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

Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, Publisher, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and slight mark on front cover. 440 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and list of promoti. A festschrift featuring a number of papers on Roman law written mainly in English, French, and German.

London & New York: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884. hardcover in full black leather. Good. Thick quarto (oversized). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt top edge. Corners bumped. Some wear to joints. 2 inch tear in leather joint at lower front board, and a one inch tear at top joint. First and last hinge reinforced with green tape. Gift inscription on a card glued in on the first pastedown. Black leather with gilt boirder detailing at edges on both sisdes of the boards. though the title page notes 24 illustrations, this is the extra illustrated edition with 50 attractive, detailed b&w etchings by Delierre.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and cornes of boards, a bit of darkening to edges of dust jacket. Slight smokiness to book. 274 p. w/ maps, chronology, index, further reading. 10 scholarly essays on varius aspect of these times in Medieval Italy.

New York, NY: Arno Press, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Small thin octavo. Slight wear to edges and corners of illustrated boards. No dust jacket. 219 p. A facsimile edtion of this important work on photography. Lacan was himself not a photographer, but was editor of 2 important early photography journals, he helped shape the discussions of method and theory of the art in the mid-19th century.

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1857. First edition. 3/4 Leather hardcover. Very good. Small, thin octavo. 3 quarter brown leather over marbeled paper. Glided top edge. Gilt title with gilt boundary on spine, with ornaments at head and tail. Some wear to joints and corners, but still bound strongly. Bookplate of solicitor James Whitefoord Mackenzie (1794 -1884) on pastedown. "Privately printed" written in ink in a 19th century hand on flyleaf. (4) 23 p.(35 blank pages) with footnotes and illustrations. Illustrations include the heraldic device of James III on the title page, several smaller illustrations printed with the text, and two fold-out plates of 2 sides each illustrating the altar by C.A. Doyle, most likely Charles Altamont Doyle, an Edinburgh illustrator and father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Includes a 3 page extract from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, discussing some of the Queen’s paintings at Holyrood. Interestingly, additional copies of the first and last… Read More

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. , 2008. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good/no dust jacket. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 165 p. w/ color and b&w illus., maps, 5 appendices, bibliography, and additonal 2 pages of ads. An attractive work detailing the activities stories of this P-38 equipped figher group that fought in North Africa and Italy, fighting German, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, and even Russian planes at times from Nov. 1942 til the end of the war.

Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2013. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dj has creases on flaps. xxv (1), 195 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. Seven scholarly essays lookign at how readers from Homers' era to the Renaissance foudn meaning in his texts.

Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 338 p. w/b&w illus., floor plans, endnotes, index. A great overview of Pre-Civil War Kentucky architecture with detailed information and images of the buildings.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 387 p. w/map, illus., a few endnotes, index. Landsbergis is a former key pro-independence Lithuanian activist and former Speaker for the Parliament for the first two years of Lithuania's indpendence from Russia, 1990 - 1992. He then later became Speaker for the Seimas from 1996 - 2000, and later an MP for Lithuania in the European Parliament.

Fennville, MI: Fennville Herald, 1983. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A couple brown spots on front cover. 64 p. w/ b&w illus. Covers history and anecdotes about the Fennville Michigan area, the western "fruit belt" half of Allegan county.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Thin small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A bit more wear at head of spine. x, 138 p. w/ fold out map, footnotes, bibliography, index, additional 15 b&w plates of illustrations. A survey of the coins of the various entities that governed Georgia from the Classical era to the 19th century c.e.

Johnson County Historical Society , 1981. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. From original 1921 work. Binding slightly bowed. Slight soiling to covers and page edges. Some soiling at endpapers. 211 p. with additional newly added index of 36 pages at end.

Winter Park, FL: Sun Belt Earth Sheltered Research, 1981. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Landscape octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A bit of scuffing to rear cover. 101p w/index. illus. Each floor plan acompanied by an atractive perspective. Uncommon. Section B

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Inscribed by author for previous owner, Marvin Becker. 267 pages with 2 appendices, endnotes, list of works cited, and index. An interesting study of this heretical group in the town of Orvieto.

[ Dublin ]: [ Irish Worker ], [ 1913 ]. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet. Illustrated cover of Larkin on colored paper. Some wear and small tears to edges. 15 (1) p. Last unnumbered page has am ad and order form for the Irish Worker and small library withdrawn stamp in red, no other library markings. The full speech of Larkin in response to the Employer's stating of their case regarding the 1913 Transport Union dispute in Dublin. Larkin was an Irish republican, socialist, and labor organizer. He was involved in the Dublin Lockout but was in America during the Easter Rising, where he was arrested in 1919 for "criminal anarchy". He died in 1947 and a statue of him is in Dublin. Presumably printed before the Manchester edition. Uncommon.

New York, NY: Garland, 2000. First edition. Hardcover in pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 592 p. w/ index. An interesting selection of the writings of French women from the twelfth century to 1837. Includes Gormonda de Monpeslier, Helisenne de Crenne, Charlotte de Bourbon Princess of Orange, Catherine des Roche, Madeline de Scudery, Catherine Durand, Louise d'Epinay, and many others.

New Haven, CT.: American Oriental Society, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). SIGNED by the author and inscribed to a felow scholar. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, No dust jacket. xiv, 156 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. A study of the Abbasid dynasty and its apologists, who recorded and at times embellished or invented history to support their patrons.

Fort Wayne, IN: Mind Mirage, 1985. First edition. Hardcover with Gilt outlined question mark on cover in full cloth. Very Good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Top foredge corners bumped, less so at lower corners. 145 p. w/ firearms page, errata page, a few illustrations and reprints of newspaper articles. An uncommon work by two respected effect creators of the Midwest.

Lubeck and Hamburg: Matthiesen Verlag, 1968. First edition. Fair softcover in brown-grey wrapper. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with slight tears on head and heel of spine and creasing on corners of covers, especially the upper corner of back cover. Scuffing to covers with large streaks across the front cover and along its upper edge. Small smudges on fore-edges of pages. Some pages have not been separated along upper edges. 344 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the government of chancellor Karl Joseph Wirth during the Weimar era of Germany. Text is in German.

Paris: Fayard, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Ink marks and marginalia in bibliography ONLY. 700 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. Entirely in French.