Search Results: Authors starting with M from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 First Edition, Hardcover, in blue paper covered boards with black spine, titles in gold to spine, 270 pp. Condition : Very Good, with slight fading to board edges. Inside, the text is bright and clean. Dust jacket is unclipped and Very Good, with minor crimping at head of spine. Now in mylar. This was California mystery writer Ross Macdonald's ( 1915-1983) 18th big hit in the Detective Lew Archer series. The New York Times calls these " the best detective novels ever written by an American." (blurb) A painting stolen from Santa Teresa leads our detective into the world of questionable art dealers and collectors, unearthing shady family secrets, and of course, in the direction of a mysterious woman. Hubin p. 262.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Hal Siegel, jacket design.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887 Hard cover, quarto, in brown buckram with a banded triple-thistle vignette in gilt to the center of the top board, the titles and volume numbers to spine. First Editions, published 1887- 1892. Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable, Edinburgh University Press. Illustrated with many black and white drawings such as measured floor plans, elevations, and details of smaller architectural elements: corbels, gargoyles, fireplaces, doorways, staircases, subterranean passages, and the like. Indexed.**CONDITION: Near Fine. Some light wear at head of spine upon 2 vols. Joints with some light rubbing. Hinges are in order. A few bumped corners. Some light scratches, marks or other light soiling to board surfaces. Foxing seen mostly in Vol. I prelims and text block edges only, and rarely affecting the faces of the pages. Pages are gently age-toned and clean. A very few unopened pages. **CONTENTS: VOL. I: (1887) An overview of the historical development of Scottish defensive… Read More

Caerleon, Gwent: The Arthur Machen Society, 1990 32pp. Number 142/350. Condition: Almost Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Llandeilo: Aylesford Review, 1960 pp 281-328. Includes "A Biographical Study" by Wesley D. Sweetser, the noted Machen biographer. Condition: Almost Fine, with light bump to one corner affecting pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Lewes: Tartarus Press, 1990 68pp. Essays on Machen. Condition: Almost Fine, with one corner lightly bumped.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1988 16pp unnumbered. The first book published by Machen, albeit privately. This is a "desktop-published" reprint from the Necronomicon Press in 1988. Condition: Very light foxing else about Fine.. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Firenze: per Niccolo Conti, 1818 1818-1821, 10 volumes in 5 complete. First Edition. In Italian. Hard cover, Royal 8vo (measuring 6 x 9 ⅛ inches), in three-quarter red calf with marbled paper-covered boards, red speckled edges to the text block, the spine with Machievelli/Opere and Vol. Nos. in gilt, with restrained banding in gilt and blind to the spine. Brown craft pastedowns. The works were re-bound by the London firm of Proudfoot, 73 George Street, Euston Square, with their stamp upon the front pastedown of Vol. 1. Based on the address, Ramsden suggests a date circa 1840 for this binding. Printer states only 10 copies were printed on Royal paper. **Condition: Very Good Plus. Bindings are firm, with some scuffing to some of the marbled paper boards, their corners and edges, and along the spines. There is some loss to corners on the exterior. Inside, the work is remarkably clean and bright, with light foxing to prelims only. The foxing pattern suggests this may have been originally bound in ten… Read More

Firenze: G. Barbèra, 1872 Hard cover 12mo, finely bound in half vellum over maroon cloth, with maroon leather title label applied to the spine with titles tooled in gold, xvi, 341pp., stated 6th edition. In Italian. Binding stamped signed Birdsall & Son, Northampton (England)on front pastedown. Engraved armorial bookplate of Pandeli Ralli, dated 1888 to front pastedown. Includes notes, a biography of the author, a general index and separate name index. **CONDITION: Very Good. Light scuffing to the spine label, minor soiling to the vellum. Cover slightly bowed. Prelims lightly foxed and text moderately age-toned especially at outer edge of pages. Otherwise clean, usable and with "vintage appeal." **The book's original owner, Pandeli Toumazis Ralli (1845-1928) was a French-born, Greek-British politician. He was a second generation member of the hugely successful Ralli Brothers, famously diversified global merchants and bankers in Victorian Britain, with trade spanning the Empire, the United States,… Read More

London: James Nisbet & Co., 1912 Hard Cover. 12mo. 64pp. Condition: Very Good with some foxing to pages and dust-soiling to covers. ** Essay on the art of collecting and the reading of books, by the Scottish minister, John Watson (1850-1907), who went by the pen-name of Ian MacLaren. He is perhaps best known for his "Kailyard" short story collection "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" (1894). Kailyard refers to a kitchen garden, and his stories tell of rural life in Scotland. The Kailyard books were later seen as being a pastiche of real life, but they started a tradition which led the trilogy "A Scots Quair" (1932-1934) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935). Both authors make use of the Scots language and descriptions of farm life in lowland Scotland. A more contemporary author who takes this further is David D. Ogston in his book "White Stone Country: Growing Up in Buchan" (1986). . Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Bibliothèque-Carpentier, 1914 Reprint. Hard cover, 8 vo., in contemporary green crushed morocco with a gilt "trellis" design, featuring blue petalled floral onlays at the intersections. The spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt, the compartments with similar decoration. A series of gilt dots are worked on the endcaps. The turn-ins feature triple-ruled gilt. A scarce Fine Binding signed by Miss M. Marshall; the binder is identified with a gilt pallet stamp on the rear turn-in. Green watercolor-effect endpapers. All edges gilt. Collation: (12), 311, (9). In French. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Slight wear to joints and oxidation to spine. Text block is tight, corners clean, hinges strong. Pages toned. A gift inscription dated 1969 in fountain pen on ffep. ** "The Life of Bees" was first published in 1901, and remains one of the author's more important prose works, an exploration of both science and human behavior. While poetic and philosophical in tone, it discusses the natural… Read More

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher [Alderbrink Press], 1902 Hard cover, 8vo, in quarter cream cloth over brown paper covered boards, decorated with illustration and titles in brown to top board, the text printed on art paper, edges untrimmed, [36pp.] unpaginated, with limitation page at rear, 400 unnumbered copies. Contains historiated initial capitals and twelve half-page sized, or larger, illustrations by the French-born Symbolist Artist Charles Doudelet (1861-1938). In English and French. Publisher Ralph Fletcher Seymor was also the proprietor of the Alderbrink Press, the imprint not upon appearing in this book. He operated in Chicago from 1898. CONDITION: Very Good Minus, showing some wear to covers and corners, a cracked front hinge, soiling to spine, and light age-toning to text. Now in mylar.** Belgian-born Maeterlinck,(1862-1949) was acknowledged as an early adherent of the Symbolist movement in late nineteenth century art and letters, and the author won the Nobel Prize for… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988 Hard cover, 8vo, in quarter black cloth with blue cloth covered boards, with titles in silver to spine. Dust jacket is unclipped, 330pp. includes index. Condition: Exterior boards with minor soiling to fore edges. Text is Near Fine, in a Very Good Dust jacket (shows minor edge-wear but is now in mylar. ) Some small foxing to rear hinge gutter. A literary criticism of the English Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, contending that their works should be read as continuations of, or answers to, each other's literary efforts. The Author, Professor Paul Magnuson, taught English at New York University for more than thirty years, specializing in the English Romantic poets. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Magdeburg: Printed for M. Rauscher by Johann Franken, 1612 pp (32) 283 (1) 71 (1) 72-76 (1) 77-81 (1) 82-90 (1) 91-95 (1) 96-104 (1) 105-124 (2) 200 (2) 52 (2). Collation: )(6 )()(4 ()6 a-i6 k-u6 x-z6 Aa4 A-I6 K-L6 a-j6 l-q6 r4 s6 t6 v6 x6 y4. PUBLISHER: Printed for M. Rauscher by Johann Franken, Magdeburg, 1612/13.Four Parts in One.In German, with some Latin. Red and black title page in Fraktur/Gothic, Roman and Italic types. Folio (8 1/5" x 13 1/8") bound in calf, tooled in blind over heavy, champfered-edge wood boards and five raised bands to spine. Cover design with fields of roses and other foliate bands of decoration centering a cartouche with Adam and Eve "unter dem Apfelbaum." Brass clasps partly remaining on front cover; not present on rear, leaving some holes in rear binding. SUMMARY: This rare volume is an encyclopedic presentation of scholars both classical and medieval, upon matters of agriculture, as well as a medical treatise including substantial information about the prevention,… Read More

Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1932 Hard cover, 8vo., 196pp. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper: "My own copy. W.M. Malisoff". Condition: Near Fine. Endpapers age-toned. In Very Good Minus dust jacket worn at edges with some loss. ** William Malisoff (Malisov) was a Russian-born American scientist who worked alongside Niels Bohr, Bertrand Russell and others on the Advisory Committee of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. There was a controversy in 1940 about his observed contact with a KGB agent. OCLC 1123273.. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus.

Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1912 395pp + ads. Stories of the people of Glasgow, Scotland's manufacturing city. With chapters on Commerce, The University, Law, The Medical Profession and The Church. One story: "A boy was brought before a Glasgow magistrate charged with stealing a handkerchief from a gentleman's pocket. The indictment having been read, the Bailie [magistrate], addressing the boy, said - 'I hae nae doot ye did the deed, for I had a handkerchief ta'en out o' my ain pouch this vera week; sae ye maun gang to the jail for sixty days'. The Assessor here interposed, stating that the case had not yet been proved against the boy. 'Oh, then, in that case,' said the worthy Bailie, 'I'll just gie ye thirty days'." Condition: About Very Good, with light foxing, and an ink-spot and some dust-soiling to covers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927 Hard cover, 8vo, First Edition, 64pp.** Scarce long poem about Willie Lamberton, a farmer's son, and his relationships in his rural community. American Poet Elizabeth Manning. Condition: Very Good with slight wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Medium toning.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Parigi: Baudry, Libreria Europa, 1843 Hard cover in full vellum, the spine decorated in faux banding with gilt tooled designs, floral vignettes, the title in gilt to an onlaid red morocco label. Text edges are spatter colored. Cream wove endpapers. This is not an illustrated edition. Text within banded borders. In Italian. Includes half title, authorised edition statement and introduction. [1 - 7pp.] 8-367pp. [1pp.] **CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Moderate soiling to the vellum. Some bowing of the cover. Some browning at page edges, with light foxing to prelims. Otherwise, the volume is clean and lightly age-toned. Note in pencil about edition to inside front cover, original owner inscription dated 1844 in old ink to ffep. **This is the Author's historical and moral/philosophical enquiry on the subject of the plague in Milan of 1630, during which two innocent men were tried for being plague-spreaders, found guilty and put to death. It was envisaged as an introduction to a later edition of… Read More

New York: Red Star Press, 1932 623pp. Scarce first printing of the socialist novel by George Spiro, writing as George Marlen ("Mar" for Marx and "len" for Lenin), who was the leader of the American "Leninist League" (later, the "Workers League for a Revolutionary Party". These groups influenced the young Noam Chomsky. Condition: Pages age-toned. Covers dust-soiled and showing shelfwear at the head and tail of the spine, and the corners.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: The Institute of Mediaeval Music Ltd, 1970 Hard cover, quarto, pp [3] ii [1] 113 [1]; [2] xxiii [1] 121 [1]; [2] ix [1] 133 [3]; [4] iii [1] 72 + 37 plates. In publisher's green cloth binding. Condition: Near Fine. ** The volumes are titled: Part1 - The Motets - A Critical Study, Part 2: The Motets of the Opus sacrarum cantonium, Part 3: The Motets from the Miscellaneous Printed Editions, Part 4: The Motets found only in Manuscripts. ** Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-1557) was a Renaissance composer of the "Franco-Flemish" school, and influential during his lifetime - the painting "Concert in the Egg" (c.1561), by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, features his music. OCLC 213788327.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Paris: Promodis, 1982 Hard cover, quarto, pp 629 [3]. In publisher's white boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Condition: Very Good. Ex-Library with library stamps & marks to fore-edge of text-block and endpapers, bookplate to back endpaper and ghost of label on spine. One corner bumped. One page has tiny closed tear. *** Survey and history of French printing, from the earliest days to the seventeenth century. With illustrations throughout, and some full-page color plates. *** Henri-Jean Martin (1924-2007) was an important historian of European printing, and an advocate for libraries in France.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.