Search Results: Authors starting with B from Leaf and Stone Books

New York: Plenum Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0306439301 . + (20) 300 pages, contains illustrations, tables, graphs, photographs, bibliographies, and index, white covers with black lettering and blue design, very minor wear to head, tail and corners, pages clear and unmarked ; Nato ASI Series: Advanced Science Institute Series; Vol. 260; 10 X 6.60 X 0.90 inches; 300 pages .

Brooklyn: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Paperback. 129 pp + 14 pp Appendix + (1) Bibliography. Printed by the Mathematics Department June 1963. Includes Valuations of Rank One; Complete Fields and the Field of p-adic Numbers; Valuation Rings, Places and Valuations; Normed Linear Spaces and Extensions of Valuations, plus the appendix. Buff paper covers with black cloth tape spine. Covers are chipped at bottom front corner, sticker scar to front cover obscuring the word "theory", back cover sunned at edges and chipped at for-edge. Interior paper bit aged and some marks to the title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very scarce 1st edition of this respected mathematician's early work.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 129 pages .

Berlin: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. Good with no dust jacket. 2018. Hardcover. 3631745176 . 382, [ii] pages. Bibliography, index, annex. Octavo. Cream hardcover with brown band, image of 1938 German newspaper. Remains of library sticker top front, interior has two library stamps, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very usable copy. "Between 1904 and 1907, German soldiers, settlers and mercenaries committed mass murder in Africa. Can this be considered the first genocide of the 20th century? Was it a forecast of the Third Reich’s extermination policy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book provides the answer. Based on extensive archival and library research in Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Germany and Poland as well as on the most recent and up-to-date jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals, the renowned historian and political scientist Klaus Bachmann paints a new and surprising picture of the events and their legal significance, which… Read More

Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer. Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 3170051121 . x, 402pp + 4 unnunmbered pages. German language, appendix, references. Book has blue paper hardcover with black text on covers and spine. Minor marks on covers. Ex library with pocket on back pastedown and stamps, otherwise text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2002. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0521521815 . KB55...xxi, 352 pp. Bibliography, index. Map, illus with 4 tables. Octavo. Mid-blue cloth covers with b/w medieval image of death on a skeletal horse. Some faint sticker residue at bottom spine, interior has institutional stamp on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .

New York: The Students Association.. Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. Unpaginated (sort of -- the middle section is paginated to 121 pages and then it stops, but there are 50 pages after and no apparent reason for stopping). Includes ads, classes, faculty, activities, and fraternities. Quarto. Dark oxblood with gilt covers are generally aged, spine tips are chipped particularly at the bottom edge, interior end papers are oxidized, paper is not highest quality and has browned a bit, but otherwise sturdy and clean. Hard to find. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Cosmopoli (Venice or Genoa): S.N.. Good with no dust jacket. 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. [ii], 312, [i] (errors); 312, 312, 312 pp. With a letter from a dealer or collector dated 1851 saying the book was printed by the Duke of Pembroke. 3/4 dark red leather with pretty gilt to spines, red glazed cloth boards, corners and extremities a little rubbed, interior has blue marbled endpapers, title pages are lighter stock and a bit browned, cut short. Frontis portrait of Baffo. Paper is heavier stock and minimally foxed. Bindings are sturdy. Erotic sonnects, madrigals and songs written in a "pure Venetian dialect" by Baffo, who greatly enjoyed writing them but didn't want them published during his lifetime -- although he enjoyed his friends' plaudits when he circulated the poems among them! Apollinaire called it "plus grand poète Priapique qui ait jamais existé et en même temps l'un des poètes le plus lyriques du XVIIIe siècle.… Read More

Calcutta: Oxford University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0195624122 . xv, 294pp + 3 unnumbered pages. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. DJ is peach with red and white text on the front and spine, black text on the back. DJ has minor wear to head, tail and corners, minor marks. Book has black cloth covers with gold text on the spine. Book has minor bumping to head, tail and top edges, bubbling under cloth on front and back covers, bubbling, creases to back and front pastedowns and front flyleaf. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 9.56 X 6.50 X 1.01 inches; 312 pages .

Calcutta: P. C. Bagchi Centenary Celebration Committee. Good with no dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. 47 pp. Illustrated with photos. Pale peach glosy soft covers with drawing of Bagchi. Spine cover a little worn. Interior fastened with hidden staples, some small stains in the margin at the end of the book, quite small but present. Otherwise clean and nice. With a gift letter from a member of the Committee. A scarce work. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages .

Geneva: Slatkine Reprints. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. KB8 66pp + 6 unnumbered pages. French language. Reprint of the 1889 edition with pages as set then.. Book has green cloth covers with gold text on the spine. Very minor wear to head, tail and corners, very minor sunning to spine. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages .

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Xv + 208 pp. 2 appendices, manuscripts consulted, bibliography, and index at rear. Navy blue cloth boards. Book is ex-library with remains of spine sticker, small stamp on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Corrigenda tipped in on inside front cover.; Ex-Library; 208 pages .

New York: Charles Scribners Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. viii + 240 pp. Index. First US edition with Scribner's "A". Original red cloth covers are sunned at the spine, borners bit rubbed. short tear at spine tip, spine gilt only just legible, back cover has small humidity stain at top edge. Interior price sticker scars to first blank, a very few light pencil "ticks", paper is toned, slight ripple at top edge, otherwise good. Hard to find. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

London: Baily Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. xii + 439 pp. Title page with presentation inscription from the author's sister: "From Miss Baily, Tavistock Place." Original blind stamped ochre cloth and green endpapers, with the binder's sticker "Westley's, London". Boards have minor wear, spine gilt is faded but still legible, spine head and tail are rubbed and a bit worn. Interior hinges cracked, foxing throughout but particularly at the end and the beginning of the book, sewing showing. A bit shaken but still sound. "One of the earliest and most significant narratives of travel by an Englishman in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, not published till nearly 60 years after the event. As a young man, Baily, who was to become President of the Royal Astronomical Society, traveled from Baltimore to Natchez by riverboat, and returned by land up the Natchez Trace. The narrative is of great importance for its observations on… Read More

New York: Macmillan. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition; Third Printing. Cloth. Xix + 534 pp + ads. Index. 38 plates, 14 text figs. The 3rd printing of this seminal book. Octavo. One of the earliest studies of environmental factors in cancer promotion, although Dr. Brainbridge also looks at other factors, treatment, prognosis, research, etc. The author spent 10 years researching and took many trips around the world to study the dreaded disease. "In attempting to meet this need (for a central source of information about cancer) , the magnitude of the undertaking has been more and more fully realized as the work of collecting and formulating the data has proceeded. It has been neesswary to touch upon practically every phase of the cancer problem, to state theories, to emphasize facts, to review the work and opinions of those who are qualified to speak with authority, and to maintain throught an attitude of suspended judgment pending proof." Green cloth cover with gilt to… Read More

Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2016. Softcover. 8862278527 . KB24...186, [3] pp. Tall octavo. Entirely in Italian. Bright marigold dust jacket over dark blue card covers. Covers and DJ are very clean, interior clean and nice as well. Good copy, hard to find. ; Biblioteca Della Rivista De Letteratura Italiana; Vol. 24; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages .

Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0866980725 . Kb61 ... Xl, 710 pages. Bibliography, notes, indices, along with inserted leaf detailing errata. Red cloth covers with gold text on the spine. Minor wear to head, tail and corners. Interior in excellent condition. ; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies; Vol. 40; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 710 pages .

London: Burns & Oates. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Xxvi, 497 pp. Index. Small octavo. Pale blue paper dust jacket with floral border is faded with some small marks, spine darkened, price flap cut. Book itself has owner name on end paper and title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Fr. Augustine Baker, a convert, originally wrote these treatises while still a chaplain with no thought of publication. They were first published in 1641. Edited now to prune away some 19th century accretions by Gerard Sitwell, the book is designed "for the many who are trying to lead a serious spiritual life who in their measure feel a desire for God, and who realize that this imposes on them the necessity for the regular practice of internal prayer..." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pages .

New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0306461196 . xxv, 679pp + 8 unnunmbered pages. Pictures, graphs, tables, diagrams, bibliographies and index. Book has glossy brown hardcovers with white text on the front, spine and back with pictoral front cover. Minor wear, bumping and tears to head, tail and corners. Previous owner wrote on front flyleaf, otherwise text is clear, bright and unmarked. ; 10.10 X 7.30 X 1.80 inches; 712 pages .

Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 9622011586 . xxxiv, 598pp + 4 unnumbered pages. Indices. English, French and Chinese languages. DJ is dark yellow with pictoral front cover with white text on the front and spine. DJ has wear and tears to head, tail, edges and corners, sunning to spine. Book has light brown cloth covers with gold text on the front and spine. Book has bumping to head, tail, corners, front, bottom edge and back top edge of covers. Text is clear and unmarked. Bookplate on front pastedown. ; 10.50 X 7.70 X 1.70 inches; 636 pages .

Neri Pozza. Good. Softcover. 265 - 367 pp. Book 5 in the Storia Della Cultura Veneta series. Italian text. Light red softcover. Book is in good condition, clean with no marks. Edges very slightly rubbed. ; Storia Della Cultura Veneta Dal Primo Quattrocento Al Concilio Di Trento; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .