Cornell university press e 279 (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1974. 281 pgs. Signed by Eleanor Leach on the FFEP with a laid in letter and envelope from the author present. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Foxing present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This interpretive reading treats the Eclogues in the light of some of the problems raised by contemporary pastoral criticism. Professor Leach believes that the pastoral poet's attitudes toward man's role in the physical world and in history are revealed by the ways in which he organizes images of nature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1952. Xvi, 771 pgs. 1 large map present. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the spine, repaired closed tear present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the reverse of the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Until the 1930's the highlands of the south-west corner of Saudi Arabia were among the world's few remaining lands not fully explored or charted. Into this region H. St. J. B. Philby, author and explorer, made two journeys, the first in 1932 and the other in 1936 and 1937. Arabian Highlands is his travel record of what he saw and what his everyday experiences were. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 771 pages.…