Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bountiful Books

Cambridge, England: Ken Trotman Ltd.. This is #62 of a limited edition of 300 copies, and is a facsimile of the 1897 1st edition in English. Green borads in glassine jacket are clean and sound. Top edge and fore-edge show very light foxing, else interior is clean and unmarked. Recollections of the Duke de Reggio, who fought in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, "compiled from the hitherto unpublished souvenirs of the Duchess de Reggio by Gaston Stiegler, and now first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos." viii + 474 pages. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Printing. 1986.

London: Frederick Mueller, Ltd.. A clean sound copy with blue boards, lightly bumped edges. Slight foxing to end papers and title page. INSCRIBED on front free end paper "To "-------------------" from your affectionate Bertram Ratcliffe". The fascinating story of the role that Marshal de Grouchy played during the fateful days of Napoleon's final downfall .Map on front paste-down. Bibliography. 48 pages. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1942.

New York: Kamin. Bright red boards are clean and sound, bottom edge lightly bumped. Charmingly SIGNED by Schonberg, "Dancingly yours". Interior is clean and unmarked. A near fine copy of this beloved instructional course in ballroom dancing for the young, scarce in first edition. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1958.

Greenwich: Henry S. Richardson. This first edition published by Richardson was printed for private circulation only. Rebound with original green decorated boards, new spine, spine label, and end papers. Boards show wear, bumping at edges, else sound. Damp stain to frontispiece portrait of Hargood, light foxing to first two pages and last page, else text block is clean and unmarked. Hargood served as first lieutenant and later commander of the battleships Pegasus and Adromeda under the man who later became King William IV, and continued to serve during the American and French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars including the Battle of Trafalgar. xii + 206 pages including six Appendices. Two illustrations listed in the Table of Contents are not present. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1841.

Veritopolie: Chez Jean Disant Vrai. Reliures en veau brun, décor doré, étiquettes dorsales, bords marbrés. Feuilles marbrées sur les volumes I et III, mais pas II. Les panneaux montrent des frottements, surtout dans les coins, sinon propres et sains. Ex-bibliothèque, avec des timbres sur les collages frontaux vol. I et III, papiers finis en marbre manquant vol. II .. Encre d'écriture sur les papiers d'extrémité libre avant vol. Je donne des informations sur l'ouvre et son auteur. Nom de l'auteur écrit sur la page de titre de chaque volume, sinon les pages ne sont pas marquées. Vol. I comprend deux frontispices gravés et une illustration dépliante d'un camp de guerre. Brown calf bindings, gilt decoration, spine labels, marbled edges. Marbled end papers on volumes I and III, but not II. Boards show rubbing, especially at corners, else clean and sound. Ex-library, with stamps on front… Read More

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres. Black leather spines with raised bands and gilt trim are sound and and attractive, but for chipping at the head of volume 2. Green marbled boards are clean and sturdy. Pages show intermittent foxing, else unmarked. Part 3 of Arbanere's "Universal" history, covering the period from the barbarian invasions to the colonization of Algeria. . Very Good. 1/2 Leather. 1st Edition Thus. 1846.