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New York: Palgrave, 1999. Hardcover. Good/Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". ix, 235pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Gentle bumps to extremities. Light dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Inked underlining and notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: C.G. Jung and Literary Theory remedies a significant omission in literary studies by doing for Jung and poststructuralist literary theories what has been achieved for Freud and Lacan. Offering radically new Jungian theories of deconstruction, feminism, the body, sexuality, spirituality, postcolonialism, reader-response, the book also investigates the controversial occult and fascist heritage of Jung. By using the work of Derrida, Kristeva and Irigaray and examining Jungian… Read More

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 267pp. Very light rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Occasional penciled underlining and notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The unique contribution of this work is essentially threefold. First, it provides a theoretical framework for the study of synchronistic phenomena a framework that enables us to view these phenomena in relation to Jung s model of the psyche and his concept of psychic compensation. Second, this book explores the significant role that these events played in Jung s life and work. And third, by way of a careful examination of the synchronicity theory in relation to the process Jung terms individuation, an examination in which considerable case material is presented, the specific import of this seminal concept for Jung s psychology of religion… Read More

Macon: Mercer University Press, 2013. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". 427pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Bump to top corner of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The C.S. Lewis Phenomenon names the way in which Lewis's presentations of Christianity in both his fiction and non-fiction depend upon the conventions of the public sphere this study explores three facets of that phenomenon. The first concerns Lewis's accomplishment as a public intellectual. Conceiving Lewis as a public intellectual also provides a useful meta-critical lens for exploring his symbiotic relationship to the public sphere, revealing how his place within the public sphere mirrors its rupture. A meta-critical analysis also sheds light on the Lewis industry, highlighting the curiosities that have characterized Lewis scholarship from its beginning.(Publisher).

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". 90pp. Heavy wear to dust jacket with soiling, toning, rubbing, and chips to covers, corners, and edges. Top half of rear cover of jacket is completely torn away. Rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green paper over boards. Boards are warped. 11 signatures to front free endpaper, most of which are dated 1987. Soiling and rippling to pages throughout. Pages lack notatoin. Binding is sound. Though admittedly worn, all photographs are present and visible. A stunning photographic and written account of 1980s Cabbagetown and the history of the neighborhood up to that point, a neighborhood "on the edge of downtown Atlanta...an island of poverty in one of the South's most prosperous cities" (from front flap). Cabbagetown experienced a remarkable revitalization in the 90s, in part due to an influx of artists like Oraien E. Catledge in the 80s, and is… Read More

New York: Workman Publishing, 2015. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 11" X 8 3/4". 188pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunk's skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fool's gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robin's egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of… Read More

Fort Sill: Officer's Wives Club, 1975. Spiral_bound. Good +. Spiral_bound. 9" X 6 3/4". 250pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Penciled notation to title page. Very occasional penciled notation to pages. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this collection of recipes from the women and men of Fort Sill.

Punjab: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xliii, 249pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. 1/2" closed tear to jacket at top of spine. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in purple. Hard bump to top of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Sticker from Nataraj Books pasted to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. The publishers, Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), are a religious group based in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Established in 1891 by Indian spiritual leader Jaimal Singh, the RSSB's teachings are guided by the fundamental spiritual beliefs found at the heart of most religions. Call of the great Master is an engrossing and lucid presentation of Sant Mat, the teachings of the saints, as set forth by mystics past and present.(Publisher).

London: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiii, 387pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative cloth over boards. Blind stamp to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Pritchett skilfully evokes the tiny acts of courage, betrayal and deception that make up the petty tragedies of ordinary life. In his dense, many-layered tales, whole vistas exist just beyond the story's confines; characters and plot linger in the mind long after the final page is turned. Hilda in 'When My Girl Comes Home' is feared dead in a Japanese POW camp. Only her mother keeps faith, and slaves to save money for her lost daughter. Hilda returns at last, well-groomed and sleek, talking of the man who will write a book of her life. Is she a fantasist? A whore, as other women whisper? Or a loving daughter desperate for a chance of freedom and happiness? In 'The Camberwell Beauty',… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiv, 1035pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Toning to edges of text block. Crease to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This 1982 book is a history of the great age of scholastism from Abelard to the rejection of Aristotelianism in the Renaissance, combining the highest standards of medieval scholarship with a respect for the interests and insights of contemporary philosophers, particularly those working in the analytic tradition. The volume follows on chronologically from The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, though it does not continue the histories of Greek and Islamic philosophy but concentrates on the Latin Christian West. Unlike other histories… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxi, 450pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Remainder mark to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume… Read More

Los Angeles: Camera Obscura, 1983. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 160pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with edgewear, bumping to extremities, light toning and soiling, and sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this eleventh issue of Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory, founded in 1976 by Janet Bergstrom, Sandy Flitterman, Elisabeth Lyon, and Constance Penley while the four were graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. The journal is remains in print and is currently published three times a year by Duke University Press.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator, Bernard Lamotte, in ink at special publisher's page at rear. 11 1/4" X 8 1/2". xxiii, 231pp. Bound in blue French watered silk, with a burgundy-red leather label stamped in gold leaf. Sunning to spine. Spots of rubbing to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With monthly letter of The Limited Editions Club dated August, 1955 laid in. This is copy number 296 of fifteen-hundred signed limited editions produced exclusively for members of The Limited Editions Club. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazen—and expensive—courtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneyed life of nonstop parties and aristocratic… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxi, 262pp, xi. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to price-clipped dust jacket. Russet cloth over boards with spine backed in cream cloth and upper board and spine stamped in black. A touch of shelfwear to binding. Blue topstain. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Light toning and dust soiling to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first American printing of a remarkable book that "throws a bright light on 2,000 obscure years of prehistory in northern Europe and on the myths and cults of its mysterious forest people, who have fascinated civilized men from Julius Caesar to Robert Graves" (front flap), illustrated throughout in 71 photographs, 131 drawings, and 4 maps.

New York: The Century Co, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Offered here is a presentable first edition of this collection of seven humorous stories set in Nova Scotia by novelist and inventor William Albert Hickman (1878-1957), illustrated in frontispiece and 7 monochrome plates throughout. 7 3/4" X 5 1/2". 365pp. Publisher's cloth binding with monogram CS, possibly designed by C. H. Simonds & Co., but unconfirmed. Bound in midnight blue cloth over boards, with moonlit forest scene stamped in light blue and gilt to upper board and pine cone embellishments and title in gilt to upper board and spine. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping and rubbing to edges and extremities and slight lean to spine. Hinges a touch tender; binding remains quite firm and sound. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated in frontispiece and 7 monochrome plates throughout.

London: Macmillan London Limited, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 198pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archical sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. By the end of her journey she had ignited one soldier with an oxy-acetylene torch, stabbed another through the chest with the spike of her cello, clobbered a guard with the butt of a rifle and raked terrorists with machine-gun fire before frazzling the survivors in an oil-covered sea.(Publisher).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 177pp. Toning and mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light toning and shelf wear to covers and edges of brown paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper. Toning to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A New York newspaper strike had idled reporter Gary Manning, so he was only too glad to impersonate his friend Sam Duncan in Panama and claim a $10,000 debt from an uncle Duncan hadn't seen in twenty years. On the flight to Panama, Manning agrees to carry a suitcase through Customs for another passenger, and this not-so-innocent act plunges him into a maelstrom of murder and smuggling. The appearance of Nancy Barton, an attractive young travel agent, serves to complicate Manning's life in more than one way.(Publisher).

New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4". 111pp. Very mild wear to red cloth over boards with light rubbing to covers and edges. Bump to tail of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Mild wear to clipcase with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. This special edition of Candide contains all of the original illustrations, including specially designed chapter heads, as well as hundreds of miniature drawings interspersed by the illustrator within paragraphs themselves.

New York: The Modern Library. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". xiii, 236pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Boud in blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in red and gilt. Bumps to corners and extremities of boards. Previous owner's stamp to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is "the best of all possible worlds." The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and… Read More

PageFree Publishing, Inc, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8" X 5". 199pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Canine Courage takes an in-depth look at the heroism and loyalty of our best friend. The book explores the many heartwarming, sad, and funny stories of untrained dogs who save people's lives. The book looks at why dogs are heroic, which breeds are most heroic, and explains how and why this unique behavior developed. Canine Courage examines the dog's natural history and behavior to take a fresh and revealing look at the relationship between people and dogs. Dogs have saved people from almost every danger imaginable— drowning, animal attacks, fire, speeding cars, being lost, and armed intruders. Canine Courage looks at what motivates these dogs to help, if dogs are altruistic and have empathy, and how they know what to do. The book also covers related behavior such as loyalty, the quiet… Read More

New York: CRC Press, 2009. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xviii, 348pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Slight lean to spine. Occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Since Canis lupus familiaris first shared a fire with man more than 15,000 years ago, dogs have been trusted and valued coworkers. Yet the relatively new field of canine ergonomics is just beginning to unravel the secrets of this collaboration. As with many new fields, the literature on working dogs is scattered across several non-overlapping disciplines from forensics and the life sciences to medicine, security, and wildlife biology. Canine Ergonomics: The Science of Working Dogs draws together related research from different fields into an interdisciplinary resource of science-based information. Providing a complete overview, from physiology to cognition, this is the first book to discuss working dogs from a… Read More