Search Results: Authors starting with M from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First Edition. Bound by Root in full black morocco; boards decorated in gilt; raised bands and gilt-decorated spine; all edges gilt; library bookplate and blind stamps, else fine. Extra-illustrated with 43 plates, mostly portraits of her contemporaries.

London: Remington & Co., 1889. First Edition. Two volumes; publisher’s cloth; spines a little cocked; some hinges weak or cracking; minor foxing; a very good set. In Hubin. The first book issued under this pen name; an earlier novel was published anonymously. The Dutch author wrote in English and was very popular in his day in both Britain and America, but nearly unknown in his own country.

Paris: Henri Jonquieres, 1922. First Edition. Bound in full inlaid morocco by Max Fonseque. Three different colors and gilt lines are used to form the letter "M" on each cover. Minor rubbing; near fine in a matching slipcase.

Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1910. First Edition. Faint erasures; a very good copy. The author was a leader of the Easter Uprising, and was executed shortly thereafter.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Front cover sunned, else very good to fine in dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket; signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Nearly fine in dust jacket.

Santa Barbara: Cordelia Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies in printed wrappers. Both stories were published in Macdonald’s and Millar’s high school literary magazine, The Grumbler, in 1931. Macdonald’s story, “The South Sea Soup Company” is a Holmes parody, featuring Herlock Sholmes. Fine.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946. First Edition of the author’s second book; his first four books appeared under his own name, then as John Ross Macdonald, and, finally, to avoid confusion with John D. MacDonald, as Ross Macdonald. Small ownership signature, else very nearly fine in a dust jacket that has some tiny chips and tears and interior archival mending where old tape has been removed.

New York: Putnam’s, 1893. First Edition; a collected edition of pieces that appeared in Dealings with the Fairies, Works of Fancy and Imagination, and At the back of the North Wind; with a new preface that was the first appearance of his essay on the nature of the fairy tale. Publisher’s brown cloth; a fine copy in the exceptionally rare dust jacket, which has minor soiling and wear and is mostly split along the spine and front panel fold.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1981. First Edition; one of 250 numbered copies signed by both Macdonald and Welty. A fine copy in the publisher’s full leather binding.

London: Blackie & Son, 1891. First Edition. Hinges cracking; very good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. “H” (hurt) stamp on the front free endpaper. Very good to fine in dust jacket.

Garden City: Crime Club, 1930. First American Edition. Cloth spotted; very good in a price clipped dust jacket,

London: Cassell, 1958. First English Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with just very light wear.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946. First Edition of the author’s second book; his first four books appeared under his own name, then as John Ross Macdonald, and, finally, to avoid confusion with John D. MacDonald, as Ross Macdonald. About a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some chips, tears and tape stains where tape has been removed from the inside of the dust jacket.

London: Collins, 1930. First Edition. Front board bottom corner bumped, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with minor wear and tear and chipping across the top of the spine, affecting the title. The jacket may well be a colonial issue, differing from the domestic issue in not having the 7/6 printed at the center of the spine.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition; one of 300 numbered and signed copies. Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with minute wear and tear.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1978. First Edition. Edges spotted, else about a fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.