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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, May 1968: Volume XL (40), Number 13. The illustrated London monthly of exploration, travel, peoples and places, jointly owned by a trust chaired by the President of the Royal Geographical Society and Times Newspapers, with half of all dividends assigned to a fund for exploration and research. COVER: 'Exiles from Tibet', 'Pacific Weather Station', 'Rumania' and 'Aegean Islands'; a procession of Tibetan monks, photograph by Adrian Cowell. Price 3s. 6d. IN THIS ISSUE: Beyond the Forbidden Mountains by George Patterson (an episode in the struggle of the Tibetan patriots); Monastery Villages of Rumania by Clive Barda (treasures of the church in Moldavia); Power from the Tides by Lucien Barnier (effects of the Rance tidal dam at St Malo, Brittany); Forgotten Aegean Islands by Stephen Whitaker (living by the sea in the Northern Sporades); Expedition to Amazonas by Hovercraft by D. W. Soughan; Taming the Columbia River (mighty power-house of the North West); Weather Station on a South Sea Island by Edmund Jones (Raoul Island, 600 miles from New Zealand). ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Anthony Forge, Frank Carr, Stanley Cramp, David Paton, R. W. Steel, D. J. Sinclair and John Abbott; Notes by Ptolemy. THEMES: Tibet and the Chinese occupation, Romanian painted monasteries, tidal energy, Greek islands, Amazon expeditions, hydro-electric power, meteorology, the Pacific. 80 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white, about 18.5 x 25 cm. Edited by Derek Weber (Editor); published by New Science Publications for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 128 Long Acre, London. Author: Derek Weber (ed.), George Patterson, Clive Barda, Lucien Barnier Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1968 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tight binding, lightly soiled decorative wraps, clean, unmarked pages throughout. In mylar sleeve. Beerbohm on Andrew Lange, Hardy on "The Science of Fiction", Santayana on Hamlet, replete with advertisements from Bodley Head, Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Borzoi, Oxford, et.al. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. fine copy, signed by the contributors.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 22x15cm, 185p. Some B&W photos. Dog ear on the front cover. Very good, no markings, rubber stamps, underlining, inscriptions. Scarce. Contents: Introduction: Stratford Caldecott; The Horns of Hope: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Heroism of Hobbits (Stratford Caldecott); Gollum, Frodo and the Catholic Novel (Owen Dudley Edwards); Tolkien' Essay on Man: a look at Mythopoeia (Clive Tolley); A Cautionary Tale (Verlyn Flieger); The Symbolism of Light and Darkness in the Lord of Rings (George Herring); The Little Way Through Middle Earth (Dwight Longenecker); At Dawn, Look to the East (Léonie Caldecott) plus 3 articles by G.K. Chesterton. [nov].…