Search Results: Titles starting with V from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

This title is from the series "Russkii put". Volume is bound in green cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. 871 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8", is like new. 252 pages. On the work of Argentine novelist and poet Leonidas Lamborghini (1927 2009).

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 10", is bound in pictorial cloth. Book is new. 448 pages.
"Cooks across Italy have been making vegetarian dishes for centuries. Full of the exhaustive research and bona fides that readers worldwide have come to expect from Slow Food, "Vegetariano" collects over 400 of the best vegetarian (and frequently vegan) recipes from home cooks in every region of Italy—all approachable, cookable, and full of the rustic Italian spirit of abbondanza and gracious hospitality.

Befitting recipes handed down through families, most feature their original preparations and ingredients, rather than being reengineered as vegetarian by modern chefs. Local knowledge and experience are highlighted, showcasing the generations of respect Italian cooks have lavished on their verdure. Sustainability, versatility, and a frugal cook's lack of waste all characterize the recipes meticulously researched by Slow Food. Organized by course, these 400-plus recipes are perfect for… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in brown paper-covered spine with stamped gilt lettering and red paper-covered boards. The letter "P" is stamped on top edge of text block. Book is otherwise like new, as is dust jacket. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 229 pages.

Cultural Memory in the Present. First printing. Translation by Geoffrey Bennington of "Voiles" (Editions Galilée, 1998), with drawings by Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 9.25", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows traces of removal of price sticker from lower inside corner. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. 108 pages.
"Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs "savoir" (to know) and "voir" (to see). Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of… Read More

Clásicos Castellanos, 65. Edition and study by José R. Lomba. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is bound in original printed wrappers. Book displays light shelfwear. Pages show faint water markings at top of pages of initial half of text block. 263 pages.
Critical edition of two plays by Spanish Romantic dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813-1884), "Venganza catalana" (1864) and "Juan Lorenzo" (1865).

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits shelfwear, with darkening to panel edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 261 pages.
"Diese Untersuchungen haben die Wesensverschiedenheit von Horaz und Vergil zum Thema. Die philologische Forschung hat sich zwar schon früh mit der Frage der gegenseitigen Beeinflussung beschäftigt; aber neben den Arbeiten zu Prioritätsproblemen sind die Versuche einer Gegenüberstellung der Gesamterscheinungen "Vergil" und "Horaz"spärlich geblieben.Über das Dasein einer tiefgreifenden Wesensverschiedenheit beider Dichter ist sich die Forschung einig; über die Gründe dagegen erfährt man wenig mehr als Andeutungen, die oft unverbunden und unverwandt nebeneinanderstehen. Neben Unterschiede wie "Südländer - Nordländer" treten Differenzen des Temperaments, der politischen Anschauungen, der philosophischen… Read More

Europaische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 1, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur; Bd. 1416. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is new 191 pages.
"Die verkehrte Welt als ein zentraler Topos der frühen Neuzeit in Europa beinhaltet eine Vielzahl von Bildern und Diskursen, denen in der vorliegenden Untersuchung anhand des Grimmelshausenschen Romans vom Simplicissimus nachgegangen wird. Die textimmanente Analyse stellt den Roman in den Zusammenhang des Simplicianischen Zyklus. Gleichzeitig wird den traditionellen Hintergründen von Verkehrte-Welt-Motiven und Romanformen nachgegangen. Dabei erweist es sich, daß der Begriff 'verkehrte Welt' sowohl inhaltliche als auch formale Grundaussagen des Romans umfaßt. Als Beitrag zu Satiretheorie und Begriffsgeschichte ist die Arbeit nicht nur für die Grimmelshausen-Forschung von Interesse."

Biblioteca Románica Hispánica II: estudios y ensayos, 223. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 8.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 272 pages.This study aims to examine the influence the poetry of Paul Verlaine had on Spanish writers at the turn of the century and considers the work of Rubén Darío, Unamuno, the Machado brothers, Azorín, Baroja, Benavente, Valle-Inclán, and others.

Monographs on the Fine Arts. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. xii/108 pages and 66 unnumbered pages of plates.
"The chapters in this book are detailed studies of Louis XIV's new Château de Versailles (the Enveloppe) and its major ceremonial spaces. All of these features are extant and very well preserved save for the Escalier des Ambassadeurs, destroyed not by war or revolution but by order of Louis XV in the mid-eighteenth century." (Preface)

First printing. "Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager." Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 176 pages.""Verses of Forgiveness," the story of a Palestinian suicide bomber awaiting his hour of death, opens with the proclamation, "I am a terrorist, a dreamer."" "While Ahmed prepares an attack on the heart of Israel, the mother he never knew finds him languishing in a brothel. She reveals that his father was a Jew who survived the Holocaust and fled to the Promised Land. There he joined the Zionist terrorist group, Irgun. At the moment of the conception of the state of Israel, Ahmed's Jewish father and Christian mother consummated their love." "Ahmed tells his father's story and we revisit with him day by day, smell by smell, through the early stages of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the fundamental absurdity of a war built on… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 351 pages.

CCA Architecture Studio Series. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is like new. Numerous (full-page) color illustrations. 61 pages."This volume, one in a series spawned by the design research of the Advanced Studios at the California College of the Arts (CCA), not only takes on the complexity of the design of the tall building in general, but the tall building within the context of rapidly growing world cities - Beijing, Dubai, Mexico City and Singapore. The basic premise of the research was not a radical one at first glance; architecture both produces th artifacts of a particular culture and is a product of it. Yet what expands the premise in compelling ways is the testing ground it chose: "How can the specifics of place inform the design of the tall building?" The work presented in this volume was led by a group of expert practitioners from Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP, San Francisco and supported by the teaching experience of the Bay Area firm of Garcia DeCredico Studio (GDeS)."

Fifth edition. Edited by Fernando García Salinero. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Name of previous owner and date appear written at top of title page. Pages are clean and bright. 514 pages.
"Pocos diálogos del siglo XVI español compiten con el llamado "Viaje de Turquía" en fresco y colorista naturalismo. Cuando el erasmismo parecía ido ponderativamente, este sabroso coloquio le da nueva vida ofreciéndonos una descarnada visión de la espiritualidad española y a la vez un detallado reportaje sobre los súbditos de Solimán el Magnífico. Con razón dijo Bataillon que "era la obra maestra de la literatura seria y de pasatiempo que España debe a sus humanistas erasmianos". En esta edición se analizan por vez primera la lengua, el léxico y el estilo, y a la vez las hipótesis propuestas en torno al enigma de su autoría".

Softcover volume, with French flaps, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.75", is new. Lavishly illustrated with color plates, including two fold-out plates offering reproduction of the oil painting and pencil drawing of the work cited below. This work also contains a chronology and a bibliography.Catalogue of an exhibition devoted to the Spanish portait painter Vicente Lo´pez (1772-1850) and his Neo-classicist painting "Ciro el Grande ante los cadaveres de Abradato y Pantea" ("Cyrus the Great before the Bodies of Abradatas and Pantheia"), circa 1826. Bilingual introductory text in Spanish and Basque, text and captions are in Spanish.

Clásicos Castellanos, 43/51. Edition, prologue and notes by Samuel Gili Gaya. Two-volume softcover set, each volume measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", shows light shelfwear, with sound bindings, clean and bright interiors. 288/313 pages.
Critical edition of the best-known work of Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (1550-1624), a picaresque novel originally published by Juan de la Cuesta in 1618.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. With numerous illustrations. "Apéndice II, Poemas nahuas" (p. [105]-141) contains 25 poems from Poesía náhuatl, translated and edited by Angel María Garibay.

Softcover volume is bound in brown/black and color-illustrated wraps, with black spine with white lettering. Like new. Unpaginated.
134 item-catalogue of an auction held in New York, October 11, 1986. Includes furniture executed or designed by Niedermoser, J. Hoffmann, & Kolomon Moser, among others, and pictures by Kurzweil, Kramer, Kokoschka and others. This catalogue includes black and white and color photographs and price list and description of each item.

Colección Universitaria de Bolsillo Punto Omega, 46. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", displays shelfwear, with light foxing to covers. Binding is sound. Pencil marginalia appear at title listings at front and rear of volume. Pages are clean and without markings. 212 pages.Essay collection by essayist, futurist poet, literary and art critic Guillermo de Torre (1900-1971) who was a member of the "generación del 27."

First printing. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is like new. 95 pages."Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In "Virgin," Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity―of naiveté, of careless abandon―before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how "far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go." A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. "A Mexican American fascinator." At every step, Sotelo's poems seduce with history, folklore, and… Read More