Category: Miscellaneous

LES MAINS DU MANCHOT

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, Éditions Denoël : 1953

Seller ID: 21113

Condition: Very Good-

Some pages browned. Some pages unopened. Creasing to rear wraps. Else VG. With a note from the author on ffep in pen else unmarked. ; 430pp. ; 430 pages; Signed by Author
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DIE ANTHROPOPHAGIE Eine Ethnographische Studie

By: Andree, Richard

Price: $67.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Von Veit & Comp. : 1887

Seller ID: 21330

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

Front paper wrap missing. Rear wrap is tattered with some loss. Title page a bit browned. Binding split into two halves. With the ownership signature of John Leslie Garner, 1886 to titlepage in ink. Chipping and creasing. Reading copy only. ; 105pp. A treatise on cannabalism. ; 105 pages
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COMEDY A Very Short Introduction

By: Bevis, Matthew

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 2013

Seller ID: 19487

ISBN-13: 9780199601714

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused) ? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics ofcomic drama, prose fiction and poetry, alongside forms of pantomime, comic opera, silent cinema, popular music,...
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THE STORY OF MALTA

By: Blouet, Brian

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Progress Press : 1992

Seller ID: 35961

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Tiny scratches to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 239 pages
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HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH To 1835

By: Brewer, Clifton H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1924

Seller ID: 29001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has tears and chipping with some loss to base of spine. ; 362 pages
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OFFERINGS TO ATHENA 125 Years At Bryn Mawr College

By: Bruder, Anne L. (Ed. )

Price: $58.00

Publisher: Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library : 2010

Seller ID: 35678

ISBN-13: 9780615398686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

1 corner bumped. ; Very heavy book. ; 11.5 X 9.9 X 1.4 inches; 400 pages
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CARMINA CARMENTIS

By: Budenz, Julia

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Pivot Press : 2006

Seller ID: 26842

ISBN-13: 9780972658270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Writing in pen indicating change of publishing date to titlepage. Note from author to R. E. Fantham tipped in. ; 46 pages
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THE DREAM-HUNTERS OF CORSICA

By: Carrington, Dorothy

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd : 1996

Seller ID: 35726

ISBN-13: 9780297812609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear. Faint creasing to DJ. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 240 pages
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THE BLONDE CORINTHIAN [An Ironic Tale]

By: Cobey, Herbert J. , (Intro. by Louis Bromfield)

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young : 1951

Seller ID: 35907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket

DJ is tattered and torn with chipping and some loss. Gift inscription from author to ffep. Ink from first few pages has bled through to preface page and titlepage. ; 83 pages; Signed by Author
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OLD ST ANDREWS

By: Cook, Helen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stenlake Publishing : 2001

Seller ID: 34241

ISBN-13: 9781840331691

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Minor shelfwear. ; 9.7 X 6.9 X 0.2 inches; 48 pages
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A THEORY OF STORY

By: Coolidge, Jr. , Archibald C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Maecenas Press : 1988

Seller ID: 31908

ISBN-13: 9780944266038

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light foxing to top of textblock. ; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches; 104 pages
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DOERR WAYS A Legacy

By: Doerr, Henry

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Doerr Ways : 1989

Seller ID: 33967

ISBN-13: 9780962225406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Letter from author tipped in along with note from author paper-clipped to ffep. Foxing to textblock. ; 249 pages
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MAZES Ancient & Modern

By: Field, Robert

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Tarquin Publications : 1999

Seller ID: 35871

ISBN-13: 9781899618293

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

8.3 X 5.9 X 0.3 inches; 64 pages
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AMELIA In Four Volumes [In 1 Book]

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Harrison & Co. : 1785

Seller ID: 33969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Bound in leather boards. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt tooling to boards. Boards edgeworn. Leather flecking off in some pages. Rear hinge starting to crack. 1 page has minor tear along top edge. ; 299 pages
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BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE

By: Gossman, Lionel

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1990

Seller ID: 21702

ISBN-13: 9780674068155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Slight bow to boards else fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ. ; In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of...
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THE LAUGHTER OF APHRODITE A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

By: Green, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of California Press : 1993

Seller ID: 33513

ISBN-13: 9780520079663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Creasing to rear DJ flap ; Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amph...
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THE STAR OF THE YOUTH'S COMPANION C. A. Stephens

By: Harris, Louise

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Providence, C. A. Stephens Collection, Brown University : 1969

Seller ID: 20218

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine and parts of boards lightly sunned, else a Fine copy. ; 218pp, some illustrations. ; 218 pages
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COLONEL LAWRENCE The Man Behind the Legend

By: Hart, Liddell

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co : 1934

Seller ID: 35234

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Front hinge cracked. Spine dulled and dampstained. Tear to head of spine cloth (strip 1 cm). Shelfwear. ; 382 pages
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THE POETICS OF MANHOOD Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

By: Herzfeld, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 27763

ISBN-13: 9780691102443

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Laminate of wraps is lifting in places with discolored areas. Else VG. ; 336 pages
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POEMS

By: Hope, A. D.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking Press : 1961

Seller ID: 33957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Pages tanned. Former owner's name on ffep. DJ has some chipping and tears with some browning. ; 120 pages
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O ANADROMARES

By: Kampouroglou / Kampouroglous, D. Gr.

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Athens, Bibliopoleion Basileiou : 1970

Seller ID: 21589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Foxing to top edges of boards. Some browning to endpapers. Light tanning to pages. ; n.d. (c. 1970). Reprint of the 1914 ed. 160pp.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 160 pages
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT A Novel

By: Kazantzakis, Nikos & (Trans. by Theodora Vasils)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Ohio University Press : 1982

Seller ID: 35100

ISBN-13: 9780821406632

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8.7 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 232 pages
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DUNALLAN; OR KNOW WHAT YOU JUDGE

By: Kennedy, Grace

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Perry : 1843

Seller ID: 22070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Binding a bit rubbed, small tears in spine ends and to joint, scattered foxing throughout. Front hinge starting to weaken. With the booklabel of Leary's Book Store, 158 N. 2nd, Philadelphia; Phila. , J. B. Perry, 1843. 371pp. ; 371 pages
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SIR JOHN CUNNINGHAM MCLENNAN. A MEMOIR With a Chapter on His Scientific Work

By: Langton, H. H. & E. F. Burton

Price: $22.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : 1939

Seller ID: 18377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

3 Small tears to spine cloth near top of spine. Else VG. ; 123 pages
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SUBJUGATION AND BONDAGE Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy

By: Lott, Tommy L. (Ed. )

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. : 1998

Seller ID: 20648

ISBN-13: 9780847687787

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

With the ownership name to titlepage, ink notes, and underlining, of Julius Moravcsik (one of the contributors). Else minor shelfwear. ; Xxii, 351pp. This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the questio...
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HERAKLES A Play in Verse

By: MacLeish, Archibald

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company : 1967

Seller ID: 35908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Deleted marking to front board (black marker). ; 91 pages
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A TALE OF TROY

By: Masefield, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd. : 1932

Seller ID: 33519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light wear to base of spine. ; 57 pages
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN QUA IBOE The Story of a Missionary Effort in Nigeria

By: McKeown, Robert L.

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Morgan & Scott / Wm. Strain & Sons : 1912

Seller ID: 34853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Some indents to front board. Slight colour loss to front board. Tear to 1 page (no loss of text). Else VG. ; 170 pages
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THE TRUE STORY OF THE SO-CALLED LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI "IN DEFENCE OF AN ELDERLY LADY."

By: Merritt, Percival

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1927

Seller ID: 20252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, binding a bit rubbed at extremities, still VG. ; Number 51 of an edition of 350, bound in 1/4 cloth, decorative boards. ; 85 pages
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FATAL INTERVIEW Sonnets

By: Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers : 1931

Seller ID: 33955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Gift inscription to ffep. Edgewear and chipping along upper edge of rear board. Flexible boards. ; 52 pages
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WINE FROM THESE GRAPES

By: Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers : 1934

Seller ID: 33956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor browning to boards and endpapers; 91 pages
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STRATEGIES IN TEACHING GREEK AND LATIN: Two Decades of Experimentation

By: Moreland, Floyd L. (Ed. )

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Scholars Press : 1981

Seller ID: 25716

ISBN-13: 9780891305569

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Faint crease to rear wrap. ; American Philological Association Pamphlets 7; 145 pages
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STRATEGIES IN TEACHING GREEK AND LATIN: Two Decades of Experimentation

By: Moreland, Floyd L. (Ed. )

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Scholars Press : 1981

Seller ID: 34103

ISBN-13: 9780891305569

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Minor creasing and scuffing to wraps. Former owner's name on ffep. ; American Philological Association Pamphlets 7; 145 pages
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LOGODOSIA TOU DIOIKETIKOU SYMBOULIOU Tou Etous 1961-1962

By: Nautikon Mouseion Tes Hellados

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Athens, Nautikon Mouseion Tes Hellados : 1963

Seller ID: 22549

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light sunning to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; 47pp, a few illustrations.; 47 pages
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HOW TO GRADE YOUR PROFESSORS AND OTHER UNEXPECTED ADVICE.

By: Neusner, Jacob

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press : 1984

Seller ID: 20082

ISBN-13: 9780807031537

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

xvi+159pp.; 159 pages
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REGULUS Qui Liber Le Petit Prince Inscribitur Ab Augusto Haury in Latinum Conversus

By: Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De & Augustus Haury

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Inc. : 2001

Seller ID: 30517

ISBN-13: 9780156014045

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very minor shelfwear. ; Latin translation of the "Little Prince". ; Harvest Book; 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.3 inches; 96 pages
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PORTRAIT OF YORKSHIRE

By: Scott, Harry J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale : 1970

Seller ID: 20338

ISBN-13: 9780709118428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 207pp, illustrated.; 207 pages
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SEA OF SEAS Cruising the Western Mediterranean

By: Shawe, Captain Wilfred H. Scott

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Princeton, Van Nostrand : 1961

Seller ID: 20278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and edgewear with some tears. ; handsomely printed and illustrated. ; 319 pages
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THE EDGE OF BEING Poems

By: Spender, Stephen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House : 1949

Seller ID: 33963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 57 pages
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MEMORIES CAST IN STONE The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life

By: Sutton, David E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Routledge : 2000

Seller ID: 35593

ISBN-13: 9781859739488

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Mediterranea; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches; 262 pages
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GESTA ROMANORUM: OR, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES Invented by the Monks As a Fireside Recreation... Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes

By: Swan, Charles & (Rev. by Wynnard Hooper).

Price: $23.00

Publisher: George Bell & Sons : 1891

Seller ID: 27761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Minor fraying and small tear to head of spine. Corner of ffep has been excised. Else VG. ; Lxxvi, 425 pp ; 425 pages
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THE WITCH OF RAMOTH AND OTHER TALES

By: Van Doren, Mark (Selected by)

Price: $24.00

Publisher: York, PA, Maple Press Company : 1950

Seller ID: 20753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Bound in 1/4 cloth, decorative boards, with matching slipcase. Slipcase is VG and is rubbed and a bit browned at extremities with small cracks. Number 455 of an edition of 1700.; Eighth Annual Keepsake Volume; 96 pages
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THE HANDBOOK OF INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE

By: Weiner, Eugene (Ed. ) & (Foreword by Alan B. Slifka)

Price: $23.00

Publisher: NY, Continuum Intl Pub Group : 1998

Seller ID: 20132

ISBN-13: 9780826410566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has very tiny chip and minor shelfwear. ; This wide-ranging and comprehensive handbook written by authorities in conflict resolution, social psychology, and international relations offers both theoretical and practical resources for facilitating interethnic coexistence. ; Large 8vo; 653 pages
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THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO COMEDY

By: Weitz, Eric

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 2009

Seller ID: 25351

ISBN-13: 9780521540261

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Faint crease to lower corner of front wrap and first few pages. Light crease to spine. ; 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from...
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THE GLADIATORS

By: Whyte-Melville, J. G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co. : 1924

Seller ID: 30481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Boards laminated. ; 423 pages
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Category: Miscellaneous