Search Results: Titles starting with M from Monkey House Books

American Historical Publications, Inc., 1995. Softcover, magazine binding. Fine. Articles by James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Noah Andre Trudeau, and others.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990. Large format softcover. Good. Textbook. Extensive revision of the previous edition. Cover wear, underlining. 395 pages, index.

Dublin: New Island, Open Door Series, 2006. Softcover. Fine. Bright and tight. 1 black slash. 104 pages. Novella.

G. Schirmer, Inc., 1963. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. G. Schirmer Opera Score Editions. Opera in Three Acts set in Nagasaki. Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacusa, based on the book by John L. Long and the drama by David Belasco, English version by John Gutman, vocal score revised by Victor Trucco, introduction by Robert Lawrence. Ed. 2428. Previous owner's red pencil notes, paper clip rust residue & indentation. 324 pages.

Roma: BMG Ricordi, 1988. Small softcover. Good/No Jacket. Text in Italian/Italiano. Tragedia giapponese in tre atti. 107 pages. Nuova collana a cura di Eduardo Rescigno. Some pencil underlining and notes.

New York: The Modern Library, Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1920. Hardcover, brown limp leather. Fair/No Jacket. Early Modern Library edition, Toledano spine #2. 232 pages, publication list at back. Translated by Laura Ensor. Complete but moderate to major condition issues, including loss to front free endpaper, covers & endpapers curled and crinkled. Loti was the pen name of Louis Marie Julien Viaud, 1850-1923. He was a French novelist and naval officer, whose tales are often set in exotic locales. Chrysantheme is set in Japan and was originally published in 1888.

Greenvale: C. W. Post Center of Long Island University, 1981. Softcover booklet. Fine. Exhibition catalog, C. W. Post Gallery, October 4-November 20, 1981. Collection of paintings and decorative arts depicting women resting, dressing, bathing, etc. Works by Bonnard, Cassatt, Chase, Degas, Hassam, Klimt, Matisse, Renoir, Rodin, Sargent, John Sloan, Vuillard, and more. Introduction by Joseph J. Yorizzo, Director. Women in Art by Shari Friedman. Light edgewear.

New York: The Modern Library Publishers, [no date, 1930]. Hardcover, red cloth. Good/Dust Jacket condition fair. Complete and unabridged in one volume. Bound by H. Wolff for The Modern Library, 294 pages, #53. Although undated, it has binding #5, red balloon cloth, and a jacket listing 169 books, which place this printing in 1930. Endpapers are soiled/discolored, but the binding is strong and the interior unmarked. 2-tone green typographical dust jacket is stained and spotted with a darkened spine and a loss at the spine top. Unusual early printing, although rather worse for wear. Gautier, 1811-1872, was a French writer who espoused the doctrine of 'art for art's sake.' The novel Mlle. de Maupin was originally published in 1835. Though not indicated, this copy is from the library of T. R. Smith, who was chief editor at Boni & Liveright during the 1920s. More of Smith's Modern Library collection is available.

150 Nassau Street, New York: American Tract Society, 1881. Red cloth boards, black and gilt decorated cover and spine. Fair-Good/No Dust Jacket. Young adult/juvenile fiction. Botanical/floral endpapers. Frontispiece by E. Whitney. 320 pages. Rare, hard-to-find. An 1881 Literary News notice described it as an example of a useful life, with lessons for young people on duty and character. Corners bumped, wear to bottom of backstrip. Front hinge cracked, webbing fragile. Pages tanned, first leaf missing, some other leaves loosening, but text whole and complete.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, 2001. First Edition. Large format hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition fine. Signed and inscribed by the author on verso of ffep. Coffee table book, very light edgewear. 144 pages, index, illustrated throughout. History of the triangular park at 5th Avenue & Broadway, its restoration & revitalization by a local historian and graphic designer.

Mercury Press Inc., 1978. Softcover. Good. Special All Star issue, volume 54, number 3, 159 pages. Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Collection of short works by John Varley, R. Bretnor, Ted Thomas, Isaac Asimov, and more. Worn but solid.

A Dell Contemporary Classic, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970. Softcover, mass market paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 13 short stories of the New York slums and immigrant neighborhoods. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. 188 pages, vintage paperback, clean and tight. October printing. Malamud was born in Brooklyn in 1914 and is best known as the author of The Natural.

Boston & London: Shambhala, 1991. First Edition. Large format softcover. Very Good. Legendary exploits of Tibetan Buddhism's most renowned saint, Mil-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123. Graphic novel, comic format. 78 pages, bottom corners bumped.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1973. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Dorothy Grider. Start-Right Elf Book. Counting & rhyming book for young children. Mac the Magician does assorted tricks, each one using one more item than the last. Educationally sound, counting 1 to 10. General wear, old price sticker on cover, gift inscription on fep.

London, Melbourne, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. Hardcover.. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. . Priestley ""mocking but wise, at his best."" A sharply satirical fable of contemporary life. 256 pages. Published in Great Britain. Some wear & tear to jacket. Blue boards, dust jacket.

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Softcover. Very Good. A reimagining of the Robin Hood legend with Maid Marian as a brave & feisty heroine. 314 pages, includes reader's guide questions. Very light wear.

Harvest Books, 1954 [1927]. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. Volumes 1 and 2, The Colonial Mind 1620-1800 and The Romantic Revolution in American 1800-1860. Examines the role of European intellectual traditions, new political philosophies, and theology in shaping the American mind. Explores such issues as slavery, the Western frontier, romanticism and transcendentalism, and the beginnings of liberalism. Previous owner's stamp, spine faded.

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. Softcover, mass market paperback. Fine. Introduction and Notes by Brooke Allen. Lewis' satiric portrait of the smugness and provincialism of suburban American life was first published in 1920. 526 pages.

New York: Three Rooms Press, 2020. Softcover. Fine. Cover art by Walter Robinson. Introduction dated May 2020. The journal was published during the early months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. 260 pages, color reproductions of dadaist artworks, poetry, other literary contributions. Dadaism is a literary and artistic movement that was founded in Zurich in 1916, in part as a protest and reaction to the destruction of civilized life and thought during World War I. Dadaist works sought to negate traditional values in philosophy and the arts and substituted deliberate madness and chaos for conventional notions of beauty and harmony. Similar later movements include absurdism and surrealism.

New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908. Gray cloth, white/black/orange decorative cover shows woman with dog in doorway.. Good/No Dust Jacket. More Stories of the Actor's Boarding House. October 1908 printing. Binding tight, pages good. 298 pages plus advertisements. Dampstaining in gutter. Spine titling faded. Top corner worn away front and back.