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In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum, Annotationes
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Basel: Johannes Froben, March 1519. The rare first edition of the enlarged annotations in a separate volume.
A scholar's copy annotated with the Hebrew learning of Sebastian Münster.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466-1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught and travelled, meeting with Europe's foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on subjects of both ecclesiastic and general human interest.
The first printed New Testament in the original Greek including Erasmus's Latin translation and his annotations appeared in Basel in 1516. Erasmus had already begun revising his text during the production of that publication. Moreover, he augmented his immense scholarly annotations considerably, which resulted in the publication of the Annotationes as a separate volume to accompany the Novum Testamentum; both volumes appeared together in 1519. It was especially this edition that formed the basis of both Luther's and Tyndale's New Testament translations. The Annotationes, although listed on the title-page of Novum Testamentum, is often found separately.
Johannes Froben decorated this edition with several woodcut borders, headpieces and fine metalcut initials made by important Basel illustrators, used before in other works. Ambrosius Holbein, the older brother of Hans Holbein the younger, designed the elaborate woodcut border of the title page, signed and dated AH 1517. Another charming border by Ambrosius Holbein embellishes the beginning of the commentary while the woodcut border on Erasmus's epistle to the reader is attributed to Master HF (Hieronymus 1983, no. 302).
Manuscript annotations: The present copy contains manuscript marginalia derived from Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), the celebrated humanist, cosmographer and Hebrew scholar, especially from his Hebrew edition of the Gospel of Matthew. The volume recalls the importance of Hebrew studies among Renaissance humanists and serves as a fascinating reminder of the double role Hebrew played during the Protestant Reformation. Fervent Reformers examined Jewish texts both to equip themselves better in arguments with contemporary rabbis and to more clearly understand the original Hebrew texts that lay behind the Latin Vulgate defended so fiercely by 16th-century Catholics.
In a precise 16th-century humanist hand, an unidentified scholar painstakingly transcribed the Latin/Hebrew commentary from Münster's Evangelium secundum Mattheum in lingua hebraica, cum versione Latina atque succinctis annotationibus printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1537, into this book. Word-for-word copying was not considered a rote or passive activity at that time: copying was a tool of scholarship and our anonymous 16th-century scholar formed part of this intellectual milieu. The scholar shows good abilities in Hebrew, fluidly reproducing difficult characters (but rarely quoting longer Hebrew passages in their entirety). The Gospel of Matthew was a natural point of focus for Christian Hebraists: early church authorities held that Matthew's Gospel had originally been composed in Hebrew rather than Greek. Humanists thus asserted that a proper re-examination of the text accounted for the peculiarities of the ancient Jewish language. Indeed at one point, as if to reconfirm to himself the importance of his labours, our unidentified annotator notes that even Erasmus defended the patristic opinion of Matthew's textual origin.
Provenance: 1. Coat of arms in the second woodcut border with three heraldic roses on red and white (silver) ground (unidentified). – 2. Inscriptions found in the margins of pages aa4 and 1-87 are attributed to the hand of Sebastian Münster (see old note on title-page) because of the entry on upper margin of p. 79: … Ego Sebastianus Munsterus … in Calendario meo Hebraico nonnihil quoque scripsi … While the commentary is indeed by Münster, it seems unlikely that Münster would have quoted his own text as literally in the margins of another book. Moreover, one of the few deviations from Münster's text in our inscription is the addition of his name to the word Ego. An explanation as this would be useless, if the copy had belonged to Münster himself (Burmeister 2014). – 3. Nuremberg, Georg Sella (or Sessel; 1508-1571), a Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian; manuscript acquisition notes on title, dated 2 June 1544. Sella was acquainted with Philipp Melanchthon, Hebraists as Bernhard Ziegler and Andreas Osiander, and with the mathematician Johannes Schöner. A passionate book collector, he regularly wrote acquisition notes in his books. While Burmeister assumes that Sella could have been the writer of the inscriptions in our copy, there are slight differences between the handwritings of ownership inscription and annotations. – 4. Another (later) inscription: Venditu A. Schwarzio 4 (?) [Pound].
Description of the copy: Folio, 345 x 225 mm. (8), 576 (of 579) pp. – Roman, Greek and Hebrew type. Numerous headpieces and small initials, 24 large figurative initials, 3 full borders, all in woodcut (without device at end). Versals touched in red up to p. 131 and pp. 242-409. Initials touched in red and sometimes green, a coat of arms supplied in ink on leaf aa2. Extensive manuscript annotations in the first quires, see above.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin on wooden boards, four raised double-cords.
Condition: Some browning and staining, mainly in the lower area of the leaves, considerably at numerous first and last quires of the book, a few traces of worming, first c. 10-12 leaves with lower margins frayed, a few more marginal tears. – Binding stained and worn, ends of spine damaged, clasps missing, a crack in lower cover glued and strengthened inside with a piece of manuscript vellum.
Literature: Burmeister, K.H. "Ein Buch aus der Bibliothek Sebastian Münsters?" Aus dem Antiquariat, NF 12 (2014), 5, pp. 212-15. – Grafton, A. "The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters." In Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, ed. A. Sterk and N. Caputo. Ithaca 2014. – Hanke, M. and I. Nettekoven. Early printed Bibles 1454-1580. Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books, cat. 12. Stalden 2016, no. 17.
Edition: Adams E-887. – VD16 E 3093 (B 4197, respectively: "Annotationes im Grundwerk als selbständiges Werk beschrieben"). – BM, STC German, p. 108. – Darlow & Moule, no. 4597. – Bezzel, I. Erasmusdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts in bayerischen Bibliotheken, Stuttgart 1979, no. 1212. – Staehelin, 9. – Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen. Accessed June 2019. URL: www.ub.unibas.ch/cmsdata/spezialkataloge/gg/, GG no. 380. – Bentley, J.H. Humanists and Holy Writ, Princeton 1983, pp. 112-93. – Rummel/Schrag, Erasmus collection, 2004, no. 1328.
A scholar's copy annotated with the Hebrew learning of Sebastian Münster.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466-1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught and travelled, meeting with Europe's foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on subjects of both ecclesiastic and general human interest.
The first printed New Testament in the original Greek including Erasmus's Latin translation and his annotations appeared in Basel in 1516. Erasmus had already begun revising his text during the production of that publication. Moreover, he augmented his immense scholarly annotations considerably, which resulted in the publication of the Annotationes as a separate volume to accompany the Novum Testamentum; both volumes appeared together in 1519. It was especially this edition that formed the basis of both Luther's and Tyndale's New Testament translations. The Annotationes, although listed on the title-page of Novum Testamentum, is often found separately.
Johannes Froben decorated this edition with several woodcut borders, headpieces and fine metalcut initials made by important Basel illustrators, used before in other works. Ambrosius Holbein, the older brother of Hans Holbein the younger, designed the elaborate woodcut border of the title page, signed and dated AH 1517. Another charming border by Ambrosius Holbein embellishes the beginning of the commentary while the woodcut border on Erasmus's epistle to the reader is attributed to Master HF (Hieronymus 1983, no. 302).
Manuscript annotations: The present copy contains manuscript marginalia derived from Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), the celebrated humanist, cosmographer and Hebrew scholar, especially from his Hebrew edition of the Gospel of Matthew. The volume recalls the importance of Hebrew studies among Renaissance humanists and serves as a fascinating reminder of the double role Hebrew played during the Protestant Reformation. Fervent Reformers examined Jewish texts both to equip themselves better in arguments with contemporary rabbis and to more clearly understand the original Hebrew texts that lay behind the Latin Vulgate defended so fiercely by 16th-century Catholics.
In a precise 16th-century humanist hand, an unidentified scholar painstakingly transcribed the Latin/Hebrew commentary from Münster's Evangelium secundum Mattheum in lingua hebraica, cum versione Latina atque succinctis annotationibus printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1537, into this book. Word-for-word copying was not considered a rote or passive activity at that time: copying was a tool of scholarship and our anonymous 16th-century scholar formed part of this intellectual milieu. The scholar shows good abilities in Hebrew, fluidly reproducing difficult characters (but rarely quoting longer Hebrew passages in their entirety). The Gospel of Matthew was a natural point of focus for Christian Hebraists: early church authorities held that Matthew's Gospel had originally been composed in Hebrew rather than Greek. Humanists thus asserted that a proper re-examination of the text accounted for the peculiarities of the ancient Jewish language. Indeed at one point, as if to reconfirm to himself the importance of his labours, our unidentified annotator notes that even Erasmus defended the patristic opinion of Matthew's textual origin.
Provenance: 1. Coat of arms in the second woodcut border with three heraldic roses on red and white (silver) ground (unidentified). – 2. Inscriptions found in the margins of pages aa4 and 1-87 are attributed to the hand of Sebastian Münster (see old note on title-page) because of the entry on upper margin of p. 79: … Ego Sebastianus Munsterus … in Calendario meo Hebraico nonnihil quoque scripsi … While the commentary is indeed by Münster, it seems unlikely that Münster would have quoted his own text as literally in the margins of another book. Moreover, one of the few deviations from Münster's text in our inscription is the addition of his name to the word Ego. An explanation as this would be useless, if the copy had belonged to Münster himself (Burmeister 2014). – 3. Nuremberg, Georg Sella (or Sessel; 1508-1571), a Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian; manuscript acquisition notes on title, dated 2 June 1544. Sella was acquainted with Philipp Melanchthon, Hebraists as Bernhard Ziegler and Andreas Osiander, and with the mathematician Johannes Schöner. A passionate book collector, he regularly wrote acquisition notes in his books. While Burmeister assumes that Sella could have been the writer of the inscriptions in our copy, there are slight differences between the handwritings of ownership inscription and annotations. – 4. Another (later) inscription: Venditu A. Schwarzio 4 (?) [Pound].
Description of the copy: Folio, 345 x 225 mm. (8), 576 (of 579) pp. – Roman, Greek and Hebrew type. Numerous headpieces and small initials, 24 large figurative initials, 3 full borders, all in woodcut (without device at end). Versals touched in red up to p. 131 and pp. 242-409. Initials touched in red and sometimes green, a coat of arms supplied in ink on leaf aa2. Extensive manuscript annotations in the first quires, see above.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin on wooden boards, four raised double-cords.
Condition: Some browning and staining, mainly in the lower area of the leaves, considerably at numerous first and last quires of the book, a few traces of worming, first c. 10-12 leaves with lower margins frayed, a few more marginal tears. – Binding stained and worn, ends of spine damaged, clasps missing, a crack in lower cover glued and strengthened inside with a piece of manuscript vellum.
Literature: Burmeister, K.H. "Ein Buch aus der Bibliothek Sebastian Münsters?" Aus dem Antiquariat, NF 12 (2014), 5, pp. 212-15. – Grafton, A. "The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters." In Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, ed. A. Sterk and N. Caputo. Ithaca 2014. – Hanke, M. and I. Nettekoven. Early printed Bibles 1454-1580. Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books, cat. 12. Stalden 2016, no. 17.
Edition: Adams E-887. – VD16 E 3093 (B 4197, respectively: "Annotationes im Grundwerk als selbständiges Werk beschrieben"). – BM, STC German, p. 108. – Darlow & Moule, no. 4597. – Bezzel, I. Erasmusdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts in bayerischen Bibliotheken, Stuttgart 1979, no. 1212. – Staehelin, 9. – Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen. Accessed June 2019. URL: www.ub.unibas.ch/cmsdata/spezialkataloge/gg/, GG no. 380. – Bentley, J.H. Humanists and Holy Writ, Princeton 1983, pp. 112-93. – Rummel/Schrag, Erasmus collection, 2004, no. 1328.
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Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (*Signed by Graham Greene* with a gift inscription to his former dean and English constitutional law professor Sir David Keir): An Intimate Portrait as Recorded in Talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips
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Hardcover. Non-Fiction. Memoirs. 310 pp. Secker & Warburg, London (1960). First Edition. First Printing (FPu). Clean, tight copy with no bumped corners and no markings inside or out. Near Fine/ Near Fine. The unique feature of the book, however, is the gift inscription on the front pastedown, all but hidden by the DJ flap. The book's gift inscription is from Graham Greene to his former constitutional law professor (and later dean) Sir David Keir at his alma mater Balliol College, Oxford University. The unique feature of the inscription is that it is written and signed in the looping cursive script of Greene's natural handwriting and legal signature; versus the printed hybrid script and autograph that he had adopted for public consumption at his booksignings. (Greene's upper-case G' s in his public and semi-private booksignings and inscriptions had evolved to more closely resemble lightning bolts or radically elongated, linear letter S's.) In reality, author Graham Greene was a champion of literate…
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Le Premier Tome de lArchitecture.
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THE GREATEST BOOK OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTUREIllustrated with 205 large woodcuts, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks; magnificent allegorical woodcut title border; large woodcut head-pieces and large floriated and grotesque woodcut initials; leaf I4 slightly taller than the rest of the text block, to accommodate a tall column woodcut, with about 2 cm section at top folded in. Royal Folio. 19th-century ¼-vellum over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges gilt. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1567. First Edition. First Issue. The most influential and most lavishly illustrated handbook of French Renaissance architecture. The first and only published volume. A second volume was planned by the author but never completed.Mortimer, Harvard College Library Cat.: French 16th-Century Books, no.355; Brunet, Supple. I, 888-9; Fowler Architect. coll. 99; Clouzot, Philibert de l'Orme, pp. 90-107; Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog 2362; Pettegree, French Vernacular Books 15434; cf. Adams L…
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Forordning om Neger=Handelen (i.e. Decree about the Negro-Trade). [In. Kong Christian den Syvendes allernaadigste Forordninger og aabne Breve for Aar 1792]. - [THE FIRST DECREE IN THE WORLD TO FORBID SLAVE-TRADE]
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1792. Kiøbenhavn, Høppfner, (16. Martius, 1792). 4to. The entire volume of "Forordninger...", 1792 bound with the entire volumes of 1790 and 1791 as well in a very nice strictly contemporary brown full calf binding with four raised bands, gilt title-label and lovely gilt ornamentatiions to spine as well as the gilt, crowned monogram of King Chritian the VII to top of spine. Light wear and a closed tear to top capital. Otherwise in splendid condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Stamp from the Danish Royal Military Library to front free end-paper. Pp. 69-71. [Entire volume: 146, 12 pp., 1 f. blank + 288, (8) pp., two folded tables + 323, (13) pp. woodcut vignettes of the Danish Elephant-order to title-pages]. Extremely rare first printing of the very first law anywhere in the world to abandon slave trade. From the library of King Christian VII, who passed the law, with his crowned gilt monogram to spine. With the completely groundbreaking "Forordning on Neger=Handelen" ("Decree about the…
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A PRINTED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM, IN LATIN AND FRENCH. USE OF ROME
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Paris: Gillet Hardouin, 1516 [calendar covering the years 1516-27]. 197 x 120 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 1/2"). 104 leaves. FINE CONTEMPORARY BLIND-TOOLED CALF, covers with multiple rules and floral rolls, raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, skillfully rebacked in the style of the period, four brass clasps and catch plates (possibly renewed), original vellum endleaves. In a vellum clamshell box. WITH 23 VIGNETTES AND 16 FULL-PAGE METAL CUTS within architectural borders, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED IN COLORS AND GOLD BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of "J. R. P.," rear endleaves with genealogical information in an early hand. The coloring of one of the vignettes left unfinished. ◆Extremities and raised bands with a little rubbing, minor (and very well done) repairs to a few places at the corners and edges, but the extremely attractive binding completely sound and pleasing. One miniature with faint creasing (mostly touching the robes of two figures), a few miniatures…
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Descriptive Book of Thieves
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Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum : cum aliis multis folio se queti notatis una cum figuris Apocalipsis et destructio Hierusalem et multis figuris Biblie insertis.
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The calendar is dated 1518.
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THE WORKS OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR IN SIX VOLUMES: ADORN'D WITH CUTS
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Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)
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Mars 1999 (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by O'Leary, Brian
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- very good
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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1987 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED to include shark-faced rocket cartoon - "Exclusive Preview of the U.S. - Soviet Manned Mission - book: very good - pages show toning from age - dj: very good - some toning from age - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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John Wayne America: Why I Love Her
by Liebert, Billy and Mitchum, John
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- first
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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1977 - collectable 1st edition ("1" present) Photographs and stories for each piece of music. Words and sheet music arranged for piano and guitar from John Wayne's best-selling record album... Sheet music for: Why I love Her The Hyphen My Roots Are Buried Here The People An American Boy Grows Up Face the Flag The Good Things The Pledge of Allegiance Why Are You Marching Son? Taps book: very good - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - dj: very good - not price clipped - some tears/chipping at top of dj have been repaired with archival tape - some overall toning from age - dj wrapped in protective sleeve
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Cognac a Liquid History (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Calabrese, Salvatore
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2001 - 1st edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title page "To Anthony Salute 18 03 05" - prior owner inscription "With love for Michelle 26 Dec 2014" - "Seen through the eyes of Salvatore Calabrese, a renowned and respected cognac expert, this book is a personal and insightful perspective on the spirit that earned its image of virility and strength from Napoleon Bonaparte." - book; very good - filled with images - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked, no folded page corners, dj: not price clipped [Price in UK 25.00] - small dime size chip on the back upper left corner repaired with archival tape - slight amount of scuffing - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Unreal Tournament Bradygames Official Strategy Guide
by Marcus, Phillip
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- Paperback
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- New
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- No Jacket
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- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780744009552
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- 0744009553
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Bradbury & Evans, 2007. Covers PC-CD ROM/DVD ROM & Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System 4to sized softcover; 271 heavy glossy pages with color illustrations throughout Brand new, but note some edgewear and blemish to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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More Than Forever
by McLean, Jay
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- good
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- Used - Good
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- ISBN 13
- 9781505999471
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- 1505999472
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2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
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The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
by Becker, Ernest
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New York: The Free Press, 1971. Second Edition. Contents include: The Man-Apes; The Origins of the Mind; The Distinctive Human; The Inner World; Socialization: the Creation of the Inner World; The New Meaning of the Oedipus Complex; Self-Esteem; Culture and Personality; Social Encounters: The Staging of Self-Esteem; Culture: the Relativity of Hero-Systems; What is Normal?; What Would A Science of Man Then Be?; Religion: The Quest for the Ideal Heroism. 228 pages. Edgewear; light wear to covers; worn corners and light creases on spine. Deeply creased spine opens flat at pages 60/61. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A Million Miles from Boston
by Day, Karen
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- good
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- first
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- First
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780385738996
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- 0385738994
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2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 215 pages. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition From jacket: "(Lucy) wants to get out of Boston and forget her worries about starting middle school and about her father's new girlfriend. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself, and where memories of her mother, who died when Lucy was six, are strong and sacred. But this summer, nothing is the same. Ian, a boy from home in Boston, comes to Pierson Point...Lucy's father wants his girlfriend to become a bigger part of Lucy's life. Though Lucy struggles against change, she gradually realizes that sometimes, change is for the better. Average wear to jacket; bumped corners and head and heel of spine, owner's name on fep. Autographed Copy sticker on front of jacket; one previously folded page corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits…
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