Search Results: Titles starting with M from Caravan Book Store

Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches) London: Reeder & Walsh, 1913. First Edition. 15 pages printed on rectos, stapled wrappers, period advertisements with half tone photo portraits of male actors inside front and back covers, printed advertisement on back cover, very good condition: (old advertising sticker neatly pasted to front cover under author's name for a musical instrument and record store; old rubber stamp "Price For the Colonies" in lower right corner of front cover, unobtrusive old pencil mark to upper left corner of front cover, and similarly, but more lightly, to back cover, bump to upper left corner of front cover); none of these affecting contents.

A description of how to use grease paint to create various characters: "young man," "middle-aged man," "coon, for this make-up various shades of brown are used," and other suggestions for wigs, shape of the nose, teeth, and "moustachios."

Quarto (11 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches) Denver, Colorado: Sundance Publications Limited, 1992. Original First Edition. 352 pages printed on coated stock, illustrated with color, and black and white historic photographs of mines, trains, and people of the town, facsimile newspaper pages from the 1887 Crystal River Current, and the 1912 Marble City Times, maps, appendix with roster of school teachers from 1893 to 1950, and their salaries, and Federal census of Gunnison County for 1900, bibliography, and index; hardcover, protected by the original clear plastic jacket, very good condition.

A very thorough history of the Crystal River Valley, known as Rock Creek Mining District, and the town of Marble, in the county seat of Gunnison, Colorado; known for its marble quarries, and scenery. (Situated North of Durango, Southwest of Denver, near Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction.) Number 299 of a limited edition.

Quarto (12 by 9 1/2 inches) San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, 1874. Original First Edition. 319 + v pages, hardcover, bound in original green pebble cloth, with title in gilt on spine, and gilt vignette of a seal on upper front cover; 27 lithographic plates drawn by the author, and printed by Britton and Rey, plus many other fine lithographs (a few drawn by another hand) of whaling equipment, seals, dolphins and porpoises. Neat nineteenth century inked gift inscription on front fly leaf; minor normal shelf wear (not affecting the overall content, or binding that are both in very good condition); index.

"This book is the classic work on whales and seals along the Pacific coast. Captain Scammon began his whaling career soon after his arrival in California in 1852. His carefully prepared work is the most comprehensive book on the subject, and he investigated all the then known species of Cetacea as well as the Pinnipedia. His text on the whale fishery takes up the last hundred plus pages of… Read More

Small quarto (10 by 6 3/4 inches) 291 pages illustrated with black and white photos, drawings, and diagrams. Stiff card cover wrappers, good condition, with mild shelf wear to top of spine, not affecting contents.

The illustrations represent, among other descriptions, the food, housing, clothing, fishing, and ways of life of a small population living on an atoll in the South Pacific. The author was a "... Maori anthropologist, physician, and politician who made major contributions to Maori public health and became one of the world's leading Polynesian studies scholars."

Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. First Edition. 322 pages illustrated with engraved frontispiece and portraits (including Sheridan, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant), Appendix (containing "Speech of General W. T. Sherman," and letters from George B. McClellan, and others regarding the unveiling of a statue, and the dedication of a monument in honor of Thomas), and an index. Green cloth binding bordered in blind with Greek key pattern, facsimile signature of Thomas, in gilt, centered on upper cover; and title, author and publisher in gilt on spine. Very good condition (minor shelf wear, not affecting contents).

"A brief, . . . and adulatory account of Thomas's military career; written by an associate:" Nevins. "Civil War Books, A Critical Bibliography," volume II, page 67.

Quarto (12 by 8 1/4 inches) London: "Printed by Joseph Streater, and are to be Sold by T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-Street. J Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. B. Ayimer, at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange. Job. Southby at the Harrow in Cornhil. And by W. Canning, in the Temple." 1688. (16) 267 (12) & (3) 40 pages.

TWO works bound together, as published, in original full mottled calf, with raised bands and gilt ornaments on spine.
Good condition, with some chipping along outside hinges, but holding; and normal wear to corners. Title page of first part printed in red and black. Lower right corner of title page to second part torn and missing, but not affecting text; and minor old insect damage to lower portion of same; date and other particulars still very readable. Engraved bookplate of Henry Maister (of an early English mercantile family).

There are thirty-one full page engravings of animals in the first part; and five full page engravings of scientific… Read More

Small octavo (8 by 6 inches) Mexico : Frances Toor Studios, 1937. First Edition. 202 pages printed on coated stock, (56 pages of text, each section headed by a black and white thumbnail portrait of the artist being discussed, 74 leaves of black and white plates representing the subject artist's work, frontis is in color) good condition (tan hardback cloth binding with mild toning; slight shelf wear to head and tail of spine, and corners, old pencil mark in upper margin of one page - all not affecting contents).

From the introduction: "Here we are merely publishing biographical and critical notes of practically all of the important artists who have helped to make the movement (modern Mexican art) and some of the younger ones of promise, with reproductions of their work. We are including three artists who are not of Mexican origin, but who have contributed to it generously and enthusiastically."

Among the twenty-five artists included are Miguel Covarrubias, Jean Charlot, Carlos Merida, J. Clemente… Read More

16 mo. (6 3/4 x 5 inches) San Francisco: Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau, 1909. 31 + (1) page, stapled, original promotional booklet, illustrated with black-and-white captioned photos, descriptive text, two maps (one of railroad routes to California, the other a road map from San Luis Obispo to Monterey), bird's-eye view of the peninsula showing the topography of the land from Pacific Grove to Pebble Beach, color photo on front cover shows "A Monterey County Home in Mid-Winter," with palms in front. On the back cover is a color photo of the bell tower of the Carmel Mission.

There are California poppy accents on borders and title, very good condition (small tear at bottom margin of page 19, unobtrusive rubber stamp of "Mr. Foster's Information Office" on title page). A colorful promotion of Sunset Magazine and the Southern Pacific Railroad.