A F.E.B. pelo seu comandante [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed Twice]
by J.B. Mascarenhas de Moraes
Sao Paulo: Instituto Progresso Editorial, 1947. Very Good. São Paulo: Instituto Progresso Editorial, [1947]. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies reserved for the author of which this is no. XXIX. Thick octavo; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; 341pp.; plates throughout, including folding color maps. Limitation page signed by the author, with accompanying lengthy signed author inscription in Portuguese... Read More
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![Shelter for the Spirit: How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic World [Signed with ALS to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/157/158/1289158157.0.m.jpg)
Shelter for the Spirit: How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic World [Signed with ALS to William Safire]
by Victoria Moran
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Very Good/Very Good. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on full title to journalist William Safire with inscription "April 1997, To William Safire -- You encouraged me twenty-one years ago to write books. Doing so is now among my greatest joys. With gratitude -- Victoria Moran."... Read More
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Highlights from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
by Mordechai Omer [ed.]
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005. Very Good/Very Good. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,431pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Moderate shelf wear and dust-soil to textblock edges, else a Very Good copy.
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La Paix Pour Destin: Quatre Nobel Aux Vies Croisees
by Daniel Morgaine
Paris: Denoel, 1994. Very Good. Paris: Editiones Denoel, 1994. French-language. Signed by the author with brief inscription to fellow writer and journalist William Safire and his wife Helene on half title. Octavo; 302pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly shelfworn but clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. French journalist... Read More
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![The Gunroom [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/290/756/1582756290.0.m.jpg)
The Gunroom [Signed]
by Charles Langbridge Morgan
London: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1919. Very Good. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Signed by Charles Morgan without personalized inscription and dated July 1933. Octavo. 348 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Bookplate of American writer Frederic Prokosch to front free endpaper. Slight lean to boards;... Read More
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![Boone: A Biography [Limited Edition, Signed by Morgan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/946/1596946162.0.m.jpg)
Boone: A Biography [Limited Edition, Signed by Morgan]
by Robert Morgan
Chapel Hill / Asheville, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / A Shannon Ravenel Book / Captain's Bookshelf, 2007. Fine. Chapel Hill / Asheville, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / A Shannon Ravenel Book / Captain's Bookshelf, 2007. First Edition, one of 100 copies specially bound in cloth and signed by Robert Morgan, this being #96. Octavo.... Read More
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![Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion [Limited Edition, Signed by Morgan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/163/946/1596946163.0.m.jpg)
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion [Limited Edition, Signed by Morgan]
by Robert Morgan
Chapel Hill / Asheville, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / A Shannon Ravenel Book / Captain's Bookshelf, 2011. Near Fine. Chapel Hill / Asheville, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / A Shannon Ravenel Book / Captain's Bookshelf, 2011. First Edition (stated, with full numberline), one of 52 copies specially bound in cloth and signed by Robert... Read More
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The Purpose of American Politics
by Hans J. Morgenthau
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Very Good +/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition Stated. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in price clipped dust jacket with rubber-stamp price cancel ($5.00); xi,[1],359,[1],viiipp. Long closed tear with subsequent creasing to front jacket panel, spine panel toned and bottom inch bleached (?) white, corners nudged; overall a... Read More
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Fifth Avenue Bus: An Excursion Among the Books of Christopher Morley
by Christopher Morley
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First Edition Stated. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth, yellow topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Galdone retaining original price ($2.00); mixed paginations. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine a bit faded, cloth rather mottled, front hinge starting, otherwise a... Read More
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Streamlines [Signed]
by Christopher Morley
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1936. Very Good/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); x,[4],290pp.; frontispiece. Dust jacket margins rather chipped and worn with coin-sized loss at top fore-edge corner of upper panel not approaching text, red portion... Read More
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![In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill made the following Report. [To accompany bill No 108] [Senate Report, 37th Congress, 2d Session, Rep. Com. No. 12]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/561/934/1680934561.0.m.jpg)
In the Senate of the United States. February 13, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morrill made the following Report. [To accompany bill No 108] [Senate Report, 37th Congress, 2d Session, Rep. Com. No. 12]
by Lot Myrick Morrill
Washington, DC, 1862. Very Good. Washington, DC? s.i., 1862. First Edition. Octavo; 2pp. broadsheet (22.5x14cm) removed from larger volume. Margins toned, else Very Good. Speech delivered by the firebrand abolitionist and Senator from Maine Lot Myrick Morrill (1813-1883) regarding a bill providing for "the emancipation of the slaves in this District, with just compensation to loyal... Read More
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![The Territory Ahead [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/082/595/1615595082.0.m.jpg)
The Territory Ahead [Signed and Inscribed]
by Wright Morris
[New York]: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Very Good -/Very Good. [New York]: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.9 cm), xvi, 231pp. Black publisher's dust jacket intact with price ($4.50) and author's photo on the back flap. Boards bound in light teal paper with a light teal cloth backed spine and silver stamping on... Read More
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The Miniature Monitor: Containing All the Monitorial Instructions in Blue Lodge Masonry, of Thomas Smith Webb
by [Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints; Masons] Thomas Smith Webb; Rob Morris
Chicago: John C.W. Bailey, 1864. Very Good +. Chicago: John C.W. Bailey, 1864. Seventh Edition. 12mo; publisher's brown embossed cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt; 176pp. Light rubbing and bumping to cloth margins; binding sound; light spotting to terminals, else unmarked; Very Good or better. An ante-fire collection of Masonic instructions by Thomas Smith Webb, the author of... Read More
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![Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/566/1534566075.0.m.jpg)
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution [Signed]
by Allison D. Morrison-Low
Hampshire, UK: National Museums Scotland / Ashgate, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. Hampshire, UK: National Museums Scotland / Ashgate, Hampshire, UK. First Edition. Signed by Morrison-Low with brief inscription to photo-historian Larry Schaaf. Octavo. 408 pp. Black and white illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with some creasing and... Read More
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![A Mercy [Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/150/390/1616390150.0.m.jpg)
A Mercy [Signed Bookplate]
by Toni Morrison
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition, stated. Publisher's bookplate signed by Toni Morrison mounted to half title. Octavo. 167 pp. Printed dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show a touch of wear to extremities. Binding sound and pages... Read More
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5); publisher’s simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by Kate Cary retaining original price (£4.95); 164pp. Dust jacket gently rubbed and toned along edges; speck to top of rear panel at verso. Spines nudged; binding sound; pages unmarked;... Read More
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![North Toward Home [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/963/906/1721906963.0.m.jpg)
North Toward Home [Signed]
by Willie Morris
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Very Good-/Very Good-. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [10],438pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket and top textblock edge quite foxed, corners nudged, slight spine lean; a Good to Very Good example overall. Signed... Read More
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The Defence of Guenevere: A Book of Lyrics
by William Morris
Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Very Good. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Limited Edition, numbered 45of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Octavo (8.5" x 4.5); xciipp. Illustrated card covers with yapp edges. Covers a bit toned along edges and more heavily down spine, with a few surface creases. Yapp edges at fore-edge and top folded inward over... Read More
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Plato's Law of Slavery in its Relation to Greek Law
by [Plato] Glenn R. Morrow
New York: Arno Press, a New York Times Company, 1976. Very Good +. New York: Arno Press, a New York Times Company, 1976. Reprint. Octavo. 140 + 2 pp. advertisements. Pale blue-green boards stamped in navy. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to boards and binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.... Read More
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A Sermon, Delivered Before the Ancient & Honourable Artillery Company, in Boston, June 6, 1803, being the anniversary of their election of officers
by Jedediah Morse
Charlestown, MA: Samuel Etheridge / Manning and Loring, 1803. Very Good. Charlestown, MA: Printed and Sold by Samuel Etheridge, near the Square. Sold also in Boston, by Manning and Loring, No. 2, Cornhill, 1803. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 32pp. ([A] B-D4, collated complete). Moderate foxing to textblock, more heavily to final gathering, remnants of old leather along spine,... Read More
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Amedeo Avogadro: A Scientific Biography
by Mario Morselli
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company / Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1984. Very Good. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company / Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards; xi,[1],375pp.; half tone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned, else Very Good and sound.
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![Like Men Betrayed [With Two ALS from Mortimer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/345/952/1721952345.0.m.jpg)
Like Men Betrayed [With Two ALS from Mortimer]
by John Mortimer
London: Collins & The Book Society, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins & The Book Society, 1953. First Edition. Two ALS from John Mortimer laid-in. Octavo (20cm). Unclipped dust jacket. Light gray publisher's cloth binding. Light gray topstain. 254 pp. Dust jacket foxed with some rubbing and edge wear, closed tear at crown of spine but... Read More
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A History of the Gamma Eta Kappa Fraternity of the United States of America 1882-1928
by L.G. Moseley
Los Angeles: The 11th Grand Conclave Gamma Eta Kappa Fraternity, 1928. Very Good.. Los Angeles, CA: The 11th Grand Conclave Gamma Eta Kappa Fraternity, 1928. Revised Edition. Octavo. 73 pp. Black and white photographs including frontis; two-page illustration listing the perished from WWI. Blue cloth decorated in gilt. No dust jacket. Light soiling and smudging to... Read More
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Sammelband of Six Late 18th-Century American Ordination Sermons
by Moses Adams et al.
V.p.: v.i., 1797. Very Good. V.p.: v.i., 1797-1799. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary limp blue paste-paper boards. Boards a bit rubbed, most notably along spine, textblock uniformly toned, binding a bit tight with text along gutter edges of some leaves just barely visible, else a Very Good, sound copy, all contents collated complete. Contemporary ownership signature... Read More
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![Callus On My Soul [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/538/929/1695929538.0.m.jpg)
Callus On My Soul [Signed]
by Dick Gregory; Shelia P. Moses
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 2000. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $25.00 price intact; black boards with red lettering; [xvi],301pp; black and white photographs. Jacket lightly shelfworn. Boards sturdy and square with light nudging to spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.... Read More
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