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

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. ix, 234 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the implications and definitions of "ungovernable passions" and the controlled self in early modern England legal culture, combining social, cultural, and legal history.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good. Thick quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. corner of half title page clipped. 923 p. w/ illus., bibliography, index. A collection of 411 original Nazi and Nazi - related sources (whole or in part) on a wide variety of subjects, including Beginnings of National Socialism, Worldview, Antisemitism. Nationalizing Youth, Racial Community, Churches, The Arts, Work, Industry, & Modernity, War, Resistance, and Defeat.

New York, NY: Hermon Press, 1972. Second edition, with additions. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). First published in 1938. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Spine faded. 268 p. w/ appendices, bibliography, and indexes on persons and general topics.

Norwalk, CT.: Easton Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. A bit of scuffing to the gilt on the foredge of the textblock. Illustrated. Grey-blue leather, gilt lettering and designs on spine and on front board. An attractive illustrated edition in an uncommon collectible edition.

London & New York: Heinemann / Lippincott, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Tall octavo. Some wear and chipping to edges and corners of boards. Dust jacket has slight tears around the edges, and two green marks on front cover, next to the image of Cinderella in a chair, Corners bumped. Slight foxing on several pages and foredge. Some green bleed thru from endpapers to adjacent page, front and rear. Illustrated boards and endpapers. Illustrated color frontis,. with tissue, colored title page. With 5 two page illustrated spreads, 2 in b& w silhouettes only, 3 with additional color to the silhouettes, The classic rags to riches story, illustrated in Rackham's attractive silhouette style.

St. Catherines, Ont. Canada: Vanwell PUblishing Limited, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. First flap of dj has creasing. 425 p. w/illus., maps, end of chapter notes, bibliography, index.

Belgrade: Belgrade Forum, 2014. First English language edition. hardcover in pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Some scuffing and bumps to covers. 318 p. w/footnotes, name index. A Serbian focused survey of the war, with the opening of the war taking up half the book.

Istanbul, Turkey: Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Istanbul, 2006. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very Good. Quarto (oversized). French flaps. Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 398 p. w/ illustrations, plans, bibliographies. A well-illustrated survey of archaeological work in Western Turkey. 31 summaries covering 31 sites, written primarily in German or Englsh with one essay in Italian.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1977. First paperback printing. Trade Paperback. Very good. Thick octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Front cover has a couple creases. Name of former owner on flyleaf. xxxvi, 465 p. w/footnotes, notes on the text, index. A new translation with notes of a popular and influential 14th c. Italian version of an earlier work. Uncommon.

Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 2012. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xv, 172 p. w/additional 121 pages of color images of fish, illus., maps, appendix. Section B

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Top corners bumped. Many ink notations in bibliography only. ix, 229 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of Russian engagement with liberal ideas, focusing more at the end of the Imperial Russia.

New York, NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Reprint of work originally published in 1890. Good octavo hardcover in orange cloth binding without dust jacket but with white tissue covering. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of covers. Minor roll. 495 pages with tables, maps, footnotes, and indices. A detailed look at various sites of historical, mainly Roman and Byzantine, and archaeological interest in Asia Minor such as bishoprics, Roman roads, and strategias.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. More wear and edge chipping to dust jacket. xxxvii, 442 p. w/footnotes, chronology. A reinterpetation of the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, examining the fundamental driving force of them boith, section B

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. First American edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. 355 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed overview of the intellectual climate of the last century before Christ in the Roman world, with special attention to Greek & Roman authors of the time of various socioeconomic groups that survive in fragments and in works outside of Rome itself.

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.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Magic section has a few marginal notes and one underline. 405 p. w/bibliography, further reading, index. 90 in-depth articles.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of redspine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges witha few mior nicks and some slight scuffing to covers. Inscribed by author to previous owners on half-title page. 192 pages witha few notes and some illustrations. An interesting autobiography of this successful architect.

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to clipped dust jacket. xvii, 323 p. w/ many b&w illus., plans, index. Written for professionals building shopping malls together, covering architectural, landscae and interior design all through operational maintenance. A great book that catches a snapshot of time in the heyday of US malls. Some illustrations in the book have a definite Stranger Things season 2 look.

Chcago: Privately printed and bound by Tony Rubovits, Chicago, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good quarto hardcover in grey paper binding and cloth spine without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards. Tear in clith at head of spine The covers are scuffed. Gift inscription to one G.H. Bookwithers (sp?) Esq. from "H. W. Jacobs 1922" on the 2nd free endpaper. Name of former owner on flyleaf. 82 pages with illustrations by Reed. A collection of tales set in the St Joseph /Grand Rapids area of Michigan A scarce work of fiction by the journalist, artist, and writer Earl H. Reed, using a probaby fictional friend's property as the setting. H.W. Jacobs was likely Reed himself.

Chicago: Privately printed and bound by Tony Rubovits, 1921.. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good quarto hardcover in grey binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with places where the binding is worn away or slightly torn, mainly on the fore-edges of the panels, with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels. The covers are scuffed and have some soiling. Slight roll to the spine. Pages are a little bit browned. The binding is a little weak in some spots but all pages are still firmly attached. Gift inscription by one "H. W. Jacobs Chicago 1923" to his friend Frank B. Niles on the front free endpaper. Henry Jacobs was the owner of the haunted farm in this account (see the postscript). 62 pages with illustrations by Reed. The ghost in question is the shade of the Hungarian Emric Szapolyai, a general of King Mathias Corvinus. Dying in 1489, the ghost travelled to the Mediterranean, falling in with Christian and Turkish… Read More