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Art of the West, Romanesque & Gothic, 2 Vols, Focillon
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Art:
Pre 1970 item# 1120912
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$20 with free Media Mail shipping in USA
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Beautiful two-volume set of The Art of the West by Henri Focillon, handsomely printed by Phaidon in 1963. Heavily illustrated. Volume I, Romanesque Art, has 159 plates. The previous owner's name is written on the inside cover and there are numerous underlinings and notes on the text pages. That owner apparently did not get to Volume II, Gothic Art, because there are no underlinings. That volume has 165 plates. The plates are very high quality black and white a was typical of the Phaidon art b ...click for details
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Rare: Inscriptions, Eugene O'Neill to Carlotta O'Neill
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Fiction:
Pre 1960 item# 1120287
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$125 with free shipping within USA
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Privately printed in 1960, this is #111 of 500 printed. It reproduces inscriptions from Eugene O'Neill, America's greatest playwright, to his wife, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill. They inscriptions of on copies of books, photographs, love notes, etc. The originals were given by Carlotta O'Neill to the Yale Library for the Eugene O'Neill Collection. This copy was purchased when it was published. It is in "like new" condition. The only defect, a slight one, is that there a ...click for details
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Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants: Fascinating Tome
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Pre 1920 item# 1117773
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207-563-1964
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Sturtevant's' Notes on Edible Plants, edited by U. P. Hedrick, report of the New York Agricultural Experiment for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1919.
Large, wonderful book in excellent condition. Superior quality printing and binding. Not ex-library. Small area of discoloration on back. Size: 12 by 9½ inches. Weight about 6½ pounds. Green buckram binding with gilt stamped lettering. There is a wonderful frontispiece portrait which lets you know what Dr ...click for details
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Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power on the Bounty
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Pre 2000 item# 1117691
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
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"Captain Bligh" is a cliche of our times for the extravagant and violent misuse of power. In fact, William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British navy. That paradox inspires the author to ask why, then, did Bligh have a mutiny? Its answer is to display the theatricality of naval institutions and the mythologizing power of history. Mr Bligh's Bad Language is an anthropological and historical study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in soc ...click for details
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter *NEW*
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Contemporary item# 1117687
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$7.00 with free shipping in USA
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In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the lega ...click for details
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Oedipus Ubiquitous, Examines Universality of Complex
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Psychology:
Pre 2000 item# 1117686
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
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Is the “Oedipus complex” universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made. From back cover: “This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psych ...click for details
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