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201042379Oxford University Press. 2010. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Underlining in pencil to a few pages. Bumping to corners. Minor edgewear to DJ.; Oxford Classical Monographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 472 pages . 0199577846 . Oxford University Press hardcover
2001000747Levine Books 2001. Book. Illus. by Andrews Benny. Hardcover. A NEAR FINE COPY SIGNED BY Andrews with an AUTHOR INSCRIBED glossy art gallery card of a B. Andrews' exhibit. The 5 X 7 card 's cover is the same as the book's cover. This is a 4to size Third Printing of Fraustino's story of a Blind African American boy and his relationship with his grandmother. Levine Books Hardcover
201042985Cambridge University Press. 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry elegy tragedy and oratory. Various socio-political contexts and narrative forms lent themselves to the expression of diverse attitudes towards the past. At the same time a common gravitational centre can be observed which is distinct from modern ideas of history. As well as presenting a broad overview on memory in various genres Professor Grethlein sheds new light on the rise of Greek historiography. He views Herodotus and Thucydides against the background of memory in poetry and oratory and thereby elucidates the tension between tradition and continuity in which the shaping of historiography as a genre took place.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 364 pages . 0521110777 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
201817557<p>New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2015. <i><b>Signed by the author on the title page.</b></i> First edition / First Printing. Ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.</p> Farrar, Straus & Giroux, hardcover
20122091502135421921National Institute for the Humanities National Institute of Japanese Literature 2012. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 National Institute for the Humanities National Institute of Japanese Literature paperback
201115862University College Dublin Press. 2011. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Book is fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear.; Plutarch whose works have remained immensely popular through the years has shaped our ideas about much of the ancient world. His humane sensibilities his skill in storytelling and not least his humor have combined to charm readers throughout the centuries persuading them that he is like them. In the twentieth century he was declared a feminist. In this study Chapman argues that his attitudes towards women were in fact those of his time and that while he opted for persuasion instead of force in controlling women his views are nonetheless chauvinistic. This book breaks new ground in scholarly terms but is also accessible to the general reader who wants to learn more about Plutarch and women in antiquity.; 210 pages . 1906359644 . University College Dublin Press hardcover
2003005322Bristol United Kingdom: Thoemmes Press 2003. Book. New. Hardcover. 8vo. 7 vol set. Reprinted facsimile editions. Vol I: Bulwer Chirologia: Or the Natural Language of the Hand 1648. Vol II: Burgh The Art of Speaking 1768 . Vol. 3: Sheridan Lectures on the Art of Reading: In Two Parts 1781. Vol 4: Enfield The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces; Selected from the Best English Writers 1799. Vol 5: Walker Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated 1810 Vol 6: Knowles Orthoepy and Elocution; or The First Part of a Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Lanuage 1829 and Vol 7: Short Treatises. A new set. Thoemmes Press Hardcover
200436953Cambridge University Press. 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. No DJ as issued. Pictoral boards. Digitally reprinted.; 6.16 X 1.14 X 9.34 inches; 456 pages . 0521801087 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
2006326618<p>Stiff wraps with French flaps. Signed by Damien Hirst on front endpaper. Published for the exhibition of the same name in Mexico City February 2 to August 27 2006. 172 pages of full colour plates of works in the exhibition with accompanying texts and an interview with Hirst. Text in English and Spanish.</p> Other Criteria paperback
2003000527Doubleday 2003. Book. Trade Paperback. FIRST EDITION ADVANCE READING COPY VERY GOOD COPY. Doubleday Paperback
2001000196Farrar Straus Giroux 2001. The Granta selected author's award winning novel. The ADVANCED READING COPY NEAR FINE SIGNED by Franzen on title page. Hardcover. Book. Farrar, Straus, Giroux Hardcover
2007006284<p>Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2007.<em><strong> EXTRA SHIPPING REQUIRED please ask</strong></em>. First Edition Sixth Printing 2007. Illustrated Hard Cover. Very Good/Boxed Set. 11" X 10".</p> Andrews McMeel Publishing hardcover
200243073Brill Academic Publishers. 2002. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Faint shelfwear. 2 very faint and small dampstains to front board.; This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthonius's standard Progymnasmata a classroom guide on composition. The chreia or anecdote was a popular form that preserved the wisdom of philosophers kings generals and sophists. Aphthonius used the chreia to provide instructions on how to construct an argument and to confirm the validity of the chreia by means of an eight-paragraph essay. His treatment of this classroom exercise however was so brief that commentators needed to clarify explain and supplement what he had written as well as to situate the chreia as preparation for the study of rhetoric the kinds of public speeches and the parts of a speech. By means of these Byzantine commentaries we can thus see more clearly how this important form and its confirmation were taught in classrooms for over a thousand years.; Writings From The Greco-Roman World 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages . 9004126562 . Brill Academic Publishers hardcover
200243327Society of Biblical Literature. 2002. Softcover. Very Good. Very Faint shelfwear.; This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthonius's standard Progymnasmata a classroom guide on composition. The chreia or anecdote was a popular form that preserved the wisdom of philosophers kings generals and sophists. Aphthonius used the chreia to provide instructions on how to construct an argument and to confirm the validity of the chreia by means of an eight-paragraph essay. His treatment of this classroom exercise however was so brief that commentators needed to clarify explain and supplement what he had written as well as to situate the chreia as preparation for the study of rhetoric the kinds of public speeches and the parts of a speech. By means of these Byzantine commentaries we can thus see more clearly how this important form and its confirmation were taught in classrooms for over a thousand years.; Writings From The Greco-Roman World 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages . 1589830180 . Society of Biblical Literature paperback
201167239Washington DC: United States Central Intelligence Agency 2011. Presumed first edition. first printing. Wraps. Very good. 56 p. Includes illustrations. Contains a DVD in rear pocket. Selected documents from the Air American Archives. Occasional footnotes. This was produced with the Center for the Study of Intelligence and the National Museum of the United States Air Force. From WIkipedia: "Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency's CIA Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported United States covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.In August 1950 the CIA secretly purchased the assets of Civil Air Transport CAT an airline that had been started in China in 1946 by Gen. Claire Lee Chennault of Flying Tigers fame and Whiting Willauer. 1 In 1951 the parent company of Air America's forerunner Civil Air Transport CAT was reorganized. The owner Chennault was approached by the CIA who bought out the company through a holding company the American Airdale Corporation. Under this agreement CAT was allowed to keep its initials and the company was reorganized as Civil Air Transport Inc. On 7 October 1957 American Airdale was reorganized to add another layer of obfuscation to its ownership. The new Pacific Corporation became a holding company for Air Asia Company Air Asia Taiwan Ltd; Air America Inc; Civil Air Transport Inc; Southern Air Transport; Intermountain Aviation; Bird and Sons known as BirdAir; and Robinson Brothers. CAT attempted to change its name to Air America at the same time but objections from Air France and American Airlines delayed the name change for two years. Air America's slogan was "Anything Anywhere Anytime Professionally". Air America aircraft including the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and Fairchild C-123 Provider flew many types of cargo to countries such as the Republic of Vietnam the Kingdom of Laos and Cambodia. It operated from bases in those countries and also from bases in Thailand and as far afield as Taiwan and Japan. It also on occasion flew top-secret missions into Burma and the People's Republic of China. Air America U-10D Helio Courier aircraft in Laos on a covert mountaintop landing strip LS "Lima site"Air America's headquarters moved several times during its existence 808 17th St. NW 1964 801 World Center Bldg late 1964 815 Connecticut Ave NW July 1968 and 1725 K Street NW 1972 all in Washington DC. Marana Arizona was the principal continental United States maintenance base for Air America of which was located at Pinal Airpark. edit Operations during the Vietnam War Second Indochina WarFrom 1959 to 1962 the airline provided direct and indirect support to CIA Operations "Ambidextrous" "Hotfoot" and "White Star" which trained the regular Royal Laotian armed forces. After 1962 a similar operation known as Project 404 fielded numerous U.S. Army attachés ARMA and air attachés AIRA to the U.S. embassy in Vientiane. From 1962 to 1975 Air America inserted and extracted U.S. personnel provided logistical support to the Royal Lao Army Hmong army under command of Royal Lao Army Major General Vang Pao and combatant Thai "volunteer" forces transported refugees and flew photo reconnaissance missions that provided valuable intelligence on NLF activities. Its civilian-marked craft were frequently used under the control of the Seventh/Thirteenth Air Force to launch search and rescue missions for U.S. pilots downed throughout Southeast Asia. Air America pilots were the only known private U.S. corporate employees to operate non-Federal Aviation Administration-certified military aircraft in a combat role although many of them were actually military personnel who had been transferred to the airline. By the summer of 1970 the airline had some two dozen twin-engine transport aircraft another two dozen short-take off-and-landing aircraft and 30 helicopters dedicated to operations in Burma Cambodia Thailand and Laos. There were more than 300 pilots copilots flight mechanics and airfreight specialists based in Laos and Thailand. United States, Central Intelligence Agency paperback
201530183London: Sotheby's 2015. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 10.7x8.3x0.6in. light bumping to upper corner of text block. <br>97 lots are described and illustrated in color. <br>207pp 1.87lb 10.7x8.3x0.6in Sotheby's paperback
2007000511Riverhead 2007. Book. Trade Paperback. First novel by award winning writer Diaz. ADVANCE READING COPY SIGNED FIRST PRINTING NEAR FINE COPY scarce in ARC printing. Riverhead Paperback
2007003386Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press 2007. Hardcover. Very Good . Large 8vo. 192 pp. Bound in half red cloth and illustrated boards stamped in gilt on covers and spine. No dust jacket as issued. Profusely illustrated. Very Good internally bright and clean gilt on front cover is scuffed and rubbed tight clean copy. <br/><br/> Princeton Architectural Press hardcover
2016008286NY: Princeton Architectural Press. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Princeton Architectural Press 2016 first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 12" 210pp. illustrated with color photographs. The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes "Photography must belong to the blind who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world this exhilarating book-the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity-will make you see differently. Minor tenderness at corners else fine. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 2016. Princeton Architectural Press unknown
20131209 E57<p>SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING San Francisco McSweeney's 2013. Signed by Dave Eggers and five of the contributers directly on the Title Page no inscription. NEW Unread. Dust Jacket which unfolds into a poster is Fine no wear no tears no protected in a Brodart cover. Text Clean no marks. Binding Tight and Square. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed.</p> McSweeney's hardcover
200166gfStruik Publishers 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12x9x0. The jacket and boards are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. Light browning along the edges of the pages not affecting text. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. Tall extra postage may be required unless posted within South Africa. r25/06/2025 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Struik Publishers hardcover
2009139228St. Petersburg ; [Bad Breisig] : Palace Ed. Europe 2009. 301, (1) pages. With hundreds of illustrations in colour Illustrated original hardcover with an illustrated dustjacket. 32x25 cm Pp.
2007239New York: Little Brown and Company 2007. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Tan hardcover in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For Terry There is a scent a line of tracks. Follow them. Craig." And then signed in full again above his name on the title page. Upper corners bumped and a bit of bending at the spine ends. Large previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with matching edgewear and corner bumps still bright and attractive. 322 pp. some black and white illustrations. A great collection of essays on encounter native animals in the North American wilderness. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
201531040New York: Christie's 2015. 1st. Soft cover. Near Fine. 11.7x9.1x1.0in. faint crease to upper corner of back cover. <br>119 lots are described and illustrated in color. <br>4.46lb 11.7x9.1x1.0in Christie's paperback
201337460University of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division. 2013. Paperback. Fine. From Bonnie Maclachlan's library with invoice to her from UT Press tipped in. Else book is fine.; Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive and informed readings of poets from Homer to the tragedians. Thalia Delighting in Song assembles for the first time his work from 1975 through 1999 reflecting his close reading of the Greek texts and his firm grasp of their literary historical and mythological contexts. Among the essays included in this volume are important reflections on the poetry of Homer Alcman Sappho Pindar and Aeschylus. Also featured are Robbins' writings that situate Greek texts in their wider contexts comparing Greek poetry and modern opera for example or assessing the enduring influence of myth in the Indo-European traditions accounting for links between Greek literature and the poetry sagas and songs of several other cultures.; Phoenix Supplementary Volumes; 352 pages . 1442613432 . University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division paperback
