Search Results: Titles starting with G from Stefan Szczelkun

First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 174 pages. Retrospective collection of interviews. Now considered a late-modern classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents "Gadamer In Conversation: Reflections And Commentary" in a felicitous English translation. Six lively conversations with one of the 20th-century's Master Thinkers. "Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for… Read More

1968 No8 OZ Magazine insert folded poster. 'Geuvara is Dead' (sic) one side reverse Whilst Dads away Mum will play! Infamous misspell of Guevara. Condition as per photos, small damage to corners where tape was applied to hold on my student digs wall (see photo) - hence low price but imo looks more authentic than a pristine copy. Now rare and collectable. Great for any Sixties decor. Felix Dennis was apparently behind the mis-spelling. Lawson/Clive Smith in corner refers to OZ editor Paul Lawson and designer Virginia Clive-Smith.

'Plans, Sections , Elevations of the Great Wall of Chinaand some of theTOWERS, near the Pass of Cou-Pe-Keou
From the atlas to George Staunton's Embassy to China, published 1797 c52 x 38 cm size of copper plate. Water marks on corners. Some foxing. Details on request.
Drawn on the spot by H. W. Parish of the Royal Artillery, 1793. Published in London by George Nicol, April the 12th 1796. Copper plate engraving, c14x18 inches. From An Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China. An engraving from a drawing produced by Lieutenant Henry William Parish, an artillery officer who took part in the Macartney mission to China in 1793. Parish and his men contributed to the intelligence-gathering efforts of the mission by surveying the Great Wall's fortifications. (Wikipedia).
The reference work on this key expedition is: Peyrefitte, Alain. The Collision of Two Civilisations: The British Expedition to China 1792 - 4. Transl. Jon Rothschild, Harper Collins 1993 (orig. 1989)
This was a key British… Read More

This is an account of Yellow Gate Camp at Greenham Common. Junor had served seven prison terms for her non-violent actions against the military at the time this was published.This copy is unread and as new. The cover artwork is by Katrina Howse. Includes 31 photographs as well as Howse' powerful illustrations she drew whilst she was a camp member.It seems that this is a rare copy (Please contact me if I'm wrong)