Search Results: Titles starting with F from Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 [First published in 1989 by Faber and Faber Limited]. 364 pages with indexes, editor's note and introduction. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased; original dustjacket not price clipped; dustjacket's edges are rubbed. Edges of the pages have tanned through age. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Anthology of poetry and prose on illness divided into sections (Generalities; Illnesses, Greater and Lesser; Eyes, Ears and Teeth; Doctors and Cures; Hospitals and Patients; Philosophers and Kings; Intellectual and Spiritual Frets; Strange Complaints, Mishaps, Embarrassments; Imaginary, Feigned, Psychological; Melancholy and Love Sickness; Manias, Phobias, Fantasies, Fears; Breakdown and Madness; Young and Old; Animals; Invalids and Convalescents; Short and Sharp). Some of the writers included are: Virginia Woolf, Proust, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Susan Sontag, Brecht. Many of the pieces are light-hearted, even comical - it will amuse,… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name." Welsh is the author of 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House'

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers,… Read More