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Re-imagined story of the Trojan War from the point of view of Kassandra, the beautiful and tormented royal princess of Troy. "Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hands of Clytemnestra after the death of Agamemnon, but in this story Cassandra escapes and, in turn, writes her own history of the fall of Troy." 325p.. Book
". Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, "Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis" English translation by Jan Van Heurk . 305p. Book
50 pages. Features: Photo-illustrated interview of Rock Hudson; Los Angeles International Film Exposition 1976; Dangerous Games - Part One of 'The Golden Age of Terror' - some aspects of the Horror-Fantasy film from 1930 to 1936; 'Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe' - photos; Reviews - 'Robin and Marian', 'Poachers', 'All the President's Men', 'Benji', 'The Travelling Players', 'Dunderklumpen', 'The Slipper and the Rose', 'Order to Kill', 'Sky Riders', 'Moses', 'The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox', 'Peeper', 'Diamonds', 'Shout at the Devil'; ad for 'Conduct Unbecoming'; Photos on location with George Cosmatos's 'The Cassandra Crossing'; Review of 'From A to B & Back Again, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'; 'Vampyres' - photos; 'The Count of Monte Cristo' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for 'A Bridge Too Far'; Full-page ad for 'The Sentinel'; ad for 'Bound for Glory'; Photo-illustrated interview with George Pan Cosmatos; 'The Cassandra Crossing' - photos; San Remo 1977 Film Festival; Part two of a photo-illustrated article on the screen partnership and the individual films of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable; 'A Bridge Too Far' - photos; Reviews - 'A Bridge Too Far', 'Providence', 'The Cassandra Crossing', 'French Mustard', 'Twilight's Last Gleaming', 'Le Gang', Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus', 'Illustrious Corpses', '21 Hours at Munich', 'The Morning Spider', 'The Devil's Widow', 'The Prince and the Pauper', 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'; ad for 'Private Vices and Public Virtues'; 'Fire Sale' - photos; 'Citizens Band' - photos; 'The Car' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features:; Great Jamaica tourism ad; Safire on Sneer Words; Little Red Riding Hood Revisited; Love and Sex in China - The wall of puritanism the Communists built around China's sexual mores shows signs of crumbling, but a traditional Chinese reticence still remains - color-photo illustrated article; Past Master of Posters - A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron) - with beautiful colour examples of his work; Two-page color-photo ad for Jordache Jeans features topless gents with lady; Pianist Peter Serkin; Kirin Beer ad with Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympic Games theme; With the Afghan Rebels - article with photos; The Dark Roots of Violence; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for Trissi features model at Walt Disney World; Six pages of *Gorgeous* color photos of 'Bathing Beauties of 1980';Amarone; Real estate and Camp ads; and more. Small library stamp on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Cover story about new Tory Leader Joe Clark; Robert Stanfield's Farewell; Photos of Paul Hellyer, Brian Mulroney, Claude Wagner and Flora MacDonald; Henry Kissinger at work in South America - article with photos including Peru's D La Flor and Brazilian Foreign Minister Silveira; Irritation with U.S. presence in Panama; U.N. Buffer zone between Egypt and Israel; Putsch in Nigeria; Hard times for the Soviet Union; CIA director George Bush and CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr; President Ford orders overhaul of intelligence agencies - with photo of George Bush standing on CIA logo in lobby of CIA building; Richard Nixon visits China; Patty Hearst's long ordeal on the stand - article with color photos; Charges of Lockheed payoffs in Japan; Shah (of Iran) on a Shoestring; King Coal's Return - Wealth and Worry; Photo of Bette Midler showing her 'class' at Harvard; Sonny & Cher dolls; Major photo-illustrated article on Gore Vidal - laughing Cassandra; Passing of Commodore John W. Anderson, Eddie Dowling and Frank Sullivan; Dr. Hartman's list of lethal foliage; The T-Shirt - a startling evolution; Nice one-page color-photo ad for JAL (Japan Airlines) with four photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
234 pages. Features: Dually Suburban; Stuermann's Fat Fendered Fetish Ford; The Outlaw - late model Chevy; Pennsylvania Peach - '54 street rod; Toys-R-Us - killer Toyota mini-custom; Sano '77 LUV (cover truck); Wasted Money - an early Chevy; Total Nightmare - custom '76 Ford; Customizing a new Chevy on a budget - part one; How to stuff a V-8 into a Ranger!; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition except for what appears to be a punch tool mark starting on page 145 and impacted to page 159, cutting a 1/4" x 1/2" rectangle; weird. Book is otherwise very clean with green cloth boards, gilt print at spine, decorative endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners with a bit of wear, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light signs of shelf wear, some chipping at the edges with a few very small tears, a scratch mark on the back. Book is lavishly illustrated with large b&w & color prints and photos throughout. Historical presentation of set and costume design as well as lots of very impressive designs of the "modern age." Contents include: Renaissance spectacle, From court to theatre, Rococo, neoclassical, romantic, The Diaghilev era, After Diaghilev, In Russia, Design for today, Traditional design, French style, Modern ballet and modern dance. Set designs by George Amberg, Leon Bakst, Torelli, Theatre, Mikhail, Stage, Sadler Wells, History, Historic, Development, Scene, Scenic, Illustration, Ussr,louis Falco, Dance Company, Nikolais, Les Ballets Des Champs Elysees, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Jean Carzou, Yves Brayer, Marc Chagall, Bernard Dayde, Alexandre Cassandre, Mariano Mercuri, Gino Severini, Corrado Cagli, Achille Perilli, Domenico Purificato, and a great many others, often shown in large format.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 270 pages.
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1999ref. 143677New York: Hudson Hills 1999. First Edition. First Edition. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from July 24 to October 10 1999. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hudson Hills unknown books
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1972ref. 34608Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1972. First American Edition. Octavo 20.75cm.; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by Charles Mikolaycak purple topstain; 14113pp. Light wear to jacket including tiny closed tear at top edge of upper panel touching one letter without loss of sense the whole rather dust-soiled else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Epistolary novel by the Afrikaans author. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
2009ref. 117824San Francisco CA: Baer Ridgway Exhibitions 2009. First edition. Softcover. Oblong exhibition catalog for a show that ran August 1 through September 5 2009. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. Baer Ridgway Exhibitions unknown books
1931ref. 25-036AParis: Draeger Freres 1931. Fine. Small 4to spiral-bound deep blue cover with cut-out revealing a star with the initial "N" the next page silver foil with a small star and the large star now s pelling out Nicolas. Color center spread of map of France overprinted with the Maison Nicolas star plus two full page styllized drawings of the bottleman. Illustrated by A. M. Cassandre. . Spiral Bound Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Cassandre. Small 4to. Paris: Draeger Freres, Paperback books
1911ref. 292461911. 158 2pp. Portrait frontispiece portraits plate. Signed by Emma Cassandra Riely Macon on the front free endpaper and again dated Nov. 29th 1930 on the 1/2-title. Original cloth-backed boards top edges gilt. First edition. Rare Worldcat locates 12 copies. Done in a very small edition for family members. "I have consented to write my recollections of incidents pertaining to the War of 1861-65 to be handed down to my grandchildren and probably to my great grandchildren"--Preface. This copy belonged to Macon's son-in-law Charles H. Paulson. "Revealing for glimpses of civilian life in the Shenandoah Valley especially around the Winchester area" Nevins II 196. Emma Macon's Civil War experiences make up the first half of this work. In the second section Reuben Macon writes about his service in the Confederate Army as he rose to adjutant in the 13th Virginia Infantry under Stonewall Jackson. Not in Dornbusch Haynes or Nicholson. unknown books
1972ref. 51307St. Louis: Ninth World 1972. First edition. 59 pp. Small price sticker on first leaf else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Robert L. Peterson contributes an introduction to this collection of poems. St. Louis: Ninth World unknown books
1996ref. 8670NY: Doubleday 1996. First edition. 233 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in. Also laid in a bookplate SIGNED 'Thanks! /Cassandra/&/Monique.' NY: Doubleday unknown books
2007ref. 2312352CA: Noetic Books 2007. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Third printing. Faint smell of smoke smudge on page base light general wear. 2007 Trade Paperback. xvii 231 pp. "Living Deeply transcends any one approach by focusing on common elements of transformation across a variety of traditions while affirming and supporting the diversity of approaches across religious spiritual scientific academic and cultural backgrounds. Each chapter in the book ends with Experiences of Transformation exercises drawn from wisdom traditions or scientific investigations meant to enhance your direct experience of the material. Opportunities to actively engage in your own transformation and that of our world are woven into the fabric of your everyday life. Learning more about the terrain of consciousness transformation can not only give you a map but can help you become the cartographer of your own transformative journey. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences IONS has systematically surveyed hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations as well as conducting over 50 in-depth interviews with teachers and masters of the world's spiritual religious and transformative traditions. No matter who you are where you come from or what your current path is - whether you seek to transform your life completely or simply make adjustments that will add a layer of richness and depth to your life - exploring the many ways that transformation is stimulated and sustained can hold great power. Weaving together cutting-edge science with wisdom from teachers of the world's transformative traditions this book explores how people experience deep shifts in their consciousness and how those shifts can lead to healing and wholeness. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has explored in depth the phenomenon by which people make significant shifts in the way they experience and view the world. Focusing in particular on positive transformations in consciousness or those that result in improved health well-being and sense of meaning purposeand belonging hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations were included in the research as well as in-depth interviews with over 50 teachers and masters of the world's spiritual religious and transformative traditions. Noetic Books paperback books
1936ref. 20755Paris: Draeger Freres 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. spiral stiff wrappers decorated in raised blind and three color type red green and black. Very good. Cassandre A.M. 30.8 x 23.5 cm. Three page introduction by Blaise Cendars printed in green red and black. 15 leaves of Cassandre poster art in color and black and white. Cassandre notes "The poster artist is an operator: he does not issue a message he merely passes it on. No one asks him opinion he is only expected to establish a connection: clear powerful accurate." Cassandre was the exclusive designer for Draeger Freres. Draeger Freres hardcover books
2002ref. 706702NY: Hyperion Books. 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Hyperion Books paperback books