Search Results: Titles starting with O from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", is in fine condition. 222 pages. Essays, reviews and memoirs relating to the life and work of Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990).

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.25", and shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 399 pages.
Like a Portuguese version of "As I Lay Dying," but more ambitious, António Lobo Antunes's eleventh novel chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society - a society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. In this his masterful novel, António Lobo Antunes, "one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere, renders the turpitude of an entire society through an impasto of intensely individual voices." (The New Yorker)

First printing. 235 pages.

Coleccion Opera Mundi. First printing. Edition, prologue and notes by Hernan Loyola. Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new, with texts on Bible paper. Illustrated cardboard slipcase displays light wear. 1498 pages.This volume brings together texts from the last ten years of Neruda's life (1964-1973), as well as his incomplete memoirs "Confieso que he vivido: memorias" (1933-1973), a selection of his correspondence (1922-1973), a selection of interviews (1926-1971), and Neruda's translations of the works of Rilke, Joyce, Blake, Whitman, Hermlin, and Baudelaire, among others.

iblioteca de Arquitectura y Diseño. Second edition. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7.25" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous b&w and color illustrations. 208 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 1275 pages.
"Simone Weil leaves the memory of a strange figure, superhuman in certain aspects, which attracts and repels at the same time. We recognize in her an exceptional intellectual power, a moral force worthy of heroes, an unparalleled courage and spirit of resistance, but an intransigence in existence which frightens and which is accompanied by an often prophetic lucidity. During her lifetime, as today, she disturbs, irritates, scandalizes, while arousing the strongest attachment. More than fifty years after her death, we are finally able to embrace the totality of a life and an abundant work, and to bring out the coherence in all its strength. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the activist, the philosopher and the mystic, because everything is united in this thought with powerfully convergent views. Finally, a series of testimonials on Simone Weil, the reception of her work (Blanchot, Cioran,… Read More

Two volumes. "Edition reproduisant le texte et les illustrations de la première édition donnée par Robida et ornée de 16 hors-texte en heliogravure. Introduction par Octave Uzanne." 494/484/viii pages.Two-volume set is bound in original printed wrappers. Books show mild external wear, with browning to upper portions of spines. Bindings are sound. Pages are clean and bright. Lavishly illustrated edition of the works of Rabelais.

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Texte établi et annoté par Jacques Boulenger. Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is bound in original gilt-lettered brown leather binding. Book is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright, with silver silk page marker. Includes bibliography. 1045 pages.

Collection Les sens communs. First edition. Introductory text by Victor Karady. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.75". Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. liii/633 pages.

Cornell East Asia series, 160 / New Japanese horizons. Translation by Michiko N. Wilson & Michael K. Wilson of "Naku tori no" (Kodansha, 1985). Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new, still in shrinkwrap.In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the author's penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness. xiii/251 pages.

First US edition. Translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of "De la grammatologie" (Les Editions de Minuit, 1967), with translator's preface (ix-lxxxvii). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows light shelfwear, with foxing to top edge of text block. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Price of $5.95 appears at top of rear cover. xc/354 pages.
"Influential enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of structuralism have profoundly influenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy...Derrida's philosophical background baffles some literary critics. The translator's long critical preface places him within the lineage of Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Freud, and Heidegger and illuminates his relationship with… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.25", is bound inoriginal printed wrappers. This conference publication showsvery light shelfwear. Interior is clean and bright. 279 pages.Proceedings of an International Conference on Microbiologyand Conservation (ICMC '99) held June 16-19, 1999 at theTribuna di Galileo, Museo della Specola, Florence, Italy.

Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. This work is illustrated with two sections of b&w photographs. xv/388 pages."This book should be ranked among the best in the field of Korean studies and should be required reading for those interested in Korea studies and/or serious about Japanese and Asian studies." --Journal of Asian Studies. "A superb case study in colonial industrialization." -American Historical Review. "[An] enlightening and highly innovative work on modern economic development. This is a book of award-winning quality, thoroughly researched in both Korean and Japanese sources, and brilliantly presented." --Library Journal. "Eckert's richly textured book, illustrated by some rare photographs, makes fascinating reading to the last of its many notes. It impresses by its elegant style as well as by the balanced judgement… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. Illustrated with tables and graphs. x/322 pages."Ninety percent of the world's oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies. Originally created as political instruments, these so-called national oil companies (NOCs) face new demands amid today's dwindling oil reserves and simmering social pressures. Increasingly, state-owned oil firms-particularly in the Middle East -are having to balance the political demands of their governments with the need to be commercially competitive. In this ground-breaking new volume, Valerie Marcel draws on unprecedented access to the politicians, engineers; and businessmen directing five Middle Eastern state oil companies to shed light on one of the most secretive segments of the international oil industry. The author tells the stories of Saudi Aramco, Kuwait Petroleum Corp., the National Iranian Oil Co., Sonatrach of Algeria,and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. -oil titans which… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", is like new. x/294 pages.Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security. This book argues that the main reason why oil-rich countries are prone to war is because of the character of their society and economy. Sectarian groups compete for access to oil resources and finance their military adventures through smuggling oil, kidnapping oil executives, or blowing up pipelines. Outside intervention only makes things worse. The use of conventional military force as in Iraq can bring neither stability nor security of supply. This book examines the relationship between oil and war in six different regions: Angola, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria and Russia. Each country has substantial oil reserves, and has a long history of conflict. The… Read More

Antique string-bound pamphlet displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. "On exhibition at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. commencing April 2nd, 1914." Folded leaf presenting "Catalogue of Etchings and Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler", published by M. Knoedler & Company, is laid in. Catalogue is not dated. 16 pages and 5 leaves of plates.

Booklet, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is staple bound in original printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. Binding is sound. This work displays very light shelfwear. 36 pages.
This is a rare self-published comic by the artist Gary Panter (b. 1950), one of the most important figures of the new-wave comics era of the 1970s. This 36 page B&W comic (32 pages plus cover) showcases the highly imaginative early work of the originator of "Jimbo" and the future city of "Dal-Tokyo". Only 500 copies produced.
Panter won three Emmys for set design for the popular TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" and has shown work in TIME, Rolling Stone and countless other publications and is the subject of a 700 page monograph by PictureBox.

This is copy 628 of a limited edition of 1,000. Author's handwritten and signed card laid in. 124 pages. Complete with 24 watercolor prints and 44 plates.
Antique elephant folio, quarter tan cloth over dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to front cover shows moderate wear, with front cover displaying sunning to edges and small stains. Yellow ribbon ties are intact. The text and plates are loose and laid in, as issued. Verso of front cover and half title page exhibit foxing, with mild foxing appearing on title page. Plates and pages are clean and without markings.
Text of card reads as follows:"Dear Ruth Greenough, / The Old Bridges of France / goes to you with warm friend- / ship & affection from Frau (illegible word) / It represents some / happy months of travel for / us & we hope will carry an / echo of those days to you. / Feb 4 - 51 / Yours D. W. Emerson."Newspaper clipping dated May 5, 1957 with Emerson obituary is also laid.
William Emerson (1873 – 1957) was an American architect and… Read More

Guías de lectura caballeresca, 57. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is like new. 96 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and illustrated dust jacket are in fine condition. Bilingual edition, including short biography of the author. 118 pages.""The Scent of Invisible Roses" is the story of two lovers who meet again after 40 years. Luis C. Campos is an older gentleman, married, and at peace with the life he has chosen. His only ghost is the nostalgic memory of Eloísa, a lover from his carefree youth, a lover who will one day materialize in the form of an amazing flesh-and-blood woman. "The Scent of Invisible Roses" is a love story, but is also an examination of the masculine side of adultery."