Search Results: Titles starting with M from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Merrill, Wisconsin: Compiled by the M & M Plat Book Company, 1944. Hardcover. Poor. Boards in black cloth. Worn. Lacking the map of the city of Tomahawk. Volume shows handling and use, with areas of general soiling and wear. Includes 16 pages of vintage advertising. [59] pages, mostly printed on one side. Oversize. 16 x 13 inches. 1944 atlas of plat maps of Lincoln County, Wisconsin, showing townships, villages, subdivisions, and the city of Merrill. 42 pages of maps: including [I] 25 townships maps showing property lines and names of owners, [II] 4-page plat map of Merrill, [III] plats of the villages of Bay Mills, Bradley, Doering, Courtland, Gleason, Hathaway, Irma, Spirit Falls, Tripoli, and [IV] the following subdivisions and lake and river lots: Anderson Lake Front Lots, Buteau Lake, Camp Rice Point, Clear Lake Lots, Con-Rae, Copper Lake Lots, Fred Liberty's, Halfmoon Lake Lots, Kind's, Knight Lake, Koth's, Lake View Waterfront Lots, Lake Pesobic Lots, Long Lake Lots, Muskellunge Lake Lots,… Read More

U.S. Soccer Communications, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple-bound in glossy covers. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Commemorative yearbook for the U.S. Men's National Team, published in the early stages of the qualifying tournament for the 2006 World Cup. Fully illustrated. Includes team roster, stats, team portraits and action photos, and player feedback to personal questions.

Paris: The Ohsawa Foundation, Inc., 1967. Soft cover. Good+. Book has a little age toning to wraps; heaviest on spine. Head and tail of spine are a little bumped & worn. One damp stain on rear spine edge that does not affect text block at all. Pages are free of marks. Binding is sound. Very slight curl, but no creases to spine. 5.25 x 8 inches. 125 Pages.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Plum colored boards with gilt lettering on spine. Light crease mark on spine. Interior is unmarked and generally clean. Toning on rear endpapers where a newspaper clipping has been laid-in. Eight pages of illustrations. Fifteen-page bibliography. Index. 528 pages. Dust jacket shows very slight wear along edges; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Biography of Blavatsky.

Olympia, Washington: Lynne Mercer, 1974. Soft cover. Good+. Published in March 1974. Saddle-stitched in card covers. Creases to front cover; rear covers show spots of soiling. Some creasing to page corners. One page has blue ink parentheses around the poem's title. 104 pp. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. One copy noted on OCLC. Poetry by women of Olympia, Washington. A few of the authors were students at Evergreen State College. Edited and published by Lynne Mercer in cooperation with the contributors. Contributors include: Lorraine Bonin, Pat Cox, Sarah Garraty, Bobbie Gerstl, Bonnie Gillis (art only), Ellen Green, Teri Griffing, Annie Kimmell, Sharon Landis, Loralee Leach, Dori Macdonald, Sheila Mary, Lynne Mercer, Sean Mercer, Janet Partlow, Judy Prest, Mitzi Tallman Quinn, Sheila Radman, Laura Kazakoff Ramsauer, Jo Reynolds, Catherine Scheitlin, Patti Simon (cover art), Judith Utevsky, Jan Van Wyk, Zephyr Woods, Kitty, Tina, and a couple anonymous writers.

Portland, OR: The Madeleine Press, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book has just a tiny hint of wear to extremities. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Inscribed by Father Mike (Biewend), the last listed priest in the contents. 233 pages. 12 x 9 inches. Gorgeous, oversized book on the history of the Roman Catholic parish, church and school, in Portland, Oregon. Full of historic and contemporary photographs, reproduced documents, and includes biographies of all of the head pastors and a historic timeline.

Portland, OR: Madison High School, 1975. Hardcover. Good+. The 1975 yearbook for Madison High School in Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County). Spine and boards show rubbing. Interior is clean and has no names or markings. 288 pp.

Vancouver, BC, 1954. Soft cover. Good. Card covers show general wear and soiling. Original owner's name on title page. Many student and teacher signatures throughout. 76 unnumbered pages. 10.5 x 8 inches. 1954 yearbook for Magee High School in Vancouver, BC. Includes identified portraits for students, grades 10-12. Portraits for staff/faculty with last name and first initial. Group photos for girls and boys sports teams and student clubs, all with name identification (last name and first initial).

Vancouver, BC, 1955. Soft cover. Good. Card covers show general wear. Original owner's name on inside of front cover. Many student and teacher signatures throughout. 76 unnumbered pages. 10.5 x 8 inches. 1954-1955 yearbook for Magee High School in Vancouver, BC. Includes identified portraits for students, grades 9-12. Portraits for staff/faculty with last name and first initial. Group photos for girls and boys sports teams and student clubs, all with name identification (last name and first initial).

New York: M. S. Greene & Company, 1903. Hardcover. Good-. W. F. Lamb. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt on spine. Copy is a bit worn; corners exposed. Several pages are grubby. Previous owner's name in pencil on ffep. Bit of a smokey odor. Frontispiece with illustration by W. F. Lamb. 333 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Uncommon. A 251-page novella, The Magic Mantle is an Arthurian fantasy in two parts. The first is set in he time of Arthur and has a prominent focus on the activities of Merlin; the second part is set in the late thirteenth century, where aspirants to the heir of Castle Craydock have to undergo the ordeal of the Magic Mantle. The volume is rounded out with three short stories: ''A Dream with Developments'' (set in the Klonidke Gold Rush), ''The Eerie Piper'' (an account of a family wraith's visit to Dugald the Hermit), and ''The End-of-the-Week Outing Club'' (a little deception occurs during a journey to Canterbury). Stephen… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First Edition (same date on title and copyright pages). Lime green cloth boards stamped in red. Light wear at head and foot of spine. Color illustrated endpapers. Sticker blemish in upper corner of ffep. Some spots of soiling on a few pages. Dust jacket shows edge chipping, including at head and foot of spine; spine worn; not price clipped ($3.00). DJ in archival sleeve. B/w illustrations plus several full-page color illustrations. 76, [1] pp. 10.75 x 7.75 inches. Magic Maize was a recipient of the Newbery Honor in 1954. Set in contemporary Guatemala, the story tells of the adventures of Fabian, a boy from a traditional Mayan family. Mary Buff (1890-1970) and Conrad Buff (1886-1975) were a married couple who co-created children's illustrated books. They resided in southern California and between 1937 and 1968 they published fourteen books.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Anaya on half-title page (plus a typed and hand-signed letter from Anaya on his letterhead, and a couple other related items). Boards bound in cloth (spine in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering; beige sides). Interior clean and crisp. Dust jacket spine faded; has a few short closed tears to top edge; scuff to bottom fore-edge of front panel; in an archival sleeve. Illustrated with wood block prints. xii, 83 pp. 7 x 5 inches. Blackwell North America presentation copy for New Year's 1983, with presentation pages in Spanish and English. Laid-in: 1) A typed and hand-signed letter from Anaya on his letterhead to Jack Walsdorf of Blackwell North America. Letter is dated January 14, 1982 and regards his visit to San Antonio, the reading he gave at Trinity University, his meeting with Mexican-American, Chicano librarians, etc.). 2) Two preprinted letters, each from a… Read More

Reigate, Surrey: The Omega Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Maroon cloth with light green paper title label on spine. Spine ends lightly bumped. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends and bottom-left corner of front panel; tape repair at head of spine; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Sixteen photographs on plates. 255 pages. The autobiography of the English psychical researcher George Sandwith. The author was presented with a wonder-working icon in Abyssinia in the 1940s, which, he believed, opened the door to contact with invisible beings who continued to guid and protect him. Magical Mission traces Sandwith's adventures and psychical investigations as he traverses Africa, Polynesia and Britain.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Stated First Edition. Green cloth stamped in yellow. Light dust staining to top edge of text block. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket rear panel has a couple chips; spine ends and corners lightly chipped; spine toned; closed tear to top edge of front panel; not price clipped ($3.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 314 pages. An autobiographical account by the Irish novelist Kathleen Coyle (1886-1952) of her early youth and her heritage as a child of the ancient Kinal-Owen family of Derry.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Nobel Prize Edition (reprint of November 1940). Rustic oatmeal-colored cloth stamped in black. Spine and rear cover toned. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light chipping to head of spine and top edge of front panel; rear panel is creased; not price clipped ($2.50); in a clear archival sleeve. 313, [1] pages. 7.4 x 5.2 inches. 1939 Nobel Prize winning novel by Finnish author Frans Sillanpaa (1888-1964), awarded ''for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.'' First published in Finland in 1931 with the title Nuorena nukkunut.

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.

Puissant Press, Oakland / [Port & Starboard Press, Northeast Harbor, Maine], 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition, this being copy 14 of 25, signed and inscribed on colophon. A collection of verse and short prose, letterpress printed on eight single sheets (Rives, Strathmore, Basingwerk and other fine papers), with original verse by Beth Herrick and additional short pieces by Winslow Homer, Rachel Carson, John Steinbeck, Bill Holmbom, Gretchen Westphal, and Horace P. Beck. Includes two small run, original 9 x 11'' relief etchings by Herrick, each signed and numbered. Presented in a hard portfolio, quarter bound in ivory cloth over brown papered boards with a paste-on woodblock print title on the front cover. Beth Herrick of Mount Desert Island, Maine, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts in 1982.

Portland, Oregon: Make Something Anthology, 2003. Journal. Very Good+. Book has a little very light wear to spine and fore edge corners. Just a tiny bit of soiling on back wrap. Rare publication.

[Potters Bar, Hertfordshire]: [Emmie White], 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. Saddle-stitched card covers. Light wear. Unmarked. 15, [1] pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Simple, illustrated instructions for the making of corn dollies, including the Essex Spiral, Herefordshire Lantern, Short Welsh Fan, Long Welsh Fan, Anglesey Rattle, Yorkshire Spiral, Angel, Horseshoe, and Corn Maiden.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Fourth printing, February 1932. Brown cloth boards stamped in green. Green topstain. Pictorial endpapers. Pages clean. Dust jacket shows edgewear; a few closed tears; rubbed; the $1.00 price on spine scratched out; clipped. Front flap of jacket has the publisher's rubber stamp stating that it is a "Cheap Edition" made from the original plates and is stamped with the price of $0.90. DJ in a clear archival sleeve. 271 pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Translated from the original French by Eric Sutton. In a scarce Boris Artzybasheff-designed jacket. A novel set on a rubber plantation in the jungles of the Malaya peninsula. Henri Fauconnier (1879-1973) was a French writer and part of the Groupe de Barbezieux. In 1930, his novel Malaise won the Prix Goncourt, an award given to "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year.