; Smithies, Michael.…

Hard bound. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n/a. First Edition. Bangkok, the City of Angels, to the uninitiated now seems more like Los Angeles than the Venice of the East by which name it was known to early visitors. Michael Smithies, who first came to work in the city in 1960, has written a sympathetic and stimulat…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.xx+94 +ads. 21cm. 22 colour photographic illustrations. Illustrated end papers. Soft covers.Small bookshop labels on covers, one partially removed from front. Good clean copy. (The text of Loti's work was first published in English in 1913). Euayporn Kerdchouay. (illustrator)…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Innovative sixties magazine 'for the new kind of woman'. This issue includes cover star Ava Gardener, Alan Aldridge profile, 'Dougal's Self-Erasing' by Terry Jones and Michael Palin, 'Go red in the sun' photo by Helmut Newton, spots fashion by Lawrence Sackman, 'The Public Image' by Muriel Spark,…