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xii, 212 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with minor soiling. Slender abrasion and soiling to text block's bottom edge. Shallow crease at top corner of pages 165-166; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Acknowledgements, b/w illustrations (including frontispiece), Contributors. and Index. Features thirteen chapters among three sections - PART I. SETTING THE STAGE: THE ORIGINAL MISSISSIPPIANS. "Introduction" by John H. Peterson, Jr.; "Prehistoric Mississippi" by Jay K. Johnson; "The Emergence of Historic Indian Tribes in the Southeast" by Patricia Galloway; "Trail of Treaties: The Choctaws from the American Revolution to Removal" by Samuel J. Wells; "The Mississippi Choctaws in the Nineteenth Century" by Clara Sue Kidwell. PART II. ENCOUNTERS: NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AFRICANS. "Introduction" by Charles D. Lowery; "The European Background in the Late Fifteenth Century" by Paul E. Hoffman; "European Interest in the Gulf Coast, 1500- 1699" by Robert S. Weddle; "European Colonization of Mississippi" by William Cash; "Africans in Colonial and Territorial Mississippi" by Robert L. Jenkins. PART III. THE CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC SCENE: A PHOTO ESSAY. "Ethnic Mississippi 1992" by D.C. Young and Stephen Young. {MS-Shelf#2|CMS-00700} ISBN 0878055789. …

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Estos cuentos que imaginan los peores futuros posibles fueron escritos entre 1928 y 1969 por Kit Reed, Kathe Wilhelm, Clare Winger Harris, Alice Glaser, James Tiptree Jr. , Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Jay Wells, Alice Eleanor Jones y Ursula K. Le Guin, juntos completan la tercera entrega de la antología ¡El futuro es mujer! editada por Lisa Yaszek, un viaje por las ficciones creadas por las mujeres que se atrevieron a mirar el futuro, experimentar con las formas narrativas y confrontar las ideas políticas de su época, participando así en la construcción de la Ciencia Ficción, un lenguaje que atraviesa culturas, continentes y géneros. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla. …

Rústica. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. Futuros distópicos es el tercer tomo temático agrupado por el colectivo de traductoras Falsos Amigos, a partir de la colección El futuro es mujer!, antología editada por la académica Lisa Yaszek, publicada en 2018 y ahora traducida por primera vez al castellano. La colección reúne relatos escritos por mujeres estadounidenses, publicados entre los años veinte y los setenta del siglo XX, imprescindibles para cimentar las bases de la ciencia ficción y su desarrollo. . En este volumen aparecen cuentos de Kit Reed, Kathe Wilhelm, Clare Winger Harris, Alice Glaser, James Tiptree Jr., Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Jay Wells, Alice Eleanor Jones y Ursula K. Le Guin, quienes, a partir de imaginar los peores futuros posibles, se preguntaron cómo serían las interacciones de los seres humanos consigo mismos y con los otros, en medio de las guerras, la devastación del planeta Tierra y los viajes espaciales. LIBRO.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2010 Liverpool University Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Signed and inscribed by Anne Stevenson to previous owner. Contents: Chapter 1 'Voyages over voices: Introduction' by Angela Leighton; Chapter 2 'The Melting Metaphor' by Anne Stevenson; Chapter 3 'Between us: Letters and Poems of Stevenson and Bishop' by Jonathan Ellis; Chapter 4 'Mothers, Mirrors, Doubles: Anne Stevenson's Elegies for Sylvia Plath' by Adam Piette; Chapter 5 'Staging Second Thoughts: The Poetry of Anne Stevenson' by John Redmond; Chapter 6 'Making Poetry: The Exemplary Anne Stevenson' by John Lucas; Chapter 7 'A curved adventure: Romanticism and the Poetry of Anne Stevenson' by Michael O'Neill; Chapter 8 'The Nature of Anne Stevenson' by Jay Parini; Chapter 9 'Anne Stevenson and the Poetry of Place' by Sean Pryor; Chapter 10 'Compacting Time: Anne Stevenson's Poems of Memory' by Emily R. Grosholz; Chapter 11 'Not exactly a persona: Pronouns in Anne Stevenson's Poetry' by Sara Johnson; Chapter 12 'To serve a girl on terrible terms: Anne Stevenson's Writing Selves' by Emma Jones; Chapter 13 'Talking and Singing: Anne Stevenson's Variations on a Rhythmical Theme' by Carol Rumens; Chapter 14 'Time will erase: Anne Stevenson and Elegy' by Tim Kendall; Chapter 15 'Observing the Overhearing: The Anne Stevenson Papers in Cambridge University Library' by John Wells; Chapter 16 'Bibliography of Anne Stevenson's Published Works' by John Wells. Signed by Author(s). …

47 pp.; 25.4 x 21.6 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 22 - December 12, 1982. Curated by Brooks Johnson and Thomas W. Styron. Artists include Mac Adams, John Ahearn, Thomas Barrow, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Cava, Jay Coogan, Vernon Fisher, Keith Haring, Gerald Incandela, Michael Lucero, Kim MacConnel, Ann McCoy, Duane Michals, Donald Newman, Izhar Patkin, Doug Prince, Judy Rifka, David Salle, Italo Scanga, Julian Schnabel, Gary Stephan, Alan Vega, William Wegman, Lynton Wells and David White. Includes a bibliography and a checklist of the exhibition. Very Good. 3 cm. indentation to recto from a paper clip which carries through to first interior page. Embossing of cover from writing. Additional bumping of and rubbing of edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (2nd Series, 1st printing) green colored embossed binding with gilt lettering and decoration; clean with "No. 4" in small letters inside cover o.w. no markings or writings; 309 pages followed by ads for other publications some wear at the points and other trace surface wear ;all portraits of prominent abolitionists have tissue guards Very good plus copy satisfaction or purchase price returned.…