Search Results: Authors starting with M from Elk River Books

C. Hurst & Co., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 350. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Includes index, map of Lesotho. Jacket has moderate wear, boards are crimped at corners. Gift inscription on free front endpaper. Stain on bottom and side edges.

St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5), pp. xx, 374 pages with index. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket has light wear and is slightly tanned along spine. Boards show only the slightest wear along edges, corners. Bookstore price sticker inside front cover. The author has taught at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and is the former Minister of Education in Lesotho.

St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5), pp. xx, 374 pages with index. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket has light wear and soiling, and is slightly tanned along spine. Boards show only the slightest edge wear. Bookstore price sticker inside front cover. The author has taught at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and is the former Minister of Education in Lesotho.

Minocqua, WI: NorthWood Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 144. Green boards with silver lettering on spine. Some light scratching to dust jacket, jacket is price clipped.

Minocqua, WI: NorthWord Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 144. Maroon boards with silver lettering on spine. Jacket is price clipped, small closed tear at bottom edge, some light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Casper, WY: Mountain States Lithographing , 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 123. Pictorial wrappers. Includes black and white photos, notes, bibliography and index. Wrappers are creased along spine and have moderate edge wear.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo (20 cm), pp. 317. Red cloth with navy blue and gilt-stamped titling. Frontispiece author photo with tissue guard. Previous owner's name, dated 1923, on front free endpaper. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. Bumping to spine ends. No jacket.This is the third book by MacLane, a "Canadian-born American writer and pioneering feminist whose frank autobiographical account of her life—written at age 19 and published as The Story of Mary MacLane—by Herself in 1902—became an instant best-seller and made her a celebrity for two decades," writes Ohio State University professor Julia Watson. "Called the 'Wild Woman of Butte,' she used a Modernist confessional style to express erotic desires. She was largely forgotten until feminist interest in women’s lives revived her work during the 1970s." In a tribute to women in Montana's history, the Missoulian noted, "She was a sensation, hailed by some as a literary… Read More

New York: Duffield & Co., 1911. Hardcover. Very good. New edition with "a chapter on the present" (originally published, 1902). Duodecimo (18.5 cm), pp. 354. Red cloth with white titling. Frontispiece author photo. News clipping about MacLane from the Missoulian laid-in, clipping advertising an illustrated edition tipped-in on front free endpaper, along with some pencil notation. Bumping to spine ends and spine titling mostly rubbed away (front titling is still bright). The word "Sample" stamped to bottom of text block. No jacket.Written at age 19, this book "became an instant best-seller and made her a celebrity for two decades," according to Ohio State University professor Julia Watson. "Called the 'Wild Woman of Butte,' she used a Modernist confessional style to express erotic desires. She was largely forgotten until feminist interest in women’s lives revived her work during the 1970s." In a tribute to women in Montana's history, the Missoulian noted, "She was a sensation, hailed by some as a… Read More

New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. xi, [xii-xiv], 738, plus appendices. Beige cloth boards with tan dust jacket. Includes appendices A through G, introduction by the author and editorial note by the publisher. Jacket is sunned along spine, front flap dog-eared. Slight bumping at head of spine.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 102. Limited signed edition (#215/300). Decorative paper boards with black quarter cloth, in brown cloth slipcase. Slipcase has a little rubbing on the bottom edge. An essay Mailer wrote after his infamous 1971 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, in which he spars with Cavett and writers Gore Vidal and Janet Flanner.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on half-title page. Blue cloth with gilt and white spine titling. Orange endpapers. Illustrated jacket with author photo on back. Bumping to spine ends, sunning to top edge of boards and light soiling to text block edges. Price-clipped jacket with minor edge wear and chipping. Previous owner's name, "J. Gioia" on a front blank leaf. Joe Gioia was a senior editor at Modern Photography, a contributing editor at American Photo, an early contributor to Salon[dot]com, and the author of The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History and Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book comes from his private estate.

New York: Targ Editions, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (24.5 cm), pp. 31. Limited signed edition. Decorative paper boards with red quarter cloth binding, parchment dustwrapper. Light corner wear, and also to tail of spine. Parchment has smudges. A story of ecological disaster first printed by Esquire in 1962.

New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by author on half-title page. Black boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Deckle edge. Illustrated jacket with author photo on back. Slight bumping to spine ends, light edge wear to jacket, else fine. Mailer's final novel, published in the year of his death.

Montgomery, AL: River City Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 329. Blue boards with silver text on spine and front board.

New York: Vantage, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 134. Black boards with silver spine text. Jacket with Peter S. Corbin painting on front and author photo on rear. Light bumping to corners, minor edge wear and chipping to jacket. "Beyond the green coastal waters lies a secret aquatic world of cobolt blue, the mysterious home of the majestic and challenging billfish." Scarce in the trade: no copies listed in OCLC.

Chicago: Standard Map Co., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio (40 cm), pp. 38. Black cloth with burgundy quarter leather. Colored, engraved maps of each Township (as well as the entire County and the State of Michigan) showing ownership of each plot of land greater than 20 acres. Each township has an accompanying chart of names of farmers, acreage owned, and notes on crops and livestock raised. These pages also have numerous advertisements for local businesses. At the top of each Township map, in neat pencil handwriting, is the name of the Township Supervisor in 1927. Boards are partly detached, with edge wear and rubbing, and pages show heavy soiling and foxing, though most map areas are in very good condition. The Michigan map has a couple of small holes at the border of the map, not affecting the land area.

Saginaw, MI: Heal The Earth Press, 2004. First edition. Paperback. New. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 99. Signed by Beaudin on title page. Contains poetry, essays, speaches and letters by several members of the anti-war community of mid-Michigan, in support of Tri-City Action of Peace.

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Husson Co., 1893. Very good. 23.5 x 16 cm. Color frontispiece. One of 1000 copies published of the Aquarelle Edition of The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopidia of Universal Authorship, the 10-volume set was edited by Ainsworth R. Spofford and Charles Gibbon. "The photogravure illustrations form a gallery of art exclusively devoted to the representation of literature, such as has never been seen till now; and these pictures, by the best artists of all nations, conclusively prove the importance of the editors' selections from literature, because the paintings were made for the text, not the text for the paintings, and the great modern painters confirm the good judgement of the editors in their selection of great masterpieces."

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 479. Light brown quarter paper over yellow boards, with silver lettering on spine. Jacket has price sticker residue on front; remainder mark on bottom edge. Award-winning Tucson writer Silko's third novel.

Newport Beach: Chaney-Hall , 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo. 191pp. Blue boards with black quarter cloth binding and silver text on spine. Appears unread, some slight bumping on corners.