Search Results: Titles starting with M from Classic Books and Ephemera

Lugd. Batav. et Roterod [Leiden, Netherlands]: Ex officina Hackiana, 1669. Hardcover. Good +. [16], 614, [146] p.: folded map; 20 cm. (Signatures: *8 A-3A8 3B4 8vo). Full calf (18th century?) with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt decoration along edges of both boards. All page edges speckled red. Engraved title page. Engraved head-pieces and initial letters. "Petronii Arbitri Specimen belli civilis": p. 519-528. "Supplementum Lucani. Libri septem. Authore Thoma Majo Anglo": p. [529]-614. Map is titled: Typus Regionum, per quas grassatum est bellum hoc civile inter Pompeium et Caesarem. Inscription on second leaf, partially crossed out, leaving year, 1781; 1 cm. at upper edge of that leaf excised, presumably removing former owner's name but not impacting headpiece or text. In Good+ Condition: leather is rubbed with some worm damage; loss of headband and some… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. [14], 300 p.; 24 cm. Red and black binding with red stamped spine title; blind-stamped "M" on front board. Red and black dust jacket designed by Raquel Jaramillo with white embossed spine and cover title; author photograph on back section by Michael Goldman. "A Marian Wood Book." Book is in Fine Condition. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed.

New York: Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 172 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback. Former owner architectural firm written at upper edge of title page: Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. Published to accompany the exhibition that inaugurated the Cooper Hewitt as Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. Contributors: Lisa Taylor, George Nelson, Hans Hollein, Ettore Sottsass, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Peter M. Bode, O.M. Ungers, Murray Grigor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Nader Ardalan, and Karl Schlamminger. Includes a history of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Robert M. De Witt1, 1876. Paperback. Very Good. 10, [2] p.: plan; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers and on 2 unpaginated pages following text. No date of publication. This number in the series De Witt's Acting Plays was published in 1876 or 1877. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled and starting to separate at ends of spine; otherwise, clean and tight.

London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Volume 2 only. xiv, 212 p., 6 leaves with composite sectional models: 238 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Green endpaper. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of the Newark, N.J., Free Public Library. Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of first page of Contents and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: lacking cloth over spine; edges of boards are rubbed; hinges are weak; endpapers are scraped; closed 2-cm. tear from edge of one plate, not impacting image; occasional finger soiling in margins; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. xxxv, [1], 170 p., 4 leaves with composite sectional models: 221 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark brown library buckram with gilt spine title and call number. "Newark N.J.P.L." at tail of spine in gilt. Small bookplate on front fixed endpaper: "The Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of Newark N.J." Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of Preface and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; edges of a few of the composite sections rubbed; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: Madame Tussaud's, 1884. Paperback. Good +. xii, 44, [1], xiv-xxv, [1] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Illustrated wrapper, stitched, printed in red, green, and gilt; back wrapper has illustrated advertisement for Cadbury's Cocoa. Wrapper title. Wrappers are included in pagination. Illustrated advertisements on pages ii-xxv; the exhibition catalog itself is not illustrated. The illustrated advertisements include the Henry Heath felt hat-forming machine; Taddy & Co.'s tobaccos; British Patent Perforated Toilet Paper; John Carter's Literary Machine for holding a book; The Royal Holborn hall (late Weston's); Eno's Fruit Salt Works; and Swanbill Corsets. "27385" printed at upper corner of front wrapper. A former owner wrote in pencil next to the description of Lady Jane Grey "very pretty." In Good+ Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled; minor loss at tail of spine; lacking upper corner of pp. xi-xii without loss of printing; minor corner creasing… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co, 1914. Hardcover. Good. 256, [8] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Ligth grey cloth with dark blue spine and cover titles; light and dark blue illlustration on spine and cover. Publisher's catalog on 8 pages following text of "The Best and least Expensive Books for Real Boys and Girls." Gift inscription on front free endpaper to Anna Dallard, dated 1918. This is the third title in the series The Madge Morton Books. In Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; corners rubbed; slightly cocked; minor soiling in a few margins; solid.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st American edition. [10], 261 p.; 22 cm. Dark brown cloth with red-gilt spine title. Dust jacket designed by Cynthia Krupat with illustration from the George Catlin painting "Bull Dance, Mandan O-Kee-Pa Ceremony." ISBN: 0374195579. Signed by author on title page, dated 1999. An intriguing book-length poem based on the fantasy that Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey established a utopian community on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Book is in Fine Condition. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: upper edge very slightly rubbed and sunned.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stated First Edition. [4], 474 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. No dust jacket. Ex-library: black library buckram with white spine title and call number; number stamped at lower edge of table of contents page. No other library markings. In Near Fine Condition: ex-library with clean and solid library binding; lacking lower corner of pp. 93-94, without loss of text; clean and tight.

Berlin: Königl. Preuß. Akademischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "oder Sammlung der neuesten und wichtigsten Entdeckungen, Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, zur Beförderung und Vervollkommnung der Wollen-, Seiden-, Baumwollen- und Leinenfärberei, der Zeugdruckerei, und der Kunst zu bleichen." xii, 308 p.: 1 leaf of an engraved plate (bound as frontispiece); 20 cm. Original red and white speckled paper over boards with original printed spine label (lacking half). Former owner's small stamp at head of title page: A. Schoen. This is the second volume from a scarce early 19th-century series by the chemist Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, which presented developments in fabric dying and bleaching. In Very Good Condition: joint and corners are rubbed, but solid; lacking half of spine label and the underlying paper; vertical crack in spine with slight loss of paper; browning and light foxing throughout; clean and solid.

Bayreuth, Ger: Grau'schen Buchhandlung, 1844. Hardcover. Good. Volume 5 of this series of funeral sermons (6 volumes were published from 1835 through 1849). iv, 290 p.; 23 cm. Original black paper over boards. Spine has been covered in black library book repair material with title and call number in white on spine. All page edges yellow. Both hinges have been repaired with white library hinge repair material. Front fixed endpaper bears book plate of the Swedenborgian school library, the Academy of the New Church Library. Perforated stamp at foot of title page for the Academy Library, Bryn Athyn, Pa. In Good Condition: old repair of spine and hinges, as described above; pages 79-122 dampstained; otherwise a clean and solid copy.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. x, [2], 457 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Grey cloth with black spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Without dust jacket. Includes index and bibliography. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; internally clean and tight.

United States Steel Supply Division, 1936. Very Good. This is slightly larger than a standard match book, 8 cm. high when unfolded, and contains tissue for cleaning glasses. Both sides of the cover contain advertising for U.S. Steel's Supply Division. A few sheets of tissue appear to have been removed , but quite a number remain. In Very Good Condition: the cellophane covering is separating, but the colors of the cover remain bright and the item is otherwise intact. A very scarce US Steel item.

New York; Oxford: Oxord University Press, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. ix, [3], 404 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Includes glossary, bibliographical essay, table of cases, and index. The author seeks "to elucidate the interaction of law and society as revealed over time through the main lines of development in American legal culture." -- Preface. In Very Good Condition: cover very lightly soiled; upper corner creased; lacking upper corner of p. 359-60, without loss of text; one page corner creased; clean and tight.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1928. Paperback. Very Good. 28 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Front wrapper has illustration in orange and blue of a man in a suit attacking two boys. Contents: A Fortune at Stake by Frank Richards -- Winning Through by Dicky Nugent -- The Lord of Lost Island. Frank Richards was a pseudonym used by the publisher for the many stories set at Greyfriar School in Kent. Most Frank Richards stories were written by Charles Hamilton (1876-1961), the most prolific writer of boys' fiction (according to Guinness). In Very Good Condition: pages are browning; minor edge chipping; clean and solid.

New York: G. Schirmer, n.d.. Paperback. Very Good -. 1 vocal score (66 p.); 27 cm. Light grey paper covers. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. At head of front cover and title page: G. Schirmer's Editions of Oratorios and Cantatas. In English and Latin; English version by J. Troutbeck. For chorus (SATB) and piano accompaniment. No date of publication. In Very Good- Condition: upper corners slightly creased; pencilled notations throughout.

Budapest: Singer és Wolfner Kiadása, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 375 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Embossed front cover illustration. No dust jacket. All page edges red. Brown patterned endpapers. Contains many charming in-text illustrations. Thesaurus Anecdoton Hungarorum. This is volume five of a six-volume work published from 1898 to 1903 compiled by Tóth Béla (1857-1907), a Hungarian author and cultural historian. In Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; spine is sunned; both joints have started to separate from the head of the spine; front free endpaper, half title page, title page, and first several leaves of text are detached but present; edges of front free endpaper and following few leaves are chipped; remaining pages are clean and tight. One volume of the very scarce first edition of Hungarian stories collected by Tóth Béla.

Boston: L.P. Crown & Co, 1855. Hardcover. Good -. Imprint includes: Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley. 162, 6 p.; 16 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped series title on front cover. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Part of Arthur's Home Library. Pale yellow endpapers. Final 6 pages contain "Catalogue of Valuable and Interesting Works, Published and Sold by" J.W. Bradley, Philadelphia; L.P. Crown & Co., Boston; M. Bradley, New Haven; and H.A. Yates, Auburn, N.Y. Scarce. In Good- Condition: loss of cloth at both ends of spine; edges rubbed; corners are heavily rubbed; cloth is slightly soiled and discolored; soiling and foxing.

London, Eng: Ernest Benn, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 178 p.: in-text drawings, 64 leaves of plates, of which 6 are color plates; 28 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Former owner's name at head of p. 1: Parker Morell. Monographs on bookbinding, no. 1. Contents: I. On a group of bindings decorated with plaquettes. II. Sixteenth-century bindings with architectural decoration. III. Thomae Maioli et amicorum. IV. Apollonio Filareto and his bindings. V. The great Canevari myth. Appendix. A note on the date and origin of Grolier's bindings. In Very Good Condition: cover slightly soiled; spine sunned; ends of spine frayed with slight loss of cloth; corners bumped; text is lightly foxed; plates are clean and bright.