Search Results: Authors starting with M from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), bumped and with some creases and tears at the edges. Blue cloth, faded at the eges, pushed at the corners, with red ink panels and silver and gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's bookplate and signature inside the front board and on the front endpaper, stamp of MacArthur on the title page. MacArthur's memoir finished just weeks before his death.

New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Good. ALS tipped-in to the front board. Twentieth Printing. Good, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, generally toned and stain, rubbed at the edges and corners, a chip to the paste-down on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, former owner's name on the front endpaper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Macdonald on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, soiled at the back panel. Quarter brown cloth with blue paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, blue top stain, clean internally. The 13th Lew Archer novel, one that sees him investigating the supposed French political refugee lover of a beautiful young woman.

New York: Bantam Books, 1955. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed twice by MacDonald. Good. Wraps lightly bumped, a tear and chip at the bottom of the front, soiled and with some scars at the rear. Firmly bound with a forward lean, toned pages. A collection of seven Lew Archer short stories originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1954.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Patterned paper on the boards, generally toned, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, black top stain, US Navy stamp on the front endpaper, library pocket inside the back board, generally toned. A nice enough ex-Navy library copy of the third Lew Archer novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly toned and rubbed. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded at the top edge. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain clean internally. A Lew Archer detective novel.

New York: Greenberg Publishers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.75), lightly rubbed and soiled at the back panel. Grey buckram with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An inter-planetary love story from the famed mystery novelist.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good. Black buckram, bumped at the edges and corners, with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with a red top stain and some reading wear, former owner's name on the verso of the front endpaper, clean otherwise. An Anthony Gethryn mystery.

Santa Barbara: Cordelia Editions, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Edited by Ralph B. Sipper, who has signed the contributors page. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($25), lightly rubbed and toned, chipped at the top edge of the back panel. Green cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of two of Macdonald's essays on the role of detective novels in modern literature as well as more than two dozen essays from various writers paying tribute to the late author.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclippe (£14.99), generally rubbed and bumped, a few small closed tears. Beige paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with toned pages and a slight forward lean. Macdonald's award-winning memoir about training goshawks after her father's sudden death. "Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed, multiple chips, tears, and creases throughout. Paper on the boards, faded and rubbed at the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, dark top stain, former owner's name inside the front board, clean otherwise. Macdonald's fourth Lew Archer novel.

London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Black cloth, rubbed and lightly bumped at the corners, faded on the spine. Bound with a forward lean, front hinge cracked, top-right corner of front endpaper clipped. The second Anthony Gethryn novel.

New York: Viking Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($45.00). Red paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. With many illustrations by George Desains and Charlotte Schaller. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped, sticker over price on the spine, generally rubbed and soiled. Red boards, blind design on the front board, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board, some rubbing at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Mack's account of what she has "lived, absorbed, and observed in various residences in Paris at two or three year intervals, covering in all a period of fifteen years." A loving account of late-19th, early-20th century Paris, profusely illustrated with in-text drawings and complete with its original illustrated jacket.

Wakefield: Moyer Bell, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of short stories from the Scottish author written over a span of twenty years.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Grey buckram with red and black ink lettering and rules on the spine. Square and firmly bound, dusted at the top edge, clean internally. A detailed of Smedley's life and work, from her days as a school teacher to her work as a birth control pioneer, socialist journalist, freedom fighter, and advocate for Indian independence.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Later Printing. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the half-title page, clean otherwise. Maclean's collection of three semi-autobiographical stories, adapted into the 1992 Robert Redford film starring Brad Pitt.

New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), pulling to the laminate. White boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a light gray top stain, clean internally. A collection of soliloquies spoken by custodians tasked with guarding Snow White's glass coffin.

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), toned at the flaps, lightly rubbed at the edges. Quarter black cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. MacPherson's "comprehensive study of the war's impact on the generation that was asked to fight it," the product of more than 500 interviews.

Detroit: Lotus Press, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Drawings by Beverley Rose Enright. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Madgett to Enright on the half-title page. Near Fine. Wraps toned at the spine, faintly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An early work from the press founded by the former Detroit Poet Laureate.