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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Fine, fresh copy. Paperback. Avnur, Ori (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. first edition. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 194 pp.Yoshioka Tstomu is a student, not much interested in his studies, short on cash and long on sexual desire. Eventually he will settle down in a career and marry the boss's niece. Yet he won't be able to entirely set aside the memory of Mitsu, a plain, naive country girl he once took callous advantage of. The episode meant nothing to him at the time; to her, it meant the world. Shusaku Endo presents a profound novel about the choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition stated, first edition in English translation from the original Icelandic. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Color illustrated hardcovers. 402 pp. Growing up on a farm in early 20th century rural Iceland, Karitas Olafsdottir yearns for a new life. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life, forced to act as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman's wife, and struggles to be what she is meant to be. Spanning decades against a breathtaking historical canvas, this book is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist's conflict with love, family, nature and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. First edition. Fine, fresh, like-new copy. Softcover. 81 pp with index. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan, an esteemed elder to a long line of China's greatest poets. Meng's poetic descendants revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition. Fine, fresh, like-new copy in equally fine, bright dust jacket. Hardcover. 455 pp with bibliography, index, and black and white photographs. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a remarkably prolific correspondent--over 3,000 letters from his hand have been published in either the original languages or in translation. This volume includes his diaries from 1865-66 and 1905-07, autobiographical sketches, articles on other composers who he admired, and essays on a variety of topics that engaged his interest during his career, all which are presented in English translation.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition. A fine, fresh copy, small inscription on front free endpaper, "29 November 1999/ .and again". . In fine. Hardcover. 464 pp with bibliography and index. In a collection of essays, Umberto Eco explores how much of our perception depends on our cognitive ability vs linguistic resources, with an in depth exploration of the relationship between language and experience.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Later printing. Later printing. Translated to English from original text. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 227 pp with index. This work provides a general surveyof the study of New Testament documents and provides basic tools and skills involved in studying those documents.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 353 pp with bibliography and index. The legends collected here, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages---as related cults, multiple retellings, and contemporary translations attest. Their protagonists span the entire spectrum of Byzantine socierty, including foreigners, soldiers, beggars, ascetics, lustful women, and the sons and daughters of rulers. They travel to exotic lands, perform outlandish miracles, suffer extraordinary violence, destroy rulers, and discover the divine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 745 pp with bibliography, index. Mount Athos, often simply called the Holy Mountain, was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual center of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymos the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five lived on Mount Athos at various periods from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First edition. First edition. Hardcover in bright orange cloth lettered and decorated in yellow. 68 pp with index. Fine in well preserved dust wrapper, small publisher's price stick og "4'_net" lower corner of the front panel and again on the lower spine. The translations of Chinese poetry in this volume are selected from the Complete Works, which number two thousand poems, of Lu Yu, a Patriot Poet of the Sung Dynasty, and comprise lyrics on nature, travel and warrior themes.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition thus. First edition in English translation from the French. Fine, fresh copy with slight wear to extremities in fine dust jacket with slight wear to extremities. Hardcover. 475 pp. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home in Paris. On the front, a photo of the Opera Garnier. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraim and Emma, and their children, Noemie and Jacques--all killed in Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne is moved to discover who sent it and why. An enthralling investigation into family secrets, 'The Postcard' is a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, a family devastated by the Holocaust, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First American printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket with black slash mark on bottom. Hardcover. 199 pp. All the salient qualities that distinguish the superb work of Japanese writer Shusaku Endo are on full display in this new collection of eleven stories written over the course of almost thirty years. The themes include the martyrdom of Roman Catholics in Japan; coming to terms with old age; pangs of nostalgia; spiritual doubt and sexual yearning; and elements of autobiography from Endo's lonely childhood.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 717 pp with bibliography and index. Latin psalms figured prominently in the lives of the Anglo- Saxons, whether sung as part of the Divine Office, studied as a textbook for language learning by students, or recited in private devotions. They were also translated into Old English, first in prose and later in verse (there forms weer eventually brough together in the Paris Psalter of the 11th century). This book offers, side-by-side, the complete text of all 150 prose and verse psalms both in the Old English and in translation into modern English.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 318 pp with bibliography and index. Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, teh Menologion is a collection of saints' lives intended to be read at services for christian feast days. Yet Symeon Metaphrases' stories also abound in transgression and violence, punishment and redemption, love and miracles. …

Softbound. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Data Paper No. 100. Oun Sananikone was one of the earliest important leaders of the Lao Issara (nationalist movement), in their struggles to extract the country from the yoke of French colonial rule at the end of WWII and the Japanese occupation. While it was unsuccessful in its attempt at the time, Laos eventually limited independence from France in 1949. A unique, if highly idiomatic, account of a turbulent period in the country's modern history. xiv, 60 pp., bibliography, 2 maps. Size: 28 x 22 cm.…

Softbound. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Data Paper No. 110. The present volume is a biographical (or possibly autobiographical) account of Prince Phetsarath (1890-1959), the father of Lao nationalism and a key figure in the efforts to free the country from the colonial embrace of France. While many accounts of the post-WWII period of Lao history have been written by foreign scholars and observers, this volume is a rare description of the country's struggles recorded by an insider. xxii, 111 pp. Size: 28 x 22 cm.…