Search Results: Authors starting with M from Graver & Pen Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1872. 1st US Edition . Hardcover. Good. Good Owner name and 1872 date in pencil on preliminary page, and same owner's nameplate on pastedown. Lightly cocked, a bit shaken, bit of fray to spine ends, still a decent, near very good copy.

NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. First edition. stated first edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good in very good dust jacket. null Yellowing to endpapers, else book very good. A few small chips to jacket, foxing to flaps, not price clipped.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1868. unknown . Hardcover. Fair. Fair to good. Complete, but wear though to cloth at corners and spine ends. Mild foxing, binding weak but holding. Illustrated with engravings. Translated by Mary L. Booth.

London: Thornton Butterworth LTD, 1934. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 1934 reprint, first thus, as part of the publishers "The Crime Cirlcle Novels." Front hinge weak. Dust jacket with inch square chip to lower spine.

London and Boston : John Lane / Roberts Bros, 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, 290 pages plus John Lane publisher ads at back. Stamp to front free endpaper, else very good. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley.

London: Martin Seker, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Presentation copy to noted publisher Grant Richards: "To Grant Richards from the publisher / 17.3.1922" Slant separating the inscription and date is characteristic of Machen's signature, but since his name is not written, presumed to be in the publisher's hand, rather than the author's. Some damage to cover, including chip to spine head. No printing date listed, but 1922.

Chicago: Covici McGee, 1923. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No. 728 of 875 copies. Former owner name on first blank. Decorative endpapers, hinges tight, pages very good, cloth cover with some signs of wear.

London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hinges cracked but holding, book plate. fading to rear board corner. Else good.

New York: Henry waterson Co., 1927. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early sci-fi / mystery tale of invisible robbers. Black cloth spine a little oddly rubbed, despite being in its original jacket. Possibly as published. Jacket with a few minor chips to edges, and expertly closed tear to lower front panel, from bottom edge to the "e" of "Professor."

London: Elkin Mathews, 1910. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Presentiation inscription from the author on title page "Hiblets (?) from Cromartie, Nov. 1910. Scarce. Minor crease to front board. The ghost of an Anglo-Saxon king, vampire-like, drains the blood of women and children after archaeologists begin digging a barrow. Sibell Mackenzie, The Countess of Cromartie,(1878-1962), was a president of the Spiritualist Society of Great Britain and romantic novelist, she was a famous society beauty of her day. Castle Leod was an inspiration to Diana Gabaldon's fiction Castle Leoch in her Outlander series.

London: Cassell & Company, 1895. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition with 1895 ads at back (ads coded 5 G. 5-95). Light foxing and a touch of wear to spine ends, else clean, tight copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1983. first edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket Inscibed by author. Stated first edition, signed by author to former owner on title page.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1979. first edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket Inscribed by author. Price clipped. Stated first edition, signed by author to former owner on title page.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1951. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition with Rhinehart logo on copyright page and white lettering on spine; jacket green and black. Bookplate to free endpaper, some minor rubbing to jacket edges, else very good or better. c.1951

London: Arnold, 1943. First edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Scarce collection of ghost stories by Malden, in the tradition of M.R. James. Malden was a member of the small circle of friends who heard James read his ghost stories aloud at Christmas, before he achieved fame. Former owner stamp to rear pastedown (mostly hidden under jacket flap), else a near fine book.

Hardcover. Fine/No dust jacket. Fine. No dust jacket. null 304 pages

The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean tight copy with no markings, very slight wear on cover

New York: Bookfinger, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover reprint of 1940 original by Wright & Brown, reproducing the pages in facsimile. Plain black cloth cover.

London: Wright & Brown, 1934. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A mystery in the author's Detective Coulson series. "First published 1934" statement on copyright with no additional printings.

Manchester: World Distributors, 1950. First edition. . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. Most of book very good, but damage to rear wrap, resulting in discoloration to corners (but no text loss) to last few pages.