Karl Elder (96 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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

Chapbook. Condition: New. No Jacket. This is a small press poetry book, and, while new, may have arrived at the store in the author's backpack, or have waited some time on the shelf for your purchase. It may have some sunning or light bumping. New Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: New. book is new and unused.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. book is in AS NEW condition, binding tight and square no damage, text clean and unmarked, Author signed on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. book, cover and text all in "as New" condition, binding tight and square no damage, text clean and unmarked first edition signed by the Author. Signed by Author(s).

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Review Copy. Signed by author on sticker that states "This is one of 15 review copies" on rear cover; nice clean copy; 60 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: New.

Condition: very_good. Book has little sign of wear or use.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Reverie's Ilk: Collected Prose Poems. Book.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Near Fine glossy pictorial wraps with a short tear bottom front. 32 pp.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. pictorial cover, binding tight and square no damage, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps includes CD-Rom.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in glossy black perfect-bound wraps. Bright, snug & unmarked; unread.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A new copy with dust jacket. Unclipped. 26 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Covers show some wear; staining on rear cover. ; Inscription inked by author on title page. ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4"; 67 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1944; illustrated gray cloth covered boards; spine edges bumped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 261 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. A clean and unmarked copy very good condition. 67 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1988 by Elaine Pagels. 189 + xxviii pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Relevant newspaper articles placed by previous owner included. Minor stains on fore-edge. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal, minor or light wear around edges. Synopsis: How did it happen that Christlan tradition came to find sexual desire sinful and to claim that infants, from the moment of conception, are infected with the disease of original sin, that Adam's sin corrupted the whole of nature, which until that point had known neither death nor labor nor suffering? How did it happen that the Christian church, which also proclaims the infinite value of each individual and celebrates the moral freedom of all its members, came by the middle of the fourth century to insist that humankind~made in God's image~cannot choose not to sin? This great paradox at the heart of Christian, and therefore Western, tradition is the subject of Elaine Pagels's briiliant new book, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, a work that will prove a landmark of htstorical thought and profoundly affect all future interpretations of the historical meaning of Christianity. The attitudes and values we associate with Christian tradition, particularly attitudes toward sexual matters, evolved in Western culture at a specific time ~during the first four centuries of the common era, when the Christian movement, which had begun as a defiant sect, transformed itself into the religion of the Roman Empire. These attitudes had not previously existed in the Christian form they eventually took, and they represented a departure from both pagan practices and Jewish tradition. Within a century of Jesus and Paul, the Christian churches, though widely divided on questions of practice and belief, all agreed that Christians must reject the Roman gods and refuse to reverence the emperors, who ruled in their name, For many of the leaders of the early church, freedom was the practical message of the gospel: freedom in its many forms, including freedom from tyrannical government, freedom from prevailing social and sexual customs, freedom from sexual desire, and freedom of the will ~ that is, self~mastery as a means to spiritual renewal. For almost three hundred years, Christianity prospered and grew as an illegal sect whose members increasingly reflected the diverse interests of an ever more complex population. By the fourth century, as the Christian movement became more powerful, the emperor Constantine reversed the long~standing policy of persecution and himself became a Christian. In the century following these momentous conversions ~of Constantine to Christianity and the church to a respected imperial institution~Christian teaching itself underwent a revolutionary change from a doctrine that celebrated human freedom to one that emphasized the universal bondage of original sin. It is this profoundly consequential transformation that is the subject of Elaine Pagels's monumental book. Anita Karl & Jim Kemp (Design); Loretta Leiva (Jacket Design); 'Adam and Eve' by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Jacket Art); Jerry Bauer (Photo) (illustrator).…

Condition: New. In English.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good+ copy with slight stains and rubbing to lower wrapper (chiefly to midsection); slight bend to upper wrapper at foredge; else a near fine copy internally. 32 pages. Upper wrapper title. Interview of the American poet (and soon to be Poet Laureate) by the magazine's editor, with his foreword; plus 3 poems from Strand's 'Dark Harbor'. Scarce issue of an elusive American college periodical publication.Wigg, Rita (photographer); 1 b/w Photograph (upper wrapper).…