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

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so at spine. No dust jacket. Endpaper missing. Corners slightly bumped. Name of former owner, D.R. Shackleton Bailey and "September 1948" in pencil on half tile page. Complete, but 4-5 pages laid in loosely. . 252 p. w/ footnotes, index.

Marburg an der Lahn: Institut für Historische Hilfswissenschaften, 1992. First edition. softcover with French flaps. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 410 p. w/ pocket in rear with sheets for illustrations and tables. 22 scholarly articles in German on various subjects topics honoring the work of Heinemeyer, a historian and archivist in Hesse, Germany.

Warminster, UK: Aris & Phillips, Ltd. , 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Slight musty smell to book. vii, 76 p. w/ illus, catalogue, concordances, and many unnumbered additional plates of illustrations. A survey of this collectionof smaller but important Egyptian artifacts, primarily assembled by Marianne Brocklehurst, whose 1873 visit to Egypt was the start of her collecting. The collection is now at the West Park Museum in Macclesfield, UK.

Boulder, CO.: East European Monographs / Columbia University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. v,304 p. w/tables, illus., essay endnotes. 9 scholarly essays on various aspects of 20th c. Macedonia and Macedonian identity.

New York, NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo. (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Faint line of a scratch on front cover. Half title as a short closed tear at top, and a small piece missing from the lower right corner of p.3, not coming close to the text. Missing dust jacket. 80 p. Bretano's bookshop sticker at end pastedown,

Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 378 p. w/ illus., footnotes, bibliography, indexes. Text in German. A study of court festivals and dances and important functions of European international and social politics.

Unpublished. Unpublished work with letters dating this copy to 2000. Very good softcover with black plastic wire binding and heavy blue paper covers. Light wear to edges of covers and light scuffing. Slight stain on upper corners of pages. 149 pages with illustrations and footnotes. Laid in is a signed letter by Robert Bartholomew to previous owner and a list of Bartholomew's publications. Also inscribed by Bartholomew to previous owner on table of contents page. A study of various cases of mass hysteria focusing mainly on events in Botetourt, Virginia, in 1933-1934 and at Mattoon, Illinois, in 1944.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xii, 371 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index, and a few b&w illus. This work "explores the complex relationship between women, Protestantism, and nationhood" in Britain, looking at the national emblem of Britannia and other female personifications of English culture.

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Small folio. Red boards with drawing in black of Madeline and a boy on a horse on cover. Illustrated endpapers. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so at bottom. Dj has some wear to head and heel of spine. Price of $3.50 on flap, no other statment of printing on copyright page Uncommon first of this classic children's series of a smart, passionate little girl in a French private school. In this episode, she finds a retired horse to give as a present to a friend whose moving to London, and rides it all over he city with him.

La Paz, Bolivia: hisbol, 1996. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Thick octavo ( standard size ). Printed in Spanish, with some articles in Aymara on opposite pages. Slight wear to edges and corners of cover. Some scuffing and marks to covers. 4709 p. w/ b&w ilus., pronunciation guide, glossary, bibliography. 7 sizable sections overing the potato and Aymara life, including social customs and folklore.

New York, NY: Swann Galleries, 2004. First edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. . Very Good. Small thin octavo ( smaller than standard). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Illustrations in b&w about ever 2nd or 3rd page, with prices realized sheet laid in. An auction catalog for the better books from the collection of Tom Blue, a magician, collector, and now bookseller. A useful reference.

New Delhi, India: Sahitya Akademi, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear and fading to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 306 p. 21 essays and 4 addresses on various aspects of the Mahabharata, such as poetry, performance, art, architecture, literary tradition, and more. Uncommon.

Maithripala Senanayeke Felicitation Committee, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Good quarto-sized hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight bowing to boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with two inch tear on lower edge of front cover and scuffing to covers, heavy on back cover. 186 pages with illustrations, career landmarks, aqnd foreign assignments.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999. Despite the number line, This is probably a later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 221 p. w/ footnotes, select bibliography, index of passages cited, and general index. Buell studies the work of Clement to identify metaphors of procreation and kinship and how they were used to lend legitimacy to Clement's positions.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to heel of spine. Minor scuffing to covers. 192 pages with notes at end of each chapter, select bibliography, and index. A study of the Normans in Southern Italy during the eleventh century and accounts of their activities by Amatus of Montecassino, William of Apulia, and Geoffrey Malaterra.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiii, 359 p. w/endnotes, index. "A fundamental reinterpretation of the funding of the Soviet State".

Aldershot UK: Dartmouth Publishing Company Limited, 1997. First edition. hardcover w/illustrated boards. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Dent in top edge of front board. Top right corner bumped. 330 p. w/ tables, charts, essay endnotes, chronology, bibliography. 21 essays on many aspects of the organization of this new European state.

Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2004. Later printing. hardcover in illustrated boards. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, No dust jacket issued with this printing. x, 286 p. w/ chapter endnotes, bibliography, index, note on transliteration. A detailed study of the historical writings about this 19th century Bulgarian nationalist movement.

Los Altos Hills, CA: Andrson-Lovelae / Red Gull Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Steinhour Press. xiv, 246 p. w/b&w illus, end of essay notes, bibliography. 14 scholarly essays on various particluar works and processes in medieval book production.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co,, 1898. 10th ed. . Hardcover. Good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners worn. Name of former owners on half title. Slight wear to head and heel of spine. Some foxing at first and last few pages. Hinges showing some through paper at first and last endpapers. xiv (4), 515 p. w/2 fold out maps, maps with the text (some full page) b&w illustrations, appendix, index. Complete. A classic and masterwork by the co-discoverer of evolution via natural selection in a single volume attractive edition, though a bit worn.