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Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary bdg. covered a special jade paper branded "siguntin". Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [2], 239 p. Decorated title page with traditional motives, framed text, slight foxing on pages, and bumped backboard. Overall a very good copy. Very early edition (second) of this exceedingly rare "unique work of fiction blending personal and fantastic themes, well in the current of the traditional Ottoman prose, but also exhibiting influences from Western literature". This book has been described by some literary historians as the first Turkish fantastic work in the Western sense. Consisting of three parts and written in a laconic style contrasting with its content, where djinns and fairies surge from within contexts drawn from ordinary real-life situations, Ali Aziz Efendi often pursues by pulling the reader towards the description of magic and extraordinary occurrences. Inspired by a much older story written both in Arabic and Assyrian, the author also displays in his work his deep knowledge of Sufism, Hurufism, and Bektashi traditions. Muhayyelât is considered to be an early precursor of the new Turkish literature to emerge in the Tanzimat period of the 19th century. It also influenced Tanzimat [i.e. Reform] literature directly when the manuscript was printed in 1867 and became a very popular book of the time. His work is re-discovered by Turkey's reading public rather recently and is increasingly admitted as a classic. Ali Aziz Efendi also wrote further and shorter works of prose, which present as complementary extensions to Muhayyelât, as well as some poetry, and kept a correspondence with a number of notable figures of his time, both Ottoman and Western. He is also cited for a short sefâretnâme [i.e. book of the embassy] he wrote relating his introduction to his mission as the ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Prussia. Giridî [or Giritli] Aziz Efendi was born in Kandiye (Crete) as the son of Tahmisçi Mehmed Efendi, who was the defterdar of the Crete Eyalet, in 1749. The details of his life are rather sparse and scattered. He rose through the Ottoman hierarchy and was sent as ambassador to Prussia in 1796 and he died in Berlin in 1798. His burial marked also the opening of the first Turkish or Muslim cemetery in Berlin. Özege 14148/2.; TBTK 3054.; OCLC locates three copies of this edition, only one of them in the US libraries (McGill University).
193941625ABNaunhof/Leipzig, Hendel, o.J. [1939-1940]. 8°, insg. 6.266 S., Typo: Fraktur, Kopfrotschnitt, helle original Leineneinbände mit roten Rückenschildern und goldener Rückenbeschriftung siwie schwarzer und roter Deckelbeschriftung, die Rücken minimal nachgedunkelt, ein Band am Rücken unten mit kleiner Beschabung, ein Band vorne unten mit kleiner Bezugsfehlstelle, sonst schöne, saubere Exemplare, die sicher nur im Schrank standen und nicht gelesen wurden
1920C1876Winnenden, Zentralstelle zur Verbreitung guter deutscher Literatur, o.J., ca 1920. Kartoniert, 8°, 23 S., Heft 6 der Reihe »Bilder aus dem deutschen Volksleben«, herausgegeben von F. W. Brepohl
In 16? (cm 17,7), Brossura, pagg.286 testo in inglese, piccola mancanza al dorso e all'angolo inferiore del piatto anteriore e della prima carta, ma buon es.
19X12,6 cm; (XIII), (3), 395, (32) pp. Legatura editoriale in piena tela con titolo impresso in rosso e nero al piatto anteriore. Bella raccolta di passi tratte da numerose opere classiche e non della letteratura inglese come Jhon Mandeville, More, Trevisa, Cavendish, Melville, Florio, Donne ecc. Buono-ottimo stato di conservazione (a parte un minimo ed ininfluente difetto alla cerniera anteriore). Esemplare ancora in barbe.
19841158561984 Poesie / Forum Sport - 1984 - In-8, broché format carré, couverture illustrée - 74 pages - Illustrations en N&B in et hors texte
1990na354Atelier Poésie de Cognac Dos carré collé 1990 In-8 (22x14 cm), dos carré collé, couverture illustrée en noir, 199 pages, illustrations en noir ; menus défauts à la couverture, bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
br. "Quello che mi interessa è poter scrivere un reportage esattamente nello stesso modo in cui scriverei un libro" afferma Emmanuel Carrére. Così, della "Giungla" di Calais, non ci racconta il fango, la violenza e la miseria del campo, bensiì tutto quello che c'è attorno: la rabbia e la frustrazione di una parte dei calesiani; la compassione e la solidarietà di un'altra parte; le fabbriche e i quartieri abbandonati; l'immane apparato poliziesco; il circo mediatico; il "turismo del dolore". E lo fa nel suo modo affabile e diretto, con lo sguardo, insieme lucido ed empatico, di chi si interroga costantemente su tutto - anche su se stesso.
br. Il mondo dei romanzi di Jane Austen è domestico, ordinato, intimo. I suoi personaggi abitano in villini deliziosi, residenze di campagna principesche ed eleganti palazzi cittadini. Si è tentati perciò di credere che anche la vita della grande scrittrice si sia svolta in ambienti analoghi. Nulla di più lontano dalla realtà. L'esistenza di Jane, in apparenza tanto tranquilla, fu segnata da porte chiuse, strade che non le fu consentito imboccare, scelte che non poté compiere. La piccola somma guadagnata a fatica grazie ai suoi libri non bastava a consentirle di avere una casa tutta sua, e la morte del padre la costrinse a peregrinare tra abitazioni in affitto o presso parenti che le riservavano il destino proprio delle zie nubili: badare ai bambini. Leggendo i suoi romanzi, così pieni di case amate, perdute, sognate, si comprende bene come il desiderio struggente di una casa vera, di un luogo protetto dove mettere al sicuro i propri manoscritti e scrivere senza il peso delle faccende domestiche, non l'abbia mai abbandonata. Dalla modesta canonica di Steventon, circondata da castagni e abeti e da «uno di quei giardini vecchio stile nei quali convivono verdure e fiori», in cui Jane nacque e crebbe, fino al cottage di campagna di Chawton, nell'Hampshire, dove trascorse gli ultimi anni della sua breve vita, Lucy Worsley, con una scrittura affascinante e spiritosa, perfettamente in tono con i romanzi della Austen, ci conduce nella quotidianità della scrittrice più amata, mostrando le sue giornate buone e quelle storte, i piaceri privati e le incombenze, quelle «piccole cose dalle quali dipende la felicità quotidiana della vita domestica», e che lei elevò ad arte.
1390279766.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
20051008-8Harper Collins 2005 New York: Harper Collins 2005. First edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over brown paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publishers original price intact on jacket flap $24.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A pristine unread copy. Octavo 423 pages. Proses satirical novel follows a former neo-Nazi who seeks redemption through a Jewish human rights foundation raising questions about identity forgiveness and the politics of change. This was her fourteenth novel published after "Blue Angel" which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Signed by author on title page her name only. Opened only for author to sign. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Harper Collins hardcover
2000mon0000077173Harpercollins 1/1/2005 12:00:00 AM. paperback. Good. 0.5000 8.9000 6.1000. Advance Reader's Edition paperback in good condition. There is water staining to the right outside edge to the front cover and some of the first pages in the book. Other than that all inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the cover and spine. 385 pages. Harpercollins paperback
200581740New York N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers Inc 2005. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Marion Ettlinger Author photograph. 12 421 1 pages. Signed first edition sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. Francine Prose born April 1 1947 is an American novelist short story writer essayist and critic. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard College and was formerly president of PEN American Center. Prose graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. Prose's novel The Glorious Ones has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. In March 2007 Prose was chosen to succeed American writer Ron Chernow beginning in April to serve a one-year term as president of PEN American Center a New York City-based literary society of writers editors and translators that works to advance literature defend free expression and foster international literary fellowship. Her novel Blue Angel a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels Household Saints was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Prose received the Rome Prize in 2006. In 2010 Prose received the Washington University International Humanities Medal. The medal awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash prize of $25000 is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship journalism literature or the arts have made a difference in the world. Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature. . . . We are allowed to enter the moral dilemmas of fascinating characters whose emotional lives are strung out by the same human frailties secrets and insecurities we all share. --USA Today One spring afternoon Vincent Nolan a young neo-Nazi walks into the office of a human rights foundation headed by Meyer Maslow a charismatic Holocaust survivor. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger with Waffen SS tattoos who says that his mission is to save guys like him from becoming guys like him As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do that he also begins to transform everyone around him including Maslow himself. Masterfully plotted darkly comic A Changed Man poses essential questions about human nature morality and the capacity for change illuminating the everyday transactions both political and personal in our lives. This novel captures America at its most hilarious and dreadful. Here are characters as richly drawn as any in our fiction to date. And here is a work filled with such keen detail and emotional resonance that every page is a revelation. Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers. At once funny scary and profound this novel offers a remarkable understanding of some of the darker recesses of human character--and it manages to convince you that people who are merely pretending to be brave sometimes actually are. This is one of Francine Prose's best books. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc hardcover
2005Q-0060196742Harper 2005-03-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper hardcover
2006Q-0060560037Harper Perennial 2006-02-28. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper Perennial paperback
200540712NY: HarperCollins 2005. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Prose on a tipped-in page as issued by the publisher for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
200540714NY: HarperCollins 2005. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Prose on a tipped-in page aas issued by the publisher for promotional purposes. Small abrasion on the dustjacket front panel not immediately apparent. Unread copy in Fine condition ina Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
2005Embry 193384HarperCollins 2005. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author. HarperCollins, 2005. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2005Embry 175846HarperCollins 2005. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with signed copy emblem in mylar. Signed by the author. HarperCollins, 2005. First edition, first printing. unknown books
20052282353HarperCollins 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 421 pp. On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger who claims to have read Maslow's books who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his shirtsleeves and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from becoming guys like him As he gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do that Vincent also transforms those around him: Maslow who fears that heroism has become a desk job; Bonnie Kalen the foundation's fund-raiser a divorced single mother and a devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice; and Bonnie's teenage son Danny whose take on the world around him is at once openhearted sharp-eyed and as fundamentally decent as his mother's. Masterfully plotted darkly comic A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in our lives exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture. Remarkable for the author's tender sympathy for her characters A Changed Man poses the essential questions: What constitutes a life worth living Is it possible to change What does it mean to be a moral human being The fearless intelligence wit and humanity that inform this novel make it Francine Prose's most accomplished yet. HarperCollins hardcover books
Small format pamphlet with dust jacket. Light wear, small tears and discoloration to dust jacket. 6"w x 5 1/4"h. Woodcuts by Ellen Raskin printed in gray ink.
2 vol. in-16, pp. VIII, 435; VIII, 454; leg. coeva m. pelle e angoli, titolo in oro su tassello al dorso (leg. stanca). . Edizione originale.. .
0365302570.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Vol. in -8 (14,5 x 22,5 cm.), legatura editoriale telata verde chiara, sopracopertina col. avorio con illustr. a colori e titoli in nero sul piatto ant., pp. X, 225, (5). Leggeri segni del tempo alla sopracopertina, nel complesso in abb. buono stato di conservazione (integro e ben legato). 1. EDIZIONE nella collana: SUPERCORALLI (scritti di Delio Tessa N. II).
1390706346.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback