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

Middletown CT: American Philological Association, 1933. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. Thin octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight wear to hinge at title page. 75 p. w/ bibliography, index. A brief but important study of the age-associated groups of men in Ancient Greece, most prevalent in the Hellenistic Period.

Paris: Imprimerie nationale editions, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall Quarto (very oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 434 p. w/many illus., maps, plans, bibliography, glossary, index. A detailed survey of the art and architecture of early Christians in France, with a discussion of the adoption of Christianity in Gaul.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 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. Faint smudges on foredge of textblock. 318 p. w/ illustrations, bibliography, index. An unusual work, comparing 4 works, two Japanese and two british travel narratives. Each pair of authors wrote about the same trip they took together, and Miner uses this to examine naming in literary works.

London: Jones and Co. , 1827. Leather Bound Hardcover. Very good. 2 Very good half leather octavo hardcovers with with marbeled boards, edges, and endpapers. Some wear to edges and corners of set, with slight spotting and scuffing to the leather covers. and spine Red and black labels on spine, with 5 raised bands. Gilt spine designs still bright and attractive. Both volumes have illustrated title pages with tissue leaves intact, in addition to the plain ones, noting publications by Jones and Co. Vol. 1's plain title page is undated, notes publication byby George Virtue, Seventh ed. V. 2 is dated 1827, and notes publication by Jones, Sixth edition. The unillustrated title pages are very similar, but with some differences in type at the botom of the page. Both volumes have frontispieces, v. 2 has the cameo of Napoleon. This work caused a scandal, as O'Meara blamed the British Governor of St Helena, Hudson Lowe, of mistreating the Emperor. A classic work of Napoleonic history in an attractive binding.

Budapest: Central European University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxiii, 488 p. w/end of essay notes and bibliographies. 7 extensive essays on various nations of Eastern Europe after 1989.

Philadelphia: Franklin Court Print Shop and Bindery, 1979. Facsimile. Pamphlet. Very good. Thin duodecimo pamphlet (smaller than standard). Slight wear and creasing to blue cover. 39 (3) p. Printed on letter press at the Franklin Court Print Shop and Bindery in a limited edition of 400 copies. Regading the rolls of African Ameicans in the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic.

New York, NY: Clarendon Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of baords. a bit more so with light chipping to edges, 128 pages with illustrations. A collection of stories for younger readers about ghosts and hauntings. The stories are: 1. Such a Sweet Little Girl, 2. Mother's Little Helper, 3. Silver and Son, 4. Pretty Penny, 5. Lost in France, 6. Squeal, Piggy, Squeal, 7. A Nasty Piece of Work. Salway is a British writer of primarily young adult books

Washington DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2004. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Thin octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 229 p. w/footnotes, bibliographical note. A short survey of the rise of national consciousness and the nature of nationalism among Romanians in Transylvania during this 150 year period. Uncommon.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiii, 213 p. w/color illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. Examines the role of visual artists in the emergence and rise of nationaisl and national identity. in Rare section

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. x, 493 p. w/essay endnotes, chronology, index. A collection of 24 essays on Polish historians, highlighting their achievements and their times.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 292 p. w/ footnotes, Select bibliography, index. 10 scholary essays on issues of labor during the time in the title in various countries, including : The US, England, Germany, India, South Africa. Poland, Russia, Australia, and more.

Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of covers. ink notes and marginalia in bibliogaphy ONLY. 108 p. w/footnotes, bibliography.

Athens, Greece: Aristide D. Karatzas, 1997. First edition. hardcover with pictorial boards. Very good/no dust jacket issued. Quarto (oversized ) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 281 p. w/ many b&w (kind of sepia toned) ullus., bibliography, index. An attractive cataloge of this major exhibition - with details on individual books and libraries both. Text in English and Greek.

Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A very few pages in the first chapter had red lines in the margins and a few words underlined. x, 314 p. w/chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. A study on the emergence of modern Romanian identity in Transylvania during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Washington DC / Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press / Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tear at head of DJ spine. xii, 398 p. w/illus., endnotes, index. A study of the role of crowds in Hungarian nationalism, incl. audiences, fairs, mobs, public celebrations, and war rallies.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 269 p. w/ notes at end of chapters, appendices, bibliography, index. A study of the reasons for the rise of national myths in France during the Renaissance, from embracing earlier sources uncritically (such as ones noting the French descent from the Trojans) to a more factual interest later in the period.

Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1975. Later printing of revised 1964 edition. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 298 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index of ballads and songs. Despite the title, this is a work noting home grown American ballads, not those of native peoples. About half of the work is scholarly study, the other half a syllabus listing ballds on war, cowboys and pioneers, lumberjacks, sailors and the sea, criminals and outlaws, murder, tragedies and disasters, "negros", and misc topics.

De Gruyter ( B. G. Teubner ), 2010. Reprint of a 1967 work. Hardcover. Very good. No dj issued. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Head of spine slightly bumped. 500 p. in Latin w/ appendix.

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Spotting on the jacket is actually a feature of the paper, not foxing or dirt. xv, 441 p. w/maps, end of chapter notes, appendices, bibliography, index. A study of the surprisingly successful AH navy before and during WWI, and its role in creating a common cause across nationalities and political parties.

Stuttgart, Germany: ibidem Publishing, 2017. First edition. Hardcover in illustrated boards. Very good. Tall octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners. No dust jacket issued. 490 p. w/ footnotes, illus., bibliography, index. A detailed stuy of Nazi eugenics and their Holocaust preecursor "Euthanasia Program", under the code name T4.