Search Results: Authors starting with E from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

College Station, TX: Texas A& M University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A few notes in ink on first blank endpaper. Pgs 85 and 93 each have one word underlined. 218 p. w/illus., index. The story of the first female Black officer in the United States Army, who lead the outstanding 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, directing mail to soldiers and airmen across Europe, from Birmingham England to Paris France.

Yellow Springs, OH: Driveline Publishing, 2006. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 160 p. w/many b&w illus, appendices, endnotes, index. A history of the company founded by Ransom E. Olds after he left Oldsmobile, focusing on the trucks they build over 75 years.

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. vii, 326 p. w/footnotes. 15 scholarly essays,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Ink marks and underlining in bibliography ONLY. Section B

Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 1994. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Squarish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. 625 p.

Stuttgart, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jackets. Interior pages slightly brown at edges. xlii, 438 p. w/footnotes, indexes, corrigenda et addenda. Text in Latin and Greek.

Leiden: Brill, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick, large octavos. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Some scuffing to covers. V. IIIA has the glossy paper that should display Edmonds' photo, but it is oddly blank, V. III B has scholarly notes and some underlining in the first 30 pages only. Corrigenda and addendum slips laid in. Each volume also has evidence of 2-3 paper clips at some time in their past. A massive work, uneven in a number of ways but an important reference work none the less.

London: John Murray, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Ex library with Yale Divinity libary and discard stamps in the usual places. LIght spot on spine here the sticker once was attached. Pocket at rear. Very good condition despite the library markings. 211 p. w/portrait frontis., appendices. A collection of original sources regarding the Governor-Generalship of India by Edward Law, whose short and somewhat controversial tenure there saw him embroiled with Afghanistan and British captives there, the conquest of Sind, and a military campaign in Gwalior. Section B

New York & London: Garland, 1981. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Thin octavo ( standard size) . Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 148 p. w/ notes. 7 scholarly essays covering various bibliographic issues with Middle English prose : indexing, editorial technique, recording, identitficaiton, related texts, and working with mystical prose.

Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2009. First English language edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. SIGNED with long inscription by the author on half-title page. 362 p. w/ a few illus., appendix, glossary, map. A collection of ducments overing th war years of an Ottoman officer oginally from Kaan in the Russian Empire. He was primarily a training officer, but has commentary on many events. Ege later became the first Cultural Attache to the United States of the Ottoman Republic.

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of board and dust jacket. xii, 235 p. w/footnotes, appendices, bibliography, indices. A survey that examines and evaluates a number of ancient texts and reconstructs the course of Philistine history up to the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

London & New York: Grand Rapids Art Museum / Merrell, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 192 p. w/many illus., index, credits, biographies of writers in the text. An attactive and thorough look at this mid - 20th classic piece of American furniture.

Philadelphia: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 5772 - 1962. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. Spine a bit rubbed. 140 p. w/ illustrations, bibliography, list of names of contemporaries of Isserlein nanmed in his Responsa, index to subjects. Isserlein ben Petachia was considered the last great rabbi of medieval Austria, active in the late 14th thru the mid-15th centuries c.e. Professor Eidleberg (d. 2010) was a noted scholar of jewish history in the medieval era.

Stockholm: Scandinavian University Books / Svenska Bokförlage / Bonniers, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tear in dj a heel of spine. 576 p. w/ footnotes, illustrations, maps, and personal & subject indexes.

Iowa City, IA: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, 1991. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. 112 p. w/ illustrations, appendices, references. A short joint biography by Roboz Einstein, focusing on their marriage and HAE's own achievements in hydraulic engineering. Includes an short biography of HAE's mother, Mileva Einstein-Maric by Dord Krstic, written at Roboz Einstein's request.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners to boards and a bit more so to dust jacket. xxii, 242 (1) w/ catalogue, bibliography, index, and additional 337 b&w images and 17 colored ones on unnumbered glossy pages at end. The first thorough book and catalog since the early 20th c. on this 14th and 15th c. Florentine painter who was a Camaldolese monk.

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2022. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. vii, 253 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. Section B

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Slight soiling to edges of textblock, more so at top. 250 p. w/charts, notes, bibliography, index. A study of the BaSotho kingdom and its industry and politics in a time of colonialization and upheaval.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1929. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Hinge separation at half title. Webbing visible. Name of former owner and date of Jan. 1930 on flyleaf. 56 pages. An early US printing of Eliot's 2nd book of poetry.

Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, Australian Nationaal University, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Very Good in Wraps. Octavo sized. Light wear to edges of covers with some minor scuffing and slight browning to edges of covers. Name of previous owner written on half title page in ink. Otherwise, clean unmarked text. Tight binding. Light foxing to upper edges of pages. 156 pages plus 13 plates with notes after each essay. The essays in this work are: 1. Thoughts on Some Early Medieval Miracles, 2. Malalas and Justinian's Codification, 3. Theophanes' Account of the Reign of Heraclius, 4. Byzantium and the Arabs : The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature, 5. Illustrations from the "Triumph" of Joseph the Patriarch, 6. Anglo-Saxons and Icelanders at Byzantium, with Special Reference to the Icelandic Saga of St. Edward the Confessor, 6. Literary Evidence for the Dating of the Backovo Ossuary Frescoes, 7. The Vernacular ... for Agnes of France, 8. The Later… Read More