Search Results: Authors starting with M from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Ludlow, Vermont: Rev. Fred MacArthur, [circa 1938-early 1940's]. [2], 62, [1] pages, plus frontispiece portrait. Printed music throughout. Original printed wraps. 23 x 16 cm. Good plus. Light foxing and soiling to wraps; frontispiece foxed; foxing to p. 31, mostly affecting gutter; and a few traces of marginal foxing and soiling elsewhere. Apparent FIRST EDITION. Contains over 60 hymns performed by Rev. Fred MacArthur as the "Singing Parson" on WNBX Radio of Springfield, Vermont beginning in the late 1930's. A brief preface (p. [2]) discusses the history of the show, which was sponsored by the Wellwood Furniture Company of Springfield and was begun two years before this book was published. MacArthur (b. 1907), a native of Belmont, Mass., was the pastor of the Ludlow Baptist Church in Ludlow, Vermont. None of the songs contained in the book are his own. The most frequent contributors were Bentley DeForest and Alfred Henry Ackley; Charles H. Gabriel; and C. Austin Miles.… Read More

London: George Routledge & Co., 1858. Small 4to. xv, [1], 391 pages, plus frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous engravings by the Brothers Dalziel after works by J. Everett Millais, Birket Foster, John Tenniel, and many others (some full-page, but all reckoned in pagination). Original full brown morocco, extensively decorated in blind, with gilt spine lettering. All edges gilt and tooled in a crisscross pattern. Evidently a publisher's deluxe binding. [23 cm.] An attractive ex-library copy with no external markings and only light internal markings. Tasteful bookplate of Sondley Reference Library on front pastedown, embossed stamp of the institution on first few leaves and several others; small number stamp on verso of title and in lower margin of one leaf. Otherwise very good. Light rubbing and a few tiny stains to leather. Light to moderate scattered foxing, a bit heavier on frontispiece and title. Binding is solid and tight. FIRST EDITION.

Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1960. 131 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and four leaves of plates. Original gray cloth. [20.9 cm.] Very nearly fine in like dust jacket. Book has some barely discernible evidence of spotting to covers. Dust jacket shows some very light rubbing. Still an excellent copy. First of this edition, with a new title, the text corrected against the original manuscript, and a new introduction by Bell Irvin Wiley. The first edition of 1919 appeared with the title reading simply: "The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone." The author served in Company H, 6th N.C. Infantry, from July, 1861, to November, 1863, when he was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. Before his capture he participated in most of the important battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Gettysburg. "Because of the daily weather observations contained herein, Malone has been called `the unofficial meteorologist for the Army of Northern Virginia'." --CWB I,… Read More

Austin: Encino Press, 1971. xiii, [1], 74 pages, plus portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with several historic photographs. Original boards. Endpaper map. [23.5 cm.] A fine copy in original publisher's mylar dust jacket (faintly rubbed, tiny chip at head of spine). [Note: Listing photo does not depict jacket.] FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, on a front blank.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton and N.Y.], 1924. [14], 262 pages. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Top edge stained red. [22.3 cm.] A bright, very nearly fine copy in dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel slightly affecting two letters of title and several internal repairs with archival tape. Jacket otherwise in very good or better condition. Book shows slightest rubbing. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's reply card (offering free illustrated booklet about the present work) laid-in.

Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1908. [8], 160 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Brantley Smith. Original dark green cloth stamped in gold and black. [19.6 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference library with no external markings, but a barely perceptible impression of removed call number at base of spine. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on a few leaves, including title and frontispiece, and small ink stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else very good. Some tiny spots to cloth; faint line of bubbling to cloth on front cover; light foxing to margins of plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. The title story is set during the Appomattox campaign and another ("Sons of the Soil") is also a Civil War tale. Elliott Crayton McCants (1865-1953), a native of Ninety-Six, South Carolina and a graduate of the Citadel, was a school teacher in various places before settling in Anderson, S.C., where he served as superintendent of schools. This… Read More

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1863. xiii, [1], 57 pages. Original printed wraps bound into red library cloth with gilt spine title and gilt call number on front cover. [21 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other leaf, and small number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else very good. A few tiny traces of foxing, but interior is generally clean and bright. Later printing, issued within a few months of the first. Stated as the "tenth thousand." I have also seen references to issues stated as the "fifth thousand" and "seventh thousand." The "letter" is dated Oct. 30, 1863. George McHenry was a pro-Confederate Pennsylvanian, who moved to England at the outbreak of the Civil War. He formerly served as a director of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. He promoted the Southern cause in the Britain and published a book, "The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing upon the… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. On jacket: "Harvard Health Talks, 17." 69 pages. Original maroon cloth. [17.3 cm.] Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket is browned on spine, but shows almost no wear. FIRST EDITION. Walter Leslie Mendenhall (b. 1881) was the first professor of pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine (1921-1946). He here describes the physiological effects of smoking tobacco, its addictive nature, and the chemical analysis of the nicotine content of various tobaccos. He regards tobacco as generally harmful, both physiologically and economically. However, he does not decry its use in moderation and states, "As far as pregnancy is concerned, smoking apparently has no effect on the course of the pregnancy or upon the offspring." On the other hand, he does suggest that it be "withheld from the younger children" (pp. 44, 46).

Perth Amboy: The Board of Proprietors, [printed by J.J. Little & Ives Co., N.Y.], 1949. [16], 280 pages, plus double-page frontispiece facsimile, several full-page facsimiles, portraits, and a map. Original maroon cloth. [25.8 cm.] Near fine in original cardboard slipcase. Several small spots of wear to spine, still a hint of sun-fading to the same, still a nice copy. Slipcase is rubbed and worn, but sound. FIRST EDITION. No. 108 of 500 copies SIGNED BY THE COMPILER. In addition, this copy bears a WARM PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY MILLER, TO HISTORIAN WILLIAM SUMNER JENKINS, on the limitation leaf. It reads: "To W.S. Jenkins, a fellow antiquarian who is doing an everlasting service to American history. G.J.M." [The service Miller refers to is Jenkins's work as the editor of the Early States Records Series, a massive microfilming project during the 1940's, conducted by the Library of Congress in conjunction with the University of North Carolina. Jenkins oversaw… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 16 pages. Original printed gray wraps. [22.8 cm.] Near fine. Tiny spot to front wrap, still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. Harry Estill Moore (1897-1966) was a professor of sociology at the University of Texas and the author of numerous books. This pamphlet was the first separate publication under his own name. The following year, he was the co-author (with Howard W. Odum) of "American Regionalism: a Cultural-Historical Approach to National Integration.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1847. 12mo (signed in sixes) [16.5 cm]. xii, [17]-219 pages, plus [1] page errata. Complete with two folding maps: "Map of the Routes & Distances to the Virginia Springs" (approx. 28 x 39 cm) and "White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. J. Calwell Proprietor. 1847" (approx. 19 x 24 cm). Contemporary (perhaps original) half calf over marbled boards with gilt-lettered black leather spine label, raised bands, and gilt rules on spine. Good plus. Front hinge professionally repaired with Japanese tissue. Light wear and a few small scuffs to leather. Leaves just a trifle toned, but generally clean. Small adhesive remnant to margin of one leaf, in no way affecting text. First folding map has a professional tissue repair along the length of one vertical fold with loss of several letters of text (the "ewi" in Lewisburg and the "h" in Salt Sulphur.) It is also a little tanned, and shows several short, clean marginal tears… Read More