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

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover in cream-colored cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to heel of spine and some light scuffing to covers with light brown spots. Page edges are foxed lightly on upper edges. Stainmarks on fore-edges of pages. 220 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index.

Basel, Switerland: Departmentes des Innern, 1959-1972. First edition. oversized brochures. Very good. 13 large folding brouchure of the best posters of the year chosen by the Swiss Federal Department of the interior. Slight wear to edges and corners, some brochures have short tears at the folds. The texts of 1959-65, 1970 are in German, 1967 &1971 in English, and 1968-69 in French. 1972 changes format & includes all three languages plus Italian. All brochures include 3-4 pages of small full color reproductions of poster with source and artist info, followed by a page with few paragraphs about the year's selection. Uncommon

Milan, Italy: Skira, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 439 p. w/interview, biography, and 250 b&w photographic illustrations of Moriyama's work from the 60's till 2010. A survey of a master of Japanese photography.

New York, NY: Visual Profile Books, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 216 p. w/ color and b&w illus. An attractive survey of some 20 exceptional homes in Dallas representing several great architects and designs. Uncommon.

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1951. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. SIGNED. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many tears and some chipping including two-inch chip missing on upper edge of front cover near head of spine and some light scuffing to covers. Signed by author on front free endpaper. 254 pages. A fictional account of life in a logging camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (near Chippewa) after the timber has all been cleared away from the area.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 400 . w/ footnotes, essay bibliographies, index, and appendix on Dante & 19th c. music. 17 scholarly essays on Dante's reception in a wide range of 19th c. media.

Charlotte, NC: UMI Publications, 1999. First edition. Hardcover green binding with gilt decorations and lettering. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and some scuffing to covers. 159 pages with illustrations, list of past race winners and Miss Southern 500 winners. A handsome work on the history of this important race track.

Barnesly, UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2013. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. xii, 516 p. w/many photo illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A hisotry of RAF'S No, 1 Fighter Wing during the 1942 - 1943 Japanese raids on Darwin. Composed of both British and Australian pilots, RAF 1 opposed some 70 Japanese raids.

Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corner of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. Corners bumped. 651 p. w/ illustrated endpapers, footnotes, bibligraphy, and indexes of people and subjects.

Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1979. First edition. First edition. Good softcover with glossy covers with French flaps. Small tear on upper edge near head of spine. Some light scuffing to covers. 135 pages with illustrations, maps, figures, and charts. An archaeological study of late Roman graves in Hungary.

Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Thick, small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. Faint damp spots on boards. 686 p. w/ addtional pags for introduction, addnedda, index. Facsmilie of a 1677 work by this German scholar, whose best known work is a history of Silesia. The first study of Byzantine historiography.

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1987. Reprint of 1901 ed. . Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xi, 47 p. w/ footnotes, index. In Greek and Latin. Kydones was a medieval Byzantine Greek statesman, tehologian, and writer of the 14th century c.e.

Rome: Universitatis Gregorianae, 1949. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers and slight fading along spine. Page edges are lightly browned. Two labels from previous owner on front free endpaper. Stamp on rear free fly-paper. 423 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. Text of this work of Catholic theology is in Latin.

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xxvi, 38 p. w/ footnotes, index. In Greek and Latin.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. First thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. lxiii, 545 p. w/ intrpduction, appendix, concordance, footnotes, and quotation & allusion, and general indexes. Latin on the verso, English on the recto. The best translation of this satire of late 12th c. court, religious orders, Welshmen, marriage and more by the Welsh/English ecclesiastic who was a roayl clerk under King Henry II. Includes notable bits of folklore and history as well. Uncommon.

unknown: Rampage Press, 2015. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. SIGNED by Buxton with a rough line drawing of Frankenstein's head with "Frnkie Says relax" underneath. 227 p. w/ b&w illus. Another collection of original reviews of British Horror films by the edtor who also did volumes like this covering the 60s and 70s. This one s more uncommon, though it promised that a revised and exanded edition would be out in 2016. I have found no evidence of that, but I would be happy to be proved wrong. Uncommon.

Flushing, NY: Mentor Publications, 1983. First edition. Staplebound softcover. . Very Good. Very good staplebound softcover with grey-white illustrated covers. Light wear to edges of covers with some light black fingerprints/scuffing to front cover. Bump/light crease to head of spine. Few light black scuffs on inside of back cover. 47 pages with illustrations and list of companies that sell chemicals in small amounts. A look at poisons.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto (over size) Very slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. In very good green slipcase. One of an unnumbered limited editon of 350. Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. 255 p. w/illustrated endpapers, bibliography. Letters to Bierce from his protege and writer in his own right, Sterling. In 1922, the Book Club published the letters of Bierce, which contains many to Sterling.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth . Very Good/very good. First American edition, first printing. Thin octavo ( standard size). Dj has slight wear at corners and head and heel of spine and slightly faded at dj spine and along the foredge of the dj. Small closed tear to upper dj edge right after "Death". A few spots on rear cover. Book itself would be near fine except for the exlibris of the former owner on flyleaf. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page. He has drawn a line through his name, and written below : Seamus Heaney / 17th March 1971. Otherwise all correct, a quite attractive copy. First collection by this great Irish poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more to faded, price clipped dust jacket. xvii, 532 p. w/ fold out map, footnotes, index. A detailed study of the transition from Greek speaking Byzantine Christian Anatolia to Turkish speaking Muslim Anatolia.