Search Results: Titles starting with M from Chilton Books

London: Bloomsbury. 2000.. Causing a huge controversy on publication, M is strikingly different from the usual painter's life. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it". Pp 567, some b/w illustrations. P/b, slight creasing to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

Germany / Netherlands: TACO / LIBRERO - TACO Verlagsgesellschaft und Agentur mbH / Produktie en distributie Librero, Postbus 79. Illustrated card covers. Landscape format paperback 30cm x 23cm. pp.20/14 (double-page models)/pp.21-40 . Complete and in very good condition. Clean Dutch text throughout. This large folding model book, contains 14 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures. The design is by the great Dutch graphical artist M.C. Escher (1898 � 1972). First produced in Germany in 1977, but this is the 1989 edition.

Oxford: Susan Abrahams. 1988.. 1st ed. "The authors account of how she is struggling with ME - myalgic encephalomyelitis - or the 'Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome' ". Pp 66. P/b. VG.

Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios / Lugd. Batavorum ( Leiden ) : Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1661 .. Later full leather binding. Thick 4to. 24.2cm x 19.0cm x 8.0cm. [8pp.]/pp.51/[5pp.]/pp.636/[2pp.]/pp.639 -1339/[53pp. - Index] . Recent brown calf . Spine with 4 raised bands and recent red leather title label: "M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia". Later marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page. Previous owners details to top margin: "Elibr. Johan. Browne, Coll. Div. Joh. Bapt. Oxon 1750". Clean Latin text in double columns. last leaf of indxr soiled and darkend. G+. * Referenced by: CLC, II, C1157; Willems 1268 ** "John Browne (1687�1764) was an Oxford academic and administrator.[1] He was Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, and also served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University... Browne bequeathed his books to the Master of University College and his successors. The library was originally located in a ground-floor room in the Radcliffe Quad of the College.… Read More

London: Artmedia Press, 2010.. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of paintings by a wide variety of artists. 22cms x 24cms. Pp.72, 62 colour plates. Paperback. VG.

Privately printed, 2008 .. First edition. pp.72. Blue leatherette covers with bright gilt crest to front board. edges lightly ruubed. Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG.

Chester: Cheshire Libraries, 1985.. 1st ed. 14.5cms x 21cms. Composed entirely of postcards from the Macclesfield area. 147 b/w reproduction of photographic postcards. Pbk, crease to front corners. G+.

Salford, Manchester: Sir James Farmer Norton & Co. Ltd., Aldelphi Ironworks, [ c. 1930 ] .. Original catalogue in French and German. [2pp.]/pp.85/[1p.] . 30.8cm x 24.2cm (12.5" x 9.5"). Maroon card covers, rubbed and creased with some loss to spine. Front cover with black titles. Also, two foreign agent labels: "General Agents in Egypt: Sam Sullam & Co. 2. Shareh El-Teatro... Cairo".; "R. N. Bigio Cairo - Alexandria". Coloured diagram frontis. Clear black & white illustrations throughout. Clean paper, just a couple of small edge tears, and ripples along lower edge. G+ . ** Sir James Farmer Norton & Co. Ltd., Adelphi Ironworks, Salford Manchester. Makers of all kinds of Machinery for and Complete Plants for Bleaching, Mercerising, Dyeing, Printing, Etc.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.. 1st ed. "This book describes the ensuing tragedy; a tragedy which nevertheless helped to found Nyasaland." Pp. 254, portrait frontis, ex libris to fep. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w price-clipped and torn with small losses. G+/G.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1984.. 1st edition. "Looks at Mackintosh's career as a furniture designer, and illustrates with over 250 photographs all his major pieces, as well as the interiors for which they were produced....not just the elongated chairs for which he is most remembered, but tables, wardrobes, bookcases, beds, bathroom fittings, and even a pulpit and an organ." 25.5cms x 17cms x 1.75cms. Pp.218/2 (bibliography) /3 (index), over 25o black & white photo illustrations. Black cloth, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

London: Souvenir Press, 2009.. 1st edition. "Goofy was a ragamuffin and an enchanting rogue: the unwanted dog on the Greek island of Paxos who simply adopted Belinda Harley and laid his heart at her feet..." 18.5cms x 11.5cms. Pp.96, signed by the author to title page, 12 pages of colour photos. Blue cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped. VG/VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.. Rep. "Driscoll was found on the steps of the Traitor's Gate at the Tower of London. A cross-bar bolt was driven through his heart and a stolen top-hat was on his head. Faced with a daring killer who left his signature at the scene of his crime, the police called in Dr Gideon Fell to solve Driscoll's murder and to unravel the riddle of the little plaster dolls, the strange voice, and the theft of a manuscript worth ten thousand pounds." Pp.219, front free endpaper absent, pages tanned. Paperback, a little toned. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1995.. A classic tale of thwarted love". 14cms x 10.5cms. Pp 86, slight toning to page edges. Paperback, illustrated cover. VG.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1986.. 1st ed. "The spread of her simple teaching on the love of God, the abandonment of self-centredness and the acceptance of God's will brought Madame Guyon imprisonment and interrogation, but she remained devoted to her Saviour to the end". Pp 191, discreet owners inkstamp to verso front cover. P/b, portrait cover. VG.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.. 1st edition. This book draws on Mary Elizabeth Mohl's knowledge of R�camier, but it also outlines her interest in women and a history of their rights. Pp.xii/291, armorial bookplate of Convent of the Immaculate Conception O.S.F. Bocking, Essex to inside front board, light spotting to endpapers. Green cloth with gilt motif and border to central front board, gilttitle and decoration to spine, edges slightly rubbed with bumps to corner tips. Scarce. VG.** Jeanne-Fran�oise Julie Ad�la�de R�camier (1777 � 1849), known as Juliette, was a French socialite, whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century.** "Mary Elizabeth Mohl or Mary Elizabeth Clarke (1793 � 1883) was a British writer who was known as a salon hostess in Paris. She was known by her nickname of "Clarkey". She was admired for her independence and conversation. She eventually married the orientalist Julius von Mohl. She was an ardent… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1 Paternoster Square, 1888 .. First edition. In a very good original binding. pp.24/pp.339/[1p.]/pp.43 - Adverts/[5pp. - Adverts] . Dark blue-green cloth over bevelled boards. Bright gilt titles to front board and spine. Edges lightly rubbed. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Convent of the Immaculate Conception O.S.F. Bocking, Essex." Light spotting to page edges and free-endpapers, otherwise clean throughout. A very good copy of this interesting biography. ** "Fran�oise d'Aubign�, Marquise de Maintenon (27 November 1635 � 15 April 1719) was the second wife of King Louis XIV of France. She was known during her first marriage as Madame Scarron, and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon. Her marriage to the king was never officially announced or admitted, though she was very influential at court. She founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school for girls from poorer noble families, in 1684... The Marquise de Montespan, who had preceded Madame de… Read More

London: SPCK, 1988.. 1st ed. "Three aims are presented: to help a couple review their decision to marry, to motivate them to be aware of practical ways of maintaining their relationship, and to enable them to celebrate their rite of marriage." The author is the Bishops' Adviser for Marriage Education in the Church of England. Pp.10/178, 2 cartoons reproduced with permission of 'Punch'. Paperback, VG.

Porto: Empresa do Bolhao, 1988.. The story of Madeira wine plus a collection of recipes representative of the spirit of cooking in Madeira. Pp.237, a couple of colour and occasional black & white photos throughout. Paperback. VG.

London: Sphere, 1969.. In which Pepito moves to London, and Madeline and the girls go to visit him. First Sphere edition. 22.5cms x 17cms. Pp.56, illustrated throughout, small corner losses affecting pp.5/6, 43/44 and 53/54. Paperback, crease to lower rear cover. Good.

London: Sphere, 1968.. The first in the "Madeline" series. Sphere edition in association with Andre Deutch Ltd. 22.5cms x 17cms. Pp.48, illustrated throughout but with some blurring to the colour plates on pp. 10, 11,14 and 15, small chip to lower corner pp.13/14,23/24, and 29/30. Paperback, some creasing to covers. Good.