Beards de reginald reynolds (24 resultados)

Condición: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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

paperback. Condición: Good. Publication Date: 1976. Cover/edges have minor shelf wear/ discoloration. Marking on bottom of book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1st edition stated. In fabulous condition. Aside from a hint of edgeweaer, appears unread. No dj.Reginald Reynolds (1905-1958) was a British Quaker, left-wing writer, and anti-colonial activist whose range as an author was, by any measure, extraordinary. He served as an intermediary between Gandhi and the British government during the independence movement, co-edited British Pamphleteers with George Orwell, wrote a memoir, a quest for Gandhi, a book about African travel, and — in what constitutes a small parallel body of work in comic cultural history — produced Beards, its companion volume Beards: An Omnium Gatherum, and Beds: With Many Noteworthy Instances of Lying On, Under, or About Them. He was, by all accounts, a familiar figure in the British Library, pursuing the most delightfully bizarre references with formidable seriousness. Beards was first published in 1949 and reissued in paperback by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1976 as a Harvest Book. It runs to 301 pages. The book began, as Reynolds freely explains in the opening pages, from a puzzling declaration in some old text asserting a necessary correlation between hippophagy — the eating of horse flesh — pogonotrophy, the growing of beards, and possibly paganism. Rather than dismissing this as antiquarian nonsense, Reynolds spent what appears to have been a considerable portion of his scholarly life chasing it down, and the book that resulted is the monument to that chase. The tone throughout is deadpan mock-scholarship of the highest order — a mode Reynolds had already deployed with considerable success in his earlier Cleanliness and Godliness — but the learning behind the comedy is entirely genuine. The range of sources Reynolds consults and cites is formidable: patristic literature, papal decrees, canon law, medieval chronicles, Byzantine theological controversy, military history, anthropological records, and the full apparatus of pogonological scholarship, such as it is. The religious dimensions of the subject receive the most sustained treatment. The beard controversies of the early Christian church, the disputes between Eastern and Western clergy over shaving and the tonsure, the position of the Council of Carthage, the writings of Clement of Alexandria and numerous later authorities, and the role of beards in distinguishing Orthodox from Roman Catholic clergy are all examined with the care of a genuine ecclesiastical historian — which, for the purposes of this book, Reynolds temporarily becomes. The Saracen question — the use of beards as a marker in the Crusading context — leads to one of the book's more alarming chapters, which a contemporary reviewer noted involved culinary instructions for a banquet at which shaved Saracen heads reportedly formed the centrepiece. Henry VIII and Charlemagne make appearances, as does Julian the Apostate's own complaint about his beard, the Misopogon. False beards in ancient Egypt, bearded women, side-whiskers as a distinct subcategory, and the role of the razor as a political instrument across multiple centuries all receive chapter-length attention. The New York Times reviewer of the first edition captured the book's method and manner with economy: Reynolds, the review noted, roars genially down the corridors of time shouting Beaver! Without splitting a hair, he writes of a tangled subject lucidly. He takes history on the chin. It remains one of the most entertaining works of British comic scholarship of the postwar period, and one that is, as Goodreads readers have repeatedly noted with some bewilderment, monstrously underserved by history.…

Trade Paperbac. Condición: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDCosmetics, Hair & Beauty; Good trade paperback; tanned inside front cover and half title page; sun damage to spine; spine head slight tear where meets front cover; few slight nicks to cover edges; tips/edges bumped; slight signs of use and wear; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Backstrip sun-faded, with faint dampstains; pages faintly toned; previous owner's name on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 301p.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In gray cloth. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. 301 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light fading on spine and on cover edges. Minor crack on front inner hinge. Few very minor smudges on the exterior edges of textblock and on front and rear endpapers. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. 1st Edition (Unstated); No Printing Stated.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Essays about beards and shaving throughout man's history ".of beards political and beards religious and legislation for the beard litigious, of Bluebeard and of Barbarossa.and sacred beards that dignify an oath." Russet cloth covers, gilt lettering, 301 pages including appendices. ; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 ".…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First British edition. Near fine with bumping to the spinal extremities and a small tidemark on the spine. Lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light foxing. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. *1st Printing of 1st Edition with unclipped dustjacket in new Brodart cover* Gifty. Red faux linen over hardback boards with gold details; 300 pp; 10 Appendices. Clean, square, bright, solid, and unclipped with uniform color. Previous owner name to flyleaf. Dustcover has some chipping at the edges -- still 99% present.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st edition. (1950) 1st edition. A Very Good + copy in Good dust jacket. 8vo., 301 pp. Red cloth in brown, pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket is edge worn, with a loss at the spine's crown and tail. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.…

Paperback. Condición: VG+. First, thus. Trade paperback with light wear/discoloration, no spine crease, clean and unmarked pages. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Good tight copy, age spotting to preliminary pages and page ends, portions of boards & spine partially faded.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Doubleday, New York, 1948. NEAR FINE hardcover book in VERY GOOD- mylar-protected dust-jacket. Spine of DJ toned. Rear panel of DJ is rubbed and scraped. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. ($3.00). Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. First Edition, First Printing. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. *1st Printing of 1st Edition with unclipped dustjacket in new Brodart cover* Gifty. Red faux linen over hardback boards with gold details; 300 pp; 10 Appendices. Fine in Fine: clean, square, bright, solid, and unclipped with uniform color.…

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

George Allen & Unwin, London 1950. 301 pages. Original boards in dust wrapper. Spine ends slightly compressed. Wrapper with light wear and browning. Verso repaired with sello tape. Very good+/very good--.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. grey cloth with maroon lettering top edge publisher's stain in near fine condition dj is unclipped some light edge wear and edge tear bottom fore edge protected in mylar protector.

unknown_binding. Condición: Good. 1950 First edition on orange cloth.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A book that disappeared and was resurrected in the pages of the great little literary magazine, Slightly Foxed. If you found your interest in this book aroused by that article HERE IS THE BOOK. A neat first edition hardback from 1950, in a very decent unclipped jacket, which is now protected. Utterly beguiling! And quite rare as a decent collectable first edition hardback. As the great Burl Ives said, 'Every man should try one. They grow on you.'.…