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Social Tranformations A General Theory of Historical Development
by Sanderson, Stephen K
Oxford: Blackwell. 1995. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 452 pages. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.
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$16.34
Notes for an Art School (Manifesta 6 School Books)
by Mai Abu ElDahah, Anton Vidokle, Florian Waldvogel, Liam Gillick, Walid Sadek
Netherlands: Manifesta, 2006. Very Good tall 8vo softcover, 96 pages. Design/typesetting by Dexter Sinister. Scarce in U.S.
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$125.00
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis
by Robin Ruth Linden, Darlene R. Pagano, Diana E.H. Russell, Susan Leigh Star, Eds
San Francisco: Frog in the Well, 1982. Perfect-bound, octavo, illustrated wraps, 212 pp. Very good condition, spine titles rubbed, spine ends gently worn, cover wraps lightly soiled and scuffed, minor edge wear.
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$35.00
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover octavo in black and white lettered dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 589 pp. Very Good, mild edge wear and soiling to text block. About Very Good unclipped jacket shows shallow edge wear and chipping, some scuffing and soiling throughout.. Early printing (1975; 15th) of the first American Edition of Heidegger's most impactful and enduring book. A translation of SEIN UND ZEIT by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson.
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$86.00
Dialectical Imagination: History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
by Jay, Martin
NY: Little, Brown, 1973. Cloth. VG+/VG-. An excellent copy in black boards, 382 pages, flawless except for little round ghost of a price sticker on front pastedown. The unclipped dust-jacket while complete has chips and closed tears especially to top edge, & also a few small scapes and discolorations. Now mylared and looks better than naked photo.
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$37.50
Concrete Comedy: An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy
by Robbins, David
Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press, 2011. Paperback. Fine. Mint in thick wrappers, 351 pages, glorious black and white images throughout. Scarce.
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$84.00
the second sex
by simone de beauvoir
new york: bantam, 1961. mass market paperback, 1961. translated by h.m. parshley. in this groundbreaking work, first published in 1949, beauvoir discusses the treatment of women throughout history. she researched and wrote the book in 14 months between 1946 and 1949. initial reception was highly controversial; "the second sex" was banned in francoist spain in 1955 and banned by the vatican until 1966. new york: bantam. 4.25 x 7". 705 pages. mass market paperback. bound in colored paper wrappers. book...
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$45.34
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
by Yates, Frances A
Henley-on-Thames / Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Finre. Near Fine in boards in a price-clipped DJ, except for which the book is flawless. With 217 pages.
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$150.00
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion: Volume 15 Number 1 Spring 1999
by Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth et al (editors)
Paperback. 142pp. Rubbed to spine ends. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1999.
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$6.91
the ethics of ambiguity
by simone de beauvoir
new york: philosophical library, 1948. first edition, 1948. prompted by a lecture de beauvoir gave in 1945 in which she stated it was impossible to base a system of ethics on her partner jean-paul sartre's "being and nothingness," this is the book that launched her career. de beavoir expounds on her conception of ethics. new york: philosophical library. 5.5x8.5". 159 pages. hardcover. bound in paper-covered boards. book condition: minor shelfwear. very good +. jacket condition: minor losses to spine...
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$340.05
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About Chinese Women [Ron Whyte's Copy]
by Julia Kristeva
New York: Urizen Books, 1977. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spine, red end papers. 211 pp. Review slip pasted to front FFEP. About Near Fine, with review slip pasted to front free endpaper and Ron Whyte ownership inscription to front pastedown. Light marginalia marking to pp 73-76 only. Very Good jacket with light edge wear and mild scuffing.. Kristeva's study of the changing role of women in China, bearing ownership inscription of playwright and disability activist...
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$52.00
Coup D'etat
by Edward Luttwak
London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1968. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, red spine titles, black endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 189 pp. Near fine book; very good price-clipped dust jacket. Designed by John Douet.
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$207.00
Practical Training in Thought
by Rudolf Steiner
Spring Valley, NY: The Anthroposophic Press, 1974. Third Printing, 1974. Saddle-stapled duodecimo in printed wraps. 25 pp. Very Good.
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$29.00
The Exhibition of Shusaku Arakawa- To Atushi Miyakawa
by Arakawa, Shusaku
Tokyo: Touko Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1990. Paperback. VG. Very Good glossy softcover, 11.75 x 8.25", 83 pages; texts in Japanese and English. Black and white and some color ills, including one fold-out. Some age-toning, rubbing and crinkling to covers but interior pretty flawless. Numerous scholarly essays by Atushi Miyakawa, Akira Unami, Yasuo Kobayashi and others. Scarce in U.S.
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$175.00
![Versuch uber Wagner (Essay on Wagner) [German]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/212/862/1510862212.0.b.jpg)
Versuch uber Wagner (Essay on Wagner) [German]
by Theodor W. Adorno
Droemersche Verlagannstalt Th. Knaur Nachf.; Munchen, Zurich, 1964. Softcover. Very Good. [ADORNO]. Adorno, Theodor W. "Versuch uber Wagner (Essay on Wagner)." Droemersche Verlagannstalt Th. Knaur Nachf.; Munchen, Zurich, 1964. German language. Softcover. 170 pp. Wear on covers. Yellowing. Abrasion on front cover. Price in pencil on first page. Text clean. Very Good. No ISBN.
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$13.70
The Mechanism of Meaning
by Arakawa and Madeline Gins
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. VG+/G+. Excellent square quarto in pink-cream boards in a Good only dust-jacket. Printed acetate jacket has closed tears at rear as well as a few pieces missing as well as one closed tear on front & a chip at base and a few minor scuffs; otherwise it' bright, firm and clean. 160 pages, pictorial endpapers and profuse illustrations . Third, revised edition. Only one of two sheets -- the "Micrographs of zirconium from the Atomic Resolution Microscope at the Lawrence...
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$120.00
Deleuze Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2017: The Virtual, the Actual, and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations
by Eds. Sean Bowden, Dale Clisby. Contributors: Daniela Voss, Craig Lundy, Jeffrey A. Bell, Mary Beth Mader, Jon Roffe
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, GB-SCT, 2017. Softcover. Very Good. 9x0x6. [THEORY]. Eds. Sean Bowden, Dale Clisby. Contributors: Daniela Voss, Craig Lundy, Jeffrey A. Bell, Mary Beth Mader, Jon Roffe. "Deleuze Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2017: The Virtual, the Actual, and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations." Edinburgh, GB-SCT: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. English language. Softcover. iv, 153-296 pp, [2]. Front cover bows out. Bottom left-hand corner of front...
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$22.00
![Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective. Papers from the Conference on Forms of Censorship held at Harvard University on April 21, 1990. [Jill Johnston's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/678/934/1514934678.0.b.jpg)
Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective. Papers from the Conference on Forms of Censorship held at Harvard University on April 21, 1990. [Jill Johnston's copy]
by Sukleiman, Susan Rubin, Alice A. Jardine, Ruth Perry, Carla Mazzio, eds. [Jil Johnston]
Cambridge, MA: New Cambridge Press, 1990. Very Good minus. Scarce 1994 softcover, 94 pages. Very good minus with minor cover-wear especially to edges and about twelve pages of underlining, a few notes and one instance of highlighting in two of the essays. Said markings come from the previous owner, the late great Jill Johnston (1929-2010), critic, radical lesbian feminist and champion of the avant-garde and bears her distinctive stamp in blue ink which reads "Write first. then live." J.J. Additional...
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$37.50
The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
by Kevin Floyd
University of Minnesota Press; Minneapolis and London, 2009. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. FLOYD, Kevin. "The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism." University of Minnesota Press; Minneapolis, London, 2009. English language. Hardcover. Gray boards. No dust jacket. 272 pages. Dog-earring. Ink marginalia and underlining throughout. Use. Sticker residue on back cover. Good. ISBN: 9780816643950."The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed...
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$45.00
History and Class Consciousness (Studies in Marxist Dialectics)
by Lucaks, Georg
Cambridge, MA & UK: Merlin Pres, Ltd./ MIT Press, 1971. Cloth. VG+/VG. A Very Good + hardcover copy in pictorial boards which bear same image as dust-jacket. Jacket shows minimal wear, including edgewear at top and bottom of spine. While title page says MIT Press, copyright page says "First published in this edition by The Merlin Press, Ltd." 356 pages.
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$150.00
the female eunuch
by germaine greer
new york: mcgraw-hill, 1971. first edition, 1971. text important to the second-wave feminist movement. greer posits that the nuclear family is sexually repressive to women. new york: mcgraw-hill book company. 6x9.1". 349 pages. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: sun fading at top on all sides. very good +. jacket condition: minor chips to top, spine, and rear. unclipped ($6.95). very good.
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$85.01
Copyright 1 Fin de Siècle 2000
by Somol, R.E., Alice Jardine, Heidi Gilpin, Brian Massumi, eds. Warren Niesluchowski & Chiron, typographics
Cambridge, MA: Copyright, 1987. Softcover. VG. Very good softcover with sunning & some spotting tocovers with raised "C" insignia, 188 pages, b/w images. Exceedingly rare one-off journal, heavy theory. Contributors include Jean-François Lyotard, Julia Kristeva, Jeanne Hyvrard, Toni Negri, Peter Canning, Simon Watney, Rhonda Lieberman, and others.
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$85.00
Critical Inquiry, Winter 1995, Vol. 21, No. 2
by Ed. WJT Mitchell. Contributors: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, EP Thompson, Jacques Bouveresse, Jane Gaines, Goffredo Diana, John Beverly, Susan Buck-Morss, OK Werckmeister, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank, Arnold I. Davidson
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Softcover. Acceptable. 8x6x2. [THEORY]. Ed. WJT Mitchell. Contributors: Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, EP Thompson, Jacques Bouveresse, Jane Gaines, Goffredo Diana, John Beverly, Susan Buck-Morss, OK Werckmeister, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank, Arnold I. Davidson. "Critical Inquiry, Winter 1995, Vol. 21, No. 2." Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. English language. Softcover. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 16 x 2 cm. 14 oz. 275-567...
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$13.75
beginnings: intention and method
by edward said
baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university, 1975. signed copy, 1975. work of literary criticism in which said differentiates between the concept of "origin" and "beginning", also reflecting reflexively on the role of criticism and of the intellectual within a larger culture. baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university press. isbn: 0-8018-2085-5. 6x9". 414 pages. softcover. bound in colored paper wrappers. condition: reading creases to spine. shelfwear throughout. very good.
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$170.03
Class Struggle in Africa
by Kwame Nkrumah
New York: International Publishers, 1970. First American Edition, simultaneous with the cloth. Signature-bound (7 x 4-7/8 in.) in pictorial wraps. 96 pp/. Very Good, light edge wear, wraps soiled and with sunning to spine. Else clean in a sound square binding.. First American Edition (paperback) of the Ghanaian leader's treatise on African class struggle and its efforts against neo-colonialism.
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$230.00
