Search Results: Titles starting with R from Hopewell_Books

1890 FIRST EDITION; MAYBE SIGNED BY AUTHOR? (See Photos) Hardcover; Pebbled burgundy cloth gilt stamped on front cover; Discolored spine; Covers have faded edges; Spots; Pages might have been wet; Water stains on page edgesBinding is loose; Tanned pages; No foxing; No markings; Clean copy. A "Map of the Highways in Amherst and Vicinity" and other in text illustrations. Original photograph of a street in Amherst, "photographed in January by E.E. Hubbard," laid down on stiff card stock; Parton; Points of interest in and about Amherst. Also descriptions of some of the many interesting drives.

3 Copies; 1893 Softcovers; Minimal wear; No Markings or Highlighting; Nice clean copies ( See Photos)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

1890 1st Edition Hardcover; Condition Poor; Pictorial light green cloth stamped in red and gold; Illustrated with two maps and three plates; Book is almost detached from cover; Loose binding; Some cracking to hinges; Soiling and wear to the cloth and wear to the spine tips; No foxing; The title page is starting to come loose; No Markings/Highlighting; Tanned clean pages (See Photos)

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR; 1992 Blue Hardcover with gilt titles on front and spine; Boards are clean and bright; Contents tight and clean; Minimal wear; No Markings/Highlighting (See Photos)
"Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean-the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics-there emerges an 'island' of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago.

Cambridge Harvard University Press ; 1986 First EditionHardcover; Bound in black cloth; Tight, clean copy of this book on Philadelphia in the 19th century; Mylar covered cover; Minor Wear; No markings or Highlighting; Nice clean copy! (See Photos)

1994 Softcover; Minor cover and edgewear; No markings/highlighting; NIce clean copy(See Photos)
For over half a century, acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard has worked to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity" in her radiant photographs of the female nude. Now, with Chronicle Books' timely reissue of her best-selling volume, The Eternal Body, Bernhard's most evocative images are once again available in a superb collection, complete with an insightfill text, that pays tribute to a living legend. Hauntingly sensual yet classically reserved, the book's ethereal duotone photographs appear to be illuminated from within so that even the simplest lines of the human form -- a draped torso, a curved neck, an angled limb -- take on a complexity not often seen in work of this kind. A master artist whose technical prowess places her among the ranks of the greatest photographers of our time, Ruth Bernhard has created a masterpiece of expression and sensitivity in The Eternal Body.… Read More