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By: N/A
Price: $5.40
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.: 1975
Seller ID: 29178
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 166 pp. Volume 18 in the "Mediaeval Sources in Translation" series from PIMS. Translated from the mediaeval Italian and with a 16 page introduction by John Wright. From the back cover: ". . . a romantic visionary who led a popular revolution against the rapacious and tyrannical barons of medieval Rome. It vivdly describes Cola's brief tragi-comic reign as Tribune of a restored Roman republic in 1347, his subsequent pilgrimage to the imperia... View more info
Price: $17.60
Publisher: Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press.: 2007
Seller ID: 20110
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xxi - 360 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. Renowned baseball historian Alexander has chronicled the twenty-two career of arguably the greatest centerfielder in baseball's history. One corner bumped; a new, unread copy. View more info
By: Armitage, Merle.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Ames, Iowa., Iowa State University Press.: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 21540
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xv - 386 pp. Black cloth over boards with red and white lettering on spine, blind stamped MA monogram on front. Illustrated with 24 pages of black and white photographs.Signed and inscribed on the verso of the front free end paper as follows: " For dear Frances who reaches for the stars! Warmly - Merle Armitage 1973". Frances is Frances Rich, a sculptor of some renown from the midwest and the daughter of Irene Rich of Hollywood fame. Loosely la... View more info
By: Arnold, Emmy. (Cofounder Of The Bruderhof).
Price: $5.40
Publisher: Farmington, Pennsylvania., Plough Publishing House.: 1999
Seller ID: 5196
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 176 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. From the back cover: "In the tumultuous aftermath of the First World War, thousands of young Germans defied the social mores of their parents . . . in search of freedom, social equality, nature, and community. Hiking clubs were formed and work camps . . . rural folk schools and communes sprang up . . . In the 1930s, Nazism swallowed this so-called Youth Movement virtually whole . . . (this) is the engagi... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York., Doubleday, Doran & Company.: 1928
Seller ID: 22699
8vo - 22.5 x 15.5 cm.; [10] - 297 pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and blind ruled borders on front board. An autobiographical 'apologetic' by Banks (1865-1938). Elizabeth, though born in the USA, spent the majority of her life in England where she worked as a journalist and author while residing at 17 Downing Street and needless to say, some one who lived at that address also moved in the society that frequented the street. She also wrote under th... View more info
By: Barker, A. L.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, UK., Hogarth Press.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 26839
12mo - 19.5 x 12.5 cm.; 319 pp. Aqua-marine blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First edition as per the copyright page. Sixteen stories, all of an autobiographical nature some of which had been previously published in various forms. The book shows only very mild wear to the spine tips while the clipped dust jacket shows mild wear to the head edge. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Reed City, Michigan., Rathole Books.: 2004
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 22609
8vo - 20 x 12.5 cm.; v - 199 pp. Full colour photographic covers and illustrated with many black and white photographs throughout the text. The memoirs of growing up Catholic in central Michigan. Signed with an inscription to his sister by the author on the dedication page. Minor shelf wear to the covers, otherwise clean and sound.; Signed by Author View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, John C. Winston Company Ltd.: 1928
Seller ID: 20250
8vo - 21.5 x 15 cm.; A salesman's or publisher's dummy. Blue cloth with gilt / black lettering and decorations on front and back boards. The sporadic pagination ends with p. 283 and there can't be more than 80 to 100 (320+ in regular printing) pages bound into the book. 30 (32 in regular printing) b/w plates are included. Last page before the back free end paper is an advert for the real item. It would appear that the original title did not have the word "Boy's" ... View more info
Price: $7.65
Publisher: London, UK., Cassell And Co.: 1998
Seller ID: 3712
8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; x - 276 pp. Bibliography. The chapter headings are a good indication of how this author approaches his subject. 1. Muhammad of History: the Primary Sources 2. The Sources: a Critical Evaluation 3. Non-Muslim Lives of Muhammad: from the 7th to the 16th Centuries 4. Non-Muslim Lives: from the Renaissance to Todayj5. Muhammad's Significance in Muslim Life and Thought 6. Conversations Islamic, Conclusion: Towards a Postmodern Theology of Religions. Ben... View more info
By: Bevan, Bryan.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: London, UK., Rubicon Press.: 1992
Seller ID: 28237
8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; vi - 162 pp. Illustrated with 6 pages of black and white plates. From the back cover: "His glorious reign of fifty years saw the development of parliament, the flowering of English literature and architecture, the prosperity of the cloth trade, and not the least the growing feeling among the English of a sense of nationhood." Seven pages of notes, a 2 page bibliography and a 4 page index. Minor shelf wear to the covers, otherwise clean with... View more info
By: Black, Kay
Price: $5.60
Publisher: Cumberland, Ontario, Cumberland Communication Concepts.: 1995
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 19063
21.5 x 14 cm.; xvi - 156 pp. A collection of thoughts and memories, along with a few photos, of the author, a member of St. Andrew's United Church, Cumberland, Ontario. Bound with plastic coil, inscribed by author on title page. A clean copy. ; Signed by Author View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: London, UK., Oxford University Press.: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4054
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xvi - 682 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Index, bibliography, maps, b/w photos. Jawaharlal Nehru, an important figure in the history of modern India. Brecher was Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. The book shows a hint of shelf wear as does the dust jacket which has ligh soiling on back panel. The book appears to have been used very little if at all. View more info
By: Brown, Wayne
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, England, Andre Deutsch.: 1975
Seller ID: 25180
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 264 pp. Edna Manley (1900-1987) was a fine sculptress, wife of Jamaica's first Prime Minister, Norman Manley, and mother of Michael, also a Prime Minister. This biography focuses primarily on her life and contribution to the cultural life of Jamaica. She gave the author, Wayne Brown, himself a Tinidadian poet, access to all her papers as he wrote this account. Photos mainly of her work, bibliography, index. Blue paper-covered boards with gilt spine... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Mullett Lake, Michigan., Straw Hat Publishing.: 1996
Seller ID: 22533
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xviii - 182 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by the author with a warm inscription to Father O'Malley on the first page. View more info
By: Chedzoy, Alan.
Price: $8.80
Publisher: London, UK., Allison & Busby.: 1992
Seller ID: 23712
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 312 pp. Illustrated with eight black and white plates. The story of a woman accused of adultery with the then Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and her resulting fight to establish a woman's rights with regards their children and property. Minor shelf wear to the covers, black remainder dot on the tail edge of the text block, otherwise very clean and tight.; Remainder View more info
Price: $7.20
Publisher: London, UK., Werner Laurie: 1955
Seller ID: 17445
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; viii - 184 pp. red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on a blue spine panel. Illustrated with 13 black and white plates one of which is the frontis. The remaining 12 plates are printed on both sides of a coated paper. Beau Nash was a one-time Master of Ceremonies at the spa in Bath and concurrently at the more provincial resort located in Tunbridge Wells. Beau Nash has been called by some the most picturesque dandy of the age. Connely writes from ... View more info
By: Cross, F. J.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, UK., Cassell and Company.: 1895
Seller ID: 26845
12mo - 18 x 12 cm.; viii - 244 - (16) pp. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board and with blind stamped decoration on the spine and both boards. All text block edges are gilt as issued. First published in 1894, this is the second edition. Illustrated with many black and white engravings, head pieces, tail pieces and full page. Thirty-nine narratives in all from common working folk to world famous explorers. The externals show mild we... View more info
By: Dakers, Lionel.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Norwich, UK., Canterbury Press.: 1995
Seller ID: 5164
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; xii - 239 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Autobiography of "one of the most world travelled church musicians of our time. For sixteen years while Director of the Royal School of Church Music, Dakers had the privilege to visit many outposts of the Anglican Communion . . . organ pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow . . . Assistant organist of Sir William Harris at St. George's Chapel, ... View more info
By: Doran, Dr.
Price: $63.00
Publisher: London, UK., Richard Bentley.: 1855
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6635
12mo - 19 x 12 cm.; Volume 1; (4) - vii - (1) - 439 - (3) pp. Volume 2; (4) - 395 - (3) pp. Half bound in green leather with marbled paper. Marbled text block edges and end papers. Preliminaries and blanks at back in both volumes show moderate to heavy foxing. Bindings are tight with no discernible weakness. Board edges are worn, corners are mildly bunmped with tips worn through, shelf wear to marbled board papers. Spine is highly gilded with title and volume # on red dy... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Pulborough, UK, SMH Publishing.: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 21000
8vo - 21 x 14.5 cm.; [4] - 261 - [1] pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dowden left Italy at the onset of the second world war and settled in Spain living in a convent. She became involved with the resistance in Barcelona and rescued prisoners who fled France over the Pyrenees into Spain. Arrested for espionage, she was imprisoned. Illustrated with five pages of black and white photographs, one of which is a frontis portrait. The publisher's name h... View more info
