Search Results: Authors starting with M from Crooked House Books & Paper

Comico the Comic Company, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 10x8x0. Vokes, Neil; Steacy, Ken. First printing stated. Two soil marks to rear cover, generally very clean and solid copy, colors within look great.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. 216 pages, 8 pages of black and white photographs; black cloth boards with gilt titling, a fine copy, tight and square, dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve.

Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, red & blue dust jacket with white lettering, 8" tall, 214 pp. Faint toning to edges of boards, light wear to edges of jacket, a very presentable copy. Includes "The Mask of the Bear" by Margaret Laurence (she had published "Stone Angel" the previous year); and "Quest for Lavishes Ghast" by Muriel Spark.

Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Miniature hardcover; one of 1250 copies; 3 x 2 inches; 63, [1] pages; photographic portrait of the author tipped in at frontis. Bound in bound in blue leather with gilt titles, all edges gilt, faint scuffing to boards and light wear at extremities, beginning to wear through at spine ends, internally clean, bright and sound.

New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Black and white photographs. Light bumps at extremities, mild shelf wear.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Army green buckram with gilt titles, 12mo, 751 pages; a well kept copy, clean text, solid binding; price clipped dust jacket is now protected in mylar cover. "A book that will appeal to any man in uniform is George Macy's big 400,000-word Manthology. It contains 9 novelettes and full-lenth books, 27 short stories and essays, and over 250 poems...The editor's selections are fresh and various; his introductions friendly; his whole book an expert assemblage of discriminating and diverting entertainment."- Charles Lee in The Philadelphia Record

Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hill, Jeff. Paper covered boards in matching dust jacket, 12mo, 61 pages, two color illustrations throughout; mild edge wear, previous owner's name and date inked in front endpaper, price clipped dust jacket is rubbed and edge worn with a tiny spot of soiling at bottom front edge and short tear at bottom rear edge, now in protective mylar cover.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Modern Library, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Modern Library Giant 84. Gray cloth boards are clean and square. Spine ends bumped. Internally clean and bright. Binding sound. Dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with tiny closed tears and chipping at extremities. Small chip on front panel. Now in protective mylar cover. 567 numbered pages plus an author bibliography and publisher's title list in rear. First Modern Library printing stated. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter.

London: The Piazza Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes, full brown cloth binding with gilt lettering & box to spine, page edges untrimmed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. #43 of 520 copies. The limited edition (trade edition published as Her Privates We), a novel of WWI which Ernest Hemingway claimed to read annually, so that he wouldn't forget "how things really were.

Production Surveys, 1954. Soft cover. Very Good. October 1954 printing. Trade paperback, 11-1/2" x 17-3/4", 172 pp. Crease and sticker pull to top corner of front cover, vertical crease to center of front cover, moderate wear & soiling, but no fatal flaws. A classic pictorial overview of the industrial & commercial sides of the PNW in the post-war boom era.

London: Constable & Co, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, grey cloth boards with purple rules & lettering, edges untrimmed, 7-1/2" x 5", 144 pp. Minor toning to spine panel, very light wear to spine ends & tips, ownership inscription dated 1927. Katherine Mansfield was a prominent modernist writer from New Zealand who lived from 1888 to 1923. She is known for her innovative, highly experimental short stories that explored complex psychological and emotional states. Her work had a profound impact on the development of the modern short story, and her influence can be seen in the work of other modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Mansfield's writing often dealt with themes of alienation, loneliness, and the complexity of human relationships. Her work was characterized by a keen attention to detail and an acute psychological insight, which allowed her to explore the inner lives of her characters with great depth and sensitivity

Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Full green cloth under blue dust jacket, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", 313 pp. Sliver of toning to bottom of spine, dust jacket has minor toning to spine, discoloration and vertical crease to front flap. A lovely copy of this book of short stories. March was critically acclaimed, but only achieved real commercial success with his book "The Bad Seed," published in the year of his death.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x9x0. Full number line starting with 1; large 4to, 74 pages, profusely illustrated in color.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing; embossed blue cloth decorated in cherry motif, 7-3/4", 370 pages, 6 illustrated plates, occasional small in-text illustrations. Boards show a bit of wear at extremities, gilt remains bright, internally clean and sound. One of the many striking bindings designed by Margaret Armstrong, and bearing her mono-gram, for the books of Henry Van Dyke.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; embossed lavender cloth decorated in lily motif, 8-1/8" tall, 343 pages, frontispiece illustration in color plus 4 black and white illus-trated plates by Dalton Stevens; just starting to wear through at bottom extremities, gilt on spine a little dulled, internally clean and sound. Lovely example of the books of Myrtle Reed with a floral binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, and bearing her monogram.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unsigned binding design by Margaret Armstrong. Hardcover, full red cloth binding with cover decoration in gilt, blue and black; gilt lettering, 7-5/8" tall, 396 pages + publisher's ads, color frontispiece and six black & white plates. Very minor toning to spine and edge of front board. Armstrong has cleverly embedded cannonballs and ramrods into her design in such a way that they are not quite recognizable as such at first glance. An historical romance of the Civil War.

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9. Signed by Author(s). First edition stated with full number line; signed by Marin in front free end paper, dated 08 and inscribed "Keep reading." When the kids on the school bus decide to enter the Battle of the Bands, no one is more excited than Cheech. On the big day, they all pile into the bus and get ready to groove! But when they arrive, they find they're the only mariachi band in the whole contest.

Grilled Flowers Press, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Mark Strand on title page, along with "S" of limited edition. Minor wear to spine.

Portland, Oregon: Crooked House Books & Paper, 2022. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. Combination cocktail book, holiday keepsake, and bookseller's catalog of vintage cocktail books. Enjoy!

Crooked House Books & Paper, 2023. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. Our catalog of publishers bindings with over 300 books photographed and described; separate sections on Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Armstrong. The catalog is accompanied by 16 different postcards featuring bindings from the selections. (This price is post-paid; we will not charge postage even if it shows up on your order confirmation.)