Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes
by McKinney, Emma and William
Chicago: M. A, Donahue, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. According to the McKinneys, the authors, "in the art of cooking the 'Old Southern Mammy' has few equals.." so the book presents the recipes from the memory of Aunt Caroline Pickett, a famous Virginia cook. (Another time, another place.) Plaid-cloth covered boards with title pastedown with an image of... Read More
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Mary Anne's Garden
by McLean, Mary Anne
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. McLean, Mary Anne. Remainder mark bottom edge. Jacket spine slightly faded. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color (pastels).
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Waiting to Exhale
by McMillan, Terry
New York: The Viking Press, 1992. Advanced Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Near Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Covers slightly rubbed, else near fine.
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Mama
by McMillan, Terry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/NF-. The dustjacket would be as new too, except for an area of surface abrasion about the size of a fingernail at the middle of the rear panel.
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RIDING THE BOOM EXTENSION
by McPhee, John
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1983. First Edition Limited. Soft cover. Fine. Fine in fine marbled self-wrappers, printed title label front cover. #46/150 copies, signed by McPhee below the limitation.
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HEIRS OF GENERAL PRACTICE
by McPhee, John
NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Special printing for the medical profession, published in trade paperback format. Articles that first appeared in The New Yorker (like many of McPhee's titles) about physicians dedicated to family practice. Published in the same year of the death of McPhee's father, who was a general physician... Read More
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ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ARCHDRUID : NARRATIVES ABOUT A CONSERVATIONIST AND THREE OF HIS ENEMIES
by McPhee, John. (Brewer, David)
NY: Doubleday, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+/NF-. McPhee's telling of the confrontations of militant environmentalist David Brower (founder of Friends of the Earth, etc) over mineral exploration on Western wilderness lands, development of Hilton Head oceanfront, and the damning of the Grand Canyon. Signed by the book's subject - the Archdruid himself, David Brewer - on the... Read More
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OUR AMATEUR CIRCUS or A New York Season. The Greatest Show on Earth - Society! Truthful, Moral, Instructive
by H. W. McVickar
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. H. W. McVickar. Oblong 8vo, publishers cloth with gilt titles and decoration front, rebacked. Wonderful, pictorial satire of New York in the Gilded Age. 48 pages, of chromolithographs. Professionally rebacked, some loss to silk moire cloth around edges. Internals fine. A solid copy.
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PEOPLE AND PLACES
by Mead, Margaret
NY: World Publishing, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Warmly inscribed and dated Christmas 1959 by anthropologist Mead to the grandchildren of author and close friend Edith Cobb, whom Mead met at Columbia University while Cobb was doing graduate studies. Some rubbing to spine largely confined to about an inch square chip at the spine... Read More
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SERMON, ADDRESSED TO THE TEMPERATE
by Mead, Asa
Portland (Maine): Shirley & Hyde Printers, 1827. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Temperance sermon by Asa Mead, pastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick (Maine). 20 pages, string-tied binding, lacking front and rear cover and a narrow diagonal strip bottom of page with attendant loss to a few words at the beginning of the last line at... Read More
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PUSSY CAT TALKS TO HER KTTTENS
by Mead Fannie E. Doyle, E. Drummond
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. A beautifully preserved copy in dustjacket. Pictorial pastedown on blye cloth, just about fine all around, apparently unread. No names, bookplates, etc. Dust jacket with same pictorial, slightly soiled with a tiny piece gone in the middle of the spine. THE collectible copy.
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THE JAZZ IMPROVISATION SERIES - 4 volumes, complete set
by Mehegfam, John. Leonard Bernstein (preface, #1). Harold Arlen (preface #2)
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. Complete set. #1 Tonal and Rhythmic Principles, 4th printing, 1969. #2 Jazz Rhythm and the Imporvised Line, 3rd printing, 1969. #3 Swing and Early Progressive Piano Styles. #4 Contemporary Piano Styles. Each with original price of $4.95. Covers a tad worn, corner missing from front cover of #4, internals... Read More
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VERRUFENE MALEREI
by Mehring, Walter
Zurich: Diogenes, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY MEHRINg on the ffe: "With compliments from Walter Mehring ASCONA - Ticcina August 1961" Near fine book in very good dustjacket.
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Nicaragua June 1978-July 1979
by Meiselas, Susan. Rosenberg Claire (editor)
NY: Pantheon, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Inscribed to photo researcher at Aperture by Meiselas: "For Susan for being interested. Susan Meiselas 2/7/84". Dustjacket slightly rubbed with a short closed tear top edge and some incidental edgewear.
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A Bibliography of the Collected Writings of Edith Wharton
by Melish, Lawson McClung. (Wharton, Edith)
New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett/ The Brick Row Bookshop, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. Book was dampstained so pages are "mottled", red covers unaffected in originla dustjacket worn around edges. Good reference copy.
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NO JERUSALEM BUT THIS
by Menashe, Samuel
London: October House, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Menashe on the half title: "For xxxxx May you go rfom strength to strength. April 14, 1973 Samuel Maenashe. Cambridge, a sunny afternoon" On the verso of the ffe: "Le Primavera ha venido. Nadie sabe como ha sido" and then below in English translation: "New spring has... Read More
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Latin Poetry: The New Poets and the Augustinians
by Mendell, Clarence W.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967. Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Corners and edges of binding sharp. Text clean. Dj with no tears and no chipping. No previous owner inscriptions or signatures.
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Lieder Ohne Worte (Songs Without words)
by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
New York: S.T. Gordon, 1867. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine +/No Dustjacket. volume one of 8 books, a beautiful collection of some of the Lieder, in a very sturdy brown cloth volume, advertisments in the rear for numerous other classical titles, clean throughout.
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COMMENTARII TOTIUS S. SCRIPTURAE, ex optimis quibusque authoribus collecti, luculentissimo supplemento locupletati a doctissimo patre Renato Josepho Tournemine. atque in tres tomos distrbuti in hac novissima editione (Tomus Tertius)
by Menochius Jean-Etienne.; Menochius, Joan Stephani
Venetis Old, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. Old (18thC?) half calf over marbelized boards, worn, missing leaher over spin, 6 raised bands, still firmly bound, internals lightlly foxed but still quiet good. Volume 3 only of the 1771 edition.
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The Real Book About Franklin D. Roosevelt
by Merriam, Eve
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1952. First Edition. Cloth Spine/Paperbacked Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Davis, Bette J.. Decorative boards, navy blue spine. Interestingly illustraded pastedowns and free endpapers. Text clean, binding tight. Dj with slight chipping to spine ends. Right edge, front panel lightly rubbed. Small closed tear top right corner rear panel. Exemplary copy.
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Yale Poetry Review - Volume I, Number III
by Merrill, James et al.
New Haven: Yale Poetry Review, 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Contains Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill earliest works while he was finishing his undergraduate degree at Amherst College, after returning from WWII military service. Includes three Merril lpoems "The Summer Park", "The Wintry Garden" and "Beginner's Greek" plus an essay "The Transformation of Rilke" Merrill's... Read More
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Short Stories
by Merrill, James. (Deren, Maya)
Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1954. First Edition - Limited. Soft cover. Very Good. Significant association copy between poet James Merrill and close friend, filmmaker and artist Maya Deren. Limited edition, copy 181/210. Thin 8vo, marbled wrappers, printed label. Slightly darkened about edges, small chip upper right corner front cover and separating at folded spine for about the top... Read More
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Short Stories
by Merrill, James
Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1954. First Edition - Limited. Soft cover. Very Good. Copy 195/210. Thin 8vo, marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine, unused copy.
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The Fire Screen
by Merrill, James
London: Chatto and Windus Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Rust Paper-Backed Boards. Fine/Near Fine -. Laid-in ALS to someone who requested a signed copy, and signed by Merrill at title page. Gilt bird pressed into front cover, edges and corners sharp, text clean. Dj with mild soiling to panels, purple phoenix pictorial extending from front to rear panel. ... Read More
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Three Years in Chili
by [MERWIN, Mrs. George B.]
NY: Follet, Foster and Company, 1863. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, early printing. Most copies are dated 1861; this copy has 1863 on both title page and copyright. 8vo, blind-stamped, green pebbled cloth, gilt titles spine, viii, 158. Some soiling to top of front cover, gilt dulled on spine. Some spotting here and there internally. Solid,... Read More
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