Search Results: Authors starting with V from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Colección Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in light gray paper spine and boards, with dark gray lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket, displaying light wear and small price sticker in lower outside corner of rear panel, is preserved in mylar cover. 242 pages.
This work was awarded the 2003 Premio de Novela Fernando Lara.

Nueva narrativa hispánica. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Book is preserved in transparent plastic cover, with tear along front fore edge. 119 pages.
Second novel by Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer Luisa Valenzuela (b. 1938).

Copy 561 of 1,000 copies. Large-format softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 8" x 11.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is solid. Pages are clean and bright. 374 pages.
"L'histoire de la céramique serait incomplète, si l'on oubliait ce créateur de génie aux talents multiples. Son nom ? Christophe Potter (1751 - 1817). Anglais d'origine, il a marqué la grande époque de la porcelaine française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et du début XIXe par ses créations originales et audacieuses. Toujours avant-gardiste pour son époque, il est à l'initiative du décor imprimé sur faïence, des fonds de couleurs subtils et variés sur porcelaine, de formes originales et novatrices, de peintures de grandes qualités ou de décors mis en oeuvres dans ses manufactures de Paris, Chantilly, Montereau, Forges les Eaux, Gournay et d'autres encore ignorées."

L'univers historique. Translation by Alain Spiess of "The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791" (Yale University Press, 1996), with new foreword by the author. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 572 pages."Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious―even Christian―origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the diverse, often warring religious strands that influenced political events up to the revolution.Van Kley draws on a wealth of primary sources to show that French royal absolutism was first a product and then a casualty of religious conflict. On the one hand, the religious civil wars of the sixteenth century between the Calvinist and… Read More

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays some minor cracking at half title page. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. xiii/309 pages.""In Dark Age Nunneries," Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia—a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions. Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their leaders, as well as the clerics and the laymen and -women sympathetic to their cause, to construct localized narratives of self, preserve or expand their agency as religious communities, and remain involved in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of the laity amid changing contexts and expectations on the part of the Church and secular authorities.Rather than… Read More

Collection "Textes et non-textes". Softcover volume shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 223 pages.

Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 277 pages.
"There are three ways to criticize a novel, says Mario Vargas Llosa: the first, individual and subjective, due to the impression that the work leaves on the reader; the second, objective, based on scientific pretensions, based on universal rules, analyzing the way in which time and language are made; the third, which corresponds more to the history of literature than to criticism itself, depending on the novels that were written before or after. Each of these positions, applied to " Madame Bovary", constitutes a part of the penetrating study of Vargas Llosa. In the first, the Peruvian novelist evokes his already ancient relationship with Flaubert's novel, in which he is fundamentally interested, as in any novel, its character as a constructed work with rigorous order, its description of objective, concrete and action life, and its thematic characteristics… Read More

Biblioteca Vargas Llosa. "Edición definitiva." Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.25" x 8.5". Previous owner's name and date are discreetly written on first blank page. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. 734 pages.
""Conversación en la catedral" takes place in 1950s Peru duringthe dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town.
Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, "Conversación en la catedral" is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can… Read More

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 26. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in glossy illustrated boards. Book is new. xxiv/259 pages."When the earliest filmgoers watched "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience. The puff of smoke was sudden and it was hand colored so that it looked real. Today, we can look back at that primitive movie and see all the elements of what would evolve into the Western genre. Perhaps it is the Western's early origins--"The Great Train Robbery" was the first narrative, commercial movie--or its formulaic yet entertaining structure that has made the Western so popular. Whatever the case may be, with the recent success of films like "3:10 to Yuma" and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," the Western appears to be in no danger of disappearing. The story of the… Read More

2 volumes. Volumes, each measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spines and front covers. Books show light shelfwear. Bindings are sound. Interiors are clean and bright. 635/710 pages.
This set brings together the writings of Russian religious philosopher and publicist V. V. Rozanov (1856-1919).Contents: v. 1. Religion and Culture; The Russian Church ; L.N. Tolstoy and the Russian Church; Dark Face ("Temnyi lik").v. 2. Moonlight People ("Liudi Lunnogo Sveta"); Solitary Thoughts ("Uyedinyonnoye"); Fallen Leaves ("Opavshiye listya").

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 9" x 12", is new, still in somewhat torn shrinkwrap. 263 pages.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Czech Modernism, 1900-1945, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."
Exhibition held at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 8, 1989-Jan. 7, 1990; Brooklyn Museum (painting and sculpture) Mar. 2-May 7, 1990; International Center of Photography, New York (photography) Mar. 2-May 13, 1990; Anthology Film Archives, New York (film) Mar. 18-May 13, 1990; Akron Art Museum (photography) June 23-Aug. 26, 1990. This catalogue contains artists' biographies (page 243).

Second volume of a two-volume set. Prologue, edition and chronology by Aurelio Miro Quesada. Softcover volume shows shelfwear, with mild creasing to spine. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. 317 pages.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.75" x 9.5", and shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 284 pages.
"Son tan diversos los momentos y los lugares en los que se ha formado el Estado, y tan distintos y complejos los procesos sociales en los que las relaciones de poder se han decantado en un orden estatal, que no se puede proponer una "teoría general del Estado." No obstante, si se considera la producción intelectual pertinente se puede constatar que hay, cuando menos, cuatro elementos que pese a que las disciplinas de Occidente los han considerado de manera separada, suelen estar presentes en el proceso de formación del denominado "Estado moderno." Estos elementos esenciales, que sólo pueden entenderse como partes implicadas entre sí de un todo integral, son: el establecimiento de un orden fundado en el monopolio de la fuerza, la acumulación capitalista, la búsqueda de una identidad a través de procesos de homogeneización social y, en fin,… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards. Book displays light shelfwear, with very small dent to bottom edge of front board. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Fine dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/428 pages."The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler's "Our Secret Discipline" begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet's mind. This book is a space-clearing gesture, an attempt to write about lyric forms in Yeats in unprecedented and comprehensive ways. The secret discipline of the poet is his vigilant attention to forms--whether generic, structural, or metrical. Yeats explores the potential of such forms to give shape and… Read More

Bibliothèque française et romane, Série C, Etudes littéraires, 19. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and without markings .412 pages.

Author-signed first edition. Volume is bound in brown cloth spine, with stamped silver lettering, and gray cloth boards, with blind-stamped publisher's emblem. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Signature appears on title page. Dust jacket, with price of $5.95 on front flap, displays two chips at top edge of front cover, and very small chip at fore edge. Rear cover has photo of author. 255 pages.

Spiralbound volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 11.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 216 pages.
"The savory aroma of a well-cooked curry drifting out of a kitchen is unmistakably pleasurable. "The Big Book of Curries" details the intricacies of these delicious dishes, from the numerous herbs and spices that flavor them to essential equipment and accompaniments. The recipes are organized by main ingredient-meat, poultry and eggs, fish, and shellfish-with a special section on vegetarian meals. Techniques for cooking the perfect rice are included, and there is even a selection of starters to prepare the palate. With these 365 recipes to try, an amazing culinary experience is only a few minutes away."

Softcover volume is in fine condition. Pages, illustrated with b&w photos, are clean and bright. 165 pages.

Colección Textos y Pretextos, 450. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. 213 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.5", shows light shelfwear, with mild creasing to front and rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with stills from the film. 79 pages.""Pépé le Moko" (1937), directed by Julien Duvivier from the novel by Roger Ashelle and starring Jean Gabin, is the epitome of 1930's French cinema. It tells the story of the glamorous gangster Pepe, trapped in the Casbah in Algiers. This highly romantic and atmospheric thriller was crucial to the development of French film noir and inspired a number of remakes and many imitations. Vincendeau's meticulous analysis, written in a lively and accessible style, places "Pépé le Moko" in its aesthetic, generic and cultural contexts."