Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Memoirs of the Ukranian-born American Assyriologist and world-renowned expect in Sumerian history and language. Textual photographs. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine..... More
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A crisp, unread copy. Some very light wear to the dust jacket; else a fine copy. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "Though the buildings and sculpture of the Acropolis, erected over the course of the fifth century B.C., have been scrutinized by scholars for more than a century..... More
New York and London: Plenum Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "...this brilliant work offers a trenchant analysis of the symmetry method for revealing the invariants of transformations and for describing the inner structure of materials..... More
Bolinas, California: Big Sky, 1988. Trade paperback. Originally published as Big Sky 11/12 in April, 1978. Tall octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Near fine. More
Sydney and London: Collins, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Souter on the title page. Panoramic history of Australia from the birth of the commonwealth to its climactic ordeal by fire in the..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. An exploration of the dual concepts of constancy and change in many spheres, ranging from the creative to the philosophical. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine..... More
Los Angeles: Prof. Frank S. Lewis, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. In response to the jiu-jitsu invasion at the dawn of the 20th century, former wrestling champion Frank Lewis popularized boxing techniques and other methods of..... More
New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this third volume of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, superbly edited by P.M.S. Dawson, one of the leading British students of Shelley, we present..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. "Beginning with a newly discovered version of the letter in which Columbus announced his landfall - a version translated into English for the first time -..... More
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "Whether writing on Renaissance witchcraft or National Socialism, Italian painting or Freud's wolf-man, Ginzburg pushes beyond the simple 'clues' of historical evidence to..... More
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "...this collection includes early lyric poems; short prose works, including 'The Tale of Night Six Hundred and Seventy-Two,' 'A Tale of the Cavalry,' and the..... More
Oxford: Alessandra Nibbi, 1969. Trade paperback. 72 p. with 26 plates and 12 figures. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light bumping to the tips; else a crisp, unread copy. Near fine. More
London and New York: Regency Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Edwards on the half-title. Fitzwalter's highly personalized account books "readily illuminate the life of a nobleman and his dependents in the second quarter..... More
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Reprint. "Never before published as Hogg originally intended. this new edition of The Shepherd's Calendar reaffirms his collection of thirteen rural tales and anecdotes as a major landmark in..... More
Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, Inc., 1983. Trade paperback. "Here is the original Apollo, a mysterious light-and-dark force revealed by the renowned psychological mythographer, Karl Kerenyi. The four chapters examine Apollonian cult, myth, and thought, ranging..... More
Dianne Theil McNinch, 2007. Trade paperback. Presentation copy, inscribed by McNinch on the front endpaper. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Near fine. More
London: Viking, 1999. Hardcover. Second printing. A collection of new and updated recipes for Middle Eastern dishes which are simple to prepare and healthy without losing any of their exotic flavours and aromas. Illustrated with..... More
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book describes the experiences of a telephone mechanic who joined the Australian Army in 1915 as a signaller. It tells the story of his..... More
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "The dominant flavour of this gastronomic Companion is historical. It draws upon material from a variety of sources - literature, archaeology, epigraphic records, anthropology, philology, and botanical..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. "Although there is some historical basis for the character of Camillus, Dumezil demonstrates how Camillus belongs to the realm of ancient Indo-European myth which the earliest..... More
New York: The Julian Press, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition of this cult classic, which straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A crisp..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. Hardcover. Second printing. "Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1560-1613), is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity, and as the..... More