Death Divination, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 702 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last few pages. Internally the remaining pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1st edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 275 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes. Contents; On Laments and Transliteration -- Maps -- 1. Contexts -- Fragments and Margins -- The Politics of Pain -- Departures -- Dutiful Ethnographer -- Diachronic Death -- 2. Social History and Social Organization -- Ecology and Topography -- Settlement Pattern -- The Village -- Social Organization -- Alliance -- The War Tower -- Social Stratification -- The Economy and Division of Labor -- 3. The Warnings -- Multiple Entries -- The Bird of the Dead -- Apparition -- Dreams -- Low Voicing -- Dream Codes -- The Economy of Dreams -- 4. The Screaming -- Death, Birth, and the Outside -- High Voicing -- The Silent and Naked Death -- The Good Death -- 5. The Appearance -- On the Road -- From Segmentary Kinship to Shared Substance -- Center and Peripheries -- 6. The Ethics of Antiphony -- Categories of Performance and Pain -- Customary Law: The Women's Jury -- Memorization -- Polyphony and the Orders of Discourse -- Incorporations or the Double Ceremony -- The Counterpoint -- The Breath -- Sound and Violence -- Truth and Pain -- Truth, Pain, and Ethnography -- Historical Context -- 7. Weaving Conflict -- Men's Council / Women's Mourning Ritual -- Kalliopi's Story -- Tracking Vangelio -- 8. Women and Priests, Voice and Text -- Mourning Ritual versus Funeral -- Historical Context -- Procession and Burial -- 9. The Second Body and the Poetics of Labor -- Hertz and the New Body -- The Maniat Double Burial -- The First Facing or The Meeting of the Eyes -- The Second Body and Its Reading -- The Otherworld -- Death, Exhumation, and Women's Labor -- 10. The Visible Invisible: Divination, History, and the Self -- The Archaeology of Feeling -- Shadows -- Cynics and Others -- Cosmological Construction -- Dream Time, Labor Time, and Power -- Dreaming in the Field -- 11. Eschatology -- Shadows: A Photographic Essay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece Man . Women Greece Man Social conditions. Social structure Greece Man . Philosophy, Greek (Modern). Funeral rites and ceremonies. Women. Death. Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece Mani Peninsula. Women Greece Mani Peninsula Social conditions. Social structure Greece Mani Peninsula. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 275 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and indexes. Contents; On Laments and Transliteration -- Maps -- 1. Contexts -- Fragments and Margins -- The Politics of Pain -- Departures -- Dutiful Ethnographer -- Diachronic Death -- 2. Social History and Social Organization -- Ecology and Topography -- Settlement Pattern -- The Village -- Social Organization -- Alliance -- The War Tower -- Social Stratification -- The Economy and Division of Labor -- 3. The Warnings -- Multiple Entries -- The Bird of the Dead -- Apparition -- Dreams -- Low Voicing -- Dream Codes -- The Economy of Dreams -- 4. The Screaming -- Death, Birth, and the Outside -- High Voicing -- The Silent and Naked Death -- The Good Death -- 5. The Appearance -- On the Road -- From Segmentary Kinship to Shared Substance -- Center and Peripheries -- 6. The Ethics of Antiphony -- Categories of Performance and Pain -- Customary Law: The Women's Jury -- Memorization -- Polyphony and the Orders of Discourse -- Incorporations or the Double Ceremony -- The Counterpoint -- The Breath -- Sound and Violence -- Truth and Pain -- Truth, Pain, and Ethnography -- Historical Context -- 7. Weaving Conflict -- Men's Council / Women's Mourning Ritual -- Kalliopi's Story -- Tracking Vangelio -- 8. Women and Priests, Voice and Text -- Mourning Ritual versus Funeral -- Historical Context -- Procession and Burial -- 9. The Second Body and the Poetics of Labor -- Hertz and the New Body -- The Maniat Double Burial -- The First Facing or The Meeting of the Eyes -- The Second Body and Its Reading -- The Otherworld -- Death, Exhumation, and Women's Labor -- 10. The Visible Invisible: Divination, History, and the Self -- The Archaeology of Feeling -- Shadows -- Cynics and Others -- Cosmological Construction -- Dream Time, Labor Time, and Power -- Dreaming in the Field -- 11. Eschatology -- Shadows: A Photographic Essay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece Man . Women Greece Man Social conditions. Social structure Greece Man . Philosophy, Greek (Modern). Funeral rites and ceremonies. Women. Death. Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece Mani Peninsula. Women Greece Mani Peninsula Social conditions. Social structure Greece Mani Peninsula. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 702 pages.Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. English literature Collected works. Sleep Literary collections. Dreams ; Poetry. Sleep Poetry. English poetry 20th century. Dreams. Sleep. English literature (Selections: Extracts, etc.). 3 Kg.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. An anthology of poetry and some prose pieces inspired by sleeping and dreams and spanning the centuries, so Emily Bronte's 'Sleep Brings No Joy to Me' is on a page facing Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' and Marcus Aurelius is juxtaposed with Richard Burton. The first section is a long (110 pp) introduction by de la Mare on 'Dream and Imagination' in which he describes this as a book to be opened at random, browsed in, and then laid aside. Colored frontispiece and title page drawing by Barnett Freedman Indices of authors, first lines of poems, and of plays and prose pieces. viii, 702 pp. Very good in light blue cloth with gilt titling and illustration on spine (some fraying to the top of the spine, other wear to covers, offsetting to half title page, but a sturdy copy, clean and tight) No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barnet Freedman H. [Jacket Cover] (illustrator). 1st Edition. The book and jacket are in very good condition, the jacket has a fair amount of shelf rubbing with some color lost along the fore-edge and spine from rubbing and a few small areas of jacket missing along edge and spine, the jacket spine's color has faded somewhat due to light exposure as well, jacket has since been wrapped in mylar for preservation purposes. Apart from a sticker on the front paste-down and some writing and a small stain from the sticker on the first blank page opposite the front paste-down the text inside appears clean and clear throughout. '. . . a Survey - a panorama - of a wide theme, endlessly inviting, in much obscure, viewed from many different angles, by many diverse minds. Concerned not merely with dreaming, whether by night or day, with fantasies, hallucinations, explanations and interpretations of dreams, and the whole business (so to speak) of getting into (as well as out of) the dreamstate. A net is thrown over death as well as sleep, Nature as well as Man: and he takes his soundings in those unconscious and unreasoning depths out of which human personality and art so mysteriously spring.' viii+694+xx pages. 6.4 x 9.4 inches. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect every single book we list and give accurate descriptions. If you require we will promptly send pictures of listed books upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 702 pages.Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. English literature Collected works. Sleep Literary collections. Dreams ; Poetry. Sleep Poetry. English poetry 20th century. Dreams. Sleep. English literature (Selections: Extracts, etc.). 1 Kg.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo. 1ª Edición. SEREMETAKIS, C. N.: THE LAST WORD. WOMEN, DEATH, AND DIVINATION IN INNER MANI. CHICAGO, IL, 1991, 280 p. fotografias, 470 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (EV) 470 gr. Libro.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page. Unread new copy. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Slightly edge-torn and bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii,702p 20cm. Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. Sleep Literary collections. English literature Collections. English poetry 20th century. De la Mare, Walter 1873-1956. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Dust jacket has a mylar plastic cover which shows some scuffing and shelf wear. Dust jacket itself shows discoloration, rubbing, scuffing and creasing as well as some moderate chipping and rubbing on edges. Pages are deckle cut and show some moderate browning from age. Cover pages and insides of covers show some moderate foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Third impression. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. Includes removeable plastic wrapper. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Slightly edge-torn and bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii,702p 20cm. Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. Sleep Literary collections. English literature Collections. English poetry 20th century. De la Mare, Walter 1873-1956. 1 Kg.

8vo. First edition, first impression. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper, spine and frontispiece by Barnett Freedman. Spine and board edges a little tanned. Endpapers and prelims a bit foxed. Contents clean with no ownership marks. The unclipped d/w is a little tanned and faded on the spine, rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips, and has a couple of nicks to the top and bottom edges. Very good + in very good + d/w.

8vo. Signed, limited edition. #49 of 50 copies Original yellow vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine decoration and frontispiece by Barnett Freedman. Tiny bump to the bottom of the spine. Signed by Walter de la Mare on the limitation page. Fore edge a little foxed and some very slight occasional foxing to a few pages. This signed, limited edition is very scarce.