1788ref. 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
1500ref. 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
ref. 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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ref. 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
1949ref. 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
ref. 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
1951ref. 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
ref. 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
1931ref. 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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ref. 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
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ref. 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
1931ref. 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
1970ref. 94917Krakow: Panstwowe Wydawn Naukowe 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. tipped-in frontis illustrations 275p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 31 cm. Original scuffed slipcase intact with significant scuffing. Polyglot vocabulary on laid in printed broadsheet. Polish text. Panstwowe Wydawn, Naukowe hardcover
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1837ref. 626988Philadelphia: The Liberal Union 1837. xvii 2 20-118 pp. missing page 119 1. Black leather spine with gilt titling and marbled endpapers; "Printed at the Office of the National Laborer". Heavy wear and chipping to spine; boards no longer extant. Front free endpaper and first blank page detached but still extant with some chipping to corners. Some staining to bottom corner at gutter of first few pages. Some mild foxing throughout. Final page 119 no longer extant with bottom quarter of following blank missing as well. Some discoloration smoke to tail of final pages. Gatherings still held together quite securely although with some cocking to the top half of the spine. Appears to be a good candidate for recasing or rebinding with a facsimile copy of the final page. Originally published in eight parts under the title "Equality-- A Political Romance" in the Philadelphia deist magazine "The Temple of Reason" this utopian fantasy is commonly accredited to be the first utopian novel written and published in the United States. According to the historian Richard J. Twomey "Equality." marks a turning point in social critique in how it marks private property itself as the root of "social evil" rather than inherited privilege or property. Faherty and White. This scarce edition of 1837 is preceded only by the 1802 serialization. . Hard Cover. Fair. The Liberal Union Hardcover
