Search Results: Titles starting with B from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Wlelington, Somerset, UK: Roundoak Publishing, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 176 p. w/many b&w illus, index, table of organization, structure, members acquired, etc. A detailed overview of the early years of this important British automotive organzation.

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with åscuffing. 361 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography, 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Statistics, 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Organizational Chart: 1862-1865, Roster of Company C 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Badax Tigers Statistics, and index. A history of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War as portrayed in the letters of Private Thomas Jefferson Davis.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Tall octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. xvii, 641 p. w/illus., tables, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of a number of Balkan cities and their development under Ottoman Feudalism and then later in the 19th century as part of free nations.

Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1967. Reprint of 1939 ed. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 501 p. w/ lyrics, musical notation, list of informants, bibliography, index to ballads. Dozens of songs from Michigan, including child ballads, Many of the songs were based on or directly from British ballad broadsides.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Studies, 1955. Second edition. Oversized Softcover. Good. Thick quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A bit more wear to spine, with a small damp stain at head. 532 p. w/ bars of music, lyrics, appendix, index. Over 280 songs with brief provenance entries for each one, some with much greater discussion. The primary difference between the first edition of 1940 and this edition is the foreword by Weaterhly, with very few corrections drawn from notes in Belden's own copy of the first edition.

London & New York: Longman, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers, Name of former owner on inside cover. viii, 472 p. w/footnotes, maps, select bibliography, glossary, index, A broad but thorough survey of the Baltic region, with particular attention to the 19th century, rural society, social welfare, activism, and national identity.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. good/good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Ex-library, with call no. on dj, libray stamps, and remnants of check out label at rear. Name of former owner on flyleaf. 357 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, endnotes, index. A largely positive, anti-colonial biography of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi from 1964-1994, popular in the west for his anti-communism, while having numerous opponents arrested, tortured, and killed. He also kept full diplomatic relations with South Africa, which strained his relations wth other African states.

Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. First edition. hardover in illustrated boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 312 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. 8 scholarly essays on topics related to 19th Century European refugees.

Detroit, MI: Banker's Club of Detroit , 1905. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, no dust jacket issued. Beveled edges to boards, covered in yellow cloth. Gilt titles to cover and spine. Covers of boards soiled. 107 p. w/photographic portraits of various members. Includes a short history, agendas, addresses, menus, music, reports etc. All meetings seem to have been held at the Hotel Cadillac. Founded n 1897.

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Dj has a few small tears, and is faded a bit at spine and edges. 328 p. w/ notes, bibliography, index. A detailed study of the onoing impact of banks and money issues and crises in the five states of the Old Northwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan) during the time before and through the Civil War.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xx, 358 . w/endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of how the Greeks views and interacted with non-Greeks in the classical eta, esp. with Lydia, Persia, and Persian subjects.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 2nd printing. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers The second part of a multi-volume study of the intellectual and cultural contexts of Gibbon's scholarship, focusing on eighteenth century historians important in Gibbons work : Giannone, Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Ferguson, and Adam Smith.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Top front cover corner creased.Small tear at top rear cover corner. 44 p. w/ additional 4 b&w plates of illustration. A study of the imitaions of Roman coins in the ancient period, ofter by unregulated mints in the Empire, and by tribes on eithwr side of the border.

New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dj has a bit of wear at spine also. 139 p. w/ footnotes, index, and additional 64 pages of b&w illustrations. A collection of seven scholary essays on Jesuit influence and paronage of the arts, including music, sculpture, architecure, theater, and more.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 287 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. Section B

Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 244 pages with illustrations, maps, appendix (list of opposing fleets and commanders), bibliography, and index. A detailed look at events leading up to battle and the fight itself near Jutland Denmark in 1916. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size.

Washington DC: the author, 1991. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very Good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A catalog for an exhibition developed by Detroit Community leader Julio Bateau and Washtington DC and the author, a Washington DC art collector. The exhibition covers the successful revolt of slaves against the French and others on the island of Saint Dominigue in 1791, evenentually resulting in the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This book focuses on Haiti.

London: Caxton Editions, 2003. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 128 p. w/ b&w illus., data, endnotes, bibliography, index, and fold out plan of the Queen Mary (1913) at rear. A detailed study of British Battlecruisers between 1900 and 1914.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 238 p. w/ footnotes, select bibliography, index. A study suggesting Baudelaire was indirectly mocking bourgeoise values and attitudes in his work, Le Spleen de Paris.

1972. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. Old price in ink marked out. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the biographical sketch page. 309 p. w/illus., index. A thorough history of what is now the Bay Creek/Erie area of very southeast Michigan, right on the border of Ohio near lake Erie.