Life Of Cyrus The Great

LAMB, HAROLD. CYRUS THE GREAT. Garden City, NY Doubleday 1960

A luminously learned re-imagining of the life and times of the legendary Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, who lived in the sixth century B.C. The author brings to life an ancient world of myth and superstition, of history mixed with fantasy, of people moving partly on the hard earth and partly on dreams. 309 pp. 8 pp. of black-and-white photographs. PO's personal library seal on half-title. Water stain to top edge descends three inches on the middle third of the book, with moderate rippling of the tops of the pages. Faded and chipped unclipped DJ shows moderate shelfwear and is now protected with Brodart. Small (half-inch) closed tear to DJ front. Quarter-inch closed tear and one inch crease along bottom of DJ front. Hardcover VERY GOOD / GOOD PLUS; First Edition

[SW: Persia - history Medes Middle East - ancient history Babylon Sardis Armenia]

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Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy. TIME AND CHANCE. New York: John Day, [1947]
on spine (hardcover binding). Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by the author. Dust jacket rubbed with light chipping at tips of spine panel and at corners of flap folds, owner's name and address in small letters at top edge of flyleaf, else Very Good in Good+ to Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. "TIME AND CHANCE is three books in one. It is the life story of a mature American with a sense of history and a sense of humor. It is a lively travel book, with colorful accounts of journeys and adventures in Africa, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Middle East and Europe. And it is a picture album, overflowing with the work of a well-known illustrator, from portraits of the great to sketches of little people in the byways of remote lands. The combination is perhaps unique. Author and artist both, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge has also had other advantages - a liking for people of every sort, the knack for understanding them whatever their color or language, a quick instinct for justice, observant eyes, feet restless to be going somewhere, and a sympathetic companion in his wife. He began moving about in this country in early boyhood, due to circumstances which forced his vigorous mother to become an itinerant "drummer."...The story moves on through campus life at the University of Chicago, service in the cavalry on the Mexican border, sketching at the battle fronts of the first World War, first as a free lance and then for the "Stars and Stripes." There are reminiscences of that brilliant group of editors which included Alexander Woollcott and Harold Ross...". First edition. Tall 8vo (6 1/2" x 9 1/2"). 431, [1] pages. Black cloth-covered boards, metallic green and gold lettering

[SW: KEYWORDS: *Art *Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge *Autobiography *Artist *Illustrator,]

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Henry Garfield: Room 13, Simon Pulse 1901

Mass Market Paperback 0689841531 From Our Editors Marilou McCormick, every high school boy's dream English teacher, leaves San Diego to teach in the quaint mountain village of Julian, California, after watching the savage murder of her boyfriend. But Julian is far from a Leave It to Beaver community: McCormick discovers her classroom is haunted by the increasingly violent ghosts of dead authors, and her only ally turns out to be Moondog, the eccentric school-bus driver who claims to be a werewolf -- and who may be responsible for the death of McCormick's boyfriend. Garfield writes colloquial prose and plot like a young Stephen King. -Rick Koster From the Publisher English teacher Marilou McCormick has moved to tiny Julian, California, to recuperate - but a haunted classroom was not part of her plans. A small high school in the Southern California mountains looks like the perfect place for the young teacher to start over. But the new job brings some surprises: a classroom where an eccentric teacher died eight years ago, students who seem to be possessed by characters from classic literature, a decrepit heater with a mind of its own, a semi-literate janitor who develops a sudden interest in reading, and a bus driver who claims to be a werewolf. Marilou scoffs at the portents, but when subsequent events prove she is in danger, the bus driver, Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski, turns out to be her only ally. From The Critics KLIATT Marilou McCormick, a sexy young high school English teacher, finds herself a new job so she can leave her hometown in the wake of her boyfriend's bizarre and bloody murder. Moving to the San Diego County mountain hamlet of Julian, she is assigned to a classroom that has lots of potential for trouble: apparently bewitched posters depicting classic American authors draw blood when she tries to remove them, a heater rumbles to life when displeased with activities in the room, and assorted students and fellow staff exhibit creepy behaviors running the gamut from handling mice to death to rape. The newly hired school bus driver is more of a cipher to Marilou than he is to readers, who will quickly recognize him for what he is, an intelligent and careful werewolf who works hard to keep the community safe from both his full moon self and other local dangers. More slowly revealed is the cause of all the blood and destruction that is wreaked on and in Marilou's classroom. Garfield laces his plot with clever though sometimes insensitive stereotypes. The spells cast by the classroom's posters have students, teachers and even the morning janitor rendering imitations of the themes of such often-studied high school staples as The Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, The Call of the Wild, and The Great Gatsby. Like these literary works, the real town of Julian is portrayed with little sympathy. But Marilou and Cyrus Nygerski, the schoolbus driver who needs to hide away during full moons, offer valiant defenses against the evil powers of classroom 13 while becoming more appealing with each battle undertaken. The second in a trilogy featuring Cyrus, this stands alone nicely and is acceptable mind candyfor the insatiable horror reader as well as certain literary snobs. KLIATT Codes: S-Recommended for senior high school students. 1997, Simon & Schuster, Aladdin, 347p.,5.99. Ages 16 to 18. Reviewer: Francisca Goldsmith; Teen Svcs., Berkeley P.L., Berkeley, CA , September 2001 (Vol. 35 No. 5) Kirkus Reviews Forget Up the Down Staircase. Room 13 really is the classroom from hell. Marilou McCormick's already wrestling nightmarish memories when she arrives at Drew Bailey Memorial High School in Julian, California. After all, her last boyfriend was killed by a werewolf. But the room she's been assigned to teach in-with its dark, gloomy walls, its blinds that won't open, and its baleful portraits of American writers that look as if they belong in a post office-would give anyone the willies. Gradually, in carefully calibrated stages, the room switches from passive- aggressive to full attack mode. Marilou's attempts to tear down the portrait gallery leave ..Rare Books make rare gifts... Experience, Quality, Value..

[SW: Teen Fiction - School, Teen Fiction - Horror & Suspense]

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Donald Dinwiddle, Contributing authors: Heather Stoddard, Donald Dinwiddie, Ramon Prats, Peter Alan Roberts, Cyrus Stearns and Tenzin Dechen Rochard: Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages, Chicago, USA Serindia Publications 2003
ISBN: 1-932476-00-8 New

Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is rapidly becoming a part of our cultural landscape, an element of human civilisation with its own universal appeal. Nevertheless public awareness remains limited concerning the great teachers and visionaries who over fourteen centuries formulated and expounded the system of thought which in the 21st century seems the most contemporary of the world religions. And yet there is a rich written tradition dating back at least 800 years documenting their lives and teachings, and an even more ancient tradition of portraiture in sculpture and painting which strove to capture both the physical and spiritual presence of these lamas. Portraits of the Masters unfolds for the first time a pictorial history of a dynamic and living religious tradition. A catalogue of 108 portrait bronzes of great masters of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, it presents an innovative history of these teaching lineages based on and illustrated by the collection. Ranging in date from the 12th to 18th century, the sculptures in Portraits of the Masters span the most productive period in the history of Tibetan Buddhist art, providing unparalleled illustration of Tibetan portraiture's long and varied history. Prefaced with a groundbreaking and comprehensive history of Tibetan portraiture, the collection is presented in five sections devoted to the Arhats, drawn from the Buddha's original Indian disciples, and to the native Tibetan schools of the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and the Kadam and Geluk. Each section opens with a history of the tradition, written by leading scholars of Tibetan Buddhism. These histories not only illumine the lives of the great masters, but also eloquently articulate the basic precepts of their teachings. The sculptures are then examined within this context - the history and images breathing life into each other. Printed Pages: 396 with 300 color illustrations. First Edition New Hardbound 10.75" x 12.5"

[SW: Indian Buddhist Art Buddha Buddhism Bronze Sculptures TibetanIndia]

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