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

Stuttgart, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1995. reprint of 1913 work. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. cxxviii,494 p. w/ footnotes, indices. This was the last work by Rabe before his death. In Greek and Latin.

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xii, 83 p. w/ footnotes, index. In Greek and Latin.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiii, 442 p. w/color and b&w illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed look at the illustrations used in Saints Lives, their narrative uses, and audience impact and appeal.

Omaha: The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. #5 of 200 copies of first edition. Very good hardcover with white tissue-like covering/jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. 68 pages.

London: Methuen Children's Books, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small (7 3/4") duodecimo. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. 128 p. w/ a few black and white illustrations. An illiterate runaway in trouble breaks into a house where he thinks a ghost is staying, and comes face to face with his problems and their solution.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 197 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A look at the role of women in production and dissemination of Christian books, and the contested representation of women through writing and copying

Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners bumped. Spine slightly faded. Bookplate of Rowland Hazard, probably Rowland G. Hazard (1801 - 1888) of Rhode Island, textile industrialist and politician of the state. Very slight foxing and browning. 222 p. w/map, glossary, appendices, index. A classic work of native Ameican literature by an important 19th c. American-Canadian ethnologist, philologist and businessman with strong ties to the Iroquois community. Hale also served for three years with the US Exploring Expedition, and contirbuted much to the foundations of the study of Native American languages and dialects, as well as their prehistory based on thir languages. Antiquarian TN

London: Country Life, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Rough dust jacket. Folio. Price clipped dj has tears at front bottom and at right front corners, and a pieces missing from lower spine and back cover. Upper left corner of dj back crinkled. Cellophane tape stains to areas around tears. Corners and lower edges of boards have noticeable wear. Front board illustration bright, with only light soiling to covers. Interior clean and bright, no marks. British illustrator Kathleen Hale (1898-2000) is best known for her Orlando books, of which this is the second in that series of 19 books. For her beloved work she was recognized when she was given the Order of the British Empire in 1976. Uncommon, more so in a dust jacket of any condition. A good addition to any collection of British illustrators.

Odense University Press, 1982. First thus. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Front cover has a spot of rubbing on the front lower center. name of former owner inside cover. 197 p. w/chapter endnotes, index of proper names. A collection of some 10 essays on Polish liberation struggles in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Dj faded at spine. ix (1), 267 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the press of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party), noting the law courts and police were directed against free speech, and the role of non-democratic forces in the state. Also examined is other fuel for the SPD press, like the discrinimation vs the working class, political bad practices, and personal failing of major figures.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1st edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges and corners of dj and binding have slight wear. Slight foxing at bottom page edges. Former owner's name on endpaper. Review of book from Science magazine laid in. 261 p. w/illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. A uncommon scholarly study of Great Britain's Royal Society and its transition from a gentleman's club to a prestigious scientific institution, drawing heavily on the records of the Society itself.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A bit of glue bleed at hinges of endpapers. 2 pages in the introduction have blue highlighting. All other pages clear. x, 364 p. w/ footnotes, select bibliography, index. A collection of some 16 scholarly articles arranged by region, looking at various social, regional and religious communities.

Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1964. First edition. Trade Paperback. Good in wraps. Octavo (standard size) . Text in German. Slight wear to edges and corners, more so to spine. Covers have some soiling. 134 p. w/ bibliography, notes. A study of the personification of certain aspects of nature and achievement ( victory, Nike) in pre-Hellenistic times.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges. 280 pages with maps, footnotes, chronology, selected bibliography, and index. An interesting biography of the Spartan king, Agesilaus II and a study of fourth century BC Greek affairs.

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with a few minor dings on heel and head of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some minor scuffing to covers. Inscribed by the author to the previous owner on title page. 435 pages. A novel about a fey noble woman in the human world.

New York, NY: Garland, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo in red cloth with black lettering to spine. Slight wear to edges and corners. A bit of soiling to covers. Slight foxing to edges of text block. Upper corner of first few pages have a small stain. Small crease on p. xiii. 257 p. w/index and appendices chronology of works, unreprinted writings, critical, biographical and bibliographical studies, principal collections and the H. G. Wells Society.

London & New York: Academic Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dj, Dj also has a closed tear near top front edge. Gift inscription on flyleaf. 609 p. w/ references at end of essays, cumulative index. A collection of 25 scholarly essays on archaeology, history, and social aspects of Maya civilization, including a biographical sketch and bibliography of Thompson, archaeologist and scholar who was the mentor to a whole generation of Maya scholars.

Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Slight crease to first few lower corners of pages, xxv, 200 p. w/ endnotes and bibliographies at the end of each essya, and indices at end. 8 scholarly essays on consolatory writings from ancient Greek, Christian, Roman, and Arabic sources. Covers letters, funeral oratory, epicedia, and philosophical prose.

Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Thick, small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. Faint damp spots on boards. 686 p. w/ addtional pags for introduction, addnedda, index. Facsmilie of a 1677 work by this German scholar, whose best known work is a history of Silesia. The first study of Byzantine historiography.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 193 p. w/ maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the development of statistics and cartography in Germany from the early 19th c. to the start of World War I.