The Princess and Curdie
by MacDonald, George. Nora S. Unwin (illustration)
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. MacDonald's 1883 fantasy published as part of MacMillan's New Children Classics series with illustrations by Nora Unwin, and first edition thus. Front gutter partially revealed, else better than very good in unclipped, moderately worn dustjacket with a slightly sunned spine and closed tear front panel. ... Read More
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYAM THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY EDWARD FITZGERALD
by MacDougalll, W. B. (decorated by). Fitzgerlad, Edward (translation)
London: Macmillan, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth, 4to, unpaginated, title page in red and black, the rest in black. Green cloth faded, covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine, internals fine. 1908 gift inscription ffe. Solid reference copy.... Read More
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Yankee Fantasies
by MacKaye, Percy
NY: Duffield, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Five one-act plays dealing with New England subjects. Fine copy in good dw chipped with some loss at edges.
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AN ESSAY ON SOME SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH TASTE
by Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart
Edinburgh; London: Caledonian Mercury Press for Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, and Longman, Huirts, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce first edition, metaphysical meanderings of Baron Mackenzie, leading to biological questions about the size of the brain and intelleigence, among other things. Rebound in full mottled leather, gilt rules and cevices front and back, more... Read More
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The Gold-Headed Cane
by Macmichael, William
London: John Murray, 1828. Second Edition. Quarter Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Newly rebound, raised spine with five compartments, gilt-pressed leather title and gilt hand-tooled decorations, marbelized boards and new endpapers. Slight tonoing to leaves, old ownership signature in florrid hand title page. Illustrated with engraved frontis, vignettes and decoartions throughout text. 8vo. 267pp.
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The Home-Life of a Golden Eagle
by MacPherson, H. B.
London: Witherby & Co, 1910. Second Revised Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good +. Illustrated By the Author. Spine ends and cover corners worn, spine edges slightly rubbed. Minor foxing to pastedown, endpapers through title page, but text and b&w photographs clean. 32 mounted plates. Binding tight, text clean.
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GHOSTS AND GREASEPAINT: A STORY OF THE DAYS THAT WERE
by MacQueen-Pope, W. (Popie)
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Memoir by British theatre historian/author and publicist MacQueen-Pope known as Popie (1888 - 1960). Inscribed on the ffe: "To my friend Mr. J. S. Walsh who loves London + our theatre + who may find some old friends + some amusement in this book, which I send... Read More
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The Horticultural Exhibitor: A Guide to Success
by Macself, A. J.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Dj. Very minor foxing to first few pages before text. Spine gently sunned, corners slightly bumped. "For Review" stamp at half-title. Some black and white illustrations. Solid copy.
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De Justinia Romanarum Legum Libri Duo: In Quibis Primùm Ius Civile à Communis Scholå Calumnÿs Vindicatur
by Maestertio, Jacobo
Lugdunibatauorum: Joannis Maire, 1634. Hardcover. Very Good. Early legal treatise written by James Masterton, who published in Latin under the name "Jacobo Maestertio." He was born in Flanders in 1610 and travelled around Europe, before becoming Professor of Law at Leiden University in 1630. Small piece missing at top of slightly darkened spine, minor spottting to covers, corners... Read More
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Father De Smet: Pioneer Priest of the Rockies
by MAGARET, Helene
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Solid copy. Unclipped dustjacket, panels miderately toned, spine more so. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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THE DEER PARK: A: PLAY
by Mailer, Norman
1st paperback edition. Soft cover. Good. First Dell paperback edition. Covers moderately worn. Leaves toned (pulp stock). SIGNED by Mailer on title page. Mailer's signature is not uncommon, but on this title in this version it is.
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Cristal De France
by Federation Des Cristalleries et Verreries a La Main
Paris: Lallemand, 1967. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine -/No Dustjacket. edges slightly rubbed, internally fine and clean with no previous owner markings.
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Lettres d'un missionaire a` Pekin : contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de supple?ment aux me?moires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages des Chinois
by (les Missionaires des Pekin). (Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan)
Paris: Nyon, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in qaurter leather, black leatehr label spine. 8vo, vi+368, sides trimmed, stained red. Internals quite nice. Second edition, with advertisement for both first and second edition, plus errata sheet, in front. CHINA JESUITS.
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CONVERSATIONS OF MYTHOLOGY
by Mair, John (printer)
Edinburrgh: Printed for Macreadie, Skelly and Co, 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, quarter leather over paper-backed boards, woodcut frontispiece, 89p wth errata. Printed by John Mair. A series of six conversations, the first entitled "Six Celestial Gods", observed among Mr. Wentworth, George and Harry. Covers edgeworn, hinges revealed, still holding. With the bookseller ticket of John Wardlaw,... Read More
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Swallow the Lake
by Major, Clarence
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. just the slightest bit of scuffing, else fine, not price clipped, no previous owner marks.
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DENIS DUVAL
by THACKERAY W(illiam) M(akepeace)
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1867. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition bound in burgundy full fine grain Moroccan leather by Riviere , triple ruled covers, six compartments of gilt with devices to spine, inner dentelles. Front cover cleanly detached and requires recasing. Internals fine. Two bookplates from noted American bibliophiles Sherman P.Haight and Anne Lyon... Read More
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700:
by Malcolm, James Peller. Hutton, Alfred (copy owned by)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Second edition, three volumes bound as one. 8vo. 422, iii, 341, iii, 331. Illustrated with 18 plates, 12 hand-colored. Copy owned by English fencer and antiquarian Alfred Hutton (1839 - 1910) and bound in the customary fashion for which his library was known, this... Read More
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L' Apres-Midi D'un Faune
by Mallarme, Stephen. Benton, William (translator)
Santa Fe: Pyramid Editions, 1976. First Edition Thus - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Authier, W. C. C. D.. A new translation by William Benton, with drawings by WCCD Authier, and a preface by Guy Davenport. This #63 of 280 copies signed by the artist and translator on the colophon and additionally inscribed and dated NYC 1991 by translator... Read More
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Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay in Two Volumes
by Mallory, Daniel (editor) (Clay, Henry)
NY: Robert P. Bixby & Co, 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publishers narrow ribbed dgreen cloth, blind stamped and ruled with gilt-pressed image of Henry Clay monument front cover both volumes, gilt titles to spine. Covers lightly soiled, edges/corners moderately worn, prelims lightly foxed, text bright and clean. Slight loss tips of spine. Solid copies.... Read More
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DRAGONWYCK
by Mankiweicz, Joseph L. (Seton, Anya)
(Los Angeles): Twentieth Century Fox Fim Corporation, 1945. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FINAL SCRIPT dated February 8, 1945. Stamped on front cover. "FILM is a CRITICAL MATERIAL - CONSERVE it" (World War II was winding down.). Handwritten notation "Only File Copy" and stamped "VALUABLE RETURN TO 20th CENTURY FOX STORY DEPT." alos on front cover, along... Read More
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A LETTER TO THREE WIVES
by Mankiewicz, Joseph L. (screenplay by). Caspery, Vera (adapted story). Klempner, John (original story)
LA: 20th Century Fox, 1948. Soft cover. Near Fine. Photocopy, likely 1970s/80s, of the final script dated May 19, 1948 Released by 20thCFox in 1948, LETTER TO THREE WIVES is romantic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern. The film was adapted by Vera Caspary and written for the... Read More
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Old French Nursery Songs
by Mansion, Horace
New York: Brentano's Publishers. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Dj. Anderson, Anne. Undated, but previous owner signature at front pastedown reads 1925. Illustrated. Front cover of binding slightly scuffed.
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Frank Lloyd Wright To 1910: The First Golden Age
by Manson, Grant Carpenter
NY: Reinhold, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. An apparently unused copy in unclipped dw, closed tear front panel, sl chipped and tanned spine.
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PICTURE OF A FACTORY VILLAGE:; to which are annexed, remarks on lotteries, by Sui Generis: alias, Thomas Man
by (Man, Thomas)
Providence: Printed for the author, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First editon, plain covers, cloth backed. Wood engravings on thin blue paper precede title page. Small stain at gutter of blue leaves and a larger stain in the rear signatures, else internals lightly foxed here and there, edges spotted. Solid binding. Ticket for Walter M. Murdie,... Read More
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THE BEST PLAYS OF . (21 volumes): 1919/20 (1), 1921/22 - 1938/39 (17) and 1943/44, 1945/46 and 1947/48
by Mantle, Burns
NY: Dodd Mead, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Each very good+ condition, some browning to paper spine labels, all missing dws except for 1935/36 which is just fair, and 1945/46 which is about good. Some first editions, other later printings.
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