Search Results: Titles starting with M from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

[Clatskenie, OR: Jno. SM. Spurgeon, Photographer, ca. 1890]. Oblong 12mo. One scalloped stereoview silver gelatin photograph sized 6 x 3 in. mounted on 7 x 3.5 in. gray studio board, pencil manuscript title, and rubber-stamped photographer’s imprint on verso, rounded corners (very minor edgewear, slight rubbing), still a nice strong image. First edition of this exceedingly scarce stereoview photograph taken of Mt. St. Helens at the end of the 19th-Century by Spurgeon (fl. 1885-1900) who distributed his images of Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon.

Mabton, WA: [Mabton Commercial Club, Mabton Bank], Dec. 27, 1907. 4to. 24 pp. With photo illustrations. Printed red softcovers, black lettering & decorative borders front & back cover, ads on back cover, and inner covers (minor spotting, soiling, scuffing), still G copy. First edition of this very rare land promotion issued just two years after the disastrous 1905 fire which destroyed most of downtown Mabton. Founded originally as a depot for the Northern Pacific’s maintenance workers on the eastern edge of the Yakima Indian reservation, Mabton quickly grew after the construction of the Sunnyside Irrigation Canal. The photos within this image show the Westward and Eastward views along B Street, new schools, along with the local drug stores, hotel, jewelry store, homes, and even real estate office. Just four years later, former President Roosevelt in 1911 made a short stop in his tour of the West to speak. Worldcat locates 2 copies (SMU, Yakima Valley Libraries).

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca. 1934]. 8vo. 381, [1] pp. Red cloth, orange lettering (slight bumping to couple corners, minor bumping head of spine), w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of woman in red reminiscent of Skrenda (minor chipping head of spine, couple minor tears, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy. First Grosset Madison Square edition of this French tragedy of a sensuous French woman who descends step by step into vice, crime, and tragedy.

New Orleans, LA: Robert L. Crager & Co., 1948. 8vo. [6], 280 pp. Frontisp., text illustrations. Black cloth, red lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, rubbing, slight toning to endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art of Madame Toussaint, fellow shrimpers and children (minor sunning to spine, shelfwear, dustsoiling, price-clipped), still VG/VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. Freprint edition of Dr. St. Martin’s novel first published in 1936 set against the backdrop of the Cajun shrimp and oyster fishermen in the bayou country of Louisiana.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1954. 8vo. 380 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (couple mnr clsd tears, edgewear, slght sunng to spine), NF/G copy. First edition, stated of the author’s semi-autobiographical work, in which she describes her life from 1937 to 1953 as she renovates a Normandy farmhouse, and eventually has her son, survives World War II, and returns.

San Francisco, CA: Crocker Company, [1939]. Oblong 4to. 12 x 9 in. [16 pp (unpaginated).] With numerous colour photo plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art night scene photos of the Exposition (very slight shelfwear), w/ original printed mailing envelope, added label for Wobbers on cover (minor toning, shelfwear), still F/NF copy. First edition of this beautifully printed photographic excursion through the Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco.

San Francisco, CA: Crocker Company, [1940]. Oblong 4to. 12 x 9 in. [16 pp (unpaginated).] With numerous colour photo plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art night scene photos of the Exposition (minor rubbing, slight creasing at spine, very slight crease at lower right corner), VG copy. First edition of this beautifully printed photographic excursion through the Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. This edition includes images not originally issued in the 1939, because there was a failed attempt to reopen the Fair in 1940, but the efforts was abandoned in December, 1939.

New York & Tokyo: JPT Book Co., [1964]. Folio. xv, [1], [17]-282 pp. Over 200 photos, illusts., maps, diagrams. White & brown cloth, red & white lettrng frnt cvr, w/ d.j. F/F, preserved in slipcase. Second printing of this scarce and desirable work.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [c. 1946]. Lg. 8vo. 242, [2] pp. Frntsp., illust. title, full page & text blk & wht illust. Beige cloth, blk lettrng, colour plate mntd frnt cvr (mnr bumpng, rubbng, cryon drwings on a couple blank leaves at rear), still a G- copy. First edition, early printing, w/ 32 pp. signatures.

Chicago, IL: Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company, 1904. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 6.75 in. 103, [1] pp., printed in sepia, red & black With 100’s of photos, text illustrations, & diagrams. Embossed brown softcovers, raised embossed lettering in blind on front cover, yapp edges (scuffing, edgewear, old tape repairs to spine), still G- copy. First edition of this uncommon catalogue for one of the earliest catalogues issued by the noted Chicago telephone supply company, touting the advantages of operating telephone systems with small localized switchboards. Kellogg’s magneto system encouraged simple construction, were equipped with mechanically self-restoring drops and jacks, and with sensitive ringers. This catalogue even includes a nice series of illustrations on the installation of magneto switchboard systems and telephones for communities and businesses. Kellogg (1849-1909) organized his company in 1897 in order to take advantage of the Alexander Graham Bell patents, while also building on the over… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, [1981]. 8vo. 228 pp. Burgundy boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (1 vry sml clsd tear frnt cvr), NF/VG. First American edition of this anthology of 16 fantasy & science fiction stories.

New York: Designs Publishing Corporation, [1952]. 8vo. 127, [1] pp. Colour-illustrated softcovers, lurid cover art, including illustrated ads on verso of back cover (minor bumping head of spine, light interior toning), still VG copy. First edition, Intimate Novel No. 19, of this noir sleaze pulp featuring assorted neurotics, blackmailers, philanderers both common and perverts, from the series which also produced Marijuana Girl, Swamp Gilr, and Stripper!

New York: Street & Smith, [1911-1912]. Lg. 32mo. 290 pp. Colour illust. softcvrs (minor chppng hd & ft of spine, sml hole in spine, creasng, edgewear, interior toned as usual) G-. Early Street & Smith edition of No. 145 in the Alger series.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1943. 8vo. xxi, [1], 315, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., plates, text illusts., diagrams. Brown boards, dark brown lettering (minor bumping head & foot of spine, rubbing to fore-edges), w/ d.j. cover art of model railroad layout (minor chipping & head of spine, some sunning to spine, minor creasing lower fore-edge), G/G- copy. Third printing of this excellent early work on the hobby of making and operating model railroads.

New York: Bonanza Books, [1950]. 4to. xii, 192 pp. Frntsp., numerous photos, blueprints, designs. Quarter-beige cloth over boards, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. F/F. Reprint edition.

New York: D.H. Anderson, 1893. One large original albumen photograph, sized 17.5 x 21 in. mounted on 21 x 25 in. board (minor chipping & damage to fore-edges of board, some very minor staining), still a VG image. First edition of this very scarce and early attempt at art photography of the patriotic sort, and often referred to as reenactment photography. While the image of Sheridan is indeed from a photographic negative, the backdrop of galloping horse, and battlefield, have all been supplied via lithography. This was an unusual and labor-intensive special effects process of which Anderson developed most of his skills during the Civil War in the Richmond, VA area. Anderson (1827-1905) began his career as a daguerreotype photographer in Paducah, KY in 1855, and moved throughout the South and Midwest before landing in Richmond during the Civil War. In 1879 he sold his business there to George Cook, and purchased and refitted Mathew Brady’s historic studio at 785 Broadway in New York, adorning the… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1963-1969]. Two vols. 8vo. xxii, 455, [1]; xxii, 472 pp. Dark green cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j.s (couple mnr clsd tears, vry mnr edgewear), still a VG/VG set from the library of Professor Joseph Ha. First edition of vol. I, 2nd printing of vol. II.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1913. Tall 8vo. 216 pp. 1 large folding colour frontisp. of the Neon Atom. Black cloth, embossed ruling at fore-edges of covers, gilt lettering on front cover & spine, t.e.g. (minor bumping to corners, some rubbing, edgewear), still a VG- largely unopened copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and decidedly unusual work incorporating the evolutionary theories of Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lyell, and others, with a Christian religion recognizing the significant impact of Anglo-Saxon innovation and energy. This volume concludes his objective that science and religion are carrying man onwards, and leading to a new universe once they have become integrated. It provides a fascinating artifact of the impact of evolutionary thought in the early 20th century

New York: Basic Books, [1962]. Thick 8vo. viii, 612 pp. Red cloth, blk & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (price-clppd, mnr shlfwr, slght chppng ft of spine), VG/VG-. Second printing of this anthology of essays, including such authors as Thorstein Veblen, Henri Pirenne, Everett Hughes, Robert Merton, and many others.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1904. 8vo. [4], 412 pp. Gray-blue ribbd cloth, decrtd & illust. on frnt cvr w/ bald eagle, on field of stars, w/ illustrations of battle drums in yellow & blk surrounding, gilt lettrng on frnt cvr & spine (mnr rubbng, slght bmpng to crnrs, 1 sml ex-lib stmp on verso of ffep indicating Yale Library duplicate), still a nice copy. First edition, first printing (August, 1904 on verso of title) of this neo-abolitionist novel set during the Civil War, which marked Sinclair’s shift to the historical novel from his previously sentimental American fiction. The work was intended to be the first in a trilogy which focused on a young Southerner who enlisted in the Union Army and fought at the Battle of Manassas, or as the Northerners referred to it, The First Battle of Bull Run, where Stonewall Jackson earned his name.