Hardcover. Leiden, Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and smudges to covers. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Softcover. Gjettum Norway, Imago Ans, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER on half-title page, with 38 black & white reproductions. Minor edge wear, small stain on back cover, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Softcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. Introduction: Sharpe, Eric, Translation from the Swedish by Birgitta Sharpe. Here are the early Sufis: their ascetic practices, their attitudes toward women and marriage, toward food and drink and toward music and poetry. First published in 1947. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Eastland Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 251 pages with fold-out diagram in rear. Meridian therapy is a school of Japanese acupuncture which is distinguished by its emphasis on the classics, its utilization of the five-phase points in treating the root of disease, and the importance which it attaches to palpatory skills in diagnosis and point location. Japanese Classical Acupuncture: Introduction to Meridian Therapy is noted for the clarity and simplicity of its style, and is the most highly regarded introduction to this subject in Japan. The theoretical and historical basis, diagnostic framework and treatment strategies of meridian therapy are discussed in detail. The author provides a step-by-step introduction to pulse and abdominal diagnosis, and explains how to incorporate the concepts and techniques of meridian therapy into other styles of acupuncture. The text is interwoven with case histories and anecdotes from the author's lengthy practice. Extensively edited in collaboration with the author to fit the needs of Western acupuncturists, this book opens the door to Japanese classical acupuncture for Western practitioners. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Mnuchin Gallery , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 65 pages, fully Illustrated fabric bound catalogue designed by McCall Associates, New York and authored by art historian, professor and scholar Clayton Press. "Mnuchin Gallery is proud to present Joan Mitchell--Christine Ay Tjoe: an exhibition which sparks a dialogue between, Joan Mitchell and Christine Ay Tjoe, two trailblazers of 20th and 21st century abstraction... These two distinct artists use alternative means to address the same question: "What does it mean to make an abstract painting?" Mitchell and Ay Tjoe both engage with the canvas using a bevy of brushstrokes that vary in degrees of strength and depth. Through this process, they yield deeply introspective paintings that simultaneously allude to the real world with playful titles and harmonic color palettes. The paintings presented in Joan Mitchell-Christine Ay Tjoe underscore how these artists draw from their environments and cultures, as they ultimately seek to transcend generational boundaries and prescribed definitions of Eastern and Western artistic traditions." Clean copy in shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 338 pages including index. John Carroll (January 8, 1735 - December 3, 1815) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances.
Hardcover. Portland ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather over marbled boards, 99 pages. "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies." Same date on title page and copyright page. Burton first published his famous poem in 1880, having written it twenty-seven years before, and posed as the translator and friend of a ficticious Arab writer. Covers with light edgewear, the top of the spine has a small nick to the leather. Otherwise very good.
Softcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1st Edition, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover pamphlet with string binding. Buff, textured endpapers, some tanning throughout from age. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some moisture staining and other soil, but otherwise very good and intact (see image).
Hardcover. NY, March & Greenwood, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 23.4*16.3cm, 123 pages. Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Chinese style. Now uncommon in commerce, this was the first English translation by a Chinese scholar of the foundational book of Taoism. The enigmatic polymath Dr Sum Nung Au-Young (1893-1942) was an accomplished poet, philosopher, lawyer and economist. There is some faint discoloration but hardly visible unless held at an angle, otherwise a very good hardcover. "Author's edition".
Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1955, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages, color frontis, 23 color plates, 26 black and white plates, from photos by the author, map, index. Based on the author's extensive travels, over 17,000 miles during a year in eastern and south-east Africa, where he travelled with his wife and three children, from Cape Town, Basutoland, Swaziland, through the Congo to Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika (Tanzania), Nyasaland, Zambesi, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), etc, with much on the wildlife, peoples, conditions.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers decided to track down the remains of deserted atom bomb shelters of the Cold War period. For over ten years he traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line: through eastern and western Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, and other former East Bloc nations. Hardcover, 144 pages, 73 color plates, essays by Roemers, H.J.A. Hofland, and Nadine Barth.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece?in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon?provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Austin TX, University Of Texas Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400+ pages. A collection of autobiographical and biographical writings by and about Middle Eastern women. Many of the selections have been translated by the editors from Arabic, Persian or French. Illustrated with b/w photos.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, bright maroon cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, b&w illustrations. The first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a transnational and fluid political and cultural field of contestation. The insights presented here into these responses to modernity illuminate not only the genesis of a new world-religion but also important facets of Middle Eastern-particularly Iranian-social and cultural shifts in the nineteenth century. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Giddens, Touraine and Bryan Turner, among others, Juan R. I. Cole considers some of the ways in which Middle Eastern society was affected by five developments central to modernity: the lessening entanglement of the state with religion, the move from absolutism to democracy, the rise of sovereign nation-states, the advent of nationalism, and the women's movement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. A collection of Czech/Yugoslavian fables illustrated in color by Vladimir Brehovzsky. Clean.
Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1926, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. 776 pages. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out color map of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Clean, bright volume. Clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of the City of New York, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 327 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. Clean copy.
 "Iconographic Dictionary of the Indian Religions: Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainismby: Liebert, Gosta")
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 "Ivan Franko, The Poet of Western Ukraine: Selected Poems by: Ivan Franko, Editor: Clarence A. Manning, Translator: Percival Cundy")
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 "Lakes of Eastern Vermontby: n/a")
 "Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism. English Version, by Sum Nung Au-Young. With an Introduction by Merton S. Yewdaleby: Sum Nung Au-Young; Lao Tze")
 "Lightest Africa by: F. Spencer Chapman")
 "Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold Warby: Hofland, H.J.A.")
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