Search Results: Authors starting with M from Brief Street Books

A snapshot of the Climate of Britain by Gordon Manley from 1952, in a reprint from 1972. So interesting to compare to now! Paperback is clean and fully intact, just a bit worn around the edges of cover, spine shows reading use and pages are age toned. No markings to text. Many charts, black and white photos.

Translated into English from the original by C. E. Ellis. Hardcover green cloth over board book in cloth over board box with photographic illustrations. Book is in very good condition, box has slight bump to back bottom corner. 255 pages, with owner inscription "for John Easter 1971" on half title, no other markings. Many tipped in photographic colour illustrations along with black and white drawings in text. Heavy but not unwieldy, very attractive.

1971 reprinting of the 1963 edition. 343 pages including index. In very good condition with a modern, almost pop, cover! No markings at all.

Surgeon Max Randall book proposing that prohibition of drugs has failed and legalisation is the preferred option to narco-terrorism. 176 pages. Inscribed "For Goody and John, Max". In near fine condition.

First thus by Penguin, 1962, price 3/6. No markings inside, in very good condition as seen in photos, light crease to cover. Cover design by R. A. Glendening, blurb to back by Edith Sitwell (!). A classic.

Hardcover book, as issued. Slight bump to top and bottom of tactile front cover as seen in photo. Gorgeous coloured near future fable/story suitable for adults teens and older children about being different and being useful. Unusual colour palette and psychedelic art. Unique. First edition and first printing.

A gift for the amateur artist, art teacher or 60's vintage fan - loads of colour illustrations and clearly set out project ideas from drawing to sculpture and toy-making. Second printing of first English edition. Very good book in good dust jacket- jacket shows wear at edges, a few intact tears and a bit of paint to front :-) 93 pages.

Very good softcover. A guide to the 84 Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Guildhall Museum and Art Gallery, City of London. Lovely small book, 200 pages, gatefold cover.

This graphic novel Omnibus paperback includes Vol 1 1-6 and Vol 2 1-6. Has been read, no markings, in very good condition. Lots to read with a game, bonus stories and more at the end. A crooked adventurous take on Victorian novel - Alan Moore at his most Moore-ish.

Near fine softcover. Published for exhibition at the Fry Art Gallery and Pallant House Gallery 2015.

First edition in translation. In very good condition, no markings etc, some sunning to cover. Translator J. C. Whitehouse. "This 1985 book is at one level an historical account of the development of mass psychology, and at another an analysis of its implications for prevalent political and social life. Serge Moscovici's acute analyses of mass phenomena raise fundamental questions concerning the foundations of democracy."

Published to accompany 2005 exhibition, laid in review article from the RA magazine Autumn 2005. gorgeous full colour reproductions. Very good book in very good jacket. Unusual square format, oversize.

First edition, August 1951. 50 metalwork items from the V&A collection described, with over 50 black and white photographic plates. Small black pencil mark to back cover, in very good condition. 15 x 15cm.