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Stated First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 577 pages; Description: 577 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Fiction/Horror 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 331 pp., illustrations, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. Contents; Introduction: Changing Meanings -- 1. The Sacred Breast: Goddesses, Priestesses, Biblical Women, Saints, and Madonnas -- 2. The Erotic Breast: "Orbs of Heavenly Frame" -- 3. The Domestic Breast: A Dutch Interlude -- 4. The Political Breast: Bosoms for the Nation -- 5. The Psychological Breast: Minding the Body -- 6. The Commercialized Breast: From Corsets to Cyber-Sex -- 7. The Medical Breast: Life-Giver and Life-Destroyer -- 8. The Liberated Breast: Politics, Poetry, and Pictures -- 9. The Breast in Crisis. Subjects; Breast Social aspects. Breast in art and literature. Human body. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Moving, Household --Trees --Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 331 pages; Description: 331 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) --Baltimore (Md. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, slight wear along top edge, cover price $26.00, fresh attractive copy, near fine hardcover with brown spine and off-white boards. TORGOVNICK, MARIANNA. Primitive passions: men, women, and the quest for ecstasy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1997, stated First Edition, viii, 270pp., . In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American Southwest, the primitive has become synonymous in the Western imagination with a range of emotions and experiences thought to be lost in modern life: reverence for the land and for nature; strong communal bonds; sexual plentitude; and, perhaps most intriguing, and ecstatic sense of connection to the universe and the life force. Torgovnick investigates the numerous ways we have turned toward the primitive out of spiritual hunger for such deeply human experiences - a hunger that could once be satisfied within the West's own mystical traditions but that often no longer can be. Brilliantly encompassing religion, art, psychology, literature, and other aspects of our culture, Primitive Passions offers new insight into our ideas of spirituality and gender, and, ultimately, into the hidden but vital parts of ourselves. - CONTENTS: "What an ectasy it would have been" : Gide and Jung in Africa -- "Something stood still in my soul" : D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico -- Loving Africa : memoirs by European women -- Dian Fossey among the animals -- "The bones and the blue " : Georgia O'Keeffe and the female primitive -- New American Indian/new American white -- Of drums and men -- Medicine wheels and spirituality : primitivism in the New Age -- Piercings. 9780679430865 ISBN 0679430865.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American ed. ; 367 pp. ; ISBN: 067977260X, 9780679772606 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in color decorative dustjacket ; the author's sixth novel ; "Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obssese s him 30 years later" ; FINE/FINE. Book.