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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SELECTED VIEWS OF CHATTANOOGA, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, NATIONAL CEMETERY AND MISSIONARY RIDGE
Lookout Mountain, TN Rollins & Linn, Photographers N.D. Paperback Good
Used in illustrated paperback with silk rope binding. Circa 1900, a photographic book of Civil War sites in this area. The photos are a mix of 1863 vintage and turn of the century "now" scenes. Also includes a fold-out "Grand Panoramic View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain". A tight, unmarked copy. Moderate to heavy wear and creasing to the covers with scraping to the front. Previous owner's name faintly present on the front cover, previous library/collection number to the first page, previous price whited out on first page. Moderate foxing and age discoloration inside the covers, lightly to the edges throughout the text. Tears near the spine of the front cover, creasing and tear to the fold-out. ; B/W Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 64 pages
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Abdo, Geneive NO GOD BUT GOD Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
New York Oxford University Press, USA 2000 0195125401 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. Ex-public library with laminated DJ taped to the boards. A clean, tight reading copy. Stamps and labels to the top page edges, front cover and lower spine, title page and rear endpaper. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; Shrouded in mystery, the Islamic presence in the Middle East evokes longstanding Western fears of terrorism and holy war. Our media have consistently focused on these extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive religious movement that is now transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, No God But God opens up previously inaccessible segments of Egyptian society--from the universities and professional sectors to the streets--to illustrate the deep penetration of "Popular Islamic" influence. Abdo provides a firsthand account of this peaceful movement, allowing its moderate leaders, street preachers, scholars, doctors, lawyers, men and women of all social classes to speak for themselves. Challenging Western stereotypes, she finds that this growing number of Islamists do not seek the violent overthrow of the government or a return to a medieval age. Instead, they believe their religious values are compatible with the demands of the modern world. They are working within and beyond the secular framework of the nation to gradually create a new society based on Islamic principles. Abdo narrates fascinating accounts of their methods and successes. Today, for example, university students meet in underground unions, despite a state ban. In addition, sheikhs have recently used their new legislative power to censor books and movies deemed to violate religious values. Both fascinating and unsettling, Abdo's findings identify a grassroots model for transforming a secular nation-state to an Islamic social order that will likely inspire other Muslim nations. This model cannot be ignored, for it will soon help organized Islamists to undermine secular control of Egypt and potentially jeopardize Western interests in the Arab world.
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Abelard, Peter, Heloise & Betty Radice (Translator) THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE
London Penguin Classics 1974 0140442979 Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in wraps. A tight, unmarked reading copy. Moderate wear and creasing to the covers with one crease to the spine. Scrapes from sticker removal to lower spine. ; Penguin Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers.
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Abelson, Ruth GOING MY WAY
Self Published 1990 Hardcover Good+ Signed by Author
Used in blue buckram cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Local family history with Davis, Morton and Abelson families in locales from Wisconsin to Kittitas County, Wenatchee, Nisqually and Puyallup in Washington State. Handwritten "Published Dec 1990" and signed by the author to the title page. A tight, unmarked copy. Moderate dampstaining to lower page corners from apparent coffee spill. Minor soiling/staining to top page edges. ; B/W Photo Reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 371 pages; Signed by Author
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Abu-Lughod, Lila WRITING WOMEN'S WORLDS Bedouin Stories
Berkeley CA University of California Press 1993 0520083040 Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in wraps. A beat-up but unmarked reading copy. Heavy creasing and wear to the front cover and first page, moderate bumping and edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages; In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.
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Achebe, Chinua ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
London Picador 1988 0330300954 Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in wraps. Previous owner's name inside front cover; otherwise a tight and unmarked reading copy. Minor bumping to the covers, moderate aging to the paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; ' (The writer) in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.
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Ackerman, Diane WIFE OF LIGHT Poems
New York William Morrow 1978 0688082866 First Paperback Edition Paperback Good+
Used in wraps. A tight, unmarked reading copy. Moderate rubbing and wear to the covers with small stain to lower spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages
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Adams, Henry THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS An Autobiography; in Two Volumes
New York Time, Inc. 1964 Reprint Paperback Very Good-
Used in trade paperback. Two volumes, both clean and tight. Wear and aging to the covers, moderate fading to the spines. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 581 pages; This classic autobiography includes accounts of Adams's residence in England and of his "diplomatic education" in the circle of Palmerston, Russell and Gladstone.
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Adero, Malaika (Editor) UP SOUTH Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's Black Migrations
New York The New Press 1993 1565840208 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Moderate rubbing to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; UP SOUTH gathers a vast range of documents and photographs - from letters and turn-of-the-century items in the "Chicago Defender", "Crisis", and "Opportunity", to scholarly research and selections from some of the finest American literary writing, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as Wright, DuBois, and Bontemps.
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Adigal, Prince Ilango; Alain Danielou (translator) SHILAPPADIKARAM (The Ankle Bracelet)
New York New Directions 1965 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Used in cloth. No DJ. A beat-up reading copy only. Bumping and edgewear to the cloth with stains to the back cover, small sticker residue to the spine. Light amount of ink and pencil notes and marks throughout the text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; The primary epic of Tamil literature. The peerless young Kôvalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Mâdhavi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikaram has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Adigal packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city and country life. And four Cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters’ and milkmaid’s song). Thus the story gives us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects. Prince Ilangô Adigal was a Tamil poet of ancient India and is considered as important to India as Homer was to the Western world. Alain Daniélou was an Indian historian, intellectual, musicologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism.
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Adler, Alfred THE SCIENCE OF LIVING
Garden City NY Garden City Publishing Co [1947] Reprint Hardcover Good+ in Good dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Later reprint of the 1929 Greenberg edition. Part of Garden City's "Star Books" Series. A clean, tight copy. Moderate bumping to the spine ends, light bumping to rear corners. Department store medallion inside front cover, minor scraping to front endpapers. Moderate rubbing and wear to the DJ with tears to the lower edges near spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages
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Aesop; V. S. Vernon Jones (Translator) AESOP'S FABLES
New York Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 159308062X Reprint Paperback Very Good+ Illustrated by Rackham, Arthur
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. ; B/W Line Drawings, Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesop’s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesop’s most entertaining and enduring stories from "The Hare and the Tortoise” and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” to "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs” and "The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. ” Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human type from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lions. These timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesop’s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.
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Al-Rasheed, Madawi A HISTORY OF SAUDI ARABIA
Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press 2002 0521644127 Reprint Paperback Good+
Used in trade paperback. Ink writing on the first page; otherwise a tight, unmarked copy. Moderate wear and bumping to the edges and corners, bookstore stickers on the back cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; Saudi Arabia is a wealthy and powerful country which exerts influence in the West and across the Islamic world. Yet it remains a closed society. The author traces its history from the age of emirates in the nineteenth century to the present day. Fusing chronology with analysis, personal experience with oral histories, she illuminates the social and cultural life of the Saudis. This rich and rewarding book will be invaluable to students as well as others trying to understand the enigma of Saudi Arabia.
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Albright, W.F. and C. S. Mann (Translators) THE ANCHOR BIBLE - MATTHEW A New Translation with an Introduction and Notes
Garden City NY Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1971 B001F3JG7Y First Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. A beat-up but servicable reading copy. Ex-public library copy with numerous stamps and labels to the endpapers and title page: pocket on the front cover, anti-theft label inside rear cover. Tape residue on the cloth and inside front covers. Fading and library labels on the DJ. DJ edges have been trimmed. Also some edge creasing to the DJ. This is Volume 26 of the Anchor Bible. 198 pp of Introduction and Notes by the authors. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 363 pages
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Alencar, Jose De SENHORA Profile of a Woman
Austin, TX University Of Texas Press 1994 029270450x 1st Printing, Thus Paperback Very Good+
Used in wraps. Reprint edition of the original 1875 Brazilian novel. A bright, clean copy. Minor rubbing, one crease to the covers. ; Texas Pan American Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Alexie, Sherman INDIAN KILLER
New York Warner Books 1998 0446673706 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in wraps. A clean, tight copy. Minor bumping and creasing to the covers, some creasing to page corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 420 pages
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Alexie, Sherman THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN
New York HarperPerennial 1999 0060976241 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor aging to the paper, slight edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
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Algren, Nelson THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
New York Seven Stories Press 1999 1583220089 Later Printing Paperback As New
Used in wraps. A bright, clean copy - appears unread. Slightest bit of edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages; Seven Stories Press is proud to release the first critical edition of Nelson Algren's masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949. Considered Algren's finest work, The Man with the Golden Arm recounts one man's self-destruction in Chicago's Polish ghetto. The novel's protagonist, Frankie Machine, remains a tragic American hero half a century after Algren created this gritty and relentlessly dark tale of modern urban society.
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Ali, Monica BRICK LANE A Novel
New York Scribner 2004 0743243315 Later Printing p Very Good
Used in wraps. A clean, tight reading copy. Minor edgewear, slight aging to the pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages
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Ali, Tariq THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMS Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
London Verso 2003 185984457x First Paperback Edition Paperback Very Good-
Used in oversized trade paperback. A clean, tight reading copy. Moderate bump and scrapes to lower page edges. Spine smooth, binding tight. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 428 pages; The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to extravagant proclamations by the pundits. It was a new world-historical turning point. The 21st century, once greeted triumphally as marking the dawn of a worldwide neo-liberal civilization, suddenly became menaced. The choice presented from the White House and its supporters was to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism or be damned. Tariq Ali challenges these assumptions, arguing instead that what we have experienced is the return of History in a horrific form, with religious symbols playing a part on both sides: 'Allah's revenge,' 'God is on Our Side' and 'God Bless America.' The visible violence of September 11 was the response to the invisible violence that has been inflicted on countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine and Chechnya. Some of this has been the direct responsibility of the United States and Russia. In this wide-ranging book that provides an explanation for both the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of Western colonialism, Tariq Ali argues that many of the values proclaimed by the Enlightenment retain their relevance, while portrayals of the American Empire as a new emancipatory project are misguided.
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Allen, Edgar J. PILOT FROM THE PRAIRIE
Seattle, WA Hara Publishing Group 2002 1883697581 Second Printing Paperback Very Good+
Used in wraps. Signed and dated by the author on the first page. A bright, clean copy. Minor curling to the covers. ; B/W Photo Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 117 pages; Signed by Author
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Allen, Paula Gunn (Editor) VOICE OF THE TURTLE American Indian Literature, 1900-1970
New York One World/Ballantine Books 1994 0345375262 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Previous owner's nameplate on the front endpaper, moderate bumping to the spine ends. Moderate edgewear to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages; Exploring such essential themes as transformation and change, an anthology of native American literature encompasses the works of seventeen authors, including E. Pauline Johnson, Charles A. Eastman, and N. Scott Momaday.
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Allen, Willis Boyd THE RED MOUNTAIN OF ALASKA
Boston Estes and Lauriat [1889] First Edition Hardcover Good+
Used in green decorative cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Juvenile fiction set in the Alaska Territory. A clean, tight copy. Preliminary page neatly excised (previous owner's name? ) but rest of contents appear complete. Moderate overall rubbing and wear to the cloth with moderate bumping to the spine ends, less wear to the corners. Minor soiling to the page edges, a couple of binding breaks where the cords show but they binding remains tight. ; B/W Illustration Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 348 pages
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Aller, Catherine THE CHALLENGE OF PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
New York Exposition Press 1964 B0006BPPFI First Edition Hardcover Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Lengthy gift inscription to front endpaper. Small ink smears to DJ flap and inside front cover. Otherwise a tight and unmarked copy. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages
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Allin, Michael ZARAFA A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
New York Delta Trade Paperbacks 1999 0385334117 Reprint Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear to the covers. ; B/W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 215 pages; In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she had sailed across the Mediterranean standing in the hold, her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck. In the spring of 1827, after wintering in Marseille, she was carefully walked 550 miles to Paris to the delight of thousands of onlookers. The viceroy's tribute was politically motivated: He commanded the Turkish forces then fighting the Greeks in their war of independence, and hoped his gift would persuade the French not to intervene against him. But the viceroy and his intentions were quickly forgotten as France fell in love with its "beautiful stranger." Zarafa chronicles the full story of this remarkable animal, revealing a kaleidoscope of history, science, and culture that opens an exotic window on the early nineteenth century. From the Enlightenment's blossoming fascination with science to Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Egypt in 1798–from the eminent French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to Bernardino Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt and tomb robber extraordinaire–the era was full of memorable events and characters. Michael Allin deftly weaves them into the story with an appreciation for detail and an uncommon affection. The giraffe's strange and wonderful journey linked Africa and Europe in mutual discovery. Although her arrival did not keep the French out of Ali's war, she became an instant celebrity in Paris and over the next eighteen years she fascinated all of Europe. Through Michael Allin's narrative skill, Zarafa stirs the imagination as it provides a new context for the history of a distant age.
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Allmand, Christopher HENRY V
Berkeley CA University of California Press 1992 0520082931 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Minor bumps to lower edges. Moderate edgewear to the DJ with small tears near the spine. ; English Monarchs; B/W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 480 pages; Thanks to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. Or is he? The image of the young king leading his army against the French and his stunning victory at Agincourt are part of English historical tradition. Yet to understand Henry V we need to look at far more than his military prowess. While Henry was indeed a soldier of exceptional skills, his historical reputation as a king deserves to be set against a broader background of achievement, for he was a leader and a diplomat, an administrator, a keeper of the peace and protector of the Church, a man who worked with and for his people. This new study, the first full scholarly biography of Henry V, based on the primary sources of both English and French archives and taking into account a great deal of recent scholarship, shows his reign in the broad European context of his day. It concludes that, through his personality and "professional" approach, Henry not only united the country in war but also provided England with a sense of pride and the kind of domestic rule it was so in need of at the time. Allmand offers far more than a biography of a king. His book is also a rich work of cultural history, with fascinating material on, for example, royal funerals, the reburial of Richard II in Westminster Abbey, the rise of Lollardy in England, and how one governed in the late Middle Ages.
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Alter, Stephen & Wimal Dissonayke (Editors) THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN INDIAN SHORT STORIES
New Delhi, India Penguin Books India 1989 014011775x First Edition Paperback Good
Used in trade paperback. A servicable reading copy. Moderate wear and creasing to the covers. Dampstain to the lower edges of the last few pages. Overall aging to the paper, moderate pencil (and some ink) markings in some stories. Includes "Nostalgia" by Bharati Mukherjee and "A Devoted Son" by Anita Desai. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages
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Ambler, Eric THE LIGHT OF DAY
New York Alfred A. Knopf [1962] B00279VHRW Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. Early book club edition with jacket design by George Salter. A clean, tight copy. Minor bumping to the lower edges. Light fading and discoloration to the DJ with slight creasing to the edges. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages; The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson’s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler’s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey’s notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.
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Ambrose, Stephen UNDAUNTED COURAGE Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
New York Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster 1996 0684826976 Later Printing Paperback Very Good+
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 521 pages; In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it -- wild, awsome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations.
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Amburn, Ellis SUBTERRANEAN KEROUAC The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
New York St. Martin's Press 1998 0312145314 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Used in illustrated boards and DJ with cut-out window. Bumping to the spine ends. Rubbing and edgewear to the DJ with a tear (tape repaired) to the front cover below window. ; B/W Photo Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 435 pages; In this first biography of Jack Kerouac to fully portray the intense inner life that inspired his work, Kerouac's last editor addresses the writer's homosexual relationships with men, and sheds a new light on their profound impact upon his life.
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Anaya, Rudolfo; Bruce Dick & Silvo Sirias (Editors) CONVERSATIONS WITH RUDOLFO ANAYA
Jackson, MS University Press of Mississippi 1998 1578060788 First Paperback Edition Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. Previous owner's name on first page; otherwise a clean and tight copy. A little bit of edgewear and curling to the covers. ; Literary Conversations Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; In this collection of interviews, Anaya talks about his life, his work, and the influences that direct him, including the importance myths and spiritual matters play in his writings.
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Andersen, Francis I. JOB An Introduction and Commentary
Downers Grove, IL Inter-Varsity Press 1977 0877848696 Second Printing Hardcover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Ex-church library with pocket and labels inside the front cover and on the front endpaper. Otherwise a tight and unmarked copy. Small white library label to the lower spine of the DJ, overall fading and rubbing to the DJ. ; The Tyndale Old Testament commentaries; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 294 pages; For Francis Andersen, the Old Testament book about Job is one of the supreme offerings of the human mind to the living God, and one of the best gifts of God to humanity. "The task of understanding it is as rewarding as it is strenuous. . . . One is constantly amazed at its audacious theology and at the magnitude of its intellectual achievement. Job is a prodigious book in the vast range of its ideas, in its broad coverage of human experience, in the intensity of its passion, in the immensity of its concept of God, and not least in its superb literary craftsmanship. . . . From one man's agony it reaches out to the mystery of God, beyond words and explanations." The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series. These commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties. The goal throughout is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.
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Andersen, Hans Christian; Marte Hvam Hult (Translator) FAIRY TALES
New York Barnes & Noble Classics 2007 1593082606 Reprint Paperback Very Good+
Used in trade paperback. A bright, clean copy - appears unread. Bumping and curling to the lower corners. With an Introduction and Commentaries on the Tales by Jack Zipes and Textual Annotations by Hult. ; Barnes & Noble Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 643 pages; Who has not laughed at the emperor’s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Anderson’s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersen’s collected tales, many—such as “The Little Mermaid, ” “The Red Shoes, ” and “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”—still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including “The Flying Trunk” and “The Most Incredible Thing, ” well worth rediscovering.
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Anderson, Margaret THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF
London Arkana/Penguin Books 1991 0140191399 Fifth Printing Paperback Very Good-
Used in wraps. Major scrape to front cover from sticker removal; otherwise a bright and clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; Provides a first hand account of the teachings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, the Russian occultist. Gurdjieff used stylized dance to "free" people to develop their full capabilities and influenced the modern human-potential movement.
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Anderson, Victor BEYOND ONTOLOGICAL BLACKNESS An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism
New York Continuum 1999 0826411525 First Paperback Edition Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Light wear and bumping to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages; In this study, Victor Anderson traces outcroppings of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in racial rhetoric it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Drawing together 18th- and 19th-century accomodationism and its assimilationist heirs with the movements of Black Power adn Afrocentrism, Anderson shows that all exhibit a similar structure of racial identity. He suggests that it is time to move beyond the confines of "the cult of black heroic genius" to what Bell Hooks has termed "postmodern blackness": a racial discourse that leaves room to negotiate African American identities along lines of class, gender, sexuality, and age as well as race.
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Anonymous, Robert Harrison (translator) THE SONG OF ROLAND
New York Mentor Books 1970 0451628225 Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in mass market paperback. A tight, unmarked reading copy. Spine slanted and creased, age darkening to the paper. ; Mentor; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; It is a timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versus Evil. And at the center of this heroic epic stands Roland-the supreme embodiment of chivalry and honor.
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Ansky, S. ; Golda Werman (Translator) David G. Roskies (Editor) THE DYBBUK AND OTHER WRITINGS
New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2002 0300092504 Second Printing Paperback Very Good+
Used in trade paperback. A bright, clean copy - appears unread. Slight rubbing to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages; In The Dybbuk, a drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, S. Ansky (1863-1920) brings together the saga of his own youthful rebellion against religious authority, his abiding faith in the power of the simple folk, his utopian struggle for equality, and his newfound commitment to the Jewish people. Anksy had just returned from an epoch-making ethnographic expedition through the Yiddish heartland of Eastern Europe, and what he found in the towns and townlets of the Ukraine was a religious civilization that mediated the living and the dead, the strong and the weak, the natural and the supernatural. In his introduction to this volume, David G. Roskies reveals that Ansky's return to Mother Russia was accompanied by a profound renegotiation with his hasidic heritage, the Yiddish language, and the Jewish historical imagination. The book also contains little-known works of autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction, as well as an excerpt from The Destruction of Galacia, Ansky's four-volume chronicle of the Eastern Front in the First World War.
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Anthias, Floya & Nira Yuval-Davis RACIALIZED BOUNDARIES Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle
London Routledge 1996 0415103886 reprint Paperback Good+
Used in trade paperback. An unmarked reading copy. A light stain to the top page edges, moderate creasing and curling to the edges and corners. Spine smooth, binding tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Racialized Boundaries offers an innovative approach to an analysis of the constructs of race and racism. The authors maintain that the concept of race has to be understood within the wider category of ``ethnos'' or ethnicity, which they define as a primarily political rather than a cultural phenomenon. The authors explore the ways in which race and racism serve as structuring principles for the processes of defining national boundaries and constituting national identities. They examine the ways in which the phenomenon of race and racism relate to other social divisions, such as class and gender and the way ``blackness'' can play a part in the racialization process. Finally the authors consider some of the ideologies that have influenced the ``race relations industry'' as well as some of the racial struggles surrounding this entity. In particular they look at what they term, ``community ideology,'' which underlies in different ways both multi-culturalist and anti-racist schools of thought and apply this ideology to a critical examination of identity politics.
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Antrim, Donald THE VERIFICATIONIST A Novel
New York Vintage Books 2001 0679769439 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor edge wear, bumping to the corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages; With The Verificationist, Donald Antrim, acclaimed author of The Hundred Brothers, confirms his place as one of America's strangest and fiercely intelligent young writers. One April night, a group of psychologists from the Krakower Institute meet at a pancake house, where they order breakfast foods and engage in shop talk and the occasional flirtation. At the center of this maelstrom of pyschobabble and unrequited lust sits Tom, program coordinator for the Young Women of Strength, who has been known to sob uncontrollably at meetings. When Tom tries to initiate a food fight, a rival psychologist bear hugs him into submission, resulting in an out-of-body experience that leaves our Tom hovering over his colleagues. In the hands of Donald Antrim, this unique perspective becomes an exuberantly funny riff on our culture that does nothing less than expose the core of emotions underlying the most basic of human needs.
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Apollinaire, Guillaume FLESH UNLIMITED Two Erotic Novellas
London Creation Books 1995 1871592569 Paperback Very Good+
Used in small trade paperback. A bright, clean copy - may be unread. Minor rubbing to the covers, small smudge to the page edges. ; Velvet Series, Vol. 4; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 188 pages; FLESH UNLIMITED is a compendium edition of Les Onze Mille Verges and Les Memoires d'un Jeune Don Juan, two of the finest examples of wild literary erotica ever produced. Dadaist poet Guillaume Apollinaire fine-tuned his uniquely poetic and surreal vision to produce these two materpieces of the explicit erotic imagination at the turn of the century, works which compare with the best of the Marquis de Sade. Presented in brand new translations by Alexis Lykiard (translator of Lautreamonts Maldoror) , these are the original, complete and unexpurgated versions, with full introduction and notes.
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Ardrey, Robert. AFRICAN GENESIS A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man
London Collins 1961 First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Fair dust jacket Illustrated by Ardrey, Berdine
Used in cloth and DJ. A servicable reading copy of the first edition. Previous South African bookstore label inside front cover. Previous owner's gift note to front endpaper, private note and newspaper clipping inside rear cover. Publisher's bookmark laid in. Moderate bumping and wear to the cloth, light soiling to the page edges. Heavy wear to the DJ with numerous chip/tears to the edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages
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Aristotle; David Ross (translator) THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
New York Oxford University Press, USA 1980 0192815180 Later Printing Paperback Very Good-
Used in trade paperback. Introduction by Ross, translation revised by J. L. Ackrill and J. O. Urmson. A clean, tight copy. Minor creasing and wear to the covers. ; World's Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages; This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains ten books based on the famous doctrine of the golden mean which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Topics that Aristotle treats include the good for humanity, moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, and happiness.
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Aristotle; G.M.A. Grube (Translator) ON POETRY AND STYLE
Indianapolis IN The Library Of Liberal Arts/Bobbs-Merrill 1983 B0007EMAKW Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in green wraps. Later printing of the 1958 edition. Translated, with an Introduction, by Grube. A clean, tight reading/study copy. Spotting and aging to the inexpensive paper, minor wear to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 110 pages
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Armstrong, Karen THE BIBLE A Biography
New York Atlantic Monthly Press 2007 0871139693 Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Bumping to the spine ends, slight edgewear to the DJ. ; Books That Changed the World; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book, translated into over two thousand languages, and the world’s best selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Made up of sixty-six “books” written by various authors and divided into two testaments, its contents have changed over the centuries. The Bible has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects. In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of history’s most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity’s sacred text. She explores how scripture came to be read for information, and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism. This is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.
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Armstrong, Karen THE BATTLE FOR GOD A History of Fundamentalism
New York Ballantine Books 2001 0345391691 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. Previous owner's name inside front cover; otherwise a bright and clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 442 pages; In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God. Writing with the broad perspective and deep understanding of human spirituality that won huge audiences for A History of God, Armstrong illuminates the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar to our moment in history. Contrary to popular belief, fundamentalism is not a throwback to some ancient form of religion but rather a response to the spiritual crisis of the modern world. As Armstrong argues, the collapse of a piety rooted in myth and cult during the Renaissance forced people of faith to grasp for new ways of being religious--and fundamentalism was born. Armstrong focuses here on three fundamentalist movements: Protestant fundamentalism in America, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran--exploring how each has developed its own unique way of combating the assaults of modernity. Blending history, sociology, and spirituality, The Battle for God is a compelling and compassionate study of a radical form of religious expression that is critically shaping the course of world history.
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Arnheim, Rudolf FILM AS ART
Berkeley CA University of California Press 1957 0520000358 Later Printing Paperback Good
Used in wraps. Servicable reading copy. Ink underlining to a few pages, one page creased. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 230 pages
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Arnold, Arnold THE WORLD BOOK OF CHILDREN'S GAMES
New York World Publishing 1972 0529007789 First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Minor cocking to the spine, bumping to the edges. Moderate edgewear to the DJ with 1/2" tears near spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pages
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Arnold, Matthew; Ian Gregor (editor) CULTURE AND ANARCHY An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
Indianapolis IN Bobbs-Merrill Co 1977 0672609940 Second Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. Previous owner's name inked out on the first page; otherwise a clean and very tight copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England.
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Arnold, Matthew; J. Dover Wilson (editor) CULTURE AND ANARCHY
London Cambridge University Press 1971 0521091039 Later Printing Paperback Good
Used in wraps. Earlier version of the front cover. Edited with an Introduction by Wilson. Servicable reading copy only. Moderate to heavy rubbing and wear to the covers and page edges. Ink underlining and marks scattered throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages
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Arnold, William SHADOWLAND
New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1978 0070023115 Fourth Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket Signed by Author
Used in boards and DJ. Dedicated and signed by the author to Lettie Gavin, an editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who pushed for the original 1974 article in that paper. She is mentioned in the acknowledgements. Also has gift inscription from Mrs. Gavin's son. A clean, tight copy. Moderate sun fading to the spine of the DJ. A controversial "biographical novel" about the life of the West Seattle-born Frances Farmer. Arnold was the film critic for the local newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in which this material first appeared as an article. The book is a fictionalized account which was further distorted when adapted as the film Frances in 1982. Arnold sued for copyright infringement, claiming the film's screenplay writers appropriated several of his "fictionalized" elements, but eventually lost. ; B/W Photo Reproductions; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages; Signed by Author
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Arockiam, Michaelsami THE CONCEPT OF JOY IN THE JOHANNINE LITERATURE
Delhi, India Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) 2002 8172146787 Paperback Good+
Used in wraps. Author's dedication and signature to the first page (To/Msr. Rxxxxxx X. Zxxx/with prayerful wishes/from Michaelsami/April 19, 2002). Moderate wear and creasing to the covers with small chip to lower spine. Minor soiling and creasing to the last page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages; Signed by Author
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Asbjornsen, P.C. and Jorgen E. Moe (Compilers) EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON AND OTHER TALES
New York The MacMillan Company 1966 Fourth Printing Hardcover Good+ Illustrated by Vroman, Tom
Used in illustrated library binding. No DJ as issued. Ex-private school library. A tight, unmarked copy. Small white labels to spine and rear cover. Stamps to preliminary page and title page. Pocket and card on rear endpaper. Light overall bumping and shelfwear to the edges. Small ink price inside front cover. Twelve tales from Scandinavian folklore, with an Afterword by Clifton Fadiman. Fourth printing of the 1963 edition. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages
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Asbury, Herbert SUCKER'S PROGRESS An Informal History of Gambling in America
New York Thunder's Mouth Press 2003 1560254955 Reprint Paperback Very Good-
Used in trade paperback. A tight, unmarked reading copy. Black remainder mark to lower page edges, moderate wear and creasing to the covers and page edges. ; B/W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 493 pages; Originally published in 1938, Sucker’s Progress is a complete look at old-time gamesmanship in America. From Midwestern riverboats to East Coast racetracks, Asbury explores the legal, and illegal, history of gambling in pre–World War I America. With a keen eye and acerbic voice, Asbury defines the world of gambling as one of “sharpers” and “suckers”: those who excel at the games by cheating, and their victims. From notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans to lesser-known outposts in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also included are photographs and details of the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes, ” who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also details the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of a number of dice and card games. From one-dollar lottery tickets to thousand-dollar poker antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion.
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Ashley, Sir William; and G. C. Allen THE ECONOMIC ORGANISATION OF ENGLAND: AN OUTLINE HISTORY With Three Supplementary Chapters
London Longmans, Green & Company 1949 Third Edition; Later Printing Hardcover Good+
Used in red cloth. Ex-college library. Moderate rubbing to the cloth with library markings to the spine. Full sized nameplate inside front cover, pocket and label removed from rear endpapers. Stamp to title page, pencil writing verso. Otherwise a clean, tight reading copy. "Sir William James Ashley (25 February 1860 – 23 July 1927) was an influential English economic historian. His greatest work of note is The Economic Organisation of England, still a set text on many A-level and University syllabuses." - from Wikipedia. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 271 pages
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Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION Book One of the Foundation Trilogy
New York Del Rey/Ballantine 1983 0345308999 Reprint Paperback Very Good Illustrated by Sweet, Darrell K. (Cover Art)
Used in mass market paperback. A clean and very tight copy. Slight aging to the paper. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages; For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.
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Auden, W. H.; J.D. McClatchy (Editor) VOICE OF THE POET: AUDEN Read by the Author
New York Random House Audio 1999 0375405925 As New
Audio cassette tape and companion book, still in shrinkwrap. Remnants of a sticker to the shrinkwrap. ; Audio Tape; 1.18 x 7.17 x 4.49 Inches; Part of a new series featuring rare archival recordings--some never before released--a two-color 48- to 64-page book with the complete text of Auden's poems, an introductory essay by the editor, and biographical information, this audio package treats listeners to a combination of the spoken voice and the written word.
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Augustine, Saint; Henry Chadwick (Translator) CONFESSIONS
Oxford, England Oxford University Press 1998 0192833723 Later Printing Paperback Very Good+
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor edgewear. ; Oxford World's Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages; In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood. Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context. The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic.
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Austen, Jane PERSUASION
Ann Arbor, MI Borders Classics 2007 158726479X Reprint Paperback As New
Used in folded wraps. A bright, clean copy of a nice edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 201 pages
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Austen, Jane EMMA
New York Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 1593081529 Reprint Paperback Very Good+
Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor rubbing to the covers. With an Introduction by Steven Marcus, Notes by Victoria Blake. ; Barnes & Noble Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 449 pages; Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has "lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse–a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of "tittle-tattle" is steeped in Austen's delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common." Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen "the most perfect artist among women," and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom "no one but myself will much like," Emma is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners.
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Austen, Jane SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
New York Everyman's Library/Knopf 1992 0679409874 Later Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Movie tie-in version of the DJ. With an Introduction by Peter Conrad. Green ribbon place marker. A bright, clean copy. Minor creasing to upper spine of DJ. ; Everyman's Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 367 pages
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Austen, Jane PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
New York Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 1593082010 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback. Introduction and Notes by Carol Howard. A clean, tight copy. One shallow crease to the back cover. ; Barnes & Noble Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 392 pages
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Austen, Jane; Tony Tanner (Editor) MANSFIELD PARK
Harmondsworth, England, UK Penguin Classics 1972 0140430164 Reprint Paperback Good+
Used in mass market paperback. A vintage reading copy. Text tight and unmarked. Aging to the pages, light wear to the edges. Earlier version of the cover art. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 464 pages; First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered.
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Austen, Jane; Tony Tanner (Editor) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Harmondsworth, England, UK Penguin Classics 1972 0140430725 Reprint Paperback Good+
Used in mass market paperback. Earlier version of the cover art. A solid reading copy. Previous owner's small gift inscription to first page verso; otherwise tight and unmarked. Minor aging to the pages, light rubbing and edgewear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish. Originally published anonymously in 1813, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read and most popular novels in the English language. The courtship between the independent Elisabeth Bennett and the handsome yet arrogant Mr. Darcy illuminates the page in this wonderful novel of comedy and manners.
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Austin, Lewis (Editor) JAPAN: THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS
New Haven, CT Yale University Press 1976 0300019572 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Edited with the assistance of Adrienne Suddard and Nancy Remington. A bright, clean copy. Minor edgewear and creasing to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages
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Babbitt, Irving ROUSSEAU AND ROMANTICISM
Austin, TX University of Texas Press 1977 029277012x Reprint Paperback Good
Used in trade paperback. A servicable reading copy only. Lots of neat red ink underlining throughout. Moderate to heavy rubbing to the covers, red dot to the lower page edges. Spine smooth, binding tight. "Originally published in 1919, ROUSSEAU AND ROMANTICISM is considered the classic work in the New Humanist movement. This volume is timeless in its concerns and presents the crux of the humanist/romanticist debate which has been going on for three centuries and continues today. Babbitt was a sharp critic of romanticism and its offshoots, realism and naturalism, advocating a philosophy of moderation and restraint inspired by classical literature and traditions." - from the back cover. Introduction by Harry Levin. ; Library of Conservative Thought; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages
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Bagehot, Walter THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 1971 0801490235 Second Printing Paperback Good
Used in wraps. Introduction by R. H. Crossman. Servicable reading copy only. Moderate rubbing and wear to the covers and page edges. Moderate amount of ink underlining scattered throughout, heavy ink notes to inside rear cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages
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Baillie, John THE BELIEF IN PROGRESS
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1951 B0006ASFHE Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. Previous owner's stamp inside front cover, name to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. Moderate edgewear to DJ with fading to the spine and 1 1/2" tear to upper front panel. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages
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Baillie, John AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1933 B00086ZBCI First Edition Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Used in cloth. No DJ. Servicable reading copy. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Pencil notes to front endpaper, markings scattered throughout and then extensively to rear endpaper. Moderate bumping and wear to the cloth, soiling to top page edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Baillie, John THE THEOLOGY OF THE SACRAMENTS And Other Papers
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1960 B0007DM1A2 Later Printing Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Used in cloth. Servicable reading copy. No DJ. Previous owner's bookplate and name inside front cover, writing to front endpaper. Light amount of markings throughout text. Moderate bumping to the cloth with splash stains to lower page edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages
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Bainton, Roland H. THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION
New York D. Van Nostrand Company 1956 0442000138 Later Printing Paperback Good+
Used in paperback. Different version of the cover art. A clean, tight reading copy. Moderate curling to the edges of the covers. One major crease to the front cover. Previous bookstore stamp on the first page. ; Anvil Originals; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages; With the aid of over sixty important sources, most of them translated and abridged by the author, this brief history brings an age of upheaval into sharp focus. It succinctly shows how a compelling ideology, the Christian faith, shaped the history of the Reformation. The religious revolution of the sixteenth century shattered an ecclesiastical structure and quickened a universal faith. The Christian heritage that the Reformation revitalized and transmitted to our time is still the source of western man's ability to talk in terms of universal justice, humanity, and the rights of man.
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Bajic-Poderegin, Milka; Nadja Poderegin (Translator) THE DAWNING A Novel
New York Interlink Books 1995 1566561884 First American Edition Paperback Very Good+
Used in trade paperback. A bright, clean copy. Minor rubbing to the covers. ; Emerging Voices : New International Fiction Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 335 pages; This family saga is set in a southern province of Yugoslavia as it emerges from five centuries of enslavement to the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian empires. It is a portrayal of generations of Serbian women whose stoical strength holds their families together in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Baker, Nicholson THE FERMATA
New York Random House 1994 0679415866 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Used in boards and DJ. Red remainder stripe to lower page edges. A clean, tight copy. Light rubbing to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages
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Balcazar, Jose Luis; Josep Diaz & Joaquim Gabarro STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY II
New York Springer-Verlag 1990 0387520791 Hardcover Very Good+
Used in cloth. A bright, clean copy. Just the slightest bit of wear to the covers. Includes a three page Errata sheet for Volume I. Scarce. ; EATCS Monographs on Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 22; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages; This is the second volume of a systematic two-volume presentation of the various areas of research in the field of structural complexity. The mathematical theory of computation has developed into a broad and rich discipline within which the theory of algorithmic complexity can be approached from several points of view. This volume is addressed to graduate students and researchers and assumes knowledge of the topics treated in the first volume but is otherwise nearly self-contained. Topics covered include vector machines, parallel computation, alternation, uniform circuit complexity, isomorphism, biimmunity and complexity cores, relativization and positive relativization, the low and high hierarchies, Kolmogorov complexity and probability classes. Numerous exercises and references are given.
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Ball, Alan and Alan Poul (Editors); HBO SIX FEET UNDER Better Living Through Death
New York Pocket Books/Hbo 2003 0743480651 First Edition; First Printing Paperback Very Good
Used in trade paperback inserted into a plastic sleeve. A clean, tight copy. Minor creasing to the front cover and first few pages (from grasping the book out of the sleeve) . ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Six Feet under: Better Living Through Death is a history of the Fishers and their extended family. From Nate and David's childhood to the disappearance of Lisa Kimmel, major events and daily routines are revealed through the characters' personal photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia. The book includes Nathaniel's letters to Ruth from Vietnam, Claire and Billy's instant messages, excerpts from Charlotte Light and Dark and Nathaniel and Isabel, and more, offering readers an intimate view into the world of Six Feet Under, a one-of-a-kind companion, Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death is sure to enthrall fans of TV's most riveting drama.
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Ball, Angela VIXIE
Oxford, England Oxford University Press 1987 0192715550 First Edition Hardcover Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
Used in cloth and DJ. A clean, tight copy marred only by a donor's bookplate inside the front cover. Moderate aging to the paper. Light rubbing and edge creasing to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 138 pages; Eleven-year-old Vixie, the shepherd's daughter, is living in a period of great change. The time is 1908. The old countryside ways are dying and the old trades are vanishing. But Vixie is full of spirit and imagination. When she is sent off into the world, only half-prepared and half-educated, she puts her mind and strength into making the best of things. This is the story of one year in the life of Martha Bowden, nicknamed Vixie, of the changes that happen to her and her family, and of how she grows up in a peaceful village in Wiltshire at the turn of the century. Reminiscent of Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie and the writings of Thomas Hardy, this is an evocative and moving novel for young readers.
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