Trans Bernard Miall (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Sl Soiled Dj. 1st U.S. Name & address on front end paper. Price blackened out on dj.

hardcover. Condition: good. 183 pp. Cover and spine show minor shelf wear. Beautiful green cover with flower texture and gilt title on front cover. Small red mark on front cover. The lettering on the spine is faded and no longer gilt but still legible. Bookplate on inside front cover. Small sticker on back inside cover from Brentano's bookseller. Pages are clean and unmarked. Book is in sturdy condition. 2.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to burgundy cloth boards with tooled border. Spine sun faded with a small split at one corner. A tan to the page edges. A previous owner's name on the front free end page. Contents remain clear and firm within. A good condition book.…

Condition: Fair. 1935. First Edition Thus. 122 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Heavier foxing at rear paste-down. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. no date given (circa 1923?); dark green c w/grey boards, gilt spine titles; moderate wear at extremities, lite toniing of end papers; owner's label; 315 clean, unmarked pages.Johann Dietz (born December 18, 1665 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 7, 1738 ibid) was a German barber and field sergeant. In his memoirs, published in 1915, he describes bourgeois life in pre-Frideric Prussia.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Mass Market Paper Back. Condition: Good. Good mass market paperback, slight wear.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no inscriptions, endpapers toned page ends spotted, 223pp with B&W illustrations. Poor DJ with some edge wear and loss.

Condition: Very Good. 1987. No edition remarks. 221 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Brown slipcase. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor marking to panels.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 'Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court'. Engaging account of life as a 17th century mercenary by efficient German Surgeon. With (near) contemporary illustrations from various manuscripts. Lacks slipcase. Some very mild shelf-wear, else clean and tight. Very good.…

Soft Cover. Condition: good+. 7-1/8" tall; 344pp including index; off-white cover is discolored; reading crease to spine; pp browning slightly. George Lockwood, cover il (illustrator). Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. maroon c w/gilt titles; top edge gilt; A detailed historical exploration of the Argentine population during the early-20th century. With statistical information relative to demographics, agriculture, culture, economics, commerce, immigration and emigration liii, 376p., large fldg. map, tables, index; ownr's plate. Fold-out Map (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Bolivia, history, resources).

hardcover. Condition: good. 268 pp. Cover and spine show minor shelf wear. Beautiful green cover with flower texture and gilt title on front cover. The lettering on the spine is faded and no longer gilt but still legible. Small pencil markings on first blank page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Book is in sturdy condition. 1.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Slight Chips. Book Club Edition. "Emil Ludwig's account of Cleopatra's life is a brilliant psychological study of the Queen and those two men with whom her name remains forever: Caesar and Antonius. Instead of the eccentric amorous, the idiosyncratic author shows us a real and deep lover, a mother, and a fighter" Tanslated into English by Bernard Miall. 221p. Chronology.index. Crisp, tight copy. Trans.Bernard Miall. (illustrator). …

Condition: Fair. 1923. First Published in English. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Water staining to some pages, text remains readable. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Water staining to spine.…

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue buckram binding. Bumping to corners of boards. Foxing to page edges. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. 286.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 407pp.incl.index+advert-maps tipped-in,index; HB blue w/gilt; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; clean,tight pgs. History, people, business. 62 illus.& 4 maps.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. NVG. First Edition. Book has one bumped corner. Dj has edgewear, discolored spine. Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near VG Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Edition. Book has minor wear. Dj has edgewear, soiling, quarter size chip off the head of the spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/very Good. 1st UK ed. xxv+371, '135 illustrations', top edge gilt; dated sig. of eminent historian of science R.M.Young top fr. free endpaper, faint round Royal College of Surgeons stamps to t.p., top 'Contents' page, light browning to parts of fr.free endpaper and more faintly to rear free endpaper, paper to end gutter has some sm.perforations but is not actually splitting, fr. gutter paper sound though some signs of incipient wear. Half leather and brown cloth covers generally clean with only sl. sp.end rubbing, sp.a little dark, sm.gilt logo of some kind of machine with a rotating horizontal drum centre fr. cover (could be an ergograph, which would fit because there is coverage of fatigue), sm., now blank, lib.label beside top fr.joint. The primary, though not only, focus of the book is naturally on crippled World War I veterans, but also has an introductory historical chapter. Very thorough and multi-angled coverage of the issue of the employment of the disabled (inc. the blind) which provides a broader context for understanding the 'Scientific Management' and nascent Industrial Psychology movements. Apaprently scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oxford, 1947. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth, dj. 8vo. xv, 383 p. ; illus., ports., music ; 22 cm. Ex-library copy from the Oxford University Press archive, with call numbers at spine, residue. Unclipped dj gleams with color, shows storage crease at front. Boards and binding sturdy, text block toned to extremities with some bunched or ripped pages. Sound overall. …

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo 253pp., frontis., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Thick Octavo. 399pp. With 71 illustrations on 32 plates and 40 sketches by the author. Publishers green cloth, blind ruling, gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. A few small nicks to the cloth at the head of the spine. Otherwise a Good copy.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. PUBLISHED IN 1912 NOT 1919. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Signs of wear at cover corners. Some fading and staining of cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. 352 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Black and white frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate on the fpdep. Page edges are darkened, with gilt on top. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly faded on the spine. Lightly stained on the boards. 1ST UK EDITION. SCARCE. VG/- -. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Illustrated throughout, this is the uncommon first edition of Pierre Denis's geographical and economic study of Brazil in the early 20th century. The uncommon first edition of this work.Illustrated with three colour folding maps, a frontispiece, and thirty-five illustrations on plates. Collated, complete.Denis examines Brazil's physical landscape, natural resources, and patterns of settlement, and details the regional contrasts between coastal cities, interior provinces, and frontier zones, paying close attention to coffee, rubber, and other export economies.Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper.Translated by Bernard Miall, and with a supplementary chapter from Dawson A. Vindin. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear to back strip tail, and bump to back strip head. Ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, first English language edition, without dust jacket. Spine and board edges tanned, boards worn at edges and marked both front and rear. Endpapers and page block tanned, light foxing to initial few pages and signature of previous owner to half-title page. Spine is tight, pages are clean and unmarked throughout.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition, second impression of this translation of Victome D'Ollone's early twentieth century mission. The first edition, second impression of this translation.Written by Victome D'Ollone, major in the French army.Translated from the French of the second edition by Bernard Miall.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and 31 plates. Collated, complete.This volume holds an account of the D'Ollone Mission in early twentieth century China, Tibet, and Mongolia. The mission was specifically scientific in nature, with instructions to study the non-Chinese peoples and cultures of China, and the minorities that cohabited within the Chinese Empire. The expedition covered more than 8,000 km on horseback through Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia and Mongolia. He conducted geographical, archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic studies of those he met.In publisher's original brown decorative cloth binding. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Small patches of rubbing to boards. Lacking front free endpaper. Endpapers age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…