Search Results: Titles starting with M from Acme Book & Anvil

The classic work in hardcover, here bound in deep black cloth with red text in near-fine condition -- 'near' because it's difficult to tell whether a stamped red star on the bottom edge is a remainder mark or just some kind of exuberant Marxist thing. Price is intact. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked, deckled on right and bottom edges.
Dust jacket, in bold '70s colors and skinny '70s neo-Futura lettering, has only a couple of edge dings, a little chip on the top rear, looks great.

The definitive beatnik edition of Kafka's famous story that made Kafka a phenomenon in America sparsely but nicely illustrated by San Franciso beat generation artist Leslie Sherman. A small masterpiece of book design. Sharp, square and clean with only minor flaws that are unavoidable for a book of this age. Very small faint spot of foxing on title page, even smaller less faint spot opposite it on ffep. The merest of bumping on top and bottom of the spine. As nice a copy as I've ever seen. Top and bottom of the spine have chipping. The blank unprinted rear of DJ has acquired a patina of foxing, only moderately annoying with the worst of it on the top edge. A faint marking suggests the book spent a significant time parked next to a spiral bound volune (not included). Impression is faint, upper edge is the worst of the foxing and still comparatively very nice for this edition.

This is a good book if you want a whole bunch of Warwick Goble art for not a lot of money. Goble was one of the titans of British illustration in the period of Rackham, Dulac, and Heath Robinson. His masterwork is the original 40-plate 1910 Macmillan edition of Green Willow, a copy of which I may still have for sale. This book has 32 of Goble's luminous full-color illustrations, but unlike Green Willow, it's been promiscuously reprinted with all 32 of its plates. This is a 1930s reprint. It does lack the gorgeous gilt cover of the original, a copy of which I've never seen in the wild.

Tight, square, solid workmanlike binding in grey buckram with pictorial spine (non-gilt). No nonsense, book is thick as a brick. Purple topstain. This indestructible volume has little that could go wrong, and nothing has. Some slight discoloration on the binding, e.g. foxing, and to the (non-pictorial) endpapers. No detectable issues with the text block. All plates present and pristine. Owner's ex libris (William J.… Read More

This is the first U. S. edition, published simultaneously with the British edition, which means it doesn't have tipped-in plates, but does come in a larger format with a larger printed area on the full-page color plates. Color front cover pastedown and gilt.

For whatever reason, Rackham's Mother Goose is often in really not-good condition -- maybe because younger kids get at it. The big thing with this copy is that it has only twelve of the 13 issued color plates ('Jack and Jill' is absent) while a couple of the other plates are detached but laid in, and/or have old tape repair on the margins, since redone with archival tape on the other side. The images themselves are in fine shape; only some of the margins are affected. Front cover pastedown illustration is complete and entire, but faded as these usually are. Spine cloth is detached and verso edge. Book is otherwise holding together admirably with repaired front and back hinges. Spine gilt is bright, surprisingly enough. Priced very accordingly