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A Vanished World by:  Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)

A Vanished World
by: Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.

Record # 361982

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Andre Kertesz: The Early Yearsby: Kertesz, Andre

Andre Kertesz: The Early Years
by: Kertesz, Andre

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A monograph focusing for the first time exclusively on Kertesz's early Hungarian prints; selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate and reproduced actual size. Photographs by Andre Kertesz; introduction by Bruce Silverstein; essay by Robert Gurbo. 160 pages; 66 duo-toned b&w plates + 11 text illustrations; 5.25 x 5.25 inches.

Record # 354065

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Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.

Record # 361669

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Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photographyby: Staff, Aperture Foundation Inc.

Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography
by: Staff, Aperture Foundation Inc.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good.

Record # 452448

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Black Lamb And Grey Falcon: The Record Of A Journey Through Yugoslavia In 1937 - Volumes I and 2 (Two Volume Set) by: Rebecca West

Black Lamb And Grey Falcon: The Record Of A Journey Through Yugoslavia In 1937 - Volumes I and 2 (Two Volume Set)
by: Rebecca West

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two-volume set, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rebecca West, 1892-1983, wrote Black Lamb & Grey Falcon after spending 6 weeks in Yugoslavia. Publication occurred at the same time as the Nazi invasion of the state. West pays tribute in the book's epigram to the thousands of civilians who lost their lives in the horrific events that followed; "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved." 32 black and white photographic plates, map endpapers to both volumes. Clean, tight bindings. Tattered dust jackets laid in. No markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 385719

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Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930
by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930, New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both Hungarian and American experts in the fields of political, cultural, social and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the turn-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low. What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist ideology exerted tremendous pressure on Budapest's ethnic groups to assimilate to a single Hungarian language and culture. In contrast, New York's ethnic diversity was transmitted through a mass culture that celebrated ethnicity while muting distinct ethnic traditions, making them accessible to a national audience. Mild fade to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 385935

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Buddhist Centres In Ancient Indiaby: Chaudhury, Binayendra Nath.

Buddhist Centres In Ancient India
by: Chaudhury, Binayendra Nath.

Hardcover. Calcutta, Sanskrit College, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. 290 pages, no marking. Originally printed in 1969.

Record # 382076

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COLORS OF WAR, THE: THE SIEGE OF WARSAW IN JULIEN BRYAN'S COLOR PHOTOGRAPHSby: Bryans, Julien (Photographer)

COLORS OF WAR, THE: THE SIEGE OF WARSAW IN JULIEN BRYAN'S COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
by: Bryans, Julien (Photographer)

Hardcover. Canada, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The material that was saved from Warsaw in 1939 included more than ten color slides. These slides are the only color photo documents showing that historic moment from the perspective of city residents. The slides were found only in recent years by the photographer's son, Sam Bryan. In addition to color slides this album also includes photographs recorded by Julien Bryan on black-and-white film at that time and iater subjected to a complicated process of colorizing. The colorizing took piace after Bryan's return to the United States in 1939.

Record # 351044

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Czechowicz: Nineteenth Century Sights of Vilniusby: Skeiviene, Laima and Kestutis Stoskus

Czechowicz: Nineteenth Century Sights of Vilnius
by: Skeiviene, Laima and Kestutis Stoskus

Hardcover. Vilnius, Baltos Lankos, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 duotone plates, images taken by the Lithuanian photographer Jozef Chechowicz (1819-1888). Mostly landscapes of the city and it's buildings, some with people. Beautifully produced volume, limited to 2000 copies. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 406606

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Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions by: Brian Black, Laurie Patton

Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions
by: Brian Black, Laurie Patton

Softcover. NY, Routledge, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 265 pages. Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries between religious traditions. The contributors shed new light on the cultural ideas and practices within religious traditions, as well as presenting an understanding of a range of dynamics - from hostile and competitive to engaged and collaborative. This book is the first to explore the literary dimensions of dialogue in South Asian religious sources, helping to reframe the study of other literary traditions around the world. Clean, bight copy.

Record # 386126

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Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo by: Sacco, Joe

Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Hardcover NO dust jacket. Black and white comic. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to boards. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

Record # 352224

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Fu Qing-Zhu's Gynecology by: Yang Shou-Zhong & Liu Da-wei

Fu Qing-Zhu's Gynecology
by: Yang Shou-Zhong & Liu Da-wei

Softcover. Boulder CO, Blue Poppy Press , 3rd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages including index. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology?'s most famous formulas. Clean copy.

Record # 397618

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (SIGNED COPY)by: Theroux, Paul

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (SIGNED COPY)
by: Theroux, Paul

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 496 pages. SIGNED BY THEROUX on title page. In 1975 a young and ambitious writer named Paul Theroux made his literary mark by taking the 28,000-mile intercontinental journey via rail from London to Tokyo and back home again. Thirty years later, an older and wiser Theroux decided to retrace his steps. The result is Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, a fascinating account of the places you vaguely knew existed, yet definitely should know something about. Get on board Theroux's fast-moving travelogue, which features some of the most astute commentary on our distorted notions of time, space, and each other in the age of jet speed, broadband connections, and cultural extinction. A railway journey through Eastern Europe, India, and Asia. Clean copy

Record # 360685

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Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far Eastby: Hearn, Lafcadio

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East
by: Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover boards, with gilt lettering and line decoration on spine and top page block. . Light foxing on top, and bottom cover boards. Top corners slightly bumped, otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 353985

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Good-Hearted Youngest Brother, Theby: Severo, Emoke de Papp and Diane Goode

Good-Hearted Youngest Brother, The
by: Severo, Emoke de Papp and Diane Goode

Hardcover. Scarsdale, NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.A Hungarian folktale translated by Severo. Color illustrations by Diane Goode. Dust jacket with light edgewear

Record # 301471

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Harper?'s Family Library No. X, Life of Mohammed with a Plate, Complete in One Volumeby: Bush, Rev. George

Harper?'s Family Library No. X, Life of Mohammed with a Plate, Complete in One Volume
by: Bush, Rev. George

Hardcover. NY, J. & J. Harper, 1831, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, Harper's Stereotype Edition. 6" tall; 261 pages + 4 page list of books in series; craft paper over boards. The frontis is a fold-out of the Sacred Temple of Mecca; the fold-out is quite clean, with only a bit of light foxing. Pages clean, covers tanned, remarkably nice condition, square and sound.

Record # 383315

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Hidden China: On the Trail of Old Tradiitonsby: Meniconzi, Alessandra

Hidden China: On the Trail of Old Tradiitons
by: Meniconzi, Alessandra

Hardcover. H. F. Ullmann, 1st Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has very small tear on back cover bottom right, patched with tape (see image), otherwise dj in excellent condition. Clue cover boards with some slight shelf wear about the edges. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Swiss photographer, Alessandra Meniconzi successfully shot on countless expeditions through the remote regions of China studying the little-known ethnic minorities of that region.

Record # 32397

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History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka by: Panabokke, Gunarantne

History of the Buddhist Sangha in India and Sri Lanka
by: Panabokke, Gunarantne

Hardcover. Sri Lanka, University of Kelaniya, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 382042

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History of the Polish Revolution of 1830by: Hordynski, Joseph

History of the Polish Revolution of 1830
by: Hordynski, Joseph

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

Record # 370432

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Humanism in East Asia Confucian Contextsby: Chung-chieh Huang

Humanism in East Asia Confucian Contexts
by: Chung-chieh Huang

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Transaction/Transcript, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 165 pages. Renowned Confucian scholar Huang analyzes East Asian communities to identify their Confucian humanist spirit. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 375183

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Iconographic Dictionary of the Indian Religions: Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainismby: Liebert, Gosta

Iconographic Dictionary of the Indian Religions: Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainism
by: Liebert, Gosta

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.

Record # 809694

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Indian culture in the days of the Buddha by: Zoysa, A. P. de

Indian culture in the days of the Buddha
by: Zoysa, A. P. de

Hardcover. Colombo INDIA, Gunasena, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 135 pages.

Record # 382052

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Ivan Franko, The Poet of Western Ukraine: Selected Poems by: Ivan Franko, Editor: Clarence A. Manning, Translator: Percival Cundy

Ivan Franko, The Poet of Western Ukraine: Selected Poems
by: Ivan Franko, Editor: Clarence A. Manning, Translator: Percival Cundy

Hardcover. NY, Philosophical Library, 1st US, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 265 pages. B&w frontis. portrait. Previous owner's long inscription on front fly-leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 381604

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JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWERby: Alfred Doblin

JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWER
by: Alfred Doblin

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.

Record # 384879

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Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Gardeby: Dluhosch (Ed.), Eric and Rostislav Svacha

Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde
by: Dluhosch (Ed.), Eric and Rostislav Svacha

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.

Record # 351118

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Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lamaby: Kagyu Thubten Choling

Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lama
by: Kagyu Thubten Choling

Hardcover. Wappingers Falls NY, Kagyu Thubten Choling Publications Committee, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 379409

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Kasidah of Haji Abdu El Yezdi, The: Translated By His Friend and Pupil F. B. by: (Burton Richard F.)

Kasidah of Haji Abdu El Yezdi, The: Translated By His Friend and Pupil F. B.
by: (Burton Richard F.)

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.

Record # 412444

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Lakes of Eastern Vermontby: n/a

Lakes of Eastern Vermont
by: n/a

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).

Record # 32864

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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

Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism. English Version, by Sum Nung Au-Young. With an Introduction by Merton S. Yewdale
by: Sum Nung Au-Young; Lao Tze

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".

Record # 378490

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Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryoiki of the Monk Kyokaiby: Nakamura (transl.), Kyoko Motomochi

Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryoiki of the Monk Kyokai
by: Nakamura (transl.), Kyoko Motomochi

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.

Record # 403090

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Na Lodi Za Pohadkou (CZECH LANGUAGE)by: Bass/Vladimir Brehovzsky, Eduard

Na Lodi Za Pohadkou (CZECH LANGUAGE)
by: Bass/Vladimir Brehovzsky, Eduard

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.

Record # 373235

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Nova Slovenska Fotografia / New Slovak Photographyby: Lucia L. Macek, Vaclav; Fiserova

Nova Slovenska Fotografia / New Slovak Photography
by: Lucia L. Macek, Vaclav; Fiserova

Softcover. Slovenia, FOTOFO , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color photos.

Record # 362518

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Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra by: Arai, Paula, Foreword: Thurman, Robert A. F.

Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra
by: Arai, Paula, Foreword: Thurman, Robert A. F.

Hardcover. Shambhala, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 174 pages, color plates. Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.

Record # 382957

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Pictorial Atlas of Acupuncture: An Illustrated Manual of Acupuncture Pointsby: Yu-Lin Lian; Chun-Yan Chen; Michael Hammes; Bernard C. Kolster

Pictorial Atlas of Acupuncture: An Illustrated Manual of Acupuncture Points
by: Yu-Lin Lian; Chun-Yan Chen; Michael Hammes; Bernard C. Kolster

Hardcover. Marburg, H.F. Ullmann, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 351 pages with color plate throughout. Presents a guide to 409 acupuncture points, showing needle placement and describing the names, properties, and applications of each one. Clean copy.

Record # 379572

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Poems of Attila Jozsefby: Nyerges Anton N.; (transl.)Ertavy Barath Joseph M (Ed.)

Poems of Attila Jozsef
by: Nyerges Anton N.; (transl.)Ertavy Barath Joseph M (Ed.)

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Hungarian Cultural Foundation, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, First US translated printing (1973( of Jozsef's poems. Sun-fading to spine. 224 pages clean, unmarked. Several pages of b&w plates. There is a repaired paper slice to the first 3 pages, including cover. Otherwise very good.

Record # 374504

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Poland, 1946: The Photographs and Letters of John Vachon by: Vachon, Ann

Poland, 1946: The Photographs and Letters of John Vachon
by: Vachon, Ann

Hardcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland propelled the world into war. By the spring of 1946, Poland was beginning to recover from five years of cataclysmic destruction. Liberated from the occupation of the Third Reich, the nation celebrated a peace already overshadowed by the emerging Cold War.John Vachon was in Poland to witness this transformation of almost mythic proportions. Assigned to cover United Nations relief efforts, this American photographer documented in images and letters a nation at the crossroads of the postwar East and West. Taken with a keen yet sympathetic eye, Vachon's photographs, most of them never before published, reveal the destitution and unfounded optimism of Poles, many of them returning in boxcars from German labor camps and Siberian exile, ready to reclaim their burned-out cities and farms left fallow by war. Vachon's letters home to his wife provide a rare context for the images. He writes of the luxuries enjoyed by the foreign corps amid Warsaw's rubble, the equal measures of hospitality and anti-Semitism among ordinary Poles, and of the anti-Soviet sentiment in the countryside, where "they love Russian songs, but always apologize when they sing one." In one account of a village fire, he conveys the often conflicting emotions of the photojournalist, documenting scenes of suffering he feels powerless to assuage.

Record # 350981

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Polish Shadowby: Solomon, Rosalind

Polish Shadow
by: Solomon, Rosalind

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Rosalind Solomon. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy .Rosalind Solomon made her first pictures in Poland in 1988 during a time of political change, and returned there in 2003, a time of increasing violence and inhumanity in the world. All of the images are of individuals, their relationships and environments and are observations and commentaries on Poland itself, as well as on the rest of the world.

Record # 612407

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Regards From Serbiaby: Zograf, Aleksandar

Regards From Serbia
by: Zograf, Aleksandar

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Record # 350703

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Regards From Serbiaby: Zograf, Aleksandar

Regards From Serbia
by: Zograf, Aleksandar

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Record # 350704

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Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portraitby: Ficowski, Jerzy

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait
by: Ficowski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614462

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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprisingby: Erich Lessing

Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
by: Erich Lessing

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the October 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination after World War II, this imposing volume contains powerful black-and-white photographs taken during the years preceding as well as the outbreak and crushing of the uprising by a German member of the international photojournalist cooperative Magnum. Introduced by Lessing's recollections and Hungarian French historian Francois Fejto's precis of the momentous events, the pictures appear in three chapters, "Communist Hungary," "The Revolution," and "The Failure." Hungarian novelist George Konrad's intense impressions of the time, during which he carried a rifle as a revolutionary young intellectual, follow the first chapter, and French political scientist Nicolas Bauquet's assessment of the revolt's impact on Western Europe's Communist parties, the USSR, and subsequent European history follows the third. Views of the cemetery in which the uprising's martyrs are now buried conclude the book elegiacally, and brief last words by Lessing and the director of Hungary's Institute 56 indicate who may forget what happened and why the rest of us should always remember. An extraordinary document.

Record # 362348

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Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling Systemby: Daniels, Robert V.

Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling System
by: Daniels, Robert V.

Softcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Crisp, clean, illustrated wraps. From the back cover: "An astute observer of the soviet Union, Robert Daniels collects here his observations of political change in the USSR over a twenty-five-year period." Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 30167

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Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppeby: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al.

Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe
by: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. A native of Kazakhstan, Ljalja Kuznetsova traversed the expanses of the Central Asian steppe to photograph the gypsies, or Roma people, whose mysterious comings and goings have fascinated her since she was a child. Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe is the first book devoted to these pictures, for which Kuznetsova won the Mother Jones Leica Medal of Excellence and the Paris Grand Prix for Photography. Kuznetsova's photographs present rare, intimate portraits of gypsies-- whose freedom from the ties of civilization is reflected in the wild winds and unlimited vistas of the steppe landscape. As Kuznetsova traveled through Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Ukraine, the gypsies continually inspired her. She found in them a people without frontiers, living independent of politics, religious dispute, or social class. Though their presence on the steppe is becoming a thing of the past, Kuznetsova's cast of characters and their world seem timeless in these images.

Record # 363440

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Songs of Experience. The Poetics of Tamil Devotion by: Cutler, Norman

Songs of Experience. The Poetics of Tamil Devotion
by: Cutler, Norman

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering and design. artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 382041

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Spirit of Tibet, The: The Life and World of Khyentse Rinpoche, Spiritual Teacherby: Ricard, Matthieu (Author, Photographer)

Spirit of Tibet, The: The Life and World of Khyentse Rinpoche, Spiritual Teacher
by: Ricard, Matthieu (Author, Photographer)

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. In original shrink wrap, spotless and tight. Poet, scholar, philosopher, and master of Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche led a life of profound dedication to spiritual enlightenment and teaching. During the final fourteen years of his life his personal assistant was Matthieu Ricard. Together they traveled throughout Tibet, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, returning to the places of Khyentse Rinpoche's youth: his birthplace in Eastern Tibet; the monastery of Shechen which he had entered at the age of eleven; and the retreats where he spent years in meditation and study. At every stop on his journey, Khyentse Rinpoche was welcomed with elaborate ceremonies and outpourings of devotion. Ricard's deeply personal photographs of this journey are enhanced by a biographical narrative that is interspersed with extensive passages from the writings and teachings of Khyentse Rinpoche. Together, these images and texts form an inspiring portrait of one of the great spiritual leaders and teachers of our time. Many masters of Tibetan Buddhism studied with Khyentse Rinpoche, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who regarded him as his principal instructor in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Record # 457043

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Stare Povesti Prazske (SIGNED COPY)by: Wenig, Adolf

Stare Povesti Prazske (SIGNED COPY)
by: Wenig, Adolf

Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY WENIG. Czech language. Black & white pen-line drawings in color by Mikolase Alse. Red cloth with gilt decoration.

Record # 69160

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Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Mastersby: Oberoi, A. S.

Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Masters
by: Oberoi, A. S.

Softcover. Sanbornton, Sant Bani Press, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750480

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Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)by: Plachy, Sylvia

Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)
by: Plachy, Sylvia

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Photographer Plachy proves you can go home again and again in this stunning photographic voyage to her native Hungary. Plachy weaves together contemporary and vintage photographs, mementos and pictures of movie sets (including several from her son Adrien Brody?s Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski?s The Pianist). Together, these pieces come together like a puzzle, recreating an Eastern Europe that has weathered dictatorships, two world wars and is now opening up, confusedly, to democracy. The images of stray shadows, apartment buildings studded with bullet holes, and eerie reflections are as evocative as they are subtle. They remind us that great photographs don?t have to rely on shock value to move or disturb. Plachy accents her work with memorable vignettes of her childhood in Communist Hungary as well as of her repeated journeys back east as an adult and an American citizen. One of the most touching of these small stories involves the photographer?s grief-stricken mother, inconsolable after the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz. One day, while her mother stared at a framed photo of her deceased parents, she saw a gold moth land on the glass. "From then on golden butterflies and moths were sacred," writes Plachy. As the book goes on, relative after relative surrounds herself with images to bring back lost loved ones. By the book?s end, we see Plachy herself doing the same thing and realize that through this book she has invited us on a private tour of a lost world, a journey that?s as poignant as it is unforgettable. 22 four-color and 98 duotone images.

Record # 361883

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Sztetl: My Life in a Small Polish Town Before the Holocaust by: Kirsten, Rose Fromm

Sztetl: My Life in a Small Polish Town Before the Holocaust
by: Kirsten, Rose Fromm

Softcover. Bloomington IN, iUniverse, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages including epilogue. This is the story of Checiny, the author's hometown in southern Poland, and of the people who lived there between the two world wars of the 20th Century. Clean copy.

Record # 381802

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Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang, Theby: Saso, Michael

Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang, The
by: Saso, Michael

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 317 pages, b&w illustrations, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bright dust jacket with price-clip.

Record # 403086

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