Search Results: Titles starting with M from Gadzooks Books

Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1987 hardcover with dust jacket. FIRST PRINTING with full number line on copyright page. APPEARS UNREAD with unmarked, crisp-edged, well-bound pages. Jacket shows minor shelf-rubbing and minor edge wear only. A very good, very useful copy! From the jacket description: "They called her a 'singer's singer,' and she was a legend among them. Billie Holiday, Bobby Short, Johnny Mathis, Nat "King" Cole, and Frank Sinatra were just some of the performers who called themselves her students. Composers from Cole Porter to Bart Howard wrote songs like "Love for Sale" and "Fly Me to the Moon" for her to introduce. The British royal family was among her devoted fans. Stereo Magazine gave her its first Award of Merit--and later renamed it in her honor. As late as 1982--when she was eighty-two--Mabel Mercer was still performing. Her dignity, her talent, won her international acclaim--it was said that… Read More

Ticknor & Fields, 1982. First Print. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. 1982 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING hardcover with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY. Bright, unmarked pages and firm binding. Jacket is clean and bright; jacket does show a minor flaw (in the form of tiny, innocuous ink spots in the original jacket printing), and some very minor edge wear. A beautiful, well-preserved copy otherwise. This is NOT an ex-library book. First Printing is indicated by the full number line on the copyright page. This remains a lovely, sturdy, collectible, tight and bright first edition copy!

Citadel Press, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. 1992 oversized softcover. UNREAD COPY is bright and clean inside and out with sharp corners, and firm binding. Cover remains bright and glossy, shows minimal handling wear, minimal edge rubbing, and minimal scratching. This is NOT a remainder. A lovely, presentable copy. 224 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with both black-and-white and color photos of pop music superstar Madonna. Thorough treatment (typical of Citadel Press's excellent entertainment-biography books) of Madonna's early career, up to the early 1990s. A must-have for all fans.

Carol Publishing Corporation, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Like New. Well-preserved UNREAD 1991 trade-sized softcover. FIRST PRINTING with full number line on copyright page. Bright, unmarked, crisp-edged, well-bound pages and tight binding. Glossy illustrated paper cover is clean and bright with sharp edges and corners. Very nice!

David McKay Co, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. 1972 hardcover with dust jacket. APPEARS UNREAD with unmarked, well-bound pages. Jacket shows minor shelf-rubbing and minor edge wear only. This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy copy!

Rizzoli, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 1976 oversized slipcased art book with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY inside near-fine jacket; housed in sturdy, finger-smudged white-and-brown-cloth slipcase. The book inside the slipcase is clean and bright, with minimal rubbing to the bright, glossy, well-preserved jacket, and pages very bright and well-bound. Heavy hardcover with no corner bumping. Very nice copy! Retrospective of the life and works of Serbian painter Ivan Generalic. Photo-illustrated throughout, including color illustrations of works by the artist.

Starbooks, 1984. Softcover. Good. 1984 staple-bound softcover shows some shelf wear, handling wear & edge wear. Top right front corner of cover also shows some residue from a price sticker removal. Stapled binding continues to hold all pages, which are free of any pen or pencil marks. NOT an ex-library book. A good used copy of an uncommon Michael Jackson book of photos.

Mayflower Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x9x0. 1979 STATED FIRST EDITION oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Well-preserved UNREAD COPY is clean, bright, and colorful. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing and minor edge rubbing only. Nice copy overall. Gorgeous, bright, fun & colorful photos of Disneyland and Walt Disney World throughout; includes a brief introductory history of the origins of Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1989 STATED FIRST PRINTING hardcover with dustjacket. APPEARS UNREAD. Bright, unmarked pages and firm binding. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing and minor edge wear only (no tears). This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy, collectible, first edition copy!

Doubleday, 1977. Hardcover. Like New. 1977 oversized photo-illustrated hardcover with dust jacket. STILL SEALED IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S SHRINKWRAP! Never opened! Very uncommon thus. Shows a single edge nick about the size of a pencil lead, but otherwise a fine copy.

Crown, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1977 hardcover with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY with bright, unmarked, firmly bound pages. Jacket is shelf-rubbed and shows edge wear, including several short edge tears. This is NOT an ex-library book and not a remainder. A good, sturdy, bright, clean copy overall.

Breakthrough Publications, 1993. Hardcover. Like New. 1993 reprint oversized photo-illustrated hardcover with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY is bright and clean inside and out with sharp edges and corners and glossy jacket. Nice copy, suitable for a gift! "When a human and a horse face each other in a training pen, neither wants a fight..." - Cherry Hill

Penguin, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1971 First Edition paperback. UNREAD COPY with unmarked pages and firm binding. Paper cover shows minor shelf-rubbing and minimal edge wear. This is NOT an ex-library book and not a remainder. A tight, intact and very useful copy. 191 pages, includes index, plus center section of photos. "Whether, like director Richard Lester, you think of the feature film as an art form or, like J. Lee-Thompson, as 'a mass entertainment medium,' your experience of cinema is probably based on full-length feature films. As projected, they strike you as single entities: yet each film springs from the coordinated teamwork of a host of people - director, producer, scriptwriter, actor, designer, cameraman, editor and many more. This book sets out 'to describe systematically the inner workings of the film industry in the words of its workers.' Ivan Butler lets each expert speak for himself, from such well-known directors and actors as… Read More

International Publishers, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Good. UNCOMMON 1937 International Publishers hardcover with dustjacket. APPEARS UNREAD with clean, unmarked, well-bound pages. Jacket also remains bright and striking, shows shelf-rubbing and edge-rubbing; also one small scuff (tiny tear) on rear dustjacket only. This is NOT an ex-library book and NOT price-clipped (still retains the original 1937 cover price on the front jacket flap). A good, sturdy, clean, and useful copy!

Century, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. GIFT QUALITY 1987 U.K. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. Well-preserved UNREAD COPY is bright, glossy, and clean inside and out! Very nice! The story of the making of the classic film THE AFRICAN QUEEN by one of its legendary stars. Photo-illustrated throughout.

Little, Brown, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 1974 Stated First American Edition oversized illustrated hardcover with dust jacket. Well-preserved UNREAD COPY is bright and clean inside and out. Very tiny corner bumps at bottom fore edge corners only, otherwise edges and corners are sharp. Nice copy! 196 pages, photo-illustrated throughout. "In two passionate, luminous interviews, Malraux draws on his knowledge of man, history, and art to speak out on some of the most vital questions of life and our time. He talks about philosophy, aesthetics, and Western civilization in crisis; about religious faith, sainthood, the absurd, politics, and history; the man of action vs the man of thought; serenity, artistic creation, definitions of sacrifice, transcendence, and culture; and his relationships with such men as Mao, Gide, de Gaulle. His answers are spontaneous, unedited, and deeply felt, marked throughout by the rapidity and vitality of his thinking process.

Arch Cape Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1989 FIRST PRINTING very large oversized hardcover with dust jacket, published by Arch Cape Press. Clean copy APPEARS UNREAD with bright, unmarked, well-bound pages. Jacket also remains clean and bright with very minor edge rubbing only (no tears). Single small marker dot at bottom page edges only. This is NOT an ex-library book. First Printing is indicated by the full letter line on the copyright page. Nice copy! Uncommon close-up full-color photographic images of North American wildlife. 160 pp.

Oxford University Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. UNCOMMON 1983 FIRST PRINTING softcover. Well-preserved UNREAD COPY. Bright and sharp copy with minimal page edge smudging. "More than simply a biography of von Stroheim, the book demonstrates in detail just how the Hollywood studios worked during their formative years. No previous book on von Stroheim has been based on so much original research in studio archives or writte by a scholar with such a firm grasp of the Hollywood production system. Richard Koszarski draws on production records, interviews with von Stroheim's collaborators, and documents preserved by the filmmaker's family and friends to produce an authoritative account of von Stroheim's years as a screenwriter and director. He analyzes unproduced projects, variant treatments of completed works, and 'original' conceptions of the films later truncated by the studios. THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE presents the real story of Erich von Stroheim and… Read More

Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 1971 softcover. FIRST EDITION. APPEARS UNREAD with unmarked, crisp-edged, well-bound pages. Paper cover shows minor shelf-rubbing and minor edge wear only. This is NOT an ex-library book. A very good, very useful copy!

George Allen, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1955 FIRST EDITION hardcover with dustjacket. APPEARS UNREAD. Bright, unmarked pages and firm binding. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing and minor edge wear only (no tears). This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy, collectible, first edition copy!