Search Results: Titles starting with S from Magus Books

Times Books, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out with one tiny mark along the fore-edge. In a fine dust jacket with no flaws. A gorgeous copy of this scarce title.

Cambridge University Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very fine in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this scarce title, an evolutionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval Spain.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Very good plus with slight fading to spine and small bookseller label on rear pastedown, in a very good dust jacket with slight rubbing and a couple of closed tears. Number 94 of a Limited Edition inscribed by the author and with a facsimile of the King's signature on the limitation page.

1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. This is a rare salesman's dummy in fold-out case consisting a samples from five books published in the early 1990s. The titles are: Our Babies' Christmas Jingles, Easy Bible Lessons for Children, The Speaker's Library, The Book of the Fair and The Standard Book of Knowledge. Very good with interior hinges of binding cracked and showing webbing; contents clean and unmarked. Scarce.

William Morrow, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with a touch of corner wear. Mystery writer DOROTHY HUGHES' PERSONAL COPY with her signature on the flyleaf.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Bret Harte's personal copy, with his signature on the hal- title page (dated London, June, 1890). Very good plus in olive boards with slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. Small bookplate on front pastedown and three-line clipping describing this copy affixed to bottom of flyleaf reverse, otherwise clean and tight.

Supreme Grand Lodge of Amorc, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. True first printing of Volume XXII from the Rosicrucian Library. Very good with faint staining to top right portion of last 100 pages or so, and name/date written on front pastedown. In a very good example of the rare dust jacket with minor edgewear and two small chips. Scarce.

Doubleday, 2005. 1st Edition . Very fine. Very fine in a fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY McEWAN on the title page. A beautiful signed copy.

Putnam's, 1976. 1st Edition . A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($12.50 price intact) with slight wear at the spine ends and corners, and a bit a fading to the spine. A very attractive copy of this scarce title, a thorough examination of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and subsequent arrest, conviction and execution of Richard Hauptmann (which the author believes was unjust).

Self-published, 1948. 1st Edition . Fine in stiff card wraps. With 52 pages featuring detailed descriptions of many former mining camps and monuments, and numerous vintage black and white photos. Very scarce.

Hutchinson, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English translation of the author's 1933 novel. Very good plus with light foxing to top page edges and endpapers, and neat name written at top of flyleaf. Otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket (price intact) with minor wear at spine ends and corners, and slight soiling. Myrivilis was one of the most prominent Greek writers of the 1930s to 1950s, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times in the early 1960s. Copies of his novels in English are extremely scarce.

Privately Printed, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition, signed by the author on the colophon. Fine (clean and unread) in a fine slipcase. A beautiful copy of a beautiful book, suitable to give as a gift.

New York: Random House, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Early printing of the first edition, with 16 titles on back panel of book and dust jacket listing to 1958 ("Yertle the Turtle" and "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back"). Since the next Seuss book was published in 1959, assume this copy of "Scrambled Eggs Super" was published circa 1958-59. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket (price clipped) with slight edgewear and a couple of closed tears. A very attractive early copy.

Charles E. Graham, 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Beaver, Charles. Very good in illustrated green boards with some light wear at corners and edges. Neat gift inscription on front pastedown and Christmas poem neatly written on blank page opposite title page, otherwise bright and clean. A nice copy of a scarce title, featuring stories based on old Danish folk tales.

Presidio Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with slight bumping to top edge, otherwise clean and tight. In a near-fine dust jacket (price intact) with a couple of closed tears. INSCRIBED BY ADMIRAL BULKELEY on the flyleaf in the year of publication. Scarce signed.

San Jose: The Pacific Short Story Club, 1928. 1st Edition . Very good in illustrated stiff wraps (with minor soiling) over cardboard boards. Slight paper clip ghost along top edge of several pages, otherwise clean and tight. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Bland on the flyleaf. Also included are four typed pages of poems by Bland: "A Song of Songs" (included in this volume), signed and dated by Bland; "Mother" with notation "unpublished" possibly in Bland's hand; "Lost Flyers" (also with a written note) and "The Pioneer Ministers." This page is dated May 28th, 1926 and all of the pages are likely contemporaneous. A rare archive of material by Bland, who was California's Poet Laureate from 1929-31.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with minor wear at the corners and a repaired closed tear at the top of the spine. An excellent copy of this scarce title.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with minor wear at the spine ends and corners. A very attractive copy.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First trade edition. Very good plus in brown boards with slight sunning to spine and a touch of soiling. Interior bright and clean. An excellent copy.

Minneapolis: The Burton Company, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Rare first printing of this title. Very good in tan boards with slight soiling. A bit of repair to paper along interior hinges and bookseller label at top corner of front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight.