Louisa Matthiasdottir Small Paintings
by Matthiasdottir, Louisa (art of)
NY: Hudson Hill Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Review of the smaller works of Icelandic artist Louisa Matthiasdotti (1917-2000). Plainly signed by her on the half title.
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Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
by Matthiessen, Peter
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth boards covered by original red dust jacket- lnearly perfect, 1/4 inch tear on bottom edge. An account of the struggles of the National Farm Workers Association (which he co-founded and later would become the United Farm Workers) and the late César Estrada Chavez--the Mexican-American farm worker,... Read More
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The Unknown Quantity
by Mauge, Gilbert. Leslie, Shane (translated by)
London: Fortune Press. Limited Edition. Cloth Boards. Fine/No Dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy - no prev owner names, inscriptions or bookplates. #224 of 800 copies.
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The Narrow Corner
by Maugham, W. Somerset. (Frederic March)
NY: Doubleday, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking Dw. First edition. Very good, lacking dw. COPY OWNED BY FREDERIC AND FLORENCE MARCH with their bookplate pastedown.
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The Physical Geography of the Sea . An Entirely New Edition
by Maury, M. F.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated "Entirely New Edition' on title page, includes Introduction to the First edition (1855) and Introduction to the Sixth Edition (1896), indicating this is the Sixth. Brown cloth, gilt device front, titles to spine, h8vo, pp. [iii]-xxiv, [1], 26-348, Plates V - XIII. Gift inscription dated 1952... Read More
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THE FOLDED LEAF
by Maxwell, William
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. An uncommonly well preserved copy of a title seldom found in as nice condition. Book is near fine, apparently unread copy - no names, no inscriptions in fragile, unclipped dustjacket lightly chipped about edges and lightly soiled on back panel. A collectible copy, indeed.
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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ANNE ISABELLA LADY NOEL BYRON from unpublished papers in the possession of the late Earl of Lovelace
by Mayne, Etehl Colburne. Bennett, Whitman (binder)
NY: Scribner's, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Half blue leather over light blue linen, gilt to spine, bound by Whitman Bennett for with stamp left corner verso ffe "Bound for Korner & Wood / by Whitman Bennett. Besides operating Bennett Book Studios at 41 West 57trh Street in Manhattan (apparently in the 1930-40s), in addition to... Read More
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The Bibiena Family
by Mayor, A. Hyatt
NY: H. Bittner and Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG. Near fine book in toned dustjacket with moderate chipping along edges and spine ends. INSCRIBED BY A. HYATT MAYOR on ffe in 1975.
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A NEW HOUSE BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON BEAR RUN PENNSYLVANIA
by Mc Andew, John
NY: MOMA, 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, pictorial paper covers. The original work on Falling Water. Wright's masterpiece. 3000 copies.
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EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY: A CRITICISM
by McAdam, D. J.
Boston: Richard G. Badger (The Gorham Press), 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Solid copy, lacking dustjacket. Bookplate pastedown.
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CHANGES Vol. 1 Number 1. July 1963
by McCallum, Tracy S (editor). Ponce, Charles H. (contributing editor). LaMonte Young, Jerome Rothenberg, Clauss Stamm, C.V.J. Anderson, Angus Maclise, Peter Pilafian, Lousi Gallo (contributors)
NY: Change Publications, 1963. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. CHANGES, about which little information is available aside from its contributors, was apparently a short-lived literary journal of the avant-garde printed in the lower East Side community in the early 1960s, which featured the early work of poets, philosophers and composers some of whom went on to have... Read More
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VIALA
by McClintic, Elizabeth C. (Hepburn, Katherine)
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Katherine Hepburn. Novel of a young woman from Indiana who leaves behind the young man she's supposed to marry and at university in Chicago takes up with a professor much older than she who "also wishes to accept her strange ideas about marriage"... Read More
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CENTERBURG TALES
by McCloskey, Robert. (Simont, Marc)
NY: Viking, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/VG-. First edition of two-time Caldecott medalist McCloskey's fifth book that he both wrote and illustrated. Inscribed to another Caldecott medalist Marc Simont and his wife on the illustrated half-title: "For Marc and Bee from Bob" Solid book. Dustjacket toned (more so rear panel), folds worn, chipped with loss at... Read More
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IRISH TRADITIONAL COOKING
by McCormick, Malachi
NY: The Stone Street Press, 1981. 1st Edition, limited. Soft cover. Fine. Set of series of three, limited edition booklets by writer and Stone Street Press publisher McCormick. Three pamphlets - uniform in format, string-tied spine, cover and spine title pastedown, stiff paper covers - in slipcase with title pastedown of uniform design. Three pamphlets are: Irish Bread... Read More
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BRITISH CIVILIAN MANPOWER IS THE MOST HIGHLY MOBILISED IN THE WORLD
by McCorquodale, Malcolm S.
London: (Parliament), 1943. No Binding. Good. Mimeographed copy of the original, typed manuscript of WWII, 11 page report by Malcolm McCorquodale, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and National Service. on the UK manpower supply for the war effort. McCorquodale, was M.P., Conservative Party. Undated, but statistics referred to in the detailed report are 1942. Other... Read More
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ANGELA'S ASHES
by McCourt, Frank
NY: Scribner, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine, apparently unread first printing copy, in fine, unclipped dw. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged: Four Stories
by McCourt, James
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Paperbacked Boards/Cloth Spine. As New/As New. Review copy. Black and white photograph of author laid in. Signed and inscribed at title page. Exemplary condition.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by McCullers, Carson; Albee, Edward
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Soft cover. Fine -/No Dustjacket. just a few creases, else fine, no previous owner markings.
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Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum
by McCullough, W.S.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Dustjacket.
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That Night
by McDermott, Alice
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. First Edition. Paperbacked Boards/Cloth Spine. As New/As New. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. A sparkling copy.
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BECAUSE OF HIM
by McDermott & McDough. Koestenbaum, Wayne (essay by)
NY: Chaim & Read, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Exhibition catalog. As new.
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The Origins of Angling and a New Printing of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle
by McDonald, John; Kuhn, Sherman and Webster, Dwight (contributors); Berners, Dame Juliana (treatise by)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963. Black and Beige Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine -. Howard, John Langley. Minor rubbing to spine ends, extremely faint thin darker stripe at front cover. Edges and corners sharp, text clean. Dj with slight smudging to edges, very light chipping to spine ends and corners. Closed tear right edge and top left... Read More
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DOUBLE EXPOSURE (4 volume set)
by McDowall, Roddy. (Powell, Jane). (Weber, Bruce)
NY: Delacorte Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collected four volume set of all of photographer (and juvenile movie star) Roddy McDowall'S DOUBLE EXPOSURE series, published in 1966, 1989, 1992 and 1993 (the first volume by Delacorte Press, all others by William Morrow). Each a first edition near fine in similar dustjackets. TAKE THREE and... Read More
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A SHORT WALK FROM THE STATION
by McGinley, Phyllis. McDonald, Roberta (illustrator)
NY: Viking, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Faded dustjacket, solid, clean book. McGinley's poetic ruminations about life and family in Westchester County. Wittingly inscribed by her on the ffe: "For xxxx who will understand suburbia better, Phyllis McGinley" The cute drawings by Roberta McDonald match the sentiment.
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ASYLUM
by McGrath, Patrick
NY: Random House, 1997. Advance Reader's Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Advance Reader's Copy, softcover. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. With different cover art than was used on the dustjacket of the hardcover first edition.
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