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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Very good in somewhat worn, tanned wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Hardback with dustjacket. Used Very Good MINUS as the dustjacket is a little worn around the edges and age-discoloured at the back. Phenomenological Psychology The Selected Papers Of Erwin W Straus Translated in Part, By Erling Eng. Tavistock Publications 1966.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Folding Frontispiece In First Part, Frontispiece In Second Part; No Maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. 228, 192 Pp. Full Calf, Spine Gilt, Marbled Endpapers, Folding Frontispiece Of Easter Island Statues. 13.6 X 8.6 X 2.6 Cm. First Edition Thus. Very Worn, Frayed And Chipped At Corners, Front Joint Broken But Board Held Tenuously By Original Binder's Cords. Per Wikipedia, In 1785 Richard Cadman Etches And Partners, Including Nathaniel Portlock And George Dixon, Formed A Partnership, Commonly Called The King George's Sound Company, To Develop The Fur Trade. Dixon Had Also Served On Resolution In The Pacific Ocean Under Cook. In September 1785 Portlock And Dixon Sailed From England. Portlock Was In Command Of The Larger Vessel, The 320-Ton (Bm) King George, With A Crew Of 59. Dixon's Was In Command Of The 200-Ton (Bm) Queen Charlotte, With A Crew Of 33. Dixon And Portlock Sailed Together For Most Of Their Three-Year Voyage. They Crossed The Atlantic Ocean, Reaching The Falkland Islands In January 1786, And Transited Cape Horn To Enter The Pacific Ocean. They Reached The Hawaiian Islands On 24 May And Anchored In Kealakekua Bay (Where Cook Had Been Killed In 1779), But Did Not Go Ashore. They Took On Fresh Food At Other Hawaiian Islands And Proceeded On To What Is Now Alaska. After Two Years Of Plying The Waters, Portlock And Dixon Departed North America, Reaching Macao In November 1788. On Their Return Portlock And Dixon Published An Account Of The Voyage, Based In Part On Letters Written By William Beresford, The Trader On The Expedition. Portlock Harbor, A Bay On The West Coast Of Alaska's Chichagof Island, Was Named By Portlock In 1789, Following A Visit There In August 1787. Portlock, A Cannery Settlement Active In The Early And Middle 20Th Century, And Portlock Glacier, Both On Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Were Named In His Honor.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1934: Sjálfstætt fà lk â" Part I, Landnámsmaður Ãslands (Icelandic Pioneers), Independent People 1935: Sjálfstætt fà lk (illustrator). 1st Edition. Halldor Laxness became a Nobel Prize Laureate in 1955. Assumed First American Edition with the same 1946 date on the title pages as the copyright page. Clean unmarked straight demi-deckled edges. 470 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt emblems front & spine. No dustjacket. The original two Icelandic books were published ten years before in Iceland: 1934: " Part I, (Icelandic Pioneers), Independent People 1935: (Hard Times), Independent People Translated from the Icelandic by J.A.Thompson. The most important theme of the novel is independence; what it means and what it is worth giving up in order to achieve. Bjartur, is a stubborn man, often callous to the point of cruelty in his refusal to swerve from his ideals. Though undoubtedly a principled man, his attitude leads to the death and alienation of those around him. There are strong economic themes, a discussion of the co-operative movement in Iceland and the exploitation of crofters like Bjartur by Danish merchants and rich Icelanders like JÃn the Bailiff. Independent People also reveals Laxness's anti-war leanings in a chapter that depicts Icelandic farmers sitting around talking about the economic benefits of the Great War. The ancient Icelandic sagas and Icelandic folklore are still alive in the stories and fables that the characters live with on a daily basis. The imaginations of the characters are inhabited by elves, ghosts and demons. Bjartur is also a talented poet, a living embodiment of the great oral tradition of the sagas. "The author's ironical appraisal is already expressed in the title of the novel, and also in the titles of some of the chapters e.g.: "Free of Debt", "Years of Prosperity".".

Zustand: Good. No dustjacket. Tanning/fading/foxing to cover & bumps to edges. Bookshop sticker inside front cover. Foxing to textblock edges/endpapers. Tanning to pages, darker at edges/endpapers. Creases to page corners. Text good.