Search Results: Authors starting with M from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

[Kenosha, WI: John Martin’s House, Inc., 1945]. 4to. [28 pp]. Colour-illust. throughout. Colour-illust. boards (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng), w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, chppng, vry mnr dustsoilng), VG/VG-. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition of 16 of Stevenson’s best children’s poems.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1978]. Thick 8vo. xvii, [1], 793, [1] pp. Numerous photo illust. & maps. Black cloth, w/ d.j. (edgewear, creasng), VG/VG-. Early printing.

New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1954. 8vo. [8], 533, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numrous maps. Black cloth, red lettrng, w/ d.j. (chppng hd of spine, edgewear, creasng), NF/VG-, signed by author on ffep. First edition, 3rd printing, signed, of this analysis of MacArthur, by a journalist who spent time with the general before and after World War II.

New York: Magazine of Fantasy [& Science Fiction], Mystery House, Fall, 1949. 8vo. 128 pp. Numerous text illusts. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art photo by Bill Stone (uniform interior toning as usual), still F copy, from the library of science fiction writer, Robertson Osborne. First edition of this first issue in the famed science fiction digest.

[Alberta, Canada: Ballantrae Foundation, 1974]. Folio. 232 pp. Title in red & blk. Frntsp., over 200 photos, colour illusts., text illusts, maps. Red cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr clsd tear to uppr frnt fore-edge, mnr creasng, edgewear), NF/VG-. First edition of this second individual subject volume on the history of native groups in Canada.

[Los Angeles: Times Mirror Press, 1973]. Folio. 253, [1] pp. Frntsp., 100s of photo illusts. Green cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (edgewear, mnr rubbng), VG/VG-, w/ colour photo laid-in. First edition of this biography of one of Hollywood's most beloved personalities, who gained fame in the 1930s as the First Lady of Song.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1960]. 8vo. 158, [2] pp. Colour frntsp., 111 photos. Illust. orange cloth, blk lettrng & illusts., VG. Early printing of this excellent work on the ancient kingdom of Khmer, and travel account in the Cambodia lost in the killing fields of Pol Pot.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, [c. 1943]. 12mo. vi, [2], 276 pp. Red cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art of silhouette shadow on adobe wall, NF/NF. First Sun Dial edition of this western about a Desperado with a price on his head.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919. 4to. 342 pp. Colour illust. title, 8 colour plates, colour illust. endpapers. Light gray-coloured cloth, colour plate by Willcox Smith mounted front cover, gilt & blue lettering, t.e.g. (slight bumping to corners, very minor dustsoiling, slight scuffing front cover, very minor soiling upper fore-edge back cover), still VG copy. First edition, thus, of this famed fantasy classic, with the wonderful Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations.

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1952]. 8vo. 190 pp. Colour frontisp., decorated title, numerous plates. Beige publisher’s cloth, decoration & blue lettering front cover & spine (minor rubbing, shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Hopkins (couple minor tears at fore-edges, slight chipping head & foot of spine), still VG/VG copy, w/ former ownership marking on ffep. First edition, 2nd printing, of this beloved Christmas story by the noted author of the autobiographical “Egg and I” and the very popular children’s series “Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle” which featured illustrations by Knight & Sendak. This story features two orphans Nancy & Plum abandoned to an abusive orphanage, surviving and eventually finding a new home with inspiration from Frances Hodgson Burnett, and assistance of a kindly teacher, librarian, and farmers.

New York: Gnome Press [1951]. 8vo. 381, [1] pp. Quarter-green cloth over gray boards, silver lettering (minor soiling to first few leaves fore-edges at one spot), w/ d.j. cover art by Edd Cartier (slight sunning to spine, very slight shelfwear), still VG/NF copy. First hardcover edition, stated, of one of John D. MacDonald’s early stories. This anthology also includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, A. Bertram Chandler, E.E. Doc Smith, and others.

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., [1994]. 8vo. xix, [1], 395, [1] pp. Numerous illusts., genealogical tables. Tan boards, green lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this work drawing on more than 3000 MacDonald letters to friends and family members, many previously unpublished.

New York: Bonanza Books, [1963]. Folio. 288 pp. Over 350 text illusts. Half-beige cloth over brwn boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First Bonanza edition of this practical and fascinating work which gives special attention to choosing campfire and council ring sites, laying and lighting fires, and fire programs.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. 8vo. [4], 252 pp. Brown ribbd cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. deco cover art of man seated at a desk in top hat (slght chppng hd & ft of spine, couple chps to fore-edges), NF/VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this wonderful mystery of art, swindles, a great con man, and romance.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1965]. 8vo. 142, [2] pp. Frontisp., illustrated title, numerous text illustrations. Gray cloth, illustrated in black & white on front cover, white lettering on spine, hinges reinforced in linen (ex-lib markings & offsetting on endpapers , w/ d.j. (slight shelfwear), G/NF copy. Early printing of this 6th title in the wonderful Miss Pickerell science fiction adventure series.

New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1953]. 8vo. 128 pp. Double-page illustrated title, numerous text illustrations. Gray cloth, illustrated in black on front cover, black lettering on spine, w/ d.j. (minor chipping & edgewear head & foot of spine, creasing, edgewear), still VG/G- copy, w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this third title in the wonderful Miss Pickerell science fiction adventure series.

New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1954]. 8vo. 126 pp. Frontisp., illust. title, numerous text illustrations. Red cloth, illustrated in black on front cover, black lettering on spine, w/ d.j. (minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear lower fore-edge back cover), still VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this installment in the wonderful Miss Pickerell science fiction adventure series.

[London]: Brown Books, [1999]. Folio. 176 pp. 100s of colour ad blk & wht illusts. Colour-illust. boards (slght bmpng ft of spine), w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr), VG/NF. First edition of this excellent work examining the development and deployment of such Machine Guns as the Gatling Model 1868, Martigny Mitrailleuse, Nordenfelt, Hotchkiss revolver cannon; MG15, Browning M1917, M2, Maxim New Pattern 1901, Maxim New Light 1906, Browning, Thompson M1, Uzi, and so many more.

Washington: G.P.O., 1896. 4to. 95, [1] pp. Numerous plates, diagrams. Salmon-coloured printed softcovers (minor chipping to corners, some dustsoiling, edgewear, rebacked), still a VG copy. First edition of this excellent work examining the development, deployment, mountings, carriages, and cartridges and of such Machine Guns as the Gatling Gun produced by the Colt’s Arms Company, Gardner Machine Gun, and the Hotchkiss revolver cannon, which were employed by the U.S. Army through the Spanish-American War before the adoption of the Maxim.

Lincoln, NE: Published by the Univ. of Nebraska Press, [1996]. 8vo. xvi, 390 pp., plus 2 pp. publ. ads. With 4 plates, 2 maps. Gold-coloured cloth, black & silver lettering front cover & spine (minor soiling front cover, slight bumping to couple corners), still VG- copy, w/ former ownership label on front pastedown. First edition of this installment in the Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians series.