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

Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Small quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 192 p. w/ many b&w illus. A photographic record by this well known American photographer of the end of WWII in the West and the early years of occupation and reconstruction in Germany. All text is in English, German, and French.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (slightly over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Business card of former owner pasted inside. xx, 318 p. w/ tables, maps, bibliography, indices.

Paris: Pegasus Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Dust jacket has scuffing to covers and a bit of spotting and darkening to spine. Small tear heel of spine on back cover. Hand numbered 129 of 450 copies. x (2), 168 p. w/ 83 b&w plates and 28 imagines in the text, notes, bibliography, chronological tables of documents and works, geographic table of works, and index. A detailed study of this Italian sculptor, student of Giovanni Pisano, who also worked in Pisa, Florence, and Naples. Much of his work focused on various funerary monuments, including that of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII. Uncommon. Section B

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thin landscape octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket which has a closed reat at top ege and a slightly faded spine. SIGNED "To Tracy" with van Allsburg's signture and a picture of a dog saying "woof". A Caldecott Honor Book.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxi, 415 p. w/ notes, index. A re-examination of Heideggers earlier thoughts up to 1927, and how it developed in his later writings.

New York, NY: G. E. Stechert, 1931. First edition. Paperback Original. Fair. Thin octavo ( standard size). Wear to edges and corners, with head and heel of spine taped. Sticker damage to lower left front cover. A few scholarly notations in pencil. 86 p. w/ appendices, index. A look at the creation and operation of the Cretan Koinon, or commonweath, from the late 3rd c. bc through the Roman era, with some focus on various surviving inscriptions. An uncommon work on an uncommon topic.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. Thick quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 374 p. w/ index and additional 93 plate pages (some 676 iamges), 2 fold out building diagrams, and 5 p. list of other works in the UM Humanistic series. A catalgoue of the over 1700 figurines recovered from this expedition, with a scholarly introduction by the author.

Nashua, NH: Larrion Numismatics, 1990. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight foxing at top of textblock. 176 p. with additional 20 plates of b&w coin illustrations at end. A great overview of Roman coins of the period as well as a survey of the history they represent.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1977 (2006). 2nd printing. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxxvi, 539 p. w/ b&w illus, footnotes, bibliography, index, errata. A seminal survey of German settlement art architecture, and raft in Missouri, primarily from the 19th c. Includes an new introduction by a friend of the author, with many biographical details.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 367 p. includes an introduction and 8 stories.

Atlanta, GA.: Scholar's Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Slight wrinkling to first few pages at top right. A *very* few margin and single word underlines in book. xii, 246 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indices.

Baltimore: Samuel Young, 1833. First edition. Half Leather, hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo (small than standard). In a modern rebinding with a burgundy leather spine, gilt titling, and marbeled paper over boards. New enpapers. Includes the complete folded map of Baltimore backed with tissue paper at the time of rebinding Iimagine, with one tear in a crease at the center of the map above the "Power House". Stamped on title page, copyright page, and on map by a now defunct organization. Numerous check marks in pencil at margins, light foxing throughout, and dampstaining, primarily in the final third of the book at hinge. 166 p. w/ the afore-mentioned map, 4 illus., excursion diary, and directory. Uncommon and important early Baltimore and B&O railroad reference by late 18th c. French emigre Varle, with a sparce but useful map.

Kuopio, Finland: University of Kuopio, 1982. First ed. . Oversized Paperback. Good. Tall octavo (standard size). Some wear and a couple closed tears to edges and corners. Spine slightly faded. 256 p. plus appendices.

Chicago: American Library Associaation, 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large quarto (oversized). Russell Bidlack's copy, former dean of the School of Librarianship at the University of Michigan. Slight wear to edges and corners, with bumping at head and heel of spine. Signature of Bidlack on pastedown, and of another former owner on flyleaf. Page edges are slightly darkened. The American edition of rules the Vatican Library used for cataloging its collection of printed works.

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 265 p. w/footnotes, indices. Anne Conway was a seventeenth century philosopher. Section B

Stockholm: Etse [ Estonian Theorlogial Seminary in Exile ], 1984. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thin quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Many pages unopened and uncut. 139 (4) p. w/ footnotes, index. A detailed study of the ordeal of Estonian churches under the Russians and the major figures involved.

Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Squarish octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some small dents to covers. Marginalia and marks in the bibliography only, no other location. 217 p. w/footnotes, bibliography. A study of changes in the state of alliegiance, political claims, and legitimizing arguments by elites in this area in the last 15 years of Austro-Hungarian control.

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. 266 p. w/ appendix, endnotes, index. A study comparing Soviet to Polish accounts of Ukrainian history, noting the attempts by the Soviet state to downplay tensions and try to create an overall Soviet identity.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. x, 525 p. w/footnotes, addenda and corrgenda, bibliography, indexes. 31 papers by Verde.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. xxxv, 611 p. w/footnotes, end of section bibliographies, indexes, and appendix. 3 sections on Knowledge, Time, and Soul.