Search Results: Authors starting with B from Cat's Cradle Books

New Haven: Yale University, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Previous owner's name on table of contents page. Wrappers have general light handling wear. Contents: Ganz, The luxeuil prophets and Merovinian missionary strategies. Newton, One scriptorium, two scripts: Beneventa, Caroline, and the problem of Marston MS 12. Hamburger, Revelation and concealment: apophatic imagery in the Trinitarian miniatures of the Rothschild Canticles. Wieck, The Savoy Hours and its impact on Jean, Duc de Berry. Edwards, Beinecke MS 661 and early fifteenth-century English manuscript production. Derolez, A devotee of Saint Barbara in a Belgian beguinage (Marston MS 287). Alexander, The Livy (MS 1) illuminated for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio by the Milanese Artist "B. F." Index of manuscripts cited. Index of proper names. 9.0" tall; 140 pages.

Hazleton, PA: Standard-Sentinel Press, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges except for leaves comprising pp. 35-46, which are loose for the bottom 1/3 of page but secure for the top 2/3. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with greater wear at corner tips. Gilt lettering on front is bright. ; Author served in 311th Battery D during World War I. This is a history of the battery's service (Camp Meade, Maryland; France; Camp Dix, NJ) in the war. Narrative history, rosters, memorable dates, and other facts. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ; 9.25" tall; 144 pages.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Explores the science fiction community and its relationships with the industries that sustain it, including the publishing, computer, and hotel/convention industries, and explores the issue of power in those relationships (from back of wraps). ; 9.25" tall; 328 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Paz y Terra, 1987. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Anthology of essays about the work of German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). Many contributors. Sections: Apresentação. Panorama da obra de Brecht. A questão do abrasileiramento de Brecht em teatro e cinema. Experiências práticas. O papel de Brecht no teatro brasileiro: uma avaliação. Apêndice. 8.25" tall; 284 pages.

São Paulo: IBRASA, Instituição Brasileira de Difusão Cultural, 1978. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have general handling wear. ; Historical account of Brazil in the 1600s by Dutch military chaplain. ; 8.25" tall; 100 pages.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wraps. Clean and bright pages. ; Publication focusing on the art of El Greco. ; 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 48 pages.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wraps. Clean and bright pages. ; Publication focusing on British portraiture in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 72 pages.

Boston, MA: Walter Jacobs, 1915. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Overall handling wear, tanning, owner's name and store stamp on front. ; Instrumental march music for the piano. Furling American flag on the front. Published during World War I; 10.5 x 13.75 inches; 6 pages.

Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Italian language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Premessa di Francesco Santi. I funerali di Giovanni Paolo II. L'elezione di Benedetto XVI. Il papa e gli intrighi: l'imprevisto nel pontificato di Benedetto XVI. La rinuncia di Benedetto XVI. Francesco. I poteri del papa. Medio-Evi: strutture, persone e segni. Mediamodernità. ; MediEVI; Vol. 5; 9.25" tall; 200 pages.

Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Tear at lower ffep. Pages clean, tanned, with light corner creasing at top. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with heaviest wear at top of spine (rubbing and a 1/8-inch closed tear). ; Chapters on magic, omen, and prophecy; the old Italian religion - deities and cults; the old Italian religion - words and ideas; the state-cult; the Graeco-Roman gods with Roman names, with Roman and Greek names, and with Greek names; oriental gods - cosmological gods - worship of the emperor; fate and the gods (with the meaning of fortuna in Virgil); the dead and the underworld. Conclusion, index, list of passages referred to. ; 9.0" tall; 337 pages.

Fredericton, New Brunswick: Bliss Carman Society, 1954. Ephemera. Fair with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is fragile, holding at bottom staple. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wraps have small amount of writing on front, light handling wear, light overall soiling. ; Poetry by Ralph Gustafson, Geoffrey Johnson, Marion Kathleen Henry, Miriam Waddington, Marya Fiamengo, J. D. M. Brierley, Goodridge Macdonald, G. V. Downes, Lenore A. Pratt, James Curzon Morrow, C. Frederick Boyle, Robert Richards, Tom Farley. ; 8.25" tall; 16 pages.

Raleigh: P. E. Bailey, 1947. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Exlibrary markings including tape stains on endpapers. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ edge rubbed with overall shelf wear, faded spine and exlibrary label at lower spine. Vignettes and commentary on a wide range of topics by a North Carolina native. Ex-Library; 8.5" tall; 179 pages.

New York: Harper and Row, 1964. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages bright with some underlined passages and marginal notes. Wrappers have overall shelf wear, tanning at spine. ; Looks at the role of commerce in forming Puritan communities in the 1600s. ; 8.0" tall; 245 pages.

Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1994. Softcover. As New with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have no evidence of wear. ; Thoughts on teaching and writing history by esteemed author Bailyn.l ; 8.0" tall; 97 pages.

Denver: Sage Books, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright text pages. Cloth over boards is clean with light edge rubbing. DJ has light edge wear, clipped corner. ; Book drawn from the papers of William Prescott Smith, master of transportation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1860 to 1866. ; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 156 pages.

Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Signed by author with additional inscription on page preceding table of contents. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has full-color illustration of Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia on the front. Cloth displays general rubbing and light shelf wear. ; Chapters: Biblical narratives and pornographic metaphors. Law, legal compendia, and theories of generation. High poetry and low prose (The Rape of Lucrece; Hero and Leander; The Unfortunate Traveller and The Adventures of Master F. J.) Staging rape with dutiful daughters, manly maids, and pornographic subtexts. Late replays, the Fletcher Factcory, and the marriage solution. Picturing Lucrece and the masculine gaze. Afterword. Biblioraphy. Index. ; Mellen Studies in Literature: Jacobean Drama; Vol. 106; 9.25" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Author.

Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1980. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding, slightly tanned but clean pages. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Baker, Naval and Maritime Events 1979. West, A Fleet for the Year 2000: Future Force Structure. Clingan, The Next Twenty Years of Naval Mobility. Krulak, The U. S. Marine Corps: Strategy for the Future. Tarpey, A Strategic Analysis of Northeast Asia and the Northwest Pacific. Andres, The Prevention of Preemptive Attack. Larzelere, The Coast Guard and the Southeastern Frontier. McGwire, The Rationale for the Development of Soviet Seapower. Appendixes. ; 10.75" tall; 256 pages.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1973. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Later printing. Sound binding, edge rubbing and faded spine on wrappers. Owner's name on ffep. Pages lightly tanned. Examination and interpretation of Shelley's major poetry from 1812 to 1822. Author discusses the problems Shelley faced as a practicing poet and provides a critical survey of his thought as reflected in individual poems. 8.00 in. (20 cm) tall; 307 pages.

New York: Bridgehead Books, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. A tight, square copy, in a rust-colored cloth binding; text is clean, crisp, and unmarked, with no creased or torn pages; three small, pale, barely visible stains on outer edge of text block; binding shows light wear; dust jacket is stained, torn, and moisture-rippled. Photo frontispiece. ; "A selection of short stories by English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish writers, around the general theme of romantic love and sexual relationships."; 9.5" tall; 160 pages.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound, slightly cocked binding. Hinges sound. Signature of notable historian of the American South, Harry L. Watson, on ffep. D has edge wear, fading at spine, overall shelf wear. ; Author examines the basic components of political culture - education, thought and behavior - as they related to the Democratic Party in the northern United States before, during, and after the Civil War. ; 9.25" tall; 367 pages.