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801 |
Lund, Knut Asbjorn Understanding Our Fellow Men The Judgement of Character Thru Trained Observation
London New Knowledge Books 1971 Third Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket as Published 9"x12"
65 pp. A well-known Danish psychologist discusses the role of the Four Temperaments in a correct judgement of character, how to train one's observation to this end and how to understand life in the light of the Temperaments. Based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. The book is bound in tan paper with red cloth spine, pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The boards have some sun discoloration andd spotting.
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58.00 USD
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802 |
Lund, Knut Asbjorn Understanding Our Fellow Men The Judgement of Character Thru Trained Observation
London New Knowledge Books 1971 Third Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket as Published 9"x12"
65 pp. A well-known Danish psychologist discusses the role of the Four Temperaments in a correct judgement of character, how to train one's observation to this end and how to understand life in the light of the Temperaments. Based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. The book is bound in tan paper with red cloth spine, pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The boards have some sun discoloration andd spotting.
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58.00 USD
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803 |
Lustgarten, Edgar One More Unfortunate
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1947 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket
202 pp. true first edition with Scribner's colophon. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, slightly yellowed. Dark blue boards with white stamping are "VG", clean and bright with slight bumping at corners.
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8.50 USD
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804 |
Lustgarten, Edgar The Woman in the Case
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1955 First Edition Hardcover Good + No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
218 pp. Four murder cases that the author believed hinged on "the character and psychology of a woman." Text is clean, tight and unmarked, slightly yellowed. Yellow buckram boards are clean and tight with some sunning along spone.
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7.00 USD
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805 |
Lustgarten, Edgar One More Unfortunate
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1947 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket
202 pp. true first edition with Scribner's colophon. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, slightly yellowed. Dark blue boards with white stamping are "VG", clean and bright with slight bumping at corners.
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7.95 USD
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808 |
Maas, Peter Killer Spy
New York Warner Books 1995 0446519731 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
243 pp with 8 B&W plates. First edition, first printing. Book is as new, DJ is completely intact, no flaws, not price-clipped. The story of the search for and capture of the CIA mole, Aldrich Ames. In Brodart jacket.
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15.00 USD
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812 |
Mackenzie, Donald A. China and Japan Myths and Legends
London Senate 1995 1859580130 Unbound Very Good No Jacket as Published
404 pp with 34 B&W plates. An authoritive introduction to the mythology of China and Japan. showing the origins and evolution of oriental myths and their spread from China across to Japan. Including tales from Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Shinto. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slight sunning. Cover is clean but bumped at corners.
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6.95 USD
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813 |
Macleish, Archibald J,B.
Houghton Mifflin 1958 Eighth Printing Trade Paperback VG Ex-Library
153 pp MacLeish's Pulitzer Price winning play based on a reinterpretation of the Book of Job. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers clean and bright. Library pocket on back endpapers.
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5.00 USD
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815 |
Macpherson, Margaret I Heard the ANZACS Singing
New York Creative Age Press 1942 First Edition Hard Cover Fair Poor 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Text is clean but has two wrinkled but intact pages, tight and unmarked save for a dedication on the flyleaf. Turquoise blue cloth booards are clean and bright, bumped at spine ends. Endpapers have maps, front endpaper has some notations in ink. DJ is intact but tattereed. In mylar jacket.
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4.00 USD
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816 |
MacQueary, Rev. Howard The Evolution of Man and Christianity
New York D. Appleton & Co. 1890 Presumed First Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket as Published 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
410 pp. An intelligent and thoughtful early attempt to reconcile Darwinism with Christian (specifically Episcopalian) thought. it is remarkable how much the Reverend got right.Text is clean tight and unmarked. Green boards are bumped at corners and spine ends
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25.00 USD
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818 |
Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead
New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1948 Hardcover Very Good Plus Good Book Club Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
626 pp .Book Club edition from year of publication. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are clean, bright, undamaged with slight bumping to corners. DJ is designed by Karov, it is intact but missing a chip along the top edge. In mylar jacket.
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75.00 USD
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820 |
Maksey, Kenneth Rommel Battles and Campaigns
Mayflower 1979 0831774770 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
224 pp with B&W illustrations on every page. The charisma of the "Desert Fox" - his romantic image, his dash and verve _ has built up the legend of a heroic man of action and a military genius. His death, a martyr to Nazism, further enhanced a reputatation grew still more - that of a soldier above politics, an emblematic figure of German chivalry and courage. This study brings the cool eye of an expert in tank warfare to bear on the military exploits of this legend, and examines critically his achievements and failures. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, intact, price clipped.
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38.00 USD
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821 |
Mallarme, Stephane Poems
University of California Press 1957 Trade Paperback Good + No Jacket
Translated by C.F. MacIntyre. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slightly yellowed. Cover is rubbed, chipped, spine somewhat faded.
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4.50 USD
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823 |
Maloney, T.J. & Steichen, Lt. Commander Edward U.S. Camera 1943
New York Duell, Sloan & Pierce 1943 1st Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 271 pp. A collection by the magazine, US Camera, of the best photos of 1942, all in B&W, including Ansel Adam's "Moonlight- Hernandez, NM" and the best of the Armed Forces photos from Pearl Harbor and the beginnings of World War ll. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Small closed tear on bottom of P.27. Grey boards are lightly bumped.
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51.00 USD
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824 |
Malraux, Andre Le Musee Imaginaire De La Sculpture Mondiale
Paris La Galerie De La Pleiade 1952 Hardcover Good Poor
775 pp with B&W photos of extraordinary quality on every page. A history of world art with empathisis on the ancient world. Text is in French. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover. White linen boards are clean but with several rubbed discolorations. DJ is "poor", intact but soiled and minded with tape. In mylar jacket.
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32.00 USD
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826 |
Manker, Ernst People of Eight Seasons
Gothenberg, Sweden Tre Trykare 1963 First Edition Decorative Cloth Good Fair 11 1/4" x 11 1/4" in.
214 pp + 7 pp of additional drawings and a bibliography. Text illustrated in B&W and color, is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey cloth boards witha Lapp pattern in white are clean and unblemished on the exterior but both the front and back hinges are cracked though holding tight. Crack rear hinge has caused a tear in the endpapers. DJ is chipped and torn but repaired. In Brodart mylar jacket. An extraordinarily handsome book with unique information on the origins, culture and crafts of the Lapplanders. Oversize book.
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35.00 USD
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827 |
Mankiewicz, Don M. Trial
Harper 1955 Numbered Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Limited edition #937 with emotional dedication to screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson, by author. VG+ condition with a plastic slipcover.
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16.00 USD
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828 |
Mankiewicz, Don M. Trial
Harper & Bros. 1955 Numbered Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Limited edition #937 with emotional dedication to screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson, by author. VG+ condition with a plastic slipcover.
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16.00 USD
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830 |
Marcosson, Isaac F. Anaconda
New York Dodd, Mead 1957 First Edition Cloth Very Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
370 pp. Text is clean, tight unmarked somewhat yellowed. Flyleaf has a 3/4" tear at the top. The book has a photographic suppliment of 38 B&W plates showing mining operations and captains of industry. Endpapers are maps of US and South American mining sites with diagram of movement to markets and smelters. Red cloth boards with gold stamping are VG, pictorial dust jacket is worn, split along front edge, has a large chip missing from top of spine. In mylar cover.
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22.00 USD
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834 |
Marks, Copeland The Varied Kitchens of India: Cuisines of the Anglo-Indians of Calutta, Kashmiris, Parsis, and Tibetans of Darjeeling
New York, New York, U.S.A. Evans 1986 0871314762 Hardcover As New As New
288 pp. The cuisines of the Anglo-Indians of Calcutta, Bengalis, the Jews of Calcutta, Kashmiris, Parsis and Tibetans of Darjeeling. Text is immaculate. clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright and undamaged.
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21.00 USD
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835 |
Marozzi, Justin Tamerlane Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
Da Capo Press 2004 Hardcover Fine As New Book Club Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
449 pp with 16 B&W plates and 9 maps in text. Tamerlane (1336 - 1405) the successor to Ghenghis Khan - ranks as one of the world's most cel;ebrated conquerors. Sweeping through central Asia, razing and then rebuilding cities, Tamerlane gradually imposed his iron rule and refined culture from Syria to India, from the Mediterranian to Siberia. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, immaculate. There is an "In memory of." stamp on front endpaper. DJ is clean, bright, completely intact.
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12.00 USD
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837 |
Marquis, Don Love Sonnets of a Caveman and Other Verses
Garden City, New York Doubleday Doran & Company 1928 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hay, Stuart
151 pp. "Love Sonnets of a Caveman" plus "Ballads of Prohibition" and other poems. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, lightly yellowed. previous owner's name on flyleaf. Another Marquis poem, "Mother's Home Again," is clipped from the New Yorker and pasted after the final page. B&W line drawings in text and cartoons on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with orange pastedown title are "good." Spine is faded and has the start of a split, corners bumped and it looks like a cocktail glass may have sat briefly on the front board. This title is hard to find.
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145.00 USD
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838 |
Marsh, Ngaio Black As He's Painted
Boston Little, Brown and Co 1974 0316546666 First American Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine
260 pp. An Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery. Text is clean, tight and unmarked,maroon paper boards are pristine. DJ is clean and intact save for one short closed tear, not price-clipped.
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85.00 USD
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840 |
Martin, Pete Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe?
Garden City, NY Doubleday & Co 1956 First Edition Cloth Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Dedication By Author
128 pp.with 34 B&W plates. An appreciation of Marilyn Monroe up to "Bus Stop." with quotes from her and a number of friends and co-workers. Signed on flyleaf by author with a dedication to Nunnally Johnson ( the screenwriter who worked with Marilyn on "How to Marry a Millionaire," and "We're Not Married", and wrote projects for her that she ultimately never made, such as "How to Be Very, Very Popular, and "Something's Got to Give") dedication reads, "Dear Nunnally, Once more I give you my gratitude for a helping hand. Pete" Johnson was quoted extensively in the book. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards are bumped at corners, spine.
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285.00 USD
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841 |
Martin, Tom Rappelling
Mt. Sterling, KY SEARCH 1996 0930871030 Nineth Printing Hard Cover Fine No Jacket
An in-depth study of technical rappelling withB&W illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards with a silver-stamped sillouette of a man on rappel are clean, bright, undamaged.
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12.00 USD
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842 |
Martineau, Gilbert Napoleon's St. Helena
Chicago Rand McNally 1969 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
241 PP WITH 17 B&W plates and a bibliography. Text is clean, tight and unmarked,page edges slightly yellowed. Blue cloth boards are undamaged. DJ is clean and bright, some bumping to spine ends.
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24.00 USD
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843 |
Maschler, Tom Declaration
New York E.P. Dutton & Co 1958 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
201 pp. A manifesto from the Angry Young Men , young writers in the U.K. late Fifties. Contains essays by Colin Wilson, John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsey Anderson, Doris Lessing, and others.Text is tight and unmarked, there are some spots , possibly food, that start in the gutter of the title page and extend through page 9, else no marks. Black cloth boards are bumped at corners, spine with title stamped in gold is lightly faded.
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11.00 USD
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844 |
Mason, James Before I Forget
H. Hamilton 1981 024110677X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Dedication By Author
345 pp with index. With 16 B&W plates. Personal inscription on flyleaf to Dorris (Mrs. Nunnally Johnson) Autobiography of the outstanding star of the British and American cinema. Text is pristine, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean and bright,has very light shelf wear.
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165.00 USD
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846 |
Mason, Phillip The Men Who Ruled India
New York W.W. Norton & Company 1985 0393019462 1st Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
368 pp with 28 pages of color illustrations plus B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean and bright but shows some rubbing. In mylar jacket.
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19.00 USD
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847 |
Masters, John Nightrunners of Bengal
New York Viking Studio Books 1951 First Edition Hard Cover Good + No Jacket
Text is clean, tight, unmarked Slightly yellowed, pages have deckle edges. Black boards are bumped on the spine ends. Does not appear to be BOMC.
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5.00 USD
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848 |
Mastro, Jim Antarctica A Year at the Bottom of the World
Bulfinch Press/ Little Brown 2002 0821227548 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Plus Very Good 12"x12"
175 pp with color photos on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue paper boards are a little rubbed at corners. DJ is clean, bright, intact with light shelfwear. Oversized.
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22.00 USD
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850 |
Matthiessen, Peter Sand Rivers
Viking 1981 0670616966 Hard Cover Very Good Good Van Lawick
A handsome and profusely illustrated account of a trip through the Selous Game preserve in southern Tanzania. Text is extra clean, tight, unmarked. Off-white cloth boards are immaculate. DJ is yellowed at edges, has two small closed tears. Price not clipped.
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4.97 USD
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852 |
Maugham, Somerset The Narrow Corner
Garden City, NY Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1935 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
314 pp. An early edition. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, bage corners are bumped. Rust cloth boards are "fair", faded, bumped at corners. Spine with gold stamping is rubbed and faded.
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9.00 USD
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853 |
Maugham, Somerset The Vagrant Mood
New York Doubleday & Co 1953 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
250 pp. Text is clean, tight unmarked, lightly yellowed. Would be "fine" but lacks DJ. Black boards are VG+, fvery clean and undamaged but slight bumping to extremities.
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30.00 USD
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854 |
Maugham, W. Somerset Creatures of Circumstance
Garden City, NY Sun Dial Press 1948 Hard Cover Good No Jacket
314 pp Sixteen short stories by Maugham. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slightly yellowed. Grey boards are in "fair" shape, with bumped corners and a largish chip missing from top of spine
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4.75 USD
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855 |
Maugham, W. Somerset (ed.) Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
Garden City, NY Halcyon House 1947 Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
618 pp. An extensive collection of short stories and poetry from the mid-Twentieth Century including James Agee, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T.S. Elliot, Edith Wharton, Kipling, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters and many more.
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5.00 USD
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856 |
Maugham, W.Somerset Strictly Personal
Garden City, NY Doubleday,Doran & Company 1941 Limited Edition of 515 Copies Buckram Fine No Jacket as Published 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
"I have a notion that it is well to tell the reader at the beginning of the narrative what he is in for, and so I shall start by telling you that this is not an account of great events, but of the small things that happened to me during the first fifteen months of the war." So begins Maugham's narative.This copy is #361 of an edition 515 copies of which 505 were for sale. 272 pp with frontis photo of Maugham. Gilt-edge pages. Red buckram binding with title stamped in gold on black is immaculate save slight sunning to spine. Brown slipcase is split along lower bottom edge.
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510.00 USD
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857 |
Mauldin, Bill Up Front
New York Henry Holt and Company 1945 Hard Cover Very Good + Fair BOMC
225 pp with B&W cartoons throughout the text. Already the best-known cartoonist of WWll, Bill Mauldin was only twenty-three when he wrote this book. A bookplate on the free front endpaper says "A Book of the Month Club Selection Donated to the Armed Forces by the Book of the Month Club." Text is clean, tight and unmarked., there is a dedication (not by author) on the front endpaper. Grey boards, with a Willy and Joe cartoon in green, are VG, lightly soiled. DJ is intact but as chip missing from spine and considerable rubbing.
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22.00 USD
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858 |
Maurer, David W. Kentucky Moonshine
The University Press of Kentucky 1974 0813102030 Hardcover Good No Jacket
131 pp with B&W illustrations in text. The history of and instructions for making moonshine. Endpapers have a schematic for making a still. Invaluable info in these trying times. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Paper-covered boards show wear and rubbing.
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29.00 USD
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859 |
Maurois, Andre Disraeli
New York Appleton & Co. 1928 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
379 pp with a B&W line drawing of the young Disraeli by Daniel Maclise frontis and seven more period photos in text. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Purple boards, stamped to ressemble water silk, are bumped at corners, faded along spine. From the library of Twentieth Century Fox Studios, where it was checked out (and never returned) by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, probably for research on his picture, "The Mudlark," with Alec Guiness and Irene Dunn.
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37.00 USD
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860 |
Maurois, Andre Disraeli A Picture of the Victorian Age
New York D. Appleton & Co. 1928 Hardcover Good No Jacket Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
379 pp. with eight B&W plates. From the library of Twentieth Century Fox Studios and so marked. Checked out (and apparently never returned) by screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson for research on the picture "The Mudlark," starring Irene Dunn and Alec Guiness as Disraeli. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, somewhat shaken. Dark blue boards are faded and bumped at corners.
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22.00 USD
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861 |
Mazzola, John W. Lincoln Center Posters
New York Harry N. Abrams 1980 0810922266 1st Edition Large Format Soft Cover Very Good 16" x 11 1/2"
63 pp with color illustrations on every page. 28 posters by Ben, Shahn, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell, Gene Davis, Larry Rivers, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Josef Albers, Niki de St. Phalle and others. Text is clean, bright, unmarked. Covers, illustrated by Roy Lichtenstein, are fresh and bright with slight shelfwear.
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20.00 USD
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863 |
McCarthy, Mary Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937 - 1962
New York Noonday Press 1963 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket as Published
248 pp. Learned and tart reviews of the American and London theatre including Streetcar Named Desire, Harvey, Shaw and Chekov, Olivier's Hamlet and , Kenneth Tynan and Eugene O'Neill. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Covers tight but are a bit rubbed and bumped.
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6.75 USD
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864 |
McCarthy, Susan Becoming a Tiger How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild
Harper Collins 2004 0066209242 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
418 pp. Contrary to common belief, not all the skills a wild animal needs to survive and thrive are instinctual. many skills must bedeveloped through play, painstacking teaching, and often treacherous trial and error. McCarthy offers an in-depth look into the amazing ways baby animals learn about the world. Text is clean tight and unmarked. Would be "fine" except for a remainder mark on bpotton page edges. DJ is clean, fresh, intact.not price-clipped.
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9.00 USD
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865 |
McConathy, Osbourne, Beattie, John W.and Morgan, Russell V. Music of Many Lands
New York Silver Burdett Company 1932 Leatherette Good + No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
268 pp. Binding is empossed silver leatherette. With color plates. Words and arrangements of folk, popular and light classical songs for hign school students and youth choirs with an expanded arrangement of "Finlandia". Frontpapers have a tape stain. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and there is a small (1/8) wound to back board.
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12.50 USD
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867 |
McCullough, David G. The Great Bridge
Simon and Schuster 1972 0671212133 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
636 pp with index and bibliography. A B&W map of the East River and the bridge's location after the Author's Note plus numerous B&W illustrations throuout the text. Text is immaculate, completely unmarked. Blue cloth boards are clean and fresh with the slightest of bumping to corners. DJ is intact, clean and bright with a bit yellowed at extremities with a 1/2" chip missing near spine. In Mylar jacket.
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175.00 USD
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868 |
McCutcheon, George Barr The Husbands of Edith
New York Dodd, Mead & Co. 1908 First Edition Decorative Cloth Near Fine No Jacket as Published 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Fisher, Harrison & Hapgood, Theodore B.
127 pp with five color plates. Elaborately decorated with a B&W scrolled frame for every page, and five color illustrations in the style of Charles Dana Gibson. Texct is clean, tight and unmarked, pages have deckled edges, top edge gilded.A date (1910) is stamped on the FFP. Grey cloth boards have darker grey stamped decorations featuring two lions rampant and a color pastedown of the head of a young woman. Boards are VG+, with slight lightening to spine and bumping to spine ends. In remarkable shape for a novel of this vintage.
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65.00 USD
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Mcdowell, Roddy Double Exposure
New York Delacourt 1966 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good Plus Fair Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Photographs of 98 of the leading figures in the arts with commentary by their peers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black clothboards with white decor and printing are clean and fresh. The DJ is another story, rubbed and chipped with one closed tear.
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48.00 USD
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870 |
McGregor Outline of Hindi Grammer Vols. l & Ll
Oxford University Press 1983 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
261 pp in two volumes. This is a bit of an odd one. The entire text of Outline of Hindi Grammer with Exercises excepting the title page has been zeroxed and pasted into two softcover blank page books. All the info is there and the inside is clean and tight but lumpy-looking, the cream colored covers, with Chinese watercolor decorations, are tight but soiled and dogeared with a split at top of spine on Vol ll. In mylar jackets.
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12.00 USD
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McGregor, John C. Southwestern Archeology
Urbana, IL University of Illinois Press 1974 Second Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Large 8 Vo
511 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked with B&W illustrationss in text. Beige cloth boards are clean and square, slightly sun-darkened along spine. Not ex-libe.
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12.00 USD
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Meadows, Eric Changes in Our Landscape Aspects of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns 1947 - 1992
Bedfordshire, Great Britain The Book Castle 1992 187119931X First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Meadows, Eric
173 pp with color and B&W photography on every page. Two maps. Historic and contemporary landscape photography covering North Buckinghamshire, the Vale of Aylesbury, the mid and northern Chilterns, Gault and greensand and the Ouse Valley and noth uplands. Text is clean, tight, unmarked on heavy coated stock. Boards and DJ are clean, bright, undamaged.
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29.00 USD
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876 |
Melhorn, Charles Two-Block Fox The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911 - 1929
Annapolis, Md Naval Institute Press 1974 0870217089 Hardcover Near Fine Good Dedication By Author
181 pp with index and extensive bibliography. With dedication by the author to Dorris Johnson ( actress - "The Grapes of Wrath, "Drums Along the Mohawk, ") "From a naval aviator, at least, who knows that arrogance can be a humbling experience!" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards are square and undamaged, DJ is intact but lightly soiled, in mylar jacket.
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30.00 USD
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Melhorn, Charles Two-Block Fox The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911 - 1929
Annapolis, Md Naval Institute Press 1974 0870217089 Hardcover Near Fine Good Dedication By Author
181 pp with index and extensive bibliography. With dedication by the author to Dorris Johnson ( actress - "The Grapes of Wrath, "Drums Along the Mohawk, ") "From a naval aviator, at least, who knows that arrogance can be a humbling experience!" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards are square and undamaged, DJ is intact but lightly soiled, in mylar jacket.
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30.00 USD
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878 |
Melhorn, Charles Two-Block Fox The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911 - 1929
Annapolis, Md Naval Institute Press 1974 0870217089 Hardcover Near Fine Good Dedication By Author
181 pp with index and extensive bibliography. With dedication by the author to Dorris Johnson ( actress - "The Grapes of Wrath, "Drums Along the Mohawk, ") "From a naval aviator, at least, who knows that arrogance can be a humbling experience!" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards are square and undamaged, DJ is intact but lightly soiled, in mylar jacket.
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30.00 USD
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879 |
Mencken, H.L. Minority Report H.L.Mencken's Notebooks
New York Alfred Knopf 1956 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
293 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue boards with gold stamped title are sunned ar spine. In the preface Mencken refers to the book as". selections chosen more or less at random from the memoranda of long years devoted to the persuit, anatomizing and embalming of ideas." Acerbic comment on current pieties.
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13.00 USD
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880 |
Mencken, H.L. A Carnival of Buncombe
Baltimore, MD The Johns Hopkins Press 1956 Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
370 pp. with a glossary, really an identification of individuals referred to in text, and an index. Edited by Malcom Moos. Articles on potitics for the Baltimore Sun, running from 1920 to 1936. The headings include Normalcy, Calvinism, Onward Christian Soldiers - Hoover & Al, Roosevelt Minor, and The Burden of Omnipotence - Roosevelt and Alf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. The blue cloth boards with red spine are clean and bright.
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14.00 USD
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Menen, Aubrey The Mystics
New York Dial Press 1974 0803762046 Hard Cover Good Fair 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hall, Graham
239 pp. Described as an up-to-date, accurate and informed account of Hinduism. With color and B&W plates. This book would be priced and graded higher, for it is in excellent condition within and the DJ is whole and bright, but it has a moisture stain concealed by the DJ on the rear endpaper, and its mirror inside the DJ, neither of which effect the text.
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6.50 USD
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885 |
Mercia, Leonard S. Raising Poultry the Modern Way
Charlotte, Vermont Garden Way 1982 Trade Paperback Good Plus No Jacket as Published
220 pp. B&W photos and line drawings on every page. Excellent basic information on raising and maintaining healthy chickens. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Cover is clean and undamaged but a little sun-faded.
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6.50 USD
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Merrick, Leonard The Leonard Merrick Omnibus
London Cassell and Company Ltd. 1950 Hardcover Very Good Plus No Jacket
619 pp. Short stories by Merrick, Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookseller's sticker on front endpapers. Red cloth boards are clean, spine a little faded.
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14.00 USD
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889 |
Merz, Karl The Elements of Harmony and Musical Composition
Chicago The Brainard's Sons Co. 1881 1st Edition Hardcover Good No Jacket as Published 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
191 pp Text is clean, tight and unmarked. A class book for students in harmony and composition. Dark blue boards with gold stamping are "fair", whole and tight but with bumped corners and a water stain along the bottom of the front board.
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23.00 USD
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Messner, Reinhold Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate
Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr 1979 0195201353 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good
254 pp. " Combines technical information about all facets of mountaineering with spectacular photographs and a compelling text to convey to readers the exhaustion, exhileration and despair of climbing." text is clean, tight and unmarked with color and B&W photos. Orange boards are VG+, likewise DJ with no chips or tears an some mild sun-fading along spine and upper edge. Price not clipped.
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24.00 USD
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892 |
Michaud, Roland and Michaud, Sabrina Mirror of the Orient
Boston New York Graphic Society 1980 0821211293 First English Language Edition Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine 11" x 9.5"
80 pp with sumptuous color illustrations or photography on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. There is a pale moisture stain on the endpapers that does not extend into the text. DJ is clean and bright, with on 1/4 " closed tear.
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10.00 USD
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Micheli, Silvio Mongolia In Search of Marco Polo and Other Adventures
New York Harcourt, Brace & World Inc. 1967 First American Edition Hard Cover Good Good Minus
366 pp with 38 B&W illustrations and a map. The author traveled by car and horseback south to Gobi and then west to Altai Mountains " The author unflatteringly presents himself as testy, lazy, obstinate and ungrateful ( this is putting it mildly - Bookseller) yet easily captures the reader's sympathy by his warmth and curiosity and his Olympian disregard for planning."Text is tight and unmarked but B&W illustrations were stuck together by moisture and had to be pulled apart eith some light staining to top 1 inch. No stains or visable damage to text. Tan boards are in VG shape. DJ is torn at spine and rippled by moisture, price clipped. In mylar jacket. Still completely readable and better than it sounds.
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15.00 USD
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Migot, Andre Tibetan Marches
E.P. Dutton 1955 Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good + Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Text is clean, tight unmarked. B&W photo illustrations and two maps. Red and yellow boards are "fine", DJ has rubs and small tears at spine. Has a plastic slipcover.
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14.00 USD
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896 |
Millay, Edna St. Vincent Conversations at Midnight
New York Harper & Bros. 1937 12th Edition Leatherette and Paper Near Fine Very Good
122 pp plus index of first lines. A very handsome copy. The text is short of "fine" as there is a brief inscription on the front endpapers. The DJ is clipped, very clean with some tiny splits at spine, and sun-darkened at front folds, plus a rubbed spot on the back.
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7.75 USD
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897 |
Miller, Dorothy C. (ed) American 1942 18 Artists from Nine States
New York The Museum of Modern Art 1942 1st Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
128 pp. B&W illustrtaions on every page. American 1942 was the first of a series of exhibitions providing a survey ofthe arts in the US during the 40's. It has a selection limitted to a small number of artists living outside New York whose work was then new to the New York public. Text is clean, tight and unmarked but slightly yellowed. B&W boards with an abstract drawning of a canvas, pallete and carving tool, are yellowed with bumbing top and bottom of spine.
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11.00 USD
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Miller, Henry The World of Sex
Paris OLympia Press 1959 Soft Cover Fair Poor 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
This was a famously banned edition. I smuggled this book back to the US in 1959 and the cover is a mess as I glued another more innocuous cover over the top. Ahhh, the good old days of censorship! Some deep scratches on the edge. But clean and tight in the interior.
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16.00 USD
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Miller, Henry The Colussus of Maroussi
New York New Directions 1958 Second Printing Trade Paperback Very Good + No Jacket as Published
244 pp. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, not yellowed. Cover is scuffed and lower front corner is dog-eared. There is a 1" tear on back cover.
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14.00 USD
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