Search Results: Authors starting with M from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1986. Pp. xviii+302, author's note, index; med. 8vo; orange boards, spine lettered in gilt, lower fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, sticker mark on front flap; Harrap, London, 1986. First U.K. edition. *The pursuit of a CIA agent turned terrorist [wrapper blurb].

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1988. The recollections of Emmeline Maria Macarthur (1828-1911). Pp. 128, 4 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous text illustrations (some full page), endpaper chart, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; lower board slightly spotted; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1988. First edition..

Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia, 1978. Pp. xviii+794(last blank), numerous text illustrations, 8 pages of maps printed in green & black, plus 2 full page black & white maps, printed endpapers (chronology), notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges worn, bottom edges shelf soiled and slightly faded; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn and creased, verso foxed; edges of leaves lightly marked; Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, 1978. First Australian edition..

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1977. Pp. 64, illustrated in colour and black & white, including a coloured pictorial double title page and pictorial endpapers; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, edges slightly rubbed; Ure Smith, Sydney, 1977. Second impression. White (Volume 2) 5068. *First published in 1971.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv+320, 12 plates, 2 full page maps, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards, faintly foxed; dust wrapper, back panel a trifle soiled, the backstrip slightly faded; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, New York, 1989. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1957. Pp. 70; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle split; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957. First edition. *The book, with some later details added, consists of an abstract from Australian literature: A bibliography to 1938,by E. Morris Miller, here extended to 1950. This copy inscribed by the author to his wife, on upper free endpaper.

Melbourne: N, 1956. Considered in its relation to Australian Literature. Pp. 16(last blank); printed stiff paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, the bottom fore-corners slightly creased, wrappers lightly browned; bottom fore-corner of most leaves faintly creased; [the author], Melbourne, 1956. Bulldozer Booklets No. 2. *Published in response to criticisms of Macartney's revised and extended edition of Morris Miller's bibliography of Australian Literature.

Melbourne: The Anvil Press, 1944. Pp. 12; bound by the author in qr. cream buckram, foxed and soiled, grey papered boards, lightly soiled, edges a trifle worn, printed paper title label (featuring a linocut by the author, slightly soiled, edges chipped) on upper board; a little faint soiling and foxing; The Anvil Press, Melbourne, 1944. First edition. This item not listed by Farmer. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne horologist Joseph Lowy) on the upper free endpaper.

Melbourne: Bulldozer Booklets, 1958. , and Prefatory Indications for A New Rhyming Dictionary. Pp. [iv]+[16]; printed grey paper wrappers, slightly soiled; Bulldozer Booklets No. 4, Melbourne, 1958. *Inscribed by author 'to Cherie' [his wife] on preliminary blank.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. Pp. [vi]+194(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, corners worn; edges of leaves a trifle marked; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1967. First edition. *Autobiography of the Australian poet and critic.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1957. Pp. [x]+126(last blank); dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed; text block faintly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957. First edition.

Melbourne: N, 1956. Considered in its relation to Australian Literature. Pp. 16(last blank); printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly browned; [the author], Melbourne, 1956. Bulldozer Booklets No. 2. *Inscribed by the author To Cherie [his wife] on blank preliminary leaf.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; narrow med. 4to; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in white, grey papered boards, the upper board decorated in blind; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, backstrip slightly browned; title page faintly soiled; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990. First edition. *Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. Edited by John Canning. Introduced by Lord Home of the Hirsel. Pp. viii+248 (last blank), 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers; tall cr. 4to; cream boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, back panel faintly marked; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1988. First edition thus. *A single volume abridged and illustrated edition of Macaulay's famous work.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. With illustrations by the Author. Pp. [x]+204, frontispiece with tissue guard, plus title page vignette and numerous text illustrations (all but one tinted, several full page); brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, black & white, slightly flecked, with a couple of small surface grazes to boards, the edges and spine extremities lightly rubbed; hinges starting at a couple of points, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1904. First edition. *American cartoonist and illustrator Charles Raymond Macauley (1871-1934) received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1930.

London: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. [vi]+458; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; HarperCollins, London, 2005. First edition. *Scottish author's first novel, signed (or initialled) by him on the title page. Loosely inserted is the publisher's wrap-around, folded.

London: The Statesman, 1930. Vol. IV, No. 25, June 1930. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. Pp. [viii]+[427]-514; patterned paper wrappers, faintly soiled and browned, edges a trifle rubbed, short closed tear to fore-edge centre of upper wrapper; text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing; The Statesman, London, 1930. *Contributors include Osbert Sitwell (Alive - Alive Oh!), John Hayward (A Reader's Bibliography: Life and Letters After the Restoration) and G. M. Young (Word from Gabriel Harvey).

London: N, 1929. Vol. 3., No. 17. October 1929. Pp. [vi]+398; patterned paper wrappers, edges slightly rubbed and browned, the backstrip a trifle chipped at extremities; text block faintly browned, a few corners lightly creased, edges of leaves slightly foxed; The Statesman, London, 1929. *Contributors include Cyril Connolly (England Not My England) and Lord David Cecil (The Autobiography of an Evangelical).

London: The Statesman, 1932. Vol. VIII, No. 44, March 1932. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. First quarterly issue. Pp. [iv]+124, one text illustration; patterned paper wrappers, a trifle soiled and worn, with tiny chip at foot of backstrip; text block faintly browned, a few corners lightly creased, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional slight soiling; The Statesman, London, 1932. *Includes 'a new poem' (Mediterranean in January) by D. H. Lawrence, and contributions by Stella Benson, E. V. Lucas, William Plomer, a.o..

London: N, 1929. Vol. 3., No. 16. September 1929. Pp. [ii]+[243]-324; patterned paper wrappers, slightly soiled, the backstrip lightly creased and a trifle chipped at extremities; text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing;The Statesman, London, 1929. *Contributors include Virginia Woolf (Dr. Burney's Evening Party), and F. L. Lucas.