Search Results: Titles starting with F from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 8" x 9.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. Dust jacket is new. xii/256 pages/4 unnumbered pages of plates."Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricately painted vases, these antiquities were amassed in vast collections held in country houses and libraries throughout Britain. In "Fabricating the Antique," Viccy Coltman examines these objects and their owners, as well as dealers, restorers, designers, and manufacturers. She provides a close look at the classical revival that resulted in this obsession with collecting antiques.Looking at the theoretical foundations of neoclassicism, Coltman contends this reinvention of ancient material culture was more than a fabrication of style. Based in the strong emphasis on classical education during this time, neoclassicism, Coltman claims, could be more accurately described as a style of thought translated into material… Read More

Hardcover volume is bound in glossy illustrated boards (made to appears as if one continuous facade). Minor blemish, largely unnoticeable, appears on the upper half of the edge of front fore edge. Book is otherwise in fine condition. Binding is firm. Volume has decorative gray endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Full-page illustrations and maps. 167 pages.

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Two fold-out charts are well preserved.Conference publication brings together papers presented on political and sociological aspects of family life in colonial Mexico. 193 pages.

First edition with apparent inscription by author. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows shelfwear, with scuffing to top of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 157 pages.
Inscription, with illegible signature, appears on first blank preliminary page and reads "Para / Jonathan / con quien comparto / tantas preocupaciones / argentinas / (signature) / Sept. 2005".

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xi/213 pages.
"During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization―shedding ethnic origins and signs of "otherness" to embrace a constructed American identity―was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and sociological texts ranging from Jamestown narratives to immigrant memoirs, from slave narratives to "Gone with the Wind," and from the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger to the writings of Barack Obama. Such rhetoric feeds American myths of progress, upward mobility, and personal reinvention.
In "Fashion and Fiction," Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 10", is bound in red cloth spine and red paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, now in mylar, shows light shelfwear. 314 pages."Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. "Fateful Ties" draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America's long and varied preoccupation with China.China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is like new. 190 pages."In a desolate near future, an unemployed trucker gets paid to chauffeur a simulacrum of Benjamin Franklin on a speaking tour across America. A lonely realtor takes in a long-lost uncle who claims to have returned from the future and blogs accordingly. A self-help writer finds inspiration in his dogged but troubled young milkman. The finest actor of his generation stoops to coaching actors on the set of a sci-fi cheapie. And the translator aboard a Portuguese carrack must decide whether to follow his deranged captain, Ferdinand Magellan, or end his reign of terror by killing him. The stories in "Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science" present a strange future and harrowing past in a delightful, alchemical mixture of realism and complete bullshit."

Volume is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Very light foxing appears on fore edge of text block. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket, in mylar cover, exhibits light shelfwear.

Author-signed first edition. Softcover volume (7" x 9.75"), with French flaps, shows light shelfwear. Price at bottom right corner of rear cover has been crossed out. Pages are clean and bright. Color reproductions of nudes by the Italian painter Pirandello, an exponent of the Scuola romana. The inscription in ink appears on the first blank page. 73 pages.

Letras Hispánicas, 431. Edited by Alfonso I. Sotelo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 523 pages.
""Las "Fábulas" (1781) de Samaniego obtuvieron gran éxito desde su publicación y han sido utilizadas como texto escolar durante muchos años. Toman su asunto de Esopo, Fedro, La Fontaine y John Gay y lo adaptan en un estilo natural y gracioso. Despojadas de metáforas y recursos literarios difíciles, van directas a la mente del destinatario infantil. Las "Fábulas" ha sido un clásico permanente y por ello era imprescindible su publicación en Letras Hispánicas. La aportación más notable de esta edición es la deuda que Samaniego tiene con el fabulista inglés John Gay."

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7" x 9.5", and is like new. 94 pages.
Guide to the chivalric romance by 16th-century Spanish writer Esteban Corbera, a work published in Barcelona in 1576.

First US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in quarter gray cloth and purple paper-covered boards, with stamped purple lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar. xxii/551 pages."Ian Gibson's masterly biography shows us that Lorca's life was every bit as remarkable as his work. In addition to his other gifts, he was an excellent pianist, a gifted artist, a fine actor, and an acclaimed lecturer. Enormously charismatic, he became a celebrity in his later years, and had a large and varied circle of friends. Among those he knew will were Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, and Pablo Neruda, as well as renowned actors, matadors, and musicians. His travels, which included stays in New York, Cuba, and Argentina, helped to spread his fame. His outspokenness, and his work with a republican theater troupe, made him a political symbol -- and a target.Beneath his dazzling exterior, however, lay hidden sorrows. Throughout his lfie, Lorca was… Read More

First printing of first US edition. With an introduction by Federico Fellini and a foreword by R. D. Laing. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 9" x 10.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Numerous full- and double-page b&w photo illustrations. 200 pages.

Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. x/234 pages."The essays in this book introduce to American readers the work of a group of British feminist philosophers, representing both the Continental and the analytic traditions, who argue that philosophy is in urgent need of a feminist perspective."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", displays shelfwear, with small closed tear to fore edge of front cover and mild creasing to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 569 pages.This novel by Philippe Sollers (b. 1936) attracted attention as a roman à clef that contained recognizable portraits of significant French intellectual figures, such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, and Sollers himself.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.5", is like new. 333 pages."La femme sauvage n'est pas un homme sauvage comme les autres. Sa figure hante les arts et les lettres, du Moyen Âge au monde contemporain. Parfois valorisée, quand elle promet un Âge d'or, fréquemment inquiétante quand elle met en cause les normes qui émanent souvent d'autorités masculines, tantôt anti-femme ou femme essentielle, elle connaît des infléchissements notables au cours de l'histoire littéraire."

Coleccion Voces / Literatura, 158. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is like new. Flash-fiction collection by Argentine writer Ana Maria Shua (b. 1951), most recently awarded the I Premio Iberoamericano Juan Jose Arreola de Minificcion.

Two-volume set. Each volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in blue cloth, with gilt-lettered red spine labels. Books are in fine condition. Bindings are firm. Interiors are clean and bright. Dust jackets show very light shelfwear. Volumes are preserved in a cardboard slipcase (7" x 9.75"). xxi/1008 pages.Essay collection in honor of Swiss linguist and philologist Kurt Baldinger (1919-2007), who made important contributions to Romance studies in the Gallo-Romanic and Ibero-Romanic branches, with discussion of topics in lexicography, historical linguistics, etymology and semantics. Texts in German and French.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Previous owner's name and date appear on front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xxii/326 pages.
"This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. "A Fictive People" explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the… Read More

Colección Ensayo/Biografía. First printing of revised and enlarged edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", displays light shelfwear, with small crease to lower outside corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Illustrated with a sixteen-page section of b&w photos. 760 pages."Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades in power, that the Cuban leader finally decided to set out the detail of his life for the world to read. In these pages, he presents a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements; his dealings with no fewer than ten successive American presidents, from… Read More