Search Results: Titles starting with M from Pincushion Press

This is a true first edition - an uncorrected proof "Advance Reader's Edition" issued to promote the forthcoming novel. A clean, readable copy.

St Martins Press, 1991. Stated First U.S. Edition US, 1991. Hardcover. Three piece binding, corners and edges crisp with no apparent wear to boards. Gray endsheets and clean bright white pages tightly bound. Dust Jacket Condition Fine: Black gloss finish with Gold letters and photo illustration. Crisp sharp edges and corners. Original price inside flap. An excellent copy.

Founded by St. Benedict fourteen centuries before the tragic year, the Abbey of Monte Cassino was Europe's most illustrious monastery. During the Dark Ages it had preserved much of the West's written archive. Itself a work of art, the abbey housed countless treasures. On February 15, 1944 American bombers obliterated Monte Cassino. It was the cruelest of ironies that the Allies should destroy an emblem of the civilization they were fighting to save.What was done that day has been disputed ever since. Was it a blunder, a military necessity or a war crime? Published on the 40th anniversary of the tragic bombing, this book finds the surprising truth behind one of the most difficult ethical decisions ever occasioned by war. Numerous Black and white photos.

Photo illustrated. Foreword by Abram L. Sachar. Bound in the blue cloth, stamped in shiny silver on the spine.
From the Dust Jacket:
"Masa (Hebrew for 'journey') is Lewis Weinstein's memoir of his own journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the halls of Harvard and the U.S. Supreme Court, including his fifty-nine years as a lawyer, lecturer and community activist. In World War II he was liaison officer between General Dwight Eisenhower and General Charles DeGaulle, and his persistence brought General Eisenhower to the first death camp liberated by the American Army. After the war he joined the prestigious Boston law firm, Foley, Hoag and Eliot, and taught law at Harvard and M.I.T... and has included among his many friends John F. Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein...".Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners

Barcelona [Spain] : G. Gili, 1994. Hardcover. NEW in Original Shrinkwrap cellophane. Features twenty examples of private houses highlighting contemporary Greek residential architecture. Includes houses by well-known architects Nicos Valsamakis, Atelier 66, Constantine Decavallas, Alexandros Tombazis plus others. Numerous black and white and color photos by Costas Manolis.

Barcelona: G. Gili, 1990. First edition (unstated). Hardcover. Spine foot edges scuffed, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, light soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Octavo in blue-white DJ, 144 pages. Numerous color and black and white illustrations including photos, line drawings, plans and elevations.From the dj: The aim of this book is to show, by means of 23 examples of private houses of different types, the variety of forms of architectural expression in the Balearic islands, a geographical context with international relevance and interest. Preceding each example is a short text by way of commentary, bringing out the most significant features of the house, together with basic documentation in the form of plans, elevations and sections. The present volume maintains and extends the line initiated by Editorial Gustavo Gili in 1986 with the book Mediterranean Houses. Costa Brava, by Xavier Guell and Lluis Casals. Marti Lucena and Salvador Roig, both of them architects, have… Read More

This is a hard-to-find copy of the first edition of the Ballantine paperback issued in April 1976.
Written by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny.
Book is crisp and clean and in very good shape for a paperback of this age. Binding is uncracked, pages are slightly yellowed.