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30p. Printed Christmas Wish from George & Helen Macy inserted. Sm 4to. Original marbled grain title circled in silver on wood grain stiff paper boards. Extremities rubbed. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 4
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages
"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music [it Includes the melody lines for several song] what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.This book is a treasury of lore and practical information that will be indispensable to anyone marrying into a Greek family as well as to Greek Americans eager to learn more about their heritage. 230p. New in original shrink wrap. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 265 pages. Full green cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Inscribed by Tonia Shoumatoff, daughter of the late authors.
179 pages. "Traces the origin and development of a wide selection of naval practices and ceremonies" - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely gift-quality copy. Book
48 pages. Text in English. Features: The technique of exposure measurement - part three; J. Udrovskis - and the lure of photography; Helge Heinonen - a press photographer in Finland; Hotel Allerblick - Deiter Klein - photos behind prison walls; Customs in southern Tyrol - Horst Kunert; Fossils - millions of years documented in photos; Kodak Elite Fine Art versus Ilford Galerie - a comparison of two deluxe papers;Stefan Kruckenhauser - active at 80; Invisible subjects - a polarizer brings out the colour; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
96 pages. Gazetteer. Maps and abundant colour illustrations and photos throughout. Bit of liquid paper atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
iv, 430 pages. "Being a catalog of books relating to the history, antiquities, languages, customs, religion, wars, literature, and origin of the American Indians in the library of Thomas W. Field, with bibliographical notes, and synopses of the contents of some of the works least known." - subtitle. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 first edition. "More than two thousand five hundred separate works, and twelve hundred essays, are catalogued." - iii. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful reference. Book
66 pages. Loaded with great black and white photos of the band. Topics include: Arriving in New York; Clearing Customs at Kennedy Airport; At the Plaza Hotel; Appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show; Features on the individual band members; The Beatles at Home in England; The Beatles with their Show Business Friends; Their trip to Paris; The Way it Was with Marsha Mella; Hipster's Dictionary. Covers very heavily worn. Textblock detached from covers with above-average wear. A worthy memento of the amazing Beatle invasion of America. Magazine
222 pages. "The entertaining life-history of a schooner, from her first appearance on the designing-board, through her gradual growth in the builder's yard and trials in the North Atlantic, to her cruel death indirectly at the hands of the U.S. Customs during the prohibition period." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Book
Two volumes in one. pp. 198 (2); 234 (4). Lacks second (redundant) title page. Lightly foxed. Small 12mo. Contemporary full leather binding, spine gold gilt. Slight loss at tail. This is extremely scarce edition. The work explores the manners, customs, religion, entertainments, laws, and philosophies of the ancient Greeks. It was meant as a sort of organized synopsis of 'Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Greece' by Abbe Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716-1795). The first edition of this work was published in 1788 (Paris: De Bure). Due to its immediate and enormous success several editions and reprints followed in short order. There was obviously a need for a handy epitome, which this work supplied. RARE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR3
Joice Nankivell was born in Australia and during her long and eventful life was in Ireland during the troubles, joined with her husband Stanley Loch in the Quaker missions that were sent to help the Polish devastated by World War I, and then to Greece to assist with the population displaced from Asia Minor. After which she and her husband settled into an old Byzantine tower at Prosforion, on the border with Mt.Athos where she established a rug weaving workshop for the refugee women. During World War II she helped Jewish refugees get to Israel.. Well deserving her status as "the most decorated Australian woman." 360p.plates[some color] maps Book
cm. 17 x 24, 2 tomi di viii-808 pp. Biblioteca di ?Lares? Sono qui riuniti una serie di saggi di Tullio Seppilli gi? editi in molteplici collocazioni editoriali dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi che sono significativi di un percorso individuale ma anche di importanti direzioni intraprese dall?antropologia italiana in questo periodo. Gli scritti affrontano ambiti tematici differenti: dai problemi teorici agli incontri di culture, alle trasformazioni derivate dall?abbandono delle campagne nel dopoguerra fino ai temi della festa, della protezione magica e del potere. A collection of Tullio Seppilli?s essays that appeared in a variety of editorial works from the Fifties to the present day, highly significant not only to his personal progress but also as regards the directions undertaken by Italian anthropology in this period. The themes covered range from theoretic problems to cultural encounters, to the changes that took place following the desertion of the countryside at the end of the war, up to themes on festivities, protection by magic and political power. 1468 gr. viii-808 p.
International Library of Political Studies (Volume 22) "How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? The Greek Idea offers a new critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, Maria Koundoura addresses and analyzes the cultural material that produced Greeces representation as both Europes origin and "other". The long association of Greece and English Literature began with English travellers' "discovery" of Greece in the late-eighteenth century and the reinforcement of the myth which placed Greece as the location of Western culture. However Greece now finds itself on the boundary of a Europe which had originally placed it at the center. Koundoura maps what this dual representation signifies for Greeks, both national and diasporic. In doing so she touches on England, Greece, the United States, Australia and twentieth century diaspora cultures. For scholars of postcolonial, English, European, Balkan, Modern Greek, and Diaspora studies this fascinating contribution to the growing area of transnational culture studies opens up the critical discourse in their field." 214p.bibiography index. Book
224 pages. Index. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Considers over a hundred historical and contemporary titles. Portrays the current holders of these positions in their particular "uniform" - grand, humble, symbolic, or simply practical - and in places that are special and specific to the responsibilities of their role... The informative and lively text relates the story behind each of these images, both as fascinating vignettes of particular circumstances and as part of the history that has made the United Kingdom what it is today." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Due to a binding error we have removed the lower corner of the back free endpaper. Corresponding corner of back fixed endpaper damaged but present. A quality copy of this handsome production. Book
413 pages. Index. Great reproductions of black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Author recounts some of the highlights of his forty years in the Cariboo/Chilcotin, particularly his love/hate relationship with the famous Gang Ranch and its various owners." - from back cover. Moderate wear. Minimal markings. A sound copy. Book
xi, 200 pages. Bibliography. "Takes us inside the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition. Glavin shows how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well on the land itself in a series of roadblocks, is rooted in their view that their relationship to the land is one of responsibility - for the land , and to the generations to come. A rich and fascinating blend of past and present, this timely book will forever change the way readers think of the 'land claims' issue." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
326 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. "A miracle of a book." - Saturday Night. Explores and captures with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early Canada. Light wear. Moderate quantity of light pencil marginalia and underlining. Nice copy. Book
368 pages including index, black and white illustrations and 26"x23" fold-out map entitled Map of the Northern Interior of British Columbia by author, dated 1907. Map in excellent condition. Reprint of 1906 publication by The Bodley Head in London. Contains two additional prefatory sections documenting the life of the author and some early historians of British Columbia. Represents an enlargement of a paper the author had prepared on Aboriginal History, embodying facts which, on account of the light they threw on the manners and customs of the natives in pre-European times, he thought it well to preserve for posterity. Gift inscription opposite copyright page, else unmarked. Contents lightly yellowed. Minor lean to spine. Very light wear to book. Attractively illustrated dust jacket shows light edge wear with half inch tears to top and bottom edges of front panel. An excellent copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk ball dress with tulle trimming; satin and gauze ball dress; Chasing a Moth; Some Social Customs; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring goods, fassementerie; China crape paletots, black grenadine suits; watch-case simulating a beetle; fan with satin stitch embroidery; crape, lace, and gros grain Bertha; Small Superstitions; On Domestic Scape-Goats; Hannah - continued; The fashionable season; sayings and doings; Aigrettes for hats, etc.; Desiree, by Justin McCarthy; The Fisherman's Darling; Lent - Ancient and Modern; Infinitely Little People; Family breakfasts and dinners; Alice Cary - write-up with illustration; Nice full-page illustration entitled "The Fisherman's Darling"; humor. Average wear. Book
166 pages. Author's trademark signature upon title page. "Canadians are taxed to the hilt, bored to distraction by the Constitution ad nagged to death over Quebec's possible separation. Yet through it all we have emerged as a most unique country.... Editorial Cartoonist Adrian Raeside takes a sideways look at the good, the bad and the bizarre that make Canada Canada." - from back cover. Lives up to author's high and hilarious standard. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Light to moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Book
x, 198 pages. Footnotes. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. "Much of the unwritten history of Canada happened within the imposing walls of the familiar national landmark known as the Chateau Laurier Hotel. Since 1912, Ottawa's grande dame has always been an integral part of the power and the mystique that permeates the heady atmosphere on Parliament Hill. The legacy of this residence, international meeting place, social centre, and place for friends to meet has been warmly documented here by Joan Rankin." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
856p. + Frontis. Numerous text engravings. Text ruled in black throughout. Double column. All edges marbled. Large 8vo. Original quarter leather binding. Gilt decorated raised bands. Spine repaired. Rear board detached. Hardbound. ENGLAND BOX 3
2 v. illus. Hardcover Very good ex lib.
New Persian Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Text in Persian and Arabic with bilingual title in English and Persian on cover and colophon; preface in English. [11], 289 p. Zakhîrat al-âkhirah (Provision for the hereafter): Bihamrâh bâ kuhantarîn tarjumah az ad'iyah-yi Shî'ah. Preface in English by Hermann Landolt.
