Search Results: Titles starting with C from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

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."

Folio, measuring approximately 13" x 17.75", is new, still in shrink-wrapped publisher's box. Texts in English, German, and French. 355 pages.
"From the Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg, these aristocratic virtuosos acquired, selected, and displayed the objects in real-life catalogues that represented the entire world--spanning architecture, interior design, painting, sculpture, gemology, geology, botany, biology and taxonomy, astrology, alchemy, anthropology, ethnography, and history. Marvel at the unicorn horns (narwhal tusks), gems, rare coral growths, Murano glasswork, paintings and peculiar mechanical automata. Browse through illustrations of exotic and mythical creatures and discover the famed "Coburg ivories," an astounding collection of crafted artifacts. These collections are nothing short of a journey through time, from the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, the Mannerist and Baroque periods, up to the present day.… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new. xv/316 pages."Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and women's inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly over time. This book breaks new theoretical ground by conceiving of cabinet formation as agendered, iterative process governed by rules that empower and constrain presidents and prime ministers in the criteria they use to make appointments.Political actors use their agency to interpret and exploit ambiguity in rules to deviate from past practices of appointing mostly men. When they do so, they create different opportunities for men and women to be selected, explaining why some democracies have appointed more women to cabinet thanothers. Importantly, this dynamic produces new rules about women's inclusion and, as this book explains, the emergence of a concrete floor, defined as a minimum number of women who must be… Read More

The Fully Parsed Classics. With an introduction by D. S. Elbon. Antique volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.5", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in near fine condition, with faint markings to front cover. Binding is firm. Front flyleaf exhibits foxing, with much lighter foxing present on rear endpaper. Pages are clean and bright. 231 pages.

Collezione Settecentesca. New edition by Bruno Brunelli. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", shows light shelfwear, with mild spotting and small paper price sticker to rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This edition, in addition to full-page illustrations and a two-page map depicting Cagliostro's travels, contains notes, appendices, and a bibliography. 207 pages."Count Alessandro di Cagliostro" (1743 – 1795) was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/203 pages."That the beauty of Ezra Pound's late "Cantos" can appear - on the same page - with the rankest anti-Semitism continues to be a problem worth serious discussion, as well as a problem in the understanding of modernism.Philip Kuberski locates the central tension between Pound's poetry and his politics in the contrast between the poet's technical innovations - his commitment to modernist writing - and his antimodernist conception of reading and esthetics. Few twentieth-century poets, Kuberski says, have been "as dedicated to a reconciliation of metaphysical values and the materiality of human languages." Focusing on this juncture of form and meaning, he asserts that Pound's work presents "a dramatic, perhaps tragic, illustration of the costs involved in moving from a theocentric or logocentric understanding of art to… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 12.5", is bound in black leatherette, with red lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xii/164 pages."Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for encapsulating individual character traits in both representational and abstract art, and in two and three dimensions. Calder recorded his friendships in a… Read More

Da Capo Paperback 0347. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 307 pages.
""The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally questionable forms in which we so often encounter it, it does speak of something true and important, and offers us encounters with hidden aspects of ourselves and our world."So writes S. S. Prawer in his concise and penetrating study of the horror film--from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Frankenstein," to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "The Omen." After a brief history of the horror genre in film, Prawer offers detailed analyses of specific sequences from various films, such as Murnau's "Nosferatu." He discusses continuities between literary and cinematic tales, and shows what happens when one is transformed into the other.Unpatronizing and… Read More

Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket display very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Two sections of b&w photographs. 307 pages.

Colección Teatro del mundo. Small-format softcover volume is as new. 77 pages

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. xi/173 pages."The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. "The Calls of Islam" offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world".

Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. xii/140 pages. "Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of literature and literary criticism today. Derrida's own manner of writing is complex and challenging and has often been misrepresented or misunderstood. In this book, Leslie Hill provides an accessible introduction to Derrida's writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of Derrida's work. He explores in detail Derrida's relationship to literary theory and criticism, and offers close readings of some of Derrida's best known essays. This introduction will help those… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. xxi/330 pages."Dwight F. Reynolds brings together a collection of essays by leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of modern Arab culture, from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The chapters survey key issues necessary to any understanding of the modern Arab World: the role of the various forms of the Arabic language in modern culture and identity; the remarkable intellectual transformation undergone during the 'Nahda' or 'Arab Renaissance' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the significant role played by ethnic and religious minorities, and the role of law and constitutions. Other chapters on poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food offer fresh perspectives and correct negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion, and economics."

Serie Literatura hebrea contemporánea, 3. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition. 303 pages.Spanish-language monograph devoted to the work of Israeli poet Nathan Alterman (1910-1970).

Book club edition. Translation by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Binding is firm. Top edge of text block is tinted red. Book is in near fine condition, with black stamp on front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket is also in near fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar condition. xiv/560 pages.
A 1967 novel by Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It describes the meeting of various cancer patients in an Uzbek hospital in the Soviet Union of the mid-1950s. The novel is considered partly autobiographical because the author himself was treated for a tumor in Tashkent in the 1950s and can be recognized in one of the main characters.

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.

Special issue of "Canto Libre" (Volume 3, #1) dedicated to Grupo Moncada, a musical group that exemplifies the Cuban song movement known as the Nueva Trova, combining traditional folk music with progressive lyrics. This pamphlet, in its original wrappers, with photo of the group on front cover, is bilingual in English and Spanish, and includes the lyrics of several songs, as well as a glossary about the instruments. 31 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is new. xiv/459 pages.
"In 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center was founded in Provincetown, Massachusetts with one goal: to give emerging writers a chance to pursue their art in a supportive community of their peers during the critical early stages of their careers. This anthology recodes some of the outstanding fiction and poetry produced by Work Center Fellows in the twenty-five years since."

The Cornell East Asia series, 129. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new, still in shrinkwrap.This volume includes fourteen essays, originally written in Japanese and here interpreted in English. It introduces the reader to a broader array of historical and archaeological research on center-periphery relations than has ever before been available to English readers. Each essay has been translated, annotated, and introduced by a specialist who selected it for its invaluable contribution to his or her own work, and who has rendered it into English for a non-specialist audience. This work includes an extensive glossary and bibliography. Researchers whose work has been interpreted include Tsude Hiroshi, Kobayashi Yukio, Hara Hidesaburo, Inoue Tatsuo, Takahashi Tomio, Takeda Sachiko, Hotate Michihisa, Morita Tei, Sasaki Muneo, Toda Yoshimi, Miyazaki Yasumitsu, Motoki Yasuo, Ishimoda Sho, and Koyama Yasunori. Scholar-interpreters include Michael Adolphson, Michiko Aoki, Bruce Batten,… Read More

Number 736 of a limited edition of 900 copies. Translation by Lily Sauter of Marguerite Yourcenar's essay "Le cerveau noir de Piranèse" in "Sous bénéfice d'inventaire". Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 13.25", is bound in red paper-covered boards, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear, with sunning to spine. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Intact cardboard slipcase, with pastedown offering reproduction of Piranesi etching on one side panel, shows scuffing to opposite panel and at edges. 67 pages.
This German-language work contains a reproduction of a series of 16 etchings by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, known as the "Carceri d'invenzione" (Second State, 1761; p. [7]-[37] (plate I-XVI)). All depict enormous subterranean vaults with stairs and mighty machines, in rather extreme versions of the "capriccio", a favorite Italian genre of architectural fantasies; the first title page uses the term.