new oxford library (223 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Thus. Color illus. wraps. 208 pp., with more than 350 illus., including 150+ in color. Light shelf/edge wear. Exceptional illustrative content. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine d/j. 3rd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-19-507676-1. Light dime-sized spot on side page edges. 203 pages.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 133pp, bookplate to fep, light soiling to top pg edges, slight edgewear to dj.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. 1999, 124pp, slight shelfwear to cover, slight rubbing & edgeweawr to dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. DJ by Kathleen M. Lynch Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 33229 shelf. Silver-stamped black cloth spine w/ black bds. Very faint green stains to lower fore-edge. No names, clean text. Index, bibliography. Looks unread 108 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. DJ by Kathleen M. Lynch Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 36014 shelf. Silver-stamped black cloth spine w/ black bds. No names, clean text. Small black stain verso dust jacket. Activity gram counter at back. 114 p. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. With 126 pages of beautifully printed plates, approximately half of which are in color Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Fine oversize paperback (generous oblong format) w/ slightest bumping of corners & slightly dust-soiled text-block exterior, pristine interior handsomely printed on superb paper * 11.0" x 8.5", 1.03 kg, 275 pp.

/Daniel Minter, illustrator. Ilustrador. CONDITION: Fine in Fine jacket; no flaws; unclipped 17.95. Juvenile hardback. Bubber goes on a coon hunt with his uncle, falls from a tree, and is carried up to heaven by two large angels in nightgowns to join the angel band. Probably Bontemps' first try at an independent book for children. Elegant illustrations. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Daniel Minter, illustrator.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Reissued Edition. Name inked on front flyleaf, otherwise tight, square and unmarked. Page margins toned. Glossy pictorial boards. 248pp. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First. pp.97 with index, b/w illustrations clean tight copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. First Edition - first printing. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Editors: David Goldstein, Louis Jacobs, Vivian D. Lipman. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket in protective cover. Slight nicks/tears along dust jacket edges. 286 pages with index.

Softcover, 266 pages; very good condition except residue from partially removed sticker taped around bottom of spine; light wear to covers; owner's stamp to first page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra for this book.

Hardcover. Condición: F1ne. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Second Printing. 255 pages, index, 8vo, wine cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 1980.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. xxxviii, 186p., glossary, bibl., boards, dj. A conmpilation of essays, published in Chilean magazines and newspapers, exploring faects of Chilean society and culture; by 19th century writer, journalist and politician José Joaquín Vallejo Borkoski "Jotabeche", (1811-1858). Includes notes.

, Woodward, C. Vann, 1908-1999. The Old World's New World. New York Public Library / Oxford University Press, 1991, xxvii, 139pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth. Dust-jacket design by John William Costa. CONTENTS: How it all started -- The silver screen in the West -- The pursuit of happiness -- America as metaphor -- Russo-American counterpoint -- Tantalus Americanus. 9780195064513 ISBN 0195064518.

Rústica. Condición: Bueno. 43 Pág .

Paper Wrappers. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. XIII,223,(1) pages. Many illustrations and 16 full color plates, a checklist of the exhibition from which this catalogue is drawn, a bibliography, a glossary, a list of contributors, and an index of illustrations. Foreword by Vartan Gregorian, an introduction by Gold, then chapters that include "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Light on the Text and the Canon of the Bible," Frank Moore Cross; "How Hebrew Manuscripts are Made," Malachi Beit-Arie; "The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts," Evelyn M. Cohen; "The Hebrew Manuscript as a Source for the Study of History and Literature," Menahem Schmelzer; "The Hebrew Book in a Christian World," David B. Ruderman; "Publishing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature," Michael W. Grunberger; "Text and Texture: Early Adventures in the Fourth Dimension," Chaim Potok.

Softcover. Covers faintly scuffed; minor bump at bottom edge of front cover; otherwise very good condition. . 218p. Illus. Quarto.

First edition Fine and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Handsome all around.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. First edition. 154p., glossary, bibl., wrps. Novela, dividida en dos partes en la primera, la acción se concentra en una pareja que vive el drama de la incomunicación. El relato se centra en torno a la protagonista, única mujer en toda la obra. En la segunda parte, la viuda Ágata se siente renacer. Textos en Español e Inglés.

Wills, Garry, 1934-. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth. New York, Oxford: New York Public Library / Oxford University Press, 1995, 1st printing, ix, 223pp., very good dust-jacket, price-clipped at bottom front corner of flap, very good hardcover. Dust-jacket design by David Tran. With 1st printing number line on copyright page 135798642. 9780195088793 ISBN 0195088794.

Rústica. Condición: Como nuevo. 104 Pág.

Quarter-Bound Leather. Condición: Fine. Rowlandson, Thomas Ilustrador. Quarter-bound blue leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; faux marbled endpapers; ribbon page marker. Clean, bright, and unmarked.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. 1st. xiii, 223 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Studies in Jewish History. Published in conjunction with an international exhibition, held at the New York Public Library, October 15, 1988 to January 14, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. *** "Appearing on the occasion of The New York Public Library's exhibition of the Hebrew book from antiquity to modern times, this beautifully illustrated volume will serve both as a preparation for viewing the exhibition (October 15, 1988 to January 14, 1989) and as a guide to further inquiry into the subject. Depicting the history and development of the making and distributing of Hebrew books from the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern times, this collection of essays and 100 illustrations (30 of them in color) examines, in a historical and cultural context, such topics as the decoration of Hebrew manuscripts, the origins of Hebrew printing, the Hebrew book in Christian Europe, translation into and out of Hebrew throughout the ages, and modern publishing. The contributors, all experts in their fields, share their knowledge in a manner that orients the novice, as well as informs the specialist. Many of the contributors offer new information, and some make material available for the first time in English. The volume includes such highlights as Frank Moore Cross' examination of the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the study of the Hebrew Bible; Mordecai Glatzer's investigation of hitherto unexplored aspects of the first Hebrew printed books; Michael Grunberger's description of the complementary roles that publishers and authors played in nurturing the renascent Hebrew literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; David Ruderman's exploration of Christian ambivalence towards the Jews and their literature; and Chaim Potok's reflections on how certain Hebrew books have greatly influenced his own writing. Taken together, the essays in A Sign and a Witness treat the Hebrew book both as form and content. The volume reflects two themes in tension: the fundamental importance of the Hebrew book in itself, and the Hebrew book's role as a vehicle in the international traffic of ideas and meeting of cultures. / Leonard Singer Gold is Dorot Chief Librarian of the Jewish Division and Bibliographer in Jewish Studies at The New York Public Library." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The Dead Sea scrolls: light on the text and canon of the Bible, by Frank Moore Cross; How Hebrew manuscripts are made, by Malachi Beit-Arie ; The decoration of medieval Hebrew manuscripts, by Evelyn M. Cohen; The Hebrew manuscript as source for the study of history and literature, by Menahem Schmelzer; Forming the great collections, by Joseph Gutmann; Early Hebrew printing, by Mordechai Glatzer; The development of Hebrew printing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by Moshe N. Rosenfeld; The Hebrew book in a Christian world, by David B. Ruderman; Publishing and the rise of modern Hebrew literature, by Michael W. Grunberger; The art of the Hebrew book in the twentieth century, by Leila Avrin; Between Western culture and Jewish tradition: translations to and from Hebrew, by Robert Singerman; Text and texture: early adventures in the fourth dimension, by Chaim Potok. Size: 4to.

light green & brown 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond., not worn or torn. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. ix+223p. b&w illustration. 2 appendices. key to brief citations. notes. line index to the play. index of names. religion. theology. english history. english reformation. english civil war. sorcery. witchcraft. scottish history. english literature. renaissance england. english theatre. dramaturgy. thaumaturgy. ~In Witches and Jesuits, Wills focuses on a single document to open up a window on an entire society. He begins with a simple question: If Macbeth is such a great tragedy, why do performances of it so often fail? The stage history of Macbeth has created a legendary curse on the drama. Superstitious actors try to evade the curse by referring to Macbeth only as "the Scottish play," but production after production continues to soar in its opening scenes, only to sputter towards anticlimax in the later acts. By critical consensus there seems to have been only one entirely successful modern performance of the play, Laurence Olivier's in 1955. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the vivid intrigue and drama of Jacobean England, Wills restores Macbeth's suspenseful tension by returning it to the Context of its own time, recreating the burning theological and political crises of Shakespeare's era. He reveals how deeply Macbeth's original 1606 audiences would have been affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when a small cell of plotters came within a hairbreadth of successfully blowing up not only the King, but the Prince his heir, and all members of the court and Parliament. Wills likens their shock to that endured by Americans following Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy assassination. Furthermore, Wills' documents, the Jesuits were widely believed to be behind the Plot, acting in conjunction with the Devil, and so pervasive was the fear of witches that just two years before Macbeth's first performance, King James I added to the witchcraft laws a decree of death for those who procured "the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person~to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment." We see that the treason and necromancy in Macbeth were more than the imaginings of a gifted playwright~they were dramatizations of very real and potent threats to the realm. In this new light, Macbeth is transformed. Wills presents a drama that is more than a well scripted story of a murderer getting his just penalty. It is the struggle for the soul of a nation. The death of a King becomes a truly apocalyptic event, and Malcolm, the slain King's son, attains the status of a man defying cosmic evil. The guilt of Lady Macbeth takes on the Faustian aspect of one who has singed her hands in hell. The witches on the heath, shrugged off as mere symbols of Macbeth's inner guilt and ambition by some interpreters, emerge as independent agents of the occult with their own (or their Master's) terrifying agenda. Restoring the theological politics and supernatural elements that modern directors have shied away from, Wills points the way towards a Macbeth that will finally escape the theatrical curse on "the Scottish play." Rich in insight and a joy to read, Witches and Jesuits is a tour de force of scholarship and imagination by one of our foremost writers, essential reading for anyone who loves the language.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 385 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm. Subjects: Montefiore, Moses Sir 1784-1885. Jewish Historical Society. Jews Great Britain ; Biography. Jews Persecutions Syria Damascus. Philanthropists Great Britain ; Biography. Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages Palestine. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.

20x13. Tapa blanda. 120 pgs. Ilustraciones de George Cruikshank. Texto en inglés. 672277.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Hardback: laminated colour pictorial boards (VICTOR AMBRUS), bottom of spine slightly bumped, presentation plate on flyleaf, else vg. 8vo, 180pp. Set in the early 19th century.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Charles Keeping Ilustrador. No Date (inscr 1952). Hardback: illustrated by CHARLES KEEPING, glazed pictorial covers, foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 216pp. A story of intrigue and struggle in Roman Britain. A sequel to 'Eagle of the Ninth'.