Search Results: Authors starting with M from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A story that traces the boyhood of a "man about town" - beginning at age five, in England, his trials and tribulations, on to becoming a young man. The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair and he was in sexless garments which were all he had and he was five and so though we are looking at him we must do it sideways lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his. Published in 1898 by Charles Scribner's Sons, SENTIMENTAL TOMMY was the first of two books published by Barrie about this character. J.M. Barrie, is of course, best known as the author of PETER PAN. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 other plates by William Hatherell, one plate of… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. As new, unread, first edition, first printing,, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFB3

London, U.K.: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2007. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. In the pale grey light of a chilly February, there's a rapist prowling Aberdeen's cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turn up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally arrest the Granite City Rapist, Grampian Police are forced by the courts to let him go: Aberdeen Football Club's star striker has an alibi for every attack. Could they… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M27

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in near-fine (Price-clipped, else as new) mylar-protected dust jacket. Book itself is not remainder-marked.M85

London, UK: Everyman's Library Children's Classics, 2001. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mint, unread, first thus editionm first printing, in maroon cloth boardspristine cover pastedown and gold lettering and decoration to front board and spine, sewn-in ribbon marker, and decorative endpapers, as issued without dust jacket. With illustrations by Arthur Hughes. *Gift quality. BUND Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London, has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Third mystery featuring the adventures of antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare, following DEATH'S AUTOGRPAH and GHOST WALK. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M62

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M47

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1981. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nineteenth in the 'Travis McGee' series, in which private investigator McGee is hired by the disinherited son of a tycoon to find out the true circumstances of his father's death. Fine (small dent to bottom front board, else fine) in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M63

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1997. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Whoever had broken into the shop might just have gone upstairs afterwards, might just be there still...My first reaction was anger: I wanted to roar up the stairs, only I could hear Barnabas saying, the way he used to when I was little: "Temper, Dido! Count to twenty-nine..." Selling rare books has its moments, but few are anything close to thrilling--except when Dido Hoare's scoundrel of an ex-husband suddenly reappears and puts a pulse of excitement in the air. But events go from interesting to intense when someone ends up murdered and the culprit seems to think Dido has something worth killing for, too. With the help of her father, Barnabas, a retired academic with a penchant for mysteries, Dido may be able to divert the killer long enough to figure out who wants her dead and why. Recovering from a heart attack, the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine first edition, first printing copy, in near-fine (chipping to spine and fold ends common to this title given its age, but otherwise intact) in mylar-protected dust jacket. M74

New York, NY, U.S.A.: PublicAffairs, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF15/A38

London, U.K.: Ferndale Editions, 1979. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Introduction by Uffa Fox.With 44 colour plates and 355 monochrome illustrations. Mint, oblong quarto in navy blue boards with debossed front cover design, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.9 3/4" x 12 1/4" x 1". {BUND}

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Crown, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. ARC. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Copy. Clara Marsh is a young mortician who finds herself entangled in a sordid underworld and a cold-case murder investigation. Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning Clara again about a body she prepared three years earlier, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods, christened Precious Doe by the community. When Clara and Mike learn that Trecie, a neglected little girl that Clara discovers playing in the funeral parlor may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, she must choose between her steadfast alliance with loneliness and the perils of binding one's life to another. Darkly atmospheric, suspenseful, fast-paced, and tautly written, TETHERED is at once haunting and terrifying, a book to keep you up all night and on the edge of your seat. New ARC in pictorial… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel. Clara Marsh is a young mortician who finds herself entangled in a sordid underworld and a cold-case murder investigation. Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning Clara again about a body she prepared three years earlier, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods, christened Precious Doe by the community. When Clara and Mike learn that Trecie, a neglected little girl that Clara discovers playing in the funeral parlor may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, she must choose between her steadfast alliance with loneliness and the perils of binding one's life to another. Darkly atmospheric, suspenseful, fast-paced, and tautly written, TETHERED is at once haunting and terrifying, a book to keep you up all night and on the edge of your seat. Fine, in fine,… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GRACE NOTES is a compact, luminous, and masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, celebrated Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna--estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated field. MacLaverty is the author of CAL, LAMB, and the story collection, WALKING THE DOG. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L56

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Doubleday, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

London, U.K.: Orbit, 1999. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Winner of the 1999 British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, and a Hugo Award finalist. Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space-ship yard, Clovis Colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L72