![A Year in Spain [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/600/781/1585781600.0.m.jpg)
A Year in Spain [Two Volume Set]
by A Young American" [Alexander Slidell Mackenzie]
London: John Murray, 1831. Very Good. London: John Murray, 1831. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; 12mos; contemporary navy blue calf over marbled boards; xi,[1],413,[3]; vii,[1],377pp. Minor rubbing to leather and boards, brief occasional foxing to textblocks, else a Very Good, quite attractive set. "If, by accident, this work should find favor among his countrymen, some apology for... Read More
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![South Africa: Its History, Heroes and Wars [Salesman's Dummy] [Cover title: The Library of South Africa]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/858/1632858745.0.m.jpg)
South Africa: Its History, Heroes and Wars [Salesman's Dummy] [Cover title: The Library of South Africa]
by W. Douglas Mackenzie
Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1900. Good +. Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1900. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (24 cm); mixed pagination + 1pp ad + 8pp unused order sheets; illus. throughout; 51 plates including frontis. Boards full bound in dark green cloth, a pasted black and white illustration to front cover, with maroon and gilt stamping. Spine example folds... Read More
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The Silent People
by Walter Macken
New York: Macmillan, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan, 1962. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (24.3cm); [x],371pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in blue and gray cloth with blue illustration to front and green and magenta lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with shallow tears and rubbing along edges and spine ends, scuffing... Read More
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The Scorching Wind
by Walter Macken
New York: Macmillan, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan, 1964. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); [viii],308pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with blue lettering. Jacket shows shallow chips, tears, and creasing along edges, with scuffing to surface and down folds and some general smudging and toning to white... Read More
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Playbill to "The Moving House
by [Women's Educational and Industrial Union] [The Children's Players] Pauline Bradford Mackie
Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1915. Very Good. Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staple bound wrappers printed in blue, black and gilt, title cancel mounted to upper cover; [20]pp.; illus. ads throughout. Light wear from handling, brief split along spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Playbill... Read More
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![Secrets & Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/669/533/1638533669.0.m.jpg)
Secrets & Other Stories [Signed]
by Bernard MacLaverty
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 130 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges with general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear with brief scuffing along top edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of the MacLaverty’s... Read More
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The Doomsday Book
by J. Maclaren-Ross
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1961. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1961. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue and green boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket edgeworn with a few minor nicks and creases; moderate to heavy foxing. Boards worn and bumped along edges and binding is sound;... Read More
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The Story of Mary MacLane
by Mary MacLane
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1902. Very Good. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red decorative cloth stamped in white, top edge gilt; 322pp.; frontispiece. Rubbed at edges with a few minor scuffs; stamping a trifle faded. Board corners and spine ends bumped and boards bowing slightly at fore-edge. Binding sound. Previous owner's name... Read More
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Night Without End
by Alistair MacLean
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First American Edition. Octavo. 287 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with several short tears and one longer closed tear to rear panel along top edge. Touch of... Read More
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![Rest You Merry [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/021/872/1689872021.0.m.jpg)
Rest You Merry [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Charlotte MacLeod
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1978. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [4],182pp. Dust jacket rather toned and lightly dust-soiled, moderate wear with a few tiny chips, spine... Read More
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![[Unpublished Typescript Draft] Train 68](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/455/333/1685333455.0.m.jpg)
[Unpublished Typescript Draft] Train 68
by W. Macqueen-Pope
Muswell Hill, London, 1950. Very Good+. Muswell Hill, London: n.d., ca. 1950s. Quarto (27.5cm); black post-pound wrappers, two typescript labels (title and ownership) mounted to upper cover; [2],16ll. carbon typescript printed on rectos only. Light wear from handling, upper cover labels a bit foxed and lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good or better. Typescript label on lower right-hand corner... Read More
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The Unknown War with Russia: Wilson's Siberian Intervention
by Robert J. Maddox
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1977. Near Fine/Very Good. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; ix,[3],156pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Light wear including a few tiny chips to jacket margins, a hint of rubbing to cloth extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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From Plan to Planet: Life Studies - The Need for Afrikan Minds and Institutions
by Don L. Lee (aka Haki R. Madhubuti)
Detroit / Chicago: Broadside Press / Institute of Positive Education, 1973. Very Good. Detroit / Chicago: Broadside Press / Institute of Positive Education, 1973. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated card wraps; 159pp; photos. Covers lightly shelfworn, with toning to rear panel and a few scuffs to surface. A couple thumpbrints to first page, else interior... Read More
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![We Walk the Way of the New World [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/506/884/1694884506.0.m.jpg)
We Walk the Way of the New World [Signed]
by Don L. Lee [aka Haki R. Madhubuti]
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970. Very Good. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970. First Edition. Signed by author Haki R. Madhubuti (formerly named Don L. Lee) with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo. 71pp. Illustrated wraps. Rubbing to wraps; curling to corners; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.
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![Think Black [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/158/1702158443.0.m.jpg)
Think Black [Inscribed and Signed]
by Don L. Lee [a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti]
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1969. Very Good. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, [1969]. Third Enlarged Edition, 12th printing. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers; 24pp.; Wrappers a bit worn and rather dust-soiled; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed on half title page by the author using his Swahili name, "to Betty,... Read More
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![Directionscore: Selected and New Poems [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/495/171/1702171495.0.m.jpg)
Directionscore: Selected and New Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
by Don L. Lee [a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti]
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1971. Very Good. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, [1971]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's navy blue card wrappers; 208pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, small damp spot at top edge of textblock, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [5] using his Swahili name, "to Betty -- Love... Read More
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Some Do Not..
by Ford Madox Ford
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. Very Good. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 329pp. No jacket. Boards quarter bound in black and orange cloth with black stamping to spine. Board corners worn at corners with bumping to corners and spine ends and a deep abrasion to spine center that doesn't break the surface.... Read More
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![Poesie del Sig. Marchese Scipione Maffei Volgari e Latine [Two Volumes in One]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/473/1694473140.0.m.jpg)
Poesie del Sig. Marchese Scipione Maffei Volgari e Latine [Two Volumes in One]
by Scipione Maffei
Verona: Presso Antonio Andreoni, 1752. Good. Verona: Presso Antonio Andreoni Libr. su la Via Nuova, 1752. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (17.5cm); 19th-century roan over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine; [4],270; 319pp.; woodcut title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces. Ex-19th century library with internal rubber-stamps to title page, leather quite dried, spine darkened and... Read More
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Letterheads of the World
by Idea Magazine
Tokyo: Takeo Co. Ltd, 1977. Very Good. [Tokyo: Takeo Co. Ltd., 1977.] First Edition. Large, slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 56pp.; chiefly letterhead examples, four original examples bound in. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. A fascinating compilation of letterhead designs with accompanying bilingual text in Japanese and... Read More
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American Fabrics - No. 17, Spring, 1951
by [Textile Arts - Trade Magazines]
[New York]: Doric Publishing Company, 1951. Very Good. New York: Doric Publishing Company, 1951. Folio (36.5cm.); original stiff pictorial card wrappers; 143pp.; extensively illustrated throughout, including three mounted plates (one die-cut), mounted samples of "Vicalaire" and resin in clear celluloid envelopes, and forty-nine (49) cloth samples. Light soil to rear cover, general shelf wear, especially along spine edges,... Read More
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![Mongrel Nation Issue One [All Published?]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/286/518/1702518286.0.m.jpg)
Mongrel Nation Issue One [All Published?]
by Magdalena Zurawski [ed.]
Providence, RI: Magdalena Zurawski, 2000. Very Good. Providence, RI: Magdalena Zurawski, n.d., ca. 2000. Quarto (28cm); pictorial staple bound self wrappers; [4],43pp.; illus. Upper cover toned and a bit soiled, light edge wear, else Very Good. Evidently the only issue published of this DIY poetry zine put together by then-Brown University student Magdalena Zurawski. The contents open... Read More
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Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti
by Maggie Steber; Amy Wilentz [intro.]
New York: Aperture Book, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: Aperture Book, [1991]. First Edition. Slim folio; publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 96pp.; chiefly color photographs by Steber. Light shelf wear, jacket lightly wrinkled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. "It's hard to imagine a more singular work of profoundly sympathetic documentation" - Jonathan... Read More
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The Icons of their Bodies: Saints and their Images in Byzantium
by Henry Maguire
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition, cloth issue. Black and white reproductions. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Very light rubbing to edges of dust jacket; white discoloration to bottom edge of boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine.
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Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes
by Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire
New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2008. Very Good +/Very Good +. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Quarto. 338pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth boards stamped... Read More
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The Road to God Knows Where
by Sean Maher
Dublin: Talbot Press, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],157pp.; illus. throughout. Minor chipping to jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, boards a bit soiled, gift inscription to half title, else Very Good and sound. Personal and sociological account of itinerant culture in... Read More
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