Search Results: Authors starting with M from Uncharted Books

Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Cock to spine, and some sticker and tape residue to endpapers. This is a stated first edition of MacLean's thriller about car-racing spies. Sort of a 1970s Fast and the Furious. A neat one.

New York: Confidential, Inc, 1953. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. Tight and clean. This is an early issue of the "Uncensored and Off the Record" celebrity gossip magazine Confidential, which ran from 1952-1978. Founded by Robert Harrison, Confidential was considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism.

Command Magazine, 1998. Paperback. Very good. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage magazine about military history.

New York: Metro Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Large 4to. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a stated first edition collection of movie parody cartoons throughout the history of MAD Magazine.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. 8vo. Maroon cloth. Dust jacket. Damp stain on bottom edge at left bottom edge of front cover and left bottom edge of rear cover. Both of these spots have bled through the jacket, leaving a pink-colored stain. 1/2" closed tear at top left of front jacket cover and two 1/8" closed tears at bottom front jacket edge. Cock to spine. This is a stated first edition collecting two volumes of Mailer's nonfiction pieces.

New York: Rinehart, 1948. Cloth. Very good/poor. 8vo. Black cloth. 721 pp. Only rear cover of jacket and flap remains, laid in. Some scuffing to board edges, particularly spine header. This is an early printing of Mailer's classic novel.

New York: Dial, 1965. First Edition, 3rd printing. Cloth. Very good/good. 8vo. Navy cloth. Dust jacket. 270 pp. Wear to jacket edges. Strip of spine torn away, about 1/4" from footer. A very good copy. This is a stated first edition, 3rd printing of Mailer's serialized novel.

New York: Atheneum, 1983. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage copy of Mandelstam's poetry in translation.

New York: Signet, 1952. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage paperback mystery book. Signet 947.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1958. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. 1/8" chip at header of jacket spine, and a bit of sunning to jacket spine. This is an uncommon first edition memoir about German novelist Mann.

London: New English Library, 1962. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback of Mann's classic book.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Chip at head of jacket spine and at header of front jacket flap. This is a stated first edition novel of Africa.

Very good. This is a lot of four Parisian souvenirs which belonged to (and bear the authentic bookplate of) influential American landscape designer Warren H. Manning (1860-1938). Mr. Manning is best remembered as the pioneering voice behind the "wild garden" movement, which emphasized cultivating pre-existing plants and natural landscaping, rather than the formal, symmetrical gardens of imported plants which were popular at the time. In addition to the many parks he designed in his lifetime, Mr. Manning's contributions ranged from founding the American Civic Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects to spearheading national conservation efforts which eventually led to the American National and State Forest and Park systems. We are presenting four souvenirs from an 1899 visit to Paris - 3 small illustrated books of architecture and a set of 19 photographic cards. The 3 books bear Mr. Manning's bookplate, and the cards each have handwritten notes in French on the backs identifying… Read More

Devil's Due Entertainment, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Full color. This is an indie horror comic signed by Manning and Damoose, with an additional sketch by Damoose.

New York: Ballantine, 1975. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

Houghton Mifflin, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/good. Minor tears on dust jacket, and price is stricken out. This is a stated first printing of Mano's first book. Included with this sale is a found article ripped from the fall 1970 issue of Columbia College Today called "From Kerouac to Koch," which profiles several prominent literary alumni including an in-depth piece on Mano. A forgotten treasure from a great literary voice of the 1960s and 70s.

Poggibonsi, Italy: La Magione Dei Templari Edizioni, 1990. Paperback. Very good. In Italian. Flexible, textured wraps. Many illustrations and maps throughout. 254 pp. Minor shelf wear. A few pages dog-eared. Tight and clean. This is an uncommon conspiracy book about the Knights Templar and theories of sacred geometry.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Cloth. Illustrations throughout. Fine condition. This is an uncommon collection of interviews with 20th century children's book illustrators. Includes interviews with Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Molly Bang, Nicola Bayley, Gavin Bishop, Quentin Blake, Anthony Browne, Ashely Bryan, John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury, Carole Byard, Babette Cole, Peter Collington, Roy Gerrard, M.B. Goffstein, Diane Goode, Shirley Hughes, Pat Hutchins, Ann Jonas, Errol Lloyd, Deborah Niland, Graham Oakley, Jan Ormerod, Ken Robbins, Tony Ross, Amy Schwartz, Posy Simmonds, Peter Sis, Ralph Steadman, Ed Young, and Paul Zelinsky.

Boston: Beacon, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Very good book in fair jacket. Jacket has multiple chips to edges and sunning to spine. This is a first edition of the first book by influential rock journalist Marcus.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's cloth with pastedown on spine. Frontispiece plus 7 full-page illustrations plus folding map. 199 pp. Jacket is taped to boards. Ex-library with sticker on jacket spine and cover, stamp on top and bottom block edges, card pocket inside front cover, and bookplate on front free endpaper. Jacket has a 1" chip at top of front cover and some scuffs and small chips around edges. Book is excellent, and folding map is in perfect condition. This is a scarce first edition of historian Grant's publications of the journals of Capt. Marcy, detailing his explorations in Oklahoma and New Mexico in the mid 19th century. An uncommon edition with a very attractive folding map.