Search Results: Authors starting with M from Classic Books and Ephemera

Plainfield, VT: Daughters, 1976. Paperback. Very Good +. [6], 160 p.21 cm. Paperback. A humorous novel about a young woman in Los Angeles who wants to be an artist and the various men in her life. In Very Good+ Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and tight.

West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 1949. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 16 p.; 23 cm. Blue wrapper with black wrapper title; stapled. Signed by the author at the upper edge of p. 1. This address opened West Chester's sesqui-centennial celebration on Sept. 27, 1949. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: lower corner of front wrapper slightly creased; clean and solid.

London: Charles Knight & Co, 1845. Hardcover. Good +. 256, 226 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine titles. Each title page has a title vignette. The first editions of two short novels by Scottish author Charles MacFarlane (1799-1858). Front fixed endpaper bears bookplate of the Rev. J. Congreve, Overslade. John Congreve opened Overslade private classical school near Rugby, England, by 1854. In the 1860s, George Farncomb Wright became his partner in the school; they dissolved their partnership for "the tuition of young gentlemen" in 1871. In Good+ Condition: rubbed; 1-cm. tear in leather at head of spine; front free endpaper and following blank leaf are detached but present; closed tear across title page of Legend; clean and solid.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine. 120, [8] p.; 20 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles and double-rule border. Publisher's advertisements on 8 pages following text. No dust jacket. First edition. The author, Patrick MacGill (1889-1963), was an Irish poet, journalist, and novelist who served with the London Irish Rifles during the First World War. After being wounded at the Battle of Loos in 1915, he was recruited into military intelligence and worked for MI 7b for the rest of the war. In this collection of poems written during the war, he expresses a positive and patriotic perspective. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; front free endpaper has vertical crease; clean and bright.

Mountain Valley, Va: Andrew Hess & Henry A. Showalter, 1853. Hardcover. Fair. Printed at the Office of Joseph Funk & Sons. 336 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black leather label with gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Green label on front fixed endpaper: "From Joseph Funk & Sons Cheap Printing and Binding Establishment." This appears to be the only work every published by Andrew Hess and Henry A. Showalter. The two volumes are paginated continuously and bound together. Very scarce. In Fair Condition: both boards are detached but present; loss of some leather on front board; title page is detached but present with loss along gutter, which results in minor loss from text on title page verso (To the Reader) but not from the title page itself; old repair holding back free endpaper to back board; old dampstain along lower page edges; foxing and occasional staining.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1885. Hard Cover. Good +. Lawson, Lizzie. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, and Griffith, Farran & Co., London. 31, [1] p.: frontispiece and 9 additional full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth spine with brown-and-white lithographed illustrations on green paper over boards. Floral endpapers. "Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg" -- from colophon. No date of publication. Title page and each page of text have small lithographed illustration. Inscription on front free endpaper verso: Margaretta R. Leeds, Christmas 1885. In Good+ Condition: cover is soiled and rubbed; corners of boards are rubbed, but spine is not frayed; front and back free endpapers are detaching; back hinge is weak; some soiling along margins of pages; otherwise pages and illustrations are clean and bright.

Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 160 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. White cover with dark blue spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Text is in Spanish and English. Presents 34 examples of domestic architecture from the 1970s, from works by Tadao Ando to Venturi/Rauch. Book is in Near Fine Condition: small discolorations on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: rubbed; slightly sunned along upper edge; clean and bright.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good +. Stated First Edition. viii, [2], 79, [3] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with printed paper spine label; color decorated paper over boards with printed paper label on front board. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. The author and illustrator, Elizabeth MacKinstry (1878-1956), was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Paris where she studied the violin with Eugene Ysaye. Her musical career ended by illness, she studied art. This was her first published work, which began her long career as an illustrator. In Very Good+ Condition: corners rubbed; minor loss at tail end of back joint; boards are very lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: Macmillan Co, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good +. Published September, 1935" in copyright statement. [16] p.: illustrations (including 5 full-page color illustrations); 29 cm. Green cloth with black cover title. Yellow endpapers. No dust jacket. Small bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper from The Book Shop, York, Pa. Two former owners' names on front free endpaper. In Very Good+ Condition: cloth along spine is slightly faded; minor soiling along edges of a few pages; otherwise, clean and bright.

Boston: Pratt and Company, 1843. Paperback. Very Good -. 103, [1] p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a nonce volume. With a collected list of works on international law, a sketch of the author's life, etc., by J.G. Marvin. The author, Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), was a Scottish jurist whose wide interests resulted in works on English and French history and politics. In Very Good- Condition: lacking wrappers; lacking upper corner of title page; "#1" in ink at head of title page; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 417 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with patterned blue cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title: Men and Books. No dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black. Includes reflections on books by many authors including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Santayana, Lytton Strachey, Agnes Repplier, Zona Gale, William Allen White, Max Eastman, H.L. Mencken, Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley, and the ever popular Anonymous, among others. In Very Good Condition: spine and corners are rubbed; covers slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

New York: Stage Publishing Co, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. 74 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Beatrice Lillie by Vandamm. Contents include: Propaganda vs. Hollywood by Archibald MacLeish [the failure of Hollywood to take sides in political crises] -- Are Tenors Lousy Lovers? by Lauritz Melchior -- Some Like It Sweet by Katharine Best [Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians] -- Americans by William Saroyan -- I Wanted To Be an Actress as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick by Katharine Cornell [part 5 of 6]. Photograph of Ethel Waters in Mamba's Daughters by Alfredo Valente. In Very Good Condition: edges slightly rubbed; vertical crease in front cover along spine; back cover slightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Stage Publishing Co, 1936. Paperback. Very Good -. Thurber, James. 100 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Contents include: Laugh, Town, Laugh! by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick [George Kaufman and Katharine Dayton's First Lady, and Bella and Sam Spewack's Boy Meets Girl] -- Playboys of the Western World by Stanley Walker [New York night club life] -- Preface to a Play to Come by George M. Cohan [Dear Old Darling] -- Starvation Amidst Plenty by Archibald MacLeish -- Goose Flesh and Brandy by Burgess Meredith [on first night jitters] -- A New High in Low Comedy by Clifton Fadiman with illustrations by William Auerbach-Levy [on the Marx Brothers] -- Nights of the Seven Stars by Irving Kolodin [Maurice Grau and the Metropolitan Opera House] -- Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman with color illustrations by Rex Whistler, set designer] -- Parts He's Liked to Play by Gene Lockhart [Joseph von Sternberg] -- costumes for Pride and Prejudice by… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good -/good. 128 p.; 21 cm. Green cloth with yellow spine title. Dust jacket. Publisher's advertisements on back flap and back section of dust jacket. The author, Lily MacLeod Glendinning (1907-1951), was a literary critic on the staff of the Ladies Home Journal. She wrote this account of her battle with cervical cancer, hoping to provide comfort and guidance to other women struggling with cancer. She referred to her doctor as "Dr. S.," presumably referring to Dr. Guy Lacy Schless (1929-2011), the former owner whose name is on the front free endpaper. Dr. Schless was at Pennsylvania Hospital for 55 years. On the reverse of the front free endpaper is written "By Lily MacLeod Glendinning." Attached to the half title page is a small note: "To our dear Guy -- whom we couldn't do without! Lily & Bets." The author's daughter was Elizabeth Carpenter Glendinning, known as Betsy or Bets. On the reverse of that, facing the title page, a photograph of a… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Paperback. Fine. [8], 47 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. ISBN: 0571207596. This group of poems was originally published in 1963, the year of the author's death. In Fine Condition.

Shannon, Ireland: T.M. MacGlinchey, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/very good. [4], 33, [3] p.; 21 cm. Light orange-brown cloth spine with grey paper over boards. Black cover title. Original glassine dustjacket. Grey endpapers. Loose, as issued, 1 leaf printed in red indicating that this is one of a limited edition of 450 copies (presumably in reference to the original 1940 edition). Colophon printed in red indicating that the Cuala Press printed 450 copies in 1940 and that this is part of the 1971 reprint by photo-lithography for the Irish University Press by Robert Hogg, printer. Scarce. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Glassine dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: 1-cm. closed tear from upper edge on either side at head of spine; otherwise, clean and intact.

Philadelphia: s.n., 1840. Sheet_music. Good. [16] p.: music; 32 cm. Lacking wrapper. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." These are not individual pieces of sheet music, but 11 songs published together. Contents: "My Boy Tammy," A Scotch Ballad [words by Hector MacNeill; arranged by John S. Macgregor] -- Oh, My Love's Bonny: A Celebrated Scotch Ballad; words by J. Finlayson; music by J. M. Muller -- There's No Land Like Scotland: A Ballad; composed by Edward J. Loder -- My Own One: Song; adapted to a Favourite Scotch Air, by David Lee -- My Bonnie Blue Eyed Lassie, O!: Scottish Ballad composed by Ch. Wodarch -- Adieu, Adieu, My Ain Sweet Land: The Words and Air by J. R. Mitchell; the symphony and accompaniment by J. Watson -- The Lass o' Gowrie, sung by Mr. Wilson -- Gentle Mary: Song; words by G. H. Barbour; music by Wm. C. Peters -- My Love is oe'r the Sea, Send Him Hame, an admired ballad, from the Melodies of… Read More

London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good +. Second Edition. viii, [2], 265, [3], 32 p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of illustrations; title vignette and in-text diagrams; 20 cm. Off-white cloth with gilt spine title and red cover title; red spine and cover series titles; cover illustration in brown. Black endpapers. List of title in The Badminton Library edtied by the Duke of Beaufort on 2 pages following text. Publisher's catalog on 32 pages following The Badminton Library series list. This title is part of a series identified on the cover as the Fur, Feather and Fin Series, but on the half title page as the Fur and Feather Series, six titles of which are listed on the half title page verso. Former owner's inscription on Contents page: "Alan T. Cairnes, Drogheda 1898." Alan Thomas Cairnes (1859-1902) was a director and general manager of the Castlebellingham and Drogheda Breweries in Drogheda, Ireland. In Very Good+ Condition:… Read More

Cleveland: Privately Printed, 1907. Paperback. Near Fine. [8] p., [1] leaf of a plate, loose, as issued: portrait; 23 cm. No stitching; loose in a brown wrapper, as issued. Wrapper title in black within a decorative border. Wrapper title: A Portrait of Shakespeare by Nicholas Parr printed from the original plate with descriptive text. This is #125 of a limited edition of 250 copies. The engraver is actually Nathaniel (not Nicholas) Parr (d. 1751) according to the Oxford DNB. The wrapper is handmade paper watermarked Fabriano Italy. The text is printed on handmade paper with an elaborate armorial watermark. Small label inside back wrapper for the Burrows Brothers, Co., Cleveland, Ohio (probably the printer). The plate was only previously printed in 1747 for inclusion in Thomas Whincop's A List of All the Dramatic Authors with Some Account of Their Lives. Very scarce. In Near Fine Condition: wrapper lightly creased; clean and bright.

Carlisle, ON: Walter Madden, 1976. Paperback. Good. [3], 50 leaves; 22 cm. Light blue card covers, stapled, with cover illustration. Walter Madden (1909-1993) lived in Carlisle, part of the municipality of Flamborough, which became part of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, in 2001. He wrote a number of books of poetry. Scarce. In Good Condition: staples are rusting; cover is lightly soiled; front cover starting to tear next to upper staple; text is clean and solid.