Search Results: Titles starting with M from ZH BOOKS

S. l. (Stuttgart): Prometei, 1946. Very good. First edition, issue no. 1 (all published); 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-187, [5]; off-white wraps, printed with an intricate vignette in dark-purple; small nicks to tips of spine; corners of front wrap with small loss of paper; in very good condition.The only issue ever published of the Artistic Ukrainian Movement's only almanac. An ambitious, albeit short-lived artistic-literary organization of Ukrainian emigres in Europe, MUR (Mystetskyi ukrainskyi rukh) was founded in September of 1945 in Furth, Germany, with the main objective of uniting Ukrainian artists and authors, who had been scattered across Europe after WWII, and providing them with a platform for creative dialogues in various art- and literary- styles. Some of its founding committee's members included author, poet, and leader of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic party (URDP) Ivan Bahriany (1906 - 1963), ethnographer, author, and archeologist Viktor Petrov (pseud. V.… Read More

New York and London: The Macfadden Co.. Early Edition. Very good. Early edition, n. d. (ca 1920 [?]); 7 1/2 x 4; pp. [5], 6-48; green cloth over boards; gilt title to front board; light rubbing to tips of spine and corners; two title pages; illustrated with two photographs, including frontis, and two drawings; very good condition.Bernarr Adolphus Macfadden (1868 - 1955) was a businessman, publisher, and a great proponent of physical culture and proper nutrition. He has been hailed as the forebearer of fitness and health consciousness in the United States. His current book was originally published in 1899, was quite successful, and went through several editions very quickly, although few copies have survived. In it, the author emphasized his belief that with proper attention and care, no man or woman would ever go bald. Chapters included causes of hair loss, scalp massage, washing, destroying microbes, and so on. He also advertised his patented "Cradle Pneumatic Scalp Masseur" and… Read More

S. l. [New York (?)]: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Softcover. First edition; 7 ¼ x 5; pp. 154; illustrated green wraps; a few scattered spots of foxing; illustrated with photographs, b & w, and color illustrations; very good conditions.A large and wonderfully illustrated catalog of textbooks by the Macmillan Company, covering every imaginable subject and featuring several “unique†ones, including Industrial Arts, Americanization, Religion, etc.

Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskago Sovieta Rabochikh i Krasn. Deputatov, 1919. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 3/4 x 6; pp. 3-19; light-brown wraps, designed by Valentina Khodasevich (1894 - 1970); illustrated with two plates by Khodasevich; a few minor nicks to fore-edge of wraps; small, faded, ornate stamp of previous owner to front wrap and title page; in very good condition.Gorky's first printed work, "Makar Chudra" was published in 1892 in the journal "Caucasus" with the author using his pseudonym Maxim Gorky for the very first time. The main character, old gypsy Makar Chudra, told the legend of the tragic love story of young gypsies Loiko Zobar and Radda. This edition, on Gorky's request, was illustrated by his friend Valentina Khodasevich (1894 - 1970). She was a renowned painter, graphic artist, and theater designer - closely associated with Mir Isskustva and Mayakovsky, Burliuk, Goncharova, etc. She would create over 150 theater designs and would… Read More

Paris: Biblioteki Makhnovtsev, 1928. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/4 x 7; pp. 62; brown wraps printed in black; loss of paper to spine; edges of wraps brittle with nicks and chips; back cover unevenly trimmed; internally clean but for a light age-toning to pages; good or better condition.Nestor Ivanovich Makhno - Ukrainian anarchist and Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (also called 'The Black Army') wrote his current book in response to Soviet scholar M. Kubanin's anti-Makhno work "Makhnovshchina." Nestor Makhno, the son of peasants, was born in 1889 in Huliaipole, Ukraine. Shortly after joining a local anarchist group in 1906 he was arrested, released, re-arrested, and eventually sentenced to death - later reprieved because of his youth and instead imprisoned in the scariest penal institution in Moscow, Butyrki Prison. He was released after the Revolution in 1917 and returned to his native village. By the Winter of 1918 Makhno had managed to unite… Read More

Minsk: Polymia, 1987. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 x 5; pp. 3-93, [1]; illustrated wraps; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; several small spots to margins of wraps; a few sentences underlined in pencil; illustrated with drawings; very good condition.An amateurs' manual to mainenance, repair, cooking, etc. around one's home, the book is written with a humorous undertone and also includes chapters on dealing with one's car, gardening, and more.

Toronto / New York: Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Dytiachoi Literatury , 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 10 x 7; pp. 3-38, [2]; pictorial wraps in blue, brown, and black, designed by Mykhailo Mykhalevych; illustrated with monochrome, full-page and in-line drawings by Mykhalevych and Mykhailo Dmytrenko; small creases to corners and light wear to tips of spine; front hinge very-lightly starting; overall in very good condition.Leonid Poltava (1921 - 1990), pseudonym for Leonid Parhomovych, was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and a leading figure of the RKU (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) - the civilian occupation regime in German-occupied Ukraine. He also worked as a journalist for the radios "Liberty" and "Voice of America." Fleeing at the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany and spent time at several DP (displaced persons) camps. He would eventually move to Paris, then Madrid, and, finally, to the US in 1958. Poltava was known for often exclaiming: "I… Read More

Toronto - Ottawa: Studium Research Institute, 1966. First Edition. Very good. Alternate title from from wrap and second title page in English: "Pro iliustratsiiu dytiachoi knyzhky" (On Illustrating Children's Books). First edition; 10 x 6 1/2; pp. [2], 5-75, [3]; green wraps, printed in black; illustrated with color plates and black and white facsimile drawings and illustrations; age-toning and mild foxing to margins of wraps, else minor wear; in very good condition. With a summary in English.Bohdan Stebelskyi (1911 - 1994) was a graphic artist, painter, journalist, activist, and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, including as Chairman of the society's branch in Canada. He immigrated to Toronto in 1949, where he edited the Homin Ukrainy newspaper and wrote several works on art. His current book was an authoritative study of children's illustrations, both by- and for them, and the psychology of drawing, with numerous examples from unknown little artists and from… Read More

Kharkiv: Proletar, 1928. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 2000 copies; 6 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-111, [1]; pictorial wraps with futurist design, signed in-plate AC (unatributed); small nicks to tips of spine; a short, closed cut to fore-edge of front wrap and a few creases; partially unopened; in very good condition.Mykhail (Mykhailo) Semenko (1892 - 1937) was a poet, founder of Ukrainian Futurism, and one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance (a generation of outwardly pro-Soviet, Ukrainian intellectuals, who would nevertheless refuse to bow to Stalin's policy of Russification of Ukraine and would be executed en masse). Semenko would found a number of important futurist groups, including Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova Generatsiia, and Kverofuturism (the latter popularly known in English as Panfuturism) and would edit various almanacs and journals. Severely criticized for his work, Semenko would abandon Futurism and become a poet of the Bolshevik Revolution, the current… Read More

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1954. First edition in this format; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. 2-18 including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; closed cut to tail of spine; minor wear to covers; illustrated; good to very good."Mother's Trolley" - a delightful book, written in rhymes, about a little boy and his mom, the driver of a trolley car. Beautiful full-page and in-line illustrations.

Minneapolis, Minn.: The Cream of Wheat Corporation, 1946. Softcover. First edition; 3 1/2 x 6; tri-fold pp. [8]; illustrated wraps; very mild age-toning to margins of wraps and slight creasing to lower corner; illustrated; near fine condition.A delightful pamphlet listing Li'l Abner comic strip characters' favorite Cream of Wheat recipes. Included are Li'l Abner, Mammy, Earthquake McGoon, Granma Scragg, Pappy, Daisy Mae, Mrs. Hamfat Gooch, Sadie Hawkins, and Available Jones.

New Haven: Thomas J. Stafford, 1857. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-22; self-wraps, tied with a string (string replaced); several small nicks to edges and tips of spine; a few minor spots to wraps; in very good condition.Alexander Catlin Twining (1801 - 1884) was an inventor, astronomer, engineer, author, and educator, best known for his work on refrigeration and ice-making. Firmly believing that manufactured ice would be more economical and convenient than natural ice, especially in the Southern states, he began experimenting in 1848 using ether as a refrigerant. With utter confidence in his own success he would file a caveat with the US Patent Office in November 1849 - long before he secured his US Patent No. 10,221 on 8 November, 1853. By this time the vapor-compression system of ice manufacturing was already known, but his patent featured an unusual method of applying the refrigeration in the process. One of his machines would be constructed at the… Read More

South Kingstown, Rhode Island: By the author, 1773. Very good. Manuscript document; 5 1/2 x 7; single sheet of laid paper, filled in brown ink; red wax seal to lower right corner (a bit dry and crumbly); old crease lines and a few minor spots; in very good condition.A receipt, written and signed by one Deborah Fowler, attesting to receiving forty five mild [sic.] dollars, "it being in full of a legasee which my Honoured Father gave unto mee it being for one Cow and twenty five Silver mild dollars which was Given me by will I say Received..." Interestingly enough, research has shown that Deborah and many other female citizens of the region did not conform to the women’s roles in the 18th and 19th centuries, which were centered around home and childrearing. In this case, most of their men were involved in maritime-related trades - off to sea, building sailing vessels, etc. - and as a matter of practicality, women, who had the desire, could take on societal responsibilities, which… Read More

S. l. : By the author, 1893. Very good. Manuscript; 8 1/2 x 6 3/4; pp. [18], text to rectos only; loose, lined sheets, tied with strings; title page trimmed shorter that the rest; age-toning and a bit of wear to last page; overall in very good condition.Eloquently presented, although appearing somewhat unfinished, the manuscript followed the United States banking system, from the chartering of the Bank of North America in 1781, through several financial crises, to the late 1870s.

Baldwin, ME: By the author, 1822. Very good. Manuscript; 7 1/2 x 6; laid paper, folded and sewn with a string to form a notebook; pp. [8]; text and tables to pp. 1-4, in brown ink; fore-edge unevenly trimmed; light spotting, mostly to margins; in very good condition.An early 19th century document, it addressed Joel Libby, one of the surveyors of highways in the town of Baldwin for the year 1822 and presented him with a list of assessments of estates, in the form of large, detailed tables, of the people in the town, and their respective proportions of seventy two dollars and twenty seven cents "to be expended in labor and materials upon the highways" within their limits. It listed allotments of ten cents per hour for men's labor and ox labor and ten cents per hour for a good plough and six cents per hour for a good cart. The manuscript also stated that any deficiencies from people not paying would be put in the next assessment for a town tax. The town of Baldwin, now part of the… Read More

S. l.: By the author, 1880. Very good. Manuscript, n. d. (second half of the 19th century[?]); single sheet, pp. [2]; score and lyrics in blue and brown ink; 10 1/4 x 9; loss of paper to upper left corner, not affecting text, but for one letter of the title; crease line through middle and several closed cuts to edges; vertical split, crudely, but lovingly sewn together with period thread; occasional spotting; overall in good condition.A lovely rendition of Henry Herz' (1803 - 1888) "We Have Lived and Loved Together," it was arranged for the guitar by V. B. Bell for one Mrs. Caroline Schoch - possibly a teacher of German at the Indiana State Normal School.

S. l. (Oakland Trotting Park, Oakland, CA [?]): By the author, 1893. Very good. Manuscript, n. d. (ca 1893); 7 1/4 x 5 1/2; single sheet, text to recto only; unevenly trimmed with a few nicks and creases; in very good condition.A receipt, beginning with: "Dear Sir, Your play to-day will be:...(five lines enumerating the races and horses' names)." It, then cautions: "Note - only first horse named in each race. Second horse mentioned not to be noticed unless first is 'scratched'."

S. l.: By the author. Very good. Manuscript in ink and watercolor, n. d. (19th century); single leaf of thin stock, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4; minor age-toning and spotting to margins; in very good condition.A mystery rebus, as yet unsolved and simply titled: "Illustration," it was exquisitely drawn and depicted a pail, mounds of sand (?) and shovels, the letters R and S, a waterfall, etc. It could have been created by an amateur artist, an illustrator for an unpublished work, or simply by a lover of riddles.

S. l.: By the author, 1810. Good. Manuscript plat map; 16 1/2 x 21; thin paper stock in brown ink and pencil; light spots throughout - not affecting readability; fold lines, with thin splits along - no loss of paper; in good condition.An original, early map of parcels of land in present day Le Ray, New York, it listed the names of some of the earliest pioneers in the area, including John Strickland and his sons - settlers from Pennsylvania, who would be engaged in furnishing provisions for the Army during the War of 1812; the Child Family, the Coolidge Family, the Moon Family, etc.

S. l. (Charlottesville, VA): By the author, 1897. Very good. Notebook, n. d. (1897); 8 x 6 1/4; pp. 1-86 (numbered in pencil); marbled paper over boards and 1/4 cloth (rebacked); manuscript text in brown ink; wear along edges of boards; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; overall in very good condition. Also included is a Registered Mail Receipt, dated June 17, 1897, from Rev. Bledsoe in Charlottesville to James B. Elam of J. B. Elam & Co. in Richmond.Rev. James Wiley Bledsoe (1841 - 1928) was an eloquent, influential, and prominent pastor of the Virginia Conference Methodist Church, whose sermons garnered devoted followers from Charlottesville to Danville and from Amherst to Norfolk. Educated at Humanity Hall Academy and at Emory and Henry College, he would take an active part in raising the Fluvanna Artillery during the Civil War, in which he served as a Second Officer. The sermons, appearing as series under the title "The Publican" - signed, titled, meticulously laid-out, and… Read More