luce gordon hannington (2 risultati)

First Edition. Two volumes. Vol I octavo (24cm x 17cm); Vol II oblong quarto (24cm x 32cm). Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjacket; xvi,185; second volume (linguistic atlas and plates) unpaginated. Mild fading to jacket spines, else a fine set, free of markings or notable wear. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to each volume. Linguistic study of Burmese prehistory, based on available written sources and Luce's own extensive studies in the region beginning in the 1930s.

Rare first edition, the copy of the co-translator's older sister, with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper and later presentation inscription: "Michael, In memory of Rangoon, E. M. Luce-Clausen." The recipient, the Burma scholar Edward Michael Mendelson, has added his signature, dated 1959, below. For this translation of a key Burmese historical text, G. H. Luce (1888-1979) - "among the most influential and important scholars of Burmese art and history" (DeCaroli, p. 155) - collaborated with his brother-in-law, Pe Maung Tin, a fellow academic at Rangoon University. Ethel Marjorie Luce-Clausen (1887-1966) pursued a career as a biologist in the United States. In 1958, she travelled to Rangoon, where her brother lived until 1964. Her visit overlapped with that of the young Mendelson (1928-2024), who was conducting field research in the early stages of a successful career as a sociologist. Mendelson's marginalia is found throughout this copy, while above the inscription is an old red ink stamp, likely added by Luce-Clausen. Robert DeCaroli, Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism, 2004. Octavo. Frontispiece map. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards panelled in blind. Spine sunned, a few marks to boards, extremities lightly worn: very good.