Search Results: Authors starting with M from Pages Past Books

Good+ condition Thomas Mitchell Peirce illus Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis (1903) early printing hardcover 8vo, 463 pages + catalog, color frontis and b+w plates by Peirce, decorated binding. One interior plate with closed tear mid bottom. Owner's name stamped inside front cover. Light extremity wear and rubbing. Front endpaper with Christmas 1903 date, newspaper photo of author, and Dennison's Christmas tag attached. Overall a solid respectable copy with gilt titling and silver, gilt, black and salmon decoration on front cover.

VG condition University Society NY 1935 reprint hardcover 8vo, 157 pages, index, b+w photos and illustrations, pronunciation key, glossary, reading list. Name inked in small letters upper left inside front cover. Solid clean copy.

VG/G Guy Rutter illus SJ Reginald Saunders Toronto 1935 4th ptg hardcover 8vo, 48 pages, b+w illustrations. Book of satirical poetry featuring crows on subjects including politics, golf, art etc. Dustjacket rubbed with 3 1/2" closed tear at bottom right front and shallow chip at spine head. Solid with dj in protective cover.

Near Fine/Near Fine, NF maps, diagrams by M Haine Two Continents NY (1974) 1st American hardcover 8vo, 248pp, 150+ monochrome photographs and prints, 16 full-color plates and series of specially commissioned maps explaining th Maneuvres of many major battles. Includes bibliography, index, and appendices. Spans primitive man to the present.

VG/no dustjacket Copping illustrations Copp Clark Company Toronto 1901 1st Canadian hardcover 8vo, 318 pp, 16 b&w plates by Copping. Story of boys at Muirtown Seminary in Scotland. Red cloth binding with green and white titling and leaf design on cover and spine. Slight rubbing and fading to spine; binding lightly cocked; otherwise clean, solid copy. Christmas Birthday gift inscription from 1901 on front endpaper.

VG/VG-condition Viking NY 1970 1st US hardcover 8vo, 239 pages, 231 illustrations and 2 maps, index, Light foxing inside covers. Light dj extremity wear. Protected in Brodart.

VG/G- Knight Publ NY 1937 4th ptg hardcover 8vo, 300 pages, frontis photo. Translated by Wallace Brockway. Autobiography of Italy's renowned surgeon. Shallow chip at dustjacket spine head. Light rubbingat extremities. Solid clean copy with dj in protective cover.

Good+ Simon & Schuster NY (1967) 18th pbk ptg softcover 4to, 128 pages, b+w photos and diagrams. Light soiling to white of covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy.

Good+ Shut-In Society NY August 1929 softcover 8vo, 22 pp. Intended to give "cheer and comfort to chronic invalids..." Includes list of officers, notices, letters, birthdays, poem, ads etc. Light agewear, vertical cover crease; otherwise solid and clean.

Good+ S French NY 1855 1st hardcover 8vo, 346 pages + ads. Ads at rear include a chapter from The Watchman. Light soiling inside covers. Light cover rubbing. Solid and clean with embossed cloth and gilt spine titling and decoration.

Fine/Fine Simon & Schuster NY 1989 1st hardcover 8vo, 242 pages, b+w photos, index, appendix, signed. Author was chairman and chief auctioneer at Sotheby's Auction House. Signed by author on front endpaper.

Near Fine/VG+ Brompton Greenwich 1990 reprint hardcover 4to, 192 pages, color and b+w photos. 200+ biographies of major country music figures. Light dustjacket edgewear.

Good JA&HC Anderson photos Doubleday Page Garden City 1920 reprint hardcover Large 8vo, 170 pages, color and b+w plates, index, glossary, notes, authorities. Back cover spotted. Some soiling and foxing. One red pencil notation; some pencilled notations in index. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Binding extremities worn with fraying at corners. Solid.

G+/G+ Audrey Rands illus Falmouth Publishing House Portland 1947 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 351 pages, map endpapers, b+w illustrations. Novel of a girl of the Karen people of Burma based on the author's experiences as a Baptist missionary for 40 years. Pages 257 to the book's end have a narrow stain at the outer edge and the dustjacket has light edgewear and rubbing. Otherwise solid and clean copy of a scarce title with dj bright in protective cover.

VG/VG-condition Farrar Straus NY (1949) early reprint hardcover 8vo, 371 pages, map endpapers. Novel suggested by the exploits of Sir Richard Burton. Light dustjacket extremity wear. Bright in Brodart protective cover.

VG/G Clarkson N Potter NY 1962 1st hardcover 4to, 294+ pages, many color and b+w illustrations, index, bibliography. A living history of the great epochs and men of medicine, unfolded against the tapestry of civilization and the progress of the arts and sciences. Binding sunned at head and foot. Dustjacket with 3/4" chip at spinehead extending to upper rear 2 1/2" x 1". Long closed tear top rear of dustjacket. Rubbed. Bright in protective cover.

Fine/Fine Reader's Digest Assoc. Pleasantville 1994 4th printing hardcover Large 8vo, 176 pp, many color and b&w illustrations, index. Comprehensive learn as you go guide with demonstrations by leading artists.Clean, solid and bright with just the faintest rubbing to dustjacket.

VG+/VG condition Kazue Mizumura illus Rand McNally Chicago 1964 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 64 pages, color illustrations by Mizumura. Picture of Japanese family and community life in a story about a boy and a festival. Light dustjacket edgewear. DJ price clipped. Nice and bright in Brodart protective cover.

VG/no dustjacket Little, Brown and Company Boston 1967 1st hardcover 8vo, 402pp, b&w photos, map endpapers. Focuses on the American enlisted man in WW II. A little fading to cloth at binding edges; solid nd clean copy.

VG+/VG Syracuse University Press Syracuse 1960 1st hardcover 8vo, 390 pages, index. Using the Delaware River Basin as a cast study, examines the concept of government administration of river basins...Dustjacket price clipped with light rubbing. Clean and solid.