New York: Checkmark Books (Facts on File), 2003. 250 pp. Text clean and free of all marks. Minor shelving wear only.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. ... (more information)

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Weimar, Germany: Verlag der Goethe-Gesellschaft, 1929. 31 pp. Text in German. Green cloth with gilt decoration on front cover. This is a manuscript facsimile (pages 1-24) of the final act of Goethe's "Faust" followed by an editorial afterword. Light overall wear to cloth covers. Light darkening to pages from aging. Mild bending to lower quarter of book due to poor storage by original owner. Internal hinges starting to split at bottom due to bending. Oversized.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/... (more information)

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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 ix, 177 pp. Bibliographical notes, index. Now out-of-print, this book studies first-person narratives and demonstrates that how a woman tells her story is crucial to our understanding of its content, for a novel's mode of narration frequently undermines its ostensible plot. Analyzing relationships between the sexes in terms of battles for narrative authority, the author argues for a rethinking of the history of the marriage plot. CONTENTS: Introduction: Designing a Narrati... (more information)

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Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. 195 pp. Footnotes, bibliography. A fascinating exploration of Czech literature in the twentieth century. CONTENTS: Introduction. Escape and vision in Czech literature. The Czech novel "under padlock" in the early 1970s, from the Modern Absolutism to the Postmodernist Absolute. Images of women in contemporary Czech prose. Emotive signs and poetic semantics (on the example of six 20th century poets). Macha's "May" and "Erotic Dirary" as sem... (more information)

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Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1967. 399 pp. Frontispiece, bibliographical notes, bibliography of Blume's publications. Contributions in German, English and French. CONTENTS: An Bernhard Blume. Zur Theorie der werkimmanenten Deutung. A forgotten Alchemist: Le livre des Figures Hieroglyphiques de Nicolas Flamel, ecrivain. The Changing Vision of Man from Bach's Cantatas to Haydn's Creation: A Contribution to the Study of Secularization in the Period of the Enlightenment. Lessing und Aristoteles. Die Tur... (more information)

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Koln, Germany: Bohlau Verlag, 1973. xiv, 568 pp. 1 color plate, illustrations, maps, footnotes, bibliographies. This is a fascinating festchrift for the well-known anthropologist. Contributions in German (26), English (5), and Italian (1). CONTENTS: Kurze Einleitung (Gisela Petri-Odermann). Mythic shapes of a desert culture (Ronald M. Berndt). Zur Frage der Korrelation von Oraltraditionen und Schriftquellen fur die Geschichte Sud-Atheopiens (Ulrich Braukamper). Gibt es eine Historische Ethnologie? (Florian ... (more information)

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London: Privately Printed [by the Gresham Press], 1896. Scarce. 143 pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, facsimiles (one folding). Publisher's maroon half-cloth boards; gilt title and spine; top edge of book block gilt; untrimmed pages; tissue guard over frontispiece. Provides a personalized, insider's view not only of London publishing during the nineteenth century, but also short reflections on London theater and other contemporary cultural and business figures and events. Some of the printers and publishers ... (more information)

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. x, 186 pp. (plus a 16-page publications list supplement at end). Maps, notes, bibliography, index. Inscribed by author on first free endpaper. This is the first published--and highly regarded--account by a social anthropologist of the Southern Iteso of Kenya and Uganda, based on fieldwork conducted 1969-1971 in Busia District, Kenya. In particular, the author examines social change among the Iteso as they adapted to the imposition of colonial rule and their loss of ... (more information)

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Firneze, Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 1997. 479 pp. Scoti family tree, footnotes, indices. Text in Italian. Part 1: Gli Scoti tra Pescia e Firenze: L'Integrazione nel Mercato Regionale (1750-1800). Part 2: Dal Mercato Regionale al Mercato Internazionale: Innovazioni e Crisi. Part 3: L'Affermazione Internazionale. Sewn binding.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 17 x 24 cm. ... (more information)

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Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Press, 1981 xv, 212 pp. Bibliography, index, map. Although a second edition was published in 1997 (now out-of-print), this first edition remains a very useful annotated bibliography to the major literature (published up to 1980) on all subjects relating to Finland. Contains 768 annotated entries. CONDITION: Light overall handling wear; text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 15 cm. ... (more information)

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Helsinki, Finland: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society), 1974. 205 pp. Plates, bibliographical notes. Text primarily in Finnish (with passages in Finnish). The bulk of this book is devoted to studies of Finnish laments. CONTENTS: Balto-Finnic lament poetry [Lauri Honko]. Lucky shoes or weeping shoes: structural analysis of Ingrian shoeing laments [Aili Nenola-Kallio]. The langauge of laments: the role of phonological and semantic features in word choice [Pentti Leino]. On the study ... (more information)

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Yamaguchi City, Japan, 2004 88 pp. Translated from Japanese (originally published 2002 as "Hi yo!") into English. Winner of the 8th Nakahara Chuya Prize for poetry. Light bumping to base of spine, else like new.. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 21 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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Petrozavodsk: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo Karelo-Finskoi SSR, 1941. Scarce. 250 p. Footnotes, extensive bibliography ("part 1": pp. 199-246), index, errata slip inserted. In Russian. This volume appears to be the only one published in this series on Karelo-Finnish folklore. CONTENTS: Byliny v Karelo-Finskoi SSR [A.M. Astakhova]. Russkie istoricheskie pesni [A.N. Lozanova]. Russkie skazki v Karelo-Finskoi SSR [N.P. Andreev]. Plachi i skazy [G.S. Vilogradov]. Pesennaia lirika Karelo-Finskoi SSR [N.... (more information)

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Cairo (al-Qahirah), Egypt: Published by "Mondiale Press" for the Center of Folklore, Ministry of Cultural and National Guidance (Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa-al-Irshad al-Qawmi), 1959. Set of 2 volumes (pub. April 1959 and April 1960). Each issue is approximately 100 pages with illustrations. Vol. 1 contains articles in English, French, and Arabic. Vol. 2 contains articles in Arabic only. Published under this title only during 1959-1960. Light to moderate overall rubbing to covers. Sewn bindings. Pages ... (more information)

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New Castle, DE / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2000. xiv, 378 pp. 220 black-and-white illustrations, color plates, bibliographical notes, index. In publisher's original, clear plastic protective jacket. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. CONTENTS: Mirjam Foot [Robin Myers]. A Romanesque blind-stamped binding at the Queen's C... (more information)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 xxi, 512 pp. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index, index locorum. Graeco-Roman New Comedy has traditionally provided a source for legal historians examining the language and operation of law both in Athens in the fourth century and in Rome in the second century BC. Drawing on the recent work of legal historians and anthropologists on the one hand, and traditional philologists on the other, the author provides the first comprehensive treatment in English of o... (more information)

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Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986 xxiii, 818 pp. Translator's footnotes. Translated into English from the original Spanish ("Fortunata y Jacinta"; pub. 1887), this is a wonderful novel by Galdós (1843-1920) of two women and their lover vividly set in nineteenth-century Madrid. CONDITION: Occasional, minor yellow highlighting and pen marginalia on 31 scattered pages, else text is clean and neat. Light overall handling wear only to covers and dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First English ... (more information)

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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii, 360 pp. Illustrations, graphs, bibliographical endnotes, index. Using the prism of Dürer's woodcut, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," this important and beautifully produced book offers an original and exciting interpretation of early modern European history in the period 1490 to 1648. Dürer's image came to characterize the outlook of most early modern Europeans, who saw repeated episodes of war, epidemics and famine as indicating th... (more information)

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University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1972. 286 pp. + plates. Footnotes, illustrations, plates, selected bibliography, glossary, index. This book brings together in convenient form (with annotations) the most important contemporary accounts of the earlier voyages of Sir Francis Drake. The editor has provided short introductions and footnotes to the documents in each part. Part I: Drake's First Voyages. Part 2: Drake's Raid on Panama 1572-73. Part 3: The Voyage Round the World. Epilogue: The Later Voy... (more information)

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Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1950. 185 pp. Plates, folding map, bibliographical footnotes. CONTENTS: Introduction. 1) General survey. 2) The position of trade union organisations. 3) Living conditions and conditions of work. 4) Conclusions. CONDITION: Moderate overall wear and soiling. Paper browned from age. Separate dustjacket worn and soiled with minor edge chipping. Sewn binding (no creasing along spine).. First Edition. Paperback. Good/Fair. 25 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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