256pp. Illustrated. Dj very good enclosed in an attractive clear mylar protector, else a very good, clean, tight copy. Includes SIGNED ephemera from author, a short handwritten note requesting photographs from a professional Trimda photographer for a forthcomming book "The literature touching on the subject of Latvians in America is rather scarce -- yet I hope this effort will provide a general overview regarding Latvians on these shores counting the year 1888 as a plausible beginning of Latvian immigration -- Their accomplishments speak for themselves. I am presenting this book to the read... View More...
151 pages In near fine condition. An attractive copy. B&w photos, maps, document reproductions. Extensively researched. " The book contains appendices of carefully prepared genealogical information on the descendants of all those described in the narrative - The story traces the Attridges from their earliest beginnings to the present, examining the circumstances in Ireland which caused them to leave, their arrival first in Quebec, and later in Rochester and their eventual settlement in Ontario" ( Publisher) A very readable , engaging history. View More...
531pp. Bibliography. A very good, clean bright, tight unread copy. Some very minor edgewear to dj. "Through the aid of many institutions (e.g. Institutum Balticum, Radio Liberty Research, Radio Free Europe) and individuals the author has gathered a vast amount of factual information on the current state of religion in communist Eastern Europe. He has examined it warily and illustrates that the churches are not silent - the title is ironic but the faithful are all under siege, from peer pressure to outright murder, from confiscation of property to its destruction. Yet even the Soviets are ... View More...
30pp. Slight sunning. Top of spine has a small vertical 1.5 cm split. Otherwise a good ++ copy, clean and tight. Illustrated by the author. Signed by the author with a dedication to the recipients "- upon the stream/between the two extremes/ floats the eye of vision-" View More...
96pp. A very good, clean, bright, tight copy with acquisition particulars neatly inscribed on tp. Dj with a small chip on front cover and on rear enclosed in mylar protetor, else an attractive copy. " Spencer was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his time, in Greece, Egypt, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Austria, the settings for many of his poems. ---- his expatriate colleagues included Lawrence Durrell and Olivia Manning. A recurrent theme in his poetry is a particular sense of gr... View More...
178pp. some illus. Notes, table of contents. Text in German and mostly English Intro by Biezais. prev. own on t.p. Crease to lower front cnr. else a very good, clean tight, unmarked copy. HARALDS BIEZAIS Die Hauptprobleme der religiösen Symbolik VII RAGNAR HOLTE Gottessymbol and soziale Struktur TRYGGVE ME TTINGERThe veto on images and the aniconic God in Ancient Israel JAN HJÄRPE The symbol of the centre and its religious function in Islam LENNART RYDÉN The role of the icon in Byzantine piety JAN BERGMAN Nut - Himmelsgottin Baumgottin Lebensgeberin AKE HULTKRANTZ The traditional symb... View More...
127pp. SIGNED by author on tp. Neat previous ownership on ffe.Some light sunning on spine and edges, inconspicuously inscribed aquisition information on t.p. Else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. " Winner of the Governor General's award for poetry in 1939 for frank poems about the depression and the coming war he is also known as " "a deft versifier enthralled with the beauty of nature, a major subject of both his poems and his paintings." Smaller, lighter books can be shipped at ccost. pgs. View More...
367pp. Illustrated. Nine page summary in English about the first woman president of Latvia. " Kerties pie prezidentes Vairas Vikes-Freibergas ir izaicinajums, ko tikai Caklais atbilstosi savam spejam var veikt - ar savu bezbailibu un energiju. Un, protams, ar savu radoso dzejnieka izdomu, izpratni un empatiju, kas pa laikam neatsakas no ironijas un atkapes no parliecigas musu ... politikes pargaismosanas" (J. Silenieks) View More...
143pp. Translated by Ruth Speirs Almost as new. "...commitment expresses itself in tenderness as well as irony, but most often in a streak of compassion that feeds his poetry like an underground stream." (A. Ivaska) " Dear reader, set your watch by Caklais's clock. What time is it.... by Caklais's.. it is The Hour of the Hedgehog, the Second of the Grasshopper..."( Andrei Voznesensky) View More...
173pp. Dj very good with some slight edgewear, else avery good, clean, bright, tight copy. Includes ephemera: the author's handwritten letter to Dorothy Henderson in which he briefly outlines his world view. Also a card to the reader inviting purchase of the book "A collection of articles published between 1964-1973 in The Canadian Jewish Outlook concerning the Canadian Jewish community on Government policies, rights, housing and youth." The author, a left leaning socialist is also a comited advocate for the necessity of world peace. View More...
58pp. Very good priceclipped dj. Acquisition particulars neatly inscribed on t.p., else an attractive, clean, bright, tight copy. "C. Day Lewis is the first Poet Laureate to regard himself as 'an expatriate son of Ireland'. In his new book he shows himself freshly aware of the voices that come to him from his Anglo-Irish heredity and early environment. Besides elegant and charactersitic evocations of persons and places he had known in Ireland, there are several poems which celebrate the Easter rising of 1916 and such figures as Countess Markievicz and Michael Collins. The second part of ... View More...
126pp. A very good, clean unmarked, almost as new copy." Translated from the Latvian by Robert Fearnley in collaboration with Velta Snikere. "Eglitis, one of Latvia's great poets, has been writing with elegance and great lyric power of love, humanity and freedom for half a century. The 80 poems in Gallows over Europe express his political awareness and his fervent patriotism as well as his deep religious experience and concern for the human condition. These eloquent translations will carry the universal message of these poems to a wider public--" (Lituanus) View More...
533pp. A very good, clean, bright, tight copy. (Dr. Ekmanis deals in turn with the first year of Soviet rule (1940-1941), Latvian Communist writers in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945, Literary Decline During the Period of Zhdanovism, Latvian Literature During the First Thaw, 1953-1957, the Aftermath of the Thaw, 1957-1960, and, finally, the Battle for Cultural Autonomy. There are eighty-six pages of notes, and a massive selected bibliography of seventy-five pages. (Lituanus) The existence of cultural nationalism and a desire on the part of young Latvian writers to revaluate those parts of the L... View More...
258pp. Extensive notes, index. Photographs. In almost as new condition. " Part history, part autobiography.... tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival of Modris Ekstein's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative." (Key Porter) View More...
506 pp. Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia Volume 5. Dj over paper covers. A clean, bright, as new copy. "The Latvian American historian Andrew Ezergailis has recently edited a collection of primary materials entitled Stockholm Documents: The German Occupation of Latvia, 1941-1945: What Did America Know? Based on reports prepared during the war by Latvian diplomats abroad who had sources in occupied Latvia, these materials parallel collections in the Hoover Institution Archives, involving as they do the reports of Voldemars Salnais, Jules Feldmans, and Alfreds Bilm... View More...
164pp. Photographs. Includes a short essay, "Inta The Poet" that has several discrete, short underlinings, otherwise a very good, clean bright copy. "Inta was a Latvian, yet that fact she hardly mentions in her poetry. Instead it is conveyed through words and imagery.....a word or a phrase suddenly awakens all my encrusted Latvian senses: suddenly I see, touch, smell, listen, taste...." (Astrid Stahnke) View More...
75pp. Covers unmarked, clean and tight. Ownership on corner of f.endpaper and copyright and acquisition information neatly inscribed on copyright and half title pages... (see jpg) Else a very good, clean, bright, tight unmarked copy. " Collected from notebooks, anthologies and semi clandestine magazines on both sides of the border ... surreal, sardonic and brilliantly inventive" ( Publisher) Light book- shipped at lower rate. pgs --- View More...
174pp. Second impression. An almost as new copy with a very good + dj - careful small repair to top of spine) "The Beatles obviously felt comfortable around Freeman, and he captured many unguarded moments without ever betraying the Beatles' trust or privacy. The early photos in particular reflect a charming innocence that Beatlemania would gradually overwhelm. The burdens of fame and media attention that closed the Beatles off from much of the world and led them to stop touring in 1966 become increasingly evident as the book moves toward its conclusion."( Richard Harrington The Washington ... View More...
138pp. Illustrated. Very good, clean. tight copy. Author is the recipient of the J. Rabindranath Tagore Poet's award for his "Freedom Poems For Bangladesh" "How can we live with fictitious differences such as color, class or religious ideas?... We all have but one mother Earth, so we should take care of this temporary abode"(Author) View More...
64pp. Almost as new. Original clear plastic dj in excellent condition. , a clean bright, tight, unmarked copy. An attractive example of Porcepic's "small press" work. Press Porcepic; located in Erin; Ontario in a main street shoe store; emphasizes quality book-making and recapturing the intimate working relationship of author; editor and printer. ( Reg Innell ( 1974(?) ) pgs Postal adjustment on some lighter books. View More...
96pp. Numerous illustrations . Some light edge and corner wear with light, general aging else an attractive, tight, unmarked copy . VG to VG+. This is the Marilyn Monroe issue. " In 1962, Ginzburg began publication of his first major work, Eros, which was a quarterly hardbound periodical containing articles and photo-essays on love and sex. Only four issues of Eros were published. ( Wikipedia) pgs. View More...
240pp. Extensively illustrated AS NEW. "Updated text and new exclusive never before published photographs" "A really good coffee table type read. Lots of info and great pictures." "This book is lavishly decorated with photos and rare pics of memoralbilia and features a nice tribute to the late John Lennon." Heavy book. May require some additional postage. pgs View More...
120pp. Illustrated. A very good, clean, bright, tight copy. The Beatles companion is not about the Beatle's music, but about people and events behind it, and the artifacts the band left in their wake.... This book is for the neophite collector." ( Author) "---reference book and memorabilia guide ---- contains a discography, filmography, bibliography, special sections on each Beatle, and more than one hundred photographs ----."pgs View More...
191pp. A very good, clean, tight copy with very slight wear. Paper shows light ageing. Signed by the author on the half title. " Sincerely Yours Edgar A Guest. July 1921" "sentimental, optimistic poems" "Shunned by "those highbrow, longhair intellectual critics and writers," Guest followed a clear and simple formula to journalistic success: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them." View More...
Unpaginated with 43 poems. Wrapper or dj. part of spine. "French flaps" Some very mild ageing to spine, otherwise covers white and clean. Interior, very good + , bright and tight. Attractively illustrated by Frank Newfeld. "his transformation as a poet is clearly observable in Rivers among rocks (1960), which was the first of his books to be published in Canada, and in some ways the real beginning of his accomplishments. (B. Whiteman) "-- lyrical blending of wonder, word magic and maximum awareness" (V. House) View More...
