Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reappraisal
Penguin Books, November 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Books, November 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Dent, September 1971. Paper Back. Well worn cover with creasing and edgewear. Bumped bottom of spine. Rubber stamped illustrated face verso of front cover. [285 pp.]. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, January 1923. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2) Heavily chipped & tanned dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Dark green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine & blindstamped JMB emblem. Clean, unmarked internal text. No underlining or side notes. Echoes of the..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1995. Trade Paperback. In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1999. Trade Paperback. A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate--a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the..... More
Penguin UK, January 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. More
University of California Press, May 1972. Cloth. Octavo. {6' x 9 & 1/4'} Sacremento green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Bright, clean, sound, very good plus overall. Tightly bound. [332 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, March 2010. Trade Paperback. The texts collected in this volume, which was originally published in 1969, contain Herder's most original and stimulating ideas on politics, history and language. They had for the most part not been previously available in English. In his introduction, Professor Barnard analyses the..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2000. Trade Paperback. The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." --The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2000. Trade Paperback. The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." --The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2009. Trade Paperback. From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964. J.M.G. Le Clézio, revelation of the literary year ran the headline of the Paris Express after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double..... More
New Amer Library Trade, June 1984. Oversize Softcover. More
Penguin Classics, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of..... More
South Asia Books, January 1978. Cloth. Shelf wear, corner chipping and lightly rubbed edges on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Very lightly bumped corners on the red cloth boards. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
Pelican / Penguin Books Ltd., 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn. Foxing. Much dust statined along top edge & fore-edge. Quarter inch chip along fore-edge of front cover panel. [182 pages]. More
Phoenix, December 2001. Trade Paperback. An illuminating and authoritative look at the rise of Western civilization, greatly expanded from a 13-part BBC television series. It uncovers what gave European culture its confidence and energy for so many centuries, while exposing its flaws and its irreversible impact on the rest of..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1989 / 1996 / 2004. Trade Paperback. Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over..... More