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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Verso Book of London in 2002. Hardcover. 1st edition, 2nd impression. See inside number sequence "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2." Book condition: Near Fine. Red cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. Price unclipped. Slight fading of jackets' colour to spine. See photograph. Dims: 210mm x 160mm x 32mm. 160 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. AP.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. 139 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear and clean text.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. x, 207pp w bibliography and index. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo: 235 x 158mm. Winner of the 2008 Guizot Prize of the Academie francaise. First published as La Souffrance Comme Identite by Fayard (Paris, 2007) and translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian.

[0-86091-730-4] 1980. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 269pp. 8vo. Blue card wraps. Feminism. There is a name penned lightly to the introduction page; else is clean, tight, bright, and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. 311pp w bibliography and index. Grey boards, black cloth quarterwrap spine w green lettering. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Titled black DJ is clean and without edgewear, showing slight surface scuff. Small octavo: 21 x 16cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth binding with gold colored print on spine. Slight crush at spine ends. Shadow mark on rear cover where label removed. Otherwise tight, sound and unmarked. 308 pages including index. Dust jacket has crushing with very small closed tear on top edge of rear panel. lLight tattering at spine ends. In mylar and no price present.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Second Edition, later printing. Trade PB in photo wraps. Near Fine. Book curled, stained top rear corner intruding into book, else Fine and unmarked. xv, 224pp inc. textual footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. The book is very good with light edge wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. The book is very good+ with slight edge wear and bump to lower spine end.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. This collection of essays is drawn from Fintan O'Toole's writings over two decades. Its portraits of people - talk-show hosts, priests, children, pop stars - and its reports of social and political upheaval, contemporary state of Ireland, and about the ways in which a country constantly builds and rebuilds its own identity. Arguments over nationalism, sexual politics and the Church. From Kirkus:"A riveting and curious look at the state of Ireland at the end of the century. Drawing from two decades of writings, Irish Times columnist O'Toole discusses everything from parallels between the American West and Ireland, John Ford's films, and the myth of JFK to Irish television personality Gay Byrne and his Late Late Show. O'Toole introduces the collection with an examination of what globalizationâ"Ireland's entrance into the ``world's fair of consumerism''â"means for a country where ``emigration has been the single biggest fact in the 75-year history of the Irish state.'' He also examines the previously tabooâ"including the Catholic Church and its silences regarding adulterous priests and pedophiles. O'Toole is at his most affecting when he recounts the story of the birth and abandonment of a baby in the west of Ireland in 1995. A country where the illegality of abortion is written into the constitution now has a tacit understanding that the death or abandonment of an infant doesn't require prosecution or punishment. While such a position would be considered shocking in the US, O'Toole counts it as progress for Ireland, a sign of compassion toward women. Affirming the long-term existence of the Irish diaspora, O'Toole says, ``Ireland is something that often happens elsewhere.'' Useful to American audiences in their analysis of how the Irish and the American intersect, these writings serve as a reminder that global, mass culture is formed by experiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Heartfelt and passionate, O'Toole's ruminations effectively map a changing Ireland." dark green cloth bright sharp tight Unclipped dustjacket free of marks or chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal corner wear (including some white discoloring to lower right corner of front cover). DJ is unclipped and in very good condition, save for corner wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 165 pages. Published in 2012. Collection of short stories, published posthumously. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original which sold out shortly after publication. It is one of Jose Saramago's earliest books, published in 1978, and now finally available in translation thirty-four years later. There is no American Edition. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jose Saramago's "Objecto Quase" in a felicitous English translation. A magnanimous gesture from the Modern Master. "Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody, and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Saramago's earliest stories attests to the novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: In 'Embargo', a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; 'The Chair' recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque 'Things', the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing" (Publisher's blurb). "Saramago will be a permanent part of the Western canon. In all of his wonderful meditations upon the ruefulness of life, there is always a spirit of laughter beckoning us in the art of somehow going on. His achievement is one of the enlargements of life" (Harold Bloom). That is to say, more than any other great European writer of our time, he makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1844678784. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 340 pages. Published in 2006. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Alain Badiou's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alain Badiou's "Polemics" in a felicitous English translation. His political and philosophical essays. "Brilliant reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and re-orienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq Wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment, and propaganda, and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force" (Publisher's blurb). His philosophical approach is part mathematical (Cantor's Set Theory), part rationalist (Analytic Philosophy), and part poetic (Continental Philosophy). Were it not for Alain Badiou's revaluation of "experience" (in the historical rather than personal sense) in subsequent volumes such as "Polemics", his "Being And Event" masterwork would have been relegated to mere academicism by the constipated and self-absorbed tendentiousness of his attempt to unite Continental with British ("Anglo-American") philosophy. Instead, radical and all-encompassing, Badiou's oeuvre now towers over contemporary philosophy as a grand Romantic gesture in the manner not seen since Sartre. An absolute "must-have" title for Alain Badiou collectors. This title is a brilliant collection. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and despite its imperfection (rubbing on all-white DJ, a publisher's flaw) is still in fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALAIN BADIOU AND GILLES DELEUZE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1844670899. no.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 224 pages. Published in 2014. Book-length account on subject. One of Alexandre Kojeve's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a small independent press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alexandre Kojeve's "The Notion of Authority: A Brief Presentation" in a felicitous English translation by Hager Weslati. The great Hegelian philosopher's succinct exposition on modern power. "Uncovers the Conceptual Premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated into English for the very first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and political authority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Schmitt, Agamben, and Dumezil" (Publisher's blurb). During the War Years (1933-1939), the Russian-born and German-educated Alexandre Kojeve found the time - and a rapturous, illustrious audience that included Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty - to explain through a series of now-legendary lectures the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in his masterwork, "The Phenomenology of Spirit". The present book is a continuation of those lectures, brilliantly assembled from his found Notes. "Kojeve was, above all, a philosopher and not an ideologue. Exposes readers to the excitement of discovering a great mind in all its force and power" (Allan Bloom). An absolute "must-have" title for Alexandre Kojeve collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEXANDRE KOJEVE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1781680957. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 375 pages. Published in 1998. Retrospective collection of essays and occasional journalism. Benedict Anderson's most accessible, elegant, and engaging book. The First Hardcover Edition. The true first. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Issued with and without DJ editions, as is typical of the publisher. Without DJ, as issued. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Benedict Anderson's "The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, And The World". His best book since "Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread of Nationalism" (1983). "His most telling and incisive interventions have been his essays. Those collected in this book span a range of subjects: From Aquino's Philippines, where the horses on the haciendas ate better than the stable-hands, to political assassination in contemporary Thailand, where government posts have become so lucrative that to gain them, candidates will kill their rivals. The subtle imbrication of politics, national imaginings, bureaucracy, modernization, and its agents (particularly print culture) is brought out in all its complexity and richness. 'The spectre of comparisons' was a phrase by the Filipino nationalist and novelist Jose Rizal (1861-96) whose work and fate in the national imagination are discussed. Contains important theoretical and historical considerations about nationalism, national literature and memory, modernization, and the prospects for the Left in what Anderson dubs 'The New World Disorder' " (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Benedict Anderson collectors. This title is great collection. This is one of few copies of the true First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (Verso) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the Softcover Edition. Copies available online have very serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most important and influential historian/thinkers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BENEDICT ANDERSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1859848133. no.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 165 pages. Published in 2012. Collection of short stories, published posthumously. Uncorrected Proof. The very first appearance of the title in published form in English and in the United Kingdom, it is one of Jose Saramago's earliest books, published in 1978 and now finally available in translation thirty-four years later. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. None of the copies was commercially sold. There is no American Edition. The Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents Jose Saramago's "Objecto Quase" in a felicitous English translation. A magnanimous gesture from the Modern Master. "Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody, and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Saramago's earliest stories attests to the novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: In 'Embargo', a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; 'The Chair' recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque 'Things', the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing" (Publisher's blurb). "Saramago will be a permanent part of the Western canon. In all of his wonderful meditations upon the ruefulness of life, there is always a spirit of laughter beckoning us in the art of somehow going on. His achievement is one of the enlargements of life" (Harold Bloom). That is to say, more than any other great European writer of our time, he makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This is a copy of the Uncorrected Proof. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Uncorrected Proof of the First British Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.