Ross E Translator (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Very Good edition with some foxing to the pages and boards and rubbing to the pages in a Very Good+ dustjacket with some slight soiling. Previous owner's notations within the text and on the front free endpaper; This is a memoir by Jacques Soustelle, a French ethnologist who worked in Mexico from the 1930s through the 1960s. Soustelle is best known for his studies of the Nahua people, but his writing is also insightful and humorous. His book is divided into four parts: First, Soustelle describes his early experiences in Mexico and his fascination with the country and its people. Second, he describes his work as an ethnologist, including his studies of the Nahua people, the Mayans, and the Tarahumara Indians. Third, he reflects on his experiences living in Mexico and his observations of the country's transformation over the years. Finally, he offers his thoughts on the state of anthropology and the role of ethnography in the social sciences. The Four Suns is a unique and insightful memoir of a French ethnologist who spent many years living and studying in Mexico.; B & W Photographs; 256 pages.…

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. New York, NY: Grossman Publishers. Good/Good. 1971. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 256 p.p., Shelf wear; cracked inner hinge; previous owner's inscription on first front free-end paper; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; dust jacket spine lightly sunned; original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. . Black and White Plates and Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover (original cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; Second Impression. With diagrams. With library stamps & labels. Dustjacket in plastic protective cover. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners.; Octavo.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 1. Verkleuring. Dutch Na de publicatie van Lessen voor levenden kreeg Elisabeth Kübler-Ross tijdens lezingen en spreekbeurten talrijke praktische vragen over sterven en stervensbegeleiding. In dit boek behandelt zij vragen over onder meer het vertellen van de waarheid aan stervenden, de begeleiding van ongeneeslijk zieken, zelfmoordgedachten, kunstmatige levensverlenging, het verlies van een kind, de ondersteuning van nabestaanden en de angst voor de dood bij hulpverleners. Vanuit haar ervaring pleit zij voor een menselijke en betrokken begeleiding waarin de stervende tot het einde als volwaardig mens wordt benaderd.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 80 pages. German language. 14.17x0.39x10.16 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4"; pp. xii + 284 + [48], advertisements in green cloth boards, title on back, ruled gilt border to side. This #13 of 60 on handmade paper, large paper edition. Potter 142. Scuff/loss of color across top of side, small area of discoloration at bottom of title page. Laid in gift note describing purchase.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Large octavo, 205pp., illustrated. Compiled and edited by Jeremy Wilson. A fine, fresh copy in the publisher's full ruby goatskin binding, one of 40 examples bound thus out of a total of 352 limited copies. Marbled endpapers, silk endbands, and all edges gilt. In the publisher's maroon cloth slipcase, fine. SIGNED by Wilson at the end of his Foreword. The definitive scholaraly edition of Lawrence's translation of this French novel, in the publisher's deluxe binding (surpassed only by an "inlaid" binding, issued in 15 copies). Though Lawrence claimed to have loathed the novel, his translation is a work of considerable effort. Signed.…

Translated from the French by J. H. Ross [T. E. Lawrence]. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker. Pp. 160(last blank), frontispiece, plus 8 plates; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle soiled, edges lightly worn, bottom fore-corners slightly bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; the text block faintly browned, scattered light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Second U.K. edition. O'Brien A095. *Lacking the dust wrapper. 'By his own request Lawrence was given the French work Le Gigantesque to translate soon after his expulsion from the R.A.F. and re-enlistment in the Tank Corps in 1923. He appears to have been motivated both by a need for funds and by the wish to fill his free time.' [O'Brien p. 74]. In 1935, Cape published this edition, with illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. It contains a new publisher's note and the author's dedication to Professor Simon Dupley, which Lawrence had included in his translation but which, at his own suggestion, had been omitted from the 1924 edition. Adrien Le Corbeau was a pseudonym of Romanian writer Rudolf Bernhardt (1886-1932).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1904 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 132 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 132 Language: English,Latin.…