Ernst Adams (92 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Previous owner's name penned inside front cover. Heavy pencil markings. Slight wear on all edges of text. Shaken binding. 386 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 309 clean, unmarked pages/index; dj w/price clipped, in mylar. B/w Illis (illustrator).

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 72, No 14, pp. 3717-3728, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Condition: New.

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. pp. 396.

Condition: New. pp. 396.

Hardcover. First edition. The January 1959 issue of Horizon, A Magazine of the Arts (Vol. I, No. 3), with: the George Plimpton interview with Ernest Hemingway, with portraits by Ken Heyman; Arthur C. Clark on conquering the stars; P.G. Wodehouse on the disappearance of the world he wrote about; the San Fransisco arts scene, with Henry Miller and Dennis Murphy photographed at Big Sur by Ansel Adams, and the artists Richard Diebenkorn, Claire Falkenstein, and Hassel Smith pictured; an essay on Ankor by the novelist Santha Rama Rau with a portfolio of gravure-printed color photographs by Ernst Haas; the emergence of electronic music; Harrison Brown on the depletion of earth's resources and our bet on industrial progress; Eleanor C. Munro on the "age-old contest between artist and sitter" with examples by Salvador Dali, Larry Rivers, and many others, accompanied by a piece by Somerset Maugham titled "On Having My Portrait Painted;" the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Gilbert Highet explains Mad Maggie in Pieter Bruegel's painting known as Dulle Griet; a portfolio of post-WWI propaganda posters; and much more. Edited by Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. 144 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9 x 12.25 inches. Condition: Very Good minus clothbound hardcover with a color plate mounted to the front and stamped gilt titling: a moderate bump to the lower tips and a light bump to the uppers, a touch of tanning to the spine, and a touch of soiling/shelf wear to the covers; the text bock has a very slight ripple along the top otherwise the interior is clean and bright; no dj as issued. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 381 pp. Stated: "First Edition: Harper Paperback 1968"; "Introduction to the Torchbook edition copyright 1968"; '2' in number line. Following the Torchbook Introduction [citing corrections to First Printing], Contents divided into 14 essays: I. Ernst Cassirer, "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola"; II. Wallace K. Ferguson, "The Interpretation of the Renaissance"; III. Herbert Weisinger, "Ideas of History during the Renaissance"; IV. Hans Baron, "Querelle of Ancients and Moderns"; V. Beatrice Reynolds, "Shifting Currents in Historical Criticism"; VI. Robert P. Adams, "The Social Responsibilities of Science in Utopia, New Atlantis and After"; VII. Eugene F. Rice, Jr., "Erasmus and the Religious Tradition"; VIII. Charles Trinkhaus, "The Problem of Free Will in the Renaissance and Reformation"; IX. Hanna H. Gray, "Renaissance Humanism: The Pursuit of Eloquence"; X. John Herman Randall, Jr., "The Development of Scientific Method in the School of Padua"; XI. William J. Bouwsma, "Postel and the Significance of Renaissance Cabalism"; XII. Rosemond Tuve, " Imagery and Logic: Ramus and Metaphysical Poetics"; XIII. Meyer Schapiro, "Leonardo and Freud: An Art-Historical Study"; XIV. E.E. Lowinsky, "Music in the Culture of the Renaissance". Two black and white illustrations (pp. 305-306). Notes throughout in footnotes at page bottoms. Glossy wrappers with lavender strips across top and bottom front cover for Title and Editor names lettering across top, Publisher name across bottom; large orange and black illustration of tapestry on most of front cover. Lavender of spine ends sunned to light blue with light orange sunned to light tan: All lettering on spine sharp and distinct, not faded, eminently readable, as if spine so colored originally. Tight binding (NO creases); sharp corners (NO bumps or creases); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Apart from nugatory sunning to spine, appears close to As New. UNREAD.…

23 x 15,5 cm. Condition: Gut. Volume 86. XIII, 155 Seiten Synthese Library 86 - Leineneinband mit Gebrauchsspuren und mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. (Evtl. auch Kleber- und/oder Etikettenreste, sowie -abdrücke durch abgelöste Bibliotheksschilder). Seiten mit wenigen Bleistiftmarkierungen im Text und/oder am Textrand, mit Legende, fast fleckenfrei. In Englisch B13-04-03A|S37 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 173 pages. 8.00x4.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Softcover. xxviii, 882 pp. Softcover. LCC: 9513775 Very good condition; touches of wear on edges of covers and on bottom edges of papers.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 386 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Rule of law and constitutionalist ideals are understood by many, if not most, as necessary to create a just political order. Defying the traditional division between normative and positive theoretical approaches, this book explores how political reality on the one hand, and constitutional ideals on the other, mutually inform and influence each other. Seventeen chapters from leading international scholars cover a diverse range of topics and case studies to test the hypothesis that the best normative theories, including those regarding the role of constitutions, constitutionalism and the rule of law, conceive of the ideal and the real as mutually regulating. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. 48pp. Biographical commentaries by Morris Watson and Ernest L. Meyer. Toning on the endpapers and boards thus very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears. Compilation of tributes.

Paperback. Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black Mask August 1944 Canadian Variant. Featured stories include Richard Sale "No Time for Mercy," Arthur Leo Zagat "Taps at Eleven," Joseph Fulling Fishman "Death in the Heart of New York," J. Lane Linklater "Golden Ghosts," Stuart Towne "The Man with the Radio Mind," Clive F. Adams "Decoy (part V)," Fredric Brown "Little Lost Boy," Paul Ernst "Larceny Gesture." Some of these stories appeared earlier in Detection Weekly in 1941. Light edgewear. In very good condition.…