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Lives and Letters: A. R. Orage, Katherine Mansfield, Beatrice Hastings, John Middleton Murry, S. S. Koteliansky, 1906-1957
John Carswell
New Directions, New York, 1978
Hardcover, 307 pp.
Book Condition: Book: Near Fine. Clean, tight binding, unmarked pages. DJ: Fair. Open tears, bookstore sticker on spine, mylar protected.
ID: 7211
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Price: $9.00
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German Literary Fairy Tales, vol. 30
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano, Franz Kafka, and others
Frank G. Ryder, ed., and Robert M. Browning, trans.
Continuum, New York, 1983
Hard Cover, 306 pp.
Book Condition: Book: Fine. Tight binding, clean pages, small crack to front endpaper. DJ: Near Fine. Slight sunning, shelfwear.
ID: 6001
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Price: $38.00
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The Soothsayings of Bakis: Goethe's Tragi-Comic Observations on Life, Time, and History
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD, 1966
Hard Cover with dust jacket, 7 x 10, 86 pp. ; Harold Jantz, translator and editor
Book Condition: Book: Fine. Tight binding, clean boards with gilt spine title, portrait of Goethe on front board, slight bumping; unmarked pages slightly tanned. DJ: Near Fine. Etching of Goethe on front and back covers. Clean with small chip at top; now mylar-covered.
ID: 1657
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Price: $18.00
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Annie's Captain
Kathryn Hulme
Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1961
First Edition
Hard Cover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 330 pp.
Book Condition: Book: Near Fine. Tight binding, slight bumping to head and tail, some fading, clean pages. DJ: Very Good. Slight sunning, some staining, price-clipped, now mylar-covered.
ID: 0611
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Price: $30.00
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Life & Letters December 1934
Victor Gollancz, London, 1934
Journal, 6.5 x 10, 384 pp.
Book Condition: Vol XI, No 60. Good -. Ex-library with inked numerals on the cover, small tear to spine, shelfwear, scuffing, corners fanned. Pages clean and unmarked. Monthly journal with article by Denis Saurat, A.R. Orage
ID: 1399
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Price: $20.00
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Egyptian Time
Naguib Mahfouz
Doubleday, New York, 1992
First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.5 x 11.5, 103 pp. Robert Lyons, photographer; Peter Theroux, translator
Book Condition: Book: Fine. Rust cloth boards, title on front cover stamped in blind and on the spine stamped in gold. Tight binding, slight shelfwear, unmarked pages. 69 full page color photographs. 1988 Nobel laureate Mahfouz's short story "The Cradle." DJ: Good. Open and closed tears at spine and flaps, chipping, not price-clipped. Now mylar protected.
ID: 1501
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Price: $25.00
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From Eden: An Evolving World
Laurence Adams Malone
Phaedra Publishers, New York, 1972
Hard Cover, 167 pp.
Book Condition: Book: Near Fine. Numbered and signed by author. Clean orange boards, gilt spine title, some bumping to corners and bottom spine. Sonnets ñBased on the Writings and Ideas of Pierre Teilhard Chardin,î with many illustrations, bright pages. DJ: Good. Shelfwear, scuffing, price clipped, open tears to top edge.
ID: 5194
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Price: $10.00
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Beyond the Mind We Go: Metanoia
Len Maurice
Bellman Books, Bournemouth, U.K., 1995
Soft Cover, 196 pp.
Book Condition: Good. Clean, crack at front hinge, small tear at back of spine, unmarked pages.
Written as a science-fiction novel by a longtime student of Gurdjieff's writings, Beyond the Mind We Go: Metanoia is one of "first books to focus on Beelzebub's Tales since A. R. Orage's Commentaries (1961) and John G. Bennett's Talks (1977)." - J. Walter Driscoll, Gurdjieff International Review, Fall 1998 Issue, Vol. II (1)
ID: 7048
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Price: $26.00
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The Descent
Fritz Peters
Signet Books, New York, 1953Cover art by James Avarti
Soft Cover, 4.25 x 7, 160 pp.
Book Condition: Very Good. Bright, full-color cover with minor edge wear and bumping; tight spine; crisp pages, tanned.
ID: 0520
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Price: $15.00
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