Franck Adams (7 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 174 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Chips on back cover. Slight tear on front cover.

Condition: Fair. Envoi rapide dos recollé couvertures défraîchies dos ridés intérieur jauni. in12. 1971. Broché. 2 volume(s). Fair.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Complete Magazine, August 1921, Almost No Wear But1 1/2" Split To Top Front Spine Edge And 1/4" Chip At Base Of Spine. Full Page Color Ad On Rear Cover For Raybestos Brake Linings, Which May Be Assumed To Have The Wrong Kind Of Asbestos Because, Why Not.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Johan Huizinga's much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga's perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period.The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some "cultural form," to borrow Huizinga's expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.…

Audio-CD, mit Beiheft (CD-Hülle mit leichten Kratzern und hinten mit kleinen Kleberest von Aufkleber) gebrauchte Audio-CD // Philips Digital 400.019-2 [PH] / Spielzeit 52:31 // siehe Mängel, sonst guter Zustand.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Groll, Albert; Shields, Gertrude M.; Avison, George; Salg, B.N.; Johnston, Robert E. (illustrator).…

Blackie and son limited, sans date (vers 1920). Album in-4 (26 x 20 cm), couverture illustrée, dos toilé rouge, 133 pages, illustré de dessins en noir dans le texte et de 12 planches en couleurs hors-texte, frottements d'usage aux coins, livre d'enfants en anglais peu courant, bon état général.