Search Results: Medieval Studies from Rose's Books, IOBA

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. Reprint. SIGNED BY PAUL MAGRIEL inside front cover with full name. Trade paperback, 288 pp. Illustrated. Light shelf wear. Very good.. Signed - Association Copy. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 12 mo..

London: J. M. Dent, 1949. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Another Author. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. London: Dent, 1949. SIGNATURE OF DONALD W. BAKER, teacher/poet/mentor/editor. Reprint. 12mo. Cloth binding, decorative endpapers, 367 pp. Light wear top and bottom of spine, previous owner name on front endpaper. Very good condition..

Nashville: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo.. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975. First edition, stated. 12mo. Cloth binding, 159 pp. Light yellowing to pages. Near fine in very good dust jacket. protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

London: Oxford, 1950. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Cloth Wrappers. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Blue linen wrappers, 57 pp., followed by 1-page description of plates and 9 photographic plates. Three lectures given at the University of Durham. Fading around sides of covers. Light foxing to prelims, very good..

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. First edition, second printing. 4to. Red binding, decoration and titles in gilt, Black leather spine label. 234 pp. including 192 black and white plates and index. 91 line drawings. Book very clean, hinges sound, slight discoloration to one corner. No writing inside. Dust jacket has shallow wear to extremities. Slipcase is sturdy with rubbing along fore-edges. Near fine in very good dust jacket in very good slipcase.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to..

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Chartwell Books, 1987. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 4to.. Secaucus: Chartwell, 1987. Reprint. 4to. Cloth binding, 304 pp. including 100 color plates. A fascinating facsimile reprint of the 1860 edition with in-depth essays and examples from the 6th to the 16th century in Europe. Book and dust jacket have light shelf wear. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with a fresh archival-quality mylar cover..

Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1934. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Good. Hardcover. 12mo.. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1934. 12mo. Hard cover binding, 54 pp. Gothic lettering. Black and white and color plates. Good..

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1942. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint of first edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 650 pp. Bibliographies. Illustrated with plates. Three fold-out maps of the Roman frontier and the Teutonic Tribes in the first and fourth centuries; the Empire of Charles the Great; and Germany in the thirteenth century. Complete. Invaluable for the mediaeval studies scholar. No wiriting inside. Corners bumped, boards lightly sunned and soiled. Very good..

New York: Harvest Books, 1997. Book. New. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace, 1997. First edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, 256 pp. A guy gets an idea to build a medieval catapult. New..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, copyright 1973, no publication date. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE: "best Gothic wishes, David Macaulay". 12th printing. 4to. Hard cover binding, 80 pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white throughout. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.. Signed by Author. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Macaulay, David. 4to..

New York: St. Martin's, 1975. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: St. Martin's, 1975. First U.S. edition. 8vo. Cloth binding. 312 pp. A little shelfwear to jacket. Light soiling to page edges. Appears unread. Very good in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1947. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1947. First edition. 100 pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title to another professor. Sewn binding with self-wrappers. Very good condition..

New York: Hawthorn, 1960. Ex-Library. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo. New York: Hawthorn, 1960. First Edition. 8vo. Ex-library with over-enthusiastic withdrawn marks. 8vo. Cloth binding, 140 pp. including and select bibliography. Covers the Middle Ages, Reformation and Renaissance, Shakespeare, The Jesuits and Calderon, Corneill and Racine, and a chapter called Loss and Recovery that goes up to 1960. Clean text, solid book. Good in very good dust jacket, with a fresh archival-quality mylar cover..

London: J. M. Dent, 1942. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint. Blue cloth binding, gilt titles, decorated endpapers. 348 pp. Light fading and scuffing to boards. Very good condition..

Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edition limited to 1574 copies. As New condition, inside and out except that there is a thin fade line on the inside flap of the dustjacket. Book is unread. Protected with mylar dustjacket..

Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1975. Book. Fine. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No edition stated (1975). Cloth binding, 147 pp. Best known for his novels, Gardner was also a stellar scholar of medieval literature. Dustjacket has light fade to spine. Fine in near fine dustjacket..

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hardcover binding, 288 pp. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence and a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. Here the author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women first makes clear how adrift he really was, describing how the medieval exile left everything behind, from his identity to his language. She then takes a parallel tour of Dante's nineteen-year physical journey -- Rome, Siena, the upper Arno, La Verna, Bibiena, Cesena, and the Po plain, as well as Paris and possibly Oxford -- and also his metaphysical one, during which he wrote his "unfathomable heart song," as Thomas Carlyle called The Divine Comedy. New in new dustjacket..

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth binding, gilt titles, pp. xiv, 242 (2). Fold-out illustration from Domesday Book as frontispiece. Between the battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest in 1066 and the Domesday Inquest twenty years later (1086) the aristocratic English land-owning class was expropriated in favour of a French-speaking, fedual society which for more than two centuries substituted Latin for Anglo-Saxon as the language of archives, and French for English as the spoken language. It is this catastrophic revolution which ws reduced to writing in Domesday Book, and at once became the 'blue print' of the new order, and its title deeds. It was thus a forward-looking document whose importance in medieval royal administration has been gravely underestimated by nineteenth-century historians whose chief interest lay in… Read More

New York: Skira, 1957. New York: Skira, 1957. First edition. 4to. 243 pp. including index. Profusely illustrated with tipped-in color plates divided into Mosaics and Mural Painting and Book Illumination. No writing inside. Hinges sound, text block clean. Dust jacket is edgeworn with shallow shipping. In one corner the laminate is beginning to separate. Fine in good dust jacket, protected with a new archival-quality mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to..

Padova: Edizione Cartotipografica Moderna, 1959. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. Padova: Edizione Cartotipografica Moderna, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, 192 pp. Ex-library, appears little-read. In Italian. Good..