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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout (illustrator). 1st American Edition. BRILLIANT: EPIC: VIVID: PROVOCATIVE: STIRRING: REVELATORY: FINE virtually AS-NEW hardcover: Stated First American Edition (November 2004) Printing Unstated (Possible book club extension): NEW unpriced mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, EXCELLENT maroon paper-over-boards cover edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on lightly-creased spine, VG slightly shelf-dust soiled text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & w/ cut-page style (deckle) side-edging, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED Only by small library-accession date stamping at top-right inside-front, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Janson on EXCELLENT unblemished opaque paper * Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout * CONTENTS: Introduction (xi), Principal Commanders & Their Forces (xix), Text (1-514), Acknowledgments (515), Sources & References (519), Index (557) * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.62", 1.12 lbs., xxiii+586 (609) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Armageddon is the epic story of the last 8 months of WW II in Europe by Max Hastings, one of Britain s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as "worthy to stand with that of the best journalists & writers" ( NYT Book Review). In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten & expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border & in the Hürtgen Forest, together w/ the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern & Western Fronts, & paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants & interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, & of their human impact on American, British, German & Russian soldiers & civilians. Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause & campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians & Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans & British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, & the other giants of the struggle. The crucial final months of the 20th century's greatest global conflict come alive in this stirring & revelatory chronicle.* MAX HASTINGS was a foreign correspondent & the editor of Britain's Evening Standard & the Daily Telegraph. He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, & is the author of 18 books, including "Bomber Command" which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction, "The Korean War" and "Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944". He lives outside London. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap, label & securely package this fine book with our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States (or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional charge), or for prompt delivery to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL MAIL at below-cost rates quoted on requesst.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 (illustrator). 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: FASCINATING: INSIGHTFUL: COMPELLING: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (1986) w full no. line showing First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $24.95 price at top right inside front flyleaf, EXCELLENT slate-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly silver-stamped on front panel & spine, VERY GOOD smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ only slightest barely-perceptible rust-spotting on top edge, IMPECABLE pale-slate-green card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & blue-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presentation of extensive footnotes * ILLUSTRATIONS: Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 * 6.36 x 9.50 x 1.54", 0.80 kg, xii+490 (502) pp. * Epilogue: 'Black-Coated Eros' (391), Bibliographic Essay (423), Illustrations & Sources (471), Acknowledgments (473), Index (479) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Education of the Senses', the first volume of Peter Gay's 'The Bourgeois Experience', was published in 1984 to enormous critical acclaim (& controversy). Two years later, in 'The Tender Passion', Gay continued his eloquent, psycho-analytically informed exploration of the Victorian era & its middle classes. Whereas 'Education of the Senses' focused on the sexual attitudes & practices of the 19th-century bourgeoisie, 'The Tender Passion' concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters & diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete w/ fascinating insights into the lives & works of individual Victorians (Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter & Sydney Webb, among them) & his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music & religion. Particularly compelling is the opening section in which Gay analyzes in depth the separate love stories of 2 young men, one English and one German, stories which, in Gay's view, "dramatize some of the careers in love open to the middle class in the decades of Victoria and beyond." A work of remarkable learning, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, 'The Tender Passion' is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, is the author of many acclaimed books. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Unmarked, except as noted. 5 plates showing distribution of copper folded in back pocket. Marginal comment on one page in ink regarding Mo. ; Book Description; Spine has staples. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with wear as noted. Ships Safe and Fast; U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin; Vol. 1312C; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 inserts (between pp 174 & 175, 334 & 335, 526 & 527) ea. of 14 pp presenting 100 full-color photographs SUPERBLY reproduced on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper (illustrator). 1st Edition. INTIMATE: PASSIONATE: ASTUTE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) w/ full no. line showing First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black paper wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered in pearl-gray paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & dark-blue cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illustrated card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x1.86", 1.10 kg, xiv+638+42 (694) pp * ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 inserts (between pp 174 & 175, 334 & 335, 526 & 527) ea. of 14 pp presenting 100 full-color photographs SUPERBLY reproduced on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper * ABOUT THE BOOK: Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, & challenges she faced during her 4 years as America's 67th Secretary of State & how those experiences drive her view of the future. "All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices & how we handle them shape the people we become." In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the US Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the 4 extraordinary & historic years that followed, & the hard choices that she & her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton & President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down 2 wars, & address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran & North Korea, & revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled w/ some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, & gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the 21st century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, & health. Drawing on conversations w/ numerous leaders & experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the US to compete & thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights & the full participation in society of women, youth, & LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trend-lines from the headlines & describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton's descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security & prosperity in a rapidly changing world?one in which America remains the indispensable nation. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON is the first woman in US history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party. She served as the 67th Secretary of State after nearly four decades in public service advocating on behalf of children and families as an attorney, First Lady, and US Senator. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted below-cost rates.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions (illustrator). 1st Trade Paperback Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1998) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. laminated cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW uncreased perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.06" x 9.24" x 1.56", 1.18 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Four eight-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images (illustrator). Stated First Edition. MAGISTERIAL: BRILLIANT: REVEALING: LUCID; INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW virtually NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (March 1988): NEW strikingly handsome mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUPERB NEW carmine-red silk-finish linen-over boards cover w/ "Griffin & Sage" design gilt-stamped inside elegant double-rule gilt borders at top-center front panel w/ ELEGANTLY presented titles in fresh gilt-stamp on spine, IMMACULATE pale-lime card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW stiched perfect binding w/ tight signatures & w/ white-red-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Avanta / Walbaum on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUSTRATIONS: Four 8-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images * CONTENTS: Preface (xv), Abbreviations (653), Notes (655), Bibliographical Essay (741), Acknowledgments (781), Index (787) * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.26 kg, xxii+810 (832) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful & embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler & the fall of Austria. We watch him devising & revising his epoch-making theories. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling w/ his disciples. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled & sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna through Europe, across the ocean to the United States & throughout the world. Drawing on a vast store of revealing unpublished documents, including 100s of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers his passions & follows his astonishing career. He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. He discloses for the first time the dimensions of Freud's love for his daughter Anna, & his unorthodox analysis of her. He offers a thoughtful, detailed, fascinating account of Freud's relations w/ such problematic followers as Jung & Ferenczi. He deals frankly w/ the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, & his theoretical innovations, which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. Perhaps most important & rewarding of all, no previous biographer has so securely integrated into Freud's life his case histories, technical papers, speculative aesthetics, & excursions into prehistory & cultural criticism. The sections scattered across this book in which Peter Gay lucidly expounds & explains Freud's theories of dreams & sexuality, development & neurosis, love & hate amount to a comprehensive (& comprehensible) liberal education in psychoanalytic thought, which is far more discussed than it is understood. Fitting as they do into Freud's most intimate concerns & cultural loyalties, these ideas gain a vivid life of their own. The reader will long remember the Freud that Peter Gay reveals here: student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, friend, founder, controversialist, Jew, victim, & victor. This book, brilliantly argued & brilliantly written, evokes an age, & the life & ideas of a man who, in W H. Auden's phrase, is "no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A MAGISTERIAL contribution to the history of ideas. A FRESH & ILLUMINATING perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." - J. Anthony Lukas * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Unmarked. Minor smudging on front cover from rubbing. 5 plates folded in rear pocket. ; Book Description; Spine has staples. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with wear as noted. Ships Safe and Fast; U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin; Vol. 1312C; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages DO2.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Unmarked. Minor smudging on front cover from rubbing. 5 plates folded in rear pocket. ; Book Description; Spine has staples. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with wear as noted. Ships Safe and Fast; U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin; Vol. 1312C; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unmarked. ; Book Description; Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with minor wear. Ships Safe and Fast. The Cerillos, Old Placer, New Placer, Nacimiento, and Cochiti metal-mining districts, all presently inactive, are described, as are producing deposits of sand and gravel, shale, pumice, scoria, and gypsum. Reserves of bituminous coal and anthracite, silica sand, bentonite, fluorspar, barite, "marble", sulfur, perlite, and ocher are available. Turquoise, lead, zinc, silver, copper, and gold produced totaled more than $14 million; annual production of nonmetals ranges from $9 to $13 million. ; Exclusive of Oil and Gas; Tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 81 pages DH4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Photo inserts (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover edition of Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball by longtime New York sportswriter Bill Madden, published by Harper in 2010. This authoritative biography chronicles the life and legacy of George Steinbrenner, the controversial and influential owner of the New York Yankees who reshaped modern professional sports ownership. Drawing from decades of firsthand reporting and access to players, managers, executives, and Steinbrenner himself, Madden presents a vivid portrait of "The Boss," the intense and driven owner whose relentless pursuit of championships defined the Yankees organization for nearly four decades. The book explores Steinbrenner's business background, his purchase of the Yankees in 1973, and his tumultuous relationships with figures such as Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, and Derek Jeter. Combining insider perspective with extensive research, the work documents Steinbrenner's transformation of the Yankees into one of the most recognizable sports franchises in the world. The narrative also examines the broader impact he had on baseball economics, free agency, and modern team management. This copy remains very clean internally, with strong binding and crisp pages. The original dust jacket is present and displays well, with only light shelf wear. A desirable volume for New York Yankees fans, baseball historians, and collectors of sports biographies, particularly those interested in the modern history of Major League Baseball.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions (illustrator). 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB NEW Oxford blue buckram cloth over boards cover w/ titles & Oxford crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illus. card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.92", 0.84 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Signed by Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz . Long inscription dated 1963. To Ken Grossmann with a smaller signature A J Wilkins In good fair condition. Worn covers repaired spine. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 32 pp of full-color illustrations presented in 8-pp-inserts on gloss-laminated stock following pp 174, 318, 510, & 654 (illustrator). 1st Edition. SUPERB: ILLUMINATING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000), Unstated First Printing * 7.0" x 10.25" x 2.36", 2.16 kg, xviii+1024 (1042) pp * 32 pp of full-color illus. presented in four 8-pp-inserts * CONTENTS: Translators' Note (vii), Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land (ix), Maps (xvi); PHILOSOPHY: The Philosopher (3), Images of the World (20), Myth & Knowledge (39), The Question of Being (51), Epistemology (72), Ethics (94); POLITICS: The Statesman As Political Actor (125), Inventing Politics (147), Utopia & the Critique of Politics (163), The Sage & Politics (180); THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Schools & Sites of Learning (191), Observation & Research (218), Demonstration & the Idea of Science (243), Astronomy (269), Cosmology (279), Geography (299), Harmonics (312), History (328), Language (338), Logic (355), Mathematics (386), Medicine (414), Physics (433), Poetics (452), Rhetoric (465), Technology (486), Theology & Divination (498), Theories of Religion (511); MAJOR FIGURES: Anaxagoras (525), Antisthenes (536), Archimedes (544), Aristotle (554), Democritus (576), Epicurus (586), Euclid (606), Galen (618), Heraclitus (631), Herodotus (642), Hippocrates (649), Parmenides (660), Plato (672), Plotinus (693), Plutarch (704), Polybius (712), Protagoras (721), Ptolemy (731), Pyrrhon (739), Socrates (745), Thucydudes (763), Xenophon (779), Zeno (785); CURRENTS OF THOUGHT: The Academy (799), Aristotelianism (822), Cynicism (843), Hellenism & Christianity (858), Hellenism & Judaisim (870), The Milesians (882), Platonism (893), Pythagoreanism (918), Skepticism (937), Sophsts (957), Stoicism (977); Chronology (999), Contributors (1007), Illustration Sources (1009), Index (1013) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, & political civilization of the West draws & to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth & reach of Greek thought: investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, & what they believed , invented, and understood about the conditions & possibilities of knowing, Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs. In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major figures, & currents of thought, this work show us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, & action. The authors invoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, & philosophical ideas, such as those on "Utopia & the Critique of Politics," "Observation & Research," and "Ethics"; others on specific fields from Astronomy & History to Mathematics & Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization & that Aristotle considered a natural & universal trait of humankind. With 32 pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor & vitaity of the Greek intellectual adventure. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Jacques Brunschwig is Professr Emeritus, Universite de Paris-I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd is Professor of Ancient Philosophy & Science, University of Cambridge * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $18.00 & to international destinations via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates quoted on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xiii, 592 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0395480086; 9780395480083 LCCN: 89-34223 ; OCLC: 19778153gray and black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; traces members of the West Point class of 1966 ; crease on page 590 ; covers dusty, else G/VG ; Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece of Lord Randolph Churchill 1886 & other inserts. (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Maroon cloth binding with gilt title, author, publisher and ruling on spine. Top and bottom of spine bumped with bottom chipped and rubbed. 907pp Indexed. Front hinge shaken. Content clean and bright. This book may require additional postage.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Photo inserts designed by William Ruoto (illustrator). 1st Edition. America's Childhood by acclaimed sports biographer Jane Leavy, published in 2010 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. This highly regarded biography chronicles the life of Mickey Mantle, the legendary New York Yankees center fielder and one of baseball's most iconic figures. Drawing from more than five hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and family members, Leavy presents an in-depth and often intimate portrait of Mantle's rise from Commerce, Oklahoma to baseball immortality. The book examines Mantle's extraordinary athletic achievements, including his Triple Crown season in 1956 and his role in the Yankees dynasty, while also exploring the personal struggles that shaped his life. The volume includes photographic inserts and extensive research, making it one of the most respected modern biographies of a Major League Baseball legend. This copy is As New, with a clean, tight binding and bright, unmarked pages. The original dust jacket is present and in excellent condition, displaying sharp edges and vivid color. A small retail price sticker remains on the back panel of the dust jacket. A desirable collectible for New York Yankees fans, Mickey Mantle collectors, and baseball history enthusiasts, particularly in first edition hardcover format.

Cloth/Boards. Condition: FR/No Dustjacket. Tipped in color and b&w inserts (illustrator). First Edition. Stuttgart, Germany: Walter Hadecke Verlag. FR/No Dustjacket. 1922. First Edition. Cloth/Boards. Wallpaper samples. . 8vo., 87 pp., Boards frayed at corners, spine dirty; cracked and shaken .

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Two 16-pp inserts on gloss-laminated paper presenting 83 splendidly selected b-w images bring an era to life (illustrator). 1st Edition. LANDMARK: MONUMENTAL: PROFOUND: INSIGHTFUL: DEFINITIVE: SCRUPULOUS: BRILLIANT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1995) w/ full no. line showing First Printing; NEW mylar-protected unclipped handsomely color-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text block exterior, NEW perfect-bound sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE pure-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ HANDSOME clarity on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival paper w/ EXCELLENT presentation of footnotes & scholarly apparatus * ILLUSTRATION: Two 16-pp inserts on gloss-laminated paper presenting 83 splendidly selected b-w images bring an era to life * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.48 kg, xx+892 (912) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In an age of artistic accomplishment, Gustav Mahler stood out as one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. As a composer he won acclaim for his startling originality. As a conductor his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes seen as tyrannical by the singers & musicians who came under his baton, & always, even with his greatest triumphs, he provoked controversy among the critics. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler's celebrated biographer, here offers profound insight into Mahler's life & work w/ his detailed examination of the career of this musical genius. In "Mahler in Vienna", La Grange follows the great musician to the intellectual & artistic capital of turn-of-the-century Europe. From Mahler's spectacular debut as director of the Vienna Court Opera to his triumphant tour of the continent, we see him at the height of his powers. La Grange vividly portrays the marvelous spectacle, including the extraordinary range of artists who worked w/ Mahler (the composers Dvorak, Gustave Charpentier, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, & Schoenberg); the painters, architects, & decorators of the Secession (led by Klimt); & the writers Hauptmann, Dehmel, Hofmannsthal, & Schnitzler. In Vienna, the conductor worked a revolution in standards of performance & (along w/ Secession painter Alfred Roller) scenic illustration. It was also during this period that he wrote some of his best-loved symphonies (including his 4th & 5th (& his 3 orchestral song-cycles & collections, the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, Kindertotenlieder). For each of these works La Grange provides full notes & analytic descriptions. And the author does not neglect Mahler's temptestuous personal life, for during these years he met Alma Schindler ("the most beautiful woman in Vienna"). La Grange deftly captures the story of their engagement & marriage in 1902. Mahler remains one of the greatest figures in the history of music, a man whose work provokes strong reactions today as in his own time. This account is just one part of the definitive four-volume biography Gustav Mahler, the result of a 30-year research project; the author has personally translated it from his original French into English. Scrupulously researched & insightfully written, this volume is a brilliant account of a critical epoch in Mahler's life. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper (illustrator). 1st Edition. DEFINITVE: INDISPENSABLE: The ILLUMINATING PRODUCT of FOUR DECADES of DEVOTED RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners (Orig. pub. price not shown), SUPERB NEW black buckram over boards cover w/ titles & lines handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unblemished text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly gathered sheets, IMPECCABLE pure-white card-sock end-papers, PRISTINE interior densely presented w/ impressive CLARITY & ELEGANCE on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presented of extensive footnotes throughout * List of Abbreviations, pp xii-xv * ILLUSTRATED w/ 65 SUPERBLY chosen & reproduced b-w line-drawings & photographs presented in two inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper: the first (29 photographs & 1 portrait pencil-sketch, #s 1-30, between pp 336 & 337), the second (photographs & line-drawings, #s 31-65, between pp 688 & 689) * 6.26" x 9.50" x 2.36", 1.62 kg, xvi+1000 (1016) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: When the 2nd volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, & many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here is the 3rd volume of this magisterial work: Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer & conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, w/ Mahler's energy & creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper & struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter & the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, & the composer, & he weaves in innumerable testimonies & anecdotes that throw ILLUMINATING new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of 40 years of research, this is the DEFINITIVE study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip." * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henry-Louis de La Grange is President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library, Paris. He is also a chevalier of the Order of the Legion d'honneur, & an officer of the Ordre du Merite. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Stunning collection for the rock memorabilia fans. Inside this wonderful book are some separate examples of rare documents including handwritten (facsimile) rock word sheets, coronor reports, newspaper front pages and reports, and loads of other wonderful keepsakes. Stunning condition, too, because this is an UNREAD first edition. An essential book for the real fans! Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Used: Good. No 274 du 01/11/1987 - TABLES EN FETE - LES MARIONNETTES - FOYERS FERMES - INSERTS ET POELES - LE MOBILIER SAVOYARD - CANAPES. Single Issue Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODJ, GOOD+ Condiition, AS-IS, NOJACKET, UNDATED , 1934 ?, Red, White, Blue cover with white French Poodle with Red Ribbon,BOOK IS IN GOOD CLEAN CONDITION / ALL PAGES CLEAN/WHITE / WELL ILLUSTRATED / BOOK DATED TO CIRCA 1934 BY INK INSCRIPTION TO 1ST PLAIN PAGE / PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A VERY MINIMAL DAMAGE TO SPINE TOP APPROX 5MM which shows Fox & Rub & Wear, /NICE CHILDS BOOK, 43 pgs, CVR HAS RUB, WEAR TINY CHIPS EDGES , Toutou often sat in His garden in Boulogne, France, which really belonged to his Owner a Very Old Sheep. On the top of his Head he wore a Gay Red Bow, His head was thick with tiny Curls & His White Coat was very clean 7 he had a rug of his Own with Intitial t on it. , Perhaps he was too Clever for Most Dogs, Toutou could speak English as weell as French. He could swim like as Fish & Dived Beautifully. He was Shy but wanted a Friend. When all a once he met a dog Named George who Lived with as Father & Mother & 2 Piglets. BOOK DATED TO CIRCA 1934 BY Former Owner INK INSCRIPTION TO 1ST PLAIN PAGE , Blank Endpapers Former Owner inscription,

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.