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

Como, Italy: Edizioni New Press, 1985. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick octavo (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. SiGNED and nscribed by Morton Smith to Ludwig Koenen, from whose libray this book comes. xxxvii, 641 p. w/footnotes. 25 scholarly essays in various languages : English, Italian, or French,

Mid-America Festivals, 1988. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. Small octavo. Wear to edges and corners. Crease at back corner with slighgt soiling to back cover. Smudge to front cover at upper right. 83 p. w/ bibliography, rough patterns, and directions for measuring, making usable patterns, and sewing shirts, shoes, dresses, pants, and more. Uncommon.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 362 p. w/footnotes, biographies, bibliography, index locorum, general index. A work translating and setting in context this important dialogue by this prominent Italian humaist, whose work also involved the study of Egyoptia hieroglyphs. The dialogue, published posthumously in 1620, is a survey opf the HUmanist communities, the problems of scholars, and his often pessimistic views on humanity after the sack of Rome in 1527.

De Gruyter ( B. G. Teubner ), 2010. Reprint of a 1967 work. Hardcover. Very good. No dj issued. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Head of spine slightly bumped. 500 p. in Latin w/ appendix.

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxvi, 571 p. w/illus., chapter endnots, large appendix of archival material, bibliography, index. PRimarluy n Engish, but with many sources in Italian quoted in the text.

Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 230 p. w/ footnotes, works cited, index. 10 scholarly essays that approach the philosophy of Aquinas as an object of scholary interest and as a framework for examining perennial philosophical questions.

Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Square octavo (slightly oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Slight scuffing to covers. Boards slightly bowed. Slightly musty. 218 p. w/ many b&w illustations, glossary, brief bibliography, index.

London: G. R. Q. Publications, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized (little bit oversized). Some wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with a few minor nicks and some light scuffing to covers with fading along spine. Price sticker on dj's back cover. Slight musty smell to book. 96 pages with illustrations. A look at the steam locomotives employed by the Indian Railways.

New York, NY / Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Ink marks and marginalia to bibliography ONLY. x, 300 p. w/end of chapter notes, bibliography, index. A study of the challenges, failures, and successes of these two Empires with highly diverse populations.

Baku, Azerbaijan: �J�a�z�yy, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spine and front board. Text in Russian, Azerbaijani, English, and Persian. Unnumbered pages. Each page illustrated at borders or with reproductions from manuscripts. A lovely book, one of the few on the poet with English text.

Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1967. Reprint of 1939 ed. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 501 p. w/ lyrics, musical notation, list of informants, bibliography, index to ballads. Dozens of songs from Michigan, including child ballads, Many of the songs were based on or directly from British ballad broadsides.

New York, NY: James Potts & Co., 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, small octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and corners of panels. Covers have some light scuffing and slight scratching. Number "23" pasted on tag on heel of spine. Gift inscription, not by author, on front free endpaper. Page edges are browned. Cracked hinge between front fly pages. 160 pages.

Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Tall octavo (slightly over sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xxxv, 515 p. w/end of section references, index. Sixty-six essays presenting a broad survey and description of the most widely found thematic elements in folklore and literature in various cultures.

Leiden: Brill, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto ( oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 371 p. w/maps. illus., appendices, selected bibliography, index, extensive endnotes. The first study of one of the major photographers and European personalities of 19th century Meiji era in Japan. Uncommon.

New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xv, 568 p. w/tables, endnotes, bibliography, index. A discussion of this Czech liberal political party that rose to prominence. esp. before the First World War, and whose members included many who established an independent Czechoslovakia.

London: Methuen & Co., LTD., 1974. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good price clipped. Tall octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of board, bit more so to dust jacket. Gift inscription on half title page. xi, 861 p. w/maps on endpapers, footnotes, endnotes, bibliography, indices. A survey of the height of the Roman Empire, nearly 200 years of consolidation and improvement.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 115 p. w/ w/ additional approx 110 pages in Arabic, footnotes. A critical edition and translation of major work and one of the earliest statements of the faith of the Ibadiyya movement of Islam.

Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. ix, 271 p. w/tables, endnotes, select bibliography, index. A study on how peasants engaged with tsarist laws as well as the local institutions created in the tumultuous period between the 1880s and 1914.

New York, NY: Berghahn, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. ix, 262 p. w/ essay endnotes, index. 12 scholarly essays focusing on the genocide against Assyrian Christians before and during the First World War.

Selinsgrove, PA and London: Susquehanna University Press / Associated University Presses, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more chipping at tears at edges of dust jacket. 262 p. w/ maps, endnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. A survey of the transition from tradition to modernity in Bulgaria, focusing on the National Revival Period and the 19th century.