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

Paris, 1998.. Oversized Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Very good quarto-sized softcover in glossy red illustrated wrapper. Light wear and rubbing along the edges with slight creasing on the corners. Covers are lightly scuffed. Stampmark in blue ink on inside of front cover. 251 pages with illustrations and bibliography. An examination of Bronze Age sites around Lyons, France. Text of this work is in French.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. One Dj flap creased. xix,278 p. w/color and b&w illus., plans, endnotes, index. An architectural history of this Byznatine cathedral and Muslim mosque over the 100 years of its rise to recognition as a world monument.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized. SIGNED and hand illustrated. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Unpaginated illustrated children's book. Title page features an inscription and hand-drawn illustration by the author/illustrator of Pinky Pig playing the clarinet. Pinky Pig saves her job and her boss's restaurant with her odd creations, in order to get her beloved clarinet.

London & New York: Academy Editions / St. Martins, 1985. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very good. Squarish quarto (over sized). Slight wear to edges and corners. Small nink in front cover at foredge. Covers lightly scuffed. A survey of new and renovated architecture in the English county of Hampshire, with many color and b&w illustrations and 4 essays

Young Lutheran Company , 1891. First edition. Very good in brown cloth. Slight scuffing to covers. Spine slightly faded. Light wear to edges and corners of binding. Former owner's inscriptions ot both front endpapers. pages edges are browning, but not yet very brittle. Unusual copyright stamp of the author on copyright page. 471 p. w/index at front, advertisments of 19th century Lutheran publications, church organs, desks and manuals at back. A handbook and history of practice and the then current state of the Lutheran church in Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, the US, and around the world. Includes discussions of the work of Deaconesses and foreign missions. An uncommon work on the Lutheran Church at the turn of the century.

United States Bureau of Prisons, 1949. First edition. oversized Paperback with dust jacket. Very good/good. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers and dust jacket. 317 p. w/ many b&w illus., plans, table, architectural drawings. A detailed, technical overview of building different types of prisons, from medium and super security to medical wings and shop floor plans. Includes Juvenile detention homes.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 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. A few oer corners creased. A few pages have light underlining of individual words in blue ink. 208 p. w/ select bibliography, index.

Iowa City, IA: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, 1991. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. 112 p. w/ illustrations, appendices, references. A short joint biography by Roboz Einstein, focusing on their marriage and HAE's own achievements in hydraulic engineering. Includes an short biography of HAE's mother, Mileva Einstein-Maric by Dord Krstic, written at Roboz Einstein's request.

Tübingen, Germany: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1948. New edition. . Hardcover. Good/fair. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the covers with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Waterstain on the upper corner of the back panel. Panel corners are lightly bumped with slight tears. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with numerous tears and some chipping. Dj's covers are browned along edges and spine and also have some scuffing. Page edges are browned and the pages themselves a little stiff. SIGNED and inscribed by Heuss to Wolfgang Stolper, a noted economist, in blue ink on the front free endpaper datd 1948. Laid in is a photograph of Heuss and his wife also inscribed by Heuss. 152 pages with illustrations. Theodor Heuss was the first Bundespräsident of West Germany. Book is in German.

North Adams, MA: Stephen M. Whipple, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large octavo (standard size). Original green cloth binding. Light wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt titles to spine. Has a library donation plate on first pasedown, but no other library markings internally or on binding. Pencil notates to rear pastedown. SIGNED and inscribed by Whipple, the publisher. Title page has emboss of former owner Joseph Sadony. Missing the tissue guard for the frontis. 445 p. w/ frontis, 5 additional plates. A study of archaeological evidence and cuneiform to investigate Biblical issues.

Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 2012. Revised and extended edition. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 325 p. w/many color illus., diagrams, select index of names, glossary, select bibliography, discography of instruments in the Beurmann Collection. A beautifully illustrated book with a great deal of information from an important collection of instruments.

New York, NY: William Collins, 1978. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ. Squarish octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page with an ink line drawing of a woodchuck with coat, scarf and skates. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Dj is clipped at the bottom corner, but the top corner still has a price of $6.95. Front board has a blue box with a woodchuck within, also in blue. A great winter story of a family of woodchucks enjoying the winter as they prepare for their long sleep. A slightly uncommon book in hardcover, more so signed and in attractive condition.

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a more so to dust jacket. DJ has closed tear along top of rear cover. 231 p. w/color and b&w illus., 11 fairy tales from this 19th c. German storyteller, who died from typhoid at the young age of just 24. Uncommon

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, slightly more so to dust jacket. 181 p. w/appendix, select bibliography, index. A survey of the Hawaiian organized labor movement from the early 19th c. to the fiftiesm with an emphasis on labot after WWII, including worrying over communist influence in Hawaiian labor. Uncommon.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First American edition. Hardcover. Good in poor dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Slight wear to edges of boards, though lower corners and head and heel of spine are bumped. Small dent in edge of both boards. Page edges a bit soiled. A few lower corners have small creases. Dj is heavily chipped and scuffed with a number of tears, most closed, though not all. Largest chip is a long 1/2 inch by 2.5 inch strip at top, cutting off "By the author of MUR -". Flaps are intact, and "Price $2.00" remains on first flap. Pencil notes to last flap. Binding is brick red wih black text. A scarce first American printing of this mystery novel, which is rather uncommon in any edition. It is the story of a swindle to create an asylum for European Political Exiles that ends in greed and murder. Beeding was the pseudonym of Hilary Aiden Saint George Saunders (1898-1951) writing in conjuction with his best friend John Palmer (1885-1944).… Read More

Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2000.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has more wear along the edges with some light scuffing to the covers. Black remainder mark across the upper edges of the pages. 480 pages with illustrations, select bibliography, and index. A detailed history of the origins and growth of Dublin.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 437 p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, select bibliography, index. Focuses on Europe through the 19th c.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Ex-library with only few minor flaws associated with that condition: stamps on title page and rear pastedown endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Light wear to edges of boards. Light scuffing to covers. Minor roll to binding. A little bit of underlining in text. 414 pages with illustrations, endnotes, 7 appendices (1. glossary, 2. chronology, 3. operational organizations of the Union army, 4. principal commands of the 75th Regiment, 5. engagements of the 75th Regiment, 6. roster, field and staff, and company G of the 75th, 7. roster of officers of the 22nd United States Infantry in 1868), and index. The letters between Oscar Ladley (d. 1880) and his mother and sisters in Yellow Springs, Ohio, concerning his service in the Seventy-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and in the Twenty-Second United States Infantry Regiment after 1867.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 quartos (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. Paper illustration on slipcase intact and in very good condition as well. v.1 text (211p, w/map) , v. 2 plates (clxxi ppl., mostly b&w with a few color) section B.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Small quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xv, 288 p. w/illus., endnotes, bibliogaphy, index. 2oth century aesthetics.