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A Boy At the Hogarth Press
by Richard Kennedy
Originally published: London : Whittington Press, 1972. With new introd.
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Marx, Reason, and The Art Of Freedom
by Brien, Kevin M
Kevin M. Brien is chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Washington College.
Emergence of a Free Press
by Leonard W Levy
From the back cover: "What did 'freedom of the press' really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries?
This book "...answers that question." "Mr Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press as many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent."
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This book "...answers that question." "Mr Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press as many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent."
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NZ$33.96
COMMENTARIUM
(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of...
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NZ$378.26
Fresh-Air Fiend Travel Writings, 1985-2000
by Theroux, Paul
London: Hamish Hamilton. 2000. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper and half-title page. xxiv, 452 pages. An extensive collection of Theroux's shorter travel writings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$20.03
A MOMENT'S LIBERTY. THE SHORTER DIARY. Signed and inscribed by Anne Olivier Bell the editor
by Woolf, Virginia
London: The Hogarth Press, (1990). First Edition. Hogarth Press. "Inscribed for Alan with love from the Editor Anne Olivier Bell.- January 1990". A fine copy in navy cloth, gilt titles, in a stunning pictorial dust wrapper portraying Vanessa Bell's painting, Still Life On Corner Of A Mantlepiece. 8vo. 516 pp. With her letters as companion, truly Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, the wife of Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf's nephew.
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NZ$434.06
Four Texts on Socrates : Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Critor, and Aristophanes' Clouds
by West, Thomas; West, Grace
Cornell University Press, 1984. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$11.18
Passenger to Teheran. With a new introduction by Nigel Nicolson.
by [Travel Memoir] Sackville-West, V
New York:: Moyer Bell,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Reprint Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to the spine. First published in 1926 by the Hogarth Press, this account of Sackville-West's 1926 trip to Iran is full of the author's poignant observations on travel, travelers and Persia. Her son Nigel Nicholson provides, in his introduction, many new personal details of the journey that were omitted from the original edition. Includes many photographs all...
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NZ$212.78
The Thomas Hart Benton Murals in the Missouri State Capitol, A Social History of the State of Missouri
by Nancy Edelman
From the Foreword: "The Thomas Hart Benton mural is painted on the four walls of the House Lounge, a large meeting room on the third floor in the West Wing of the Missouri State Capitol. Many newspaper and magazine articles have been written about these murals, both commending and condemning them. Mr. Benton himself wrote and said a great deal about these paintings." "This booklet attempts to draw together the various data and present a brief illustrated guide to the murals." There is a chapter on the...
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NZ$17.02
THE ESSAYS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Volume II. 1912-1918. Edited and signed By Andrew McNeillie
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1987), 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. First American Edition Inscribed by Editor Andrew McNeillie on the title page. "D- from Andrew, Andover October '89, with best wishes, A McNeillie". A fine copy in 1/4 wine cloth over beige paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 381 pp. A brilliant collection, spanning the years 1912 to 1918, again proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous,...
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NZ$272.35
BLOOMSBURY NEEDLEPOINT. FROM THE TAPESTRIES AT CHARLESTON FARMHOUSE
by (Bell, Vanessa). Coss, Melinda
Boston: Little, Brown, (1992), 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's navy cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine in a fabulous pictorial dustwrapper depicting Vanessa Bell's, Charleston Garden on the front and Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell Charlestonian paintings on the back panel. Quarto. 120 pp. A panoramic view of Charleston, exploring its design developments that now attracts thousands of tourists yearly. Illustrated...
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NZ$161.71
HUNTING THE HIGHBROW. THE HOGARTH ESSAYS. NO 5
by Woolf, Leonard
London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. First Edition of Leonard Woolf's HUNTING THE HIGHBROW published at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square. Small 8vo. Beautiful cover design by Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister on beige boards with black printing. Covers and inside slightly aged. Issued as No.5 of 'The Hogarth Essays, Second Series'. Woolmer, 152: 1,000 copies were printed. A lovely discreet label on the inside cover "The Times Bookclub
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NZ$1,276.65
I SPEAK OF AFRICA signed
by William Plomer [Roger Senhouse]
London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Roger Senhouse. Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth, touch of fade and wear at edges) in a scarce dustwrapper, (black lettered in white; large chip at the base of the spine and small chip at the base of the top panel-reinforced tape on back of folds) Rear panel announces various Hogarth Press books including #3 of Woolmer's Hogarth "Ghosts" (de la Mare's, Atmosphere in Fiction, was never published): dustwrapper...
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NZ$2,127.75
THE YEARS
by Woolf, Virginia
London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf, Virginia. THE YEARS. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937 Signed by Virginia Woolf. First Edition. Crown 8vo. 469 pp. Publisher's light jade-green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. A lovely near fine or better copy in a superb example of the illustrated original cream dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell and printed in black and brown. Quite stunning edition. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A22a. Wolmer 423. The author's penultimate...
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NZ$28,086.30
J. KRISHNAMURTI: THE YEARS OF FULFILLMENT
by Lutyens, Mary
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. First US edition. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.. 248 pages.
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NZ$26.21
Donum Dei
by Conférence religieuse canadienne [Canadian Religious Conference]
(Voir en bas pour la traduction en français.) Presumably first edition. This set of French-language religious volumes (except No. 1, which is English) comes from the library of the Grey Nuns and of the Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. As such, they contain the usual stamps, stickers, numbering, etc. Some volumes have protective jackets, but in general the exteriors are worn, including but not limited to scuffs, abrasions, and sunning, and a number of them have light dampstains and warping. In a...
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NZ$567.39
CAPE COD
by THOREAU, Henry David
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. Original purple cloth. Binding A, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.
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NZ$1,276.65
I HATE THIS PART OF TEXAS 3 (zine)
by John Gerken (ed.)
RARE. Approx. 36 p.; ill. (some spraypaint colour to covers). Ex-library with stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild shelf/edgewear, and staples have been removed, but text appears complete and is otherwise in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition. An Arkansas punk rock zine dealing with poverty, alternative lifestyles, conscious living, community, history, and social commentary. It is a liberally illustrated little booklet packed full of musings, information, humour,...
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NZ$34.38
![EPHEMERIDES THEOLOGICAE LOVANIENSES [Louvain Journal of Theology] (47 Vols.)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/522/1407522813.0.b.0.jpg)
EPHEMERIDES THEOLOGICAE LOVANIENSES [Louvain Journal of Theology] (47 Vols.)
by Cerfaux, et al. (eds.) in Universitate Catholica Lovaniensi Professorum [Professors at the Catholic University of Louvain]
(Voir ci-dessous pour la traduction française. // Imo quicquid sexus est videre Latina translatione.) RARE COLLECTION. Presumably first edition. This set of 47 multilingual volumes of a religious periodical span from 1950 to 1967 and includes quite a few pieces of ephemera (flyers, cards, etc.). The main languages used are Latin and French, but there may be also English, German, and Dutch. Some volumes are sparsely illustrated in black and white. The content consists mainly of academic articles,...
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NZ$2,236.95
NOTES ON VIRGINIA'S CHILDHOOD. A Memoir
by Bell, Vanessa
New York: Frank Hallman., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Number 214 of 300 Numbered copies, printed by Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco. 8vo. Unpaginated. Edited by Richard J. Schaubeck, Jr. Fine in gray cloth, purple titles to the upper cover. No dustwrapper, as issued. Read to the Memoir Club in 1949, Vanessa Bell recalled how her sister was "not very old when speech became the deadliest weapon as used by her", and described the misery she felt as a child...
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NZ$255.33
Sophies Message /Jenaer Vor-Sätze zu einer Multimedia-Philosophie - Philotainment Version 1.0
by Funken, Michael
Königshausen u. Neumann. Taschenbuch. 235x155 mm.
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NZ$10.94
Sartre A Biographical Introduction
by Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0684126745 . Publisher's glossy wraps. 8vo. 160 pp. This is an unmarked copy, tight, square and clean; minor wrinkles on rear cover, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pp .
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NZ$8.43
Prison and Chocolate Cake
by Nayantara Sahgal
First edition, stated. xvi, 236 p., iii; illustrated; 21 cm. Includes Glossary (235-236) and Index (i-iii). Black cloth hardcover with charming deckled edge paper, decoration and lettering in copper and silver gilt to cover and spine, shows only very mild shelfwear and sunning to edges, while the inside is in Fine condition, with numerous photographic reproductions. The dust jacket, however, is present in tatters. Please see listing images. From dust jacket: The lighthearted and glamorous story of her...
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NZ$56.73
Works of Henry David Thoreau
by Owens, Lily (Ed)
New York: Avenel. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1981. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. 0517336308 . Foxing on endpapers, pages are faded. Unclipped dust jacket has a hole in the upper front right corner and shows shelf-wear. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 713 pp .
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NZ$8.51
Juxtsuppose, Issue 2 (zine)
by Billy Reuben and Brad Yung (eds.)
RARE. 47 p.; ill. (some colour) and pop-ups. Ex-library with number in pen and stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild wear to extremities, and one photo corner has become unglued, otherwise internally Near Fine. Working largely with remixed "found" content, this comedic zine is profusely illustrated, including comics, and contains many "interactive" pages: business card in photo corners (pg. 15)pop-up satellite (pg. 21)pop-up pig tug-o-war (pg. 29)censoring paper over...
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NZ$75.65
DOOM OF YOUTH
by Lewis, Wyndham
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Original publisher's ochre-coloured boards with black lettering to the spine. Clean copy with sharp corners and tight binding, 266pp. 8vo. Lewis's feud with the Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry and by extension, Virginia Woolf is now legend and immortalized in his, Men Without Art.
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NZ$1,021.32
The World of the American Indian
by Edited by Jules B. Billard
From the front dust jacket flap: "More than 440 illustrations = 362 in full color - enrich this vivid account of the American Indian's beliefs, customs, crafts, and accomplishments."Book - Near Fine condition. Bright, colorful, clean Indian print cloth over boards w black leather? spine. Gold gilt text on spine. Orange end papers. One end paper has an imprint seal for CGB and also 4 light spots under it. Text is clean. Binding is tight.Dust Jacket - Good condition. Very colorful, but there are some tiny...
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NZ$68.09
