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173-187 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" s 8 1/4") bound in publishers original wrappers. current Anthropology Volume 25, Number 2 complete. First edition. Lafitau is an important figure in the history of ethnology, and his great comparative work which appear early in the 18th century is a milestone on the way to a science of custom. He did not originate the comparative method, and he wrote the fashionable dissertation pf the day; but he developed a method of reciprocal illumination, using field observations to throw light on the custom of antiquity and employing the customs of the ancients to provide leads for field work. His book utilized a wide variety of sources on the New World and on antiquity, and it was read, although not always acknowledged, by the thinkers of the day. A century later it influenced the founders of scientific ethnology in Europe nd America. Lafitau made a number of important discoveries, which were largely rediscovered afterward. Condition: Spine and edges sunned,…
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J F Lafitau (1681-1746), Precursor of Scientific Anthropology in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 25, Number 2
by William Nelson Fenton (1908-2005)
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Jaarboek van de Nederlandse Bond van Probleemvrienden 1936
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91 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") issued in grey wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5924) (Kieler Schachkatalog:6051) First edition.Published annually starting in 1931 through 1980, except for the following years, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1976 and 1979. Contains articles, usually 15 to 20 pages each, and works on chess problems. Condition:Age darkening to edges. A very good copy.
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Jaarboek 1946 van de Nederlandse Bond van Probleemvrienden
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46+[2] pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") issued in gray wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5924) (Kieler Schachkatalog:6051) First edition.Published annually starting in 1931 through 1980, except for the following years, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1976 and 1979. Contains articles, usually 15 to 20 pages each, and works on chess problems.
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Jaarboek 1959 van de Nederlandse Bond van Probleemvrienden
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32 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") issued in grey wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5924) (Kieler Schachkatalog:6051) First edition.Published annually starting in 1931 through 1980, except for the following years, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1976 and 1979. Contains articles, usually 15 to 20 pages each, and works on chess problems.
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Jaarboek 1951 van de Nederlandse Bond van Probleemvrienden
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64 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") issued in grey wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5924) (Kieler Schachkatalog:6051) First edition.Published annually starting in 1931 through 1980, except for the following years, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1976 and 1979. Contains articles, usually 15 to 20 pages each, and excellent articles of legendary Dutch composers: Niemejer, Nanning, Feenstra Kuiper, Van den Berg, Meurs, Franken, Kok, Drese, Selman, Eerkes, Gradstein, Koldijk, Smit, Hartong, Visserman, and more.
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Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography
by Joan London (1901-1971)
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387 pages with frontispiece portrait and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with dark brown lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Merely as a story of action and adventure, this book makes magnificent reading. As a study of a strange and tortured personality, written with amazing detachment and deep understanding, this biography is one of the really important books on London. For it is not only that very rare achievements, a biography which gives the reader an intimate understanding of the mind and character of a man of genius, it is also a clear picture of the times which were the crucible of his career. Condition: Corners and edges bumped. Jacket edge wear with chips and closed tears, spine ends and corners chipped, hinge taped repaired else a good copy.
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Jack O'Lantern
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286+[1 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bond in original publisher's black cloth with green lettering to spine and cover with pictorial jacket. First American edition. Jack O'Lantern is a 1929 mystery thriller novel by the British writer George Goodchild. Goodchild was a prolific writer of thrillers in the style of Edgar Wallace and Sydney Horler. It was published in the United States the following year by The Mystery League. Another of his novels The Monster of Grammont was published by them in 1931. Detectives from Scotland Yard attempt to track down a mysterious killer terrorizing London, known only as "Jack O'Lantern". It was adapted into a 1931 West End play of the same title and subsequently into the 1932 film Condemned to Death directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind and Gordon Harker. Condition: Cocked, spine heals rubbed through, corners bumped and rubbed. Jacket stained and soiled, edge wear with tears and small chips, Two inches lacking from spine heal,…
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Jack and Jill
by James Brendan Patterson (1947- )
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432 pages. Royal octavo (9 14 x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Advance Reader's Edition, Uncorrected Proof. First edition. Join Alex Cross in a heart-stopping thrill ride as he pieces together the clues of two gruesome murders. Will he find the killers in time? In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D. C. homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten and deposited in front of the elementary school Cross's son attends. No one in Washington is safe-not children, not politicians, not even the…
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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Karouac
by Barry Gifford (1946- ) and Lawrence Lee
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xii+339 pages with photographs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial Jacket. First edition. Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation. Condition: Page ends dusty. Jacket spine head closed tea+, verso taped, spine sunned else better…
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Jaguar and Serpent: The Cosmos of Indians in Mexico, Central and South America
by Claus Deimel (1948- ) and Elke Ruhnau
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Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2000 235 pages with plates, figures, and maps. Quarto (11 3/4" x 9 3/4") issued in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Translated by Ann Leslie Davis. Erratum laid in. 1st edition. Since time immemorial, people have attempted to archive their thoughts and views of the natural cosmos - whether through the collection of iconographic textiles, counting ropes, feather rods, bamboo or wool shields or picture writing, sculpture, depictions, tiles and masks. Animals formed of stone, wood and clay show clearly that animals have served as representatives for religious, mythical and political ideas, and as symbols of power. Within an Indian context, the magic, fertility, but also defenselessness and stupidity. The serpent, in contrast, appears as a mediator between humans and their gods and was always honored as a symbol for their fertility in the old Indian cultures. The portrayals of both jaguar and serpent are influenced the results of religious interpretations and differ…
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Jahrbuch des Westdeutschen Schachbundes 1862 und 1863
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2 books in one: viii+148 pages with frontispiece and diagrams; 66 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. (Series Tschaturanga, Band 54). This is a reprint of the 1862 and 1863 editions of the Yearbook for the West German Chess Federation. It recaps the year of chess and the major tournaments. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.
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James Bowie, Big Dealer
by James "J" Frank Dobie (1888-1964)
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23 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. Reprinted from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume LX, Number 3. First separate printing. James Bowie had the flavor, the mettle, the daring in gesture and deed, and the generosity of spirit that make certain actors on the stage of life go beyond themselves into other selves and thus do more and say more than they actually said or did. People used to name their horses, their oxen, their hounds after Bowie. This is fame. Bowie's impact on human imagination, which is to say on social history, was far stronger than on political or military history. Condition: Some light marginalia, edge wear, corners bumped else very good.
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James Madison Alden: Yankee Artist of the Pacific Coast, 1854-1860
by Franz Robert Stenzel (1906-1998)
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xiii+209 pages with frontispiece with illustrations (some color), appendix, bibliography and index. Square Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Dr. Franz Stenzel, a Portland, Oregon physician, and his wife, Kathryn Mathison Stenzel, began collecting art of the American Northwest in 1955 shortly after Dr. Stenzel was given a painting by a patient. Over the next 40 years, Dr. and Mrs. Stenzel amassed a collection that eventually included more than 2,000 works of art. They focused on depictions of the Pacific Northwest made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Although they never completed a projected book about artists born before 1900 who worked in the U. S. and Canadian Northwest, their research contributed to two books by Dr. Stenzel: Cleveland Rockwell: Scientist and Artist, 1837-1907 (Oregon Historical Society, 1972) and James Madison Alden: Yankee Artist of the Pacific Coast,…
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Japan: Photographs 1854-1905
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Alfred A Knopf 1979 New York, 1979 Very good in a near fine dust jacket 1st Hardbound Oblong 4to 159p Previous owner's name on title.. Hardcover.
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Japan an Attempt at Interpretation
by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
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vi+541+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition.As long as Japan's religious practices remain obscured and misunderstood, it will be impossible to interpret the country's art, history or even industry, argues the author of this work. After all, Milton, Dante and even Shakespeare can only be fully understood by those with a knowledge of Western religion. By analysing Japan's religion in depth, the author seeks to uncover what has long been hidden from Western view and to pave the way to a clearer understanding of Japanese life. The book includes sections on Ancestor-worship, the Communal Cult, the development of Shinto, Buddhism, social organization, military power, loyalty, the Jesuits and many other topics.
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Japan, the Toothless Tiger: A Provocative Look at Japan's Expanding Role in the Future of Asia
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x+174 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Japan: The Toothless Tiger is a thoughtful analysis of the current situation Japan is facing with growing Chinese military power on the one hand, and a weakening American presence in the Asia-Pacific on the other. How will Japan cope? Hemmed in by mounting tensions with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and facing nuclear threats from North Korea, what should Japan do? Should she rearm? Should she get the bomb? What are the consequences of rearming, or not rearming? These and other strategic questions are critically reviewed by Professor Hayes, who places them into the Japanese political context. He shows how and why Japan must develop a more sophisticated approach to China, Russia and the two Koreas to address growing threats to her security and national interests. Professor Hayes shows how this can be done, and all East Asia will benefit as a…
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Javanese Shadow Puppets: The Raffles Collection in the British Musuem
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Jazz Records A-Z 1897-1942 with Index
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"Volume 1. A-Kar" 928 pages "Volume 2. Kar-Z" [929]-1968 pages with index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6 3/4") recased in original publisher's spine and covers with gilt lettering to spine with "Jazz Records A-Z 1897-1931 Index" bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revised edition, first published in 1969.This set of books covers in the fullest possible detail all known recordings made in the years between 1897 and 1942 in the ragtime, jazz and swing idioms, including also a number of dance records of the kind described at the time of their original issue as "hot." For the most part only records made by American and British musicians are listed, as with few exceptions (such as Django Reinhardt), European, Australian and South American artists do not mean very much outside their native lands. Excellent work on some of these has been done already by radiographers such as Horst Lange (Germany), Giuseppe Barazetta (italy) and Mike Sutcliffe (Australia).
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Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation
by Therman B O'Daniel (1908-1986) [editor]
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xxi+557 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with brown lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Vintage essays by eminent scholars such as Darwin T Turner and selections prepared especially for this volume including three by Toomer biographer Nellie Y McKay, capture the divergent perspectives, attitudes and literary interpretations that have developed about Jean Toomer and his work since the 1960s. This work includes Therman O'Daniels's own revealing interview with Mae Wright Peck about her courtship with Jean Toomer. Condition: Mild rubbing to extremities. Jacket corners lightly chipped, spine heal chipped with closed tears and creases else very good to fine in a very good jacket.
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Jeeves and the Tie That Binds
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189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering and decoration to spine in original pictorial jacket. (APG: 109b) 15,000 copies published in first American edition.First published in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, as Much Obliged, Jeeves and in the United States on 15 October 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the name Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The two editions have slightly different endings. Wodehouse's American editor gave the US edition its title and rewrote the last page, adding Jeeves' disclosure about the eighteen pages from the Junior Ganymede Club Book, and his expressed desire to remain permanently in Wooster's employment. Written only a few years before his death, Jeeves and the Tie that Binds is the second-to-last appearance of Wodehouse's characters, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (the last being Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974). It forms the fourth and…
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