Search Results: Titles starting with S from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

First edition. 329+16 pp. 20x14 cm. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1896. With author's dedication.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's binding). Decoration on covers. Top-edge red, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Pages bright and clean.

323 pp. Iconographie réunie et commentée par Georges Poisson. No 8 Album de la Pléiade, NRF, Editions Gallimard, 1969.
--- Leather binding (publishers binding). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

Illustrations de Marianne Clouzot. 191+191 pp. Librairie Hachette, 1954-1955.
---Text in french. Some wear at the corners of the covers. Spine ends bumped. Pages bright and clean.

Mit Beiträgen von Friedrich Hiller v.Gaertringen, Hans Reck und Friedrich Dobe. 83 pp. + 38 photos h.t. + 2 folding maps h.t. 24,5x18 cm. Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1936.
--- Text in german. Clothbound (publishers cloth), some wear at spine. Pages bright and clean.

Textes et illustrations Jacques Massacrier. Huitième édition. 200 pp. 31x21 cm. Albin Michel, Paris, 1976.
--- Some discolouration on covers and spine. Pages bright and clean.

Mit 64 karten, 42 plänen und grundrissen und drei kleinen panoramen. Dreizehnte auflage. lxviii+524+40 pp. 16,2x11,5 cm. Verlag von Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1914.
--- Text in german. Clothbound (publishers cloth), gilt lettering on front cover and spine. All edges marbled, pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t. Some edgewear and light spots on front cover.
"Qui songe à voyager,
Doit soucis oublier,
Dès l'aube se lever,
Ne pas trop se charger,
D'un pas égal marcher
Et savoir écouter"

History of each clan and full list of septs. Forty-first edition. 12,7x9,5 cm. Johnston & Bacon Ltd., Edinburgh, 1968.
--- Hardcover. Dust jacket with some edgewear. Pages bright and clean. B&W + colour illustrations.

Edited by Maj.-Gen. Charles Gwynn and J. Hammerton. No. 1, 6 November 1939 - No. 13, 22 April 1940. Fully documented, superbly illustrated. 28x22 cm.
--- Half-leather (private binding). Richly illustrated, rare photographs and documents of World War II.

Suivant le style qui est le plus en usage aujourd'hui: Avec des Formulaires pour les Lettres de voiture, Billets à ordre & de main privée, & pour toutes fortes de Lettres de change, ... Par A. E. Professeur de ces deux Langues. 333 pp. 16x9,5 cm. A Amsterdam et se vend à Turin, Chez les Freres Reycends, Guibert & Silvestre, Libraires, 1752. / Secretario di Banco per tutti i negozianti, o Lettere mercantili in francese ed in italiano... In Amsterdamo.
--- Text in french and italian. Spine is cracked. Occasional foxing, notes on the last blank page - other pages are clean. Ink spot on pages 25.

Second edition. xvi+378 pp.+1 folding map h.t. 20,2x14,3 cm. N. 31 - The Story of the Nations / T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1894.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt (publishers binding). Some wear to extremities. B&W illustrations. Tight binding. Pages bright and clean. Some foxing only on first and last pages.

By F. E. A. Gasc. 618 pp. Book: 2,8x2 cm. Box: 3,1x2,6 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (c.1890-1900)
--- Soft leather binding, gilt lettering. Some wear at the bottom of the spine and a mark at the cover from the magnifying glass. At the back cover, with gilt lettering, is written: Savon Pears' Soap. Original metal box, with embossed decoration, magnifying glass window and a loop at the top.

Transcriptions de Maud Margot Bigiani, préface de Jörge de Sousa Noronha. 117 pp. 21,8x20 cm. Rencontres / Éditions Alternatives, Paris, 2003.
--- Pages bright and clean. Black & White illustrations.

Drawings by Daniel Schwartz. 566 pp. 21,5x14,5 cm. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1955.
--- Clothbound (publishers cloth). Light wear to the edges and corners of the covers and spine. A black mark on back cover (see photo). A word written on the first blank page. All other pages bright and clean. First edition (not stated).
--- A historical and graphic account of the events in Kenya, Africa, in the early 1950's, and the violent Mau Mau insurrection. The movie "Something Of Value" starring Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier and an all star cast was based on this book.
"This is the story of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, [1952-1960] as seen through the eyes of a handful of protagonists. Virtually alone in a sea of racist British colonialism, gentleman farmer Peter McKenzie strives to understand the demands of freedom and equality made by Kenya's black population in particular and his childhood friend Kimani in particular. Ultimately, however, McKenzie and Kimani find themselves on opposite sides of… Read More

Part Four: Science D-H. London, 4 November 2004. 343 pp. 27,5x21,5 cm. - Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Very richly illustrated.

322 Old Dixie Recipes. Compiled and Edited by Lillie S. Lustig, S. Claire Sondheim, Sarah Rensel. Decorations by H. Charles Kellum. 48 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Culinary Arts Press, 1939.
--- Wooden covers, curved and painted. B&W illustrations. Unmarked.

34 artistic views. Captions in three languages (german - english - french). 24,5x18 cm. Lehnert & Landrock, Art Publishers, Cairo, n.d. (c.1910)
--- Gold lettering and decoration on front cover. Beautiful photographs.

A Comic Romance. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. xiv+578 pp. 12,8x7 cm. London, 1808.
--- Half leather. Covers are detached. Text in english. Engraved frontispiece. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.

Confucius - Fu-Kiang - Hakushu - Lao-Tse - Tseng-Kuang. Unnumbered. 12,5x8,5 cm. Texts chosen by E. Hettinger. Herder Book Center, New York, 1964.
--- Colour illustrations. Dedication written on first blank page – all other pages are clean.

Horace – Goethe – Mark Twain – Shaw – Chesterton. Unnumbered. 12,5x9 cm. Texts chosen by E. Hettinger. Herder Book Center, New York, 1964.
--- Only right pages are printed. Dedication written on first blank page. Colour illustrations.

Aurobindo - Gandhi - Hitopadesa - Ramakrishna - Tagore. Unnumbered. 12,5x8,5 cm. Texts chosen by E. Hettinger. Herder Book Center, New York, 1965.
--- Only right pages are printed. Dedication written on first blank page. Colour illustrations.