London: Granada Publishing Limited 1980. New Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Collection of verse by the Russian poet who died in a transit camp under Stalin's regime. "The survival of many of his poems - some hidden in saucepans and old shoes some in his wife Nadezhda's memory - is something of a miracle" from front flap. Selected and translated by James Greene with forewords by Nadezhda Mandelstam and Donald Davie. Octavo; dark red textured cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 96pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped and lightly shelfworn with a tiny tear at crown. Granada Publishing Limited hardcover
V�ga. Broch�. 144 pages. En suivant les explications d�taill�es de cet ouvrage vous apprendrez � " devenir votre propre astrologue ". Les bases de l'astrologie n'auront plus de secret pour vous et plus important ce livre vous permettra de dresser et d'interpr�ter des horoscopes offrant ainsi un aper�u des influences qui gouvernent votre vie et la vie des personnes qui vous sont ch�res. D�couvrez le calcul des angles et les positions plan�taires ; Apprenez le symbolisme astrologique ; Ma�trisez la signification des signes maisons et aspects et �tudiez leurs r�v�lations sur votre caract�re et potentiel ; Apprenez � reconna�tre la forme les dessins et la signature de votre th�me et � les interpr�ter de mani�re coh�rente ; Utilisez le th�me pour des aper�us de chaque aspect de votre vie. Biographie de l'auteur Paul Wade pratique l'astrologie depuis 17 ans. Autorit� reconnue dans le domaine il assiste souvent � des s�minaires en Chine et donne des conf�rences dans toute l'Europe. Il a �crit plusieurs livres couronn�s de succ�s sur le sujet V�ga unknown
London: C. Taylor 1792. First Edition Thus . Speckled Calf Gilt. Very Good. 10 5/8" x 8 7/8. Fine Plates. Title Vii 407 List Of Plates. 1792. Full Size 10 3/4" Tall X 8 7/8". Speckled Calf Gilt Rules Morocco Spine Label Gilt With Elaborate Gilt Decorations In 5 Other Compartments. Binding Worn But Nicely Furbished. Joints Cracked But Still Solidly Bound. Hinges Solid Front Endpaper Detached 2" At Top.Pages Clean And Square Unworn A Few Foxing Spots Mostly To Plates Very Faint Foxing Spots On Some Pages. <br/> <br/> C. Taylor unknown
H. Piazza 1974. in12. Broch�. 355 pages. Bon Etat / Usures d'usage lu / Couvertures et dos l�g�rement d�fra�chis micro-pliures plats pass�s voir photo / Int�rieur : Tr�s Bien propre petite annotation stylo dos de 1�re de couv' rousseurs tranche ok lecture H. Piazza unknown
London: Basil Blackwell 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Xii 119 Pp. With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth Gilt. First Edition In English With German And English Text On Facing Pages. Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners Gilt Brilliant Tiny Owner's Signature Philosopher Irwin Chester Lieb At Center Of Front Free Endpaper With Some Infrequent Pencil Emphasis Marks And At Least One Extended Marginalia And At Least One Double Emphasis Mark In Ink . Dj Unlaminated And Slightly Taller Than The Book Is Very Good With Very Slight Browning To Spine A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks 1/8" Chipping To Part Of Top Of Spine And At Upper Front Tip. Ernest Chester Lieb Chet Lieb Died In Pasadena On May 23 1992 After A Long Illness But Just Before His Magnum Opus Past Present And Future: A Philosophical Study Of Time Was Published. From Princeton He Went On To Cornell For An M.A. Followed By A Year In N.Y.C. Advertising. However Academia Kept Calling And Lie Went On To Yale For His Ph.D. And To Teach There And At Connecticut College Before Joining The Philosophy Department At The Univ. Of Texas In 1963 As Professor And Administrator. He Was Instrumental In Establishing The Press As Well As Serving As Dean Of Graduate Studies. In 1981 He Moved On To The Univ. Of Southern California As Provost. Subsequently He Served As Dean And V.P. As Well As Professor Of Philosophy. He Served On Many National Panels And Committees Including The American Council Of Learned Societies The National Endowment For The Humanities And The Assn. Of American Universities. He Authored Four Books And Innumerable Scholarly Papers. He Was A U.S. Navy Pilot During Wwii And Held A Commercial Pilot's License. In 1983 He And A Colleague Traveled To Russia To Facilitate The Travel Of Seven Prominent Soviet Scientist "Refuseniks" Coming To This Country As Visiting Scholars. <br/> <br/> Basil Blackwell hardcover
New York: Philosophical Library 1950. First American Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. Xii 119 Pp. With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth Gilt. First American Edition Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain Where It Came Out The Same Year 1950. English And German Text On Facing Pages. First Published In German In 1884 This Is The First English Translation. Fine No Wear Gilt Brilliant No Names Or Marks. Dj Is Very Good Very Slight Browning To Spine A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks No Chips Or Tears. <br/> <br/> Philosophical Library hardcover
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1972. First US Edition. Paperback. The Swedish Nobel Prize-winner's second book to be translated into English. First Printing wrappered issue. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; xxvi842pp. Light wear to extremities with faint crease to lower corners of a few terminal leaves; Very Good. University of Pittsburgh Press paperback
New York: Philosophical Library 1950. First American Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good -/No DJ. 119 Pp.Green Cloth Gilt. First American Edition Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain Where It Came Out The Same Year 1950. English And German Text On Facing Pages. First Published In German In 1884 This Is The First English Translation. Very Good Except For Browning To Spine. Gilt Present And Still Fairly Bright. Previous Owner's Inscription Dated Christmas 1950 On Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Philosophical Library hardcover
London: Putnam 1940. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Third novel Sholokhov's four-part epic depicting the lives and struggles of the Don Cossacks during World War I the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. Uncommon in the first printing particularly in dustjacket. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vii861pp. Spine ende gently nudged some offset to front endpaper with a crack to gutter at terminal leaf; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 9/6 net gently spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn with some dustiness and a few stray marks to rear panel; Very Good. Putnam hardcover
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1911. First American Edition. Hardcover. Second volume featuring Lagerlöf's best-known character Nils Holgersson "whose chief delight was to eat and sleep and after that he liked best to make mischief." This together with its predecessor The Wonderful Adventures of Nils would become Lagerlöf's most popular and enduring work. Lagerlöf was the first female author and first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. Scarce in dustjacket. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; light brown cloth with titling and decorations stamped in white dark yellow and hunter green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x339pp; frontispiece and 14 plates of illustrations. Brief contemporary 1914 pencil inscription to front endpaper spine ends gently nudged with rubbing to white spine lettering else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned with some dustiness to panels a few small chips to upper edge several tears and a few small moisture stains to spine; Very Good. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
London: Putnam 1960. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Continuation of the Russian Nobel Prize-winner's story begun in Virgin Soil Upturned 1935 of a collective farm organized under the supervision of the Communist Party in a small Don village. First Impression. Octavo 20.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 399pp. Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dustjacket gently spine-sunned with a few small moisture spots to same and some rubbing to rear panel. Putnam hardcover
Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. 1979. First Edition Thus; Special Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Near Fine. A handsome volume with gilt decorations on the covers gilt page edges a hubbed spine and accompanying decorated end papers. Text is clean and unmarked illustrated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Franklin Library hardcover
The Limited Editions Club 1971. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Slipcase. Illustrations By Cyril Satorsky. Xx 101 Actually 202 Pp.#139 Of 1500 Copies Of This Limited Edition Signed By Satorsky. In Slipcase As Issued. Book And Slipcase Would Be Fine Except Dampstain To Bottom 1 To 2" Of Slipcase And Light Dampstain To Bottom 1" Of Front Board And Spine Of Book Extending Onto Part Of Rear Board And With Traces Along Bottom Edge Of Rear Board Near The Spine; And Pages Are A Little Wavy At Bottom. International Postage At Usps Priority Mail Box Rate Which Will Be Well Over Twice As Expensive As The Book. <br/> <br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover
The Limited Editions Club 1981. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. Wood Engravings By Fritz Eichenberg. Xxvii 320 Pp. #139 Of 2000 Copies Of This Limited Edition Signed By The Illustrator. Bound In Linen Cloth Gilt. Fine In Fine Slipcase. With The Limited Editions Club "Number Eleven" Sheet Laid In Loosely. <br/> <br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover
The Limited Editions Club 1988. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. Etching By Piero Guccione. Xxvii 320 Pp. #139 Of 750 Copies Of This Limited Edition Signed By The Illustrator. Bound In Beige Linen Cloth With A Nigerian Goat Spine Label Gilt. Original Etching By Guccione With Tissue Guard. Fine In Fine Slipcase. With The Limited Editions Club Letter Of February 1989 Laid In Loosely. <br/> <br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover
London: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Good dust jacket. Toning and edgewear to jacket including a few chips and tears. Sunning to jacket. Corners of flaps are slightly clipped not price clipped. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. A panoramic history starting just before the Conquest examining the Aztec Maya and Inca civilizations their intellectual artistic and cultural achievements. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xxviii594xliii3pp; illus. Slight lean base of spine gently nudged else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket priced $10.00 clipped at lower right corner of front flap; mild wear and dustiness to extremities; Near Fine. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Descl�e & cie 1939. in12. Broch�. 136 pages. traduit sur le texte original par le chanoine A. Crampon traduction notes et revues par Tricot Descl�e & cie unknown
W. W. Norton & Company. 1977. Good plus book in very good minus dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is excellent. Would be grade very good if not for the ffep having been removed. Some shelf wear to the dust jacket and looks great except has some small surface scapings on the back of DJ. Carefully packaged for safe shipping. . Hard Cover. Good /Very Good -. W. W. Norton & Company. Hardcover
Editorial América 1925. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 sale item 294 pp. paperback text moderately tanned else good Editorial América paperback
Hardback. As New. The most comprehensive manual of the practice of insight meditation vipassana written by one of its foremost 20th century proponents is translated into English for the first time. Manual of Insight is the magnum opus of Mahasi Sayadaw one of the originators of the "vipassana movement" that has hardcover
Birmingham AL: Oxmoor House Inc. 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good hardcover copy no dustjacket Introduction and Commentary by the artist. 155 pp lists 156 works illustrated throughout in 4/C Oxmoor House, Inc. hardcover
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