Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 523 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "In this magisterial account of the life and work of St Anselm, Sir Richard Southern provides a study in depth of one of the most fascinating minds in Christian history." From..... More
Cambridge, Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 795 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "…the indispensable work for historians, sociologists, population experts, and scholars of developing countries. It is the first national population history to provide basic demographic information over a period of 300..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 725 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "[This book by a Cambridge professor]…offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, gender and labour history with..... More
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987-1991. Hardcover. Five volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 1865 total pp. Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) sought to "create a comprehensive philosophy of man, society, and history." A Ph.D., he fled his home in Austria when the Nazis annexed it; he ultimately was a professor at..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 738 pp. From the dust jacket flap: "The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains an artist whose interests, attitudes, and friendships are little understood. A voluminous correspondent..... More
London: Verso, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, first printing, octavo size, 399 pp. From the jacket flap: "In this commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present,a revised and newly introduced edition of his acclaimed New Left Review special report, he [Brenner] charts..... More
Paris: Larousse, (2001). Cardboard covers. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 2267 pp., in publisher's slipcase, all text in French. A two volume boxed set of the most comprehensive reference of French writers. Over 1100 entries detailing the genre and biography of French authors, along with Prize recipients and an index..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 1215 pp. From the front flap, "Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books (including 'A Pattern Language') which will we hope..... More
Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2017. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, pp. 717. From the dust jacket flap, "One of the towering classics of twentieth-century French literature...one man's...travel journal as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to sub-Saharan Africa....a book whose broad canvas..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 1319 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "In these essays written between 1970 and 1977, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on many of the theoretical and political implications of his world-system perspective, best known through his book, The Modern World-System..... More