Search Results: Titles starting with M from Nigel Sustins Books

London: Chatto and Windus, 1898. New edition with 85 portraits, red cloth with wear, rubbing and marking, gilt titles to spine, dust and browning to edges, two owner bookplates to front pastedown, some cracking to front hinge, browning to tissue guard of frontispiece, offset to title page, pencilled numbers and browning to rear pastedown, text and plates generally good. Extra postage required.. Hardcover. Good.

UK: Bloodaxe Books, 2012. Very good paperback original, first printing, (scuffing to two corners) signed by author.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

USA: Archon, 1966. Green cloth with repair to top of spine, pushing to base, photo illustrations, charts and two pull-out maps, d/w has repair to the top, tear at bottom of wrapper spine, chips, tears and rubbing to edges, flaps clipped (one portion used to repair top of spine). Title on spine is hand-written. Extra postage required.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable.

Singapore: The Shell Company of the Federation of Malaya, 1963. Boards are worn and marked in places, with some bowing, browning to endpapers, internally the colour portraits are superb, text in English and Malay.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Inche Mohamed Hoessein bin Enas.

UK: Collins Crime Club, 1988. Rare first edition of the first Mamur Zapt mystery, rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, so assume once a library copy (no other library markings), text is complete, with browning to edges and tanning to pages; d/w is intact with some rubbing/chipping to the edges and corners, the orange of the spine has faded to yellow, with the title (in white) indistinct.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

UK: SCM Press, 1943. Black cloth with some white mottling stains, wear and pushing to spine ends, dust and browning to edges, a few pages separated jaggedly at top edge, internally very good (pages evenly tanned); d/w is rubbed, with small tears and chips, frayed chips to spine ends, browning to spine, small loss to bottom of front flap and adjacent front panel.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

A rare item by Henry Miller, first published as an article in the journal 'Evergreen' Volume10, Number 40, April 1966, and here given separate publication as a 12-page stapled booklet (c.1970?), with 5 full page drawings from Grosz's portfolio 'Ecce Homo'. Some browning to covers, but otherwise very good.. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Reeves and Turner No date given, but a front endpaper inscription is dated 1894; red blind-stamped cloth is worn and stained, gilt designs to spine (rubbed and partly erased), split to top of spine, hinges cracking, browning to edges, some strain to stitching but binding holds, contents sound.. Hardcover. Acceptable.

New Zealand: Dominion Museum Monograph No. 8, 1952. Predominantly very good red cloth, one corner bumped, spine ends pushed, owner name to front free endpaper, internally very good, profusely illustrated; plate on page 145 has been repaired with cellotape that has slightly abraided the text opposite, and yellowed the verso; d/w is rubbed, chipped and creased with small tears and minor losses, cellotape repairs to flaps.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

USA: Grolier Club of New York, 2010. First limited edition, 2009. Inscribed on the title page of vol. 1, and signed by Mary and Bruce Crawford, and Gladys Mary Coles. Two volumes in slipcase to accompany an exhibition of Mary Webb's life and work at The Grolier Club, New York and Stanford University 2010. Essays by Dr. Gladys Mary Coles, Mary Crawford, Thomas Goldwasser and Bruce Crawford, along with an illustrated catalogue of exhibits; also includes a bibliography of Mary Webb's work. Volume 1 is a hardback bound in turquoise cloth, including original tipped-in colour illustrations by William Bishop, produced in a limited edition of 525 copies. Volume 2 is the first printing of a short story: 'Clematisa and Percival', written by Mary Webb in her early teens, and transcribed from her original handwritten manuscript, bound in purple cloth, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by William Bishop. Books as new, slight wear/rubbing to slipcase. Extra postage required. . Signed by… Read More

UK: Mary Webb Society, 1995. A rare opportunity to obtain the first five journals of the Mary Webb Society, with many articles, poems, photographs and reminiscences of the author, all in stapled card covers, very good with some marks to the covers, but internally fine. Issue 1 (1995), Issue 2 (1996), Issue 3 (1997), Issue 4 (1998/9), Issue 5 (1999/2000).. Paperback. Very Good.

Wales: Seren [Poetry Wales], 1990. This is the less common hardback edition, first printing 1990, signed by Gladys Mary Coles to title page, a near fine copy with minimal wear to cloth, dust-wrapper very good with some rubbing and marking.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Dundee: John Leng, 1916. SPECIAL PRICE REDUCTION. WAS £100. No. 19 of a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. 7 pages of preliminary text (printed) followed by 21 pages of associated original newspaper cuttings dated 1916 (letters and articles) from the 'Dundee Advertiser' and 'The Scotsman' pasted in. Bound in half-leather and marbled cloth (spine faded, rubbed and chipped, board corners chipped/abraded), contents very good with a little spotting.. Signed by Author. Limited. Hardcover. Good.

London: Privately Printed, 1880. First privately printed edition in white vellum(?)-covered boards, 1880, some marks and rubbing to covers, dust to edges, finger smudges to title page, otherwise internally very good, pages uncut so presumably unread. . First Edition. Hard Back. Good.

UK: Faber, 2003. Signed first printing of the 9th Aurelio Zen mystery and one of the best; fine in fine dust-wrapper. Signed by author to title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

London: Folio Society, 1974 Very good with some browning to spine in slipcase. . Hard Back. Very Good. Illus. by Lynton Lamb.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press, Incorporated, 1991. Inscribed 'for Linda' and signed by author ('Meg'). First printing, some wear/dust to spine ends, speckles to top edge, internally very good. Dust-wrapper rubbed/marked in places. 'Los Angeles Times' review of the book loosely inserted.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Ottawa, Canada: F A Acland, 1932. Bulletin No. 69 of the National Museum of Canada, ex-Cheltenham library with various library markings, no pages removed, wear/rubbing to cloth, internally sound and complete. Illustrated in black and white.. Hardcover. Good.

London: William Miller, 1808. SPECIAL PRICE REDUCTION. WAS £400. Volume One only, with the aquatints drawn and etched by Pyne, aquatinted by J Hill, oblong folio, ex-Cheltenham library re-bound in creamy yellow cloth (worn and marked in places), titles and library number in gilt to spine, new endpapers, library sticker ('not for loan') and barcode to first free new endpaper, small circular library stamp to the front of all plates at the edge, not affecting the illustrations, title page has been trimmed and affixed to the verso of the first plate (which has also been trimmed and reattached, with a library stamp and ink references to the left of the plate, not much affecting it). The plates (mostly dated 1802) are all affected by foxing/browning/staining to some degree, mainly to the margins or on the verso (one has a green stain down the left edge), some have creases and some have been repaired and/or re-attached (e.g. Masonry 1 has been cut out and attached to the back of Masonry 2), but… Read More

UK: Wiley, 2008. Very good used condition in illustrated boards, looks almost as new.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.