Search Results: Titles starting with A from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1956. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. x, 125 p. w/ footnotes, tables (some fold out), catalogue of dies,and indices of dies, reverse dies, and reverse legends and types. Includes additional 37 plates of coin images. A study of the AES copper coinage of Galba, 68-69 c. e.

Newport News: The Mariners' Museum, 2000.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the upper corner of the front panel. Dj has minor wear and rubbing along the edges with slight scuffing to the covers. NOTE: The forward is incomplete and missing some text at end, otherwise the book is all correct. 676 pages with illustrations, selected reading, and geographical index. A nice reference work on the various boats, cogs, ships, barges, galleys, canoes, kayaks, and other watercraft from around the globe. The entries feature descriptions of design features, materials, and construction.

Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xiv (1), 179 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index.

New York, NY: The Tandy-Thomas Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). In dark blue cloth, corners lightly bumbped. Covers lightly scuffed. Endpapers a bit yellowed, otherwise in very nice condition. The last quarter of the pages are unopened (still attached at foredge to next page). 31 p. The book ends with the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Leipzig: Io. Friderici Ivnii [ Johann Friedrich Junius }, 1776. Leather Bound Hardcover. Good. Octavo Rebacked. Orignal worn boards and leather suviving. Hnges reinforced. Bookplate of Richard Caulfield, Fellow fo the Society of Antiquaries in London. Names of three other owners in ink on flyleaf. Parallel Greek and Latin text. xvi, 731 p. with additional [ 13 p. ] index. A 18th century scholalry edition of one of the few ancient romances in Greek that have survived. The original work was probably written in the 2nd century c.e.

Nashville: Sundog Ltd., 2003.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards. The dj has some wear and rubbing along the edges with a few minor tears and some general light scuffing to the covers. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the previous owner on the dedication page. 383 pages with illustrations, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, and index. An interesting biography of this union soldier, part of the Third Michigan Cavalry until September, 1864.

London: The British Library, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. Slight wear along edges. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 223 pages with illustrations, notes after each essay, bibliography of published works of Anna Simoni, and index. An intersesting collection of essays on the intellectual and bibliographic relations between Britain and the Netherlands since the late fifteenth century.

Bucharest, Romania: Typis Universitatis Bucurestiensis / Typografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Name of former owner (who also has a paper in the volume) on flyleaf. Offprint of said paper is laid in, along with another article from a different source titled "Ovidiana" by B. S. Povsic (also a contributor to this volume), signed by the author. 635 p. with some 69 short essays in various languages - English, French, Latin, Italian.

no place : Task Force 31, ca. 1945.. Pamphlet. Very Good. Very good in glossy cover. Bound with a bates fastener. Slight scuffing and wear to edges and corner of cover. Last page slightly browned. 10 p. w/ 2 photos per page. A very scarce small military publication of small ship naval losses around Okinawa from shore batteries and kamikaze attacks. Includes scarce photographs of the explosion of the Longshaw (DD 559), loss of the William D. Porter (DD 579), Bates (APD 47), and PC 1603, damage to an APD called Roper, decoy ships, Hagushi and Naha harbors, and more.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Marginal notes and underlining in ink in the Bibliography ONLY. xii, 193 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. in bks abt bks section

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Sticker residue on first pastedown. Slight soiling to top edgeof textblock. vi(4), 309 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the ways emeprors dramatized their rule and how subordinates in turn staged their responses, focusing on Nero.

Zutpheniae (Zutphen, Netherlands): W. J. Thieme & Cie, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Some spotting to the flyleaves. Dated May 1951 and inscribed on the flyleaf by former owner D. R. Shackleton Bailey, a professor and noted Latin and Ciceronian scholar. xi (1) 364 (4) p.

The Anglo-Hellenic League, 1920.. First edition. Good staple-bound pamphlet in grey wrappers. Small chip missing from the lower edge and browning along the edges. Wear to the edges with some scuffing and soiling to the covers. A slight musty smell to the pamphlet. Some browning to pages. 16 pages. A work dealing mainly with Turkey and the Turks after World War I discussing some of recent events in Asia Minor and relations with Greece.

Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 355 p. w/illus., footnotes.

Leiden: Brill, 1976. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. A few pages have light pencil underlining. xvi, 286 p. w/footnotes, addenda, indices, and folding sheet of 3 maps at rear. Covers Syria, Phoenicia, Cyrenaica, Cyprus, the Aegean, Asia Minor, Ionia. From the library of Ludwig Koenen.

Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Sticker on front cover of dj indicating this book is a signed copy. Small bookplate that has been blackened over with marker on front free endpaper. Signed by author and illustrator. Unpaginated with illustrations. The entertaining story of the author and illustrator's care for Jackson, a great horned owl.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 357 p. w/end of chapter notes, glossary, bibliography, index. A history of the extensive travels of Arabic scholar Ibn Battuta across the Islamic world, based on his own narratives with additional sources to flesh out the world of the 14th c.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers 397 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. The first commentary in any language on this particular prosecution speech of 346/45 b.c., an important source for Athenian legal sanctions and moral attitudes concerning same-sex relations. Includes a new complete translation.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Formac, 2001. First edition. Oversized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. . Very Good. Oblong - slightly oversized. Small crease to cover and pages at top right. 144 p. w/index. many illustrations. A lavishly ilustrated history, organized by different builders, including Cunard, Miramichi, the Peakes, KIllam, and more. A well done work on an unusual subject, by perhaps the most knowledgable writer on this subject.

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.