Joan Alison Smith (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 231 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Loretta Lawson is already a little apprehensive about spending a hot, muggy weekend alone in New York City at her friend Toni's apartment. And it seems her fears are confirmed when she receives a series of mysterious and threatening phone calls. What's more, as she explores the exciting, unfamiliar city, she has the uneasy impression that someone is watching her, perhaps even following her. Is Loretta the target of these unnerving attentions or are they aimed at Toni? Loretta begins to think that she cannot trust her own judgment; the one person who might lend a hand--her ex-husband, journalist John Tracey, also in New York on a story--has too many problems of his own to help. In the end, Loretta must face the terrifying events that unfold alone. . . . Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.…

Hardback. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition second printing thus octavo hardback 192 pages Near Very Good condition (signs of removed label on front end paper -probably school use) in Near very Good unclipped dust jacket (has been clear laminated for protection No inscriptions Interesting view of peoples of the British Commonwealth in 1950's Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight browning to page block, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£9.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 186pp. Loretta Lawson, a feminist professor visiting Paris to deliver a paper on the oppressive nature of masculine grammatical forms, stumbles across the murder of an Oxford don. But when the body disappears, she returns to England without alerting the French police, but is resolved to solve the mystery from across the Channel. The BBC adaptation of 'A Masculine Ending', starred Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, and premiered in 1992. Joan Alison Smith (b. 1953), is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of 'Hacked Off', the book (her debut detective novel) is dedicated to Francis Wheen, her then husband. Quite a scarce book. Jacket by Sid (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.…

104 pp.; 21.5 x 10.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size 5000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the traveling show "do it," conceived and curated and with an introduction by Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Essay by Bruce Altshuler. Artists in the museum portion of the exhibit include Andrew Bolton, Joan Brossa, Critical Art Ensemble, Jimmie Durham, Maria Eichhorn, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Paul-Armand Gette, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joseph Grigely, Ulrike Grossarth, Shere Hite, Fabrice Hybert, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Alison Knowles, Koo Jeong-a, Bertrand Lavier, Siobhan Liddell, Eva Marisaldi, Chris Marker, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Jason Rhoades, Rupert Sheldrake, Andreas Slominski, Bruce Sterling, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Erwin Wurm, Marina Abramovic, Dara Birnbaum, Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, María Teresa Hincapié, Allan Kaprow, Ben Kinmont, Jiri Kolar, Annette Messager, Eileen Myles, Pepón Osorio, Steven Pippin, Pipilotti Rist, Nancy Spero, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz West. Artists included in do it (tv) broadcast on Austrian television include Gilbert & George, Leon Golub, Douglas Gordon, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Shere Hite, Robert Jelinek, Ilya Kabakov, Jonas Mekas, Eileen Myles, Yoko Ono, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michael Smith, Nancy Spero, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Christian Boltanski, John Baldessari, and Erwin Wurm. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and fading at spine. Contents clean and unmarked.…