Ashgate 2000 (91 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket, 248pp. First edition. VG/VG: a bright and solid book with mild foxing to the fore edge; a bright and whole jacket with light rubbing and foxing.

Very good in very lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed jacket Cloth.

hardback, 4to, 206pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper; ISBN: 1840146974.

1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated boards (Fine). Pp. xii + 325, with b&w illus (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edition. 8vo. xxi + 338pp. Maps and diagrams. A few light pencil annotations. Original navy and grey boards. ISBN 0754613518 US$13.

Original publisher's red paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: 258pp., 11 contributions with illustrations - tables - notes & references, lists illustrations & tables, notes on contributors, acknowledgements, index. Very fine copy - as new.

First Edition. An exceptional copy in colour printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; Physical desc. : 256p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Advertising - Europe - History. Summary: Historians are only just beginning to replace outmoded theories of advertising manipulation with more sophisticated cultural explanations of the ways consumers filter and select messages. The contributors to this volume find the origins and trace the development of this new world of perception in modern city: London and Paris, the forerunners, and the cities and larger towns of France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where advertising created new urban perceptions, leading to new avenues of consumption and altered lifestyles. Advertising is viewed in the volume as a new way of perceiving and organizing the world of the city-dweller, a visual culture, a way of attaching meaning to things and to words, or rearranging the mental map of modern life. 1 Kg.…

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 206, illus with coloured and b&w photos (previous owner's near inscription on verso of front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, 206 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. An exceptional copy in colour printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; Physical desc. : 256p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Advertising - Europe - History. Summary: Historians are only just beginning to replace outmoded theories of advertising manipulation with more sophisticated cultural explanations of the ways consumers filter and select messages. The contributors to this volume find the origins and trace the development of this new world of perception in modern city: London and Paris, the forerunners, and the cities and larger towns of France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where advertising created new urban perceptions, leading to new avenues of consumption and altered lifestyles. Advertising is viewed in the volume as a new way of perceiving and organizing the world of the city-dweller, a visual culture, a way of attaching meaning to things and to words, or rearranging the mental map of modern life. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK original green cloth with white lettering on spine dust-jacket - fine not price-clipped pages: xii 405 some illus. inscribed from the editor on front end-paper otherwise as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK original green cloth gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - lightly chipped at top edge not price-clipped pages: xii 405 152mm x 235mm (6 x 9.25") A review copy - with the publisher's slip loosely inserted some pencilled marginal annotations.

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, co mplete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

304pp. Original hardcover binding, as new. Please see description or ask for photos.

As-new condition. Includes: -Raven, James: Print for Free: Unsolicited Literature in Comparative Perspective -Cavagna, Anna Giulia: A Free Transmission of Knowledge: The Literary Gifts & Reception of an 18th-Century Scholar -Money, David: Free Flattery or Servile Tribute? Oxford & Cambridge Commemorative Poetry in the 17th & 18th-Centuries -Raven, James: Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial America -Volkov, Vadim V.: Limits to Propaganda: Sovietn Power & the Peasant Reader in the 1920s. Illustrated by B&W illustrations. 1st edition. Binding is cloth.…

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. Hardcover. Very good. X,163pp.

Condition: as new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. Hbk 4to 206pp fully illustrated an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve-protected dj as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xviii, 224 pp. Original laminated boards. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I: China: Epidemics, weather and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama; Dispersing the foetal toxin of the body: conceptions of smallpox aetiology in pre-modern China, Chia-Feng Chang; The threatening stranger: Kewu in pre-modern Chinese paediatrics, Christopher Cullen; Part II: India: Notions of 'contagion' in classical Indian medical texts, Rahul Peter Das; Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion?, Kenneth G. Zysk; Part III: Middle East and Europe: Old Testament 'leprosy', contagion and sin, Elinor Lieber; Did the Greeks have a word for it?, Vivian Nutton; A ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion, Lawrence I. Conrad; Contagion and leprosy: myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies, François-Olivier Touati; Contributors; Index.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 201pp illustr dj is a tad shelfworn now in protective sleeve otherwise an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

No Jacket. Hardcover octavo (VG+) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. BAL, IDRIS Turkey's relations with the West and the Turkic Republics. The rise and fall of the Turkish model. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. Lareg 8vo., 232 p. Signed and inscribed by the author. In English. Original binding. Very good ISBN: CATALOG: Turcica KEYWORDS: international relations Caucasus Central Asia. …

VG. no dj. hardback covers are clean and sharp-cornered. slight speckling to top edge of textblock. All pages are present, and the binding is tight and solid. no inscriptions or marginalia.

Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Hardback. Octavo. xviii, (270)pp. Original blue boards with gilt titles. A fine and unread copy. No jacket.

Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Hardback. Small octavo. xiv, 276pp. Original green boards with gilt spine titles. Fine and unread. No jacket.

Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Hardback. Small octavo. xii, (297)pp. Original green boards with gilt spine titles. Light storage wear otherwise fine and unread. No jacket.

Condition: Fine. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. xiv, 276pp. Original black boards with silver spine titles. Near fine in very good indeed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 262pp a new and unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new.

xviii,304pp. boards. very good.

Condition: Fine. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. xvi, (464)pp. Original green boards with gilt titles. Light shelf wear otherwise a near fine, unread copy. No jacket.