2011, ISBN: 9780340360354

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Ballantine Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345450671 . Ex-library book, but still in great condition - brodart cover and usual ex-lib type m… More...

Ballantine Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345450671 . Ex-library book, but still in great condition - brodart cover and usual ex-lib type markings such as front and spine sticker. Pages clean and tight, a little scuffing to cover, bumping to corners. Only light wear overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; The deciphering of the Rosetta stone was one of the great intellectual triumphs of all time, unlocking the secrets of thousands of years of Egypt’s ancient civilization. Yet in the past two centuries, the circumstances surrounding this bravura feat of translation have become shrouded in myth and mystery. Now in his spellbinding new book, Daniel Meyerson recounts the extraordinary true story of how the lives of two geniuses converged in a breakthrough that revolutionized our understanding of the past. The emperor Napoleon and the linguist Jean-Francois Champollion were both blessed with the temperament of artists and damned with ferocious impatience—and both of them were obsessed with Egypt. In fact, it was Napoleon’s dazzling, disastrous Egyptian campaign that caught the attention of the young Champollion and forever changed his life. From the instant Champollion learned of Napoleon’s discovery of a stone inscribed with three sets of characters—Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic—he could not rest. He vowed to be the first to crack the mystery of what became known as the Rosetta stone..... [417-noto] ., Ballantine Books, 2004, 3, United States Government Printing Office, 1966/01/01 00:00:00.000. Trade Paperback . Good. Schlegel,Dorothy M. Gem Stones of the United States: Geological Survey Bulletin 1042G Pamphlet. Stains on front cover. Binding tight. Underlining & notations throughout pamphlet. All U.S. orders shipped with tracking number & e-mail confirmation. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers., United States Government Printing Office, 1966/01/01 00:00:00.000, 2.5, Hardcover. Very Good. 1969, fourth edition. Minor cover and edge wear, previous owner's name on inside front cover. Underlining and margin notes on several pages only. Nice copy. Satisfaction guaranteed., 3, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1988. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. Science fiction paperback, 1st printing, 7/88, Condition is fine, has light edge wear, no creases, no writing or stamps, but has tanning to inside of front and back cover and light tanning to upper page edges, cover bright and glossy, ...........WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.....We have many other titles in this genre, and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package. please contact us for info......Summary - ..A stone ring in the Scottish Highlands becomes the gateway through which Kelsie McBlair enters a new world and becomes embroiled in a struggle beween Light and Dark for power over the Green Valley. Norton's many Witch World fans will welcome this return to a land of powerful witches, mail-clad warriors, and mysterious Old Ones".., Ace Books, 1988, 5, Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 1990. Book. Very Good Plus. Soft cover. 1st Printing. A collectible Silhouette Inimate Moments #361, first printing 12/90 paperback in Very Good+ condition. Reading Crease on spine, and front cover hinge, ........WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info ...........Summary - .Swept away...EAST MEETS WEST-----Lord Ali Ben Hari disapproved of strong-willed public-relations executive Genevieve Jordan, who had been assigned to help organize his country's economic conference. She was everything he detested in a woman, yet the thought of possessing the golden-haired beauty sent excitement racing through his body, and Ali vowed to make her his.........Caught up in a dangerous world centuries removed from her own, Genevieve knew it would be wise to leave. Ali's stone-age opinions continually infuriated her, but the smolderingly handsome desert lord was unlike any man she'd ever met. The power of his touch set her on fire, and soon, the burning sands of Kashkiri began to feel like home.., Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 1990, 3, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959.Plot introductionThe novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating from before 1400, was a national monument that had been spared destruction many times throughout history, and the arson shocked Japan. The story is narrated by Mizoguchi, the disturbed acolyte in question, who is afflicted with an ugly face and a stutter, and who recounts his obsession with beauty and the growth of his urge to destroy it. The novel also includes one of Mishima's most memorable characters, Mizoguchi's club-footed, deeply cynical friend Kashiwagi, who gives his own highly individual twist to various Zen parablesTitleThe temple's actual name is the Rokuon-ji (), from the first two characters of the posthumous name of its builder, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. But the shariden or reliquary in its grounds, the Kinkaku, grew so famous that the temple became known as the Kinkaku-ji instead.Plot summaryChildhoodThe protagonist, Mizoguchi, is the son of a consumptive Buddhist priest who lives and works on the remote Cape Nariu on the north coast of Honsh. As a child, the narrator lives with his uncle at the village of Shiraku (), near Maizuru.Throughout his childhood he is assured by his father that the Golden Pavilion is the most beautiful building in the world, and the idea of the temple becomes a fixture in his imagination. A stammering boy from a poor household, he is friendless at his school, and takes refuge in vengeful fantasies. When a naval cadet who is visiting the school makes fun of him, he vandalises the cadet's belongings behind his back. A neighbour's girl, Uiko, becomes the target of his hatred, and when she is killed by her deserter boyfriend after she betrays him, Mizoguchi becomes convinced that his curse on her has been fulfilled.His ill father takes him to the Kinkaku-ji for the first time in the spring of 1944, and introduces him to the Superior, Tayama Dosen. After his father's death, Mizoguchi becomes an acolyte at the temple. It is the height of the war, and there are only three acolytes, but one is his first real friend, the candid and pleasant Tsurukawa. During the 19445 school year, he boards at the Rinzai Academy's middle school and works at a factory, fascinated by the idea that the Golden Pavilion will inevitably be burnt to ashes in the firebombing. But the American planes avoid Kyoto, and his dream of a glorious tragedy is defeated. In May 1945, he and Tsurukawa visit Nanzen-ji. From the tower, they witness a strange scene in a room of the Tenju-an nearby: a woman in a formal kimono gives her lover a cup of tea to which she adds her own breast milk.After his father dies of consumption, he is sent to Kinkaku-ji. On the first anniversary of his father's death, his mother visits him, bringing the mortuary tablet so that the Superior can say Mass over it. She tells him that she has moved from Nariu to Kasagun, and reveals her wish that he should succeed Father Dosen as Superior at Rokuon-ji. The two ambitionsthat the temple be destroyed, or that it should be his to controlleave him confused and ambivalent. On hearing the news of the end of the war and the Emperor's renunciation of divinity, Father Dosen calls his acolytes and tells them the fourteenth Zen story from The Gateless Gate, "Nansen kills a kitten", which leaves them bemused. Mizoguchi is bitterly disappointed by the end of hostilities, and late at night he climbs the hill behind the temple, Okitayama-Fudosan, looks down on the lights of Kyoto, and pronounces a curse: "Let the darkness of my heart equal the darkness of the night which encloses those countless lights!"Friendship with KashiwagiDuring the winter of that year, the Temple is visited by a drunk American soldier and his pregnant Japanese girlfriend. He pushes his girlfriend down into the snow, and orders Mizoguchi to trample her stomach, giving him two cartons of cigarettes in exchange for doing so. Mizoguchi goes indoors and obsequiously presents the cartons to the Superior, who is having his head shaved by the deacon. Father Dosen thanks him, and tells him he has been chosen for the scholarship to Otani University. A week later the girl visits the temple, tells her story, and demands compensation for the miscarriage she has suffered. The Superior gives her money and says nothing to the acolytes, but rumours of her claims spread, and the people at the temple become uneasy about Mizoguchi. Throughout 1946 he is tormented by the urge to confess, but never does so, and in the spring of 1947 he leaves with Tsurukawa for Otani University. He starts to drift away from Tsurukawa, befriending Kashiwagi, a cynical clubfooted boy from Sannomiya who indulges in long "philosophical" speeches.Kashiwagi boasts of his ability to seduce women by making them feel sorry for himin his words, they "fall in love with my clubfeet." He demonstrates his method to Mizoguchi by feigning a tumble in front of a girl. She helps him into her house. Mizoguchi is so disturbed that he runs away, and takes a train to the Kinkaku-ji to recover his self-assurance. In May, Kashiwagi invites him to a "picnic" at Kameyama Park, taking the girl he tricked, and another girl for Mizoguchi. When left alone with the girl, she tells him a story about a woman she knows who lost her lover during the war. He realises that the woman she is talking about must be the same one he saw two years before through a window of Tenju Hermitage. Mizoguchi's mind fills with visions of the Golden Pavilion, and he finds himself impotent. That evening a telegram arrives at the university bearing news of kindly Tsurukawa's death in a road accident. For nearly a year, Mizoguchi avoids Kashiwagi's company.In the spring of 1948 Kashiwagi comes to visit him at the temple, and gives him a shakuhachi as a present. He takes the opportunity to demonstrate his own skill as a player. In May he asks Mizoguchi to steal some irises and cat-tails for him from the temple garden. Mizoguchi takes them to Kashiwagi's boarding-house, and while discussing the story of Nansen and the kitten, Kashiwagi starts to make an arrangement, mentioning that he is being taught ikebana by his girlfriend. Mizoguchi realises that this girlfriend must be the woman he saw at Tenju Hermitage. When she arrives, Kashiwagi breaks up with her, and they quarrel. She runs away and Mizoguchi follows, telling her that he witnessed her tragic scene two years ago. She is moved, and tries to seduce him, but again he is assailed by visions of the temple, and he is impotent.Enmity with Father DosenIn January 1949 Mizoguchi is walking through Shinkyogoku when he thinks he sees Father Dosen with a geisha. Momentarily distracted, he starts to follow a stray dog, loses it, and then in a back alley he runs into the Superior just as he is getting into a hired car with the geisha. He is so surprised that he laughs out loud, and Father Dosen calls him a fool. Over the next two months Mizoguchi becomes obsessed with reproducing Dosen's brief expression of hatred. He buys a photograph of the geisha and slips it into Dosen's morning newspaper. The Superior gives no sign of having found it, but secretly places the photo in Mizoguchi's drawer the next day. When Mizoguchi finds it there, he feels victorious. He tears it up, wraps the shreds in newspaper with a stone, and sinks it in the pond.As Mizoguchi's mental illness worsens, he neglects his studies. On 9 November 1949, the Superior reprimands him for his poor work. Mizoguchi responds by borrowing ¥3000 from Kashiwagi, who characteristically raises ¥500 of the money by taking back and selling the flute and dictionary he had given as presents. He goes to Takeisao-jinja (a shrine also known as Kenkun-jinja) and draws a mikuji lot which warns him not to travel northwest. He sets off northwest the next morning, to the region of his birth, and spends three days at Yura (now Tangoyura), where the sight of the Sea of Japan inspires him to destroy the Kinkaku.He is retrieved by a policeman, and on his return he is met by his angry mother, who is relieved to learn that he did not steal the money he used to flee. Obsessed by the idea of arson, one day he follows a guilty-looking boy to the Sammon Gate of the Myshin-ji, and is amazed and disappointed when the boy does not set it alight. He compiles a long list of old temples which have burnt down. By May his debt (with 10% simple interest per month) has grown to ¥5100. Kashiwagi is angry, and comes to suspect that Mizoguchi is considering suicide. On 10 June Kashiwagi complains to Father Dosen, who gives him the principal; afterwards, Kashiwagi shows letters to Mizoguchi that reveal the fact that Tsurukawa did not die in a road accident, but committed suicide over a love affair. He hopes to discourage Mizoguchi from doing anything similar. For the last time, they discuss the Zen story of Nansen and the kitten.Final eventsOn 15 June, Father Dosen takes the unusual step of giving Mizoguchi ¥4250 in cash for his next year's tuition. Mizoguchi spends it on prostitutes in the hope that Dosen will be forced to expel him. But he quickly tires of waiting for Dosen to find out, and when he spies on Dosen in the Tower of the North Star, and seems him crouched in the "garden waiting" position, he cannot account for this evidence of secret shame, and is filled with confusion. The next day he buys arsenic and a knife at a shop near Senbon-Imadegawa, an intersection 2 km to the southeast of the temple, and loiters outside Nishijin Police Station. The outbreak of the Korean War on 25 June, and the failure of Kinkaku's fire-alarm on 29 June, seem to him signs of encouragement. On 30 June a repairman tries to fix it, but he is unsuccessful, and promises to return the next day. He does not come. A strange interview with the visiting Father Kuwai Zenkai, of Ryuho-ji in Fukui Prefecture, provides the final inspiration, and in the early hours of 2 July Mizoguchi sneaks into the Kinkaku and dumps his belongings, placing three straw bales in corners of the ground floor. He goes outside to sink some non-inflammable items in the pond, but on turning back to the temple he finds himself filled with his childhood visions of its beauty, and he is overcome by uncertainty.Finally he remembers the words from the Rinzairoku, "When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha", and he resolves to go ahead with his plan. He enters the Kinkaku and sets the bales on fire. He runs upstairs and tries to enter the Kukkych, but the door is locked. He hammers at the door for a minute or two. Suddenly feeling that a glorious death has been "refused" him, he runs back downstairs and out of the temple, choking on the smoke. He continues running, out of the temple grounds, and up the hill named Hidari Daimonji, to the north. He throws away the arsenic and knife, lights a cigarette, and watches the pavilion burn.Allusions to actual history, geography and current scienceThe real storyThe only detailed information in English on the arson comes from Albert Borowitz's Terrorism For Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome (2005), which includes translations of interview transcripts published in the book Kinkaku-ji Enj (1979) by Mizukami Tsutomo, a novelist who had known the boy at school.The acolyte's name was Hayashi Yken, and the Superior's name was Murakami Jikai. The prostitute to whom he boasted was called Heya Teruko. Hayashi's mother threw herself in front of a train soon after the event. His sentence was reduced on account of his schizophrenia; he was released on 29 September 1955, the same year that the rebuilding commenced, and died in March 1956. (Borowitz comments that many accounts avoid giving the acolyte's name, perhaps to prevent him from becoming a celebrity.) The pavilion's interior paintings were restored much later; even the gold leaf, which was mostly all gone long before 1950, was replaced.Mishima collected all the information he could, even visiting Hayashi in prison, and as a result the novel follows the real situation with surprising closeness.Yukio Mishima ( Mishima Yukio?) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka ( Hiraoka Kimitake?, January 14, 1925 November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century; he was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was poised to win the prize in 1968 but lost the award to his fellow countryman Yasunari Kawabata. His avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. He is remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état attempt, known as the "Mishima Incident".Mishima was also known for his natural bodybuilding and modelling.The Mishima Prize was established in 1988 to honor his life and works., Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980, 0, Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages have some light browning. Spine is cracked ar front endpaper, and title page. Spine is beginning to chip. ., Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1898, 3, Methuen, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 490 pages, condition is very good, an owners name to the reverse of the front cover., Methuen, 1979, 3, London: Collins Clear Type Press. Hardback. Good. Green pictorial boards with picture of boy wearing bearskin and dressed as a soldier to front board, writer to back board and child to spine. Colour plate to frontispiece, base a little detached at hinge. Rear page a little tanned. 1st story 'Plumpy' by R. A. H. Goodyear, also includes 'The Old Submarine' by e' by A. Harcourt Burrage, 'Silly Billy' by Theodora Wilson-Wilson, 'The House on the Bridge' by C. E. Bowen, 'A Memorable Christmas Tree' by Hilda T. Skae, 'The Young Pilot' by George Surrey, 'When it was Rough' by Roland Spencer, 'Christmas Pudding' by Marjory Royce, 'Giovanni the Mule' by S. M. Hills, 'The Story Teller' by Robert Graves, 'Good Enough is Big Enough' by George Surrey, 'The Stone' by Julia P. Dragoumis, 'Smith Major's Pet Lamb' by K. L. Oldmeadow, 'The Middy and the Monkey' by Arthur Lee Knight and 'An Adventure with a Hawsbill Turtle' by Arthur Lee Knight. Size: 7 x 5 Inches Approx, Collins Clear Type Press, 2.5, The Institute of Historical Research, 1970. Book condition: Good/VG in grey-green card with paper label to front, bound with stitched thread; browning to spine + edges of cover. 9 page offprint from the "Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research". A bright copy.. First Thus. Paperback. Good., The Institute of Historical Research, 1970, 2.5, United Kingdom: University College Cardiff, 1990. Book. As New. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Condition With No Signatures Inscriptions Or Notations Found. Photo Illustrations. Laminated Pictorial Soft Card Cver With Titles On Front - No Visible Wear Appears Unread.., University College Cardiff, 1990, 5, Uk: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1979. clean black bds with gilt title to spine. bump to top corners. Bindings tight. Interior very good and clean. Dustjacket in VG condition with small laminate peel to front edge of jacket spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall., Methuen & Co Ltd, 1979, 0, United Kingdom: W.K. Morton & Sons Ltd (Horncastle). Pages 129 to 160 (approx 31 pages). The soft card cover is there and apart from some browning/dust marking is in good condition. One plate (Roman Stone Cist and Glass urn) .A handwritten note on front cover. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. A Quarterly Journal. A Quarterly Journal. Vol. XVI . No.129. January 1921. Edited by Lieut. Col. E. Mansel Sympson . Good. Soft cover. 1921., W.K. Morton & Sons Ltd (Horncastle), 1921, 2.5, London: Bounty Books, 2011. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Bounty Books, London, 2011. Facsimile edition of a 1950's book originally published as The Wayfarer's Book. Book condition: near fine - very small indentation to rear cover at hinge. Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped, small closed tear (approx 1.5cms) at upper of front and a small perforation (approx 4mm) to rear cover at hinge corresponding with the small indentation to the book. This is a treasure trove of history, folklore and customs. The perfect book for everyone who loves the great outdoors. From hop picking in Kent to standing stones in Wiltshire, from ancient crosses in Northumbria to archery in Edinburgh, and from bridges in Monmouthshire to country rhymes from around the British Isles, this little gem of a book will help you understand, and enjoy, the countryside around you. Originally published in the 1950's by ward Lock, this is a charming guide to the churches, cottages, trades and pastimes walkers may encounter in the countryside., Bounty Books, 2011, 4, Front Street imprint of Boyds Mills Press. Used - Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc..., Front Street imprint of Boyds Mills Press, 2.5, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8.45 x 5.35 x 0.70 inches. Dover softcover edition in glossy covers (1989). There is a 3/8"" closed tear on the front edge of the rear cover; otherwise the book is Very Good condition. The covers are in great shape. The binding is square and tight. Small abrasion to the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge., Dover Publications, Inc., 1989, 2.5, Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Hodder & Stoughton, 3<

1975, ISBN: 0340360356

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1975, ISBN: 9780340360354

Hodder & Stoughton, 1975-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. in x in x in., Hodder & Stoughton, 1975-01-01, 3