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Condizione: Good. Preliminary ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good. 8th. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: New. pp. xvi + 270.

Condizione: New. pp. xvi + 270 Index.

Condizione: New. pp. xvi + 270.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Slightly Chipped. CLARA URGUHART (illustratore). Later Edition. ILLUSTRATED WITH BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS BY CLARA URGUHART.

Condizione: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: bon. R260271894: 1993. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 356 pages. 1 signet conservé. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Condizione: Used. pp. 307.

Condizione: Used. pp. 307 Illus.

Condizione: Used. pp. 307.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 120 pages. F Morgan And H W C Davis "French Policy Since 1871" / Paul Vinogradoff "Russia: The Psychology Of A Nation" / Sir Valentine Chirol "Germany And 'The Fear Of Russia'" / Sir Valentine Chirol "Serbia And The Serbs" / F F Urguhart "The Eastern Question" (SL#84/2).

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the historical and cultural impact of the idea of the sublime in Western thought. The author traces the evolution of this concept from its origins in ancient Greece to its modern manifestations in art, literature, and philosophy. They examine the ways in which the sublime has been understood and experienced across different cultures and time periods, highlighting its role in shaping our understanding of nature, beauty, and the human condition. Through close readings of key texts and case studies, the book offers a nuanced and comprehensive account of the sublime as a powerful and enduring force in Western thought. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Small 8vo. 536; 574 pp. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux; with explanatory notes by Duchat, Ozell, and others. Zaensdorf binding. Full blue leather with gilt decoration to spines; 5 raised bands & red gilt lettered title labels to spines; gilt ruling to boards gilt dentelling inside covers; marbled endpapers; TEG. Near fine (shelfwear; light scraping to spine ends; minor moisture spots to Vo. II front board; small bookseller label inside front boards); an attractive set. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. A New Edition, Revised and With Additional Notes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2 volume set. 8vo. 1st edition, Richard Bentley, 1850 printing. Spines rubbed, scratched. Solid bindings. Text block very good, with clean, unmarked pages. Book plates inside cover. Leather spine. pp. 460 + 464.

Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-8] [1] 2-433 [434: printer's imprint] [435-440: ads] + 32-page publisher's catalogue "Autumn Announcements, 1912" inserted at rear, publisher's olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in yellow and blind, spine panel stamped in yellow, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, later issue. "A fully developed Edwardian novel about high magic in contemporary England, and the struggle between forces of good and evil for the soul of a young girl. The motif of psychic vampirism is introduced most emphatically in the last third of the story but is present implicitly from the beginning. It's made clear that the magician preys on others, extracting potency from the elements, from herbs, minerals, animals (via blood sacrifice), moonlight, ritual, discipline, from people both deliberately and habitually. Later on, he will extract vitality from certain individuals in a more focused and urgent manner -- ritualistically in some cases, surreptitiously in others. The grand irony is that the mage, in preparing himself to be a Vessel for 'the Force we serve,' doesn't see that it's a vessel whose ultimate purpose is to be drained, in turn, by that Force. Carol Chieveley is the teenage daughter of a rector who takes in male pupils, two of whom provide the poles of attraction for her, not only for themselves but for what they represent. Tam Charteris is a type of the fair-haired, athletic, red-blooded English boy, open, brave and proud of his lack of anything smacking of imagination or introspection. Aubrey Rymer is dark, sinuous, secretive, wealthy, his background faintly aristocratic in a foreign, Jewish vein. His manners are a bit too perfect, his self-discipline uncanny, his personality both cold and intense. He sets his sights on Carol not from love but from an appreciation of her beauty and vitality, like a trader appraising a rare antique, in the hope that she might join him one day as an equal in his dark quest. This is what he has been trained for all his life by his wealthy and austere father, whose exotic household, in an old castle, is skilled in occult arts and sworn to chastity and obedience -- enforced by the threat of imprisonment in a lonely tower room which possesses some invisible psychic terror that makes a stay there of even a few hours a soul-crushing agony. The life of the castle is as constrained by rule and ritual as any monastery. On the castle's grounds is a stagnant pond, in the middle of which lies the Island of Souls, a forbidding marshy wasteland that will be the setting later for several crucial scenes of horrid satanic rituals. ('. the flowers were made of carrion-flesh with writhing tentacles that sucked at flies. And as they sucked their colour darkened, and they grew more strong and terrible, sucking now at human shadows which drifted vaguely down the sodden paths. There were grey and fleshy leaves, covered with uncleanly blight, and on their undersides were white worms sucking strength from their corruption. There were trees whose roots were soaked in blood, whose doors opened and showed the forms of Larvae hiding in the heart of the tree.') The third influence in Carol's life (beyond her well-meaning but ineffectual father and aunt -- her mother, like Aubrey's, died in childbirth) is Mother Julian, an anchorite who lives in a cottage near the Rymer's castle, tending the holy healing waters of the Well of St. Tibbald. Her armor against black magic is her perfect charity, which, like a shiny mirror, turns the ill wishes of the Rymers back on themselves. The esoteric lore and imagery in the story have a depth that makes the average occult thriller feel like a municipal summer wading pool for kiddies. On this count, at least, she belongs in the same league as such experts on the subject as Bulwer-Lytton, Machen, Blackwood, Fortune and Brodie-Innes. The fantastic motifs she weaves into her story include scrying, hypnotism, telepathy, astral travel, magical objects and mind-altering drugs. The Rymers, father and son, utilize the whole range of ceremonial magic techniques: mineral, herbal, animalistic, astrological, verbal, physiological. These are no two-dimensional, mustache-twirling villains. They are scholarly, ascetic and dedicated. They compare themselves and their colleagues, in all sincerity, to those martyrs of the church who had suffered for their convictions. The literary force of their evil comes from a characterization that is more than three-dimensional rather than less. Urquhart builds them up for us like an old Renaissance master, with fine brush strokes and multiple layers of translucent color. The book's subtitle ('A Sensational Fairy-Tale') notwithstanding, this is definitely a novel rather than a romance. It is neither sensational nor sentimental. It neither shoves nor tugs at the reader's feelings. It manipulates them much more subtly and intricately. Urquhart brings the techniques of psychological realism, stylistic precision, and elaboration of background detail (especially in landscape, architecture and manners) to the subject of magic, which is at the thematic front and center of this story. Structurally, the story can be read as a bildungsroman of its young heroine, tracing her painful maturation over the course of a decade from a callow, naive girl of fifteen into a real woman. The national crucible of war (in South Africa) does its part in the formation of her soul. But her own personal crucible has been shaped by the forces of magic (and evil) embodied in Aubrey Rymer, and the forces of religion (and good) embodied in Mother Julian. It's true that the last third of the story drags a little, that Mother Julian is not fully integrated into the action of the story, that the climax is not as explosive as one might have wished (as if the author were emulating the charity of the anchorite, not wishing to gloat over the downfall or chastisement of any of her characters). THE ISLAND OF SOULS is flawed; nevertheless it should be recog.

First Edition. THE ISLAND OF SOULS: BEING A SENSATIONAL FAIRY-TALE, Mills & Boon, 1910, first edition, very slight wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, spine somewhat lightened, some foxing to the end-papers and paste-downs, slight foxing to the page edges with the occasional bleed on to the page margin but never anywhere near the text, else a tight vg copy in the publishers first issue red cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering (which is somewhat dulled on this copy). A struggle between the forces of good and evil for the soul of a young girl. Psychic vampirism. From the library of Forrest Ackerman.