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rif. B9780761870586Hardback. New. In this book author Tony Waters explores Max Weber's thinking about the discipline of populations and its implications for understanding the origins of the modern globalized world. hardcover
1942rif. 058738San Marino: The Huntington Library / Grabhorn Press 1942. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 12 1/4" x 9 1/2" Oblong. Color Frontispiece B/W Plates By Wiulliam Rich Hutton. Cloth Over Boards Spine Label Printed In Gilt. One Of 700 Copies Printed At The Grabhorn Press. Lightly Used Spine Gilt Still Brilliant Light Rubbing At Corners Tiny Loss Of Paper Covering The Boards At The Lower Front Tip No Names Or Marks. The Huntington Library / Grabhorn Press hardcover
1856rif. 1476811856-1937. Collection of approximately 393 photographic prints of ships in the San Francisco Harbor taken at the turn of the twentieth century. Photographs of full rigged sailing ships clipper ships whaling barks tramp steamers steam trawlers and a torpedo boat are in the collection many stamped Waters Company or R.J. Waters & Co. San Francisco. Ships from all around the world are represented including Scotland the United Kingdom Australia Germany Sweden and the United States. Many show San Francisco docks skyline and headlands as the setting one depicting Alcatraz in the background. In very good condition. The photographs measure approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. Collected in four large folios. R.J. Waters a lesser-known figure in the realm of early photography made notable contributions to documenting maritime life and industrial advancements in the late nineteenth century. His collection of photographs captured the transition from sail to steam power showcasing ships harbors and coastal communities with remarkable detail. These images not only served as a visual record of the maritime industry during a transformative era but also highlighted the socio-economic impact of technological progress on seafaring communities. Waters' work bridged art and historical documentation providing valuable insights into the aesthetics of industrial photography and the role of visual media in preserving maritime heritage. Today his photographs are regarded as important artifacts for studying the intersection of maritime history technology and visual culture. unknown
2014rif. 1-3942214202Bbooks Verlag 2014. Paperback. New. 335 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. Bbooks Verlag paperback
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2023rif. 1-1685612318West Academic 2023. Hardcover. New. 26 edition. 1000 pages. 10.32x7.91x1.61 inches. West Academic hardcover
2004rif. 234971New York.: Harry N. Abrams. New Museum of Contemporary Art. 2004. First edition. Full number line. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket in mylar. . Folio. . Illustrated in black white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Harry N. Abrams. New Museum of Contemporary Art. hardcover
1901rif. 82795London: The Society of Bibliophiles 1901. Hard Cover. vg. The Italian Novelists series. 3 Volumes. Green cloth. Paper title labels to spine. "Choicely" illustrated by E.R. Hughes A.R.W.S. All volumes in very nice condition. The Society of Bibliophiles unknown
2016rif. 235226New York. : Viking Press. 2016. First edition number starts with "2". . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket in mylar. As new. . 4to. Illustrated in black white and color by Ann Arnold. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Viking Press. hardcover
rif. 0982376626-8-1McDonough Press. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. McDonough Press unknown
rif. 2311PG0345 Fólios sem numeração preenchidos nos dois lados com tinta azul de esferográfica com acrescentos e correcções a tinta permanente preta com excepção do último que está em branco.Texto com quatro partes numeradas de 1 a 4 no início de cada uma. No fim está datado: «23 de Maio de 1967 noite de terça-feira 8 dias depois do assalto ao Banco de Portugal na Figueira da Foz».O assalto ao Banco de Portugal na Figueira da Foz ocorreu em 17 de Maio entre as 15 e 55 e as 16 e 25. Foi uma acção inserida no combate contra o Estado Novo e executada por Camilo Mortágua Hermínio da Palma Inácio António Barracosa e Luís Benvindo com o apoio de outras pessoas. Posteriormente foi reivindicado pela LUAR - Liga de Unidade e Ação Revolucionária dirigida por Palma Inácio apesar de só ter sido criada em 19 de Junho.Trata-se de uma análise crítica aprofundada à obra de Luiz Pacheco - Crítica de Circunstância Lisboa Ulisseia. 1966.Transcrições de algumas partes: Começa: 1 - É injusto sim é ingrato dizer qualquer coisa/séria destes 'malditos' Textos do Luiz - veneno/ lúcido de um escritor que é homem de um / homem que tem . fiel à sua liberdade/ e condição de ser homem4 - E não devemos dizer mais nada a não ser apenas estas últimas palavras: Luiz Pacheco não deve querer que o lamente que lhe deem esmola! Pacheco quer trabalho Pacheco quer liberdade Pacheco vive num reino maldito feito de utopias que os outros não consentem! Luiz Pacheco pensa de esmola sim mas uma esmola que não se lhe deve negar - a da nossa profunda compreensão rasurado para com um homem que se fez escritor que se vinga dos males da vida . que atira folhas à vida / como o cavador lança a semente à terra rasura 'filhos muitos filhos - uma aposta no futuro' Sim Luiz Pacheco já não tem nada a perder - já perdeu tudo! Mas a vida / não se evapora quando queremos nem / sempre . que nos atira aos olhos nos momentos mais inesperados.Luiz Pacheco 1925-2008 notabilizou-se não só como escritor caprichosamente marginal que se classificava como “neo-abjeccionista” mas também como corajoso editor responsabilizando-se por dar à estampa criteriosas edições de reduzidas tiragens o que é devidamente assinalado no duplo catálogo homónimo também organizado por Luís Gomes e editado conjuntamente pelas Publicações D. Quixote grupo editorial Leya e pela BNP.Foi amigo de Laureano Barros seu mecenas Mário Cesariny António José Forte Artur Ramos Fernando Ribeiro de Mello Máximo Lisboa Edite Soeiro Cunha Gonçalves Zetho Irene Rodrigues entre muitos outros escritores. Usou pseudónimos como Delfim Costa.José Neves Ãguas Lisboa 1921 - Lisboa 1991 escritor e jornalista. Dedicou-se à investigação literária e bibliográfica tendo publicado trabalhos de bibliografia sobre Jaime Cortesão cuidou da anotação e fixação do texto de alguns autores portugueses da época dos Descobrimentos. Colaborou em publicações regionais como Revista Transmontana Jornal-Magazine da Mulher A Planície O Alhandra; Jornal do Fundão Notícias de Marinhais; Correio do Ribatejo Diário de Coimbra e Concelho de Loures e em publicações de âmbito nacional como O Primeiro de Janeiro Diário de Lisboa República O Diário Jornal de Notícias O Século A Capital Vida Mundial e História. Durante os anos de 1959-1960 dirigiu o suplemento cultural do jornal República dedicado aos jovens escritores “Rota”. Reuniu uma vasta e notável colecção de documentos de propaganda política que foram adquiridos pela Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.Referências:Luiz Pacheco - Cartas do escritor libertino a Laureano Barros. Organização anotações e prefácio de João Pedro George. Tinta da China. Lisboa. 2017.Maria Helena Sardinha - Correspondência de Luiz Pacheco com Luís Amaro. Tese de Mestrado em Crítica textual. FLUL. 2017Exposição - Luiz Pacheco: 1 Homem dividido vale por 2 coordenada por Luís Gomes que esteve patente na BNP por ocasião da aquisição de 158 documentos autógrafos do escritor num leilão realizado dia 25 de Novembro de 2009 em Lisboa.Dicionário Cronológico de Autores Portugueses Vol. V Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas; Coordenação de Ilídio Rocha Publicações Europa América 2000 p. 111 e 112 Neves Ãguas. Gravureiro Gav. 7-43 unknown
2019rif. 1-1612007813Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc 2019. Hardcover. New. 222 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc hardcover
1856rif. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown
rif. 1305637097-7-1-115Schirmer. 3. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Schirmer unknown
rif. B9781475829167Hardback. New. hardcover
rif. B9781475829174Paperback / softback. New. paperback
rif. 69945Boston MA: Wentworth and Company 1856. Crime classic FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.ii; 376. Bound in half red morocco tooled in gilt matching red cloth sides ruled in gilt. Contents clean no inscriptions some acceptable wear to covers small crack to upper joint. A very good copy. 'Waters' is considered among the first and most prolific authors to write 'police memoirs' or detective stories. From 1849-1852 he contributed an irregular series of stories to Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. Ten of these were published in pirated book-form editions in New York in 1852 and 1853 entitled The Recollections of a Policeman. The same ten plus two additional stories were then collated into an official volume entitled Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer published in London in 1856. In the same year twenty-one stories were authorised for publication in America the present volume being the most comprehensive of all the early versions. Boston, MA: Wentworth and Company, 1856 unknown
2017rif. 1-1138107166Routledge 2017. Paperback. New. 5th new edition. 264 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. Routledge paperback
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