About this title: A homage to the city of Trieste, rich with history and tinged with the melancholy of remembrance. "Morris at the peak of her form." -The Atlantic Monthly. Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on the place is characteristically layered ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780743201285ISBN:0743201280
Description: Good. RELIABLE library withdrawal in the plastic, protective covers. Stamped at the page edge with a card pocket removed from the last blank inside cover page leaving a mark. Some scuff to the covers and the page edge. This edition is presentable. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 0306811804 Book could have shelf wear, or a bump, or sunfade to edges. These are new unread books from the publisher with one of these conditions. See are feedback as customers are satisfied in how we grade our books. Has remainder mark. Fast shipping and customer service is our number 1 priority! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780306811807ISBN:0306811804
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tight, clean copy. "Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on the place is characteristically layered with ... read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780743201285ISBN:0743201280
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0743201280. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket lightly scuffed, front jacket flap creased, else a clean, tight copy.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; 203 pages. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780743201285ISBN:0743201280
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. A Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780571204687ISBN:0571204686
Description: By Photographs. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. PB, pictotial card covers, 194pp, b/w illus. Minor rubbing to covers, inside has tanning to page edge, else square, clean & tight. A memoir of Trieste by top travel writer. Ranges from end of WW2 until time of publication..240g when packed. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, England
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780571204434ISBN:0571204430
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering. 194 pages. Only a couple of library stamps. Appears barely issued. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover; 1st Printing
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780743201285ISBN:0743201280
Description: F/F. 49, 61. 0743201280. 1st edition/1st printing. Fine book (clean, straight & tight) in a fine, price intact dust jacket (clean, bright & crisp). The final work of this author evokes the modern history of Trieste, a city on the Adriatic. Very nice copy! ; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 203 pages. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780743201285ISBN:0743201280
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. vg+ Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Trieste -- one has to know about it to find it or want to go to this far off corner to experience it. Rich in the history of European royality and war necessity or convenience, it has changed hands through what ever army marched through. BUT it is and Italian city and you'll learn to love it. It is a very personal view by the author, not a third party intellectual fact book. Then you'll have to go there."
"Melancholy, erudite, all the usual adjectives. Morris's best book (of the ones I've read) concerns her travels in a place where nationalities rub up against one another."
"This brooding history/ city portrait by this exceptional travel writer intensified my love of crumbling, melancholy old port towns. Having romanced this city for more than half a century, Jan Morris nostalgically weaves a lyric travel tale of this once sea empire, and too often overlooked European city."
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