Search Results: Authors starting with M from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn binding, laminated pictorial boards, red endpapers, 384 pp, illustrated with color drawings by the author throughout, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Macaulay arranges his text according to the physical principles by which devices work, with highly engaging illustrations for each principle and device. The arrangement leads to juxtapositions of inventions that work by similar principles but are vastly different in scale or application--for example the steam turbine in a giant electric power plant works by the same principle as the tiny pneumatic motor in a dentist's drill. Fictional mammoths also are permitted to shove a tusk in to provide some levity. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Fine/Fine. 29 X 22½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial boards, 96 pp. color drawings on most pages, glossary. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is a typical Macaulay book--thoroughly researched, informative, splendidly illustrated. Macaulay shows us the construction of a fictional Islamic charitable foundation in Istanbul at the close of the 16th century. While the particulars are fictional, all the buildings are based on actual buildings designed by Sinan, the chief court architect for nearly fifty years. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. Illus. by the Author. 31 X 23½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect (i.e., glued) binding, laminated pictorial boards, red endpapers, 384 pp, illustrated with color drawings by the author throughout, index. According to a two-line note on the copyright page, this is a Reader's Digest reprint. It is slightly smaller and has a lower quality binding than the original publisher's edition. Boards browning slightly near top edge, else fine. Macaulay arranges his text according to the physical principles by which devices work, with highly engaging illustrations for each principle and device. The arrangement leads to juxtapositions of inventions that work by similar principles but are vastly different in scale or application--for example the steam turbine in a giant electric power plant works by the same principle as the tiny pneumatic motor in a dentist's drill. Fictional mammoths also are permitted to shove a tusk in to provide some… Read More

London, New York, Melbourne & Auckland: Edward Arnold (Hodder & Stoughton), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, pale grey endpapers, [xvi], 480 pp, 16 ff b & w plates, 4 maps, 3 dynastic tables, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeths's career as a practising politician, taking into account her testing personal experience, her termperament, and her own view of her role. She could not, like Shakespeare's Richard II, merely stand passively on her dignity. She had to cultivate all the arts of a politician to secure her right to be obeyed, to win the unquestioning confidence of her subjects in her abitilty to govern them." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Firenze: Sansoni Editore, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Distributed in the USA by HarperCollins under ISBN 0-06-275516-1, which appears only on the dust jacket. Sewn in dark blue leather-textured boards, white titles on spine, 2277 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The fattest single-volume Italian-English dictionary we have come across has 240,000 entries and 570,000 translations. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 7 lbs.. 3rd Ed, 8th ptg. . Fine/Fine. 25 X 17½ cm.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, black titles on spine, 318 pp, bibliography, index. Bottom corners beginning to fray, bookplate & owner's rubber stamp on recto of ffep. DJ extremities rubbed, corners & spine ends tattered; in Brodart archival cover. "In this work, every effort has been made to include an adequate listing of marks, arranged alphabetically in proper subject categories, to aid the reader in prompt and correct evaluation of such marks." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Revised Ed. . Good+/Good. 21½ X 14 cm.

Aberdeen: Privately Printed, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey stiff paper wraps printed with maroon ink, 48 pp, stapled through fold. Wraps somewhat soiled, a 1 cm tear at bottom of front cover, a large grease stain (5 X 7 cm) on rear cover (penetrating though to last few leaves). 174 very succinct recipes, ranging from innocuous (oat cakes) to deadly (sheep's head broth, Scotch eggs). Shipping weight 3 oz. in envelope.. Pamphlet. G+/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Rust-orange cloth, ix, 341 pp, many photos & maps, bibliography, index. DJ shows just a hint of wear at corners and a 1 cm tear at bottom of rear panel, else as new in Brodart archival cover. Contents: treasures in the dust; the nature of fossils; the naming of fossils; where fossils occur; time before time; where to look for fossils; practical field tripping; maps and how to use them; preparing and cleaning fossils; special techniques; cataloging and displaying fossils; microfossils; fossils and their families. Appendix: state maps showing fossil areas; public sources of further information by state; dealers in fossils; recommended books. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . As New/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, xviii, 260 pp, frontispiece, numerous b & w drawings, notes, index. Spine ends rubbed, light soil to edges, errata sheet laid in. DJ moderately rubbed, torn (to 1") and chipped at extremities, in mylar cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. Illus. by Campbell Grant. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, xii, 276 pp, map, 4 photos, index. Lightly rubbed and faded; there is a bit of offsetting from photos onto facing pages, a couple of leaves creased at corner. From the preface: "...it is meant primarily to be informative, and every Diaspora Scot who reads it carefully will know more about the Homeland than most Homeland Scots ever trouble to learn." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: Machine Tool Supply, Inc. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in thick white card stock, titles in black and reverse red, [xvi], 830 pp, index. Slight shelf wear. No date, but appears to be from mid-1960s. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Wraps. VG+/No dj. 27½ X 21 cm.

Wayzata, MN: MACILO Publishing Co., 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial wraps, [xi], 146 pp, 71 b & w drawings, 5 maps, index. Light creasing to covers. This is a splendid collection of Minneapolis landmarks drawn by MacIntosh, an artist on the staff of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Many of the buildings pictured were gone by the time this book was published; a few others have disappeared since. The finding maps allow the reader to locate the sites illustrated. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 28 cm (oblong).

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter blue cloth, white paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, red endpapers, half-title preceded by 15-page blurb section [xv], xv, 400 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Short motivational lessons on how to deal with various business situations--this book covers too much ground to be classified easily. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Trade. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Privately Printed WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No dates; "Cancer..." apparently self-published about 1927; "Malignant Disease..." is a reprint of a posthumously published article in Archives of Otolaryngology, Sept. 1934 (Dr. MacKenty died 12/11/1931. Two volumes, both dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles on front board. Both rubbed a bit at extremities, "Malignant Disease" has a bit of scuffing and two dents on front board. Cancer...: 63 pp, 25 figures, notes. Malignant Disease...: 32 pp, 43 figures. Dr. MacKenty has been credited with advances in technique that lowered the mortality rate in patients requiring laryngectomies.. . VG+/No dj. 25½ X 17½ cm.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, gilt titles on spine, xlix, 404 pp, 4 ff color plates, 14 ff b & w plates, footnotes, index. DJ has adhesive coating applied by previous owner. Reprint of the 1907 original with a brief added foreword by Fatma Turkkan. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Washington, D. C: Elliot & Clark Publishing, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine with red titles, about 56 pp of 2-page color photos. Extremities lightly rubbed, else fine. Artistically photographed rural landscapes, most centered on abandoned farm buildings in various states of decay, from peeling paint to collapse, accompanied by appropriate quotes. The last plate lifts the spirits with a photo of a restored farmstead. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 18½ X 27½ cm (oblong).

Lewes, Sussex: Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Review Copy. Mostly blue pictorial wraps, tan titles on spine, vi, 120, [2] pp, hundreds of drawings & color photos, index. Corner bumped, else fine, US distributor's press release laid in. Chapters on materials, tools, & techniques are followed by 12 projects, complete with bills of materials, measured drawings, instructions, and photos of projects in various stages of completion. The projects: kitchen stool; gate-leg table; kitchen cupboard; kitchen work trolley; bed headboard; bedside cupboard; chest of drawers; blanket chest; computer desk; chair; desk drawer unit; bookcase. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 29½ X 21 cm.

Washington, D. C: Elliot & Clark Publishing, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine with red titles, about 56 pp of 2-page color photos. Gift inscription on verso of ffep, top corner of rear board bumped. Artistically photographed rural landscapes, most centered on abandoned farm buildings in various states of decay, from peeling paint to collapse, accompanied by appropriate quotes. The last plate lifts the spirits with a photo of a restored farmstead. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Very Good/No dj. 18½ X 27½ cm (oblong).

New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in maroon wraps with white titles, xxxix, 435, B1-B569 pp, index. Slight wear to edges of covers, one leaf wrinkled by paper clip, stray pen mark on p. xii. The MLA International Bibliography was arranged by the languages treated in the articles indexed. It was possible for a subscriber interested in a particular language to purchase only the volume of interest. Volume II contains listings for publications about "European, Asian, African, and South American Literatures." Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 26½ X 18½ cm.

New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in maroon wraps with white titles. Book 1, classified listings: xl, iii, 424 pp. Book 2, subject & document author indices: [ii], B1-B537 pp. Slight wear to edges of covers, one leaf of Book 1 wrinkled by paper clip. The MLA International Bibliography was arranged by the languages treated in the articles indexed. It was possible for a subscriber interested in a particular language to purchase only the volume of interest. Volume II contains listings for publications about "European, Asian, African, and South American Literatures." Shipping weight 5 lbs. (International 4 lbs., 8 oz.). Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 26½ X 18½ cm.