Search Results: Essays from Minotavros Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Full blue cloth. 317 pp. Rebacked, with original spine laid down. Spine sunned. Paper repairs to foot of ffep. In original slipcase, which is lightly edge worn and scuffed, VG overall. Armorial bookplate of the Selden family and ex libris of Lynde Selden. Across the Plains is the second part of Stevenson's three-part travel memoir, in which he describes arriving in New York as an immigrant from Scotland and traveling across the United States to Monterey, California. It was written from 1879-80 and first published in 1892.

London: Routledge, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility. Hard cover. xv, 180 pp. A few spots of delamination at top and tail of joints, else fine.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 285 p.p. Original green cloth boards with blue titling, bumping to spine ends. Edges and spine of dust jacket are sunned, some minor wear and a small chip to spine head. A few pencil markings.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original green cloth boards with blue titling. 285 p.p. Bumping to spine ends. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Edges and spine of dust jacket are sunned, some minor wear and small chips to spine ends and corners.

Philadelphia: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [ca. 1960]. Third edition. Brown leatherette. x, 451 pp. Light chafing to spine ends and corners. Bump to lower corner of text block. About fine. "Osler, one of the most revered physicians of all time, wrote these essays to assist the young medical practitioner become a "good clinical physician." He was indeed a true philosopher and his ideals were, and always should be, the ideals of every practising doctor." 0.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black paper boards. 188 pp. Spine tilted. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, damp stained to spine foot, soiled to rear. Ten gifted 'exiles' were asked what made them leave their own countries to live, even temporarily, in England. We wished to discover what England seemed to offer the large numbers of people overseas who settle here, and what, in fact, she does offer them.

John Stockdale, 1789. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Elegantly rebound with calf spine, xvi, 469pp. Frontispiece. Light spotting on pages, otherwise Near Fine. A collection of anecdotes ranging from advice, good old times, hermits, poetry, sailors and other miscellaneous topics.

San Bernadino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED and dated by author to limitations page, limited first edition, #62/65. Tan paper boards. 63 pp. About fine.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback, xvii, 211pp. Fine. Collection of essays on previously unstudied areas of Japanese history.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1995. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. 192 pp. Fine. In these ten intertwined essays, Jeanette Winterson invites the reader to explore art and to discover what it has to offer. An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavour which defies time and differences, art offers us other realities, other emotions and other worlds if we are prepared to enter a relationship with it which will make its own demands on us. Thought-provoking, heartfelt, wise, personal and revealing, these essays, like their subject, will invigorate and inspire the reader by offering a new way of seeing and understanding the central role art can play in life.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. red cloth, viii, 159pp., (8)ads. Spine a bit cocked with some light soiling to boards, bruising to bottom corners o/w very good. A collection of satire previously published in in Punch magazine. Edmund George Valpy Knox (1881-1971) was the editor of Punch between 1932-1949.

London: Methuen, 1963. Hardcover. Nea Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Art in Progress Series. Unpaginated, [48 p.p.]. B&W photos throughout. With selected bibliography. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has some light wear to extremities, ink notation to price on front flap. Bubbling of lamination of dust jacket, especially to rear joint of jacket. Small damp stain to head (only visible on reverse). An exploration of the work of British artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9" x 8" Second printing. Oblong. Quarter yellow cloth, black paper boards. 239 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Foxing to edges of text block. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is age toned, bumped at extremities. With material taken from Bizarre, published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, and other sources.

New York: Bantam Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. ix, 182 pp. Fine condition. These thirteen essays and one remarkable extended interview broadcast over the BBC on Christmas day 1992 range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific.

Oshawa: Triumph Sports Communications, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 200 pp. Minor creasing and rubbing to spine, else fine. From January 1994 to July 1997, Roger Lajoie wrote 208 columns for This Week newspapers on, well, just about everything. This collection presents 90 of the author's favourite columns with something to enjoy for everyone.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black paper, yellow paper boards. xxvii, 525 pp. Fine. Surveying the whole world of books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time - and great fun to read.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. xxxiv, 332 p.p. A collection of essays on the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Divided into three parts: Jung's ideas and their context, Analytical psychology in practice, and analytical psychology in society. Light rubbing at to edges and spine-ends. Small stain to foot of fore-edge. Scuffs to rear cover. Interior clean, bright. A very good copy.

London: Bowes & Bowes, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought. Orig. red cloth, 112pp. A small bruise to foot of spine, o/w about fine in near fine but lightly sunned d/w.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 18mo. Blue cloth boards. 103 pp. Spine sunned, light chafing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is foxed, age toned and bumped to extremities, darkened to spine, chips to top edges.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. red cloth. vii, 197 pp. Spine cocked, sunned and damp stained. Chafing to extremities, bumping to spine ends and lower front corner. Interior age toned.