Search Results: Titles starting with U from Focloir

Gaelic 002 Almqvist, Bo. The Uglier Foot (AT 1559B*). An Anecdote in Old Icelandic Literature and Its Counterpart in Irish Folk Tradition. Dublin: Comhairle Bhealoideas Eireann, 1975, 50p, paper. Very good $12.50

Gaelic454 O Treasaigh, Lorcan. Uisce bais agus beatha. Dublin: Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta, 1975, 154p. Cover bowed else good in dust jacket $15.00

Ancient world 1178Scott, Charles A. Anderson. Ulfilas, Apostle of the Goths. Together with an account of the Gothic churches and their decline. Cambridge, England: Macmillan and Bowes, 1885, xv, 239p, index. Wear to cover, fraying to head and heel of spine and spine edges, some penciling in text, decent else. Bookplate of medievalist laid in. $20.00

Irish in America unat Ulster and North America: transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish. Edited by H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr.; with a foreword by T.G. Fraser. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997,xii, 283 pages, illus, maps, bib, index. Like new copy in dust jacket. Inner flap of dust jacket has a fold, bookplate of collector on front lining paper (in Irish in old Irish typeface). $18.50 Box 2022

Ireland 9396 Joyce, James. Ulysses. Second impression. Two volumes. Hamburg: Odyssey Press, 1933, 400p; 401-792p, paperback. Foxing in text, signature of previous owner on front free endpapers, shelf wear, darkening to spines with some blotching, good overall. Scarce set, first impression was in 1932. The set: $65.00

Ireland gpch Gaskell, Philip and Clive Hart. Ulysses; A review of Three Texts, Proposals for Alterations to the Texts of 1922, 1961, and 1984. (Series: Princess Grace Irish Library 4). Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1989, xvii, 232 pages. Like new in like dust jacket. $25.00 Box 2021

Ireland 8009 Le Fanu, Sheridan. Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh. With an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen. London: Cresset Press, 1947, 480p. Book has some shelf wear but a decent copy. The dust jacket is mostly present but missing parts. $12.50

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Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland, the life of Kitty O`Shea. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975, xii, 334 pages, illus, bib, index. First American edition, some smudges to cover, some cover wear, good overall copy. $5.00 Box A 86

Wales tdmw Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Under milk wood; a play for voices. Edited withm an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. London: The Folio Society, 1972, 93p, illus.
A handsomely produced book. Fine condition in slipcase. I suppose one could call it "like new" but best just to call it "very good". There is a bookplate of collector on front lining paper. Also, laid in is a playbill (Xeroxed?) of a Loeb Theatre production of the play. This appears to be the first edition of this edition of the book. J.M. Dent and New Directions gave the Folio Society permission to publish it in this format. $12.50 Box 21

Ireland 112duf Dunsany, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924, 104 pages, some pages carelessly opened, spine is sun faded. Originally published in 1919. Good copy else. $6.50 Box A 112
Short tales dealing with the suffering incurred by the French in WWI.

Ancient world 1059(Plato).Prior, William J.
Unity and development in Plato's metaphysics. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1985, 202p, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. (English sheets. English edition was London, Croom Helm, 1985).
$10.00

Ancient world 358 (Aristotle) Vossius, Gerardus Joannes, 1577-1649. Universalis philosophiae 'Akroteriasmos. Dispute soutenue à l'Université de Leyde le 23 fevrier 1598; thèses et defense. Edition et introduction de Modestus van Straaten. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1955, 103 pages. 4 pages of facsimiles. Paperbound. Stamp of collector on cover, signature of another collector on front free endpaper, note in margin from one of the two, probably the former. Good, clean tight copy. Vossius was a very prominent Calvinist minister and professor of the time. $20.00

Ireland 77m43 Mansergh, Nicholas. The Unresolved Question - The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing 1912 - 1972. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1991, x, 386 pages, notes, index. Has some faint damp spotting to top paper edge, very good in very good dust jacket. $35.00 Box A 92

Ancient world 575 Dreyer, Oskar. Untersuchungen zum Begriff des Gottgeziemenden in der Antike. Mit bes. Berücks. Philons von Alexandrien.
(Spudasmata, Bd. 24). Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms, 1970, viii, 164p, notes, bib, index, paperback. Very good copy, clean and tight, no marks. A revision of the author's thesis, Göttingen, 1965/66. $35.00

Persia BHUI Busse, Heribert. Untersuchungen zum islamischen Kanzleiwesen : an Hand turkmenischer und safawidischer Urkunden. Cairo: Kommissionsverlag Sirović Bookshop, 1959, vii, 257 pages 55 plates, facsimiles, indexes. Very good condition. Very uncommon book. $95.00 Notes: Text of documents in Persian with German translation in facing columns. Nice book, larger spine, vellum spine with gilt lettering. Actually printed by the French Archaeological Society in Cairo Box B15

Ancient world 694(Boeotia). Gullath, Brigitte, 1953-. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Boiotiens in der Zeit Alexanders und der Diadochen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1982, 240p, bib, index, paperback. (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe III, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften; Bd. 169
Revision of thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München, 1981). Inscribed to another classics professor on front free endpaper. Presentation in German. Very good clean tight copy, no marks. $50.00

Ancient world 709Hasebroek, Johannes. Untersuchungen zur geschichte des kaisers Septimius Severus. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1921, viii, 201p, index. The page block has toned over the years but the paper is still supple and not brittle. Good, clean, tight copy bound in a sturdy green buckram. $37.50

Ancient world 1141 Rothenhöfer, Dieter, 1938- Untersuchungen zur Sklaverei in den ostgermanischen Nachfolgestaaten des Römischen Reiches. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades einer Hohen Philosophischen Fakultat der Eberhard-Karls-Universitat zu Tubingen. Vorgelegt von Dieter Rothenhofer aus Bad Rappenau, (Tübingen): (Fotodruck Praxis Barbara v. Spangenberg KG), 1967, xx, 144 p, bib, paperback. Good, clean, tight copy. $30.00

Ireland djuf Deane, John F. Upon foreign soil. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999, 43p. Paperbound. (Icarus series, Number 3, limited to 500 copies). Fine copy of this book of poetry. Signed on endpaper by Deane. $13.50 Box 508

Middle Ages105bc (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153). Domenique Bertrand and Guy Lobrichon, edited by. Œuvres complètes. 1, Introduction générale: Bernard de Clairvaux: histoire, mentalités, spiritualité: colloque de Lyon-Cîteaux-Dijon. (Series: Sources chrétiennes, 380). Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1992, 751 pages, notes, bib, index, illustrations, in full color. Paperbound. There is a paper dust jacket as well. Very good copy, dust jacket has some ruffling at the top. $22.50 Box A 105
Contributions by about 25 specialists from the colloquium.