Search Results: Titles starting with M from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Picador, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M.

Taschen, 2001. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x8. Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher’s innate graphic talents.From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher’s further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972.M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The… Read More

University of California Press, 2009. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x8. From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans, interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated with original watercolors, is a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's life as it unfolded in those homey settings―from Fisher's childhood in Whittier, California, to the kitchens of Dijon, where she developed her taste for French foods and wines; from the idyllic kitchen at Le Paquis to the isolation of her home in Hemet, California; and finally to her last days in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. M.F.K. Fisher was a solitary cook who interpreted the scenario of a meal in her own way, and M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans provides a deeply personal glimpse of a woman who… Read More

Riva Yares Gallery, 1996. Softcover. Like New. A gallery catalog, 32 pages. With photos throughout. Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930 – October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is revealed through body language and gesture. Since 1965 his studio was in Benicia, California; in 1981 he purchased a studio in Carrara, Italy, for working in marble. Over four decades, beginning in the early 1970s, Neri worked primarily with the same model, Mary Julia Klimenko, creating drawings and sculptures that merge contemporary concerns with Modernist sculptural forms.

RIVA YARES GALLERY, 1991. Wraps. Fine. A scarce gallery catalog.

American Military Institute, 1991. Hard cover. Like New/No Dustjacket as Issued. With essays on The Imperial War Museum, The Death of Landscape (World War I), How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphor, The Kipkororor Chronicles (British in Africa), Italy's Pearl Harbor, The Second Surrender (Civil War), The Thin Gray Line (Civil War), Bywater's Pacific War Prophecy (World War II), The View toward Armageddon, Megiddo (Ancient Egypt).".

East African Literature Bureau, 1979. Mass-market paperback. Good. The Maasai people of Kenya and their customs.

Abrams, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket. 13x10x1. Some sun fading to edges of cover. The author recounts ancient Maasai legends and songs, and powerfully describes the vivid ceremonies that mark the passages in Maasai life....Everyday tribal life and the ceremonial high points are photographed with a clarity and eye for drama that make Maasai a breathtaking experience. Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa.

ABRAMS, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 13x10x1. A 2" tear to dustjacket. The author recounts ancient Maasai legends and songs, and powerfully describes the vivid ceremonies that mark the passages in Maasai life....Everyday tribal life and the ceremonial high points are photographed with a clarity and eye for drama that make Maasai a breathtaking experience. Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa.

Summit Books, 1989. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Fifty years after Out of Africa, an American journalist writes of her friendship with the inhabitants of a Maasai village in Kenya and offers an unprecedented portrait of an extraordinary people and a rapidly vanishing way of life. 16 pages of photos".

The Best Books Publishing, 2018. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. Writer Mabel Collins was a very important theosophist, member of The Theosophical Society in England, and, at one time collaborated with H. P. Blavatsky in the editorship of the magazine Lucifer, and in one of her books. This collection compiles seven of her most renowned works, including the one that made her a household name in the theosophist world, Light on the Path, a "treatise written for the personal use of those who are ignorant of the Eastern Wisdom and who desire to enter within its influence." The book is said to be of very ancient origin, written in an archaic form of Sanskrit. Classic among occultists, it is the best guide known for those who have taken the first step on the Path of Attainment. Its writer has veiled the meaning of the rules in the way always customary to mystics, so that to the one who has no grasp on the Truth these pages will probably appear to be a mass of… Read More

University of California Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. A bright fresh copy. Gift inscription by and signed by author. A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard.Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight—the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beautifully narrated, Weaving the Dream initiates the reader into Pomo culture and demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by… Read More

Bell Harbour Press, 2006. Trade paperback. Very Good. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 - January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to film-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers. Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967) was an American singer, baritone and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera… Read More

AuthorHouse, 2015. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Signed by Significant Other . In Very Good+ condition. Inscribed and signed by the Author's wife. In The Mackinac Bridge Wrote Me a Letter Hill's glimpses into life vary from humorous to poignant to fanciful to observational. Topics include a drive on M-119 through the Tunnel of Trees, a hawk's posture, mouse coffee, the last swim of the year, and the opening of deer season. Hill also reminisces about watching Johnny Green and the Michigan State Spartans play the Indiana Hoosiers at the old Iu Fieldhouse. Hill recalls wondering if he would meet another “Frank Hill” and he revisits canoeing across the Straits of Mackinac to impress a girlfriend his first summer on Mackinac Island. Hill even admits to some of his nighttime dreams, thereby lending credence to his wife's claim that he may not be as normal as pumpkin pie.

Scribner Book Company, 2001. Trade paperback. Very Good. Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries. Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent shock waves through a concerned and vulnerable public. A fourth-generation Montana rancher, Lyman investigated the use of chemicals in agriculture after developing a spinal tumor that nearly paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts through the propaganda of beef and dairy interests and the government agencies that protect them to expose an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country. He warns that the livestock industry is repeating the mistakes that led to Mad Cow disease in England while… Read More

Metro Books, 2007. Hardcover. Like New/No Dustjacket as Issued. 7x5x0. Throughout history, some royal rulers were wise and just; others, well, they were just plain loony. From the inbred and mentally deficient to the delusional and the criminally insane, those royal eccentrics come to life here. Some are well-known, like Ivan the Terrible of Russia, who enjoyed torturing both animals and people for sport. Others were less famous, but no less twisted, including Hungary’s Erzsebet Bathory, who believed she could improve her complexion by bathing in the blood of young girls. And before he became an unhinged sultan at age 25, Mustafa I of Turkey was kept in a cage by his ruling brother. Some 40 mad rulers are profiled in all, making this the greatest collection of raving royals ever assembled.

Artmosphere. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. A Gallery Catalog. No Date. Text in German; some english. Works by Warhol, Haring, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, and Oppenheim. A scarce pop-art catalog.

Stratumentis Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 12x9x0. Signed by Author. With gift inscription by and signed by Ingrid Dee Magidson. Autographed copies rarely offered. "Ingrid Dee Magidson is an American artist known for her use of combining industrial materials, collage, paint and Renaissance and Baroque images into transparent layers or shadow boxes. Influenced by Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí and the Surrealists in her use of antique objects, butterflies and insect specimens. She is largely self-taught, but is heavily involved in contemporary art and in contact with many well known contemporary artists." "Ingrid Dee Magidson's art career began just over six years ago. In that brief time, she has had 15 solo exhibitions (most of those sellout shows), a museum exhibition, her work included twice at the Hermitage Museum Foundation Gala in New York City, numerous magazine features and a loyal international group of art collectors which include:… Read More

Bedford Books, 1999. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Stephen Crane's first novel, is the story of a beautiful young girl living in the slums of New York in the late 19th Century. "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is a shockingly explicit portrait of the brutal conditions that existed in the poverty-stricken slums of New York. Originally refused by all publishers that it was submitted to because of its brutal and sexual realism, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" was first published by Stephen Crane at his own expense.

2006. Reprint. Softcover. Like New. With 108 magic trips. Illustrated throughout; 26 pages. With great cover art of a magician removing a rabbit from a hat.