1994, ISBN: 9780873382083

Hardcover

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Oblong 12mo. 144pp. Photo-illustrated white dustjacket with black lettering on the front cover… More...

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Oblong 12mo. 144pp. Photo-illustrated white dustjacket with black lettering on the front cover and spine. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."So decrees the second commandment. Could anything be clearer? And yet, through the centuries, Jews have decorated their tombstones with graven images. This rich tradition of liberally interpreting the biblical admonition has provided centuries' worth of graphic symbols and motifs that illuminate Jewish history and lore." In Graven Images, a surprisingly spirited view of a usually somber subject, author and photographer Arnold Schwartzman has assembled a lavish array of color photographs of Jewish tombstones. Focusing on the treasures he has discovered in thirty-eight European cemeteries, this book reproduces more than two hundred graven images from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Romania." "Schwartzman's beautiful close-up photographs and fascinating captions reveal the significance of some of the most common images found on the gravestones. Some reveal the occupation of the deceased (an inkwell and quill for a scribe) or something about character (a candelabrum for a pious woman). Others allude specifically to a person's name (a fish for a member of the Fischel family) or refer to biblical tradition (Noah's ark, Adam and Eve in the Garden). The book begins with a riveting essay by Chaim Potok, the renowned novelist and Jewish thinker, who asks: "How in the light of all these images are we to understand the second commandment?" "A unique assemblage of what Schwartzman has called "hallowed milestones that plot the course of the Jewish diaspora," Graven Images will appeal to everyone interested in Jewish history, symbols, and tradition." - The book jacket., Harry N. Abrams, 1993, 6, New York. 1994. May 1994. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385468415. 212 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Signed by the Author. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jonathan Carroll is no longer just a cult author. His previous novel, AFTER SILENCE, placed this gifted and award-winning writer squarely in the mainstream. The San Francisco Chronicle raved, ‘AFTER SILENCE is filled with people who feel as real as one’s closest friends, observed with a penetrating, and sometimes brutally chilling, clarity. a taut, original work whose excellence fulfills the promises made by this remarkable author over the last dozen years.’ In FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS, Jonathan Carroll returns to that unique literary landscape that he paves with magic and wonder. While vacationing in Sardinia, Ian McGann meets Death in a dream. Death promises to answer any of McGann’s questions, but if he fails to understand the answers, he will have to pay with his life. In Los Angeles, successful film actress Arlen Ford is no longer happy living in the Hollywood fast lane. She gives up everything - her career, her house, her glamorous lifestyle - and moves to Austria, where she meets a passionate war correspondent. From the start, their relationship is all-consuming. Arlen realizes she has been waiting for this man all her life. And in Vienna, the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead. How all three of these extraordinary fates converge is at the heart of Jonathan Carroll’s most daring and provocative novel, in which he dares to ask - and answer - the ultimate question: What is Death? inventory #21599 ISBN: 0385468415., 0, Kent OH: Kent State University Press, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. The first full length account of the 1909 episode provides the detail needed necessary for understanding it in the context of modern Greek history. Using not just all the available Greek sources but foreign office reports in Great Britain, Germany and Austria ...to place it against a carefully drawn background of Greek society and politics , the organization of the armed forces, and the foreign and economic problems of the nation in the turbulent years before World War I. 254p. bibliography, index , Crisp tight copy, but the DJ is price clipped with sun-faded spine.., Kent State University Press, 1977, 4<