Search Results: Authors starting with M from ZH BOOKS

London: Printed for G. Robinson and T. Cadell, 1773. First edition; 8vo, 5" x 8 1/2"; pp. [5], iv, [628]; contemporary polished calf; 5 raised bands; title blind-stamped (faded); few chips to spine; some rubbing to boards (mostly to back cover and corners); a few spots from insect damage; dust-dulling to first several pages, else clean; small signature to first free page; very good.The first and only edition of an uncommon 18th century dictionary. Alexander Macbean was a Scottish writer and one of the compilers of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary (the current book's preface was written by Samuel Johnson). He was a descendant of Clan Macbean, a highland Scottish clan dating back to the 15th century. Dr. Johnson himself wrote about the dictionary: "A work like this has long been wanted: I would willingly flatter myself that the want is now supplied..."

New York and London: The Macfadden Co.. Early Edition. Very good. Early edition, n. d. (ca 1920 [?]); 7 1/2 x 4; pp. [5], 6-48; green cloth over boards; gilt title to front board; light rubbing to tips of spine and corners; two title pages; illustrated with two photographs, including frontis, and two drawings; very good condition.Bernarr Adolphus Macfadden (1868 - 1955) was a businessman, publisher, and a great proponent of physical culture and proper nutrition. He has been hailed as the forebearer of fitness and health consciousness in the United States. His current book was originally published in 1899, was quite successful, and went through several editions very quickly, although few copies have survived. In it, the author emphasized his belief that with proper attention and care, no man or woman would ever go bald. Chapters included causes of hair loss, scalp massage, washing, destroying microbes, and so on. He also advertised his patented "Cradle Pneumatic Scalp Masseur" and… Read More

Tbilisi: T. T. Ts. P., 1971. First Edition. Very good. Sixteen large glossy cards in a pictorial folder + a descriptive pamphlet; cards - 8 x 6, illustrations to recto, subtitles to verso; minor wear to egdes in about near fine condition; folder with a few small creases to edges - in very good condition; pamphlet in fine condition. In three languages - Georgian, Russian, and English.Compiled by historian, caligraher, and educator Elena Machavariani, the set showcased and described beautiful and significant Georgian manuscripts from the 9th through the 15th centuries.

Various, 1959. Softcover. Ten large menus from S.S. Mariposa, S.S. Monterey, and S.S. Lurline, a wine list (pp. 10), and a crew menu (pp. 10, recto only); various dates, 1959 - 1974; various sizes, 12 x 9 and smaller; seven of the menus illustrated from watercolors by Louis Macouillard; two others with decorative, silk ropes and tassels to spine. The crew menu consists of typed, mimeographed loose sheets; folded, with a few minor spots to margins. Overall the group is in very good to near fine condition, with a few minor nicks and creases to edges.The Matson Navigation Company's maiden voyage to Hawaii began in 1882, with Captain William Matson sailing the schooner Emma Claudina from San Francisco to Hilo, Hawaii, loaded with food and general merchandise. By 1932, Matson's so called "white ships," the luxury liners Mariposa, Monterey and Lurline, were constructed and they would become instrumental in the development of tourism in Hawaii. Matson would become known for commissioning… Read More

Madrid [etc.] : Compania Ibero-Americana de Publicaciones, 1931. Hardcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. [11], 10-322, [4]; marbled leather; black and red morocco labels with gilt lettering to spine; five raised bands; some relatively minor rubbing to edges else bright and clean; faint age-toning to first several pages only; very good to near fine condition.Salvador de Madariaga was a Spanish author, diplomat, and historian. After his being an Ambassador to the US in the early '30s and due to his position as a Classic Liberal he went into exile in England. Erudite and a polyglot, he wrote in French, german, Spanish, English, and Galician. His present book is a detailed and authoritative history of Spain.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Hardcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6; pp. 137; full velum stamped in gilt; red decorative closing ribbon (tying ends cut); a bit of age-toning to covers; previous owner's name to front cover verso; pages clean; very good or better.An uncommon collection of poems by Louis Magee, published posthumously in his honor and chosen from his archives by his closest friends and family. He was a US businessman and electrical engineer at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century - who had apparently spent several years in Berlin where he had become one of the pioneers of electric railway systems in Europe. In his preface Andrew D. White said Magee was remembered not only for his scientific papers and achievements but also for his ability to "offer his thoughts in verse."

New York: Sarony & Major, 1846. Very good. Hand-colored lithograph; 13 1/2 x 9 1/2; edges a bit unevenly trimmed; a small, closed cut to left margin; faint discoloration to bottom edge; in about very good condition.An image of a beautiful lady, seated in front of a window, it was created by the lithographic partnership of Napoleon Sarony (1821 - 1896), who had worked for Currier & Ives before co-founding his own company, and brothers Henry Major (1820 - 1877) and Richard Major (1825 - 1894). Sarony was also known as a great photographer, especially for his portraits of the stars of the 19th-century American theater.

Paris: Biblioteki Makhnovtsev, 1928. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/4 x 7; pp. 62; brown wraps printed in black; loss of paper to spine; edges of wraps brittle with nicks and chips; back cover unevenly trimmed; internally clean but for a light age-toning to pages; good or better condition.Nestor Ivanovich Makhno - Ukrainian anarchist and Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (also called 'The Black Army') wrote his current book in response to Soviet scholar M. Kubanin's anti-Makhno work "Makhnovshchina." Nestor Makhno, the son of peasants, was born in 1889 in Huliaipole, Ukraine. Shortly after joining a local anarchist group in 1906 he was arrested, released, re-arrested, and eventually sentenced to death - later reprieved because of his youth and instead imprisoned in the scariest penal institution in Moscow, Butyrki Prison. He was released after the Revolution in 1917 and returned to his native village. By the Winter of 1918 Makhno had managed to unite… Read More

Parizh (Paris): La Presse Francaise et Etrangere, 1948. Softcover. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies (this one unnumbered); 5 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [6], 9-126; beige, card stock wraps, printed and illustrated in brown; a few small nicks to tips of spine and edges of back wrap; light creasing to corners; cover art and design by Aleksandr Serebriakov; very good or better condition.Sergei Konstantinovich Makovskii (1877 - 1962) was a poet, art critic, and the son of renowned artist Konstantin Makovskii. From 1909 until 1913, he was the editor of the influential journal Apollon and worked with some of the brightest Modernists of the times. Makovskii went into exile in Paris after the Revolution and continued writing, publishing, and being heavily involved with the Russian emigre literary elite abroad until his death. The graphic artist, who designed the covert art of the book, Alexander Borisovich Serebriakov (1907–1995), was one of the famous Benois family of artists and… Read More

Leningrad: Nauka, 1990. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 3-238; green wraps printed in b&w; small chips to head and tail of spine; few faint crease lines to corners; signed and inscribed by author; very good or better.A lengthy study on homonyms including characteristics, theories, and classification.

London: Printed for Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1824. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 580 and 547, respectively; rebound in brown cloth and 3/4 tooled morocco, with gilt title and initials and five raised bands to spine; illustrated with two large, fold-out maps (one of them hand-colored); ornate bookplates of the Oriental Club to front board verso (with a manuscript note in an unknown hand, stating that the volumes had been added to the library by the author); small, rubbed spots to corners; a bit of rubbing to edges; bottom of preface leaf in vol. I and pp. 1-2 in vol. II trimmed (not affecting text); closed splits to maps (no loss); overall in good to very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page of vol. I (top edge of inscription slightly trimmed, while being rebound [?]).Major-General Sir John Malcolm (1769 - 1833) was a Scottish diplomat, historian, author, and soldier. First serving in the East India Company's Madras Army… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909. Very good. Second Beardsley edition, first one-volume edition, limited to 1500 copies; 10 1/4 x 8; pp. [9], vj-liv, [1], 2-624; green cloth over boards; gilt decorations and title to front board and spine; illustrated with 20 full-page plates and numerous in-line drawings by Aubrey Beardsley; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine and corners and a tiny, closed cut to cloth to upper margin of spine; table of contents with a few small chips to fore-edge; booklate and gift inscription to front board verso and ffep; scattered spots of foxing to first and last few leaves; in very good condition.Containing 10 additional chapter headings not found in the first edition of 1893 - 1894, the book would be considered famed illustrator, author, and leading contributor to the development of the Art Nouveau Aubrey Beardsley's (1872 - 1898) first and much-celebrated major work.

Stockton, CA: Daily Independent Steam Power Print, 1884. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [6], 9-326; pebbled brown cloth over boards with gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to corners; fading to spine cover and some creasing to tips; rfep with a small chip to fore-edge; previous owner's signature to front board verso with a slight ink bleeding to ffep; overall in about very good condition.Charles Maltby (1811 - 1900) was a lifelong friend and colleague of Abraham Lincoln, having among other things clerked together at a store in ew Salem, Illinois in the early 1830s. After Lincoln's election to the presidency, he appointed Maltby - firstly, as collector of internal revenue for the Fifth District of California and later - as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California. Starting in 1878, Maltby wrote a series of articles of his pmemories of Lincoln, which were printed in the Press journal in Santa Barbara under the title: "Abraham Lincoln: Personal… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1983. Near fine. First Russian publication in the West, 1 of only 150 hardbound copies (edition total of 1400 copies); 7 3/4 x 5; pp. [6], 7-79, [1]; red leatherette over boards; gilt title to spine; very minor wear - in near fine or better condition.Written in 1933, published in English in 1965, with its first Soviet publication released in 1967, "Conversation about Dante" has been called the co-founder of the Acmeist school of poetry Osip Mandelstam's (1891 - 1938) "most elaborate statement of the poet's aesthetic philosophy and the most extended document of his reading process."

Los Angeles: Keep America Committee, 1975. First Edition. Very good. First separate publication, n. d. (1975); 10 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. [4]; illustrated with a photographic image; two horizontal fold lines, with two small punctures along spine; age-toning to margins; a stamped note to last page; in about very good condition.Michael Goleniewski (1922 - 1993) was a Polish officer, Counter-intelligence Deputy Head in the Polish People's Army, Russian spy, and a triple-agent (revealing Polish and Russian secret documents to the CIA and eventually defecting to the US in 1961). His biggest claim to fame was his statement that he was Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich Romanov, who had officially been murdered with his family, by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The current publication initially appeared in "The Truth Crusader, No. 52" journal and later in the "Double Eagle" monthly bulletin, the latter edited and issued by Michael Goleniewski. The entire leaflet was centered around… Read More

S. l. (New York): F. W. Stewart, 1875. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-24; beige wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with numerous woodcuts; two small chips and a small, closed cut to front wrap; a few minor spots to wraps; very good condition.Cameron Mann (1851 - 1932) was an author, Episcopal priest, the Third Bishop of North Dakota and the First Bishop of South Florida. The Theta Delta Chi Society was founded as a social fraternity in 1847 at Union College, New York. Byy the last quarter of the 19th century, the society spread rapidly, adding charges (a term used by TDX brothers to refer to their local organizations, rather than the more-commonly used "chapters") throughout the entire country, including Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, Tufts, UVA, Dartmouth, Yale, etc. The historical poem, related to the Civil War, was written and delivered by Mann at the closing of the 27th Annual Convention of Theta Delta Chi, at a grand banquet at… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. An Advance, Sample Copy. Very good. An advance, sample copy (stamped to top edge), to be published August 26th at $2.50; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [7], vi-x, [2], 3-453, [9]; olive-green wraps, printed in black; thin, closed cuts to tips of spine; previous owner's signature to ffep; a small spot to upper corner of first few leaves; overall in very good condition. An uncommon, advance copy of Thomas Mann's "response" to Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther."

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-63, [1]; light-brown wraps, printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine and a few faint smudges to wraps; uniform age-toning to pages; faint bookshop stamp to back wrap; in very good condition.Dmitrii Manuilsky (1883 - 1959) was a renowned Bolshevik revolutionary, educator, politician, and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Comintern from 1926 until its dissolution in 1943. The current booklet presented an address, delivered by Manuilsky in response to a political report by Otto Bauer (1881 - 1938), co-founder and a major figure of the Left-Socialist Austromarxists, known for seeking a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary socialism.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Early edition; 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; pp. [9], 2-88, [4]; original pebbled brown boards; gilt title; red tint to page edges; minor wear to head and tail of spine; illustrated with numerous in-line engravings; very good to near fine. Attached to front cover verso is an ornate bookplate of Ellwood Cooper and Sarah Paxon Moore (Cooper). He was a horticulturist and a shrewd businessman who went down in history known as the first manufacturer of olive oil in the United States and the inventor of the equipment necessary for the production of said oil. He was also responsible for bringing the eucalyptus tree to Santa Barbara. Ellwood Bluffs County Park and Ellwood Union School in the region have been named after him. Written by Francis March, "considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon," the book was said to be aimed at "training the pupil to see, hear, and think, as well as to… Read More

[N.P.], 1991. Softcover. Uncorrected/unrecorded proof, ca 1991 ("Rough Draft" hand-written on title page presumably by author); 8 1/2" x 11"; pp. [2], 1-180; black plastic wraps showing very minor wear; small spot to margin of title page, else fine.Carl Henry Marcoux was a United States merchant marine during WWII. His ships took part in the invasion of the Philippines and Okinawa before the war ended in August, 1945. He also served in the Air Force during the Korean War. Marcoux has written several books and memoirs, the manuscripts for which are now in the "Carl Henry Marcoux Collection" at the Library of Congress. His current book, though a work of fiction, is based on real events from the devastating Civil War in El Salvador (1979-1990).