Search Results: Authors starting with M from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1984. Cloth, 257 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small soil spot/foreedge and superficial dampstain/back board, Age toning. Stated First Abbeville Press Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Foreword; Survey; Historical Painters; Landscape; Marine Painters; Sporting Painters; Animal Painters; Painters Abroad; Early Genre; The Pre-Raphaelites; Fairy Painters; Nudes and Still Life; Neo-Classical Painters, The Effects of Photography; Portraiture; Later Landscape and Genre; Bibliography; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Bramhall House; Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. [nd] Cloth, 212 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. First published, 1957. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tiny stain/Contents page. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible lettering), protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated (especially Victorian architecture) with "more than 100 . . . photographs, 75 drawings and paintings and rare Victorian engravings." CONTENTS: Judgment upon Victorian; A world of styles; American Gothic; Italianate interlude; The Mansardic era; Unexplored territory; The rediscovery.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1972. Cloth, xiv, 235 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tiny stain/pages 4-5 and another on the foreedge. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible lettering) & a creased front flap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated, with several colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1998. xv, 303 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. "The Mirror of the Marvelous has long been considered one of the most significant and original books to have come out of the surrealist movement. Anais Nin suggested it as a source of inspiration, far ahead of its time, for would-be authors seeking to break from the realist literary mold. Mabille cites a far reaching assortment of texts, ranging from the classic to the obscure, from the ancient epic to the modern poem, from the creation myth to more contemporary visions of apocalypse. This work defines the flame of the marvelous by showing its presence in those works where it burns the brightest." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Masson, Andre. 8vo.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. First published, 1971. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. Profusely illustrated with art by Yeats and his circle. With 138 illustrations.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Hanover, NH and New York: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Hudson Hills Press, 2005. Cloth, 282 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., March 29 to May 29, 2005; at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich., June 24 to September 4, 2005; and at the National Academy Museum, New York, October 20 to December 31, 2005. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Dartmouth and American art, by John Wilmerding; American drawings and watercolors at Dartmouth: a history, by Barbara J. MacAdam; Catalogue; A reader's guide to the catalogue; A selection of principal works; Further selected American drawings and watercolors in the collection.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Geneva: Droz, 1977. 385 pages, portrait; 23 cm. Essays in English or French. Histoire des ide es et critique litteraire; no. 164. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Ira Owen Wade: an appreciation; De l'amour ou des amours de Jacques dans 'Jacques le Fataliste', by Jenny H. Batlay et Otis Fellows; Pour un dialogue des critiques, by Yvon Belaval; Sens, contresens et non-sens: l'alle gorie du cha^teau dan 'Jacques le Fataliste', by Jacques Chouillet; The life of a 'poor devil' in the republic of letters, by Robert Darnton; Natural history from Bacon to Diderot: a few guideposts, by Herbert Dieckmann; The writer as performer, by Peter France; The Newtonianism of Dortous de Mairan, by Henry Guerlac; Eighteenth-century critics of Rousseau's Second Discourse, by George R. Havens; En marge d'un article du Pour et contre: Pre vost et l'esclavage colonial, by Leon-Francois Hoffmann; Diderot's Eloge de Richardson: a paradox on… Read More

La Haye; The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Cloth, xiv, 260 pages; 24 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Archives internationales d'histoire des ide es = International archives of the history of ideas. TRES BON ETAT. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket tanned,. Masque et lumieres au XVIIIe: Andre-Francois Deslandes, "citoyen et philosophe," 1689-1757 = Masque and lights in the 18th century: Andre-Francois Deslandes, "citizen and philosopher," 1689-1757.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. 80 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-be-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.". Paperback. Fine. 4to.

London: Methuen, 1986. Cloth, 194 pages; 23 cm. Originally published: 1916. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2012. x, 403 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated. "In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British new money, among them, a duke, an earl, three barons and a knight. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began when the entrenched members of old New York snubbed these 'new money' families after the Civil War, sending them off to England in quest of class and bequeathing to us Anglomania, Preppy, the Jet Set, and even Princess Di. Here is the American Heiress's story. Filled with tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery -- and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching -- To Marry an English Lord is a heavily illustrated and energetically presented popular history. A rich tapestry of essays, sidebars, fact-filled boxes, and lively anecdotesoXcombined with wealth of portraits,… Read More

New York: Viking; Penguin Random House, 2018. xxiii, 728 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Multi-award-winning historian -MacCulloch (Thomas Cranmer: A Life) spent a decade digging through the royal archives to arrive at a refreshed view of Henry VIII's right-hand man, scorned by history and presented more sympathetically in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. MacCulloch's Cromwell is a brilliant administrator and loving father whose carefully crafted decisions changed the course of British politics and religion." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; Journeys. Ruffian; The return of the native; In the Cardinal's service: 1524-1528; Managing failure: 1528-1529; Serving two masters: 1530; New wine. Council and Parliament: 1531; New Year's gifts: 1532; Making a… Read More

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Oxford University Press, 1987. 158 pages, [80] pages of plates, illustrations, map, portraits; 22 cm. With one hundred and twelve photographs by Loke Wan Tho and the author. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: George Braziller, Inc.; Great Ages of World Architecture Ser., 1962. 128 pages, illustrations. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New Orleans, LA: Louisiana State Museum, 1984. 343 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Studies in Louisiana Culture, vol. 3. Exhibition held at the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La., April 29 to November 18, 1984; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1984 to April 7, 1985. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps rubbed, with a small corner crease/back cover. Age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with paintings and decorative arts. Contributions by leading scholars.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New Orleans, LA: Louisiana State Museum, 1984. 343 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Studies in Louisiana Culture, vol. 3. Exhibition held at the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La., April 29 to November 18, 1984; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1984 to April 7, 1985. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly rubbed. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with paintings and decorative arts. Contributions by leading scholars.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1999. xxxiv, 382 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Maps on lining papers. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Carroll & Graf edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "As poignant as Niall Fregusson's The Pity of War, as powerful as John Keegan's The First World War, this is an engrossing eye-witness history of World War I. From the trenches to the battle lines, in bold advances and fighting retreats and courageous stands, this oral chronicle of World War I by award-winning historian Lyn Macdonald brings to life the massive German offensive of Spring 1918 that became the Second Battle of Somme. As moving as it is monumental, the volume recounts the devastating assault in the words of the men who survived it -- from the commanders to the war-weary British Tommies, the eager German foot soldiers, and the as-yet-untested doughboys fresh from the U.S. Unforgettably, To the Last Man puts a… Read More

New Orleans, LA: Louisiana State Museum, 1984. 343 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Studies in Louisiana Culture, vol. 3. Exhibition held at the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La., April 29 to November 18, 1984; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1984 to April 7, 1985. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with paintings and decorative arts. Contributions by leading scholars.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Monterey, CA: Richard MacDonald [nd] 60 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 33 cm. Text in English, French and Chinese. SIGNED by Richard MacDonald and dated 2013. A near-fine copy with light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The California-based sculptor has worked with Cirque du Soleil.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1980. Cloth, 192 pages, [4] leaves of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.