The beginning of the twentieth century

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  • Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centurythe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsthe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacketart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artsee oxfam website for delivery information read more51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's styleit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation

    19 €

  • Made at the beginning of the twentieth century, in excellent condition considering its age, with only (as shown in photos) a minor restoration in the lower left of the medusa, otherwise the sculpture is in perfect condition, totally intactour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storemeasurements: total height including base 70 cm, medusa height 47 cm, medusa width 47 cm, depth 13 cmcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebeautiful work of art, great medusa in the baroque style, after the “medusa rondanini”the sculpture rests, by mean of a brass pin, on an elegant and fine base in gray/black marbleplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    969 €

  • Good overall condition a laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the weimar republic () continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth centurythe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languagedrawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in english), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social lifewhile devoting much attention to the republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the frankfurt school, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographiesthis will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, german, and women's studiesoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to powerits thirty chapters explore germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "new woman," bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascismits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age

    20 €

  • In the beginning of the 20th centurypieces with a monogramour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store3 cm total weight: 463 grams in excellent conditionamazing cutlery set of forks made by simpson, hall, miller & comade by simpson, hall, miller & cocatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemade of sterling silver as per hallmarks on each handlesix forks show on their back side the following hallmarks: marplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteaccurate proper packaging and tracked shipping via courierthe silver shows oxidation signs; the item has been left unpolished, with its original patinafork length: 17cutlery set for 12 peopleare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    209 €

  • Based on hallmarks and crafting style, seller guess it was made in the beginning of the 20th centurywith silversmith hallmarkour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store3 cm weight: 689 grams in good condition, with slight scratches due to use, and traces of the glue (used to fix the felt pads on bottom)the silver fineness hallmark is partly illegible; it could be read 800 or 900catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabletracked shipping via insured mailplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteelegant square-shaped tray, with a wavy pattern on edge and shell-shaped decorations on the four cornersare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    342 €

  • Spanish piece of furniture from the beginning of the 19th centuryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storei sell it half-heartedly due to an overall change of furnitureit's a piece of furniture that doesn't go unnoticedcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit is in excellent condition considering its age, it has always been treated with the utmost care and was restored about ten years agoi inherited it from my grandfather who in turn received it as a gift from a nobleman of spanish origin (don pietro de leone)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    606 €

  • They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth centuryin depicting the lives of benjamin and lewis and their interactions with their small local community chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham on the black hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural wales and never leave home

    2 €

  • A magnificent silver cane from the beginning of the 20th century81sm the condition of the item is clearly visible in the photosour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    71 €

  • Good condition very nice heavy bell-shaped mortar with original pestle from the beginning of the 18th century5 cm diameter 13 cm diameter foot 9it has few signs of useour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store5 cm weight: mortar grams pestle 500 grams total weight grams the lot will be sent carefully packaged and by registered mailwith the pestle, the lines used as decoration have been eroded by frequent use on one sideplease also see the photos for its conditionmortar has a beautiful elegant design where lines in the foot and edge are applied as decorationmortar is clearly cast by a master castercatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemortar is in used, but beautiful conditionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    87 €

  • In this study, nigel moor examines the history and politics of planning, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present dayoxfam bookshop hexham few subjects court such widespread controversy as urban and regional planninglooks unread, in as new condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more

    9 €

  • Oxfam bookshop skipton draws together a rich variety of music from oriental, medieval and renaissance composers to the beginning of the seventeenth centuryoriginal dustcover, binding tight and pages cleansigned 'joyce l collins' by a previous ownersee oxfam website for delivery information read more

    9 €

  • Complete set of the history of the twentieth century by martin gilbert in three volumesbuyer collects as too heavy to postunwanted gift, and still as new

    8 €

  • This eclectic and unknown sculptor of the twentieth century managed with a few simple traits to give life to a creature disappeared millions of years ago nowit seems to smile, aware of its massivenessit has been part of my collection since the sour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeprimordial bull, tracing back to a primitive mastodoncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe bull is carved in the hard palombino stone, typical of the maremma between lazio and tuscanyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit has been often identified as a symbol of natural forces beyond human controlare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    203 €

  • Together these short sermons form the prophet, the most inspirational work of the twentieth centurythis newly reset edition of kahlil gibran's classic contains an introduction by robin waterfield which throws new light onto one of the most significant books of the century and is a major addition to penguin arkana's uniform gibran collectionoxfam bookshop cheltenham almustafa the prophet, or 'chosen one', is about to return to his native landsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebefore leaving his place of exile, he delivers twenty-six homilies to the people he is about to leave

    4 €

  • Coupled with the most newsworthy stories of the period and other relevant backdrop information, the book attempts an understanding of life in donegal during the 20th centuryoxfam bookshop wallingford donegal is a county which is steeped in historyeach locality has its own rich plethora of lore, tales anecdotes and historical datasee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is an attempt to present a sampling of these stories

    9 €

  • Logan has spent over a century being the best there is at what he doesdeath of wolverine ( published: october writer: charles soule cover artist: steve mcniven it's the beginning of the end - 3 months to die ends here! - the beginning of the end is now herebut now, the greatest x-men hero will play a role he's never played before in this special weekly event brought to you by industry superstars charles soule and steve mcniventhe death of wolverine! - three months to die, the loss of wolverine's healing factor--all led to this, the single most important x-men event of the decadeover the years, logan has been a warrior, a hero, a renegade, a samurai, a teacher-and so much morebut even the best fade away eventually

    7 €

  • Oxfam shop mutley plain " on the cusp of the twentieth century, in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, there a sensation that entranced the city's populace as nothing had before-a sensation that cast a great and disturbing shadow over the city, and then vanished, leaving no more trace than a shadow wouldslight bumping to bottom right hand corner of front coverin the autumn of , vienna's attention was focused not on its extraordinary cultural life, but on child abuse-specifically, two cases of child murder and two of abusesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile sigmund freud was anxiously awaiting the publication of the interpretation of dreams, in which he first theorized about the oedipal hostilities between parents and children, every day's headlines proclaimed the ugly reality of child abusechild abuse in freud's vienna is the story of that forgotten sensation in this fabled cityfocusing on the four cases that dominated the pages of the newspapers, larry wolff's riveting narrative paints a picture of a great city enthralled by a spectacle it desperately wished to ignore" book in good condition with clean pages throughout and securely bound

    9 €

  • Oxfam shop dumfries bookselling in scotland went through radical changes during the course of the twentieth century: the creation of more attractive shop interiors to replace the gloomy cathedrals of the pre-second world war era; increasing specialization of outlets, including the development of paperback bookshops; the growth of chains and the dogged persistence of independents; the abolition of the net book agreement; and, the importance of the mass media in the promotion of bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book provides a lively account of bookselling and booksellers through the life histories of key and representative figures in the scottish trade, told in their own wordsa balanced blend of anecdote and analysis, this is the first comprehensive insight into the nature of the trade and the radical changes it has been through in the past eighty years

    3 €

  • Oxfam books & music lichfield robert grainer is a day labourer in the american west at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary timesas his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform america in his lifetime shipped by train in into the woods of the idaho panhandle, he grows up, works on logging gangs, falls in love, and loses his wife and baby daughter to a particularly pernicious wildfirederailed by the loss of his family, grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresuffused with the history and landscapes of the american west, train dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly american way of life

    5 €

  • This second edition incorporates the very considerable advances in our knowledge of mosses made in the last quarter of the twentieth century and will provide a unique resource for all concerned with these fascinating organismsoxfam shop kendal paperback in very good condition with clean pagesin addition to the species descriptions there are descriptions of families and genera and also introductory information on conservation, collection, preservation and examination of material, together with advice on using the keysprevious owner's name on half-titlethe species descriptions provide information on frequency, ecology, geographical relationships and distribution, including information on protected species and those species at riskthis book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the british isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonymsan artificial key to genera provides the only workable comprehensive key published in the english languagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor many species there are footnotes to aid identificationcorners of cover slightly worn; front cover slightly creased

    19 €

  • Oxfam books & music totnes an autobiography of the twentieth century feudal chief of the island of sarkthere is a little wear to the free edges of the text blocksigned on title page " sibyl hathaway dame de sark" (sic) although the title is "of" sarkheinemann first editionit tells of her unconventional upbringing and covers the second world war when the remnant of the duchy of normandy, now in the possession of the queen of england, was occupied by german troopsundated gift annotation on ffepthe corners are slightly bumpedthere is light foxing and tanning throughoutthe dame "continued to treat the enemy with an off-hand condescension which they clearly found bewildering"red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreseveral black and white photographs

    130 €

  • Oxfam bookshop cheltenham robert grainier is a day labourer in the american west at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary timesas his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform america in his lifetimesuffused with the history and landscapes of the american west - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders - train dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly american way of lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebuffeted by the loss of his family, grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world

    2 €

  • The fountain originally decorated a garden of a 19th century historical palaceprestigious and imposing wall fountain, datable to the beginning of the 20th century, depicting a lion's head with lateral floral motifs, completely made of cast irondimensions: height 50 cm, length 34 cm, thickness: 2 cmtracked shipping via express courierour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablepiece for true connoisseurs and collectorsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    47 €

  • Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth providing a valuable historical background to a great human and ecological catastrophe of the twentieth century, pierre verluise presents a brilliant analysis of the effects of this natural disaster on problems confronting armenia and the armenian peoplesee oxfam website for delivery information read more

    20 €

  • Lots of interesting facts about railways, steam trains, diesel trains leading to electric poweredused by my son when in school during the s and still in good condition

    2 €

  • Minerve hallmark & risler hallmark (french silversmith) weight: 170 gr height: 16,2 cm diameter base: 5,5 cm perfect condition risler & carrĂ© were installed rue du faubourg saint-honorĂ© in paris from the end of the twentieth centuryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteno need to precise that it will be packed with care and shipped with track & trace read moresilver sugar sprinkler - risler & carrĂ© - paris - circa beautiful sugar sprinkler in high grade silver (925°)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    120 €

  • Ronald reagan and françois mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the unites states and france, respectively

    9 €

  • This deep-purple, famous vase is designed by georges de feure and manufactured by daum, france, at the beginning of the last centuryit might be nice to look for the different vases of this series on the internet, in order to verify this story5 in diameter - in very good conditionthe vase is in very good conditionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit is characteristic for the vases of this seriesthe vase will be adequately packaged and shipped with registrationcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablelight differences in colour, lines and irregularities are a result of the process of pâte de verrethe designer has intentionally made imperfections during the production process, either by colour differences, superficial lines or small irregularitiesthis vase in pâte de verre is his most famous vase; he has not designed many of them and focused mostly on furniture, glassware, knobs for walking sticks and lamps, but also candlesticks and silver boxesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteart deco vase made by george de feure, a pseudonym for georges joseph van sluijters, an artist of dutch descent, who also was an art painter, graphic artist and industrial designer in the art nouveau stylethere are cast lines visible and there are slight imperfections around the top of the vaseare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    102 €

  • Eaton, eighteenth century studies see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford from the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the middle east, encounters with the muslim world have helped americans define national identity and purpose"a powerful ending that explains how the experience with the barbary states compelled many americans to look inwardwith increasing doubts about the institution of slaverylesch, middle east journal"allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scenebulliet, journal of interdisciplinary history"this book should be widely readallison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as america's tendency to demonize figures like iran's khumaini, libya's qaddafi, and iraq's saddamfocusing on america's encounter with the barbary states of north africa from to , robert allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of islam in the american mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government

    4 €

  • This original edition by abbĂ© moreux deals with the possible existence of an atlantean territory, a debate strongly discussed at the beginning of the 21st centuryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe hypothesis that atlantis could exist dates from the middle ages, and would be reinforced by the discovery of america, a colony peopled by the ancients that had been separated from the continental block by a natural disasterbook in very good condition - fresh inside - 93 pages - octavo softcover the photos are a part of the description read morethis edition also contains banners and tailpiecescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe book is adorned with many black and white engravings, including mapswhether or not atlantis was located in the strait of gibraltar, in the sahara, or on crete, the author discusses the hypothesis of atlantis, and notably the azoresare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

    34 €

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