faber faber london 1979 (120 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

softcover. Condition: Very good. reprint. Trade paperback. 86 pages. "This is a corrected and updated text of 'Plenty' by David Hare, which ran successfully at the National Theatre throughout 1978." 122615A.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1978) 1979 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 204mm). Pp196. B/w photographs and illustrations. Grey boards, spine titled in gilt. End-paper inscription. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper. "Inspired by the letters and writings of a great-uncle, James Bourchier, who made a life study of the origin of British pastoral dogs, Iris Combe [an accomplished instructor and show judge] explains the background and evolution of this breed and shows its inherited qualities which have made it the world's most superior sheepdog and popular companion. She has also drawn on the memories of old farmers and shepherds for their stories so that she can pass on a knowledge that will help all owners to understand this highly intelligent dog." Includes "training for farmwork, field trials and the show ring, breeding and whelping, and general care." .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, appears unused, very good. DONINGTON, ROBERT. Wagner's Ring and its symbols; the music and the myth. London: Faber and Faber, 1979, 3d edition reprinted, 342pp., . CONTENTS: Myth and music. Symbols at work ; Symbols common to our species ; Wagner's attitude to his symbols ; Symbols as archetypal images ; Symbols regarded as functions of psychic consciousness ; Symbols as inner experience ; The musical symbols ; The dramatic symbols ; Wagner's characters as symbols -- Prelude to 'Rhinegold'. The beginning of the world as a symbol for our own beginning ; The state of nature and the fall from innocence ; Accepting the opposites or escaping them in fantasy ; The return to nature in rebirth symbolism -- 'Rhinegold', scene I. Alberich and the Rhinemaidens ; The Rhinemaidens and their gold ; Money seen as the root of all evil ; The fire under the water ; Accidentally on purpose? ; The renunciation of love ; A Promethean theft? --^ 'Rhinegold', scene II. Wotan as an image of the self ; Wotan as a sky-god and a saviour god ; Wotan as psychic consciousness ; Wotan as ego consciousness ; Wotan as father-image ; Fricka as part of Wotan's inner femininity ; Other representatives of the eternal feminine ; The god's dilemma ; Loge the trickster and his tricky remedy -- 'Rhinegold', scene III. The paradox of the situation brought out in the music ; The underworld of Nibelheim ; The ring as a symbol for the self ; Tarnhelm as a symbol of unconscious fantasy ; The tricking of Alberich -- 'Rhinegold', scene IV. Wotan acts the ruffian ; Alberich curses for the second time ; Alberich's curse : sheet disaster or blessing in disguise? ; Erda prophesies to Wotan and Freia is ransomed ; The curse gets to work : Fafner murders Fasolt ; Valhalla the impregnable fortress at last --^ 'The Valkyrie', act I. Incest hpysical and mythological ; Incest a danger in the flesh and in fantasy ; Transgression or heroic accomplishment? ; Mythological incest as a ritual marriage ; Siegmund and Sieglinde in their hour of destiny ; Sieglinde and Hunding hear Siegmund begin his story ; Siegmund tells us of his unquiet and lonely life ; Siegmund's story shows Hunding to be his enemy ; Why Wotan is entangled in his bargains ; The sword in the tree ; The sword itself ; the long winter ends with the coming of love -- 'The Valkyrie', act II. Brynhilde as Valkyrie and more than Valkyrie ; Wotan and Fricka ; The sacrificial significance of Siegmund's death ; Wotan confindes in Brynhilde ; The end of Siegmund ; The consequences of Siegmund's death -- 'The Valkyrie', act III. The Valkyrie sisterhood and the rescue of Sieglinde ; Wotan's estrangement from Brynhilde ; The partial reconciliation of Wotan and Brynhilde ; The parting of Wotan and Brynhilde --^ 'Siegfried', act I. Mime and Siegfried ; Mime and Wotan ; The forging of nothing -- 'Siegfried', act II. Alberich and Wotan ; Siegfried and the forest murmers ; Siegfried and Fafner ; Alberich and Mime ; Siegfried's foster-father ; The birds guide Siegfried toward Brynhilde -- 'Siegfried', act III. Wotan and Erda meet for the last time ; Wotan and Siegfried ; Siegfried and Brynhilde ; To thine own self be true -- 'Götterdämmerung', act I. Life's two faces : the light and the dark ; The three aged Norns ; The journey to the Rhine ; The Gibichungs ; Siegfried and Gutrune ; Siegfried and the magic potion ; The plot against Brynhilde -- 'Götterdämmerung', act II. The personal shadow and the shadow archetype ; The quarrel between Brynhilde and Siegfried ; The alliance of Brynhilde with Hagen ; The terrible mother as invisible partner in the plot ; The plot against Siegfried --^ 'Götterdämmerung', act III, part 1. Siegfried accepts his destiny ; Siegfried's narrative and self-discovery ; Siegfried's death -- 'Götterdämmerung', act III, part 2. The dark night of the soul ; The eternal masculine and the eternal feminine ; Brynhilde's hour ; The return to innocence in a maturer state ; The voluntary sacrifice of outworn values ; The baptism by fire and water ; The sacred marriage as the union of opposites ; Redemption as transformation in the psyche. 9780571048182 ISBN 0571048188.

Condition: New.

Condition: Como nuevo. : Gaudete es una obra de poesía del autor británico Ted Hughes, publicada por Faber and Faber. Originalmente concebida como un guion cinematográfico, esta obra se caracteriza por su intensidad y la viveza de sus imágenes. La edición de Faber Poetry presenta una colección de poemas que exploran temas profundos y complejos, reflejando el estilo distintivo de Hughes. EAN: 9780571111244 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: Gaudete Autor: Ted Hughes Editorial: FABER & FABER Idioma: en Páginas: 208 Formato: tapa blanda.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

paperback. Condition: Good. Stock photo! Cover shows light wear or discoloration. Clean pages with no underlining or highlights.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). 1979 1st edition. Paperback issue. 8vo paperback (129 x 198mm). Pp125. B/w photographs and line illustrations. A used and slightly browned second-hand paperback. A useful look at shore fishing techniques by a renowned expert. Chapters include:- Shorefishing techniques; Shorecasting rods; Sinkers and lines; Terminal tackle; Casting; Legering and general techniques; Natural baits; Floatfishing; Fishing with artificial lures; Looking after the catch. .

hardback in dustjacket, First edition. 140mm.W X 220mm., 336pp. Book near fine, though slightly dusty top edge, green cloth, gilt spine lettering. Dust Jacket Fine. 21 b&w illustrations. ISBN:0571113451.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. Hardback issue. Small 8vo (135 x 206mm). Pp125. B/w photographs, illustrations. Laminated boards. Ex-library hardback, usual faullts. A useful look at shore fishing techniques by a renowned expert. Chapters include:- Shorefishing techniques; Shorecasting rods; Sinkers and lines; Terminal tackle; Casting; Legering and general techniques; Natural baits; Floatfishing; Fishing with artificial lures; Looking after the catch. .

Paperback. Condition: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 388pp, owner's bookplate on endpaer, slight browning, text clean and binding sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper spine faded. ISBN: 057110794X.

First edition. 59 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Dunn's fourth collection of poems.

Condition: New. In.

Size: Folio. [iv], 8pp. Stapled as issued in publisher's printed wrappers.

First Edition.Near fine book and wrapper a bit sunned on the spine.

First UK edition. 191 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 192 pp, illustrated throughout. [ISBN: 0571108318] Clothbound. A very good bright copy in dustwrapper.

Near fine/near fine (very clean bright unclipped dj with remains of small price sticker back cover, front flap creased, clean blue cloth with small bump tail of spine and touch of discolouration extreme top edge, very clean crisp bright copy, possibly unread, few tiny speckles outer fore-edge of front free endpaper 12mo 125pp. First edition.

paperback in good condition, cover faded on spine; 96 pages, b/w illusts.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dj. First Edition. Very Good +/Very Good + Dj. First Edition. Review copy, glue residue front end paper where review slip was pasted in. 1st edition. This is the first English edition sent out for review by the Oxford University Press of Canada. Book.

234pp. 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

First edition. Hardback. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in Fine condition. Illustrated by Jill Bennett. Jacket supplied in new removable clear cover.

1st Ed., H/B blue cloth bds taped to unclipped film-protected d/w, NF, ex-library copy so prelim.s and title verso marked accordingly, illustrated by Jill Bennet. A very nice reading copy of this lovely story about Jane and her family.

265pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Edges a little browned. A near fine copy. First UK edition.