Search Results: Titles starting with M from McBlain Books

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. frontis (in each vol.), photos, index, xvi, 536, viii, 531p. Blue cloth. 23cm. Moderate cover bumping and wear. Contents sound and clean. No Jackets. Madame Novikoff argued on behalf of Russia's interest so vigorously that Lord Beaconsfield dubbed her "the M. P. for Russia in England." Includes a chapter on "The Armenian Question" [pp. 364-392].

Macon, Ga: Arthur L. Wood, Agt, 1878. Very Good. Sheet music. [[8]p. including four pages of music and an illustrated wrapper. 35cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Trimmed (probably when bound). Moderate browning around edges. Lettering on front cover in red, blue and gold. Copyright held by F. W, Helmick, a music publisher in Cincinnati. At head of cover title: To the Macon Volunteers 2nd Ga. Battalion. Music only, no words.

n.p., 1940. Good. Broadside. 46 x 29 cm. Horizontal and vertical fold marks. Modest edge-wear and short tears, mostly at top. Some light purple spotting around edges. Price list for sales to the trade for hair products that seem to be aimed at African Americans which the company was offering in retail sizes and in "beauty and barber shop" sizes. Products included hair dressing, hair straightner [sic] and pomade for men, pressing oil, croquinole(?), Seven Flowers Brilliantine, Crud-o-line Scalp oil, body deodorant and cream cologne for men and women.

Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka,", 1964. Paperback. Good. 158p. Wrapper. 21cm. Ex lib. Cover wear. Russian text.

San Francisco: Examiner, 1898. Paperback. Very Good. color illustration, musical score, (4)-pages. Folded sheet of newsprint. 35 cm. Pages browned. Cover illustration shows an African American couple, dressed to the nines and arm in arm, leaving the stage entrance of a theater. "Supplement" to the San Francisco Examiner of March 27, 1898."

Paris: Payot, 1933. Paperback. Very Good. Translated by M. Lafarge. 303p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. French Text. Her account of life with Lenin whom she married in 1898.

Barcelona: Editorial Ahr, 1955. 1st Spanish ed. Hardcover. Good/Good. Translated by Luis Solano Costa. frontis, photos, maps, 542p. Original cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket has some chipping and wear. Text printed on rather high acid paper which is now browned. Tear on one leaf repaired with archival tape. Typed letter from the Foreign Rights Dept. at McGraw-Hill to co-author Chamberlain laid in. The letter advises that McGraw-Hill is sending a copy of this book and expresses the hope that he is pleased with the attractive presentation of his book in Spanish translation.

New York: Morris Abrams Inc. Hardcover. Very Good. xxv, 569p. Flexible black covers. 28cm. Moderate spotting on upper portion of front cover. No Jacket (presumably as published)l.

London: Butterworths, 1963. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. index, xxi, 309p. Original black cloth. 22cm. No Jacket.

New York: American Tract Society, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (portrait), ills, folding map, 438p. Cloth. 18cm. Light cover soil and wear. General history and survey; minor missionary content.

Hamden: Archon Books, 1979. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. maps, photos & illustrations (grainy reproduction), index, x, 310p. Original black cloth. dj. 22cm. Two light streaks on front cover.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1901. 1st Ed. in English. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, maps (including 3 color, one of which is folding), index, xiii, 242p. Cloth. 24cm. Scuffing and minor fraying along extremities. "H-58" lightly inked in white on backstrip. Translated by H. A. Nesbitt.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 color illustrations (including frontispiece), 146p. Brown cloth; gilt decorations and lettering on front cover. 21cm. Foxing on half-title and list of other book. No Jacket.

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1843. Hardcover. Good. 158p. Original blindstamped red cloth. 15cm. Spine sloped. Cover somewhat soiled and worn. Moderate foxing. Temperance tales about the evils and disaster brought on by succumbing to the temptation of strong drink.

Paris: Albert Morance, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. 34p. text plus 70 plates. Rebound in later buckram with each plate individually stubbed by the binder. 27cm. French text. One column article about the author clipped from a 1964 issue of "The New Yorker" and mounted on a blank leaf at end of volume. The former owner did not like plates loose in a portfolio so he had this neatly rebound in the 1960s.

Madrid: Libraria de la Viuda de Hernando, 1895. Hardcover. Good. portraits, illustrations, 305p. Flexible red cloth. 20cm. Minor cover spotting. Text browned. Last text leaf pasted down making one suspect that some text is missing at end. Guias-Jorreto (series). Spanish text. A travel guide. Guias-Jorreto (series).

New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1970. Paperback. Near Fine. [4], 144p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Swahili text.

Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1974. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 226p. Original wrapper (with a dj). 25cm. Minor scuffing and wear on Jacket. Italian text.

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1886. Hardcover. Fair. frontis, illustrations, 214p. plus (6) unnumbered pages adverts. Original brown cloth. 18 cm. Extremities, joints, etc. rubbed and rather worn. Contents printed on acidic paper which is now browned and fragile (although still intact and not chipped although needing to be handled with care). Rear hinge weak (endpaper split and worn along hinge and the exposed webbing is split at both ends). Kellar is little remembered today but he was a major American magician offering large stage shows during the latter portion of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Much as Houdini sometime later, Kellar was openly dismissive of the legitimacy of spiritualism and openly challenged spiritualists to produce any effect that he could not replicate convincingly -- Chapter XIII. The Spiritualist Excitement at pages 94-105 is devoted to this subject. Most of this book recounts his travels here and there around the globe (South America, Australia, India,… Read More

Paris: Jose Corti, 1967. Paperback. Good. 350p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Cover browned. Spine concave. Contents lightly browned. INSCRIBED by Zimmermann (as "Eleonore"). From the library of Thomas and Liliane Greene.