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Adc Philadelphia, Pa Pocket Atlasby Adc the Map PeopleISBN 0875302262 (0-87530-226-2)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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ADC The Map People Philadelphia, PAby Adc the Map PeopleISBN 0875303897 (0-87530-389-7)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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The Aeneidby Virgil, Stanley Lombardo, W.R. JohnsonISBN 0872207315 (0-87220-731-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:A classicist best known for his translations of Homer, Sappho, Hesiod, and Callimachus returns to Roman poetry, offering a resonant new Aeneid. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Edward McCrorieISBN 0937986712 (0-937986-71-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Called "the best poem by the best poet," Virgil's Aeneid is perhaps the most famous work in Latin literature. It tells the story of Rome's founding by the Trojan prince Aeneas after many years of travel, and it contains many of the most famous stories about the Trojan War. It also reveals much of what the Romans felt and believed about themselves- the sensitive reader will see that these same values and issues often trouble us today.In this new translation Edward McCrorie has performed the difficult task of rendering Virgil's compact, dense Latin into fine, readable, modern English verse. The sometimes complex text is made clear and comprehensible even for first-time readers, and a glossary of names helps identify characters and place-names in the poem. The translation is well suited for students at all levels, and readers already familiar with Virgil will find many fresh images and ideas."A brilliant effort."--Robert Bly"I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines."--Robert FaglesEdward McCrorie is Professor of English, Providence College. His poetry and translations of Latin verse have been widely published.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
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The Aeneid of Virgilby VirgilISBN 0881030694 (0-88103-069-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. [via]
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0891905081 (0-89190-508-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0899662900 (0-89966-290-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0931771021 (0-931771-02-1)
Softcover, Hill House, Publishers
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american tattsby Linh DinhISBN 0925904554 (0-925904-55-4)
Softcover, Chax Pr
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The Architecture of Frank Furnessby James O'GormanISBN 0876330154 (0-87633-015-4)
Softcover, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Art Loverby Carole MasoISBN 0880014105 (0-88001-410-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793by Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0873387384 (0-87338-738-4)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0896211231 (0-89621-123-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. [via]
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Bicentennial City: Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphiaby John Francis MarionISBN 0878610650 (0-87861-065-0)
Hardcover, Pyne Press
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Birdyby Naomi WallaceISBN 0881452262 (0-88145-226-2)
Softcover, Broadway Play Pub
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Black Elk Speaksby John G. NeihardtISBN 0871296152 (0-87129-615-2)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863 1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]
Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
Bringing the Heatby Mark BowdenISBN 0871137720 (0-87113-772-0)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Carrion Comfortby Dan SimmonsISBN 0913165387 (0-913165-38-7)
Softcover, Dark Harvest
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The Case of Major Fanshawe's Chairsby David LoughlinISBN 0876633173 (0-87663-317-3)
Hardcover, Universe Books
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Cells of Releaseby Fiona TempletonISBN 093780469X (0-937804-69-X)
Softcover, Segue Foundation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cells of Release'Book summary:Written Onsite A Continuous Line A Cell A Day Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia April 2- May 17 1995 Installation in collaboration with Amnesty Internation for Prison Sentences A document of the poetry installation at the abandoned panopticon Eastern State Penetentiary writton on continuous paper over six weeks at the site with photos and descriptive material. [via]
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Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 0899663028 (0-89966-302-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0896215067 (0-89621-506-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: La Batalla De Corrin'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentionsby Jeffrey A. Cohen, Norman Johnston, Kenneth FinkelISBN 087633091X (0-87633-091-X)
Softcover, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions'Book summary:The massive Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark, is remarkable for its innovative architecture and its pioneering system of isolation in individual cells. Heir to the energetic Quaker reformist tradition of the 1820s, the penitentiary was a model of idealism in penal reform and a model of prison architecture for the world, visible in three hundred prisons worldwide that trace their paternity to Eastern State Penitentiary. This book shows how the novel experiment in prison reform contended with the realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and explores the legacy of this "crucible of good intentions." [via]
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Ethics: Origin and Developmentby Peter Kropotkin, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0904727033 (0-904727-03-3)
Hardcover, Prism Press
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A Fine and Private Placeby Peter BeagleISBN 089968419X (0-89968-419-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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General Economic Historyby Max WeberISBN 0878556907 (0-87855-690-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General Economic History'Book summary:In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; rational commercial practices; rational production of technology; and calculable law adjudicated and administered by the state. General Economic History traces the historical development of each of these factors from their informal rational points of origin through the feudal era to their emergence as formal rational elements in the modern capitalist industrial enterprise. The chapters on the history of modern citizenship and the modern rational state are of special significance as otherwise unavailable resources for an integrated view of Weber's work.
The new introduction by Ira J. Cohen is an original scholarly work of interest to all who study Max Weber's conception of modern Western capitalism.Theessay situates the institutional and cultural aspects of Weber's view of modern capitalism in the context of his overall vision of the emergence of formal rationality in the Western world. Both aspects of modern capitalism are shown to be defined by economic formal rationality, a type of orientation which is distinct from the legal formal rationality characteristic of Weber's conception of modern bureaucracy.
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonISBN 0891906223 (0-89190-622-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunting of Hill House'Book summary:Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 0884116549 (0-88411-654-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of the Matter'Book summary:In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.
A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. [via]More editions of The Heart of the Matter:
The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experienceby Dennis ClarkISBN 0877222274 (0-87722-227-4)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Jacques Lipchitz And Philadelphiaby Michael R. TaylorISBN 0876331827 (0-87633-182-7)
Softcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0895773430 (0-89577-343-0)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Les Miserables: Piano/Vocal Ward Best Musicalby Todd LowryISBN 0881885770 (0-88188-577-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables: Piano/Vocal Ward Best Musical'Book summary:The international musical sensation Les Misérables is captured in this piano/vocal book that includes 14 of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's songs--about everything you could want, save the full-company number "One Day More." The book has an introduction by Boublil and a full synopsis with color photos. --David Horiuchi [via]
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen MitchellISBN 0877739463 (0-87773-946-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lunch Poemsby Frank O'HaraISBN 0872860353 (0-87286-035-3)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lunch Poems'Book summary:[via]Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.
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The Magnificent Ambersonsby Booth TarkingtonISBN 0877957959 (0-87795-795-9)
Softcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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Making a Modern Classic: The Architecture of the Philadelphia Museum of Artby David Bruce BrownleeISBN 0876331118 (0-87633-111-8)
Softcover, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 089340330X (0-89340-330-X)
Softcover, J. Curley
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Mermaids, Monasteries, Cherokees and Custer: The Stories Behind Philadelphia Street Namesby Robert AlottaISBN 0933893906 (0-933893-90-6)
Softcover, Bonus Books
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Metro Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvaniaby Adc Firm, Hagstrom Map CompanyISBN 0875300847 (0-87530-084-7)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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The Most Amazing American:Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0872940357 (0-87294-035-7)
Hardcover, Country Beautiful
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0881032514 (0-88103-251-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Mythago Woodby Robert HoldstockISBN 0877957614 (0-87795-761-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Old Wives' Taleby Arnold BennettISBN 0915864770 (0-915864-77-0)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0882861301 (0-88286-130-1)
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On the Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus, Martin Ferguson SmithISBN 0872205878 (0-87220-587-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Nature of Things'Book summary:Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura -- long out of print -- is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom. Among his scholarly achievements are his revisions of the Rouse translation of De Rerum Natura for the Loeb Classical Library. [via]
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
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A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0895773341 (0-89577-334-1)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?
"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.
"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging."He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."
"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Philadelphia Almanac and Citizens ManualISBN 0914076884 (0-914076-88-4)
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Philadelphia: In Early Picture Postcards 1900-1930by Philip III JamisonISBN 0911572899 (0-911572-89-9)
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Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851by Thomas P CopeISBN 089526689X (0-89526-689-X)
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Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division and Conflict in a Postindustrial Cityby Carolyn Adams, David Bartlet, David Elesh, Ira Goldstein, Nancy KleniewskiISBN 0877228426 (0-87722-842-6)
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Philadelphia Stories: A Photographic History, 1920-1960by Allen F. Davis, Morris J. Vogel, Fredric MillerISBN 0877225516 (0-87722-551-6)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0883680963 (0-88368-096-3)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:From the publisher who gave you the immensly popular?James usshers ANNALS OF THE WORLD: This volume includes: " John Bunyans personal memoir " His last sermon " Special sayings of Bunyan, about death and judgment, the joys of heaven, and much more " Bunyans personal account of his life before he accepted Christ " The writers account of his time spent in prison " The Barren Fig Tree " The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World This masterpiece will become an instant family heirloom, introducing entire generations to the pilgrims spiritual journey to truth. This hard-cover edition was originally published in 1876. Master Books has re-created this valuable and rare heirloom with todays modern technology, but kept the original look and feel by painstakingly high-resolution scanning every page of this 850-page tomehistoric stains and all! The Pilgrims Progress appears in the original large print inside this new edition, creating an easier reading experience for all ages. [via]
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Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Comeby John BunyanISBN 0916441008 (0-916441-00-8)
Hardcover, Christian Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come'Book summary:John Bunyan was born in Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, in 1628. He learned to read and write at the village school and was prepared to follow his father's trade as a brazier when the English Civil War broke out in 1644 and he was drafted into the Parliamentary army. His military service brought him into contact with Oliver Cromwell's Puritan troops. Beginning in 1648, Bunyan suffered a crisis in religious faith that lasted for several years. He turned to the Nonconformist church in Bedford to sustain him during this period. His first writings were attacks against the Quakers. Then Charles II was restored to the throne and Bunyan was arrested for conducting services not in accordance with the Church of England. He spent 12 years in jail. During this time, he wrote his autobiography, Grace Abounding, in which he described his spiritual struggle and growth. During his last years in prison, Bunyan began his most famous work, The Pilgrim's Progress, a two-part allegorical tale of the character Christian and his journey to salvation. Part I was published in 1678 and Part II in 1684. The second part deals with the spiritual journey of Christian's wife and sons, as they follow in his footsteps. With its elements of the folktale tradition, The Pilgrim's Progress became popular immediately. Well into the nineteenth century it was a book known to almost every reader in England and New England, second in importance only to the Bible. So great was the book's influence that it even plays a major role in Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott. Such expressions as "the slough of despond" and "vanity fair" have become part of the English language. Bunyan's other works include The Life and Death of Mr. Badman and The Holy War. He also wrote A Book for Boys and Girls, verses on religious faith for children. Bunyan died in London on August 31, 1688. [via]
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0899668097 (0-89966-809-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Provincial Lady in Americaby Margaret Freeman, E.M. DelafieldISBN 0897331109 (0-89733-110-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Provincial Lady in America'Book summary:The third in the delightful "Provincial Lady" series finds our pungently witty English lady travelling the United States. Her two earlier books were set in Devonshire and London respectively, where she set down her observations of life and letters as they affected her and her menage of husband, two children and assorted servants, friends and acquaintances.
In this volume she comes to America on a literary tour. She visits New York, Cleveland, Chicago and the World's Fair of 1932, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, among other cities-confiding to her diary as she goes her shrewd and barbed thoughts and queries. Here is no British What's-Wrong-with-America, but rather a delightful See-Yourselves-as-the-Others-See-You: a challenge to the American sense of humor.
Readers of Diary of a Provincial Lady and The Provincial Lady in London will be further amused and charmed by their favorite diarist's trans-Atlantic adventures. [via]
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The Rittenhouse Cookbook : A Year of Heart-Healthy Recipesby Jim ColemanISBN 0898158648 (0-89815-864-8)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Press
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The Runestaffby Michael MoorcockISBN 0886772184 (0-88677-218-4)
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Saint of Philadelphia: The Life of Bishop John Neumann, 1811-1860by Philip DouglasISBN 0911218084 (0-911218-08-4)
Hardcover, Ravengate Press
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Shaping a National Culture: The Philadelphia Experience, 1750-1800by Catherine E. HutchinsISBN 0912724277 (0-912724-27-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul BowlesISBN 0880015829 (0-88001-582-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0881037265 (0-88103-726-5)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0877207399 (0-87720-739-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0899664008 (0-89966-400-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Street Names of Philadelphiaby Robert I. AlottaISBN 0877220468 (0-87722-046-8)
Hardcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Streetwise Philadelphiaby Michael BrownISBN 0935039074 (0-935039-07-4)
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Studies in Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American ArtISBN 0876330162 (0-87633-016-2)
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Sun Under Wood: New Poemsby Robert HassISBN 0880015578 (0-88001-557-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plainsby Owen WisterISBN 0895773058 (0-89577-305-8)
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When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours: Joe Teller -- A Portrait by His Kidby TellerISBN 0922233225 (0-922233-22-5)
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Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwinby Charles Brockden Brown, S.W. Reid, Sydney J. KrauseISBN 087338220X (0-87338-220-X)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwin'Book summary:This first volume in Kent State University's Bicentennial Edition of the Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown presents critical texts of Brown's first published novel, Wieland, and of the fragment, "Carwin," which he began in 1798 as a companion-piece to his novel. The texts are based on the first printings: the book edition of Wieland printed by T. and J. Swords in New York and published there by Hocquet Caritat in 1798, and the installments of "Carwin" that appeared in the Literary Magazine in Philadelphia in 1803, 1804, and 1805.
The Historical Essay by Alexander Cowie, which follows the texts, discusses the facts surrounding the composition, publication, and reception of both works and their place in America's literary history, and the Textual Essay by S.W. Reid discusses the copy-texts for the present edition, the transmission of the texts, and the editorial decisions that have been based on these considerations. Also appended are photographs of the notebook pages containing Brown's "Outline" of Wieland, along with our transcription of it. Moreover, as the first in a series of volumes, this volume offers, as well, a note on the principles and procedures guiding the editing of all works in the Bicentennial Edition. [via]
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The Wild Irisby Louise GluckISBN 0880013346 (0-88001-334-6)
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Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850by Bruce LaurieISBN 0877222924 (0-87722-292-4)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Yesterday's Philadelphiaby G. WilsonISBN 091245850X (0-912458-50-X)
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Zuleika Dobsonby Max BeerbohmISBN 0900659270 (0-900659-27-0)
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