Icons [Ikonen; Icones]

Published by London: Batchworth Press

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Seller: My Father's Books, Bennington, VT, U.S.A.My Father's Books

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Printed in Czechoslovakia. Introduction by Rice. 65 color plates. All text appears in three languages: English, German, and French--including the Descriptions of Plates. Bibliography; 192 pages. The attractive red cloth is hardly worn, except a bit at one corner. Decorative gilt lettering on the front cover and spine about as bright as if just issued. The interior is of mixed condition, as the endpapers show some age-darkening, but the full-color plates are all present and in beautiful condition. [Please see my eight images.] The unclipped dustjacket is rubbed, with a sunned and wrinkled spine and a major tear on rear cover; once mended with cellophane tape, now replaced with archival tissue. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.

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Bibliographic details

Title
Icons [Ikonen; Icones]
Author
Rice, T. Talbot
Publisher
London: Batchworth Press
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hard Cover Cloth
Seller catalogs
Arts, Christianity, Eastern Studies, History, Philosophy (Medieval), Russia and the Soviet Union

My Father's Books

Bennington, VT, U.S.A.

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The books listed here are, indeed, from my father's library, representing the depth and varied interests of a modern scholar's mind. Dr. Henry LeRoy Finch, professor emeritus of philosophy and a published author, trained in the classics (graduating top in his class at Yale), and went on to develop an appreciation for modern thinkers. It took over half-a-century to amass this collection of primarily-scholarly books with a broad range of subjects from Philosophy and Religion (with an emphasis on the interrelationships and intricacies of Eastern and Western Thinking) to scientific influences played out over the entire history of humankind, touching necessarily on Art, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature, History of various Cultures, Psychology, Physics, and Spiritual Thought, including Theosophy and Mysticism. Many are esoteric philosophical works, out-of-print and unavailable elsewhere. A great number cover the interconnections of so many subjects as to defy classification. His was a working library: each volume was read and familiar, its whereabouts on a shelf always known, even when "double-parked." Though many of the books are esoteric, others will appeal to the general reader, often making an abstruse subject more approachable. (There are a hundred books on Einstein alone!) In addition, there are numerous paperbacks--classics, scholarly, first-published editions, several versions of the same book (in different translations), handy for packing along in a back pocket. Each of the volumes from the collection has a bookplate tipped in at the front and may have pencil marginalia--sparse or profuse. I have tried to reflect this in all the listings, but feel free to call and discuss further details of a book's condition. As it will take a long time to write up all the descriptions, some of you may wish to call and ask about a particular book you have been seeking. Meanwhile, I'll try to keep an eye on the "Wants" list. Thank you for visiting this page. I hope my father's books will eventually find happy homes; it was one of his last wishes.…

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Philosophy, Religion, Judaica, Christianity, Eastern Studies, Science, Mathematics, Literature, Psychology, Mysticism

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VT, U.S.A.