Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Curiosity Book Shop

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938 Black cloth; color paper pastedown title; gilt spine lettering. Front flap of dust jacket was cut out and is laid in, along with jacket illustration, a reproduction of Gericault's painting, "The Raft of the Medusa." Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Spine moderately sunned. Boards moderately soiled. Single narrow, short insect bore to fore edge page block. Some discoloration to endpapers due to ageing glue. Interior otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1917 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Copyright 1892. Part of The Academy Classics Series; this book contains portions of a larger volume. Black-and-white frontis portrait of Clive. Blue cloth; gilt title and spine. Prior owner name neatly printed inside front cover.

Waltham, Massachusetts: Xerox College Publishing, 1971 Very Good-. Anthology of social criticism, including writings/song lyrics by Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Lennon and McCartney, Studs Terkel, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Heller, and many more. Cover moderately rubbed and lightly edgeworn. Interior clean and tight.

Augusta, Maine: Maine Department of Educational & Cultural Services, 1974 First Edition. Small 4to. Green cloth; gilt cover illustration (lighthouse), title and spine lettering. Intended for use by Maine elementary school children and teachers, the projects and crafts described convey facts about the state. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and drawings. Faint speckle-staining to fore edge of front cover; prior owner name front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight in a moderately edgeworn and soiled dust jacket; three 1' closed tears and one small chip to dust jacket edges.

Farmington, Maine: Knowlton & mcLeary Co., 1907 Second edition; first published 1899. "With the object in view that the Shakers may become better known, this book is offered to the public." Includes much on Maine Shaker communities and historical information. With tissue-guarded frontispiece and many other half-tone photograph reproductions on coated paper. Interior Very Good +/ Exterior Good/ No Jacket Prior owner name on front endpaper. Black cover cloth irregularly stained, visible only under certain lighting conditions. Moderate rubbing to extremities.

London: Grafton Books, 1987 Originally published 1867. Edited with an Introduction by Arthur Ransome. MacGregor was the founder of the Shoeblack Society, the inventor of the Rob Roy canoe, and the author of books on canoeing that sent scores of young men to paddle the waters of the [European] Continent. With black-and-white reproduction illustrations. Faint cover edgewear. Distributor sticker at lower rear cover. Prior owner name/address sticker at upper half-title page. Small notation about book acquisition written alongside binding on half-title page. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Kennebunkport, Maine: Kennebunk Book Port, 1985 Eighth in a series of books about New England by these authors, this volume is a collection of images and adventures associated with the New England sea and those who sail on it or live by it. Most are recordings of unusual or historical episodes. Illustrated with simple line drawings. Very light cover edgewear and scuffing. Clean and tight.

New York: The John Day Company, 1948 Gray cloth with decorative turquoise print cover with repeating geometric flower design. Seventh romantic adventure novel by this prolific war-time author, once again set in Hawaii. Scarce. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Lower corners lightly bumped. Light 1" scuffed patch to upper front board. Clean and tight.

East Sussex, England: Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications Ltd, 1998 Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with color photographs and black-and-white diagrams and drawings.

London: Mineralogical Society (Clay Minerals Group), 1957 Cloth. Very Good-/Good. With graphs, charts, and a few black-and-white illustrations. Faint oval/semi-circular area (4" x 3") of fading to spine and adjoining portion of front cover; small amount of gilt lettering on spine scuffed away; bumps to corners and front fore edge. Prior owner name, date upper front endpaper. Plain dust jacket moderately edgeworn and with few smudges, and with another name inkwritten at upper front dust jacket flap. Text clean and tight.

New York: Crescent Books/Crown Publishers, Inc., 1967 Appears to be reprint in copyright year (1967) or shortly afterward; first published by Aldus Books Limited, London. Includes chapters on Chinese secret societies, the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, the Ku Klux Klan, and more. With black-and-white and color illustrations. Clean and tight in a dust jacket with discoloration (browning) and several closed tears at top edge; light browning to spine of jacket; light rubbing to lower edge.

London: Orion Books Ltd, 1993 An insider's guide to job-hunting, in a British context, but with valuable information for jobseekers everywhere. Very light cover edgewear, including light diagonal crease to upper front cover corner. Clean and tight.

London: The Mining Journal, 1908 Green cloth; gilt spine lettering. Solid endpapers. With tissue-guarded coloured chromolithograph plate frontis. Numerous black-and-white illustrations and figures and 38 half-tone plates within text. Geographical Index and Index to Authors Cited in rear. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Heavy volume. Corners lightly bumped. Light patch of discoloration to spine where label removed. Internal library marks limited to bookplate and inkstamp to inside front cover, inkstamp to verso of frontispiece plate, and small inkstamp to lower margin of title page.

New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1976 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Lavishly illustrated with over 500 color photographs. Dust jacket protected with mylar.

Kansas City: Handcraft, Inc., 1983 Very Good/Very Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white diagrams and photographs. Corners bumped; cover extremities very lightly worn. Dust jacket extremities lightly-to-moderately worn; single 1" closed tear at upper rear edge of dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1902 Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Collections of essays previously published in periodicals of the era, e.g. "The World's Work," "Leslie's Weekly," 'The National Review," etc. Folding map in rear. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Front hinge paper fragile. Short closed tear to one fold of rear map repaired with archival tape. Clean and tight.

Vienna: Halm and Goldmann, 1928 Maroon cloth; gilt title and spine lettering. Second edition. With 52 black-and-white illustrations. INSCRIBED to Dr. John Godwin Downing and SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Corners bumped. Single small dark mark to rear board.Tiny amount of loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. Spine lettering dulled, moderately rubbed. Old price inkstamp (35 cents) inside rear cover. Otherwise clean and tight.

University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991 Red cloth. A companion volume to the author's "The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts," this interdisciplinary study focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by critic-historian Giorgio Vasari, on the willful artificiality of painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of theorist Gregorio Comanini. With black-and-white photographs/reproductions.

The Netherlands: Koppert B.V./ Reed Business Information, 2003 Oversize square format; color illustrated paper-covered boards. Revised edition, a completely revised and expanded version of the first edition published in 1992 under the same title. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and detailed diagrams and figures. Full of the latest scientific information. More attention given to ornamental crops than in the first edition. Koppert is "a leading company in the area of biological control." Very light rubbing to lower cover corners. Upper rear cover corner bumped. Two moderate one-inch pressure marks to rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 Cloth. Good-/No Jacket Early reprint. Uncut. Front cover whitish stains; extremities moderately worn. Vertical crease and prior owner's name neatly in ink ffep. Interior clean and tight.