art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Budapest A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955269, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series...
PB:
£12,00
QTY:
Great Pubs of London Pocket Edition
ISBN: HB: 9783791385143, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
240 pp., 18.9x14.7 cm, 210 colour illus.
For centuries, the pub has been an essential part of London's cultural and social fabric. This book takes readers through the doors of 25 historically and architecturally significant London pubs. Through photographs specially commissioned for this pr...
HB:
£14,99
QTY:
Flanders A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955283, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Famous for its cemeteries and monuments, Flanders has witnessed war and bloodshed on a colossal scale. Divided between Belgium, the Netherlands and France, this low-lying expanse of land has also known religious conflict and li...
PB:
£12,00
QTY:
Malta Land of Sea
ISBN: HB: 9789993276005, Casemate, Midsea Books, January 2017
244 pp., 26.5x22 cm, colour illus.
Malta is a Mediterranean territory of land and sea. Its history is inspired by the ways and means how the two connect and merge, overlap and retreat. Dominant civilisations have engaged with this unique cultural landscape over time. All have contribu...
HB:
£38,00
QTY:
Journey That Never Was Around the World in a Mini in the Early 1960s
ISBN: PB: 9781861513700, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, December 2014
380 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
To Jeanne de Ferranti's business-minded parents, it was dismissed as an irresponsible waste of time, and it quickly became "the journey that never was". It didn't enter the record books, and it was never reported in the press. But to Jeanne and her f...
PB:
£21,50
QTY:
Alice in Waterland Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford
ISBN: HB: 9781908493699, Signal Books, November 2012
144 pp., 23.3x17.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! A world-famous Oxford story from a new angle: the essential role played by the River Thames in the creation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass . It was on rowing trips with Alice Liddell and her s...
HB:
£12,00
QTY:
Brussels A Literary and Cultural History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781904955474, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its humble origins as a few huts in a forbidding swamp, Brussels took more than a thousand years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant and then of Burgundy, and from 1830 the capital city of the new kingdom of Belg...
PB:
£12,00
QTY:
Kyoto A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955139, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains...
PB:
£12,00
QTY: