Search Results: Authors starting with M from Books Northwest

New York: Farrar, Strous & Giroux, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 350pp, black quarter cloth on blue boards with author initial in black lettering on front, gold gilt lettering on spine. Dj complete and in protective clear cover. Seemingly unread presentation copy of of this classic collection of 25 short stories from an acknowledged master of the form.

324pp, grey boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Many black and white illustrations, 25 color plates on glossy paper. Memoir of the scientist who discovered a new method of geometry called fractals. Dustjacket is unclipped and in protective Brodart cover. Very scarce in this nearly As New condition.

256pp, blue cloth with dark blue stamped lettering on spine, Dj has wear on edge and top and bottom of spine and some light chipping on corners but is completely intact. 24 b&w photos plus 17 in Models-In-Training section. Upper right of blank ffep clipped (1x1 inch) otherwise unmarked and clean. Early and very scarce book on modeling as a career and one of the earliest mention of "super model." (p. 256: "She will be a super-model, but the girl in her will be like the girl in you--quite ordinary, but ambitious and eager for personal development.") Author was connected to Barbizon School of Modeling in New York. Only one other listing of this book has been noted on bookseller sites.

552pp, Blue boards with wheat endpapers. Second printing of Second edition. Conservate rated is due to small light scrape on top right of back cover, otherwise would post as Fine or As New. Unmarked. History of embalming and current (1996) embalming techniques. Textbook for embalming school.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fair. New York: Vanguard Press, 1951. 157pp, black cloth with white lettering on front and spine, numerous b&w illustration of advertisements and other examples, left corner of cover back bumped, v. slight bumping on top front cover, otherwise in fine condition, clean, unmarked.Dj has pieces on back and front top missing and other small tears, in mylar dj. Marshall McLuhans first book. A cornerstone of media theory, McLuhan comments on numerous examples of persuasion in contemporary popular culture. Rare in this condition.

266pp, hardcover w/no dj. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover (see photos), faint traces of erased pencil inscription on ffep. Bookstamp of bookseller Paul Elder & Co. applied on lower left corner of inside back cover. Illustrations: Frontispiece image of Walt Whitman, ten additional images/photographs of buildings and paintings. Printed on thick paper stock. Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, sociologist and literary critic. His sixth book, a beautiful copy of this scarce first edition.