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

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GMBH & Co., 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 183 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, indices. In Italian and Latin.

Ann Arbor: the author. printed at Edwards Brothers Inc., 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo ( slightly oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. SIGNED by Lund and SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, both on title page. Uncommon in hardcover edition. 456 p. w/ illustrations. A detailed look at the life and baseball career of University of Michigan letterman and MLB player Lund, based on extensive interviews with him by Irwin, helped by Lund's excellent memory, which the author called "verifiable" and "beyond normal".

Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1996. First edition. Red hardcover with silver gilt lettering and designs on spine and booards. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket. 448 p. w/ many b&w illus. A popular approach to the history and cars of Packard from their inception thru1958, with many anecdotes from the authors and their love of these cars.

Farnham, Surrey UK: Ashgate, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 318 p. w/ b&w illus., chapter endnotes, selected bibliography, index. An examination of the Ecole de Paris in the post-war years and its social, artistic, and political context and influences.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Book cloth dust jacket with faded gilt titles on spine. Spine of dj slightly darkened. Boards and spine of book decorate in gilt. 527 p. w/numerous monotone, nearly sepia, photo plates, color maps (some fold out), index. A detailed travel guide to Palestine, with special emphasis on Jerusalem.

Northridge: Windsor Publications, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good quarto (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with a sticker attached to front cover and some light scuffing. Signed by author on half-title page. 223 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. An interesting history of Palm Beach, Florida.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Name of former owner on first pastedown. Errata sheet laid in at first free endpaper. xxv, 316 p. w/illus., appendices, extensive endnotes, bibliography, index. 16th century art and art theory history. Section B

Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Marginal notes and underlining in ink in the Bibliography ONLY. xiv, 264 p. w/a few illus. footnotes, bibliography, index.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 494 p. w/maps, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. A solid biography of one of the better US commanders of WWII in the 82nd Airborne Division, and influential leader, advisor, and businessman after the war.

Budapest: Central European University Press, 2002. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xix, 281 p. w/ illus., endnotes, index.

Mid-America Festivals, 1988. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. Small octavo. Wear to edges and corners. Crease at back corner with slighgt soiling to back cover. Smudge to front cover at upper right. 83 p. w/ bibliography, rough patterns, and directions for measuring, making usable patterns, and sewing shirts, shoes, dresses, pants, and more. Uncommon.

Zwolle, the Netherlands: Waanders, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 318 p. w/ b&w illus., essay endnotes. A work fo 13 scholarly essays - 2 in Dutch, 1 in German, the rest in English - examining a variety of topics in Dutch art of the period, including Rembrandt, expressions of sin and passion, damsels in disress, Rubens and his ambiguous depiction of emotions, Pieter Lastman, and more.

Pretoria and Cape Town: Patlaw and Juta & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Only slightly ex-library with an attractive library Civil War collection stamp on front pastedown endpaper and another stamp with less but similar information on title page. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head of spine and corners of covers. Scuffing to covers with some light white marks on front and a few faint scratches. Pages are lightly browned. 146 pages. A survey of laws pertaining to patents, trademarks, and designs country by country across Africa at the end of the colonial era. Section B

Privately Printed, Possibly 1988-89. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good. A reprinting of Ruth Sherman's 112 Years of Adrian Public School History and Diane Henningfeld's The Challenge of Excellence. Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. 168 pages with illustrations.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dust jacket has had a clear laminate applied to it at some point in its past. coovering the outside. xii (2), 365 p. w/ endnotes, selected bibliography, index. The first modern biography of this Roman political figure in the last years of the Republic who went from patrican disgrace to popular reformer.

Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo in brick cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Very slight wear to edges and corners. Illustrated endpapers. 393 p. w/illustrations, bibliography, index. A collection of 14 essays, some in Spanish and some English, on struggles in Mexican history from the 1660's forward.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Spine of book has brown stains, as if coffee was dripped on it. 425 p. w/ endnotes, bibliogaphy, index. Focuses on the collecting interests and artistic support of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici and Cosimo III in the 17th century.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Top corners bumped. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the ttle page. 176 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. Examines the relationship of student and teacher to reconceive ancient pedagogy.

Ann Arbor: Bureau of Business Research, School of Business Administration, Universty of Michigan, 1956. First edition. Plastic Comb Bound softcover. Good. Small quarto (oversized) Slight wear to edges and corners of covers, some paper teeth loss where the cover attaches to the plastic comb at lower front. A few spots to covers. A small numder of pages have the slightly rusted impressions of paper clips186 single sided pages w/ footnotes, tables, appendices. A study of this Ann Arbor based engineering firm, specializing in gauges and other automotive equipment, esp. hydrostatic gauges for measuing gasolinel levels in car gas tanks and later elecric gauges for major automotive companies. An uncommon and interesing bit of Michigan and automobile business history.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press , 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and light scuffing to covers with a taped numbered label on heel of spine. Number written in red ink on front free endpaper. 316 pages with illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A comparison of the records of the parishes in the diocese of Bath and Wells during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.