West Coast Rare Books

Condition: Gut. 22.9cm x 15.3cm. xii, 468 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Former library copy. Unusually clean for a library-copy. Stamp from University Mannheim on halftitle. Library number label on spine. Includes for Example: The Displacements of Mythology/ Tradition and Innovation, Text and Context/ Dogmatism and Uncertainty/ Metaphor and the Language of Science/ Measurement and Mystification/ Idealisations and Elisions etc. G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 16cm x 24cm. 321 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition. After three years of research, bestselling journalist Joe McGinniss presents his already controversial and much anticipated investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon. On Election Day 2008, McGinniss began his on-the-ground reporting that culminated, famously, in his moving next door to Sarah Palin in spring 2010. THE ROGUE is the eagerly awaited result of his research and writing: a startling study of the illusion and reality of Sarah Palinand a probing look at the Alaska and the America that produced her. Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, always provocative and illuminating, THE ROGUE answers the questions "Who is she, really?," "How did she happen?," and "Will she ever go away?" In all of his books, McGinniss has scrutinized the mysterious space between image and realityhow that space is created, negotiated, and/or manipulated. Now, with The Rogue, McGinniss combines his deep appreciation of the place Sarah Palin comes from with his uncanny ability to penetrate the façades of people in public life. The result is an extraordinary double narrative that alternately traces Palin's curious rise to political prominence and worldwide celebrity status and recounts the author's day-to-day experiences as he uncovers the messy reality beneath the glossy Palin myth. [Publisher's note].…

Condition: Sehr gut. 24.3cm x 16cm. XVIII, 361 pages. With 18 illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Their Wedding Days (1824-1921) / The Stars Look Up and Down (1939-1941) / A Term in Hollywood (1947) / A Thunderbolt (1948-1953) / Hideaways (1967-75) / Things Happen (1985-2012), etc.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 21.6cm x 13.6cm. 255 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. A major literary figure in pre-war Paris, Guillaume Apollinaire volunteered for war in 1914, trained as an artilleryman and was posted in April 1915 to the Champagne front in northern France, participating in the bloody offensive that September and then moving into the front line as an infantry officer, before being wounded in March 1916 and invalided out of active service. Back in Paris, Apollinaire plunged back into the activities of the capital's artistic avant-garde, meanwhile publishing poetry, prose and plays that were deeply influenced by his involvement in the conflict. He died on 9 November 1918, two days before the Armistice, a victim of the influenza pandemic, but with a literary reputation secured, as well as a certain fame for coining the term 'Surrealism'. Apollinaire in The Great War draws heavily on Apollinaire's writings to tell the story of his war years, within the wider context of the French experience of the Great War. In this period, Apollinaire also wrote hundreds of letters, the bulk of them to two women: Louise de Coligny, a flighty socialite of aristocratic origin, and Madeleine Pagès, a young schoolteacher. In these letters he poured out his passionate feelings for both in often highly erotic poetry and prose, as well as giving detailed descriptions of his life as a front-line soldier. An unusual combination of intimate biography, military history and literary analysis, this major new work on Apollinaire is a vivid portrait of the artist in the epicentre of Parisian Bohemia, in love and in the cauldron of war. (peterowenspublishers.com). …

Condition: Sehr gut. 15cm x 23cm. 382 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. 2007 reprint of the 1899 original edition. The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. Its author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an Irish boy at the tender age of fifteen. As such, he was in at the beginning of the long war in the Iberian peninsular, and stuck through to the end, witnessing at first hand the changing fortunes of war. He was with Sir John Moore in his advance - and in his fatal retreat to Corunna. When Wellington took command, Blakeney served under him at the battles of Arroyo Molinos and the siege of Badajoz; crossed the Pyrenees and took part in one of the war's final battles at Nivelle. Apart from his own experiences and adventures, Blakeney gives unvarnished pen portraits of many of the Iron Duke's great subordinates, including Generals Picton, Paget and Hill. For all Napoelonic fans this charming memoir is a must. [Publisher's note].…

Condition: Sehr gut. 15cm x 23cm. XVII, 159 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. 'Death in a Promised Land' is a compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devestating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, heroism, and human perseverance. [From publisher's note] Includes for example the following chapters: Boom Cities / In the Promised Land / Race Relations and Local Violence / Race Riot / Law, Order and the politics of Relief / The Segregation of Memory / Notes on the Subsequent History of "Deep Greenwood".…

Condition: Sehr gut. 19.6cm x 12.5cm. 191 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Includes for example the following poems: The Place of Poetry / On the Beach, 1972-1996 / Daffodils / Solstice at 45 / The Seasons, 1993-2002 / Stars / February Fool / Adult / September Song / Gin, 2002-2005 / Words / Things To Do / Shrine / The Huntress / Bird Strike / The Poet Utters / Upwards / Letting Go / Unexpected / Landscape, etc. …

Condition: Sehr gut. 22.8cm x 15.2cm. XIII, 63 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Includes for example the following poems: Where Wires Tangle / You / House and Highway / Everyone in the Story Is Dead but Me / While an Old Clock Rang the Hour / Lyric Poet Disease / Tale of the Garret / Song of the Absent Ian / Krakow / On the Ground and Through the Clouds / This Time in the Sky / Unsung / A Week of Rain in My Republic, etc.…

Condition: Gut. 24cm x 16.1cm. V, 386 pages. With over 200 figures and tables. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, such as rubbed edges and minor scratches on the back of the book. Includes for example the following chapters: Forces and moments / Centroids and the centre of gravity / Laws of flotation / effect of density on draft and displacement / Effect of free surface of liquids on stability / Stability and hydrostatic curves / Water pressure / Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids / Effect of beam and freeboard on stability, etc.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 21 x 15 cm. Eight pages. With Illustrations. Original stiff card board wrappers. Decorated. Very good condition. A little dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Condition: Sehr gut. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (16), 207 pages, with B&W illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition. An analysis of the background context to the writing of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Among the themes W.J. West examines are Orwell's own political struggles, the censorship regimes in operation in wartime Britain, comparisons between actual and fictitious government agencies, and the contribution of Eileen Orwell to the novel.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. XV, 348 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Old Poets / Vanity, Fame, Love, and Robert Frost / Dylan Thomas and Public Suicide / Notes on T.S. Eliot / Marianne Moore Valiant and Alien / Fragments of Ezra Pound, etc. Includes also interviews with T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound. …

Condition: Sehr gut. 25.5cm x 19.2cm. 224 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: A Royal Childhood / A Naval Education / Friend to the Prince of Wales / 'My Real Love' / A Serving Officer / The Road to War / Combined Operations / Supreme Commander / The Last Viceroy / The Mediterranean and after.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 15 x 23cm. (22), 124 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition. In "Living Enlightenment" revolutionary spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen explores the mystery and mechanics of radical transformation. Bringing together the transcendent wisdom of the East with the Western understanding of evolution, Cohen offers a vision of the purpose of enlightenment to challenge and inspire even the most disillusioned of seekers. Simple yet audacious, his claim is that the spiritual evolution of each one of us is not separate from the evolution of the whole human race. For Cohen, the path to individual liberation could never be a personal matter, but rather is 'the first step toward becoming a conscious participant in the evolutionary process'. [From jacket notes].…

Condition: Sehr gut. 3rd Edition. 16 x 10 cm. 32 pages. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Clean copy.

Condition: Sehr gut. 14cm x 21.5cm. XV, 160 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Originally published in 1905. The author was a Squadron Sergeant-Major. The diary was written from notes which were made daily when Morton was acting as signalling sergeant to Lieutenant-Colonel P.L. Clowes, who commanded the 8th Hussars during the South African War. The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958. …

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 24.2cm x 16.4cm. X, 214 pages. With 26 illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Opera, 1597-1864 / Colonel James Mapleson (1830-1901) / Oscar Hammerstein I (1846-1919) / John Christie (1882-1962).…

Condition: Sehr gut. 15.5cm x 23.5cm. XV, 216 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Through the testimony of David and Marie Works, whose daughters Stephanie and Rachel were killed (he was severely wounded) at New Life Church on December 9th, 2007, readers will be shown how to find and experience God in the present moment. This never-before-told complete story of the tragic December 2007 Colorado shootings includes 8 pages of personal photos from the Works family, including the tragic events of December 9. [Amazon]. …

Condition: Sehr gut. First edition. 15 x 22 cm. 163 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket. Synopsis: "Gasterbeiter Voyovic is dead. He died after leaving my room. I rolled the waxplugs in the sweat of my hands, plied them into my ears and in that artificial silence lay down to sleep.". So begins the title story of this first collection by Irish writer Niall Quinn. Voyovic is a Yugoslav, and his mate an Irish "Guestworker", presently in Germany. They are part of that migrant army of industrial workers who move across contemporary Europe, seemingly without identity or personality, living in the shadows of settled, affluent, urban communities. …

Condition: Sehr gut. Second edition. 16 x 24 cm. XI, 399 pages and 5 illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition. Includes for example the following chapters: Peace, Trouble in Donaghmore, The Orange Order, Irish Poor Law, Justice in Ireland, For Love of Ireland, "Young Ireland and Old", Irish Confederates, Trial of John Martin, Ulster on the Brink, Dolly's Brae, etc. …

Condition: Sehr gut. 31,3cm x 23.5cm. 24 pages. With illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Short Synopsis: Tom's uncle Morton is a tightwad. There's never any food in his gloomy old house - all he cares about are his big gilt-framed paintings. When Tom goes to visit and can't find anything to eat for breakfast, he discovers that he can pull apples and oranges out of the Cezanne and the Zurbaran. But then he can't ge them back right! Rembrandt has been watching from a self-portrait, and he offers to help. But Tom soon has his hands full when the artist, free for the first time in 300 years, wants to go for a walk around town. Red Grooms (illustrator).…

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 16cm x 24cm. 366 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition. Thomas Hoving is a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here, he explores the history of art forgery, from Ancient Rome up to the present day. He examines the motives of the forgers and considers the question, "if a fake fools everybody, why isn't it as good as the original article?".…

Condition: Sehr gut. 16cm x 24cm. XI, 334 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Condition: Sehr gut. 13.5 x 21.5cm. 250 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. In 1977, Kenneth Leech wrote the book Soul Friend, which quickly became one of the classic contemporary explorations of the Christian practice of spiritual direction. Leech's scholarly, yet accessible, exploration examines the climate in which spiritual direction takes place today-the influence of the drug culture of the 1960's, Eastern influences on prayer and spiritual practice, the Pentecostal movement, and others. He then provides background on the history of spiritual direction, both Protestant and Catholic, from the earliest Church through the twentieth century. An excellent course book, and a fascinating book for those contemplating direction, Soul Friend will continue to be a classic for years to come. [From jacket notes to 2001 re-issue]. …

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition 22.5cm x 15cm. 281 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Astrophel and Ulster: Sidney's Ireland / Politics, Literature and Colonization: A View of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century / Uncle Toby, Laurance Sterne, and the Siege of Limerick / Desserting the Village / J.M. Synge's Tir-Na-Nog / Yeats and Homer / Tradition and Transformation in Rilke and Yeats / Ireland in Wonderland: Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman as a Nonsense Novel / Songs of Battle: Some Contemporary Irish Poems and the Troubles, etc.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 14 x 21cm. 250 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. A collection of essays intended for the use of members of Catholic second-level school communities, including principals, teachers, parents, trustees and members of Boards of Management. The editor hopes that "it will stimulate and contribute to research on Catholic schools, especially studies of the philosophy, theology and administrative policies that underpin such institutions". The book's introduction gives an overview of Catholic education in Ireland and the essays in the book are grouped under the following themes; Ethos / Religious Education / Pastoral Care / Contemporary Challenges / Administration / The Future of Catholic Schools.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 14.5cm x 21cm. 295 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 27.6cm x 22cm. 55 pages. With 111 figures, 1 table, and additional pages with 20 plates. Also includes fold-out maps. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, such as bumped edges. Includes for example the following chapters: History of Discovery / Geology / The Boudican fire / The first basilica and forum / Discussion and dating evidence / The sites, etc. …

Condition: Sehr gut. 22.9cm x 15.3cm. 121 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following poems: Sea Level / Mister / Scratch / Sleepers / Frequency Modulation / A La Indigenes / Pedigree / Now You / Genealogy of a Recurve Kiss / Onyx Arcadia / Eight Piece / You Eaten Yet? / Fever of the Divine, etc.…

Condition: Sehr gut. 20.5 x 27cm. 231 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Pre-owner's name on front endpaper. A guide to tracing your family history through the public records. The book provides a key to exploring records relating to taxation, land and the law. It throws light on the challenging areas of emigration, immigration and migration and opens up new avenues of research to the pre-1900 records. It explains how the sources work in fifteen varied case studies and presents the first visual guide to the source material with over 165 photographs, diagrams and pedigrees. [From jacket notes] Contents include: Understanding the Sources: The Legal System / The Holding and Transfer of Land / Tax and Other Sources of Revenue / Strangers and Settlers The Sources at Work: The Turner and Plenderleath Families / The Gainsborough Family / The Walter Family / The Statham Family / The Fardon Family / The Wordsworth Family / The Garrick and Marx Families / The Dyer, Brenton and Walker Families / The Lyons, Evans, Massy and Atkinson Families.…