Titles starting with M from Windrush Books

Leatherhead, Surrey: Profile Publications. Magenta & white covers with b/w photograph. Stapled binding, 10 pages. Detailed, informative text; color illustrations on inside covers; b/w historic photos throughout. Binding sound. Minor rubbing to exterior at spine; white rear cover has very light red smudging to margins. Interior margins have lightest toning; otherwise unmarked & clean in & out. Clean & bright. (NB: We have many books in this series, including many not yet listed online). Soft ... more information

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Leatherhead, Surrey: Profile Publications. Magenta & white covers with b/w photograph. Stapled binding, 10 pages. Detailed, informative text; color illustrations on inside covers; b/w historic photos throughout. Binding sound. Minor rubbing to exterior at spine; white rear cover has all-over light red smudging; light smudging to white part of front cover. Interior margins have light toning; otherwise unmarked & clean in & out. (NB: We have many books in this series, including many not yet liste... more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill. A really nice copy of this stirring story of Madeleine de Vercheres, the girl who, with her two brothers, defended her Quebec fort against an Iroquois attack. NOT an ex-library copy. Red cloth, cream illustrated dj. 204 pages. Copyright 1946; no pub. date given; Fifteenth Printing. Book very sound, clean, unmarked. Dj has light wrinkling to top of back, but is clean & sound, in new archival Mylar. Many b/w drawings by Bruce Adams. Crisp & bright, appears virtually unread. . Ha... more information

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Self-published, 1962. Light blue card covers. 65 pages. B/w historic photographs. Fold-out map. Presumed first edition of this detailed history of the storied village of Magnolia, part of the city of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Binding is sound , though one inch of front cover is just starting to split away at base, & the folding map, which had been glued in, is detached, but present. Covers have a few small light smudges, & one inconspicuous ink squiggle. Interior is very clean & unmarked. . Sof... more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965. Publication date of first volume is 1965, of the second, 1968. First British edition of both volumes. Brown cloth, white illustrated DUST JACKETS. Vol.1: 272 pages: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, de Toqueville, Revolution of 1848. Vol.2: 274 pages: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber, Conclusion. Binding is sound, though that of second volume is a bit slanted. Vol.1 has a light smudge to fore-edge. Djs have been protected in plastic covers, which have been taped neatly to the endpa... more information

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Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Special contents of this edition are copyright 1965. Decorative leather-bound edition from the Easton Press series "Great Books of the 20th Century". Russet brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, with raised bands on spine. Burnt orange moire endpapers & satin bookmark. Illustrated by Grant Wood. Special Introduction by the author. The book is bright, clean & sound, unread, & seems virtually unopened; a strip on the fore-edge side of the fro... more information

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New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. Large, beautiful book with color photographs by Richard Cheek on almost every page. SIGNED by John M. Bryan. Gray cloth, blue illustrated DUST JACKET. 301 pages, plus section of photos at end. Binding is sound & straight; front board lower corner is mildly bumped, otherwise book is sound, clean & unmarked in & out. Dj has a little mild edge-rubbing, lower front corner lightly bumped, minimal surface rubbing, otherwise sound, clean, bright & new-... more information

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Camden, Maine: International Marine Pub. Co., 1976. Light blue cloth, light blue illustrated DUST JACKET. 128 pages, including Glossary. Instruction on 'longshore fishing of all types (surf fishing, flounder dragging, digging for clams & quahogs, scalloping, blue mussels, eels, etc.) by a Cape Cod fisherman. Book also includes plans for building a 14-ft. wooden fishing skiff. Detailed b/w drawings of fishing tackle, techniques etc. by Coralee Spacht Hays, plus diagrams. Binding is very sound; foxing to... more information

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New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1947. Black cloth. 207 pages, including copious Notes, Bibliography, & index. Binding sound; exterior rubbed, titles dulled, top edge foxed. Ex-Columbia University Library; usual library marks. Somewhat musty smell; endpapers toned; hinges squeak a bit. Still, text is clean & unmarked; a very readable copy of this interesting book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

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London: S.C.M. Press, 1943. Hardcover, black cloth, yellow & green dust jacket. 218 pages including Index. Outstanding figures in modern literature discussed in terms of the nature & purpose of mankind, as seen from a Christian perspective. Writers considered include Kafka, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, Shaw & Wells. Book & dj are very sound, clean & unmarked. Slight darkening to top edge, otherwise book is fine. Dj has chipping at spine top & base, otherwise sound, clean, bright. . Fi... more information

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Morrow, 1958. NOT an ex-library copy. First edition (U.S.) of this telling of the story of Francisco de Orellana's exploration of the Amazon in 1541. Hardcover, duodecimo, green cloth, green/ red/ black DUST JACKET. 192 pages. Marvellous b/w drawings in William Stobb's distinctive style. Book sound, clean, unmarked. Dj rubbed, with small chips from extrems., 1 1/4" missing at top of dj spine; dj flaps & rear, originally white, are a bit toned, but the illustrations on front & spine of dj are st... more information

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Manchester, Massachusetts: Town of Manchester, 1970. Blue-gray illustrated card covers, 8 1/2 by 11 inches tall. 58 pages. Many historic b/w photographs, on virtually every page, including double-spread aerial view, & drawings throughout; blue fold-out double-sided pictorial map at rear. Published to celebrate the 325th anniversary of the town of Manchester, Massachusetts. Detailed text describes the history of several specific houses, plus sections on the Harbor, Open Spaces, Cemeteries, Cabinet-Making... more information

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Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. Stated first printing. Wraps (paperback), duodecimo, gray covers. "The Library of Literature" series. 456 pages. A scholarly edition, with Introduction & Annotation by the editor. Illustrations include map of Rome & specimen pages from the manuscript. Book is sound, clean; spine lightly creased; neat ink name, 4 pages of the Bibliography have a few ink marks, otherwise unmarked. Nr. VG. ... more information

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Garden City, New York: Garden City, 1935. Presumed First Edition, SIGNED by Wallace Nutting. Tan textured cloth, vignette on front board. 254 pages. B/w photographs throughout by Wallace Nutting. Binding very sound, & square. Light bumping & rubbing to spine top & base, & minimally to corners. Spine a bit darkened, but boards are clean & bright. A few pages have lightest finger crimp to outer margins, one page has a few small light smudges, neat gift inscription dated 1935, otherwise int... more information

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London,: Macdonald, 1950. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. 144 pages. Multiple b/w photographs on almost every page by the author, showing details of golfing technique. Book includes a section of "style studies" of men & women golf masters. Binding is sound; exterior clean & bright; bumping & rubbing to top & base of spine, & corners. Light rubbing to lower extrems. of boards. Pages have light toning to upper & inner margins, otherwise interior of book is clean & unmar... more information

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Macmillan, NY, 1959. First edition of this portrait of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats in old age. Hardcover, octavo, navy blue cloth, blue DUST JACKET. 226 pages, 8 b/w photographs. Book is very clean & sound, unmarked; dj has light rubbing to extrems. & area of mottling to front., otherwise sound, bright. VG+/ VG. ... more information

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Lausanne: Scriptar. No publishing date given. (The original, Italian, edition was published in Milan in 1966) Blue cloth, gilt titles; cream/ brown illustrated DUST JACKET (no titles on spine). 232 pages. Plates showing clocks & watches on virtually every facing page, mostly b/w, & some in color - plus some smaller b/w photos. Captions in English, French & German. Extra sheet included: Index of Makers. Binding is sound & square.Exterior clean, gilt bright. Neat bookplate & minimal toning... more information

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Collins & Brown, copyright 1990. HARDCOVER, octavo, navy blue cloth, off-white illustrated DUST JACKET. 392 pages. First English edition. This, the first book in Collins & Brown's series "The History of European Society", contains 11 essays by internationally renowned medievalists. NOT ex-library. Very clean, sound, unmarked. Dj minimally rubbed, but sound & bright, in new archival Mylar. Fine/ VG. ... more information

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Erembodegem, Belgium: Uitgeverij De Krijger. Glossy yellow card covers with b/w photographs. Number 2 in the series "Belgie in Oorlog". Text in Flemish (?). 80 pages. Many b/w historic aviation photographs. "De gebeurtenissen in de ochtend van 10 mei 1940 en de daaropvolgende verwikkelingen zijn een van de vele controverse die dit land rijk zijn. Voortdurend wordt verwezen naar de luchtaanvallen die de Luftwaffe tegen de verouderde toestellen van de Belgische luchtmacht uitvoerde ..."&qu... more information

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Schirmer, 1967. Date given is latest copyright date; this may well be a later printing. "Scirmer's Library of Musical Classics". Light gray covers, purple titles. 21 pages. Binding is sound; spine has been reinforced, unnecessarily, with wide clear tape. Ink name & date inside, & numbers for fingering have been written neatly in ink at the top of most pieces, otherwise very clean & unmarked in & out. [NB: We also have Volume Two]. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

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