1983Best.-Nr. 54383Jascha Kessler, 1983. origi.Broschur, 8°, 161 Seiten.
20018vo., First Edition; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, cream endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A Commander Dalgliesh mystery.
2009New English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 23 cm). In English. 299, [1] p., color and b/w ills. Death in Istanbul: Death and its rituals in Ottoman Islamic culture. The idea of an exhibition/catalogue on death may not sound very pleasant. After all, it is only natural to experience some discomfort, displeasure, anxiety, even disgust in the face of a phenomenon that may summon painful memories and provoke fears about the future. Yet, there is no denying that death, once tamed as an abstract notion or concept, can become a powerful tool for social analysis. It can thus become a fascinating area of study, likely to reveal much about the culture, mentalities and social structure of a given society. This is what this exhibition and its catalogue hope to attain. Their objective is to try to pinpoint, through hopefully representative examples, the ways in which death has been perceived by the Muslim population of Ottoman Istanbul throughout five centuries of existence, and to understand the role it may have played in the life of the Imperial capital." To maintain a certain consistency, this publication has been limited to the period from 1453 to 1922 and deals uniquely with the culture and mentalities of the Muslim population within the boundaries of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. Underlying the work is the notion of change in Ottoman death culture over this five-century period with a particular emphasis on the significant transformations which occurred in the 19th century. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to balance the varying viewpoints on death contributed by ethnography, urban history, anthropology, political history and philology, this work is designed as a collection of case studies regrouped under a number of general headings, including amongst others, Death and the City, Empire and Death, the Birth of the Ottoman Tombstone, Suicide, Dealing with Death, Women, Aspects of Modernity, and State, Nation and Death.
1978Best.-Nr. 2136908Oxford, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1978. (12), 134 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm) Orig.-Pappband mit illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Best.-Nr. ria9781526402943_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
1932A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and marks on full black cloth cover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. A later printing. "Hemingway became a bullfighting aficionado after seeing the Pamplona fiesta in the 1920s, which he wrote about in The Sun Also Rises. In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting the ritualized, almost religious practice that he considered analogous to the writer's search for meaning and the essence of life. In bullfighting, he found the elemental nature of life and death." [Wikipedia]
20058vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a bibliography
1949Best.-Nr. 3134833New York: Modern Language Association of America 1949. Seiten 340-349. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1992pp. 258, cm 23x15, paperback ed.
1993178pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1997Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boar ds. 346 p. Inspector Morse Mysteries (Hardcover). Audience: Gener al/trade.
19968vo., First Edition thus, grey boards, red cloth back, lattered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Lovely copy of the first US edition of the twelfth and penultimate Morse novel.
19968vo., First Edition; original black cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, grey silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of the twelfth Inspector Morse novel.
19968vo., First Edition; black, gilt back, grey silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The twelfth Inspector Morse novel
1981Best.-Nr. 29366New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the estremities. Donald Knox tells the story of the Bataan campaign the Death March and prison camp life under the Japanese in the words of the survivors themselves. Over a period of seven years he interviewed over 200 veterans; the voices of sixty-eight were selected to provide the personal side of the horrors and heroism experienced in these events. The interviewees all American are mostly enlisted men; however a few officers and nurses also tell their story. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, unknown
19498vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, neat inscription on front free endpaper else a fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little rubbed at extremities. Fitfoot, OA45
1948185 p. Slightly age stained. 180mm. Color illustrated wraps. Softbound. First Penguin Signet Books Edition. Covers slightly rubbed at edges. Top margins slighted faded. Front cover slightly creased. First Penguin Signet Edition. LIT BX 7
2004Paperback Light wear with fold/scruff mark on corner of cover
1999Best.-Nr. 3127779Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1999. XVII, 152 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Titel auf Deckel und Rücken. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Best.-Nr. 1145306128.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1914Best.-Nr. 76943Oakland: Pacific Coast Borax Company 1914. Two folio 10 x 14 3/4 inches leaves attached at the top as issued. The first sheet still bears all twenty interest coupons stamped signed by C. B. Zabriskie. The coupons were redeemable from 1914 to 1924 although none were and all coupons have a nice vignette of a coal stoker at work. The second sheet is the actual bond #774 with a fine engraving of a locomotive at the masthead This bond is signed by the president of the railway F. M. "Borax" Smith and the Company secretary B. F. Fernald. Both sheets printed in red and black. Very good condition with no flaws worth mentioning. According to RBH the last such certificate was auctioned in 2007.The narrow gauge Death Valley Railroad was built in 1914 as a branch line of the Pacific Coast Borax Company to service its new mines at Ryan. The narrow gauge railroad hauled Borax from the mines in the vicinity of Ryan to the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad 20 miles away at Death Valley Junction. The upper part of the line required extensive grading and many high trestles. The railroad scheduled a single daily-except-monday mixed train which traveled across the desert at 15 miles per hour. The railroad ceased regular operation in 1928 after the opening of the large Borax mine near Boron California. An attempt was made to operate the line as a tourist railroad but without success Pacific Coast Borax Company unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 58524Pomona CA: Frashers Inc. 1943. Oblong 12mo. 3.75 x 2.5 in. 12 miniature Real Photo Postcards w/ text w/in the negative preserved in original mailing portfolio die-cut window on recto canceled stamp & address on verso minor dustsoiling shelfwear to portfolio still NF set of RPPC’s from the library of George Stein 1914-1988 stationed at Camp Haan in World War II and was a longtime driver and heavy equipment operator for the Clark County Highway Dept. son of Gran Duchy of Luxembourg immigrant farmers and later builder in Vancouver WA. This complete miniature set of Real Photo Postcards shot by the iconic California photographer includes such images as “20 Mule Team Borax Wagons”; “Furnace Creek Camp”; “Salt Pool and the Devil’s Golf Course”; “Death Valley Scotty”; “Mushroom Rock”; and others. Frasher 1888-1955 opened a commercial photography studio with his wife Josephine Angel in 1912 with her shooting portraits and Frasher traveling Eastern California by automobile in the 1920’s and 1930’s on photographic expeditions. He would eventually produce over 60000 negatives and his stock-in-trade Real Photo Postcards were very popular. See: Peter Hiller Visions of the West; The Photographic Legacy of Burton Frasher Sr. Postcard History March 30 2020. Frashers, Inc., unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 10837Los Angeles: Adcraft 1938. 7pp. Square octavo 23 cm x 20 cm that folds to digest size 23 cm x10 cm Color wrappers. About very good. Folds as issued some minor color offsetting to first two pages. Illustrated guide for the prospective tourist to Death Valley with a description of the area and the lodgings offered by the Death Valley Hotel Company at the Furnace Creek Inn Furnace Creek Camp and the Amargosa Hotel. Also included are a list of points of interest and a milage chart to Death Valley from points in California and Nevada. Excellent Bird's-eye map at the center by Gerald Eddy. "Death Valley boasts and rightfully so the greatest contrasts to be found in this country. Precipitate mountains and majestic canyons overlooking the extreme in flat barren valleys; contrasts in elevations from 280 feet below sea level at Bad Water to 11045 above at Telescope Peak towering directly above the greatest abrupt rise from base to tip to be found in the United States." - p.1. Adcraft unknown
194784p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1938Best.-Nr. 10837Los Angeles: Adcraft 1938. 7pp. Square octavo 23 cm x 20 cm that folds to digest size 23 cm x10 cm Color wrappers. About very good. Folds as issued some minor color offsetting to first two pages. Illustrated guide for the prospective tourist to Death Valley with a description of the area and the lodgings offered by the Death Valley Hotel Company at the Furnace Creek Inn Furnace Creek Camp and the Amargosa Hotel. Also included are a list of points of interest and a milage chart to Death Valley from points in California and Nevada. Excellent Bird's-eye map at the center by Gerald Eddy. "Death Valley boasts and rightfully so the greatest contrasts to be found in this country. Precipitate mountains and majestic canyons overlooking the extreme in flat barren valleys; contrasts in elevations from 280 feet below sea level at Bad Water to 11045 above at Telescope Peak towering directly above the greatest abrupt rise from base to tip to be found in the United States." - p.1. Adcraft unknown books
