Search Results: Authors starting with M from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Moskva / Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Malysh, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. E. Ioffe, L. Kartoshov. Staple-bound in die-cut card covers. Spine shows some rubbing-wear; minor soiling on rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Fully illustrated in color. 24 pp. 27.5 x 20 cm. Russkiye narodnyye pesenki dlya doshkol'nogo vozrasta. Russian folk songs for preschool age.

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1885. Hardcover. Fair. 1885 copyright. Previous owner's name on ffep (Floyd Vanbuskirk / Yamhill Co. [Oregon] / Feb 19th, 1888). Green cloth with gilt, red and black design and a pictorial onlay. Spots of heavy wear on front board and spine; general soiling. Several pages have a child's scribbling on them. Many b/w illustrations. 36 pp. 6.25" x 4". One copy (at the Library of Congress) noted on OCLC.

[Portland, Oregon]: [Executive Board of the Oregon and Washington State Federations of Women's Clubs], 1903. Soft cover. Fair. Wraps. Covers are edge-chipped, delicate, with a bit of loss along spine. Blue mark in upper corner of front cover. Small pencil check marks next to article titles, else pages clean. Approximately 46 pages (numbered pp. [263]-306, plus advertising). 10 x 6.5 inches. Scarce. Includes several pages of local advertising. Journal for the Oregon and Washington State Federations of Women's Clubs. Contributions from: Abigail Scott Duniway, Rose Hoxie Hoyt (one of the founders of and first president of the Portland Rose Society), Lischen M. Miller (sister-in-law of Joaquin Miller), and the Governor of Oregon, George E. Chamberlain. Includes a memorial poem by Abigail Scott Duniway written for the first president of the Portland Women's Club (Jane Clarke Card). Internet searches have not produced any matches for this poem (the original manuscript appears to be at the… Read More

New York: Exposition Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on ffep. Stated First Edition. Green cloth boards with dark-green lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a bit of chipping at head of spine and along top edge of rear panel; not price clipped ($3.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 134 pages. An action-filled novel about two young gold miners, both in love with the same women. Set in the early 1900's Alaska, with a backdrop of hard-bitten miners, gold strikes, a boom town, disasters, and a bank failure, the novel dramatizes both the internal and external conflicts of these three main characters. The author, Malcolm MacDonald (1881-1968), was himself a gold miner in Alaska between 1908 and about 1917. He was born in Nova Scotia, became a citizen of the United States in 1932, and made his home in Longview, Washington.

Boston, Mass.: The Stratford Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. First Edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chipped at head of spine; chip to bottom edge of front panel; wear at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Includes a glossary and a 56-item bibliography. xi, 252 pages. Critical of both speculation in investing and gambling, MacDougall discusses and defines gambling, draws its connections with crime, describes its ruinous effects--largely emphasizing stock and commodity gambling, and advocates for public education to combat its evil effects. He stresses that, while both the lower strata of society and the investment classes engage in wrong-doing, it is the crimes in ''high finance'' which adversely affects the greater number of people. Written a few years after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by Chicago attorney Ernest David MacDougall (1879-1949), who had previously… Read More

Physical Culture Publishing Co. and Macfadden's Physical Development, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth stamped in blind on spine. Letterpress. Some minor general wear and soiling to boards. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 21 photographs and six diagrams. pp. iv, 112, plus [2] advertising. 6.6 x 4.6 inches. Contents: [I] The Eyes. [II] Beautiful Eyes. [III] Strong Eyes. [IV] Dull Eyes. [V] Weak Eyes. [VI] Crippled Eyes. [VII] Diseased Eyes. [VIII] Constitutional Treatment. [IX] Massage of the Eyes. [X] Eyes Exercises. [XI] Eye Bath. [XII] Special Exercises. [XIII] Exercises for Constitutional Treatment.

Auckland, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1931. Soft cover. Good+. Sewn Binding soft cover has light wear to corners. Some spotting along spine edge. Light general surface soiling to wraps. Rare publication. 99 pp. 12cm x 18.5cm

Portland, Oregon: Reierson Machinery Co., 1910. Soft cover. Very Good. Staple-bound in printed wraps. No visible date (published circa 1910). 40 pp. Some illustrations. 9.25 x 6 inches. One copy noted on OCLC. Laid in is a two-sided price list showing both new and secondhand machinery. Mining and prospecting treatise and machinery catalog issued, circa 1910, by Reierson Machinery Company (182-186 Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon). Includes a few articles previously published in trade magazines between 1899 and 1909. Full title: Practical Treatise on Up-to-Date Prospecting for Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Coal, Etc. Blast Hole Work, Air Shafts for Mines, Oil Well Drilling, Etc. The continuing text on the front cover states that "This data has been gathered to assist and encourage prospecting with Drilling machines, and has been demonstrated to be the cheapest and most up-to-date method of testing any ground, at a very low expense and within reach of the average individual. Water… Read More

New York: John Day Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition (no other printings indicated). Gray cloth boards with a green angular, floral pattern. Very light edge wear to boards. Interior is clean. Dust jacket has some chipping at head and foot of spine and corners, chip-gouge on rear panel; a few closed tears; spine faded; rear panel toned; price clipped. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 269 pp. 8.25" x 5.75". Margaret Mackay (1907-1974). In the 1930's she lived in Peking and Tientsin, China. She moved to Hawaii and lived there until the end of the Second World War. Sharon is a novel of Hawaii, set in the time of King Kalakaua. A romantic drama which has its climax occuring at the Great Fire in Chinatown (Honolulu) in 1886.

London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., 1851. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes complete. Ex-library (non-lending). Half brown calfskin with morocco-grain cloth sides. Spine with five raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, brown and green morocco labels in the second and third compartments. No call number on spine. Sicker ghosts on top boards. Plain endpapers. Library plates on front pastedowns. Pinhole library stamps on the title page and one additional page in each volume. No pockets. Some minor pencil marginalia. Volume I has an engraved title page & frontispiece; Vol. II-IV have tissue-guarded frontispieces. 85 engraved plates in all. 4to. pp. 524, 452, 531, 656. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788-1850) was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834-1835 & 1841-1846) and one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834-1835) and twice as Home Secretary (1822-1827 & 1828-1830). The first three volumes were… Read More

Cody, Wyoming: Western History Publications, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. Softcover. Very slight wear to covers, else fine. Clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 23 historic photographs and one map. vii, 181 pages. A history of the Japanese-American 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) in World War II, composed of more than 1400 Nisei (the American-born children of Japanese immigrants), including about 650 from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. The battalion was later incorporated into the 442d Regimental Combat Team. The battalion(s) saw action in southern Italy, France, and Germany. Includes a Heart Mountain honor roll (noting those KIA), endnotes, a 10-page bibliography, and index.

Eagle Creek, Oregon: Creation Calendars, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed by MacMurray on title page. Fine. Dust jacket shows the faintest of handling; in a clear archival sleeve. 83, viii pages. 10.6 x 10.25 inches 73 stunning color landscape photographs by Oregon photographer John MacMurray, the first published collection of his work. These images captured are in turn majestic and elegantly sublime, displaying the wonders of nature's pristine places, ranging from the Oregon coast to the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon, and with select images from across the United States and around the world (New Zealand, Chile, the Canadian Rockies, Scotland, Switzerland). MacMurray's work has been published by National Geographic, Sierra Club, and many others. Includes a key with MacMurray's comments about each of the locations photographed. The book is divided into two thematic sections: Majesty and Serenity.

Clifton, NJ: Mohawk Paper, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good+. Pictorial wraps. One slight horizontal stress crease on spine. Slightly rubbed with very faint edge wear. 22 pp. (unpaginated). 12.75 x 10 inches. Color portraits of eleven graphic designers: Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Stephen Doyle, Michael Bierut, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Chip Kidd, April Greiman, Seymour Chwast, and Ellen Lupton. Includes brief notes by Madere regarding each image, the artist and the setting of the photo. Presented on Mohawk Kromekote paper. John Madere is a New York based, award winning photographer.

[Eugene, Oregon], 1976. Soft cover. Very Good+. Plain card covers. Light soiling and toning to covers. Interior is clean and unmarked. 76 black-and-white illustrations. [94] pages. 10.8 x 8.3 inches. No copies noted on OCLC. University work portfolio for the San Francisco/Bay Area architect David Cook Maglaty, AIA (1950-2020), featuring architectural and visual sketches and photographs of models. Maglaty received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1977. His professional portfolio included work for Ratcliff Architects, EHDD Architecture, Gensler, HMC Architects, NBBJ Design and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Maglaty's work was recognized with numerous awards over the years, including the prestigious AIA National Honor Award 2008 for the Units 1 and 2, Infill Student Housing at UC Berkeley (EHDD), as well as the AIA Santa Clara 2012 and San Francisco Honor Award 2013 for the Orchard School Library in San Jose (HMC). David was named a Fellow of the American… Read More

New York: Dial Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, stated first printing. Tail of spine pushed. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Publisher's remainder blue speckle-spray to bottom edge of text block. Dust jacket has very small spot of light wear to the bottom edge of front panel; one small closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel; not price clipped ($8.95). DJ in clear archival sleeve. 256 pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Though this was Maillard's second published book, it is actually the first book that he wrote. It is set in the fictional town of Raysburg, modeled on the author's own hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co. and Carey and Lea, Philadlephia, 1826. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Quarter cloth with plain papered boards; paper title label on spine. Spine material chipped. Inner hinges good. Foxing. Three maps (2 fold-outs), one fold-out plate and a handful of in-text illustrations. lxiv, 255, iv, 104, plus appendix 112 p. Narratives of the British expedition to the interior and central parts of Northern Africa and the Bornu Empire in 1822-24, conducted by Dixon Denham, Dr. Walter Oudney and Hugh Clapperton.

Lisboa: Na Impressao Regia, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards in quarter green, pebbled cloth with marbled paper sides. Gilt lettering and rules on spine. Number written in upper corner of title page, else pages clean. Includes errata page. pp. 252, [1]. 8vo. 147 x 105mm. Rare. Three copies noted on OCLC (Harvard, British Library, Institut catholique de Paris). A collection of poems by Joao Vicente Pimentel Maldonado (1773-1838), a Portuguese magistrate, writer, journalist, and participant in the gatherings of Nova Arcadia. He was also a liberal and a prominent Freemason and spent several years in prison and political exile. His Apologos received praise from the poets Almeida Garrett and Antonio Feliciano de Castilho.

Hachette et Cie, 1901. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fine binding. One quarter red cloth with marbled paper sides over boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and ornaments in compartments. Tight and well bound. Light shelf and edge wear. Marbled endpapers. Light penciling in upper corner of the decorative title page, else clean. Frontispiece and eleven full-page color illustrations by d'Alfred Paris; numerous black-and-white portraits of French commanders; 25 maps. Sewn-in green silk bookmark. pp. 406. An attractive and crisp copy. Accounts of twenty-nine battles fought by the French army in Belgium, Germany (including Switzerland), and Italy, between the years 1515 and 1859.

Elmont, NY: University Sports Publications, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Book has light bumping to front fore edge corners with small creases at corners. Light wear to wrap edges with a small crease to upper front edge. A little rubbing and a very few light scratches to wraps.

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.