Titles starting with M from Daryl Rule, bookseller

Boston: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (1985), 1985. Signed by Fowles and dated by him on title page when he was in Los Angeles in 1998. Under his signature he has written "1998 Los A." Other than a couple small stains on first blank endpaper, this is a very nice copy showing very few signs of having been read even once. Jacket is bright and near fine except for a small horizontal cut at top of jacket's spine, not terribly noticeable, and a very small amount of wear at head and foot of the... (more information)

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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1896. Beautifully bound copy of this interesting and early study of stone age man and his artifacts, with emphasis on North America. Several pull-out maps including large frontispiece one with color of pink used. The brown leather of this copy still bright and with just a little edgewear. Title on spine in gilt still bold. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper partially covering front and back boards. Bookplate of early owner of this book on front blank endpaper. Binding t... (more information)

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London: London: Martin Secker, 1931, 1931. This story originally titled "The Escaped Cock, previously published by the Black Sun Press in Paris. Lawrence decided on the title change shortly before his death. A clean copy with some sun fading to the spine. Olive green cloth with gilt decoration of a bird with outstretched wings on the cover. Name of a previous owner on first free endpaper and an earlier non-associative inscription dated 1933 on the same endpaper. Small sticker of Oxford bookseller ... (more information)

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Philadelphia (n.d. But Probably 1860's): American Sunday School Union. Frontispiece illustration of cobbler "making jackboots stand up." Very early American printing of this pleasant little tale by an English clergyman, who is not listed in this copy as being the author. Since all of this author's writings are attributed to the 1860's, including his "The Oiled Feather," this book from the Oiled Feather Series would no doubt date from that same period. The look of this copy... (more information)

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West Kingston, R. I.: Donald M. Grant, 1972. Virtually as new copy, the colorful jacket with just a very short closed tear (hardly noticeable) at upper edge of front cover of jacket keeping it from fully Fine. Jacket protected in clear mylar covering. Clean, square and tight book. The manuscripts of Marchers Of Valhalla and Thunder-Rider were discovered among the papers of Robert Howard in 1966. This writer of fantastical fiction had passed away 30 years earlier, underappreciated in his lifetime. His c... (more information)

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Boston: Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889, 1889. A charming gift book of the period, commemorating the march of General William Tecumseh Sherman through Confederate Georgia during the Civil War. Although the binding is now a bit chipped from the years, it still retains most of its original charm. The covers and spine of light brown cloth-like material are deeply impressed all over with a swirling, almost art nouveau style design of flowers, leafs and tendrils. The covers are unchipped although they show... (more information)

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Boston: Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1865, 1865. Antique book of childhood adventure for boys, with the added appeal for the modern collector of having a fascinating frontispiece illustration of a 19th century Christmas celebration. Shown in this woodcut engraving is a very tall ornamented Christmas tree set up in an even higher ceilinged room, with rows of children in the background and three children in foreground waiting for their presents as a Santa looks through a bag of toys at the foot of the tree. ... (more information)

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. A nice almost fresh copy in only slight to moderately chipped dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped, and there is a bit of fading to the spine. Still, a very presentable jacket after all these years, and scarce thus. Small amount of chipping to head and foot of jacket's spine and at corners. Couple of closed tears on back of jacket. Only fault to book itself is the insertion of a 1948 newspaper review of the book that is pasted onto the final blank flyleaf. T... (more information)

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New Orleans: Picagune Press, Ltd (1981), 1981. Nice copy of the first softcover edition, issued the same year as the hardbound edition. Profusely illustrated with many wonderful and bizarre photos of the goings on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Unfortunately this is now also a bit of a history book in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Some vintage photos in b&w along with the modern ones in color. Informative text. One of the better efforts at capturing the spirit of New Orleans during Mardi Gras ... (more information)

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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (circa 1980). Along with this excellent catalogue of the Maremont Collection of Pre-Columbian artifacts housed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I am offering a genuine pre-Columbian relic of the Nayarit culture, similar in design elements to one of the Nayarit objects shown in the first section of the book. See photo of the artifact being offered. Provenance of this Nayarit ceramic sculpture of a standing man, perhaps a warrior, is Joel Malter Galleries. The figure is in re... (more information)

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Philadelphia: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union (1856), 1856. Content more interesting than usually found in these little novels put out by the American Sunday Scool Union. This one not only takes the reader on a journey to Lake Winnipiseogee in New Hampshire (described as the Switzerland of the United States) but the girls in this tale are also introduced to the "Coloured Girls' Fair." One of the illustrations plates, which appears to be wood cut, is of a "mammy." Attempt a... (more information)

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New York: The Century Co., 1884. Original issue of the Century Magazine for April, 1884, quite well preserved in the original wraps. This issue containing the first appearance in print of the Old South story Marse Chan by Thomas Nelson Page. Contents are clean, and this issue contains some other interesting Old South content in the form of a frontispiece engraving of young Sidney Lanier, and a six-page biography of Lanier by William Hayes Ward. And there is a 10-page article titled "How Wilkes Booth... (more information)

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Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1855. A very attractive, framable piece of sheet music with large and bold engraved portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in military dress on cover. Image in shades of black and white. It's interesting that this was sold in New Orleans, Louisiana as attested by olded inked stamp of the store on Camp Street in New Orleans that sold this. For years after Napoleon's defeat in Europe, New Orleans was something of a hotbed of pro-Napoleonic feeling in America. The condition of this... (more information)

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London: London: A. H. Baily & Co., 1843, 1843. A scarce Cruikshank illustrated item bound beautifully in elaborately gilt embellished red calf by Riviere and Son. Binding signed in gilt in the lower dentelle of the heavily gilt turn-ins. A stately looking little volume with five raised bands on spine and date 1843 in gilt at foot of spine. Lovely spine decorations in bright gilt showing a bird within heart shaped cartouche in each compartment, flowers on vine in each of the four corners of each comp... (more information)

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London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (circa 1830 ?), Sold at the Depository and By J. Nisbet. A tiny book, less than 4 inches in height and only 16 thin pages. Price shown on cover of one penny. Cover has a small woodcut illlustration, and there are a couple of others in the book. An unusual survivor for being this small. It has the look of having been published as early as the 1820's, although possibly later. Covers are turqoise blue. Clean and without any chipping. Slight bend at lower right ... (more information)

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San Jose, Calif.: Prune Tree Graphics, San Jose CA (1970), 1970. The first limited edition of the first volume in Grove's series of three volumes on the medals of Mexico. This is number 820 of a thousand copies. The volume covers the period 1701 to 1821. In basically as new condition. Bright and clean inside and out. Just the faintest signs of wear to the cloth at corners and edges keeps it from grade of full Fine. Tight and square. Profusely illustrated with photos and some illustrations of the ... (more information)

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Odense University Press, 1976. Contents of this issue include: "Ragnar loobrok, Sigifrid, and the Saints of Flanders" by Niels Lukman, "Medieval Man and Saga Studies" by Peter Hallberg, "Further Considerations on Approaches to Medieval Literature" by M. I. Steblin-Kamenskij, and "King Edgar and the Danelaw" by Niels Lund. Cloth frayed at lower right corner of cover, and this keeps the book from a better grade. Front cover a bit marred, but internal contents are ver... (more information)

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London: B. A. Seaby, LTD, 1972. Nice copy of this scarce and interesting book on Irish coins from the arrival of Strongbow's Anglo-Normans in the 12th century up to the Flight of the Earls in 1607. Profusely illustrated with photos of coins both in text and on some special plate pages where coins are enlarged. Seven map plates showing distribution of mints, and location of hoards. The book itself is tight and clean, virtually as new. The dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has been reinforce on the... (more information)

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Berlin: Deutscher Verlag (1938), 1942. This is a war-time printing of 1942 per date printed at bottom of an ad for another book on the last page of the book. Copyright page shows only the date of 1938. A well used but still decent copy. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos showing the author's late husband Bernd Rosemeyer racing automobiles. Some of these cars look very futuristic in design. One such sleekly modernistic auto is illustrated in gray on the front cover. Text is in German. B... (more information)

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London: London: George Virtue, 1844, 1844. The hand-colored plates are beautifully colored and are still bright and pleasing without any foxing. Hard to find with all these colored plates still present. These two volumes form a continuous complete set with pagination of Volume II picking up where Volume I left off. They were purchased in the 19th century by the Odd Fellows Lodge of old San Francisco, and have the name Odd Fellow's Library stamped in small gilt lettering at the bottom of each spine. Spi... (more information)

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