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2020ref. BSBHB13Boom Brainpower and Book Smarts! UNUSED CODE This textbook is in very good condition--gently used with only minor signs of past academic adventures. The pages are crisp the binding is strong and it's ready to fuel your next round of genius-level studying! Jones & Bartlett Learning paperback
ref. A9783368175207Paperback / softback. New. paperback
ref. 3744693791.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1996ref. 52413Berlin: Sanssouci im Hanser Verlag 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Oblong Ocatvo. 73 1pp. Original color-illustrated boards with light blue and rose lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with fifty-five extraordinary reproductions of Sowa's paintings a good dozen of them double page. From the illustrated foreword by Enzensberger: 'But if Noah's Arche wouldn't have landet at the Ararat but let us say in the area of Dödensted – what then The world would look different.' Includes a short-short fable by Gerhard Polt. Text in German. Sanssouci im Hanser Verlag hardcover
ref. 1275618979.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1932ref. 18917New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. "Adapted from the original motion picture story by W. R. Burnett." Contains 4 b&w photographs which are stills from the original motion picture starring Jean Harlow. This is book adaptation novelization of the original movie script by W. R. Burnett. Contains an 18 page "Underworld Glossary" in the rear as well as two pages of publisher's ads. The book is in its original red cloth covers with black spine and cover lettering. There is a previous owner's bookplate on front end paper else a nice clean tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings there are a couple of light spots to rear cover; this has obviously been well-cared for over its life. Lacks the scarce original dust jacket. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"- 9" tall; 218 pages . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1994ref. 28997MILWAUKIE: DARK HORSE COMICS. Fine with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. Close to fine in oversize pictorial printed wrappers. Thumbnail-size smudge at upper lefthand corner of front cover . DARK HORSE COMICS. paperback
ref. 0473289792.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1992ref. 007773Hollywood CA: OUTSIDER COMICS 1992. Bound Comic/Digest. Illus. by WILSON S. CLAY. New. Comic. 1st Edition. Underground Comic - 1st. Print - CGC Slabbed & Graded 9.4 NM White Pages - Exactly what you would expect from S. Clay Wilson. Appearances by The Checkered Demon Satan and various other demons bikers cut-throats and n'er do wells. Not for the squeamish or easily offended. Twenty-four black and white pages with a full color wrap-a-round cover. Sorry Kids for discriminating adults only. OUTSIDER COMICS Paperback
1954ref. 050459Albert Love. nice copy; larger-format . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1954. Albert Love hardcover
ref. 9354001181.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. A9781015963146Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. 1466593962.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1954ref. 29652New York: Abelard-Schuman. Near Fine in Good dj. c.1954. First Edition. Hardcover. minimal wear to book; the jacket has a long ragged tear at the top of the spine about 3.5" but then turning diagonally and continuing another 3" into the front panel with resultant minor paper loss; additionally the rear flapfold is split about halfway up from the bottom edge and there are a couple of other short edge-tears and light soiling. color illustrations The second in this author-illustrator's "Joel" series following "Joel Gets a Haircut" this book presents "a painless first lesson in the value of money for the youngest set" as it chronicles six-year-old Joel learning the fundamentals of money management in the course of wrangling his newly-acquired allowance. There was one more book yet to come in the series "Joel Gets a Dog" published in 1958. In the art world the author 1908-1973 was known as a "modern primitivist" painter; in addition to her work as a book illustrator she also exhibited her paintings at such venues as the Whitney Biennial the Metropolitan Museum of Art the British Museum the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. . Abelard-Schuman hardcover
1952ref. H12876London: The Richards Press 1952. Hardcover w/gilt lettering. Very good/No Jacket. Whistler Rex. 26p. Spine sunned and cover corners lightly worn endpapers foxed a few plates have small chips to edges previous bookseller's notes in pencil on front and back pastedowns and half title page slipcase no longer present. "One thousand copies have been printed of which 950 are for sale in England and America. This copy is no. 206." 10 color plates and a facsimile letter of Rex Whistler's acceptance for the commission showing a sample title page. 13-1/8"x11-1/4" The Richards Press hardcover
ref. rja2197UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptnno price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminated b/w photographic upper wrap scene from Joe Orton's play 'What The Butler Saw' enacted at the Royal Court Theatre. and author b/w portrait photograph to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Headfoot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and lightly aged - as usual/normal fore-edge bright and clean; contents brighttight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.Bright cleanplain black paper-covered boards with brightcrisp blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers apart from front fep which has light spotting/foxing.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn7-154pp includes half-title title pages18 chapters and 2pp blank to rear. It's a normal sort of weekend for Caroline Latimertea with friends in HampsteadSaturday afternoonin bed with another uncaring stranger that night and then one of those glorious Sunday afternoons up the river on some chap's boat.It's back to the law courts on Mondayone supposesbut meanwhile never has Caroline been so desired.She is one of those girls who look quite beautiful if you half close your eyes.No figure bit of a squintbut a strong animal drive and scholastic ingenuity and just the tiniest bit impatient with normal weekendswith getting laid and not loved.Thenquite unexpectedlyshe is given the power to change it all.Dobbinit iswho changes everythingan unforgettablelovable manpart policemanpart stallion and nowwhen they meethe is in desperate need.There is a plague of permanent erections blowing from the Urals.A Russian experiment to breed more rabbits has gone terribly wrong and at last women like Caroline Latimer come into their own.And come and come and come. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refundedafter order's receipt and before the order's despatchespecially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON,DUCKWORTH,1979. hardcover
ref. 10902Two full-page frontis. woodcuts printed on each side of first leaf of Vol. I & one full-page woodcut on final leaf of Vol. II. 61.5; 107 folding leaves. Three parts in two vols. 8vo 287 x 171 mm. orig. wrappers Vol. I & modern wrappers Vol. II stitched orig. stitching in Vol. I. Quần phương hạ xã: Anh quang tự 1928. First edition of this very rare Vietnamese edition of the story of MaudgalyÄyana. The journey of MaudgalyÄyana rendered in Chinese as mulian 目連 one of the Buddha’s earliest disciples into the most abysmal and gruesome of Buddhist hells in his quest to rescue the soul of his mother was perhaps the single most important story in Chinese popular Buddhism since medieval times. The detailed depictions of tortures inflicted upon sinners relayed in MaudgalyÄyana’s story made Buddhist cosmology and morality vividly graspable to the laity and since the 12th century at the latest staged performances of his underworld travel have accompanied the Ghost Festival held at the full moon of the seventh month attended by masses of people across social strata. These theatrical retellings of MaudgalyÄyana’s travels remained highly popular until the early 20th century and are still sometimes staged today. The tale’s popularity and influence since medieval times had been so immense that David Johnson a historian of Chinese popular culture writes that “among the tens of thousands of Chinese operas none had deeper religious significance or was watched with greater excitement or was integrated into a more complex ritual matrix than MaudgalyÄyana” “Actions Speak Louder than Words: The Cultural Significance of Chinese Ritual Opera” in Ritual Opera Operatic Ritual IEAS Publications: 1989 p. 2. Unsurprisingly then there was wide dissemination of MaudgalyÄyana narratives and rituals not only in China but throughout East Asia in local and vernacular retellings of his story in a large range of religious and literary genres. Our copy of Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of MaudgalyÄyana printed in northern Vietnam in 1928 is one such example. It opens with two illustrations from the canonical narrative of MaudgalyÄyana: the assembly of disciples attentively surrounding the Buddha and MaudgalyÄyana entering Avīci Hell riding a cloud holding the Buddha’s magical staff. The book itself is simultaneously a narrative account of MaudgalyÄyana’s travels and a Buddhist ritual of penitence opening as it does with prayers of refuge and devotion to “Shakyamuni the benevolent father” Thích-ca từ phụ 釋迦慈父 an interesting appellation. The prayer sections also make use of the placeholding name giáp mỗ ç”²æŸ which during ritual readings of the text was probably to be replaced with one’s own name. Despite sharing the same title as a canonical Buddhist scripture T. 1909 composed in the Liang dynasty a comparison of contents suggests that ours is a related but substantially different text. The first Preface makes it clear that this text is indeed based on an original in the “northern country” — i.e. China — and an earlier domestic edition was made possible by the secular and ritual offerings of the monk Trí Giác 智覺. For some time the woodblocks had been stored in the Trác điá»n temple å“田寺 in Bình Lục 平陸 Hà Nam province and did not circulate widely. As a result a reprint was made in Tự Äức 9 1856 by a monk named Thanh Tuyá»n Bhikṣu 清泉比丘. His Preface also dated 1856 is found in the first volume. By the 1920s however there was another problem: there were too many variants of the text in circulation which became a source of confusion. The monk Thanh Hưởng 清亨 using the earlier woodblocks stored at the Anh quang temple 英光寺 Quần phương hạ 羣芳下 commune Nam Äịnh province and with the guidance of Phổ Tụ æ™®èš collated various editions in circulation and created a new edition. This editorial history might explain why our copy does not correspond to known Chinese versions of the text as it probably has incorporated local Vietnamese elements. The woodblocks were carved by two craftsmen named Phó Dung 付瑢 and Phó Huênh 付轟 from the Liễu choàng xã 柳幢社 with monetary offerings from monks and laypeople across many temples and communes listed towards the end of the second volume. The carving began in Bảo Äại 1 1926 and concluded two years later in 1928; the completed woodblocks were kept at the Anh quang temple. Despite the country’s long history of Buddhist and Confucian learning woodblock-printed books published within Vietnam itself are far fewer in number today than their Chinese or Japanese counterparts. This scarcity of extant Vietnamese books is due to a variety of factors including the cost of local printing a humid climate that makes preservation difficult as well as the country’s recent war-torn past. Outside of Buddhist texts kept by individual temples in Vietnam whose collections are difficult to access the bulk of these books are now kept at a handful of institutions such as the Institute of Sino-Nôm Studies in Hanoi and l’École française d’Extrême-Orient in Paris. The catalogue of these collections shows two items with the same title as ours Viện nghiên cứu Hán nôm AC.607 and AC.647 but there is insufficient detail to determine their editions. We find no Vietnamese woodblock-printed copy by this title on WorldCat. Very good set. Final three leaves of the second volume are carefully repaired. The full-page woodcut on the final leaf is partially defective at the borders but the main image is completely intact. ⧠Rostislav Berezkin Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China Univ. of Washington: 2017; Beata Grant and Wilt Idema Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang Univ. of Washington: 2011; David Johnson ed. Ritual Opera Operatic Ritual IEAS Publications: 1989; Stephen F. Teiser The Ghost Festival in Medieval China Princeton: 1988; Yuenan Hannan wenxian ziliaoku 越å—漢喃文ç»è³‡æ–™åº« Academia Sinica. unknown
1982ref. 014316Austin Texas: Texas Antiquities Committee 1982. xiv 171pp. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by B&w illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Texas Antiquities Committee Paperback
ref. B9781165123094Paperback / softback. New. paperback
ref. 004177Paris / New York: Galerie Furstenberg / André Emmerich c. 1955. 30 pages; 10 tipped-in color plates. "The edition of these tapestries is limited to the traditional seven weavings of each design. Every tapestry is created by the ancient hand process of Aubusson artisans. Once the edition of seven is completed the cartoon will be destroyed and no more will be woven." Clean throughout. Back panel of the wrapper is creased across a corner; Corners of the front panel are lightly bruised. Price list loosely inserted. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. Small portfolio. Galerie Furstenberg / André Emmerich Paperback
2005ref. 048672PS Publishing 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed Copy. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unopened copy. Signed by the contributors Chaz Brenchley David Herter Jack Dann Garry Kilworth Stephen Volk Jayme Lynn Blaschke Joe Hill Richard Bowes Gene Wolfe and Lois McMaster Bujold. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. . PS Publishing Hardcover
2005ref. 048673PS Publishing 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed Copy. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Signed by the following contributors Joe Hill Stephen Baxter Ramsey Campbell Ian Emsley Juliet McKenna Lawrence Person China Mieville Chris Roberson Matthew Rossi and Zoran Zivkovic. Signed by Authors. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. . PS Publishing Hardcover
1980ref. 047384Del Rey/Ballantine 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club BCE/BOMC. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. The non-laminated jacket has some minor rubbing wear light edge wear. This copy has a K29 gutter code. First hard cover edition of this title following the PBO mass market edition. First printing has gutter code "K29" indicates a printing in July '80. Known reprint code: "K34" verified August '80 on page 182. BookClub Edition on front flap; SFBC #3863 on rear flap. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. . Del Rey/Ballantine Hardcover
ref. 1104530546.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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