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Coleccion Tamesis Serie B. - Textos, VIII. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in original printed wrappers with folds. Book shows mildexternal wear. Binding is sound. Light foxing is visible onblank preliminary pages, final blank page and on laid-inerrata slip. Pages are clean and without markings. lxi/270 pages."The Comedia Thebaida" is a neglected work. It is consideredon of the many so-called imitations of "La Celestina" whichwere written in Spain after the appearance of the Rojas'masterpiece (1499).This volume transcribes two early versionsof the text, and contains notes on the localization of theaction, along with an assessment. It provides a basis fromwhich to assess the literary value and historical importanceof the "Comedia Thebaida".

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", display light shelfwear. Work is profusely illustrated with map reproductions, with some facsimiles in color. 631 pages.This work of cartography presents the first Russian-language commentary on Ptolemy's "Geographia" (1540), Corneille Wytfliet's "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum" (1597) and the 1564 "Typus orbis terrarum" of Abraham Ortelius, an eight-leaved wall map of the world.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 9.75". Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Previous owner's intials and date (2013) appear at top of first blank page. Interior is otherwise without markings. 139 pages.Short novel by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez (b. 1973).

First complete edition. One of 550 copies. Volume shows significant wear, with loss to cloth spine and has detaching boards in plain paper. Antique bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. Blank preliminary page is detached. Pages are clean and bright. Work is illustrated with 114 initial letters.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright.A selection of papers presented at the conference of the same name, held at the College of Wooster, Ohio, from April 16th to 18th, 1998. Texts in Spanish and English, with bibliographies. 303 pages.

Klassiker Auslegen, Band 30. Edited by Gunter Figal. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. vi/256 pages."In seinem 1960 erschienenen Hauptwerk "Wahrheit und Methode" nimmt Gadamer die bis in die Antike zurückreichende hermeneutische Tradition auf, um vor allem im Anschluss an Hegel und Heidegger eine philosophische Hermeneutik zu begründen. Das Buch brachte seinem Autor internationalen Ruhm, und die philosophische Hermeneutik ist eine der maßgeblichen Konzeptionen der neueren Philosophie geworden. Nach wie vor bildet "Wahrheit und Methode" den Ausgangspunkt für eine philosophische Klärung des Verstehens und seiner von Gadamer behandelten Ausprägungen in Kunst, Geschichte und Sprache. Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert und diskutiert in Form eines kooperativen Kommentars, der Gliederung des Werkes folgend, Gadamers Gedankengang, zeigt aber auch die Perspektiven einer Philosophie auf, die sich gegenüber… Read More

Translated and edited with musical transcriptions by Irwin Young. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's bookplate is pasted to front flyleaf. Interior is clean and bright. Price-clipped dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. xxvi/273 pages."The High Renaissance in northern Italy was a crucial period in the development of the music of western civilization. The Pythagorean definition of interval in terms of precise mathematical ratio, concepts of tuning, the controversy between ratio and the "errant" senses -- all were coming under increasing scrutiny as music grew more remote from classical theory. Franchinus Gafurius' "Practica musicae" recognized both innovation and tradition in summarizing musical theory and practice, and more than any other work of its period, helped bridge the gap between music as a philosophical science and musicas as a secular art. One… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12.5", is bound in blind-stamped black paper spine and boards. Book and dust jacket are new. Text is bilingual in English and French. Various paginations.The only monograph on André Dubreuil, a key figure in the British design world of the 1980s.

Volume is bound in light gray cloth over spine and cream paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition. 251 pages.

Author-signed second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition. Work is illustrated with eight-page section of color photos.Author's signature appears underneath his printed name on title page. xv/272 pages."What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range from respected researchers to the flakiest Loch Ness monster fanatics and Elvis chasers? Since the early twentieth century, scientists have been trying their best to prove that the ivory-bill is extinct. But every time they think they've finally closed the door, the bird makes an unexpected appearance. It happened in the 1920s, and it's happened in almost every subsequent decade. For more than 60 years, each sighting has been met with ridicule and scorn. Respected researchers and naturalists have been branded as quacks… Read More

Arquitectura Con Textos. Small-format softcover is new, still in shrinkwrap. 79 pages. Writings by Spanish architect Manuel Gallego ( b. 1936).

"Versión anotada y preparada por César Macazzaga Ordoño." Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is bound in stiff illustrated wrappers. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Richly illustrated pages are clean and bright. 91 pages.This short biography of the last Aztec emperor, ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, was originally published in 1874, as part of a larger work entitled "Hombres ilustres mexicanos"

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", exhibits light shelfwear, with very mildly bumped lower outside corners. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. xi/300 pages."In "This Thing Called the World" Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the Palestinian and Kashmiri crises, the Rwandan genocide, and post9/11 terrorism. These novels exist in a context in which suffering's presence in everyday life is mediated through digital images and where authors integrate… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. This work offers area maps as well as b&w in-text illustrations. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 306 pages."In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest's victory was astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council.Freedom's Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists―the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs―who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black political power was institutionalized in… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12.25", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is new. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear and is preserved in mylar cover. 312 pages.
Work published on the occasion of the exhibition organized and shown at the Porter Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from April 12 to July 17, 2011.Presents images, with a focus on figural photography, produced between 2000 and 2010 by 17 South African photographers: David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Guy Tillim, Pieter Hugo, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Berni Searle, Jodi Bieber, Terry Kurgan, Zanele Muholi, Hasan and Husain Essop, Roelof van Wyk, Graeme Williams, Kudzanai Chiurai, Sabelo Mlangeni, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, and Nontsikelelo Veleko. This catalogue contains biographical data of the artists represented.

Prologue by Manuel Ruiz Amezcua; illustrations by Daniel Zarza. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 92 pages.Collection of songs and poetry for children by celebrated Spanish poet and playwright.

Letras Hispánicas, 385. Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 414 pages.
"El genero teatral se abre paso en la obra de Federico García Lorca cuando el autor comienza a apartarse de la descripción de sus propias emociones y se vuelve hacia afuera, con deseos de objetividad, sobre el mundo sensorial. Al mismo tiempo, en la producción lorquiana nunca cesa el juego de correspondencias intratextuales entre teatro y poesía. Una móvil dialéctica de forma y contenido va sumando intentos de diferente calibre, factura y orientación. Exhumarlos supone acceder al banco de pruebas de un dramaturgo en progreso. Su recorrido acaba por situarnos a las puertas mismas de la voz dramática del Lorca universal. El puñado de textos teatrales inéditos que aquí se ofrece cubre un periodo de cinco o seis años de 1917 a 1921/22. Comprende desde meras listas der personajes a piezas inconclusas y terminadas. Dado… Read More

Softcover volume, with French flaps, measures approximately 5" x 7.75", is like new. This is a rare copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's one-act play. 69 pages.

Colección Taller de Cine. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 8.5", is like new.The Colombian author, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, discusses in this work a number of fundamental writing techniques, the elements of the complex process of storytelling. 254 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 156 pages.A novella by Nobel laureate G. García Márquez (1927-2014) that combines journalistic reporting with elements of the crime novel genre.The first edition appeared simultaneously in Argentina, Mexico and Columbia.