Search Results: Titles starting with S from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1973. Princeton, Princeton University Press/Bollingen, 1973. Large Octavo. 1000 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Sevi. With 15 plates. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better in like dust jacket, spine-sunned. From the library of Isaac Bernard Cohen, with his bookplate to the pastedown, and bearing a gift inscription on the front blank addressed to him. [Bollingen Series XCIII]. Includes for Example: Historical and sociological explanations of the Sabbatian movement and their deficiencies/ Messianism in Jewish history and its two conflicting tendencies: the catastrophic-utopian and the rationalistic forms/ The messianic idea in the kabbalah/ Lurianic kabbalah and its myth of exile and redemption/ The historical role and social significance of Lurianic kabbalah/ Kabbalism in Poland. The messianic expectations for the year 1648. Contemporary reactionms to the great massacres of that year/ Utopian messianism in Christianity: chiliasm and… Read More

1803. Dublin, G. and J. Grierson & His Majesty's Printers, 1803-1831. Duodecimo. 22, 55, 96, 22, 25, 28 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full 19th century calf with gilt lettering on original, red spinelabel. Binding and interior in unusually excellent condition. Only a very small lesion (fraying) to the outer margins of three pages.

1995. Advance Reading Copy. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. 15.5 x 23cm. 451 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. This is Roth in full sardonic, outrageous cry - a sort of Portnoy for a later generation, gonads miraculously intact, but with an overlay of hard-won wisdom, celebration and regret. Mickey Sabbath is an elderly relic of the diabolical young puppeteer who was once arrested for coaxing a young Columbia student's breast out of her blouse with the sheer effrontery of his insinuating performing fingers. Now, living in obscure poverty in New Hampshire with a wife who's in aggressive recovery from the alcoholism to which he has driven her, he is reviewing his life - and continuing to act on his remarkable principles, which exemplify what one of his few remaining friends calls "a remarkable panegyric for obscenity." Not, one would think, a sympathetic subject, and at first Mickey's overwhelming misanthropy and obsessive eroticism make the reader uneasy. Soon,… Read More

1994. Verona, Promoprint, 1994. 28.7 cm x 28.7cm. 151 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Vespasiano I Gonzaga (6 December 1531 – 26 February 1591) was an Italian nobleman, diplomat, writer, military engineer and condottiero. He is remembered as a patron of the arts and the founder of Sabbioneta, a town in Lombardy designed according to the Renaissance principles of the "ideal city". He was born in Fondi, a Colonna fief in the southern Latium, the son of Isabella Colonna and the condottiero Luigi Gonzaga, lord of Palazzolo, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Gonzaga, Dukes of Mantua. Soon orphaned, he was educated under his aunt Giulia Gonzaga, who had moved to Naples to escape attempts from other members of the Colonna family to kill Vespasiano in order to obtain the fiefs he had inherited from his mother. The Ducal Palace of Sabbioneta. At the age of eleven he was sent to the Spanish royal court to complete his… Read More

1982. Glasgow, Collins, 1982. 11 cm x 18 cm. 128 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages discoloured. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. Includes for example the following essays: How to Arrive at the State of Self-Surrender and How to Act Before Reaching It / With God the More We Seem to Lose, the More We Gain / The Secret of Spiritual Life is to Love, Serve and Obey God in All Things etc.

1727. The Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for C.Rivington, 1727. Octavo. 432, [16], Portrait-Frontispiece of A. Blackwall by G.Vertue, XXXI, 359, [24] pages. Original Hardcover / 18th-century full leather with new spine-labels in the style of th eperiod. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. The Reverend Anthony Blackwall (baptized Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire, 17 July 1672, died Market Bosworth 8 April 1730), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster. (Wikipedia)

1974. London, Thames and Hudson, 1974. 20.5 x 28cm. 128 pages, with 142 illustrations, 30 in colour. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Art and Imagination Series]. This is one of a series of lavishly illustrated, large-format paperback books that explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures -- from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. A primordial element of religious tradition, all over the world, the dance was a vital part of Early Christian worship, and survives in the whirling, orbiting movements of the Dervishes of Turkey. This book evokes one of mankind's oldest and profoundest impulses: to act out the movements of the powers that he senses within himself and the within the world. [Thames and Hudson]

1962. New York, Grove Press, Inc., 1962. 10.5 cm x 18 cm. 288 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration to page margins and more markedly to endpapers and inside covers. Foxing to edges. Includes for example the following essays: The Erotic Motive in Primitive Religion / The Worship of the Generative Divinities / The Erotic Motive in the Monotheistic Religions of Today / The Sexual Motive in Sectarianism etc.

2004. Cork, The Collins Press, 2004. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. (12) pages, 233 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare and Out-of-Print. Includes for example the following chapters: Celtic Christianity - Sheela's Golden Age (350-800 AD) / Conflict between Roman and Celtic Churches / The Sheela is Occulted / Symbols of 'Luck' on Castles - A Hex on Enemies / Sheela - Sexuality and Spirituality / Psychological Significance of the Sheela etc.

1753. The Third Edition. 3 Volumes (of 4). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1753. Octavo. LXIV,366, [10], LV, 461, [10], CXXXII, 295, [16] pages. Each Volume with its own Index. Includes two folded maps in Volume One: First Map: "A Plan of the present Chanels [sic] of the Rivers Hiddekel or Tigris and Euphrates exhibiting the Site of Moses Garden and River of Eden" / Second Map: "The Situation of the Land & Garden of Eden together with the Rivers of Paradise as they are imagined to have been Situate by some Writers who thought that the Garden of Eden was planted in that which was afterwards called the Holy Land". Original Hardcover / 18th century full leather with new spinelabels. All three Volumes are now in protective Mylar. with dustjacket. All Volumes with some damage to spine but all still firm and holding. Overall some faint staining and foxing only at very few locations because of the excellent paper-quality of this publication. From the library of Daniel… Read More

1962. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1962. 19cm x 13.3cm. XXIII, (2) 574 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Leinen. Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek des Politikwissenschaftlers Klaus von Beyme, mit seinem Namenszug auf dem Vorsatzblatt.

1965. New Haven, Yale French Studies, 1965. 8°. 122 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. [Yale French Studies, No. 35]. Includes for example the following essays: The Wreathed Columns of St. Peter's / Sado-Masochism and the Philosophies of Ambivalence / Swinburne - The Disappointed Protagonist / Peter Weiss amd the Futility of Sadism etc.

1973. Three Volumes. Cork and Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1973. Octavo. 93, 95, 91 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1996. First Edition. New Hampshire, Self-published, 1996. 14 x 21,5 cm. 101 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example: A Safe House; Chemin des Dames; Shipbuilder; Before They Built the Long Sea Wall; Bad Doll; La Fanciulla del West; Sauce Bernaise; Zookeepers etc.

1993. First Edition of the First Book. New York, Villard Books, 1993. 17 cm x 24,5 cm. XVI, 315 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Lorenzo Carcaterra (born October 16, 1954) is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell’s Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger.

1959. New York, Arco, 1959. 21 cm. XI, 403 pages. Illustrations, including portraits, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: '1874: Leopold Damrosch, Music in the USA'; '1878: Adolph Sutro, Tunnel Builder'; '1884: Sir Moses Ezekiel, Sculptor'; '1888: Joseph Pulitzer, Half Jewish Crusader'; '1898: Goldfaden and the Yiddish Stage'; '1909: Oscar Hammerstein, Impresario' etc.

1986. Torino, Giappichelli, 1986. 8°. 367 pages. Softcover. Frontcover slightly damaged. Il Diritto Civile Tra Crisi e Riforma dei Codici, Leggend i Methoden des Rechts di Wolfgang Fikentscher, I sistimi anglosassoni, Vorlesungen, Tutela dell'Ambiente, L'esperenzia delle Class Actions in due Libri Recenti, Parchi Nazionali ed aree protette negli stati uniti, Famiglia e illecito etc.

1969. Torino, Editore Boringhieri, 1969. 8°. 420, 350, 305 pages. Softcover. Ogni Volume firmato da Noam Chomsky. / Italian Edition. Softcover. Every volume signed by Noam Chomsky. [Biblioteca di cultura scientifica].

1954. London, Lutterworth Press, 1954. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 152 pages including a Bibliography and Index. With 54 illustrations and a map. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Includes, for example, the following: Tamanrasset / The Touaregs / South of the Sahara / Kenya - Thirty Years After etc. Baker, late assistant conservator of Forests in Kenya Colony and the Southern Provinces of Nigeria, led this Sahara University Expedition in the years 1952-1953, and travelled nine thousand miles from the Atlas mountains, across the bleak Ahaggar Plateau, through the desolate country of the Touareg, into Nigeria and to Lake Chad. From there the expedition travelled through the Congo and into Kenya. Illustrations include: Neolithic carving of a hippopotamus / Rock paintings / The Ruins of the Roman city of Djemila / Figs and Apricots planted along the encampment / The… Read More

2005. London, HarperCollins, 2005. 16cm x 24cm. XXXIII, 572 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The British Raj / Barracks and Bungalows / Salt and Gold / The Pettah Wall / Christian Soldiers etc