Search Results: Titles starting with M from Abbey Bookshop

London: Cassell and Co, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. CRANE (Walter). Folio, original cream cloth spine, pictorial boards, richly illustrated by Walter Crane fore-edge of upper board quite worn

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1935. Third printing. Very Good. Large 8vo., original cream cloth, lettering piece to spine, frontispiece. Translated into English by Eugen Neuhaus cloth lightly soiled and marked in places, lettering piece rubbed.

Amsterdam, 1727. First edition. Very Good. Three volumes, 12mo., contemporary calf, five raised bands to spines, gilt, morocco titling-pieces. spines worn at head and tail, joints worn and split in places but holding nicely, small loss to margin of one page in third vol not effecting text

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red cloth, top edge gilt, with four photogravure portraits & twenty-nine other reproductions. spine faded

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1920). First edition. Very Good +. 8vo., original blue cloth. A polemic against Spiriualism by the author of "Ghostly Phenomena" and "Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter". some wear to head of spine

London: Ward , Lock & Co., [c. 1881]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth, handsomely decorated with a stylised floral design. A lovely edition of Scott's first published work, a collection of Scottish ballads. "Intelligent readers trace in its pages the germs of most of the incidents on which the fame, in verse and prose, of the Waverley publications was founded. ex-library copy with their stamps, sticker to the spine

Barcelona: Grafesa, 1964-5. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to., later full grey cloth, original wrappers preserved. The first eight numbers of the Spanish-language publication on magic, Misdirection, bound together. Most scarce original wrappers a little creased

London: Elek Books, 1954. Proof copy. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo., original grey printed wrappers, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous reproductions of photographs. Translated from the French by Lucienne Hill. Presumably a proof copy, with the dust jacket from the hardback edition and a publishers' press release loosely inserted.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original blue cloth. With seventeen plates showing mosaics from around Europe and the Middle East. ex-library copy with the discreet ink stamps of the American Woman's Club and a due date card laid down on the back free endpaper

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Sm. folio, original cloth spine, patterned boards, with 32 plates in colour and in black and white. One of 301 numbered copies signed by the author. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives were American printmakers who knew an enormous popularity in their own time for their romanticized lithographs of current events, such as the Chicago Fire, and in support of popular causes like the temperance movement. edges rubbed, cloth very lightly soiled

London: Mills and Boon, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo., original red cloth, illustrated with 15 plates, including reproductions of works by Jack B. Yeats. "If not representative of the whole of Ireland, 'My Irish Year' is representative of a great part of Ireland. The life described may stand for the life of the Catholic peasantry." ex-library copy, with their code to the spine and stamps inside, spine faded, extremities worn, tape-repair to inner hinge and one plate, one plate a little worn at edges