Sinclair Joseph H (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First printing; Book. Book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex LIBRARY HARDCOVER; 76543pt line. GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET.Opens to title page, has library distinctions, but otherwise is quite nice, clean, solid, bright under nice vinyl dj protector. ; color spine title on Black hard cover with black dust jacket showing single color wood block ilust showing iconic scene from Author's writing. ; 174pg pages; "A Composite picture of FAMOUS AUTHOR fashioned by the most perceptive critics of our time".entire range of modern opinion".…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 13 pp, blue wraps. Light edgewear on wraps; library-stamped on front. Pages clean, unmarked. Sound binding. . Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall. Year: 1932.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher.. 224 pages - with 13 short stories. >>> SCARCER Title! Cover scuffing & minor cover creasing; indents to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Painted cover (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, thus, 1929. Ex Royal Geographical Society bookplate, presented by The New York Public Library. Publishers gilt decorated cloth lightly rubbed and marked, else very good copy. Frontispiece map & text illustrations throughout. (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled wraps. pp 1254-1281 (27 pages). 5 plates, 4 figures. Signed presentation from the author: 'To George Shephard/ Theron Wasson.' Offprint from The Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Petrolliferous Napo cretaceous rocks found by the Leonard Exploration Company. Theron Rhodes Wasson (1887Ð1970) was a leading American petroleum geologist and engineer, who pioneered the use of geophysical surveys to find oil and gas. He was hired as the chief geologist with the Pure Oil Company in 1922, a position he held until 1952. Light wear otherwise near very good. Signedes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2010 British School at Athens large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. This volume contains 36 papers honoring Peter Warren's contributions to Aegean archaeology and Cretan studies, covering topics such as material culture, iconography, chronology, religion, Knossos, and the natural world. It presents new material and broader thematic insights into Bronze Age Crete. Contents: Bibliography of Peter Warren 1 The LM I pithoi from Aphrodite's Kephali - Philip P. Betancourt 2 Minoan presence in the pharaonic naval base of Peru-nefer - Manfred Bietak 3 The Late Prepalatial resurrected - Keith Branigan 4 Braudel's Bronze Age - Cyprian Broodbank 5 Goddess, nymph or housewife; and water worries at Myrtos? - Gerald Cadogan 6 A wine offering to the Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos: the evidence from KN Zb 27 - Kostis S. Christakis 7 The many lives of a ruin: history and metahistory of the Palace of Minos at Knossos - Anna Lucia D'Agata 8 One Minoan peak sanctuary less: the case of Thylakas - Costis Davaras 9 A gold discoid from Poros, Herakleion: the guard dog and the garden - Nota Dimopoulou 10 Crete and the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age: a view from the north - Christos C. Doumas 11 The goddess and the skull: some observations on group identity in Prepalatial Crete - Jan Driessen 12 On a lentoid flask of red marble from Knossos - Doniert Evely 13 The snake goddesses of the LM IIIB and LM IIIC periods - Geraldine C. Gesell 14 river elusive Late IIIC and the ill-named Subminoan - Birgitta P. Hallager 15 A note on a lost stirrup jar from Knossos - Erik Hallager 16 The Middle Minoan Cemetery on Ailias at Knossos - Sinclair Hood 17 Impressions of the natural world: landscape in Aegean glyptic - Olga Krzyszkowska 18 A new Early Minoan clay model from Phaistos - Vincenzo La Rosa 19 Hermes as Master of Lions at the Syme Sanctuary, Crete - Angeliki Lebessi 20 Rejection and revival of traditions: Middle Minoan II-IIIA footed goblets or eggcups at Knossos - Colin Macdonald 21 Middle Cycladic iconography: a social context for 'A new chapter in Aegean art' - Irene Nikolakopoulou 22 Myrtos Fournou Korifi: before and after - Krzysztof Nowicki 23 An unusual four-sided prism - Ingo Pini 24 On the dating and character of the 'Zakros pits deposit' - Lefteris Platon 25 Malia: palace, state, city - Jean-Claude Poursat 26 Some field systems in Crete - Oliver Rackham, Jennifer Moody, Lucia Nixon and Simon Price 27 Contrasting trajectories: Crete and the Cyclades during the Aegean Early Bronze Age - Colin Renfrew 28 A shrine-model from Galatas - Georgios Rethemiotakis 29 Setting in the palaces of Minoan Crete: a review of how and when - Joseph W. Shaw 30 A fresco of a textile pattern at Pylos: the importation of a Minoan artistic technique - Maria C. Shaw 31 The human body in Minoan religious iconography - Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw 32 Evidence for ancestor worship in Minoan Crete: new finds from Mochlos - Jeffrey S. Soles 33 The work of Arthur Evans as documented in the Historical Archive of the Greek Archaeological Service (1922-31) - Metaxia Tsipopoulou 34 Myrtos Fournou Korifi and Trypiti Adami Korfali: similarities and differences in two Prepalatial settlements in southern Crete - Andonis S. Vasilakis 35 Iris cretica and the Prepalatial workshop of Chamalevri - Maria Vlazaki 36 A point in time - Malcolm H. Wiener. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Printed stitched foolscap wraps, 6, (1)pp. Good, tanned, with closed tears and minor loss. The main text is the "Report by Mr Last respecting the Working of the Decree for the Abolition of the Status of Slavery during the Year 1903", with a brief covering note by Resident John Houston Sinclair to the Marquess of Lansdowne (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). Last explains why the number of slaves presenting themselves for manumission is now very small, attributing it to the advantages and rights that come with slavery, the honour of being attached to a particular House, etc, describes their conditions, and predicts that slaves freed in future will be those freed by the owners out of a sense of religious duty. Tables show monthly count of slaves freed during 1903 distinguishing male / female, tribal origins, preference for town or country life after freedom, birthplace, and monthly totals of slaves freed during 1897-1903, showing the decline. Also included is an extract from Vice-Consul O'Sullivan Beare's report stating "the slavery question may be said to be at an end in Pemba", and a reply from the Foreign Office to Consul-General Basil Cave expressing Lansdowne's satisfaction with progress.…

First Edition. AND THE DARKNESS FALLS, World, 1946, first edition, just about fine in in near vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear. Contributions by Maurice Level, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson, Guy Du Maupassant, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Donan Doyle, John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, August Derleth, F. Tennyson Jesse, L. P. Hartley, H. R. Wakefield, Dorothy Sayers, Somerset Maugham, John Collier, William Butler Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe, Upton Sinclair, Cornell Woolrich, Walter de la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Thomas Burke, Stephen Crane, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad, et. al. …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1942 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 912 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. 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: 912 Volume 369 (1942) - 392 (1943).…