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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Muy bien. Primera edición. Patrick Chase; Sol Weinstein "On the secret service of his majesty the queen"; Ray Russell; Rex Stewart; Max Lerner; Peter Andrews; William Saoyan; Robert L. Green; J. Paul Getty; Leroy Neiman; Thomas Mario; Harvey Kirtzman and Will Elder. MUY BUEN ejemplar. 170pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xi, 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903, 9780691233963, 0691200904, 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past? -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'E?gypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Acade?mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Pre?cis -- "Hold your laughter, friends!" ; "In 1799, a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphic, and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact, which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment, which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking, a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta, Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact, the decipherment engaged with the era's social, cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language, historical evidence, the status of the Bible, the nature of polytheism, and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Franc?ois Champollion in France and his British rival, the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young, approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments, educational experiences, and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker, Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him, the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France, in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young, Champollion admired ancient Egypt, and this sympathy, coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs, freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France, from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings, this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Stewart, Hap; Regan, Ken; Tames, George; Huehnergarth, John; Wegener, Alfred; Michals, Duane; Morgan, F. Allan; Polumbaum, Ted; Dantzic, Jerry; Kantor, Tim; Flora, James; Schanberg, Sydney Ladner, Stephen (illustrator). First Edition. 148 pages. Features: Cover photo of barred Harlem bookstore window; Gorgeous color fashion ads; Royal Copenhagen Porcelain offered by Swank; Qiana Ties; Blackglama Mink; Piaget watches; Two-page Lan-Chile ad (Chilean airline) features three beautiful women and heading "The Savages of South America"; Zodiac SST watch; Movado watches; Five spots for New York's Midnight Chic - Maxwell's Plum (with photo of owner Warner LeRoy), Elaine's (with photo of owner Elaine Kaufman), Raffles (with photo of operator Derek Hall-Caine), Le Club (with photo of Oleg Cassini) and Hippopotamus (with photo of Manager Olivier Coquelin; The Unholy Alliance Against the Campus; Indian Revolutionaries with a Chinese Accent - photo-illustrated article on the Naxalites; Your Policy is Hereby Canceled - the difficulty of obtaining insurance in ghetto and suburb alike; Leroy Johnson Outslicks Mister Charlie - article including photo of Muhammad Ali; Swakara lamb coats; The Omega Dynamic watch; Nice ad for genuine United States Silver Dollar 17-Jewel Watches; Two-page color Cunard Line features the QE II; Johnny Carson Apparel ad features johny in blue and gold; Patek Philippe watch ad; Fantastic 'Boutiqueland' fashion photos; The Troubled Child; Photos in the homes of Kiki Kogelnik and architect David Beer, Henry Geldzahler and Eliot Janeway; Nice one-page color-photo ad for teh National Bank of North America shows brighly-dressed ladies at the door of a walk-in safe; Dewar's Whisky ad features photo of artist Leroy Neiman; Photo of John and Abby Seymour in Save the Children Federation Ad; Sunnyland Farms Pecans ad with photo of Jane and Harry; Nice back cover ad for No-Cal Root Beer says "We Ain't Got No Sugar". Average wear. Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. A sound vintage copy.