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

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GMBH & Co., 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 183 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, indices. In Italian and Latin.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. 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 and rubbing to edges with slight scuffing to covers. Back board and back cover of dj have shallow groove running down the length. Inscribed by author to previous owner on title page. 99 pages.

Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners bumped. Small smudge to foredge. Ink marks and marginalia in bibliography ONLY. x(2), 263 p. w/endnotes with each chapter, bibliography, index. An examination of German attitudes toward Russia and the stereotypes they used in the 25 years leading up to WWI.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so dust jacket. 264 p. w/ notes at end of essays, select bibliography, index. 11 scholarly essays on medieval women (usually noble born ) troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries and their poetry - the Trobairitz, composed and performed at noble courts in Occitania in southern France.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 284 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the early history of hte novel in England and France, when authors were "following a distinct set of practices and rationales".

Paris: Societe Nouvelle Adam Biro, 1999. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 144 p. w/ illus. The complete minutes of the New York trial over the admission of the metal sculpture Bird in Space by French artist Constantin Brancusi, originally from Romania. It is the most famous tiail concerning the definition of art.

Venezia: Edizioni daria Guarnati, 1943.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Limited edition, #888 of 5000 copies. Very good folio sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket with cheaply made slipcase. Some light wear and rubbing along the edges with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and the corners of the covers. Dj has some wear and rubbing along the edges with light scuffing to the covers. Page edges and edges of the dj have some light foxing and browning. Slipcase is made from flimsy cardstock and is worn and rubbed along edges with a few tears and some browning and scuffing to it. 251 pages with notes and illustrations. The text of this book on the art of Francesco Guardi is in German.

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 292 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indices. Section B

Manchester UK: Manchester University Press, 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xvi, 342 p. w/ illus., chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the three kinds of German internees, mostly men : civilians in Britain, POWs, and civilians brought to Britain from all over the world. and related policies.

Messina, Italy: Edizioni Dr. Antonino Sfameni, 1988. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers.A bit of running on the front cover. 175 p. w/ footnotes, indeices. Text in Greek and Italian.

Turin: Umberto and Allemandi, 2010. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Large quarto (over size) Slight wear to edges of covers. 334 p. w/many sepia and b&w photographic illus, bibliographis, indices. Includes 7 essays and a catalog of photographs with full catalog for of each photo.

Milan: Silvano Editoriale, 2004. First edition. Oversized Paperback in illustrated covers. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 239 p. w/many b&w & sepia illus., bibliography, index. entirely in Italian. Vitale was an italian photography historian, critic, and researcher. section B

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. x, 202 p. w/footnotes, bibliography. 10 essays.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Name and address of former owner on flyleaf. 225 p. w/ tables, notes, bibliography, index. A study of demographics in the Roman period, discussing the unreliability of ancent evidence on the topic and modern methods and models, ending with some general democraphic observations based on more reliable analysis.

Florence: Presso L'Academia della Crusca, 1987. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Tall octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 358 p. w/fold out map, glossary. A study of this Renaisance Italian musician's travels in Asia, from 1614 to 1626.

Cambridge, MA: American Folk-Lore Society, 1923. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Octavo ( standard size) . Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Spine slightly faded. Head and tail of spine bumped. 219 p. w/ list of informants and writers, bibliography, riddles, toasts, game songs, and a discussion of folk ways. An important work detailing folklore in various forms from the African American residents of the islands east of Port Royal and North of Hilton Head on the Carolina coast. Interestingly, because the author stayed with African American families during her visit, she gained much greater access to their stories. Many of the tales are recorded in dialect, but not all.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 41 p. w/ a few drawings of coins. A survey of the earliest coins thought to have been made in Norway, usually from the late 10th to 11th centuries,

London: Macmillan & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good price-clipped dust jacket. Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small tears and scuffing to covers with long pencil marks on back cover and fading along spine. St. Martin's sticker on dj's heel of spine. Light browning to page edges with pencil mark and foxing on upper edges. Name of previous owner stamped on front free endpaper. 795 pages with illustrations, figures, footnotes, table of symbols, lists of authors and publications, and 2 indices. A detailed look at the history of chemistry from da Vinci to Boerhaave.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good price-clipped dust jacket. Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many small tears and scuffing to covers with fading along spine. Light marks on upper and lower edges of pages with some minor browning and smudges. Name of previous owner stamped on front free endpaper. 854 pages with illustrations, footnotes, lists of authors and publications, and 2 indices. A history of chemistry from the seventeenth century to the work of Dalton.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. xiii, 318 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. In German