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Lanigan Catherine
"Parfum de Jasmin - ""Jade"""
Harlequin. 2006. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 521 pages. Bandeau d'éditeur conservé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300329906
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Colleen hoover - vidal pauline (traduction)
Jamais plus - une jeune femme face au cycle de la violence
HUGO POCHE NEW ROMANCE n°48. 2018. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 444 PAGES - couverture rempliée. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272954
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ELIZABETH GEORGE - NATHALIE SERVAL (traduction)
Une chose à cacher - Entre enquete policiere et drame intime
PRESSES DE LA CITE / FL EDITIONS. 2022. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 652 PAGES. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272858
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Erika Krouse, Marianne Véron (traduction)
Passe me voir un de ces jours
LE GRAND LIVRE DU MOIS. 2002. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 235 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272866
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Letts Billie
Indian cafe.
Belfond. 1999. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 385 pages - papier jauni.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R200130568
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Collectif
Mexican wall paintings - Maya and Aztec periods
A Mentor -Unesco art book n° MQ526. Format poche. Livre en langue anglaise.Bon etat.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4359
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C. Bruneteau - J.-M. Luccioni - J. Brossard
Initiation a la version anglaise
Armand Colin, collection U2, 1971. Format 12x16 cm, broche, 413 pages. Bon etat, mais couverture sale.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16699
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SHAKESPEARE William
The complete works
France-Loisirs, 1980. Fort in-8°, format 15x24 cm, reliure editeur sous jaquette illustree, 1021 pages. Ouvrage illustre. Texte en langue anglaise sur deux colonnes.Tres bon etat.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21547
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W. Stannard Allen
Living english structure
Longman, 1974. Format 13x20 cm, broche, IX+338 pages. Bon etat.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33860
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F. J. Quanjer
Pour bien savoir l'anglais - Odds and ends for the use of students of english
Payot, 1951, troisieme edition. Format 14x23 cm, broche, 171 pages. Bon etat.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37020
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Jaynie Anderson (ed.)
Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, and Convergence. Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art
Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2009. A very thick in-4 book of 276 x 194 mm for (6) vii, xvii, 1108 pp. Coal black hardbinding, title in bronze on the cover and spine, abstract in bronze on the back cover. Printed on couché paper, profusely illustrated with a majority color images. No dust jacket as issued. "Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence is an in-depth examination of the effect of globalism on art and art history. Covering all aspects of art—including traditional media, painting, sculpture, architecture and the crafts, as well as design, film, visual performance and new media—it explores the themes of conflict, migration and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Crossing Cultures is a compilation of the conference papers from the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art organized by the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), edited by conference convenor Professor Jaynie Anderson. This volume contains more than 200 papers presented at the congress by art historians from twenty-five countries, including Homi K Bhabha (Harvard University), Michael Brand (Director of the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), Marcia Langton (Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne), Ronald de Leeuw (Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), Neil McGregor (Director of the British Museum, London) and Ruth B. Phillips (Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa). Never before has the state of art history in our polycentric world been demonstrated so well. Crossing Cultures encourages fresh thinking about global art history." (Abstract)
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0373
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Merton Thomas
"La nuit privée d'étoiles - ""Livre de vie"" 2-3"
Albin Michel. 1961. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Papier jauni. 381 pages. Tranches roses passées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300329662
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Jotterand Franck
"Le nouveau théâtre américain - ""Points"" N°11"
Seuil. 1970. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 252 pages. Nombreux passages soulignés au crayon de papier dans le texte. Accroc sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300329744
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Watzlawick P./Helmick Beavin J./Jackson Don D.
"Une logique de la communication - ""Points"" N°102"
Seuil. 1979. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 280 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300329742 ISBN : 2020052202
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MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS- LEBETTRE LAPORTE (trad)
Au premier cri de l'engoulevent (when the whippoorwill ...)
ALBIN MICHEL. 1954. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 325 pages - rousseurs sur la couverture. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272711
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DENNIS MURPHY - CHARLOTTE & STEFAN CROZET (trad)
L'etau (the sergeant) - roman americain
STOCK. 1959. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 232 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272710
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Henry David Thoreau, Germaine Landré-Augier (Trad)
Walden ou La vie dans les bois - Walden or Life in the woods - Collection bilingue des classiques etrangers - introduction, traduction et notes par G. Landre-Augier
"AUBIER. 1982. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 573 pages - Texte Original, en anglais & Version Francaise + 1 coupure de presse : ""Thoreau, de plain-pied dans le monde : affronter ces lieux de hautes solitude, les puissantes seductions du genre, par nathalie CROM"". . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine"
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272715
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TAYLOR R.L. - JEAN RENE MAJOR (traduction)
Les voyages de Jaimie Mac Pheeters - Le roman du grand feuilleton T.V. - Collection Paralleles
MERCURE DE FRANCE. 1964. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 324 pages - jaquette correcte. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272730
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Weintraub Sidney
Corrida au Mexique.
Presses Internationales. non daté. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 127 pages - coins frottés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R100076314
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LE THÉÂTRE ANGLAIS CONTEMPORAIN sous la direction d'Elisabeth Angel-Perez et de Nicole Boireau
Klincksieck Angle ouvert 2007.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : MM-781
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LISA JACKSON - VERSINI BARBARA (traduction)
Dans l'ombre du bayou - roman
Harlequin/ Mira. 2008. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 469 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20272702 ISBN : 228084298
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Lamb Dana & Cleveland June
"Les vagabonds enchantés - Tome 1 + Tome 2 (2 volumes) - Tome 1 : Viva Mexico ! - Tome 2 : Adios amigos ! - Collection "" la croix du sud ""."
René Julliard. 1953. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 313 pages + 285 pages - quelques cartes en rouge et noir hors texte en fin d'ouvrage dans les 2 volumes - couverture contrepliée - coiffes abîmées - coins frottés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R100076150
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Howey Hugh
Silo Origines - Collection Babel n°1352.
Actes Sud. 2021. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 624 pages - petit accro sur le 1er plat, tranche de gouttière tachée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R200129996
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Koster R.M.
Le Prince de Tinieblas.
Denoël. 1974. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 415 pages - coins frottés - 2ème plat et tranches tâchées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R100076073
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Whitman Walt
"Poèmes, feuilles d'herbe - ""Poésie"""
Gallimard. 1999. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 274 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300329491 ISBN : 2070327086
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Edward Bowen
Matriarchs: Great Mares of the 20th Century
Lexington (Kentucky), The Blood-Horse, 1999. An in-4 hardcover volume of 278 x 222 mm with 223 pp. With its original dust jacket. Foreword by Seth Hancock. Richly illustrated. "Noted turf authority Edward L. Bowen takes a definitive look at a select group of top American broodmares and their descendants. Among the mares profiled in this volume are the great La Troienne, Rough Shod II, Myrtlewood, Blue Delight, Grey Flight, and Missy Baba, who is the ancestor of both 1999 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Charismatic and 1999 Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid. Includes 32 pages of photographs plus detailed pedigrees and female lines of the featured mares."
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0337 ISBN : 158150022
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Art Critic on the Shelf
Pablo Helguera
2017, no mention of city or editor. An oblong 211 x 248 mm octavo volume, 79 pp. Hardcover. A mention on the spine: "Art Agency, Partners - Artoon Collection 2017". Grey endpapers, the first showing an printed signature of the artist. The book is full "artoons" satirizing life in the world of contemporary art. There are almost no mentions of it over the Internet so it seems like a rare album, only published for a handful of friends or associated of the "Art Agency".
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0316
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Edgard Da Rocha Miranda
...And The Wind Blew: A Play in Three Acts
Rio de Janeiro, Ministério da Educação e Cultura, 1957. Softcover. Octavo, 227 x 163 mm, 158 pp. First edition (a second edition was issued in 1959). Theatre script, illustrated with various photographs printed on couché paper. Discrete bookstore stamp on the title page. The play starts on a caipira Brazilian village with a few notes of the "Bacchianas Brasileiras" of Hector de Villalobos. This is the first Brazilian drama/theatre played in the United States. It was played Off-Broadway under the direction of Joan Horvath.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0334
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Charles Morrow Wilson
An Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade
New York, Henry Holt & co, 1947. One in-8 volume of 218 x 148 mm, 303 pp. First edition, mention of first printing. Green hardcover, no jacket, title written in gold on the spine with author's and editor's name above and below. Green vertical bands at the double title page. Table of contents at the beginning of the book. An interesting work on American entrepreneurs and the United Fruit company. Written before the smear campaign which tarnished the company's reputation, a true tale of human action and interactions amidst exotic places.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0339
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Don Kowet, Pelé
Pelé by Don Kowet [signé par Pelé / signed by Pelé]
New York, Atheneum/SMI, 1976. Édition originale. Dédicacé par Pelé sur la page de titre. In-8, 222 x 147 mm, 129 pp. Relié plein tissu rose foncé, jaquette rose, image de couverture découpée et collée sur le plat avant, plats et reliure sous plastique. Livre issu de la bibliothèque de la Escola Americana de Rio de Janeiro, tampon "DISCARDED" sur la première garde blanche, tampon de bibliothèque et de date sur la page de titre. Portrait noir et blanc de Pelé en frontispice, dédicace "Do amigo Pelé" sur la page de titre. Album de photos noir et blanc au milieu des pp. 64 à 69 non paginées. Biographie peu courante, rédigée bien avant la version de 2006. New York, Atheneum/SMI, 1976. First edition. Signed by Pelé on the title page. In-8, 222 x 147 mm, 129 pp. Bound in full dark pink cloth, pink dust jacket, cover image cut out and pasted on the front cover, covers and binding under plastic. Book from the library of the Escola Americana in Rio de Janeiro, stamp "DISCARDED" on the first white endpaper, library and date stamp on the title page. Black and white portrait of Pelé on the frontispiece, dedication "Do amigo Pelé" on the title page. Black and white photo album in the middle of the book on unpaginated pp. 64 to 69. Paper a little yellow with some slight creasing. Signed page in good condition. Solid binding. Scarce biographical work, written well before the 2006 version.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0366
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Lord Northbourne
Look To The Land
London, Dent, 1942. 190 x 130 mm, 186 pp. Hardcover with blue cloth, no jacket. Reprint of the 1940 edition. This is a rare copy of the war edition which, due to war restrictions, contains less paper than usual and shows the "Authorized Economy Standard" seal of approval on the first page. "In May 1940, Lord Northbourne’s book ‘Look to the Land’ appeared. He coined the term ‘organic farming’. His book stripped out the prolixity, abstruseness, esotericism and mysticism of Rudolf Steiner, and, with compelling clarity, Lord Northbourne presented a manifesto of organic agriculture. From this point on, biodynamics and organics have developed in parallel, with the general recognition of biodynamics as a particular manifestation of organic agriculture." (John Paull, "The Global Growth and Evolution of Organic Agriculture", p. 5) "Lord Northbourne (1896-1982) was a man of exceptional vision, who already in the 1940s diagnosed in detail the sickness of modern society as stemming from the severance of its organic links with the wholeness of life. A leading figure in the early organic farming movement, his writings profoundly affected such other pioneers as Sir Albert Howard, Rolf Gardiner, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, and H. J. Massingham. His path led him on to a profound study of comparative religion, traditional metaphysics, and the science of symbols, which he employed in incisive observations on the character of modern society. His later writings exercised considerable influence on his younger contemporaries E. F. Schumacher and Thomas Merton, and in many ways anticipate the essays of Wendell Berry." (Later summary of the book by Angelico Press) Walter Ernest Christopher James, 4th Baron Northbourne (1896-1982) was a precursor of what is now known as organic agriculture. He translated to English several works by Perennialists or Traditionalists René Guénon, Fritschof Schuon and Titus Burckhardt, and contributed frequently to the quarterly journal Studies in Comparative Religions. According to Wikipedia, "Lord Northbourne's garden at Elizabethan Northbourne Court near Deal in Kent, set within the standing former outbuildings (the manor house burned in the 18th century) and upon ancient terracing, nurtured for a century, is reputed one of the finest in England; it is not generally open to the public."
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0254
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Sir Richard Hawkins, James A. Williamson
The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins
London, Argonaut Press, 1933. Edition of 475 copies on Japan paper, unnumbered. Original editorial binding 1/4 vellum and cloth. Four fold-out maps. 91pp of introduction + 190pp of text + index. Small in-4, 260 x 200 mm. Edited work from the original text of 1622 with introduction, notes and appendix by James A. Williamson. Book deals with the travels and observations of Sir Richard Hawkins in the late 16th century. Seal of the Brazilian physician, scientist, politician and chronicler, Artur Hehl Neiva, former owner of this copy, on page XIX of the introduction and on page 17 of the text.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0248
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Federação da Agricultura do Estado São Paulo
São Paulo Agrícola / Agriculture
São Paulo, Spala, 1981. First and only edition. One of the 3000 copies printed. Bilingual book in Portuguese and English, published by the Federation of Agriculture of the State (Estado) de São Paulo (FAESP). A square 30.5 x 30.5 cm volume, 198 pp. hardbound with no dust jacket as issued. Title written in dark green on front cover and spine. Dark green endpapers. This volume showcases the agricultural production of the Brazilian state of São Paulo with numerous maps beautifully printed. Widely illustrated, rich in numbers and tables/diagrams. Pages on beef cattle, poultry cattle, rice, soja beans, coffee, feijão beans and many other crops and cattle animals.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0234
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Alvimar et Gonzaga Rodrigues (ed. et texte)
Parahyba. A cidade, o rio e o mar / The city, the river and the sea / La ville, le fleuve et la mer
Rio de Janeiro, Bloch Editores, 1991. Livre trilingue portugais, anglais et français. Première et unique édition de cette oeuvre atypique consacrée à Paraíba, état du Nordeste brésilien, et à sa capitale en bord de mer João Pessoa. Grand in-4 relié, 302 x 245 mm pour 127 pages. Jaquette illustrée, imprimé sur papier couché, intérieur riche en photographies accompagnant le texte dont des photos double page. Blason de l'État de Paraíba en quatrième de couverture. "La capitale du Paraíba est une cité privilégiée. Elle est née entre le fleuve et la mer, elle a grandi dominant une colline de laquelle l'on voit, aujourd'hui encore, une végétation exubérante. Cette couverture est la marque la plus caractéristique de son paysage, de l'estuaire du fleuve aux plages de Tambaú, prévalant sur les toitures et les avenues, comme si ce lieu qui a tant impressionné le colonisateur portugais restait intact." (Tarcísio de Miranda Burity, gouverneur de l'État, Présentation) Rio de Janeiro, Bloch Editores, 1991. Book written in three languages: Portuguese, English and French. First and only edition of this atypical work dedicated to Paraíba, a state in the Brazilian Nordeste, and its shoreline capital city João Pessoa. Large hardcover 4to, 302 x 245 mm for 127 pages. Illustrated dust jacket, printed on coated paper, interior rich in photographs accompanying the text including double-page photos. Coat of arms of the State of Paraíba on the back cover. "The capital of Paraíba is a privileged city. It was born between the river and the sea, it grew dominating a hill from which one can still see, today, exuberant vegetation. This cover is the most characteristic mark. of its landscape, from the estuary of the river to the beaches of Tambaú, prevailing on the roofs and avenues, as if this place that so impressed the Portuguese colonizer remained intact." (Tarcísio de Miranda Burity, Governor of the State, Presentation) Rio de Janeiro, Bloch Editores, 1991. Livro trilíngue português, inglês e francês. Primeira e única edição desta obra atípica dedicada à Paraíba, estado do Nordeste brasileiro, e à sua figura histórica João Pessoa. Grande in-quarto encadernado, 302 x 245 mm para 127 páginas. Sobrecapa ilustrada, imprimido em papel couché, fartamente ilustrado com fotografias acompanhando o texto incluindo fotos de página dupla. Brasão do Estado da Paraíba na contracapa. "A capital paraibana é uma cidade privilegiada. Nasceu entre o rio e o mar, cresceu dominando um morro de onde, ainda hoje, avistamos uma vegetação exuberante. do estuário do rio até as praias de Tambaú, predominando nos telhados e avenidas, como se esse lugar que tanto impressionou o colonizador português permanecesse intacto." (Tarcísio de Miranda Burity, governador do estado, Apresentação)
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Keith Haring
Keith Haring in Brazil: Booklet from a 2003 exposition of Keith Haring's works in Brazil
São Paulo / Brasília, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2003. Created for the first Keith Haring exhibition in Brazil where 55 of his artworks were shown. A colorful 180 x 140 mm booklet with a detail from one of Haring's Untitled painting and his name in white on the front cover and a youthful picture of Haring on the back. Softcover with jacket flaps. Bilingual, starts with texts in Portuguese and ends with the same texts in English. Features many black and white pictures of Keith Haring, many of his artworks and two texts: "Urban Radiance: reflections on the life and work of Keith Haring" by art historian Joshua Decter and "Keith Haring in Brazil" by his lifelong friend Kenny Scharf. "In the early 1980s, New York streets and subways were the first to showcase the work of Keith Haring, vigorous graffiti-like pictures indicative of his engagement with mass culture. Today, for the first time ever in Brazil, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil showcases fifty-five works by this artist, including drawings and paintings. The exaltation of U.S. society never benumbed Haring's critical view regarding his environment or historical moment in time. Humor and wit pulsate in the spontaneously fluid linework if this artist whose freedom in handling themes and forms conquered space and contributed to the creation of a direct, and at times almost plain language rooted in the vocabulary of mass culture and means of consumption." (Back flap)
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Ralph Cintron
Democracy as Fetish
University Park (PA), The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. First edition. An octavo volume, 236 x 160 mm, 237 pp. Hardcover with no dust jacket, just as published. Two black and white illustrations. "Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desires for social order, global wealth, and justice but also how these desires cannot be satisfied. Throughout his discussion, Cintron includes ethnographic research from fieldwork conducted over the course of twenty years in the Latino neighborhoods of Chicago, where he observes both citizens and the undocumented looking to democracy to fulfill their highest aspirations. Politicians hand out favors to the elite, developers strong-arm aldermen, and the disenfranchised have little redress. The problem, Cintron argues, is that the conditions required to put democracy into practice—territory, a bordered nation-state, citizens, property—are constituted by inequality and violence, because there is no inclusivity that does not also exclude. Drawing on ethnography, economics, political theory, and rhetorical analysis, Cintron makes his case with tremendous analytic rigor. This challenge to reassess the discourses on democracy and to consider democratic politics as always compromised by oligarchy will be of particular interest to political and rhetorical theorists."
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David Felix
America Rising: Power and Political Economy in the First Nation
New Brunswick (NJ), Transaction Publishers, 2009. First edition. Octavo, 235 x 160 mm, (xiii) 265 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. "The United States became a great power in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and a superpower during World War II without quite knowing it. Few Americans fully appreciate the fact today. How many people know that in recent years we have had 250,000 troops in 700 bases around the world? Consider our recent history of military operations in the Caribbean, East Asia, the Far East, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Balkans. In America Rising, David Felix attempts to explain how and why America became a superpower by examining the political and economic factors that have driven its ascendance and their relationship throughout history. Felix begins with the dawn of America, showing how America amassed wealth and political power from the start through wars, assertions of economic might, and the creation of a cultural and philosophical base. The nation began with a political order, derived from our British origins, which enabled our pragmatic culture to take advantage of the vast wealth of a near-virgin continent. Political and economic freedom were paired, authority yielding to both freedoms. Our farmers and businessmen were dreamers, manufacturing realities out of those dreams. Felix's account then makes a point of neoclassical economics as an anvil on which to hammer out a sharper sense of the content of our existence. This book, which demonstrates the author's zest for historical analysis and great story-telling ability, points to the central fact of a rising America--the intensely energizing interaction between polity and economy. The United States is the greatest power in world history, but the rise of another great power, China, is beginning to be increasingly apparent. One trusts that, drawing upon its deep resources, America will remember its history and traditions and continue as a superpower." (Front and back flap)
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Women's Auxiliary to the Stranger's Hospital (compiled by)
Anglo-Brazilian Cook Book
Rio de Janeiro, Charles Frank Publications, 1947. 3rd Edition. Wide in-4, 318 x 140 mm, 162 pp. Bilingual text written in two columns, English on the left and Portuguese on the right. No editor mentioned at the beginning, various women mentioned throughout the text and credited for all recipes and tips explained. Two star bands on the top and bottom of the front cover, title and collective authorship on the front. Detailed index (8 pp.!) at the beginning of the book. Many empty pages left as "Memorandum" to be filled with notes. This now rare book is full of interesting recipes and tips. It features typical Brazilian dishes such as broinhas, Bahia patties or cheese tartlets as well as English or even French dishes. Though no pictures are included, this should give a lot of inspiration when it's time to cook! Rio de Janeiro, Charles Frank Publications, 1947. 3ª edição. Un volume grande in-quarto, 318 x 140 mm, 162 pp. Texto bilíngue em duas colunas, inglês à esquerda e português à direita. Nenhum editor mencionado no início, diversas mulheres nomeadas ao longo do texto e creditadas por todas as receitas e dicas descritas. Duas faixas de estrelas na parte superior e inferior da capa, título e autoria coletiva na capa. Índice detalhado (8 páginas!) no início do livro. Muitas páginas vazias deixadas como “Memorandum” para serem preenchidas com anotações. Este livro raro está cheio de receitas e dicas interessantes. Apresenta pratos típicos brasileiros como broinhas, empanadas baianas ou tortinhas de queijo, além de pratos ingleses ou mesmo franceses. Embora nenhuma foto esteja incluída, isso deve dar muita inspiração na hora de cozinhar!
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0273
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Homersham Cox
The Institutions of the English Government: book 2, Judicature
London, Sweet, 1863. Book 2 "Judicature" only. Octavo, 225 x 155 mm, pp. going from 297 to 757 (roughly 450 pp.). Hardcover. Original burgundy half-leather, raised bands, author's name, title and vol. number stamped in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers. Small label at the bottom of the spine, some damage on the upper left of the front panel, corners rubbed. From the library of the Instituto dos Surdos Mudos (Institute for the deaf and mute) of Brazil with only one discrete stamp on the title page, no other library marking. "In The Institutions of the English Government (1863), Cox argued in terms of a constitutional "balance of powers", at variance with the contemporary theorists Walter Bagehot and A. V. Dicey. A History of the Reform Bills of 1866 and 1867 was acknowledged by the author as a partisan Liberal work. It was brought out in time for the 1868 United Kingdom General Election. He was a critic of the cross-party co-operation seen in passing the Reform Bill of 1867, arguing that democracy was being undermined." (Wikipedia)
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0278
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Renato Clark Bacellar
Brazil's Contribution to Tropical Medicine and Malaria: Personalities and Institutions
Rio de Janeiro, Gráfica Olímpia Editora, 1963. First and only English edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Anita Farquhar. Softcover. Octavo, 238 x 168 mm, 379 pp. Off-white cover and spine with author's name and book title. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography and index at the end. As the title shows, this book endeavors to show what Brazil did in matters of "tropical medicine". Here are a few chapter titles amongst the XV chapters: - Adolfo Lutz and the Bacteriological Institute of São Paulo - Vital Brazil and the Butantan Institute - Short History of Yellow Fever in Brazil - The tropical Medical Department at the Medical School of the University of Brazil - The National Institute of Rural Endemic Diseases
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0296
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Li Mu
Waves of the Blue River: Survival and triumph through one of history's greatest crimes in China
São Paulo, self-edited, 2017. One octavo softcover book of 228 x 154 mm, 118 pp. Many black and white pictures throughout the book. Translated from Chinese to English by David Curtis Wright with the author's help. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. A heart-wrenching and powerful story about a Chinese man who overcame many hurdles to escape an authoritarian government to ultimately land in Brazil, where he and his family fared well in peace. "Born in 1933, Li Mu, pseudonym of Dr. Yeung Chi Bor, is a Chinese-Brazilian doctor and acupuncturist. He grew up in the Chinese province of Guangdong under the Chinese Communist Regime. Targeted by the authorities as 'landlords', Yeung and his family were persecuted, defamed, tortured, and had their possessions confiscated. His father was executed and he was sent to labor camps. Throughout his struggle for survival, Yeung bore witness to one of the worst atrocities in history. He ultimately escaped as a refugee into Hong Kong in 1962 and, in 1977, made a great leap into the unknown, immigrating to Brazil at the age of 44. Dr. Yeung has three daughters and one son, and lives with his wife in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais."
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0298 ISBN : 197933160
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Antônio Joaquim de Souza Carneiro
Rubber in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Ministry of Agriculture/Superintendency of Rubber, 1913. In-8, 213 x 146 mm, 94 pp. First and only edition of this "booklet to be distributed abroad" (quoted by Gustavo Rossi, "Uma família de cultura", p. 48). Rebound in brown half-leather with a soft spine with gilt, modern-printed author's name and book title on it. Colored endpapers, no original cover, photograph of President Rodrigues Da Fonseca in frontispiece. Many photographic pictures printed on a different, whiter paper facing the text. Folding table p. 23. This book belonged to the library of the Laboratório Nacional de Análises. Two red library stamps, one on the first page and one on the last, the latter featuring another library stamp with a pen note. A concise yet detailed snapshot on the rubber industry in Brazil right before the First World War began. The author of this book is the father of Newton Carneiro (1914-1987), a Brazilian politician who was elected deputy for the state of Curitiba and led sections of the Rotary Club and Alliance Française.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0307
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Y. B. Zeldovich & A. D. Myskis
Elements of Applied Mathematics
Moscow, Mir, 1976. First English edition from the Russian original of 1972. Octavo. 22.5 x 16 cm, 659 pp. Editor's grey cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Black-and-white picture on the cover shown as frontispiece. Headband. Contents: Certain Numerical Methods, Mathematical Treatment of Experimental Results, More on Integrals and Series, Functions of Several Variables, Functions of a Complex Variable, Dirac's Delta Function, Differential Equations, Differential Equations continued, Vectors, Field Theory, Vector Product and Rotation, Calculus of Variations, Theory of Probability, Fourier Transformations, Digital Computers. Preface and Table of Contents at the beginning of the book, References and Index at the end.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0194
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Aracy Amaral
Arts in the Week of '22 [1922]
São Paulo, BM&F, 1992. Revised edition. In English. One hardcover volume, 285 x 225 mm, 254 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with flaps. Headbands. Printed on couché paper, well illustrated with black and white photographs and color prints of artworks, including a b&w photo of Victor Brecheret, Di Cavalcanti, Menotti del Picchia, Oswald de Andrade and Hélio Seelinger as frontispiece. Published as part of the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Modern Art Week of 1922. "This book has blazed new paths towards a comprehensive and fertile understanding. It was originally published in 1970 and now, after so many years, the abridged text of this edition still preserves a pioneering stamp that could only be achieved through sensitivity and a steadfast prospecting of sources. In the field of plastic arts, what would be the meaning of a cultural construction of Brazil? Would it imply highlighting certain subjects? The fundamental contribution of the modernists was precisely the fact that it posed the problem of national culture."
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0199
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Various Authors
Amazonia by the Brazilian Embassy of London - #10
London, Dialogue Publications Ltd, 1976. in English. Rare 70s publication about the Amazon rainforest, few copies printed. "This is the tenth of a series of papers prepared by the Brazilian Embassy" after a few on the Brazilian development model, inflation control and economic growth, foreign policy, etc. A tall in-4 softcover booklet of 297 x 212 mm. 35 pp. Twelve chapters, many black-and-white pictures, colored maps of Brazil and the Amazon region. List of chapters: The World of the Amazon, the People of the Amazon, the Traditional Economy of Amazonia, the First seven years of the SUDAM project, the New Development Strategy of Polamazonia, the Free Zone of Manaus, the Amazonian Bank of BASA, Agriculture in Amazonia, New Roads in Amazonia, Modern Man in Amazonia, The Traveller in Amazonia and Science and the Amazon. "When the Brazilian Government launched 'Operation Amazonia' in 1966, it rekindled the country's concern for this vast region of forest and river. For most Brazilians, interest in Amazonia had faded since th collapse of the rubber boom and extravagant life that went with it in the early years of this century. But in the past ten years there has been a radical and continuing change in Amazonia's fortunes, the impact of which is already being felt. Today it is not only Brazilians who are interested in Amazonia. The Brazilian Embassy in London receives more requests for information about the region than about any other in the country. The booklet contains as much basic and up to date information on Amazonia as possible: it is intended to serve as a guide for those who are already acquainted with the region's resources and potentialities." This booklet is now almost impossible to find aside from a few higher learning libraries. Issued by a sovereign, developing country, while the rainforest was garnering interest yet had no political stakes as it does today.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0185
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Charles Booth
Life & Labour of the People in London. North of the Thames: Inner Ring
London, Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Editor's hardbinding. Octavo, 23 x 15 cm, 246 pp. Front cover stamped with a gilded shield "London 1890 1900", elaborate information and detail on smooth spine: vol. 2 of the "3rd series [on] Religious Influences." Table of contents at the beginning of the book. With a tipped-in "To the reader" word on the title page. Chapters: 1. Whitchapel and St-George's in the east, 2. Bethnal Green, Haggerston and Part of Shoreditch, 3. Hoxton, St. Luke's and Clerkenwell, 4. West Central London, 5. Illustrations. Rare first edition of this volume of Booth's monumental work. Complete with all folding maps. With a library label on the paste down end paper and a library stamp on the free endpaper. A defect on the top of the spine and proximal back cover, some foxing on the pages, edges looking their age. Firm binding, all content here.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0197
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Alexis Carrel
Man, The Unknown
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1939. 2nd edition with a new introduction. A blue hardback volume, 213 x 147 mm, (xxv) 346 pp. Smooth spine with no mention written. SIGNED in French by William Close and his wife Tina on the half-title page. Their dedication says: "Tu ma vue [sic], puis tu a acheté ce livre !!! à un type magnifique, avec l'espérance qu'on se verra encore. Bill Close et sa petite femme Tina Close" (translation: "You saw me, then you bought this book!!! To an awesome guy, I hope we will meet again. Bill Close and his cute wife Tina"). Inscription from 1944 written on the title page. Contents list at the beginning. Introduction, Preface and eight chapters, the eighth being the most famous for some idea which would get out of the Overton window. "William Taliaferro Close (June 7, 1924 – January 15, 2009) was an American surgeon who played a major role in stemming a 1976 outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire, the first major outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever in Central Africa, and preventing its further spread. He was also the father of Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close and husband of Bettine Moore Close." (Wikipedia) Dr. Close's efforts proved instrumental in breaking the chain of transmission of the Ebola virus during a pandemic, saving thousands of lives, and investigated the progress of the AIDS pandemic soon after. Close wrote four books, which included chronicles of his experiences as a doctor in Zaire and Wyoming.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0201
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Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Hugh Hefner
Playboy's Little Annie Fanny - New! Improved!
Playboy Press, 1972. By Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Introduction by Hugh Hefner. From Playboy Press, this is a new and improved, with 30 extra pages, edition of the very first collection of Harvey Kurtzman’s Little Annie Fanny. Ever since bursting onto the scene (and out of her sweater) in October 1962, Little Annie Fanny has been a fan favorite of Playboy readers. This collection of some her funniest stories will leave you in stitches, as Little Annie takes your breathe away! Twenty-six complete episodes, and an introduction by Hugh Hefner.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0202
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Howard W. Jones Jr and William Wallace Scott
Hermaphroditism, Genital Anomalies and Related Endocrine Disorders
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1958. First edition. A thick, in-quarto 268 x 202 mm (7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches) book with (xvi) 456 pp. Hardback, gold titling in a black spine panel on dark blue cloth covers. No dust jacket. Of note the French SANS TACHE ("stainless") motto shown at the bottom of the spine. Profusely illustrated with no less than 444 figures, mostly black-and-white photographs and a few drawings. Printed on bright coated paper.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0213
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Matheus Roch Pitta
O Ano da Mentira / The Fool's Year. Um calendário de / a calendar by matheus rocha pitta
São Paulo, Ikrek, 2018. This is a bilingual contemporary artist's calendar in Portuguese and English. 100 x 110 mm, 780 pp. Unpaginated. Only 1000 copies printed, sold out at the editor for years. The first page shows the title and author's name, all other pages feature an upper hole to hand the calendar on a wall or other support. Numerous black-and-white photos. This is the editor's presentation of the artist and his work: "Tiradentes, mg, 1980. Lives and works at Rio de Janeiro. Represented by the gallery Athena Contemporânea. Recent individual solo shows: Memória menor [mam Rio, 2018], The Fool’s Year [Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, rj, sox, Berlin, 2017]. Participou da/ participated in 29º Bienal de São Paulo [2010], ii Frestras Trienal de Piracicaba [2017]. The artist has the newspaper [cutouts, photos, etc.] as an essential source in his production. From the collection of images of protests in different newspapers [the collection from the artist is long-standing and is constantly expanding], Matheus elaborates a calendar. But the artist extracts the phrases from the banners and flags and substitutes them for the inscription 1 April 2017."
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0211
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