Search Results: Titles starting with M from Quiet Friends

London: Hodder and Stoughton. GOOD book. black cloth with gilt spine lettering & front cover.. [1878]. Hardcover. GOOD book. Fold out color map of Uganda. Map with many fold line tears. Worn cover. Torn hinges, still, a tight text block. . VG+ text. No stains of any sort on pages. .

NY: Boni Liveright. VG book. VG+ inside. bright/tight. Slight spine fading.. 1925. 1st likely. Hardcover. VG book, VG+ inside. Rubbed corners. Tiny spine end tears. 8vo, 326,446pp. .

NY: White, Stokes & Allen. NEAR FINE book. Half black morocco. Top edge gilt. 5 raised ribs. 1887. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book. 12mo, 139pp. Gilt lettered author/title info on spine. Gilt ruled ribs & gilt floral design in blank panels. . Neatly inked name & purchase info, dated 1887, on title page. FINE inside the covers, no aging, foxing, soiling or any other kind of stain. .

Cairo, Egypt: Ash Sharq, publisher.. VG book. FINE text. Later half brown leather, brown paper boards. [1923]. Hardcover. VG book, Tight. Scuffed & bumped covers. FINE text, few spots in a few margins. In Arabic, including pagination. 9"x6", 154pp. . Name also spelled Khowarizmi or Khwarizmi. Written in late 10th century. Khawarizmi's 10th century book is many times called world's first encyclopedia. Certainly very early, but NOT the very first, according to a Wikipedia artical on history of encyclopedias. 5 raised ribs, two gilt Arabic words in 2nd panel. Red & black title page. 4 page index. A summary of Islamic science, subjects include math, alchemy, medicine, meteorology. Khawarizmi, 935-1002, was a statesman and poet who compiled the book in late 900s. This copy published in 1923. It was written to familiarize officials with scientific, and other, terms. Wikipedia says few transltions were made into English. ANOTHER KHAWARIZMI, of about 150 years earlier, was a noted… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. VG book, GOOD(worn) DJ. Gilt lettered green cloth.. (1943). 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD(worn) DJ(in Brodart). 8vo, 347pp. Attractive DJ front panel. $2.75 price intact. MANY 1/2" chips & 1" tears. . Yellow top edge. Tight & clean book with NEAR FINE text leaves BUT MISSING the first blank end paper. First leaves in this book are the half title page followed by the title page. .

Falls Church VA: private. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). SIGNED. FINE inside.. 1974. 1st ed stated. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ. SIGNED & inscribed fep. Tight. DJ bright & clean but rubbed @ edges & corners. Thin 8vo, 64pp. .

NY: Harper. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright & tight.. 1969. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

Bangor: privately printed. GOOD book, no DJ. SIGNED. This copy # 3614.. 1947. limited ed. Hardcover. GOOD book, no DJ. SIGNED fep. FINE text & illustrations. EPs lightly browned. Cover splitting @ front gutter line. 8vo, 354pp .

NY: G&D. VG book, VG DJ. Bright book & DJ.. c1940. REPRINT.. Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Tight. FINE inside. DJ has 1/4" wear chips in some corners. .

London NY: MacMillan. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Gold stamped green cl. Spine ends frayed.. 1888. 2nd ed 2nd prt. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Gilt stamped green cloth. Dust stained fore edge. FINE inside but: fep foxed, w inked name & 1889 date. .

NY: Britton Publishing Co.. VG+ book, VG DJ. 1st thus edition. 7"x4", 157,(1ad)pp.. (1918). 1st thus ed.. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG DJ. Black lettered green cloth. Tight. Spine & edges sunned a bit. FINE inside BUT: fep w inked name & notes. . DJ states: "Khaki edition, $1.00 net for the boys going to the front". DJ spine sunned. DJ extrems with 1/4" chips & a 1" closed tear. DJ otherwise quite nice. FINE text, photos & in text drawings. All three text block edges clean as new. TIGHT binding. Book stays closed when stood on its spine. With 16 b/w photos and many in text decorations by Harold A. Van Buren. Ad at back lists six other Fairbanks inspirational books. .

Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. VG book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart).. 1967. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG+ DJ. DJ w minor edgewear. Bibliography. Index. .

NY: Crown. VG+ book, VG DJ(in Brodart). SIGNED fep. FINE book but 2 flaws.. 1985. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG DJ. Spine wrinkled, many page corners turned. DJ FINE but light, small stain top rear edge. Authors 3rd book. .

NY: S&S. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Orig blue cloth. Bright & tight.. 1925. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

Amherst, MA: Poetry Soc of Amherst Colleg. NEAR FINE book, NO DJ. SIGNED on fep. #35 of 300 copies.. 1930. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 8vo. 23pp. Printed on American Vellum paper. Cloth spine, paper boards. .

NY: Scribner's. FINE book & DJ. 8vo, 291pp.. 1970 (1969cp). 3rd printing.. Hardcover. FINE book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). Slight spine cock, top edge a bit dust stained. DJ extrems rubbed, $6.95 price intact. .

NY: FranklinWatts. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). DJ w minor edgewear.. 1967. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ. Top front of DJ has a 1/4" deep by 4in long piece neatly cut out. A 2nd copy, VG no DJ, for $20. .

NY: American Management Assoc.. "MINT" books. Set of 7, TEG. Bound in red Chieftain Goatskin.. 1956-65. Early editions. Hardcover. AS NEW set. BUSINES EXECUTIVE IN A CHANGING WORLD, TOUGH MINDED MANAGEMENT, MOTIVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION . NEAR FINE slipcase, paper label reads "The Executive Collection, American Management Association". All colophons state limited to 1500 copies (but none are numbered) and bound in full red Chietain Goatskin by the Russell Rutter Company, NY. Both boards double edge ruled in gilt. Spines with 5 gilt dotted raised ribs. Black lettered title labels with nuthor names stamped in gilt just below. Two lower panels gilt decorated. All panels edge ruled in gilt. PRISTINE. IMMACULATE. NONE EVER READ, when stood on spines all stay closed. There are no title page dates. Most cp dates in 50s & 60s. This set likely printed in the 60s. .

Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed, NAP, 9.5"x6.5". 286pp.. (1939). 1st ed., NAP.. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). NEAR FINE text. Few book flaws: scuffed extrems, inked bkplt, sales slip has browned pp 56-57. . Book's upper corner bumped, which has slightly effected the same area of the text block. Bright gold on blue cover lettering. No foxing, aging, marginalia, etc. P 137 fold out chart. Tight. DJ bright & clean but very worn. Large chip in front panel. This book is an update of his 1935 "The Element of Maneuver in War". The last thirty five pages are on Italy's invasion of Ethiopia. .

Baltimore: William Wood. VG+ book, no DJ. FINE inside.. 1934. 14th ed revisd. Hardcover. VG+ book, no DJ. Bright & tight. FINE inside BUT: bkplt. Extremities rubbed a bit. 8vo, v,496pp, .