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1989rif. 53800London: The Beeches Press 1989. Limited edition no. 12 of 55 copies 8vo xxiv 76 3 pp. 5 plates marbled endpapers and sides. Original quarter cloth an excellent copy. Extracted from a work published originally in 1611. London: The Beeches Press unknown
rif. A9798765109151Hardback. New. hardcover
1716rif. 96124Londoni: Jacobi Tonson and Johannis Watts printers 1716. Hardcover. Good. frontis index 8 288p. plus an unnumbered index of about 57 leaves. Old vellum. 19 cm. Cover soiling. Modest splitting along front joint. 19 cm. Covers soiled. Minor foxing and some browning of contents. Modern bookplate of Donald MacLean Holley on front pastedown. Latin text. Martial a Roman poet known for his epigrams was born in Augusta Bilbilis in what is now Spain but lived most of his adult life in Rome. Jacobi Tonson and Johannis Watts, printers hardcover
1538rif. 72632Basileae: Roberto Cheimerino = Winter 1538. Second edition folio pp. 8 1900 columns pp. 1; 210 index; printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf; lightly ruled in red throughout woodcut initials and ornaments; scruffy old calf gilt spine considerably rubbed and worn joints cracked cords holding; internally clean with perhaps 100 early and informed annotations in the margins. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward W. Watkin Rose Hill Northenden the MP and railway entrepreneur. This copy includes the very extensive index which is not in all copies. Guarino ca. 1450-1537 an Italian Benedictine monk was one of the most significant 16th-century lexicographers. He was appointed bishop of Nocera in 1514 and is best known for producing the first Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. "In 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collectus a compilation which has been frequently reprinted and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations" EB. Adams P-984. [Roberto Cheimerino = Winter] unknown
rif. B9798765125021Paperback / softback. New. The Emprise of Poetry analyzes the insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary figures: Dresden native Durs Grünbein 1962-. Michael Eskin offers an unprecedented view of the American-cum-Jewish discontents at the heart of modern and present-day German culture through the exemplary lens of the work of Durs Grünbein the most widely translated and globally honored living German poet and the only one to have been hailed as the Berlin Republic’s “most qualified contemporary candidate for the office of German national poet.” Yet as Eskin outlines Grünbein’s work contains a paradoxical and tension-filled twofold self-construction: as an idiosyncratically ‘American’ poet and Ezra Pound’s vociferously philosemitic heir who merely happens to be writing in German as it were conjoined with an avidly anti-American German poet who writes emphatically and not always savorily as a German and a self-proclaimed heir to the legacies of Celan and Kafka – most notably on matters American and Jewish. Against the foil of these tensions Eskin traces and documents postwar German high culture’s persisting inability to purge itself of ideological toxins that leach into the mainstream from centuries-old prejudices and antagonisms revolving around Germany’s love-hate bond with America as well as its ostensibly enduring suspicion and antipathy toward Jews. Eskin’s deep dive into the ‘American’ Grünbein’s apparent philosemitism coupled with the German Grünbein’s antisemitically-inflected anti-Americanism reveals the fault lines underlying the complex and contradictory legacies and contexts of postwar German culture. paperback
rif. B9781501388439Paperback / softback. New. A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro’s fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand global systems to which they are subject. Rather than following the established pattern of so-called global novels which crisscross the planet exhibiting a knowing cosmopolitanism Ishiguro’s fictional engagement with the world comes principally in the form of characters who are cut off from the global systems that abuse them. By examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds the in-process thinking of those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics culture and ideas Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives and as such prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live and think with others when each of us is deeply limited. paperback
1788rif. TK0149Nice:: Chez Piestre et Delamolliere 1788. 1788. 2 volumes. 4to. XVI 971; XXIV 1008 pp. Original full vellum gilt spine titles; covers heavily soiled. Internally very good – binding is stained not effecting the integrity of this original binding – holding firm. Third edition. Accompanied by an old manuscript for what reason it is preserved here is for someone else to figure – several pages in ink manuscript. "Francesco Alberti di Villanova sometimes referred to as Francesco D'Alberti di Villanuova was an Italian linguist and lexicographer. He integrated the French-Italian Italian-French dictionary of Annibale Antonini according to the doctrine of the Enlightenment with extensive encyclopedic material." Chez Piestre et Delamollie?re, 1788. hardcover
1500rif. 007113Spain 1500. No Binding. Very Good. A well-preserved vellum leaf from a late medieval Iberian Gradual of Antiphonal written in a clear Gothic textura hand with square neumes on four-line red staves. The text is taken from the Passion narrative of Christ in Gethsemane including the phrases "Vigilate et orate ut non intretis in tentationem" and "Pater mi: si possibile est transeat a me calix iste" identifying it as part of the Holy Week liturgy very likely Maundy Thursday or the Tenebrae offices. Recto and verso each contain six lines of text and music. The script shows the characteristic angularity and compressed minims associated with late 15th-century Castillian or Aragonese monastic production. The musical notation is composed of uniform square notes in dark brown ink the staves ruled in red. Margins generous indicating the leaf was not trimmed. Vellum is clean and supple Some minor wrinkling and cockling small patch of adhesive residue at corners and faint offsetting but overall with strong dark text and notation and excellent survival of ruling and musical lines. No losses. Ships unmatted and unframed unknown
rif. A9781666973525Hardback. New. Beginning with the assumption that social practices form the basis of collective identity this book examines the way art and literature shape and reflect collective mindsets through an analysis of national contexts. hardcover
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rif. B9781501386480Paperback / softback. New. Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938 in exile from Nazi Germany and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in Princeton which came to be called the Kahler Circle with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism foremost Mann Erich Kahler Hermann Broch and Albert Einstein all of whom during the Circle's nascent years in Princeton were "stupendously" productive. In clear engaging prose Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton treating literary works and political statements anecdotes contemporary history and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production at a critical juncture in the 20th century and the experiences of an extraordinary group of writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived. paperback
1949rif. 95605Los Angeles 1949. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine. Inked inscription on front side of stationery. 14 x 22 cm. Verso unused. Some fading of ink. The Biltmore Hotel was listed in a couple 1960s editions of "The Green Book but seems likely to have been welcoming to African Americans as well as non-heterosexuals before that date but don't know if thas true before 1949. We also do not know when or whether Brown was in Los Angeles when she inscribed this and don't know whether she was staying or able to stay in that hotel at that time. Baron Long identified as President on the stationery acquired the hotel in 1933 which was almost a decade after Brown had ended her four year term as President of the National Association of Colored Women 1920-1924. We also don't know anything about the inscribee. paperback
rif. B9781501351730Paperback / softback. New. Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism—with a certain sense of irresponsibility political apathy or outright nihilism. Yet if as is now widely assumed postmodernism has finally run its course how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed or has the function of metafiction somehow changed To answer these questions Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts—bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms in philosophy and the turn to affect in literary criticism to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism’s ostensible successor. Ultimately Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth” crisis such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp the form of its narrative apprehension lets slip. paperback
1951rif. BBS-2022866World Editions 1951. Paperback. Acceptable. Volume 1 Number 5. Featuring the first-ever appearance of Bradbury's 'The Fireman' which would later be reworked and expanded into Fahrenheit 451. Toning scuffing light staining creasing edgewear; chipping to spine spine ends and rear fore-edge corners. Tape repairs across spine head and to lower third of spine. Aggressive glue repair to binding resulting in slight loss to text not to the extent of illegibility at inner margins of inside covers table of contents advertisements. The binding repair is very strong. Pages tanned; light staining to 136-148. Interior else clean. Also featuring contributions from Isaac Asimov Lester del Rey Clifford Simak and others. Cover art by Chesley Bonestell. World Editions paperback
rif. A9781032977904Hardback. New. The Concept of Holiness 1961 examines one of the most distinctively religious concepts in the sphere of Hebrew and Christian belief. The intimate connections between this concept and the associate notions of fear power separatedness wholeness and goodness are carefully unfolded. hardcover
1931rif. 00006269Shanghai: Commercial Press 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Slim 8vo. Blue textured cloth gilt titles to spine cover. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown with inked name to flyleaf and what may be old bookseller notes on the text. The C17th telling of the author's relationship with the renowned concubine published after her death. See the extensive Wiki article on Dong Xiaowan. pp. 159. Overall a clean bright copy and a scarce translation of an important work illustrating the world of elite courtesans in Ming China. Commercial Press hardcover
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rif. B9781501368394Paperback / softback. New. What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty trust and sincerity Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane’s works this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability falsehood and indifference to truth it is now easier to perceive in Fontane’s novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language’s credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer Tucker’s analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane’s novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition. paperback
rif. B9781801886079Paperback / softback. New. paperback
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rif. A9781032100340Hardback. New. Data Scientists are experts at analyzing modelling and visualizing data but at one point or another have all encountered difficulties in collaborating with or delivering their work to the people and systems that matter. hardcover
1931rif. 11832New York: Horace Liveright 1931. Octavo hardcover black cloth with gilt 309 pp. Twelfth printing February 1931. A good copy with scuffing and discoloration to covers fading to spine lettering bumping to spine fraying to spine ends slight toning to pages. Horace Liveright hardcover
