Search Results: Authors starting with M from Cox and Budge Books

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. First UK Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback bound in red cloth with printed black titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 141pp. Although meant for younger readers, this Russian history of lighting was well-regarded at the time. The illustrations are by Russian artist Nikolay Lapshin. Condition: Good condition for age. There is some light rubbing to the cloth boards and spine, but the contents are in very good order.

London: Macmillan, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, × + 186pp. Signed and dedicated by J M Craster to historian, author and anthologist Ann Powell. To many, the First World War conjures up exclusively a picture of trench warfare, in which the armies of both sides remained locked in the mud and despair of their static positions. The war of movement with which the conflict opened and closed is less well remembered. This book, originally published in 1976, is an attempt to correct that situation, by providing a detailed daily account of the actions of one of the finest of the battalions of the original British Expeditionary Force that crossed over to France in the summer of 1914, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards - The Models.The story is told in the words of the officers of the Battalion, few of whom survived the war, taken from their diaries and letters, and covers all the major actions of the first five months… Read More

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 15.5cm, 331pp. Signed and dedicated by Guy Patton to the ffep. A book in the tradition of 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' that links the Roman sack of Jerusalem in AD70, the sudden wealth of a priest in Rennes le Chateau in the 1800s, Hitler's SS, and the body of an Italian banker found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in the 1980s. Legend has long suggested that the treasure of the Jews was, following the Visigoth sack of Rome, brought to France. The Middle Ages' and Renaissance profusion of 'secret societies' - ranging from the crusading Knights Templar to the forerunners of today's freemasons - may have been established to protect this hidden wealth. It has remained a magnet for power seekers throughout history and seems to be the key to many mysteries: Rennes le Chateau, the origins of Nazi gold, the Vatican bank… Read More

Manchester: Carcanet, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 180pp. This is the compelling tale of the narrator's search for Lucy R., the young Scottish governess briefly described in Freud's Five Studies in Hysteria, in Vienna. Cecily Mackworth went to Vienna to uncover the identity of Lucy, but found that no records survived the great fire of 1845. Mackworth trudges through bourgeois Vienna, imagining Lucy and her life as well as exploring her own memories of the ruined city she had visited as journalist forty years earlier. Condition: The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper is sunned to the edges but otherwise good. It has not been price-clipped.

London: Duckworth, 1915. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Undated, 1915. Probable second edition. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 173pp. This edition issued in Duckworth Reader's Library. Ford Madox Hueffer's The Spirit of the People is a fascinating and thought-provoking exploration of the 'English mentality'. This book is part of an archive of books from Duckworth & Co, and was in the possession of Alice Thomas Ellis, the author, who was fiction editor. Duckworth & Co was run by her husband Colin Haycraft who had purchased it from Tom Balston. (Provenance: Trevanion & Dean). Condition: A good copy but with heavy chipping to the head of the spine and 'file copy' writ large in blue crayon on the title page (see explanation above). Small sticker to spine.

Paris: Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1923. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good / Fair. Reprint. Quarter leather binding, gilt titling to spine and marbled boards. 19 × 12cm, 313pp. French text. Maeterlinck's Wisdom and Destiny is a philosophical work being a reflection on life, death and the meaning of human existence. Maeterlinck explores themes such as wisdom, destiny, spirituality and the philosophy of life. It examines fundamental questions about the nature of reality, the meaning of suffering, and the search for inner truth. Condition: A good reading copy, in an attractive rebinding, with the original covers retained. The boards are rubbed and the pages quite heavily age-toned but nevertheless in good readable condition.

London: Penguin, 2019. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 336pp. Signed directly to the title page by Emily Maitlis. In this no holds barred account of life in the seconds before, during and after going on air, Newsnight presenter, leading journalist, and queen of the side eye Emily Maitlis gives us the insider info on what we don't get to see on-screen. Giving us the inside scoop on her interviews with everyone from Emma Thompson to Russell Brand, and Donald Trump to Tony Blair, as well as covering news stories such as President Clinton's affairs, Boris Johnson's race to PM, Grenfell, #MeToo, and that interview with Prince Andrew. Airhead is a brilliant exposé of the moments that never make the news. Condition: Very good, with a little bumping to the corners and a few small dings to the wrapper.

Toronto: ChemTec, 2019. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 23.5 × 16cm, 542pp. Databook of Curatives and Crosslinkers contains extensive data on the most important curatives and crosslinkers in use today. Forty groups of curatives/crosslinkers are included in the book. They include the following chemical groups of additives: acids, acrylamides, aldehydes, amides, amidoamines, amines, anhydrides, aziridines, borates, epoxy-functionalized polymers, carbamides, carbodiimides, chitosan derivatives, cyanamides, diols, glutarates, glycols, graphene oxide derivatives, hydantoin glycols, hydrazides, hydroxides, hydroxyl-containing moieties, imidazoles, isocyanates, isocyanurates, ketimines, maleimides, melamines, novolacs, peroxides, peroxyketals, phenols, polyols, salts, silanes, siloxanes, thiols, titanates, and ziconium derivatives. In total, 416 additives are included in the book.Information on each additive is divided into five sections: General… Read More

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Assumed first UK language edition. Hardback, bound in laminate boards as issued. 24 × 15.5cm, 415pp. This book was written originally as Rev. M. Deselaers' dissertation at the Papal Theological Academy of Krakow, Poland, with the title "God and Evil with Regards to the Life and Testimonies of Rudolf Höss, Commander of Auschwitz", and by the structure of its origin constituted a German-Polish bridge-building endeavor. It represents the fruit of the author's desire, as a German "after Auschwitz", to engage in peace work. Through his work and study he tries to participate in a living conversation, understand, together with those directly connected with "Auschwitz", how such a thing could possibly happen, and contribute to building a more peaceful future. The first part attempts to describe historical facts and covers the broad spectrum of the biography. This part refrains from… Read More

Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Gallery, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Paperback in wraps. 23.5 × 19.5cm, 160pp. Norman Cornish (1919-2014) set himself the task of recording what it was like to live in Spennymoor, a small mining town in north east England in the middle of the 20th century. He had little interest in anywhere else and the focus of his gaze has been sharp, true and unblinking. At the age of fourteen he began his working life as a miner at the Dean and Chapter Colliery and at sixteen he joined the Spennymoor Sketching Club, that enlightened educational and cultural project of the late 1930's that enabled a rich broadening of his artistic horizons. On his tutor Bill Farrell's advice, that he could do no better than paint the life he knew, he chronicled an entire way of life. Without diminishing the harsh realities of life and work, his paintings create a sense of time and place by depicting the lyrical qualities of his… Read More

London: Bruno Cassirer, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling and design to spine and upper board. 22.5 × 14cm, 270pp. This copy belonged to British artist David Heathcote (b.1931), who has signed the ffep. He studied at the Slade School of Art, worked in Zimbabwe and Nigeria for twenty years, an experience that would contribute significantly to his creative vision. With black and illustrations, this book contains Edgar Degas's letters from 1871 to 1910, with an index of recipients. Condition: Good condition. The book is a bit rubbed and bumped but in perfectly good readable condition.

London: Various. First Editions. . Hardback. Good to Very Good/Good to Very Good. Here are five hardback books in dustwrapper on William Shakespeare, his life and times, work and criticism. 1. D Nichol Smith, Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928). First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. Very good condition but with some tanning to the wrapper. Three lectures delivered at Brikbeck College, London, in 1927. 2. Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare as Collaborator (Methuen, London, 1960). First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. Very good condition. Discusses the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and the lost Cardenio. 3. Louis Marder, His Exits and Entrances, The Story of Shakespeare's Reputation (John Murray, London, 1964). First UK edition. Very good, the wrapper with some tanning to the spine and edgewear. Shakespeare's ups and downs. 4. F E Halliday, The Life of Shakespeare (Duckworth, London, 1961).… Read More

New York: Abrams, 2002. First Edition, Later Printing. . Paperback. Very Good. First edition, later printing. Paperback. 28 × 23cm, 208pp. We recognize the artistry of Mona Lisa's elusive smile, but is there an underlying science? In this groundbreaking study, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explains how vision works. She tells us how great painters fool the brain: why Mona Lisa's smile seems so mysterious, Monet's Poppy Field appears to sway in the breeze, Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie blinks like the lights of Times Square, and Warhol's Electric Chair pulses with current. Drawing on history and her own cutting-edge discoveries, Livingstone offers intriguing insights, from explanations of common optical illusions to speculations on the correlation of learning disabilities with artistic skill. Her lucid, accessible theories are illustrated throughout with fine art and clear diagrams. Condition: The book is in very good condition, with some light wear to the… Read More

Philadelphia: George W Jacobs & Co, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, quarter cloth with paper covered boards and tipped in cover illustration to the upper board. 25.5 × 22.5cm, 32pp. A charming book on finger plays for children, where actions predominantly with the fingers and hands but also with the arms, are acted out. Plays include ding-dong-bell, Little Boy Blue, Rub-a-Dub, Dub etc. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, with colour illustrations to the front cover and as frontispiece by American artist Clara Miller Burd (who was also known as a stained glass designer). Condition: Good condition for age. The boards and spine are rubbed and a bit scuffed but the contents are in good order.

London: Heinemann, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First edition, first printing. Hardback. 21 × 14cm, 357pp. Quite a scarce first edition from Italian educator, Maria Montessori. This volume concentrating on spontaneity in education. The chapters are: 1. A Survey of the Child's Life; 2. A Survey of Modern Education; 3. My Contribution to Experimental Science; 4. The Preparation of the Teacher; 5. Environment; 6. Attention' 7. Will; 8. Intelligence; and 9. Imagination. Condition: A reading copy only. The brown cloth binding is heavily scuffed and the inner binding is pulled at the front hinge. Taped strengthening to the corners, and previous owner's inscription to ffep. The main body of text remains in good readable condition, with occasional marginal annotation.

Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2007. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Good Plus. First edition. Large hardback in dustwrapper. 30.5 × 23cm, xi + 595pp. The collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, contains almost 200 drawings from the years in which Vincent Van Gogh worked in the south of France: Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. These are catalogued here in one extensive volume, which forms the largest and final part of the complete catalogue of Van Gogh drawings in the Van Gogh Museum's collections. In February 1888, Van Gogh settled in Arles, where he was extraordinarily productive, but sold no pictures, was in poverty and suffered recurrent nervous crises with hallucinations and depression. In May 1889 he went at his own request into an asylum at St Remy, near Arles, but continued during the year he spent there to produce delirious paintings and drawings. In 1889 Vincent's brother Theo married and in May 1890 Vincent moved to Auvers-sur-Oise to be near him. There followed… Read More

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 214pp. Signed without dedication to the ffep by Angela Livingstone. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky), Tsvetaeva was primarily concerned with the nature of poetic creation and what it means to be a poet. Among the most exciting of all explorations of this theme are the essays 'Art in the Light of Conscience', her spirited defence of poetry; 'The Poet on the Critic', which earned her the enmity of many; and 'The Poet and Time', the key to understanding her work. Her richly diverse essays provide incomparable insights into poetry, the poetic process, and what it means to be a poet. This book includes, among… Read More

Rome: Il Segno, 1944. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition, paper covers with stapled binding. 21 × 15cm, 38pp. Italian text. This is the text of a political conversation between Mario Baronci and Giuseppe Togni on the subject of Christian Democracy and Marxism, published in October 1944. Condition: Good condition. The covers are a little faded and creased to the edges the text in good condition but on wartime economy quality paper.

London: George G Harrap, 1918. Early Edition. . Hardback. Good. Early printing, hardback with printed titling to spine and gilt titling and silhouette to upper board. 19 × 13cm, 46pp. This copy has been signed by Italia Conti, the actress and founder of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. She has signed "Dorothy Secker with love from Italia Conti / Victoria Palace "Where the Rainbow Ends", New Years Day 1920 / In memory of the 'Tiny Fairy'". Dorothy Secker was an actress in the play, Where the Rainbow Ends. It was during an earlier production of this play that the theatre manager Charles Hawtrey asked Conti to train the children, which led to the foundation of her acting school. Illustrated with four colour plates by Margaret Tarrant, this is a collection of poetry for children presaging A A Milne's verse in style and content. Condition: The book is quite worn, with heavy rubbing to the corners. The pages are lightly foxed throughout and one plate is… Read More

Oxford: E W Morris, 1869. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good / Fair. First edition. Hardback, red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 25.5 × 15.5cm, 121pp [errata]. This copy has been initialled by the author (JMD) to Horatio Nelson Goddard, Esquire, in April 1869. The author was a Clerk of the Peace in Oxfordshire since 1831. Horatio Nelson Goddard was a JP for Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, and was active as a J.P. in dealing with the agricultural riots in north Wiltshire in 1830 (after the Salisbury Swing Riots). A history of Oxfordshire, arranged through the presence and events in the county of sovereigns and princes etc, with lists of County Court judges, Revising Barristers, Clerks of the Peace. The history begins with England under the Romans, through the Anglo-Saxons, Danish, Norman, Blois, Plantagenets through to Queen Victoria. Condition: The red cloth boards have mottled fading along the fore-edge, and light foxing to the first and last few pages but the main… Read More