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Charity Costumes - of children, scholars, almsfolk, pensioners
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1978
Seller: Curtle Mead Books, Cowes, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: new. First Edition. DJ price clipped and replaced with publishers new price. 184 B/W illustrations - photographic or drawings, comprehensive references, general index and index of textiles. x, 331pp. This scholarly and well illustrated book describes the costumes that different charities provided for all sorts of poor people from late medieval times to the mid 20th century. It does not include hand-me-downs or those given as statutory relief. There is also an analysis about the role charities have played in society over the years, with examples of the feelings and attitudes of not only the donors and recipients but also the public. There are accounts of the costumes of a wide variety of institutions.
Seller Inventory # 277
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Die Ur-Szene Eine Selbstanalyse
Published by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1977
Seller: Curtle Mead Books, Cowes, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. First edition. DJ has a 1cm tear on the rear top edge., and a very small one on the top front edge. Very minimal foxing on the foreedge. This book appears unread. Fully indexed 415pp "Die Ur-Szene befaßtsich mit der psychischen Krise der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft und der Suche das Großstadtmenschen nach Trost und Beruhigung". Dieses Buch ist 'eine neue Form im Schnittpunkt von autobiographie, Psychoanalytischer Gesellschaftskritik und Politischer Zeitchronik'. The flyleaf is inscribed by the Author to John Wells (the celebrated actor and satirist of 'Dear Bill' fame) and is dated 29th August 1977.
Seller Inventory # 77
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Indecent Exposure Sexuality, Society and the archaeological record
Published by The Cruithne Press, Glasgow, 2001
Seller: Curtle Mead Books, Cowes, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This book has 14 papers all relating in some way to an archaeological aspect of sex. Six originate from a conference in Bradford in 1994. Topics range from 'the use and misuse of rape in prehistory' to 'sexual metaphors in the Neolithic', to prostitution in English medieval towns. Each paper is referenced. Some papers have diagrammatic b/w illustrations, e.g. diagrams of cave paintings, a few maps etc. There is an index. xxi, 217pp.
Seller Inventory # 340
