From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first impression. Published Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974. Fine in very good dust jacket; pages very slightly yellowed, and dust ja... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Blackwood’s first book is a mix of stories and reportage; she began her writing career while married to the poet Robert Lowell. First edition, fi... read more
A memoir by the Egytian woman who set up an independent book shop with a friend and her sister in 2002 - ten years later it had grown to include ten shops and 150 employees. Full of the nois... read more
Includes 'Egyptian Nights', 'Dubrovsky' and 'History of the Village of Goriukhino'; Pushkin's great-grandfather is thought to be the model for Ibrahim, the former slave of the title. A new t... read more
A feminist polemic that looks at women's resistance to male domination, both historically and now, and the consequences of independence, education, knowledge and power.
Having escaped the massacre at Katyn, Czapski was interned and lived to write these essays on some of those who were murdered, as well as pieces on Blok, Soutine, and others. He was the mode... read more