Search Results: Authors starting with M from Books of the World

New York: Walker & Company, November 2006. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 356 pages. Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Within minutes, the Mont Blanc, ablaze, grounded against the city's docks. The explosion that followed would devastate the city and shock the world. Set against the background of World War I, Curse of the Narrows is the first major account of the world's largest pre-atomic explosion and the remarkable relief effort that followed.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Junior Class of Coe College, 1930. Hardcover. Leatherette over boards. Exquisitely decorated endpapers. Fair condition. Front hinge cracked. Covers slightly warped. Corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Original owner's name inked to half-title page, otherwise contents appear unmarked. Not from a library. 320 pages.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, October 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good- jacket. First Edition. Black paper over boards with bright gilt titles to spine. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound, tail bumped. Jacket clipped with chipping and several one inch closed tears, mostly along hinges, spine faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark.
This is an expedition book. Mount Roraima, at the border of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil, is a tepui--a table-top mountain. One of the oldest geologic formations on Earth it is Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World". Roraima's 25-square-mile summit rises abruptly from the surrounding jungles 5000 feet below and is bounded on all sides by sheer towering cliffs. Sir Walter Raleigh described Roraima during his 1595 expedition, but it took nearly three centuries before the first European found a path to Roraima's summit. Nine decades after that, in 1973, another team of Europeans conquered Roraima's Grand Prow, a sheer overhanging sandstone wall on the Guyana side… Read More

New York & London: W. W. Norton, May 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Dust stains to top edge and light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 415 pages. To the dismay of many in the West, the first Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control. This prescient title considered what the future of Iraq would be without Saddam Hussein: even more unstable and more problematic to the secrurity of the United States.

New York: Macmillan. Hardcover. September 1935. First Edition / no additional printings listed. Green cloth over boards with black lettering and lamp decoration to front cover. Yellow endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. Very Good book / no dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Text block unmarked. Binding tight. Fading to spine and both covers, but black lettering is still dark. Not from a library. See photos. 16 pages. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Here is the Famous Old Tale of that Strange & Wonderful Lamp which brought the Boy Aladdin great Riches, a marvelous Palace built all in one night and a beautiful Princess for a Wife. By rubbing this Magical lamp, from a poor lad in Rags he became the rich merchant Aladdin. Elizabeth Mackinstry adds new luster to this oldest of fairy tales with her pictures in gorgeous colors and carefully patterned black-and-white. The jewels in the secret cave glow with Oriental richness; jovial genii, grinning broadly, build Aladdin's palace in a sapphire night, while the… Read More

Oxford: Sebastian Kelly, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated.
A fully comprehensive guide to all the familiar and lesser-known spices and traditional spice blends, complete with information on preparation and cooking. Includes over 100 classic and contemporary recipes from around the world, each with easy-to-follow instructions and a glorious picture of the finished dish.

New York: Remick Music Corp., 1953. Staple-bound pamphlet. Very Good. "20-40 Club" inked to front cover, otherwise appears unmarked. Securely-bound with three staples. Not from a library. 128 pages. Includes 148 songs in the following categories: Patriotic, Popular Standards, Negro Spirituals, Sacred, Crinoline Days, The Gaslight Era, Imperishable Favorites, Just for Fun, College.

Madrid: State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad, 2005. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 275 pages. 9.5 x 11.5 x 0.8 inches. The catalog of an exhibition in the Toledo Museum that brought together twenty tapestries and other items from around Europe related to the iconography of Don Quixote. Heavy book: Extra charges for expedited shipping.

New York: Bantam, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages. Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there-from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for principle and steals her brother's wife, to Fannie Jump Creighton, who runs a speakeasy right in her own home when hard times come knocking. Then of course, there're Louise and Julia, the boldly eccentric Hunsenmeir sisters. Wheezie and Juts spend their whole lives in Runnymede, cheerfully quibbling about everything from men to child-rearing to how to drive a car. But they never let small-town life keep them from chasing their biggest dreams-or from being true to who they really are. Sparkling with a perfect combination of sisterhood and sass, Six of One is a richly textured Southern canvas.

New York: Time, November 2001. Paperback. Fine. Light corner wear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 128 pages. Contents: Introduction by Rudolph W. Giuliani; Towering Symbols; An Act of War; Bottomless Tuesday by Gordon Parks; A Blow to America's Heart; In the Land of the Free; Heroism Large and Small; Extravagant Spirits by Maya Angelou; Faces of Ground Zero; Back to Life; In Memoriam; Over There.

London: Evans Brothers, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Corners sharp. Dust stains to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. iv + 60 pages. illus., maps, index.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: SLADEA, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Tanned. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean, but rubbed. Not from a library. 256 pages.

New York: American Tract Society. 1855. Hardcover. Poor / Reading copy. Brown cloth. 348 pages, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. 4 x 6 x 1 inches. Front cover, front free endpaper, and title-page detached but present; spine missing. Tanned and foxed. Text is completely intact and unmarked. Corners bumped, rubbed along edges. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Written by a former director of the American Tract Society and Princeton Theological Seminary, this book offers advice for young men in pursuit of biblical manliness. Subjects discussed include the power of habit, the influence of friendship, the value of good principles, courtesy, self-control, and much more.

New York: Vintage, January 1974. Paperback. Near Fine. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and very tight. Slight rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 318 + xxvi pages. This classic account of the American revolution traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British.

New York: Vintage, March 1982. Trade Paperback. First Vintage Books Edition. Tanned with dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxii+309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.

Uniondale, New York: Global Communications Publishing, October 2005. Trade Paperback. First Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. xix + 143 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, March 1974. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright, but clipped and chipped at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxii + 704 pages. Covering the climax of Jefferson's forty-year career, this fifth and penultimate volume follows Jefferson through his demanding second term as president, when he famously sponsors the Lewis and Clark expedition, confronts the trial of Aaron Burr, and concludes the naval "war" with the Barbary pirates.

Chicago: Adams Press, 1999. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 108 pages.

Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, July 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.

Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, January 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.