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That Lonely Game: Melville, Mardi and the Almanac

1975Book is in excellent condition, in green cloth covers, large graphic in black on front cover, gilt lettering at spine. Many b&w illustrations on heavy cream colored paper, top page ends colored. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, is price clipped, no tears. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. From the flyleaf "Irked by the derogatory reaction of British critics who doubted that such books as Typee and Omoo could have been written by a common American sailor, Melville created Mardi -- on the surface, the record of an odyssey through imagined South Sea world. For the first time, Moore unravels the puzzle Melville created in Mardi, designed to dupe his elitist British readers, by exploring Melville's knowledge of astronomy, nautical navigation, astrology, and game theories. Hennig Cohen's foreword defends the traditional approach to reading Mardi and argues that Moore's heretical interpretation is interesting but narrow in scope. Moore then invites the reader to 'play Mardi'--to engage in games of wit, elaborate metaphor, and arcane learning-- to reveal the full meaning of the novel. The game may be plated most successfully by using the astronomy and astrology of Melville's time, but a knowledge of the Tarot and Ganjifa cards and of the usual Western decks of playing cards will add depth to your understanding. Mardi fulfills Melville's calim to originality and stands unique as a masterpiece of synthesis. Moore demonstrates a circular pattern in which metaphors intertwine and shows how Melville's use of The American Alamanac and his metaphor of time provides unity. She theorizes that Melville was a highly concious artist, capable of manipulating intricate strands of imagery, metaphor, and symbol through a detailed and precise method. Moreover, an elaborate system of puns gives his work an unsuspected economy even where it seems excessively and unnecessarily wordy. Though Mardi fails, perhaps from tediousness and overmanipulation, Melville followed through with the artistic implications in his later and greater books. Moore feels he had a highly developed concept of the errant or deceitful narrator and hoped to force his readers into an intense riddle-solving approach to Mardi."

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LA CHAMBRE, [Marin Cureau de]. DAVIES, John - of KidwellyBiblio.com

The art how to know men. Originally written By the Sieur de le chambre Counsellour to His Majesty of France and Physician in Ordinary. Rendered into English by John Davies of Kidwelly

1665Best.-Nr. AQ31353London: Printed by T.R. for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet neer Cliffords-Inn 1665. 32 330pp 14. With extra-engraved title A1v included in the pagination. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed cracking to joints lacking lettering-piece and chipped to spine with neat repair to upper board at foot. Small paper flaw to D1 with loss of catchword to recto and two words of text to verso. Philip Bliss' copy with one line of manuscript notes identifying the author of 'Address to the translator' to a blank-fly leaf and his usual ownership marks the addition of a manuscript initial 'P.' before the printer's register B to leaf B1 followed by '35' indicating his year of acquisition. Earlier inscription 'M. Cowper. Fellow of A: S: Coll. Oxon' to head of title with partially erased note regarding ownership by his grandfather; later inscriptions of Robert and May Montagu to blank fly. With a manuscript note in an early hand to margin and foot of V7r with repaired paper excision/cuts to margins of V7-8. An interesting copy with double Oxford provenance and a curious eighteenth- century manuscript note of John Davies of Kidwelly's 1625-1693 English translation of L'art de connoistre les hommes Paris 1659 by French physician and philosopher Marin Cureau de la Chambre 1594-1669. A vaguely philosophical work on human character with diversions into astrology chiromancy metroscopy and physiognomy the extra-engraved title depicts scholarly study of human heads with both European and African examples displayed on a shelf. Evidently acquired by Oxford University Registrar antiquary and book collector Philip Bliss' 1787-1857 in 1835 this volume also bears the earlier inscription of 'M. Cowper' Fellow of All Souls Oxford. The curious inscription to the foot of pp.235 apparently in the same hand relates at a point of the text referring to weaknesses at times of eclipse the annotators experience of being seized with a 'death like coldness' at the time of 'a great Eclipse of the Sun in the year 1753.or 54' which could not be cured until the said eclipse had passed. ESTC R5716. Wing L128. First English edition. 8vo. Printed by T.R. for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet, neer Cliffords-Inn unknown

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