Search Results: Authors starting with M from Century Books

Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. A couple tiny closed tears on edge, very slight fading on spine.

Berkeley: University of California, 1984. 1st English-language edition.. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Stamp on bottom edge, else fine. First English translation of author's third novel, which remains one of his most popular with more than 20 Portuguese editions. Originally published in Brazil in 1876. Set in Rio de Janeiro in 1850, the story is one of mystery and romance with a penetrating look at 19th century Brazilian high society.

Salt Lake City: Utah Geological Society, 1974. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good condition.. Previous owner stamp, else fine. All plates present in back pocket. Reprint of the 1947 Guidebook.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Dust jacket has pen indentations on the back, else fine. Collection of vignettes set in World War II Europe creating a fictional mosaic of horrors and exploring the human capacity to inflict and endure cruelty. Forms the first of a trilogy of works focusing on World War II.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1966. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. All plates present. An evaluation of the mineral potential of the area.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Remainder mark and small pen mark on bottom edge, else book is fine. Dust jacket has one small nick along foreedge, else fine. By the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, & ex-convict & bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories & uncover unlikely connections between their lives.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1972. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. 28 pages

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket has some small, closed edged, very small chips at spine ends. Dust jacket spine lightly sunned. Translation from the German by Willard R. Trask. Written near the end of Mann's life and filled with themes of aging, loss, menopause, a feminine counterpart to his classic novella Death in Venice. The central character is Rosalie, a 50-year-old widow who falls in love with her son's tutor.

New York: International Universities Press, 1975. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. Some edgewear. Examines masturbation in terms of its broad psychodynamic significance throughout development.

New York: Brunner/Mazel, [1974]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. 32 papers covering General Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Psychiatry.

Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket, else fine. A Judge Deborah Knott Mystery.

Salt Lake City: Utah Geological Society, 1952. Softcover. Very Good condition.. Previous owner stamp, else fine. All plates present in back pocket. Contributors include: Gordon L. Bell, Frank C. Calkins, Max D. Crittenden, Armand J. Eardley, Arthur E. Granger, Hubert Lambert, and Byron J. Sharp.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1947. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Good condition. Gray cloth w/ orange letting. Spine quite sunned. Small sticker mark on first free endpaper, toning throughout. Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred dies at his family's estate, and Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to investigate. Also features Alleyn's wife, Agatha Troy, who has been hired to paint Sir Henry's portrait. The character of Agatha is much like Marsh herself.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Hardback. Near Fine condition.. Pictorial boards, some light shelfwear. Volume 1 551 pages, covers Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Georgia. Volume 2 pages 552-1183 , includes Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Illustrated.

Henry Holt, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Story of one autistic boy, and his struggle to learn to speak. Also a broader look at autism as it relates to language and the totality of language.

HarperCollins, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Set in 1900, the novel tells the fictional story of a Kentucky farm wife who creates a national stir by giving birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America.

Bantam, 2001. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Excellent near-future, post-Cold War thriller in which European terrorists kidnap the U.S. vice president and threaten biological warfare. Protagonist is a CIA analyst who discovers her husband, presumed dead in a terrorist bombing, has infiltrated the terrorist group and participated in the kidnapping. Her job is to reel him in from the cold.

Bantam, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. SIGNED by Author. Fourth Merry Folger/Nantucket mystery. Mathews also writes Jane Austen mysteries under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. SIGNED by author on title page. Author's first novel and first in the series featuring Nantucket Detective Merry Folger. Merry must prove to her police chief father that she can handle a murder investigation. Mathews also writes Jane Austen mysteries under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. BOMC. Hardback. G+/G+. Large stain on front board. DJ is sunned, edgeworn, some small tears. Owner name & date on title page.