Search Results: Authors starting with M from Monkey House Books

A Penguin Special, Penguin Books Ltd., 1939. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good/No Jacket. 247 pages, well-darkened and worn. Originally published in the UK, this book outlines Joad's political philosophy of non-violence, even as Hitler had begun his march through Europe.

Rome (NY): Citizen Office, 1898. Bright blue cloth boards, gilt-decorated cover and spine (darkened).. Good/No Dust Jacket. Rare title, hard-to-find. Black & white illustrated plates. Floral endpapers. 154 pages, errata on last leaf, text unmarked. Dampstain along the top margin of a few pages. Wear and fraying to ends and corners. Cover gilt worn. Hinges cracking.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901. Mustard cloth boards, gilt and silver decorative cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece by Henry Hutt.. Character sketches of various women. 322 pages plus advertisements. Ex-library with spine sticker, pastedown, stamps. Wear to ends and corners. Front hinge cracked, rear starting. Tiny wormhole in front hinge.

London: John Westinghouse, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Biography of the 16th century Spanish monarch. Dust jacket has some edge tears. Frontispiece drawing (portrait) by Robin Jacques after a painting by Pantoja de la Cruz. 312 pages, index, illustrated. Some pencil underlining.

New York: Ginn and Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Songs for young children/elementary grades, including historical, holiday, lands & peoples, seasonal, etc. Illustrations and musical notation, lyrics. Simple tunes, folk songs. 192 pages. Board of Education of the City of New York stamp. Green cloth boards, reinforced binding, general agewear.

43, 45 and 47 East Tenth Street, New York: Maynard, Merrill & Co., Publishers, 1892. Olive cloth boards, black stamped cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. With a Biographical Sketch of Macaulay, and with Explanatory and Biographical Notes. Nos. 104-105 of Maynard's English Classic Series. 105 pages. Light wear, especially for its age.

New York: John D. Williams, 50 West 14th Street, [no date]. Dark brown cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Edited by his sister, Lady Trevelyan. Volume V only, with index to the entire work. Contains Chapters XXIII-XXV. 309 pages, top edge gilt, frontispiece with tissue, illustrated with plates, portraits. Wear, fraying, soiling, and bleaching to bottom of covers. Endpapers have been replaced. Functional.

Los Angeles: Dan Mack Publishing Co., 1930. Bright blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Billy Cam.. Edgewear, slight fraying, gift inscription from 1934. Humorous ditties, popular poems and rhymes for men of the Navy and Marines with 1930s perspectives, caricatures and stereotypes on Prohibition, the Chinese, Japanese women, etc.

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1982. Trade paperback. Very Good. 10 short stories by the author of Cal, addressing the innocence of youth, adult awareness, fathers and sons, widowhood, mortality and age, and other rich and varied themes. 174 pages, some edge and corner wear.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 370 Seventh Avenue, 1928. Olive cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Binding strong, some underlining, notes on rep, owner's information penciled on ffep. Ends & corners worn & frayed.

New York: Scholastic, 1966. Trade paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. The Scholastic Great Issues Series. Documents and readings explain various perspectives on the American War for Independence. For higher grades. 96 pages, pages toned.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. Hardcover in clear protective wraps.. Good./Dust Jacket condition good. . Ex-library. Rear free endpaper was razored out when removed from library circulation. This book would make a fine addition to any classroom library or for any lover of women's literature. Features descriptions of works, principal characters, summaries and analysis of 175 works. Readers familiar with the editor's other works, including Masterpieces of World Literature, will find this a wonderful companion volume.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1943. Hardcover, gray cloth boards. Good. With reproductions of the original illustrations by Thackeray and with an introductory biographical sketch of the author by Basil Davenport. 754 pages. Great Illustrated Classics. Ex-library with pocket, stamps, and labels. Thackeray, 1811-1863, was a major English novelist of his time and a rival of Charles Dickens. This is his best-loved work.

Doubleday & McClure Co., 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 169 pages, masterpieces of burlesque, humorous selections of his lesser-known verse, including The Ballad of Bouillabaisse and The Snob Playfully Dealt With. Edited by Bliss Perry. Little Masterpieces series, part of a uniform edition of pocket or cabinet sized volumes. Red cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, frontispiece portrait. Agewear but unmarked.

Mystic, Connecticut: The Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1963. Softcover. Good Plus.. Some wear & fading to edges and spine. Well illustrated in b/w. No. 41. List of paintings in collection. 63 pages.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Fair.. Striking dust jacket cover design by Lewis. Rare title by the author of Drum & Monkey, hard-to-find, especially in dust jacket. Large tear across front cover, approx 1x2"" loss at bottom (author's name area missing); loss at top left corner of back cover; jacket has other creasing, rubbing, chips. Clear wraps added for preservation. 346 pages, uncut foredge and bottom. Story of Humphrey Daine, tortured by debt and a wanton wife, dramatically remakes his life and loves.

Boston: Mansfield Printing Company, 1929. Deep maroon cloth, title label affixed to cover.. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. 112 pages, unmarked. Covers type measurement, paper weight and cutting, copy-fitting, proportion and layout, and basic arithmetic/ mathematics used. Ends and corners worn/frayed. Owner's label ffep. Endpapers tanned.

Skokie: National Textbook Company, 1980. Hardcover.. Good.. No markings, very useful reference at a very reasonable price. Pages M7-M10 loose but included. Red boards.

Chicago: Ohmite Manufacturing Company, 1941. Stapled booklet. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. Attenuators For Radio, Television, Sound, Electronic and Industrial Uses. August 1941. Slight crinkle, creases, small tears. 16 pages, b/w illustrations, product information.

New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers & American Society of Mechanical Engineers., 1946. Gray Stapled booklet. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. ASA Z32.3-1946. Printed March 1, 1946. 36 pages. Sponsored by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.