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

London: Century Publishing, 1984. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo ( slightly oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Address label of former owner partially removed from flyleaf. 224 p. w/ index, bibliography, and many recipes. An important and still considered seminal work on sweets and desserts from the Mideast, here in its original edition. A good addition for cookbook and culinary history collectors.

Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1985. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Good. Quarto (oversized). Text only in German. Some wear to edges and corners. Small dampstain at upper right corner of first 40 pages or so. Some soiling to edges of textblock. 304 p. with photographic illustrations, maps, diagrams, index, and 2 fold out plans of the city. A look at the architecture, history and inhabitants of this isolated city in Yemen.

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 363 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, indices. Section B

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, slight darkening to spine. Dj has more wear, slight chipping at edgs and darkening to dj spine, esp. head and tail. Remnant of tape at head of spine. Gift inscription at flyleaf. 148 p. w/ notes at end. A 1930s translation of a great Icelandic saga of na anti-hjero, Gisli, illustrated wonderfully throughout by Kent.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxix, 493 p. w/ chronology, footnotes, appendix, index. A detailed and masterful account of the life and mind of this English medieval Saint.

Brepols, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized hardcover. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 255 pages with illustrations and bibliography. Text is in French. A study of the cult and shrine of St. James and the pilgrimages to Compostella during the Middle Ages.

Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 344 p. w/ footnotes, catalogue of the "geographical" Salaminioi, bibliography, index.

Weedsport, NY: George W. Hippisley, 1970. First edition. stapled sheets. Very good. 39 p. printed on both sides. Stapled at upper left corner. Slight wear to edges and corners. Folded over for mailing. A listing of some 1304 books, posters, apparatus, ephemera, and more, most from Harry Blackstone show, which Hippisley had been storing for Blackstone. Includes a listing in the auction section for the famous painting of Blackstone by Salla. Robert Lund and Daniel Waldron bought most the material en bloc in 1970, and Lund displayed most of his share at his American Museum of Magic in Marshall Michigan. Waldron's part of the Blackstone collection was used by him for his biography, and was sold at auction in 2017. An uncommon and important magic catalog, listing interesting items never to be reassembled, from an unusual source.

Paris, ca. 1892. Hardcover. Limited, unnumbered edition. Good folio size hardcover in red illustrated binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with many of the usual flaws and marks associated with that condition including bookplates on the front and rear pastedown endpapers and call numbers in white ink on the head of the spine. Bumping to the head and heel of the spine and also on the corners of the panels with damage to the head of the spine including tears and fraying across its top. Soiling and scuffing to the panels. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Some splits developing in binding where the webbing is visible. Pages are lightly browned but stiff. A work full of illustrations on French art in late ninteenth century. Despite the described shortcomings, this is still a solid work. The text of this scarce work is in French.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall quarto (oblong, over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A collection of Whitman's writings and poety, illustrated with photographs by Michals, using one model, taken specifically for this volume. Uncommon.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers, SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Ludwig [Koenen]. 272 p. w/ illus., maps, floor plans, glossary, bibliography, index. A study of Greek sanctuaries all over the Greek world.

London: Duckworth, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 256 p. w/illus., appendix of Latin texts, endnotes, bibliography, index. A biography of Renaissance poet and humanist Sannazaro and a study of his origination of the myth of Arcadia, a dreamy pastoral land, and its subsequent development by other writers.

Leiden: Brill, 1976. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. A few pages have light pencil underlining. xvi, 482 p. w/footnotes, addenda, index and additonal 220 plates, some with several imagers per plate. A classic and impotant work on this Syncretic Ptolemaic god fom Egypt, whose image is often accompanied by Cerebus in either the three headed or lion headed forms. From the library of Ludwig Koenen.

New York, NY: Praeger, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 267 p. w/maps, tables, b&w line drawings, B&w photo illustrations, notes on the text and plates, bibliography, index. An uncommon work detailing the history and background of these steppe horse riders, whose record in history spans nearly 1000 years.

Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xi, 465 p. w/appendix, bibliogaphy, endnotes, index, and color and b&w illus, some not in print since original publication. First ever biography as sell as a of the cartoon work of Keppler (1838 - 1894) popular in th US for over a generation during the Gilded Age for both American and international topics In PUCK, the first successful US humor magazine.

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavos (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Slight browning to page edges. A bit of hinge separation at p. 232-233. vol. 1 : x, 466 p. w/ footnotes Vol. 2 247 p. w/ footnote, index. In Latin.

Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tears and chipping at head and heel of DJ. Name and address of former oner on flyleaf. 171, 123 p. in 2 sections w/indices, footnotes, errata, corrigenda, addneda, appendix. Text of the Saundarananda in Sanskrit and English.

Columbia, SC: Summerhouse Press, 1997. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Small crease at lower edges of dj. Gift message on first pastedown in ink. 287 p. w/ illustrations, notes, index, maps and several appendices. A study of Tondee and his role in Revolution era Georgia, from the 1730s to the 1780s.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Dj faded at spine. ix (1), 267 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the press of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party), noting the law courts and police were directed against free speech, and the role of non-democratic forces in the state. Also examined is other fuel for the SPD press, like the discrinimation vs the working class, political bad practices, and personal failing of major figures.

Portland, ME, 1989. Pamphlet. Very good. "... in which this unique move is explained and various utilizations are suggested. " Revised and expanded 2nd edition, 200 copies made Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Top corner and first few pages have crease at corner. 17 p. Includes various pieces of paper clipped to back . SIGNED by Stride to Marcello Truzzi, noted sociologist who was very interested in stage magic and magicians.