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319 pages. Index. Color plates. An intimate view of life in the Amish world. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
104 p. Illustrated with color photographs by Mel Horst. 8vo. Softcover. Original color pictorial wraps. Limited edition of a York Graphic Services Keepsake. Near fine PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 32
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 287 p. Almanya'da Türk olmak. F. Almanya'da yasayan II. kusak Türkler'in sosyalizasyonu ve kültür degismesi. Being a Turk in Germany: Socialization and cultural change of second generation Turks living in Federal Germany.
289 p., illus. A catalogue of objects from the Brick Store Museum. Paperback Very good condition
320 pages. "Inspired by a deep knowledge and love of the region, this magnificent book from two of the world's outstanding photographers is the record of a five-year jouney of discovery... A true celebration of the lives of those who still inhabit the cradle of mankind." - from dust jacket. 328 illustrations, including 244 plates in full color, 75 line drawings and 9 maps. A very heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Worthy as a reference copy only. Book
205 pages including bibliography and index. Abundant black and white illustrations. "Eight elite Victoria founding families and their monumental efforts to achieve refinement in a rugged corner of Vancouver Island. Their ample homes, their public displays, their private hopes and disappointments - the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the games they played: these are the ingredients from which Ms. Green concocts a social history of solid research, amusing detail and elegant style." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excllent copy. Book
326 pages including index. Debunks some of the myths surrounding the Victorian woman and alters stereotypes on which many of today's oppressive social customs are based. Average wear. Usual library markings. Solid working copy. Book
pp. 358, (1). Issued in three numbers in one volume, the second and third with half-titles. The first and third numbers include bookseller's advertisements. End of the third number indicates the end of the second, and last volume. First signature bound out of order. LACKS one leaf in first signature. Age stain. 8vo. 200 mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Front board detached. Original leather spine label. Raised bands. Spine worn. Pencil manuscript ownership of George M. Keim on title page. George May (1805-1861) also know as George M. Keim of Reading, Berks County, PA. Born in Reading, Berks County, PA, March 23, 1805. Uncle of William High Keim. Democrat. Chief burgess of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1833-34; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1838-43; mayor of Reading, PA, 1853. Died June 10, 1861. Interment at Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA. Also early manuscript initials, S.P.A. with Susanna Abington crossed out. Presumably issued also as vol. 2 of Bell's 1783 ed. of Moore's work, originally published at London in 1781. Evans 18036. Hildeburn 4321. Hardbound. Good. SCARCE. EVANS1
Two Parts. pp. 56: 48. Illustrated with top margin woodcuts. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding. Edges sun faded. Owned by Judge Mayer Sulzberger (1843-1923). XLib. [Dropsie College]. Scarce reprint of the rare original 1700's edition. Interesting poems describing public houses (Pubs) in London and Westminister during the 1700's. Describes the kinds of beers they served and the sorts of people that frequented them. Wood cut images accompany each verse. Ward (1667-1731), was a humourist, of `low extraction' and with little education. In early life he visited the West Indies, and afterwards he began business as a publican in Moorfields. By 1699 he had moved to Fulwood's Rents, where he kept a punch-shop and tavern (probably the King's Head), next door to Gray's Inn, until his death. Giles Jacob (Poetical Register, 1723) says: `Of late years he has kept a public-house in the city (but in a genteel way), and with his wit, humour, and good liquor, has afforded his guests a pleasurable entertainment; especially the high-church party. A man of considerable natural parts and with a gift of humour, `Ned Ward,' as he is frequently called, imitated Butler's `Hudibras' both in his style and in his attacks on the Whigs and low-church party. Though vulgar and often grossly coarse, his writings throw considerable light on the social life of the time of Queen Anne, and especially on the habits of various classes in London; but much allowance has to be made for exaggeration" - DNB. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 4
112 pages including index. "The best thing I've read on Japanese food." - Calvin Trillin, in Travel and Leisure. "Takes a spirited look at the popular foods of Japan including sushi, sukiyaki, tofu, and fugu (blowfish). These are the foods that are served in the large number of restaurants specializing in some aspect of Japanese cuisine." - from dust jacket. Lovely illustrations, many in colour. Average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book
pp. vi, (7)-307. Lacks first fly leaves. Title page very stained. Age stain. Early manuscript ownership of William Jordan, April 25th 1824 and another early ownership on rear fly leaf. 12mo. 175 mm. Original worn leather binding. Front board lacks leather cover. Joints cracked with boards almost detached. Spine very worn. Title continues: "With An Account Of their Manners, Customs, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts, and Trades, Division of Time, Wars, Captivities, etc. A Work Of The Greatest Utility." Scarce. S&S/AI 22829. Hardbound. AI BX 5
68 p. + Illustrations. 8vo. Softcover. Original printed wraps bound in stiff library wraps. Very XLib. PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 32
289 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea. In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of the couple who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove that followed the roof-raising-Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodoros-and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay. Tennant offers us the delights of quotidian adventures-salt water in the well, roads to nowhere, collapsing walls-all hilariously presented. That the house is still lived in and loved, with new generations coming to understand the delights of Corfu, is a tribute to the people and a special landscape which is distinctly Greek. Full of color and contrast, A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in island life since the time of the Tennant's arrival, and celebrates, equally, the joy of belonging to a timeless world: the world of vine, olive, and sea205p. Book
318 p. Illustrated. 215mm. Softbound. Original color pictorial wraps. Very Good. A very useful history. Especially interesting are the accounts of the various divisions and controversies among the Amish and the Mennonites. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PAG010A
8vo., First Edition, some very minor spotting (mainly marginal); original grey-blue boards, vellum back, paper label lettered in manuscript (a little chipped and faded), uncut, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOSEPH STORRS, WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With 2pp of publisher's advertisments of other works (including the revised edition of Hoyland's 'Epitome of the History of the World') bound in at end. John Hoyland (1750-1831), Quaker, writer on gipsies and author of other works, wrote this seminal study as a result of 'observing the very destitute and abject condition of the Gipsy race in the counties of Northampton, Bedford and Hertford'. The work is based on that of Grellman. For further details on Hoyland, his temporary disassociation with Quaker society (due apparently to his romantic entanglement with a gipsy girl) and his involvement with gipsies in general, see DNB. PRESENTATION COPIES FROM HOYLAND ARE RARE. A SPLENDID COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL WORKS ON GIPSIES EVER WRITTEN.
"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
"Meganisi is one of the smallest and most remote of the Greek Ionian islands . [this book ].reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. The villages of Meganisi are also .tightly-knit communities, and this detailed ethnographic study explores the basis on which th islander's solidarity and sense of identity are constructed and reconstructed despite population mobility and economic change : the values, sentiments and structures of kinship and family." 276p. illus, maps. bibliography. index. Book
pp. 406, (2) [Index, (1)-46 [Appendix] + 13 full page wood engravings. Plates browned. Text foxed. XLib bookplate of Mt. St. Mary's Library on front paste down. Inked accession numbers on title page. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full worn leather binding. Front board detached. Binding cracked, needs to be resewn. Rev. J. Goldsmith pseud. for Sir Richard Phillips. He was a printer and bookseller, and later a sheriff of London - after which he was knighted by King George III. This American edition was improved by American polymath, Dr. Percival, who was also a poet, philologist, and geologist. S&S/AI 34778. Hardbound. Good. Ron bought before consign. AI BX 8
263 p. 12mo. 20 cm. Some damp stain. Foxed. Contemporary cloth backed boards binding, worn. Marryat started his tour of the U.S. in New York, crossed that state and went as far as Sault St. Marie, across Upper Canada, and back to Montreal. He also visited Washington and Kentucky. His comments on American habits, language, and institutions (including slavery) were widely read and of great influence. Howes M300; Clark III:204; Sabin 44696. W145Rt
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
133pp VG/none Modern full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, original editorial printed wrappers kept inside, red stain on the lower parrt of the front wrapper, mild foxing on frontespice, paper slightly age-yellowed otherwise in very good conditions. Rare work on Egyptian proverbs, made and translated by Joseph Hanki, with an Introduction by Major R H Brown.
64p. Text drawings by William Duncan. 8vo. Original full green and red covers. A nice copy of an alphabetized collection of Christmas facts. CPHAM/W71C1
224p., illus. by Paul De Lisle Hardcover Very good condition This little sheaf of childish memories has been put together from many talks, in her own tongue, with an old French friend.
"Four well-known classicists have taken the traditional chronology of Greek history texts and written a much-needed overview for modern students. By means of a chapter structure that is well designed and logical, they take us through each period of Greek history . Each chapter begins with a discussion of the sources for that period and includes annotated endnotes that deal extensively with recent scholarship. Unlike many other histories, the book goes into depth on the Hellenistic period, as well as the Bronze and Dark Ages. Although the Spartans and Athenians naturally dominate, the authors consider Sparta before Athens, reflecting the order in which the moderns have admired them. An appropriate balance is found between political, social, and cultural history, and the authors display no outlandish prejudices to derail this noble effort" 512p. illus. bibliography.index Text clean and neat, but some minor scuffing to paper wraps Book
