London: Jonathan Cape, (1929).. Second impression, 8vo, 448 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, title verso and opposing page browned, errata slip tipped in at p. 396, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine sunned.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very good in tan cloth and dust jacket; presumed first edition with copyright page listing to this title and dust jacket flap listing two additional titles after this one, so assumed first or early issue of the jacket.

1990 gray softcover in very good condition, some wear to covers, no marks inside. US media mail for shipping. Well-illustrated with many of Salgado's haunting photographs. Essays by Eduardo Galeano & Fred Ritchin.

Paris: Editions De La Martiniere. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 2732425346 . Text is clean. Cover shows only light wear. Small bump to base of spine. Dust jacket shows edgewear, with small tears at spine. French Translation of 'The French Archive of Design and Decoration', published 1999 by Thames & Hudson, London. Text is entirely in French. ; 256 pages .

London : Hart-Davis, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 159p. ; 21cm. Subjects: United States -- Description and travel.

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, Printed at the University Press by John Wilson and Son, 1893. A very scarce title from the short lived "World Classics" series by the Joseph Knight Company. Small volume in original three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine in six compartments, maroon leather title and author labels. Top edge gilt. Red, blue and gold marbled endpapers. viii, 11-130 pages, plates, illustrations. Followed by the publisher's information and specimen pages for forthcoming titles. A nice item for the Edgar Allan Poe collector. See photos. . First Edition Thus. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. Illus. by Mittis.

London: Constable, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in original Granville Davies designed dustjacket , Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing , in jacket that is not faded , not price-clipped showing £9.95 net on flap , toned with age , no tears, no wear , a fine book in fine d\w, not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999..

Paperback / softback. New. In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals inmany societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity.

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