Search Results: Authors starting with M from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1958. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 48 pages. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white reproductions. A few pencil notations in text. First edition..

St. Louis, MO: Albert Aloe Co. Opticians, 1951. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First (presumed) edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Printed pamplet with greenish paper wrappers and staple bound. 8 pages of text, printed on pink paper. Several hand corrections in pencil. Communism, Asia, Military..

London: No publisher, 1837. Autograph. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. One page letter, entirely handwritten and signed by Macaulay. Written from Holly Lodge, Kensignton, London, February 23, 1857. Written to J. H. Herbert, Esq. The letter reads "Sir, I have never had a private secretary; and I never heard of such a person as Mr. Winthrop Park. I have [three words indecipherable], your obedient Servant [signed] TBMacaulay. A fine example of Macaulay's autograph..

Chicago, IL: Law Bulletin Publishing Company, 1994. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). xii, 275 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Lengthy inscription (probably authorial) on front endpaper. Illustrated with numerous historic photographs, maps and facsimiles of ephemeral items. Company History, Publishing, Legal. A clean, tight and attractive copy of this publication..

Stirling, Scotland: Eneas MacKaye, 1935. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). Canadian literature; Scottish literature; music. 112 pages of text including an index and blank note pages. 22.5cm; hardcover binding; paper covered boards. Price-clipped dustjacket with several small tears and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Discussion of the source of song used by St. Lawrence river boatmen, first recorded in Blackwood's Magazine , September, 1829..

Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). viii, 360 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Non-circulating library stamps on endpapers and publisher's page. No markings on spine..

New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2001. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First paperback edition. Octavo (8vo). xii, 436 pages of text including an index. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. Illustrated by numerous black & white plates. Text is clean and unmarked. First paperback edition..

Edinburgh, UK: Canongate Books Ltd., 1996. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). 729 pages. Minimal rubbing to extremities of paperback binding. No highlighting or underlining. Includes contributions by dozens of authors..

Spokane, WA: Shaw & Borden Co., 1904. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 237 pages, illustrated with a frontisportrait. Inscribed by her husband G.L. MacGibbon and given as a Christmas/New Years' gift 1908. Binding is white decorative cloth, slightly darkened on spine, and overall lightly soiled. One signature (gathering) is loose. Includes travel to Portland, Salem, Astoria and the Columbia River, Oregon; Helena, Butte, The Wilamette Valley, Great Falls, Anaconda, The Columbia River and Pullman, The Palouse Country, Montana; Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia Canada; Walla Walla, Spokane and the Inland Empire, Bellingham, Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Washington; also Idaho, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and the Potomac, New York City, Boston, Fredericton and the Marine provinces, Chicago, St. Paul to Livingston, Yellowstone National Park, etc..

Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1923. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xiv, 177 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal rubbing and minimal shelfwear. The price-clipped dustjacket is heavily sunned on the spine, with two scratches/perforations, and several small chips, tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. Contains eighty plates in half-tone and more than eighty in-text illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First American edition..

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1947. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [32] pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor bumping to corners; extremely clean and bright with affixed front-cover illustration in color. Unclipped dustjacket with minor sunning to spine, a few tiny chips and tears, and overall minor shelfwear and soiling; attractive and protected in archival mylar. Sixteen pages and the endpapers are illustrated in full color by Zabeth Selov; the remaining sixteen pages are illustrated in black & white..

Lausanne, Switzerland: Collection de l'art brut; Foundazione Galleria Gottardo, 1996. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong octavo (8vo). 111 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. No dustjacket as issued. Illustated with 26 black & white images and 30 color plates. The text is in French, with some of the preliminary text also supplied in English. The text is clean and umarked. First edition..

London: Carbonnek, 1890. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 355 pages of text. Full dark green leather binding by Hatchard of London, with sunning to the spine rendering it an attractive brown color, and the start of a crack to the front hinge. Illustrated by an engraved frontis and nine black & white plates. Number 59 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Minor and consistent browning to the paper, with a few spots of discoloration scattered here and there. The first four pages (including front endpapers) suffer from a very small loss due to insect damage, but it is very minor but remains a distraction. Otherwise, a very attractive edition of this book, rarely found illustrated..

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). x, 161 pages of text including an index. Paperback binding with slight sunning to spine, and a small tear to the top of the spine. Publised by the Committee for Economic Development. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1972. Book. Fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 392 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover cloth binding. Unclipped dustjacket with very slight rubbing to extremities, and one tiny tear on rear panel; protected in archival mylar..

Macon, GA: J. W. Burke, 1923. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. World War I; Afro-Americans; 96 pages [1] page ads; 19.6cm; khaki cloth binding, slightly rubbed; frontisportrait from photograph; margins of first few pages stained; owner marks. War amputee..

Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). xix, 386 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover aquamarine full leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration. All page edges gilt. A facsimile of the London 1908 First Edition. Illustrated with numerous graphs, in-text drawings, and five folding charts. No bookplate or previous owner's marks. Includes the publisher's pamphlet "Notes from the Editors.".

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc, 1970. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). xii, 364 pages of text including an index. Dark blue hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. No dustjacket. Illustrated with nine black & white maps. This is a reissue of the 1940 edition. No highlighting or underlining or previous owner's names..

London: Alan Ross Ltd., 1965. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [vi], 344 pages. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. No dustjacket. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Edinburgh: Printed by James Clarke, et al., 1811. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 88 pages of text. Original paper-covered boards, rebacked with modern matching paper spine and a new printed paper spine label. Inscribed by the author on the blank page facing the first page of text "For Mrs. Hepburn of... with best respects from the Author." It appears as though the same hand has attributed the unstated author of "The Mermaid" to "the late Dr. Leyden" which is written in the bottom margin, an attribution that is indeed correct. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. 222mm x 136mm (8 11/16" x 5 3/8"). First edition..