Search Results: Authors starting with M from Certain Books, ABAA

Melbourne Australia Invitation card for this social event, Mr. Peabody & Lady handwritten in; printed in black with gold armorial crest; Captain Kayser is notable as having explored part of Guyana as a young lieutenant in the 1900s; approximately 5 " x 6" size; matted, framed and glazed to about 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"; no date but circa 1929; some edge, tips wear to frame; very good condition; and interesting steamship, Australian ephemeral material.. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1843. Mostly from the author's writings in the Edinburgh Review, much on biography and classic history; MacAulay (1800-1859) British author...one of the most prolific and popular writers... has been convicted of historical inaccuracy, of sacrificing truth for the sake of the epigram, of allowing personal dislike and Whig bias to distort his views..;But as a picturesque narrator he has no rival".(Chambers); 572 pages, indexed; contemporary dark brown polished calf spine and corners, gilt ruled spine, red spine label with gilt titles, marbled paper covered boards; previous owner signature of Epher Whitaker (Southold Long Island, NY minister of the First Church and author) and an additional gift inscription from Whitaker's library at back; text foxed throughout; some edges, tips, spine ends wear and rubbing to boards; very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London, England & Edinburgh: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1901. 276 pages. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800 - 1859) British historian, essayist, and poet. Approx. 7 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; bound in full olive-green morocco leather, toned to brown on the spine, gilt spine titles & date, top edge gilt, turn-ins simply gilt and signed by the binder D.B. Sanford at the front. Light rubbing and wear to the binding; text in very good condition.. Leather. Very Good.

USA: Evolution, 1967. Reprinted from Evolution, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 28, 1967; 8 pages, citations; slight wear to edges, tips of original paper wraps; very good condition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York - London: American Museum of Natural History, 1962. Article in American Museum Novitates Number 2118 December 14, 1962; 7 pages, citations; slight wear to edges, tips of original paper wraps; very good condition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York - London: New York Zoological Society, 1960. Reprinted from Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, Vol. 44, Part 4, December 31, 1960; 10 pages, 7 black and white plates, bibliography, citations; slight wear to edges, tips of original paper wraps; very good condition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1850. 66 pages + 7 pages publishers' announcements at back; Mrs. (Matilda Anne) Henry S. Mackarness (1826-1881) British authoress, here at the peak of her popularity, mostly remembered for her title 'A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam' published the year before. (DNB); title page date of 1850, copyright entered 1849; original publishers decoratively blindstamped dark brown ribbed cloth wraps, gilt cover titles; light wear to binding; volume in very good condition, a nice period survival.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: John Day, 1933. 28 pages; No. 29 of the John Day Pamphlets series; (from the wrapper flap information): "...contains six new poems, and are here published for the first time by special arrangement..."; brown printed paper wrap covers; some edge, tips wear and darkening, splitting to spine of wraps, faint old top margin discoloration; good condition.. Soft Cover. Good.

Amsterdam Holland: Fund for Central and East European Book Projects, 1997. 125 pages; laid-in is a postcard inscribed and signed from the editor, Vera Ebels-Dolonova; preface by Timothy Garton Ash; the 'portraits' include: Jelenkor Kiado- Gabor Csordas - Pecs Hungary by Renee Postma; Zeszyty Lierackie - Barbara Torunczyk - Warsaw Poland by Michel Maas; Savremennik - Vladimir Zarev - Sofia, Bulgaria by Olaf Tempelman; Baltos Lankos - Saulius Zukas -Vilnius, Lithuania by Felix Kaplan; Odjek - Nermina Kurspahic -Sarajevo, Bosnia by Postma; Apostrof - Marta Petreu - Cluj, Romania by Tempelman; Erasmus Guild - Vesna Pusic - Zagreb, Croatia by Postma; Kritica & Kontext - Samuel Abraham - Bratislava, Slovakia by Maas; Mlada Fronta - Vladimir Pistorius - Prague, Czech Republic by Vera Ebels-Dolonova; also with an report on publishing in Central and Eastern Europe 'State of Affairs' by Ebels-Dolonova; also "The Book Continent" Reflections on the Trias Libraria" by Laurens van… Read More

Geneve, Switzerland: Faedo et Magnat, 1865. Two (2) cartes-de-visite; Faedo et Magnat Photographes Plainpalais Geneve studio imprint on the reverse. Approx. 2 1/4" x 4" overall size; some wear and dustiness, soiling; in good condition.. Photography. Good.

Mailing envelope of this fine printing company; approximately 3" x 5 ½" size; vignette in black and white, to right 1/3 of the envelope; C. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. N.Y. imprint below; unused; some soiling and edgewear; very good condition and finely engraved, presumably of Civil War vintage.. Very Good.

Beacon Press 1959 Foreword by Vannevar Bush; 169 pages; chapter topics include: Teaching and Learning; Preliminary Practice; Types of Problems to Use in a Demonstration; Transcript of two actual cases; Other Applications and others; appendix, index; some dustjacket d arkening and edgewear; overall, very good volume in a good+ dustjacket..

Paris and London: Editions Du Belier, 1945. 259 pages; Limited edition No. 457, this example printed sur pur chiffon blanc; with brilliantly colored "au pochoir par nervet" illustrations in a humorous vein, imagery by Henri Monier; French text by Maurice Maindron (1857-1911) French naturalist, writer, collector; original illustrated paper wraps bound in a modern rose & gold fine paper. with dark port color morocco leather spine and corners, with a leather-onlay castle in tan leather & red, with some emphasis lines in blind, on spine, echoing Monier art within; gilt titles, top edge gilt; endpapers to match; some light edge, tips wear to the binding; some offsetting to the plates, colors still very bright; some light foxing-spotting, especially preliminary leaves; still an interesting and handsomely executed binding and most probably unique.. Leather. Very Good. Illus. by Henri Monier.

Newark New Jersey: Rodney Chipp A Stereoview image of the large mill operation along the river in Lewiston, some lumber in the foreground on the close shore; with title within the image; Mr. Chipp has his printed identifiers at the edges of the card; no date but circa 1880s; good, fairly clear & detailed image; old previous owner stamp on back; some edge, tips wear to mount card; good condition and a good Maine, Lewiston photographic view from the 19th century. . Good.

3 color and one black and white cards include: # 9418 Lake Pennesseewasse, Norway, Me. Robbins Bros, German printed, used, postmarked 1905 Norway Me., one cent Franklin stamp; Main Street, Bridgton, Me., G.W. Morris, printed in Germany, used, postmarked 1909 Bridgton, one cent Franklin stamp; # A 2437 Surf Scene near Portland Head Light, Me., Rotograph Co. NY, printed in Germany, used, postmarked 1909 Portland, one cent Franklin stamp and # 2382 Skowhegan, Me. Water Street, Hugh Leighton Col. Portland, printed in Germany, postmarked 1908 Skowhegan, 1 cent Franklin stamp, corner creased, short edgetear; a little darkening to cards, slight edge, tips wear, except for Skowhegan; very good condition.. Very Good.

New York: A.J. Johnson Company, 1894. Single-side printed map; 10 3/4" x 13 1/2" size; drawn and engraved on copper-plate; hand colored; counties, cities, rivers, indicated, more; ample margins for framing; shrink-wrapped to archival foam core for protection and shipping; very good condition; an attractive and decorative map. . Very Good.

No Place Listed: No Photographer Noted, 1890. Two negatives on glass plates; depicts rocky shoreline, sailing vessels close-in to coast, populated small island - perhaps Deer Island area or other resort; approx. 4" x 5"; no photographer or studio noted; not mounted; one plate with a little loss of image in the outer border, chipped emulsion; in good condition, interesting 19th century photographic work from the age of sail. NOTE: Lamp shadow is not in the image plate; our images show these negatives converted to positive via software.. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good.

Isle of Man: Not Published, 1927. Red-on-white printed baggage label; approx. 2 3/8" x 8 7/8" size; back with gummed surface for application; some soiling, closed edge-tear at right margin and part of the corner chipped away at top right edge, no loss to text; in very good condition overall and an interesting ephemeral souvenir of the first iteration of this now-longstanding tradition. . First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good.

London New York Toronto: Abelard-Schuman, 1966. 64 pages; warmly inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper; black and white illustrations by Leo Glueckselig; (From the dustjacket information): "Satiric in flavor and pungent in epigrammatic quality...one sentence fables portray a wide and hilarious variety of characters...."; light wear to dustjacket, some dustiness and rubbing; bottom of inner flap clipped, not price; very good condition.. Signed by Author. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Leo Glueckselig.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. 318 pages; bibliography, index; interesting appendix with "...lists...culled from seventeenth-century documents...", names of Long Island note; black and white illustrations, map endpapers; chapter information on Indians and place names, colonists & customs, Quakers, the American Revolution, whaling, Walt Whitman and other writers, Fire Island, legends, lore, more; "First Edition" stated on copyright page; (from the dustjacket information): "...(Long Island's) geographical nature has determined the outlook of its inhabitants...history, geology, genealogy, science, art, religion, and society..."; some edge, tips wear & chipping to dustjacket; volume in very good condition; a good Long Island history & reference.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.