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

Boston: Humanities Press Inc., 1997. First edition. hardcover w/glossy boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xix,452 p. w/ tables, maps, end of chapter notes, bibliography, index. A study analyzing the human consequences of urbanization and geographical mobility for residents of the Ruhr Valley city of Duisberg during the transition from agrarian to industrial eras.

Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Tall octavo (a bit oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. p.829 - 1275. A volume in Jacoby's immensely useful Fragmente, a collection of writings of ancient Greek historians whose works have been lost but are known from citations, extracts or summaries. This volume covers numbers 156-261 in Greek and German. I am presuming this is Supplement 4.

Leiden: Brill, 1993. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Thick tall octavo (a bit oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. p. 341 - 884. A volume in Jacoby's immensely useful Fragmente, a collection of writings of ancient Greek historians whose works have been lost but are known from citations, extracts or summaries. This volume covers his commentary on numbers 106-261. in Greek and German.

Paris, 1998.. Oversized Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Very good quarto-sized softcover in glossy red illustrated wrapper. Light wear and rubbing along the edges with slight creasing on the corners. Covers are lightly scuffed. Stampmark in blue ink on inside of front cover. 251 pages with illustrations and bibliography. An examination of Bronze Age sites around Lyons, France. Text of this work is in French.

Palo Alto: Glencannon Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Slight scuffing to boards. x, 518 p. w/ b&w illus., drawings, appendices, bibliography, index. A reference work listing various US tankers built between the World Wars, during WWII, and just after. short entries for each ship. Covers T1, T2, T3, T5, and T6 tankers, Government tankers, Reserve tankers, Commercial tankers, foreign owned tankers, WWII losses, and more.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A couple notes in pencil on endpapers. 350 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, general index, and index locorum.

Boulder, CO.: University Press of Colorado, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Some spotting at head of dj spine. Name and address of former owner on flyleaf. 395 p. w/ illustraitns, notes, bibliography, index. An attempt to piece together Mixtec history from the surviving codices, covering the period 900 - 1521 c.e.

Binghamton NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 314 p. w/ footnotes, few illus., appendices, index. A translation and scholarly edition of his mauscript, one of a every few large collection of Middle English secular lyrics. Section B

Prentice Hall, Inc., nd Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995.. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Fifth edition. Very good massive quarto hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small tears along the edges including a one inch tear on the head of the spine. Dj also has some scuffing and soiling to the panels. 960 pages with illustrations and index. A classic history art and artists.

Munich, Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. xliv, 373 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indexes, and additional 6 plates aat rear (1 page with 2 plates in rear pocket). In French. Uncommon.

Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. SIGNED by author on first free endpaper. 320 pages with illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. A work detailing the growth and care for Himalayan plants.

London: Equinox, 2010. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners bumped. SIGNED and incribed by the author to another academic. x, 276 p. w/maps, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. An interesting look at Phoenician city states as an important part of the Persian Empire

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, slightly more so to dust jacket. 181 p. w/appendix, select bibliography, index. A survey of the Hawaiian organized labor movement from the early 19th c. to the fiftiesm with an emphasis on labot after WWII, including worrying over communist influence in Hawaiian labor. Uncommon.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, Booksellers to Her Majesty, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Very good. Some wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit of wear at joints and hinges, but binding is firm. Lovely contemporary tree calf leather binding with gilt filagree around the edges, and gilt ON the edges as well (see image). Endpapers and edges of textblock attractively marbeled. Spine has lovely and intricate gilt designs with original labels. The exact same style of binding can be seen on 2 other volumes of speeches we have listed here, by Grattan and Curran. viii, 520 p. A very attractive edition of this collection of British political and legal speeches by Lord Campbell, who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland, a member of the House of Lords and later in 1850 appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. He ended his career as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. One of his most famous cases was the prosecution of John Frost, a Chartist leader who participated in… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945.. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Very good octavo hardcover in good clipped dust jacket. Some wear to the edges corners of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has some wear and chipping to edges, with the largest chip at the rear cover. Light foxing to the page edges. Address label of former owner on first endpaper. 90 pages with illustrations. The adventures of a wild pony on Sable Island and Nova Scotia.

Chicago: Oriental institute of the University of Chicago, q992. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xxvii, 514 p. w/illus., footntoes, bibliography, indexes. A collection of 44 short essays from the Persians to the early Arabic period, in English, French, and German.

Hillsboro, OR: Timber Press, 2002. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Scuffing to dj at heel. Ink notation to first free endpaper only. 280 p. w/many b&w illus., appendices, bibliography, index. A survey of steam donkeys (a variety of equipment used to haul, load, and move wood) used in Oregon in the heyday of logging.

London: Gregg Press Ltd. and the Archive Press Ltd. , 1966. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Very good. Landscape octavos (standard size). 2 vols. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. An attractive reproduction of a 19th century printer's manual by Johnson (1777-1848), a prominent London printer.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2008. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (slightly over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and original clear mylar dust jacket. xiii,,214 p. w/illus., appendices of printed items, index. A thorough survey of Towne and his varied printing, mercantile, and publishing activities from 1853 through 1868.

Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tears and chipping at head and heel of DJ. Name and address of former oner on flyleaf. 171, 123 p. in 2 sections w/indices, footnotes, errata, corrigenda, addneda, appendix. Text of the Saundarananda in Sanskrit and English.