Search Results: Titles starting with M from The Book Closet

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996 Red boards with black tape binding; red foil lettering on spine; spine is tight and pages are clean; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; stated First Edition; previous owner's name on ffep. "'M' is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construciton, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different outlooks, temeraments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them - angry, troubled, and in trouble - went missing." -- from the dj

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996 Red boards with black tape binding; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. "'M' is for money. Lots of it. 'M'is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands." --froom the dj

Putnam Adult, 1997 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955 Tight spine and pages; dj has tears and chips; Brodart dj cover; price on dj flap of $3.95

Dutton Adult, 1986 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 White cloth binding with some soiling in places and silver foil lettering; pages are yellowed with age; dj has minor dings and is protected with a Brodart cover; not price-clipped. "...an epic tale of heroism and passion, of adversity and triumph, all surrounding the adventures of one wonderfully appealing and extraordinatry young woman. Maia - a simple bu instinctively brave and generous girl whose deeds will become legend...who will be celebrated as well for her revishing beauty, which she alone understands is both a blessing and a curse." -- from the dj.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1920 Blue boards with black lettering; top of spine edge is tattered; bottom of spine edge shows wear; edges show shelf wear; Duluth Central High School Library stamps through and pocket on back board. Pictures available upon request.

Hyperion Books, 1996 1st Edition; Sticker Residue on Back of DJ

Crown Publishers, 1990 1st Edition

New York: Crown Publishers, 1985 Tan boards with peach cloth overlay; embossed signature on front board; stated First Edition; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. "In this third and long-awaited novel in the acclaimed Earth's Children series, Ayla, the independent heroine of 'The Clan of the Cave Bear' and 'The Valley of Horses,' sets out from the valley on Whinney, the horse she tamed. With her is Jondalar, the tall, handsome, yellow-haired man she nursed back to health and came to love." -- from the dj

New York: Crown Publishers, 1985 Illustrated endpapers; tight spine; clean pages; stated First Edition; dj protected with Brodart mylar cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901 Burgandy boards with pictorial cover; spine bumps bottom and top; writing inside front cover: Sunday School 1907, Merry Christmas from Mrs. Deal to Thomas Wright; loose pages in back; special edition limited to 50,000 copies

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905 Green boards with ivory printing and gold hour glass on front board and spine, embossed eagles on front; 477 pages with advertisements for additional Bobbs-Merrill Company titles. "In the early eighties Fairport considered herself a city; but she was, in fact, an overgrown, delightful town sprawling among the low hills of the Mississippi Valley. Near enough the town's origin still to distinguich its outlines, but remote enough to idelize them, the old settlers were a power, and could be found of a sunny afternoon at Luke Darrell's livery stable, busy with the apotheosis of the days when they shot quail before breafkast; true brotherly love prevailed among men; and the river was the highway of commerce." -- opening paragraphs.

New York: Tor, 1993 Black boards with copper lettering on spine; light sticker residue on front of dj; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In recent weeks, three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Even Lt. William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop, hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the macabre severity of the crimes...worse, he doesn't have a suspect." -- from the dj

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2006 First edition; green boards with black tape binding; gold foil embossed letteringon spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night whereyour life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse, but who the hell cares, so long as it changes. It must have been a night just like that, yeah, if only I could remeber it." -- from the dj

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 Blace boards with gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and protected with a Brodart cover; there is some creasing of the edge of the djh. "It's the early 1980s -- the country is in a ddep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafes on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful Englishmajor, iswriting her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels." -- from the dj

Toronto, Ontario: Doubleday Canada, 1999 Pristine copy of the Canadian printing. Taller of the two printings. No spine creases; bright, crisp cover colors. The final novel in David Wingrove's brilliant epic. "The Great Experiment has failed. The Ten Thousand Year Empire of the Han has lasted less than two centuries and now not a single stack remains of the great city of ice that once covered the habitable earth. Eurpie is Devore's, America is a brutal dictatorship, while the rest of the globe groans beneath the rule of callous warlods." from the back cover. Pictures available upon request.

Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1993 Yellow spiral binding; bright pictorial cover; gently used. Signed on the back of the front cover: Dawn Wells, Mary Ann." It appears to be Ms. Wells' signature, but not authenticated. Foreward by Bob Denver. Contains cast photos and stories as well as hand-picked recipes.

New York: Wings Books, 1991 Grey boards with black spine; red lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; previous owner's sticker on ffep. Contains the complete novels: "Weep No More, My Lady"; "A Cry in the Night", and "Stillwatch."

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918 Red boards with black lineart drawing on front cover; edges are bumped and front cover is faded; spine is faded and has a slight slant; some pages are loose