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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 2nd Edition, Revised & Expanded. DEFINITIVE: MASTERPIECE: AS-NEW 2nd revised ed. hardcover (printing unstated), as-new mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners showing orig. $39.95 publisher's price at top-right of inside-front flyleaf, new cover w/ rust-orange silk-finish linen wrapping spine & extending 2.26" onto front & back panels covered in mustard rag-paper w/ sharp new edges & corners & titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, excellent smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ only the merest suggestion of shelf-dust to top edge only, impeccable mustard card-rag-stock end-papers, new sewn binding w/ tight signatures & yellow-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, pristine interior printed w/ impeccable clarity on excellent unblemished archival paper * 6.26" x 9.50" x 1.78", 1.68 kg, xx+565 (585) pp. * Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, & became a bestseller & an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing 12 centuries of Arab history & culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people & events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Now this seminal book is here available in this expanded 2nd edition. Noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s, including such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, & Jordan; & the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq & renewed violence between Israelis & Palestinians all underscore the need for a balanced & well-informed understanding of the Arab world & make this insightful history of the Arab peoples more important than ever. * Albert Hourani was Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford. He died in 1993. * Malise Ruthven is a former editor with the BBC Arabic Service & World Service in London & is the author of "Islam in the World" & "Islam: A Very Short Introduction.".

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Paperback Edition. POWERFUL: CLASSIC: INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW First Edition paperback (orig. 1995) probable first printing: AS-NEW cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, PRISITNE pristine interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.0" x 9.22" x 1.36", 0.76 kg, xiv+504 (518) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Henry Adams sought, late in life, to thwart prospective biographers by writing his own biography. Published soon after his death in 1918, "The Education of Henry Adams" was rightly greeted as a masterpiece. Not until 30 years later, w/ the appearance of the first volume of Ernest Samuels' biography, did it become apparent how much the story had been colored by Adams' singular philosophy of history & how great was the disparity between the protagonist of the "Education" & Adams as he actually was. Upon its completion in 1964, Samuels' life of Henry Adams was hailed as one of the great biographical achievements of our time; its laurels included a Pulitzer Prize. Ernest Samuels has now distilled his ample narrative into a single absorbing volume. We see Adams as a lively undergraduate, in contrast to the jaded young man of the "Education"; as budding writer, newspaper correspondent, eager participant in political maneuvering in Washington & at the American embassy in London; as teacher at Harvard & editor of the North American Review; settled in Washington, as scholar, biographer, historian & novelist; as insatiable traveler; as friend & adviser to statesmen; as elderly cosmopolitan spending half of each year abroad; & always as witty chronicler of the social scene & trenchant commentator on the events of his time. We are drawn into the personal drama of Adams' middle years: his married life w/ Clover; the halcyon period in Washington in the early 1880s, catastrophically terminated by Clover's depression & suicide; his growing passion for Elizabeth Cameron; & his flight to the South Seas. Throughout the book we follow the genesis & progress of his writings, from his muck-racking journalism in President Grant's Washington, through the social & political criticism of his novels, his biographies, & his great History, to the classic "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres", the daring theories of the "Education", & his last essays. Few biographies have so broad a canvas: 60 years of American political, social & intellectual life, from the pre-Civil War years to the First World War. And few offer so revealing a portrait of a complex human being & an extraordinary career. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "One of the most POWERFUL literary-intellectual biographies ever done of an American." -R.W.B. Lewis * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this superb book for shipment via USPS Media Mail at no charge (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 charge) within the United States or at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail (recommended) or USPS Priority Airmail.

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. More than 220 drawings & 250 musical examples (illustratore). 1st Edition. COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: CONCISE: SUPERBLY WRITTEN: A "GODSEND" : AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1986) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, FINE virtually AS-NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, SUPERB AS-NEW striking emerald-teal linen-over-boards cover w/ titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & ivory cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior presenting texts & musical examples w/ exceptional clarity in two-column format * 7.26" x 10.0" x 1.96", 1.92 kg, xxiv+942 (966) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: This classic reference work is simply the best 1-vol. music dictionary available today. Its nearly 6,000 specially-commissioned entries, written by more than 70 top musicologists, are consistently lucid & based on recent scholarship. "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music" contains among its riches superb articles on music of the 20th century, including jazz, rock & mixed media as well as 12-tone, serial & aleatory music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Near East; entries on all the styles & forms in Western art music & descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background. Short entries for quick reference (definitions & identifications) alternate w/ encyclopedia-length articles written by experts in each field. More than 220 drawings & 250 musical examples enhance the text. Combining authoritative scholarship w/ concise, lively prose, "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music" is the essential guide for musicians, students & everyone who listens to music. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "'The New Harvard Dictionary of Music' is easily the most useful of all musical dictionaries because of its accuracy, concision & ease of reference." - Charles Rosen, author, "The Classical Style" & "The Romantic Generation". / "Drawing on the latest musical research & buttressed by a large group of advisors & readers, Professor Randel has provided concise, accurate, & literate entries pertaining to the entire field of music . . . This is a book one can recommend to professionals, students, & laymen alike. I know that it will immediately assume an honored place on my own reference shelf." -Philip Gossett, Professor of Music, University of Chicago / "Superb . . . It manages to combine the most up-to-date scholarly views & information w/ a clear, readable presentation. The writing style is especially refreshing . . . It is a godsend to have this volume within reach of the reference desk at the New York Public Library." -Susan T. Sommer, Assistant Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library * A NOTE ON SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, seals & labels this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care to assure secure FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories w/ USPS PRIORTY MAIL available within the United States for a nominal additional fee of $12.00. Due to the weight of this title, USPS REGULATIONS Mandate that we ship it to all international destinations via USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORTY AIRMAIL. We require payment of a below-cost fee of $72.00 for this lowest-cost service, which reliably assures delivery to most addresses throughout the world within eight business days.

tan full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. yellow highlighted copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. approximately 26 pages with yellow highlighter. dustwrapper in vg cond. minor rubbing & wrinkling at spine top & along rear panel, 2" tear along front flap edge, not price clipped (no price listed). reading or study copy. 26 pages with yellow highlighter, otherwise ok. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright page, no additional printings indicated). x+264p. appendix. bibliography. index. world history. history of china. ~ "The Taiwan issue," writes John. K. Fairbank, "is the ticking time bomb in U.S.China policy." Now, before time runs out, Ralph N. Clough offers this masterly analysis of the Taiwan dilemma set against the background of the island's history, politics, and economic development. Clough begins by tracing the changing attitude of the United States toward Taiwan ~from disinterest after World War II to deep concern that began with the Korean War and continued until the peace in Vietnam. He then undertakes a thorough description of the island and its people. He discusses Taiwan's political strµcture, the strengths and weaknesses of its society, and the evolving relationship between native Taiwanese and the mainlanders who arrived after 1945. Clough fully examines the complex military situation and the unfinished civil war between the island and the mainland. He discusses, too, the war of diplomacy between the two Chinas, carrying his account into the 1970s and Taiwan's expulsion from the U .N. With insight and understanding, he describes Taiwan's fight for survival as an independent state and its effort to maintain commercial relations, particularly with Japan. The book concludes with a carefully reasoned analysis of Taiwan's role in U.S.~China relations. Clough's prognosis for the future is marred neither by a pessimist's despair over complexity nor by an optimist's blindness to unhappy facts. His book is a model of historical scholarship combined with the insights derived from practical experience and fieldwork. It will be invaluable to all students, scholars, legislators, and businessmen involved in the formulation of a U.S.~China policy.

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Condizione: Fine. Cambridge, MA/London, U.K.: Harvard University Press, 1986. 1986. Fine. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. There is some soiling to the front panel of the dust jacket & a tear to the top inner corner of the rear panel & the head of the spine. [x] & 257 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Richly Illustrated: 14 color plates (between pp. 98 & 99), 12 color plates (between pp. 226 & 227), 13 color plates (between pp. 354 & 355), 11 color plates (between pp. 418 & 419), w/ almost 100 additional illustrations-figures distributed throughout (illustratore). 1st American Edition. INTIMATE: GRAND: LEARNED: ENGAGING: BRILLIANT: SPARKLING: NEW hardcover First American Edition (Orig. 1996) Printing Unstated (we believe this to be the first printing; HUP almost never explicitly states this), NEW handsomely-designed color-illus. mylar-protected jacket, NEW library-durable black buckram-over-boards cover w/ sharp new edges & corners & w/ titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCCABLE light-blue card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ blue-gold-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ EXQUISITE clarity on SUPERB unblemished archival paper * 7.62" x 10.0" x 1.62", 1.60 kg, xxx+498 (528) pp. * Richly Illustrated: 14 color plates (between pp. 98 & 99), 12 color plates (between pp. 226 & 227), 13 color plates (between pp. 354 & 355), 11 color plates (between pp. 418 & 419), w/ almost 100 additional illustrations-figures distributed throughout the text * ABOUT THE BOOK: Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo & the Medici, the city of Florence is unique in its extraordinary mingling of great art & literature, natural splendor & a remarkable history rife w/ violence & monumental triumphs. All these facets of Florence come to sparkling life in Michael Levey's portrait, which delves into the mystery of what is familiarly "known" to bring vibrantly to life the fascinating people of this celebrated city & brilliantly chronicles its history, its politics & its culture. From the turmoil of the Middle Age, the incessant clashes of factions & feuds, Florence only slowly emerged as the civilized republic of Renaissance lore. Levey captures the drama & confusion of the time leading to Florence's ascendancy as one of the world's great cities. In Dante, exiled from Florence in 1321, Levey finds an inspired guide to the 13th-century city, its people culture & constitution, & a wrathful commentator on its political life. 'Florence' brilliantly evokes this momentous period, epitomized by the construction of the Palazzo of the Priors & the Palazzo Vecchio, & bloody power struggles between the Guelfs & Ghibellines, the Holy Roman Empire & the papacy. Levey shows us Florence emerging as a commercial power in which the crafts & guilds made way for the blossoming of a great Renaissance city. He leads us from the medievalism of 'The Divine Comedy' to the robust world of the 'Decameron', through plague & flood & fire & civic turmoil, to art triumphant in the buildings of Brunelleschi & the sculpture of Donatello. His book shows us Florence not just in its ascendancy & at its height, but also in its less familiar years & guises, from the 16th century through the 19th, as limited democracy gave way to oligarchy, then autocracy, & the last strokes of decay & decoration created the city we know & love today. Intimate & grand, learned & engaging, this brilliant portrait gives us Florence in all its madness & magnificence, from the glory of the great Duomo to the finest details of a cameo or a poem. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MICHAEL LEVEY was Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1973 to 1986. His many books include 'Early Renaissance', 'The World of Ottoman Art' & 'Giambattista Tiepolo'. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & securely custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & to all INTERNATIONAL destinations at our posted rates via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. BRILLIANT: TRULY ADMIRABLE: SUPREMELY ENLIGHTENING: FINE First HUP Edition trade paperback (Orig. 1994) First Printing, FINE handsomely-designed-illus. gloss-laminated cover w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners BUT w/ slight cosmetic bump at top rear heel, FINE smooth-cut text-block exterior showing only minor shelf-dust soiling notably to the bottom edge, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & uncreased spine, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on SUPERB silk-finish unblemished acid-free archival paper * 6.50" x 9.96" x 2.06", 1.70 kg, xxviii+1158 (1186) pp. * Introduction (xix), On Writing Literary History (Denis Hollier) (xxi), Chronology (1063), Map of Modern France (1076), Acknowledgments (1077), Contributors (1079), Index (1093) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Designed for the general reader, this SPLENDID introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. (the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language) to the 1980s is the most compact & imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. This is not the customary inventory of authors & titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical & cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, & monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, & social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even television shows. Written by 164 American & European specialists, the essays are introduced by date & arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book's resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary (the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author), but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions or resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, & large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the "life & works" of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses, fleetingly, in 1704, apropos of Antoine Galland's translation of "The Thousand & One Nights"; in 1898, in conjunction w/ the Dreyfus affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church & state; in 1911, in relation to Gide & their different treatments of homosexuality; & at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, & cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative & critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. Authoritative, lively, & highly readable, "A New History of French Literature" is essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture & for all who are interested in it. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This grandly imagined & executed history of French literature is without precedent in any language. Here are many of the best contemporary critics & theorists, writing w/ vivid originality, always in a personal accent. This volume is a triumph of editorial & critical intelligence." -Richard Poirier, Editor, Raritan Quarterly * By far the best single-volume guide in English to the French literary tradition." -Malcolm Bowie, University of London * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. FINE First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.68", 1.12 kg, x+726 (736) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of 18th-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, & political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the Enlightenment is a brilliant addition to this historical interest. France in the Enlightenment brings the Old Regime to life by showing how its institutions operated & how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Daniel Roche begins with a map of space & time, depicting France as a mosaic of overlapping geographical units, w/ people and goods traversing it to the rhythms of everyday life. He fills this frame w/ the patterns of rural life, urban culture, & government institutions. Here as never before we see the 18th-century French "culture of appearances" : the organization of social life, the diffusion of ideas, the accoutrements of ordinary people in the folkways of ordinary living--their food & clothing, living quarters, reading material. Roche shows us the 18th-century France of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, the King, from Paris to the provinces, from the public space to the private home. By placing politics & material culture at the heart of historical change, Roche captures the complexity & depth of the Enlightenment. From the finest detail to the widest view, from the isolated event to the sweeping trend, his masterly book offers an unparalleled picture of a society in motion, flush w/ the transformation that will be its own demise. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Softcover. Mild shelf and handling wear. Foxing to upper edge of pages. Spine creased, slightly faded. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. SUPERB: WITTY: ENERGETIC: PLAYFUL: SERIOUS: SOMBRE: EFFORTLESSLY READABLE: NEW Stated First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 2011) First Printing, NEW handsomely-designed color-illustrated laminated cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW uncreased perfect binding, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ EXCEPTIONAL clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ Canto headings & w/ stanzas numbered in left margins, Glossary of Names (pp 659-672) SUPERB presentation of extensive endnotes & other scholarly apparatus (pp 523-594) & Index (pp 595-601) * 5.74" x 9.24" x 1.62", 0.92 kg, xii+602 (614) pp * .0.92 kg, xiv+672 (686) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new verse translation, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto's now neglected masterpiece: a poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. It was a major influence on Spenser's "Faerie Queene". William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. Voltaire called it the equal of the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", & "Don Quixote" combined. More recently, Italo Calvino drew inspiration from it. Borges was a fan. Now, through translations of generous selections from this longest of all major European poems, Slavitt brings the poem to life in ways previous translators have not. At the heart of Ariosto's romance are Orlando's unrequited love for the pagan princess Angelica & his jealous rage when she elopes. The action takes place against a besieged Paris, as Charlemagne & his Christian paladins defend the city against the Saracen king. The poem, however, obeys no geography or rules but its own, as the story moves by whim from Japan to the Hebrides to the moon; it includes such imaginary creatures as the hippogriff & a sea monster called the orc. Orlando Furioso is Dante's medieval universe turned upside down & made comic. Characterized by satire, parody, & irony, the poem celebrates a new humanistic Renaissance conception of man in an utterly fantastical world. Slavitt's translation captures the energy, comedy, & great fun of Ariosto's Italian. HIGHEST PRAISE: "[Slavitt's] translation is witty, energetic, playful, outrageous, yet serious & sombre too. Crucially, it is effortlessly readable." -Doireann Lalor, TLS -- "In David R. Slavitt's exuberant new version, 'Orlando Furioso' (1532) makes for quite wonderful seasonal entertainment. Slavitt's easygoing, colloquial approach possesses a lightness & brio, a sweet playfulness touched w/ irony that carries the reader effortlessly, happily along . . . Ariosto's irresistible masterpiece effortlessly blends chivalry, love & magic. Think of it as a knightly soap opera, complete w/ cliff-hangers, erotic intrigue & one melodramatic improbability after another . . . The whole book is clever & fun." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: DAVID R. SLAVITT is a poet & the translator of more than ninety works of fiction, poetry, & drama. CHARLES S. ROSS is Professor of English & Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at Purdue University * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for A below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (Orig. 1989) First Printing * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.54", 1.18 kg / xii+692 704) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: For three decades, beginning with the Symphonie fantastique composed in 1830, Hector Berlioz and his music embodied the élan and exuberance of the Romantic era. This captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography is not only a complete account of Berlioz?s life, but an acute analysis of his compositions and description of his work as conductor and critic, as well as a vivid picture of his musical world.D. Kern Holoman paints a full-length portrait of Berlioz: his personal and family life, his intellectual development and pursuits, his methods of composing (Berlioz at his work table, so to speak), the aim and style of his music criticism and travel writing, his innovations in staging and conducting performances, and his interaction with other composers, including Liszt, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann, Glinka, Brahms, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Gounod. In discussing Berlioz?s music, Holoman talks about specific techniques, takes note of influences and borrowings, and analyzes the concept of programmatic music developed in Symphonie fantastique, Harold in Italy, Romeo and Juliet, and The Damnation of Faust.While following Berlioz?s career, we get a rich sense of the world in which he moved. We see the requirements and excitements of foreign concert tours, the music publishing and instrument-making businesses, the development of the modern concept of orchestral conducting, the use of newspapers for publicity, the composer?s working relations with impresarios and soloists. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: D. KERN HOLOMAN was Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.

Hardcover. First Printing. Octavo; VG/G+; white spine with red and blue text; first printing; dust jacket exterior has only mild wear; one or two chips to edges; cloth exterior clean; tight binding; strong boards; textblock clean; illustrated; "For Review" slip laid in; pp 359. 1361678. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G+; light gray spine with black text; dust jacket exterior shows slight handling wear; minor edge wear; cloth exterior clean; tiny chip to rear tail edge; tight binding; text block exterior edges have light wear; inked date to ffep; illustrated; interior clean; pp 484. 1366784. FP New Rockville Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Minor corner rubbing, very little wear overall. Text is clean. '[The author] presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a 'white teacher.'' xx+136 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

red cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding tight, slight slant at top. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1" tear on rear. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xiii+315p. b&w photo illustrations. notes. seleceted bibliography. index. biography. russian history. russian revolution. political philosophy. ~ When Vladimir llich Lenin died, Soviet Russia came to a standstill. Mourners, mute and reverent, trooped through the silent Moscow streets in the January cold to stand in line outside his bier. The year was 1924 and, as Nina Tumarkin shows, the process by which the founder of Bolshevism was subtly transformed into a demigod had been underway for some time. His idealization as a cult figure had been developing throughout the civil war, furnishing the Communist Party with a powerful legitimizing symbol. The stability of the new state required some such central image, and Tumarkin traces the piecemeal development of organized political veneration through Lenin's long illness and immediately after his death. With the leader gone, the regime that ruled Russia in his name sought to sustain the emotions of solidarity unleashed by his death. So the cult was formed, celebrating Lenin's living power through his writings, his portraits, and his body, embalmed and displayed in the hastily built Lenin Mausoleum. The growth of the Lenin cult was in part spontaneous, with roots in peasant culture, Orthodox ritual, and the peculiar history of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia. But Tumarkin forcefully demonstrates that the cult was, to an even greater degree, a planned operation designed to create a secular religion through which the masses might more easily be won over. Until now, the mystical and ritualistic aspects of Communist Party politics have been underemphasized in works dealing with early Soviet history. Lenin Lives! demonstrates the galvanizing power of ritual in the establishment of a post~revolutionary regime. This book is enhanced by striking illustrations.

blue & black & white decorative trade paperback 8vo. fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. minor rubbing along the cover edges. edges clean. contents clean & free of markings. 10th printing. b&w map. xxiv +413p. 10 appendices. 9 b&w illustrations. concordances of old & new Kalevala. bio of Lonnrot by A. Anttila. Lonrott's prefaces. glossary of proper names. list of charms. reference list of finnish names. "A Prose Translation with Foreword and Appendices". cover of book embossed with the "hannunvaakuna" ancient finnish good luck sign. ancient history. ancient religion. prehistory. mythology. folklore. history of finland. anthropology. musicology. poetry. world literature. ancient europe. ~ The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall~tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness. "This authoritative new translation of the Kalevala, together with the materials the volume contains relating the poetic style of the Finnish songs to the style of other orally composed poetry, is especially significant to students of European folklore. Both Professor Magoun and the Harvard University Press have placed many generations of folklorists in their debt." ~ Journal of American Folklore. "For English students of theKalevala, unless they have a good working knowledge of both Swedish and Finnish, this is an indispensable book." ~Folklore.

brown full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright page, no additional printings indicated). viii+339p. endnotes. index. american history. jewish history. religion. politics. ~ Home to nearly half of the world's Jews, America also harbors its share of anti~Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti~Semitism become a presence here? And how have America's beginnings and history affected the course of this bigotry? Frederic Cople Jaher considers these questions in A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness, the first history of American anti~Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War. Comprehensive in approach, the book combines psychological, sociological, economic, cultural, anthropological, and historical interpretation to reveal the nature of anti~Semitism in the United States. Jaher sets up a comparative framework, in which American anti~Semitism is seen in relation to other forms of ethnic and religious bigotry He compares America's treatment of Jews to their treatment in other eras and countries, and notes variations by region, social group, and historical period. Jaher shows us that although anti~Semitism has been less pronounced in America than in Europe, it has had a significant place in our culture from the beginning, a circumstance he traces to intertwining religious and secular forces reaching back to early Christianity, with its doctrinal animosity toward Jews. He documents the growth of this animosity in its American incarnation through the 1830s to its virulent and epidemic climax during the Civil War. Though Christianity's dispute with Judaism accounts for the persistence of anti~Semitism, Jaher reveals the deeper roots of this pathology of prejudice in the human psyche ~ in primal concerns about defeat, enfeeblement, and death, or in visceral responses of intergroup and interpersonal envy and rivalry. An in~depth study of all phases of anti~Jewish feeling as it is manifested in politics, economic behavior, cultural myth and legend, religious and social interaction, and the performing arts, this uniquely comprehensive work offers rare insight into the New World's oldest ethnic and religious hatred.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Softcover. Clean, tight and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.