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Paperback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condición: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout Ilustrador. 1st American Edition. BRILLIANT: EPIC: VIVID: PROVOCATIVE: STIRRING: REVELATORY: FINE virtually AS-NEW hardcover: Stated First American Edition (November 2004) Printing Unstated (Possible book club extension): NEW unpriced mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, EXCELLENT maroon paper-over-boards cover edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on lightly-creased spine, VG slightly shelf-dust soiled text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & w/ cut-page style (deckle) side-edging, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED Only by small library-accession date stamping at top-right inside-front, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Janson on EXCELLENT unblemished opaque paper * Illustrated w/ two 16 pp. inserts of b-w photos on excellent gloss-laminated paper & b-w line-maps throughout * CONTENTS: Introduction (xi), Principal Commanders & Their Forces (xix), Text (1-514), Acknowledgments (515), Sources & References (519), Index (557) * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.62", 1.12 lbs., xxiii+586 (609) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Armageddon is the epic story of the last 8 months of WW II in Europe by Max Hastings, one of Britain s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as "worthy to stand with that of the best journalists & writers" ( NYT Book Review). In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten & expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border & in the Hürtgen Forest, together w/ the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern & Western Fronts, & paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants & interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, & of their human impact on American, British, German & Russian soldiers & civilians. Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause & campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians & Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans & British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, & the other giants of the struggle. The crucial final months of the 20th century's greatest global conflict come alive in this stirring & revelatory chronicle.* MAX HASTINGS was a foreign correspondent & the editor of Britain's Evening Standard & the Daily Telegraph. He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, & is the author of 18 books, including "Bomber Command" which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction, "The Korean War" and "Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944". He lives outside London. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap, label & securely package this fine book with our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States (or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional charge), or for prompt delivery to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL MAIL at below-cost rates quoted on requesst.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 34 choice b-w illustrations handsomely-presented in a 16 pp insert (between pp 240 & 241) on gloss-laminated paper Ilustrador. 1st Edition. FASCINATING: EXTRAORDINARY: ILLUMINATING: INDISPENSABLE: NEW First Edition hardcover (1999) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated unclipped mylar-protected unpriced jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW distinctive Oxford navy-blue buckram-over-boards cover w/ titles & OUP crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior BUT MARRED w/ slightest shelf-dust soiling (top edge) the only fault of this otherwise perfect copy, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn & perfect-glued binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.50 x 8.75" x 1.32", 0.78 kg, xvi+480 (496) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In the last 10 years new research has modified virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet & playwright. Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life. Readers will find a vivid picture of what Shakespeare's childhood might have been like in the small English town of Stratford, which had but a dozen streets in 1560. We meet his father, John Shakespeare, the glove-maker of Henley Street, who rose to the office of High Bailiff & Justice of the Peace before he was beset by financial difficulties. There is a fascinating portrait of London & of the life of an Elizabethan actor (a neophyte Shakespeare may have had to learn as many as 100 small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships--his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, & his own daughters--illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions & concerns. The author shows in fresh detail that Shakespeare was well acquainted w/ violent crime & murder in daily life. And he also examines the world of the playing companies--the power of patronage, theatrical conditions & personal rivalries--to reveal the relationship between the man & the writing. Park Honan's Shakespeare casts new light on a complex & FASCINATING life, ILLUMINATING Shakespeare's EXTRAORDINARY development into the greatest dramatist of his or any age. * HIGH PRAISE: "Park Honan's book is written in a lively, engaging, & accessible style. I think this will be regarded as the best available biography of Shakespeare." -Stanley Wells * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold & Robert Browning. He lives in the United Kingdom. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 Ilustrador. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: FASCINATING: INSIGHTFUL: COMPELLING: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (1986) w full no. line showing First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $24.95 price at top right inside front flyleaf, EXCELLENT slate-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly silver-stamped on front panel & spine, VERY GOOD smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ only slightest barely-perceptible rust-spotting on top edge, IMPECABLE pale-slate-green card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & blue-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presentation of extensive footnotes * ILLUSTRATIONS: Two 8 pp. illus. inserts of b-w photographs, etchings, line drawings, portraits &c. on gloss-laminated stock, respectively w/ 10 images between pp. 172 & 173 & w/ 10 images between pp. 332 & 333 * 6.36 x 9.50 x 1.54", 0.80 kg, xii+490 (502) pp. * Epilogue: 'Black-Coated Eros' (391), Bibliographic Essay (423), Illustrations & Sources (471), Acknowledgments (473), Index (479) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Education of the Senses', the first volume of Peter Gay's 'The Bourgeois Experience', was published in 1984 to enormous critical acclaim (& controversy). Two years later, in 'The Tender Passion', Gay continued his eloquent, psycho-analytically informed exploration of the Victorian era & its middle classes. Whereas 'Education of the Senses' focused on the sexual attitudes & practices of the 19th-century bourgeoisie, 'The Tender Passion' concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters & diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete w/ fascinating insights into the lives & works of individual Victorians (Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter & Sydney Webb, among them) & his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music & religion. Particularly compelling is the opening section in which Gay analyzes in depth the separate love stories of 2 young men, one English and one German, stories which, in Gay's view, "dramatize some of the careers in love open to the middle class in the decades of Victoria and beyond." A work of remarkable learning, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, 'The Tender Passion' is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, is the author of many acclaimed books. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & to all international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. ILLUSTRATED in b-w in six sections of c. sixteen plates ea. for a total of 96 plates on excellent gloss-laminated stock Ilustrador. 4th Edition. AS-NEW hardcover w/ AS-NEW mylar-protected jacket, EXCELLENT navy-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ AS-NEW edges & corners w/ titles & Oxford crest handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior printed handsomely in 2-column format on excellent paper * ILLUSTRATED in b-w in six sections of c. sixteen plates ea. for a total of 96 plates on excellent gloss-laminated stock * 6.25" x 9.36" x 2.16", 1.60 kg, x+934 (944) pp. * Since the appearance in 1967 of the 3rd edition of "The Oxford Companion to the Theater", world theater had undergone a series of changes more swift & far-reaching than at any other time in its history. Encompassing those developments, this edition offers a wealth of information about contemporary writers, directors, actors, companies & theaters, both metropolitan & regional. At the same time, it continues to provide an authoritative survey of the theater's evolution, from its beginnings in primitive ritual to present-day trends in all countries that have an ongoing theatrical tradition. * An extensive cross-referencing system has been incorporated into this edition to guide the reader to related information. A generous bibliography is also included. Technical entires emphasize the historical perspective, throwing new light on the remarkable feats of earlier practitioners of theatrical illusion; they are illustrated where necessary w/ diagrams. Over 200 other illustrations are placed in thematically arranged groups; functioning independently of the text, they show the changes in vision affecting theatrical production over more than 2,000 years. * Whether one's interests lie in Greek tragedy or in commedia dell'arte, in Moliere or in Tom Stoppard, this, the 4th edition of one of the most successful Oxford Companions, is an indispensable work of reference for all theater-lovers. * "Irresistible . . . Every possible aspect of the theater is examined . . . a mass of brilliantly presented information." - Sir John Gielgud, The Spectator (London) * "Immensely valuable w/ ts vast accumulation of facts about buildings, techniques of performance, scenery, lighting, & make-up, as well as about authors & actors of all periods & places." - Ivor Brown, The Observer (London).

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) TRANSMITTER LICENSE IDENTIFICATION CARD FOR KJZ AM 661 FOR WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, FCC FORM 452-C (MARCH 1960), Laminated ID card, yellowing, etc---5.00.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Richly illustrated throughout w/ a choice selection of 80 b-w photographs & reproductions, many of which are superbly reproduced on gloss-laminated paper Ilustrador. 1st Edition. UNFORGETTABLE: VIVID: SCINTILLATING: UNSURPASSABLE: BRILLIANT: ELOQUENT: SPELLBINDING: SPLENDID: MAGNIFICENT: CLASSIC: DEFINITIVE * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book AwardWinner of the 2015, Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, American Academy of Arts & Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2014, USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading, Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2014 * NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected color-illustrated dust-jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $39.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW cover w/ gray library-durable linen wrapping spine & extending 1.96" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in sea-green paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & green-yellow-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Richly illustrated throughout w/ a choice selection of 80 b-w photographs & reproductions, many of which are superbly reproduced on gloss-laminated paper * Preface (xiii), Acknowledgments (603), Chronology (605), Notes (617), Sources (725), Credits (731), Index (741) * 6.26" x 9.50" x 1.88", 1.29 kg, xvi+765 (781) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker * John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater & the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams' warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs & failures, his sexuality & numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams' life (his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin) "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" is as much a biography of the man who created "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Glass Menagerie" & "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams' plays & the tortured process of bringing them to stage & screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was 26, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez & Frank Merlo. With compassion & verve, Lahr explores how Williams' relationships informed his work & how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams' tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood & the director Elia Kazan play major roles, & Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, & Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time. HIGHEST PRAISE: "Unsurpassable . . . An eloquent, spellbinding narrative that emerges as an instant classic." -Ron Chernow * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: National Book Award finalist JOHN LAHR is the author of "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" among other books. He was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism & is the first critic ever to win a Tony Award (coauthor, "Elaine Stritch at Liberty").

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 34 choice b-w illustrations handsomely-presented in a 16 pp insert (between pp 240 & 241) on gloss-laminated paper Ilustrador. 1st Edition. FASCINATING: EXTRAORDINARY: ILLUMINATING: INDISPENSABLE: NEW First Edition hardcover (1999) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated unclipped mylar-protected unpriced jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW distinctive Oxford navy-blue buckram-over-boards cover w/ titles & OUP crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn & perfect-glued binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.50 x 8.75" x 1.32", 0.78 kg, xvi+480 (496) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In the last 10 years new research has modified virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet & playwright. Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life. Readers will find a vivid picture of what Shakespeare's childhood might have been like in the small English town of Stratford, which had but a dozen streets in 1560. We meet his father, John Shakespeare, the glove-maker of Henley Street, who rose to the office of High Bailiff & Justice of the Peace before he was beset by financial difficulties. There is a fascinating portrait of London & of the life of an Elizabethan actor (a neophyte Shakespeare may have had to learn as many as 100 small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships--his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, & his own daughters--illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions & concerns. The author shows in fresh detail that Shakespeare was well acquainted w/ violent crime & murder in daily life. And he also examines the world of the playing companies--the power of patronage, theatrical conditions & personal rivalries--to reveal the relationship between the man & the writing. Park Honan's Shakespeare casts new light on a complex & FASCINATING life, ILLUMINATING Shakespeare's EXTRAORDINARY development into the greatest dramatist of his or any age. * HIGH PRAISE: "Park Honan's book is written in a lively, engaging, & accessible style. I think this will be regarded as the best available biography of Shakespeare." -Stanley Wells * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold & Robert Browning. He lives in the United Kingdom. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 inserts (between pp 174 & 175, 334 & 335, 526 & 527) ea. of 14 pp presenting 100 full-color photographs SUPERBLY reproduced on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper Ilustrador. 1st Edition. INTIMATE: PASSIONATE: ASTUTE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) w/ full no. line showing First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black paper wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered in pearl-gray paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & dark-blue cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illustrated card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x1.86", 1.10 kg, xiv+638+42 (694) pp * ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 inserts (between pp 174 & 175, 334 & 335, 526 & 527) ea. of 14 pp presenting 100 full-color photographs SUPERBLY reproduced on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper * ABOUT THE BOOK: Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, & challenges she faced during her 4 years as America's 67th Secretary of State & how those experiences drive her view of the future. "All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices & how we handle them shape the people we become." In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the US Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the 4 extraordinary & historic years that followed, & the hard choices that she & her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton & President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down 2 wars, & address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran & North Korea, & revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled w/ some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, & gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the 21st century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, & health. Drawing on conversations w/ numerous leaders & experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the US to compete & thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights & the full participation in society of women, youth, & LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trend-lines from the headlines & describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton's descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security & prosperity in a rapidly changing world?one in which America remains the indispensable nation. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON is the first woman in US history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party. She served as the 67th Secretary of State after nearly four decades in public service advocating on behalf of children and families as an attorney, First Lady, and US Senator. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted below-cost rates.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Illustration insert of 16 gloss-laminated pp between pp 278 & 279 in addition to title page & other illustratons Ilustrador. 1st Edition. NEW: ENTHRALLING: COMPLEX: GRIPPING: PARADOXICAL: VITAL: PASSIONATE: PROVOCATIVE: First Edition (Orig.2012) First Printing: NEW strikingly-designed unclipped mylar-protected jacket, NEW black paper-over-boards cover w/ titles strikingly stamped on spine in "electric-blue", IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * Illustration insert of 16 gloss-laminated pp between pp 278 & 279 in addition to title page & other illustrations * 6.24" x 9.24" x 1.78", 0.94 kg, viii+596 (604) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: THE BIG SCREEN tells the ENTHRALLING story of the movies: their rise & spread, their remarkable influence over us, & the technology that made the screen--smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous--as important as the images it carries. "The Big Screen" is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies & their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, & abruptly, movies began transforming our societies & our perceptions of the world. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time & across many media--moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs, from 'Sunrise' to 'I Love Lucy', from John Wayne to George Clooney, from television commercials to streaming video--to tell the COMPLEX, GRIPPING, PARADOXICAL, story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life--the stories, the stars, the look--& how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality & its responsibilities, have made it possible for us to evade life altogether. The entranced audience has become a model for powerless & anxiety-ridden citizens trying to pursue happiness & dodge terror by sitting quietly in a dark room. Does the big screen take us out into the world, or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomson's question in this grand adventure of a book. Books about the movies are often aimed at film buffs, but this PASSIONATE & PROVOCATIVE feat of storytelling is VITAL to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screens--the age that, more than ever, we are living in. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "David Thompson has composed a grand aesthetic, spiritual, & moral account of cinema history assembled around the movies & artists that have meant the most to him. As Thompson reconstructs film history, movies bring us close to reality & deliver us into ecstatic dreams. A pungently written, brilliant book." -David Denby, author of 'Snark' & film critic of the New Yorker. "David Thompson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. If "Have You Seen . . . ?" was his most succinct & entertaining book, "The Big Screen" is a large & vivacious map of 'the screen', beginning w/ Muybridge & tracing careers from Korda to Renoir to Hawkes to Mizoguchi, to David Lynch & Tarantino before swerving over to television. Thompson has created a marvelous plot for the history of film, w/ insights & revelations on every page. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen." -Michael Ondaatje * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID THOMPSON, renowned as one of the great living authorities on the movies, is the author of "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film", now in its 5th edition. His books include a biography of Nicole Kidman & "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood". Thomson is also the author of the acclaimed "Have You Seen . . . ? : A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films". Born in London in 1941, he now lives in San Francisco. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee, w/ international shipping at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions Ilustrador. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1998) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. laminated cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW uncreased perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.06" x 9.24" x 1.56", 1.18 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Four eight-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images Ilustrador. Stated First Edition. MAGISTERIAL: BRILLIANT: REVEALING: LUCID; INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW virtually NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (March 1988): NEW strikingly handsome mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUPERB NEW carmine-red silk-finish linen-over boards cover w/ "Griffin & Sage" design gilt-stamped inside elegant double-rule gilt borders at top-center front panel w/ ELEGANTLY presented titles in fresh gilt-stamp on spine, IMMACULATE pale-lime card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW stiched perfect binding w/ tight signatures & w/ white-red-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Avanta / Walbaum on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUSTRATIONS: Four 8-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images * CONTENTS: Preface (xv), Abbreviations (653), Notes (655), Bibliographical Essay (741), Acknowledgments (781), Index (787) * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.26 kg, xxii+810 (832) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful & embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler & the fall of Austria. We watch him devising & revising his epoch-making theories. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling w/ his disciples. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled & sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna through Europe, across the ocean to the United States & throughout the world. Drawing on a vast store of revealing unpublished documents, including 100s of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers his passions & follows his astonishing career. He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. He discloses for the first time the dimensions of Freud's love for his daughter Anna, & his unorthodox analysis of her. He offers a thoughtful, detailed, fascinating account of Freud's relations w/ such problematic followers as Jung & Ferenczi. He deals frankly w/ the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, & his theoretical innovations, which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. Perhaps most important & rewarding of all, no previous biographer has so securely integrated into Freud's life his case histories, technical papers, speculative aesthetics, & excursions into prehistory & cultural criticism. The sections scattered across this book in which Peter Gay lucidly expounds & explains Freud's theories of dreams & sexuality, development & neurosis, love & hate amount to a comprehensive (& comprehensible) liberal education in psychoanalytic thought, which is far more discussed than it is understood. Fitting as they do into Freud's most intimate concerns & cultural loyalties, these ideas gain a vivid life of their own. The reader will long remember the Freud that Peter Gay reveals here: student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, friend, founder, controversialist, Jew, victim, & victor. This book, brilliantly argued & brilliantly written, evokes an age, & the life & ideas of a man who, in W H. Auden's phrase, is "no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A MAGISTERIAL contribution to the history of ideas. A FRESH & ILLUMINATING perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." - J. Anthony Lukas * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Brilliantly illustrated in two 16-pp. gloss-laminated inserts (after pp. 160 & 352) displaying more than 60 choice photos & b-w reproductions Ilustrador. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: Winner JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 1997: BRILLIANT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) w/ full no. line at "1" showing First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB NEW Oxford blue buckram cloth over boards cover w/ titles & Oxford crest ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE color-illus. card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUS * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.92", 0.84 kg, xxxii+640 (672) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry & modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions & the petty squabbles that consumed him, & his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded & contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first 50 years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic & often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet & public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal & contemporary documents w/ the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship w/ Maud Gonne & other women, & his roles in the great cultural & political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich & entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep & lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, & his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies & admirers w/ equal passion, & Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, & simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, & Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship w/ a shrewd wit & a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation w/ hashish & mescal, & the growing preoccupation w/ the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics w/ high culture & his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters w/ many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, & the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats & the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic & revolutionary, lover, confidant, & friend: This brilliant account of the public & private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original & influential voices of the 20th century. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

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