Search Results: Titles starting with M from Uncommon Works

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/missing. A very good plus, signed, first revised edition with a personal note from author laid in. From the library of wildlife biologist and conservationist John B. Cowan. Affectionately inscribed to same by author on title page. Additional personal note card to Mr. Cowan from author laid in. Dust jacket has been cut, only flaps remain laid in. Rust cloth boards with black title stamping. Rubbing to corners and to head and tail of spine. Map end papers with front jacket flap taped in with one piece of tape. Previous owner's name on first free end paper. Underlining and marginalia for items of interest to Mr. Cowan's work. Binding is straight though book shows having been re-read. 396 pp. including index. Octavo.

New York: Tess Press / Black Dog & Leventhal , 2010. Second Edition. Boards. As new/as new. An as new second edition in an as new dust jacket. Complete number line. Fine. xiv, 295 pages : illustrations. Octavo. The Manhattan Project (1942-1946) resulted in the development and detonation of the first nuclear weapons - and irrevocably changed the course of world events. This book provides the history of the project and its legacy, from the array of perspectives and primary sources: secret documents, essays, articles, biographies, plays, and novels." - worldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus Book of the Month Club edition in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth boards with silver title stamping on spine. Bump to lower front corner. Previous owner's name stamp on first free end paper. Decorative endpapers with Indigenous mask on first free endpaper.Dust jacket shows some creasing and shelf weaar especially at top an corners. Minor loss to jacket paper at foot and crown.332 pp. including index. Octavo.

Longwood, FL: Malia Enterprises, 1999. Revised Edition; Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. A fine first printing of the [second] Revised edition (The true first edition is from 1989). This book has Expanded text not included in the first. In a very good dust jacket showing shelf wear and some loss to jacket at the edges. xvi, 488 pages : illustrations. Folio. The Martin B-26 Marauder is an American twin-engined medium bomber that saw extensive service during World War II. The B-26 was built at two locations: Baltimore, Maryland, and Omaha, Nebraska, by the Glenn L. Martin Company.First used in the Pacific Theater of World War II in early 1942, it was also used in the Mediterranean Theater and in Western Europe.After entering service with the United States Army aviation units, the aircraft quickly received the reputation of a "widowmaker" due to the early models' high accident rate during takeoffs and landings. This was because the Marauder had to be flown at… Read More

Paris: Paulin, 1846. A lovely French bound edition, complete in two volumes. Half leather over marbled boards. Some loss of leather on volume one, see photo. Tooled spine with gilt title stamping. Marbled end papers. Moderate foxing. Book is sturdy and square. Text in French. 254, 259 pp. Thirty-twomo, 3 1/2 x 5 inches tall. SANDEAU, LÉONARD SYLVAIN JULIEN [Jules] (1811–1883), French novelist, was born at Aubusson (Creuse) on the 19th of February 1811. He was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time with unruly students. He met Madame Dudevant (George Sand) at Le Coudray in the house of a friend, and when she came to Paris in 1831 she joined Sandeau. The intimacy did not last long, but it produced Rose et Blanche (1831), a novel written in common under the pseudonym Jules Sand, from which George Sand took the idea of her famous nom de guerre.Sandeau continued for nearly fifty years to produce novels and to collaborate in plays. His best works are Marianna (1839),… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus second edition (originaly published in 1948 by the Carnegie Institute) [HAND S80]. Green cloth boards, cream end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Small spot from half-title to first page of preface, 1/8 inch round. otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is sound and round backed. All fold outs are present and fine. In a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket showing shelf wear at head, with a short, 1 inch, closed tear on the rear panel. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover.365 pp. including index. Octavo, 7 x 10 inches tall.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1977. Second Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Very good/very good. George F. Andrews. A very good+ second printing. Glossy blue pictorial board with blue foil stamped architectural drawing. Deep blue end papers, showing fading at top edge. All pages are clean, bright and unmarked. In a very good dust jacket showing shelf wear and a few small closed tears at head of jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, maps and architectural drawings. 468 pp., including index. Quarto, 10 x 9 inches tall. Large and heavy item will be billed at actual shipping charges.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good/fine. Very good first printing. Brown cloth under buckram quarter cloth binding. Cream endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Rear endpaper and page 379 have short tear at bottom. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a fine dust jacket, now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings. 379 pp. including bibliography and index. Quarto, 10 1/2 x 10 inches tall. Large and heavy item billed at actual shipping charges.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. xvi, 779 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) . Octavo A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business–prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, first printing (as stated, with complete number line.) In a very good dust jacket, price-clipped and showing wear at crown and a tiny tear on rear edge of jacket cover, and shelf-wear to rear top edge of jacket. . v, 602 pages : illustrations. Octavo. In 1978, with a nest egg of more than 5 billion dollars, the Mellons were America's richest family. The Mellons is an irreverent, unauthorized, but not unkind account of this family's rise, from the humble circumstances of birth of the dynasty's founder, Judge Thomas Mellon, on a potato farm in Ireland in 1813, to super-opulence through the Gulf Oil Corporation." - WorldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951-1952. Early Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. All near fine with very good dust jackets. Navy blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine and cover. [v. 1] Years of adventure, 1874-1920: Third printing (1951). Near fine book, sturdy and square binding. Sky blue endpapers. Mild bump on front top right corner. A few volume notes in pencil on half-title. Dust jacket is price-clipped at the bottom and creased on back cover.[v. 2] The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933: Second printing (1952). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Volume note in pencil on half-title. Round label covering price on inside flap. [v. 3] The great depression, 1929-1941: First printing [Burns 0079, ](1952). Bumped front bottom corner, price-clipped dust jacket, showing Loss of about 1" on of top and bottom of jacket on spine.Octavo. 496, 405, 503 pp. respectively. Indexed. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L.… Read More

San Francisco: Pacific Art Company, 1901. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A gorgeous first edition in full pebbled leather boards. Maroon pebbled leather boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Rubbing to joints and bottom edge. Corners bumped, rubbed. Shelfwear to crown and foot. Binding is sturdy and square. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Stamp of Frank Marston, The Original Creamerie on verso of first free endpaper with note pointing to his photo in the book. All plates present. Tissue guards fine. Page 440 has a small fold and miniscule tear on the fore edge. 440 pp. including the address directory. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Includes portraits of Jack London, Lippincott, Pinkerton, Ambrose Bierce; Hubert Howe Bancroft, Charles Lummis, Joaquin Miller and other famous Californians.

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine first edition. Dumbarton Oaks: "Trustees for Harvard University." Green cloth boards. Shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Speckled top edge. Pages and covers clean and bright. Binding sturdy, square and solid. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. 245 pp. Octavo.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. Near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket. Cream paper boards over green quarter cloth binding. Cream paper showing darkening at top edge. Otherwise clean and bright. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket has three tiny closed tears at top edge, and sunning on back cover near spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Fully illustrated with maps, charts, pictures and graphs. 495 pp. including index. Quarto, 10 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Heavy and large, additional shipping will be billed at actual cost. Chapters: Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech; The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing; Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background; Not One Calendar, but Many; Rewriting History; Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories; The Naming of… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Alan M. Clark. A fine, signed limited edition in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Laymon on the limitation page, number 400 of 1000 numbered copies. Crease to inner flap of jacket. Buckram binding. Burgundy endpapers. 600 pp. Octavo. It is the summer of 1997. Many years have gone by since Janice Crogan's summer of horror. The town of Malcasa Point has changed a lot — and so has the Beast House tour. Due to several popular books and movies about the infamous house of death, the tour is bigger and better than ever.The self-guided daytime tour, safe for the whole family, gives the sanitized version of the attacks and murders. If you want the real story, however, you can get it.Just take the Midnight Tour.Every Saturday night, for a hundred dollars, you and twelve other guests can participate in the special picnic, private screening of The Horror, and the tour… Read More

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1965. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. A near fine first edition. Brown quarter cloth under yellow cloth boards with gilt motif. Gilt title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a very good, original, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing a 1 inch closed tear and a crease. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and drawings. 196 pp. including index. Octavo. Och's comments on Spanish life and customs, both in the Old World and in the New, provide many a gem of human interest. He finds fault with the Spanish people for their failure to take advantage of business opportunities, with Spanish officials for graft and greed, with Spanish sea captains for inefficiency, and with Spanish miners for waste and incompetence. But ultimately he gives the Spanish their due: "I must admit that in my fourteen… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good. A very good first edition. Black quarter cloth over red boards. Gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Previous owner's name on first free endpaper, otherwise clean and bright. 304 pages, including index. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Edward M. Kosower is best known for his earlier work in physical organic chemistry and later work in biophysical chemistry. In particular, he developed the Z scale for solvent polarity based on the solvatochromic effect for zwitterionic dyes and investigated bimane dyes as fluorescent labels.

London: J. Tonson, 1697. Second Edition. Three quarter cloth. Very good. Scarce. A very good second edition of Mr. Congreve's famous work. [WING C5858] Blue three quarter cloth over maroon and blue marbled boards. Appears to be missing the first free endpaper, otherwise complete and collated. Loss to page 1, not affecting text. Pencilled marginalia and previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Soft cotton paper. Toning to pages and pastedowns. Contents: 11'"1: half-title (verso blank). 11'"2: title (verso blank). Al: dedicatoryepistle (om. initial4). A3V: prologue (cap2). A4V; dramatis personae (with cast). Bl: HT with text (cap4). K2: epilogue (cap2). 6 /2 x 8 3/4 inches tall, octavo. The Mourning Bride is a tragedy written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1697 at Betterton's Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. The play centres on Zara, a queen held captive by Manuel, King of Granada, and a web of love and deception which results in the… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/none as issued. A very good first edition as registered with the Library of Congress in 1898. 1899 on title page, copyright 1898 on verso. Mustard yellow buckram, as issued, with green motif border and gilt stamping. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Spine and edges darkened. Cloth worn on rear board. Top edge gilt. Other page edges deckled and showing some wear. Some pages unopened. Previous owner's name inscribed on first free endpaper. Frontis. and 3 b/w plates. 319 pp. Twelvemo.