Search Results: Authors starting with M from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Schocken Books, 1984. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Third printing. Sticker remains on spine and rear cover. 1984 Trade Paperback. xvi, 293 pp. The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

New York: The Century Co. / The De Vinne Press, 1903. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur; Vedder, Elihu; Kemble, E.W.; Taber, I.W.; Birch, Reginald; Smith, Jessie Willcox; et al. Bindings loose, but all pages present. Corners rubbed. 1903 Hard Cover. viii, 576; viii, [577]-1152 pp. Includes twelve monthly issues bound in two volumes, comprising November 1912 - October 1913. Red cloth, black and gilt titles and decorations, illustrated endpapers. Stories, poetry, and illustrations by various contributors. "The St. Nicholas Magazine (1873-1941) was a successful American children's magazine, published by Scribner's beginning in November 1873, and designed for children five to eighteen. The magazine was edited by Mary Mapes Dodge—remembered for Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates. Its major competitor in its field was the well-established The Youth's Companion which had been published since 1827. In Dodge's fresh approach to children's entertainment… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. New edition, with additions. Former library copy. Edge wear. 1904 Hard Cover. 328 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: The Lake Country and Wordsworth; Emerson and Concord; The Washington Irving Country; Weimar and Goethe; The Land of Lorna Doone; America in Whitman's Poetry; The Land of Soctt; Hawthorne in the New World.

New York: Penguin, 2015. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x7. Third revised edition. Tiny smudge to endpaper. 2015 Trade Paperback. Whether the rousing words of Winston Churchill, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Salman Rushdie’s denouncement of his fatwa, or the optimism of Barack Obama, speeches shape the way we understand ourselves and those around us like never before. Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of modern times. Some are well known, others are not, but all, in their way, have had a hand in shaping the world we now inhabit.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. Seventh Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Seventh edition. Spines faded, corners a bit rubbed, front and end matter lightly foxed, ink name on front flyleaf of first volume. 1850 Half-Leather. Complete in five volumes. Leather spines and corners over blue cloth boards, gilt titles and rules, marbled edges and endpapers. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death.

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x0x10. First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2010 Large Hardcover. 272 pp. This new book - inspired by three classic, award-winning books - reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created. Macaulay has revised texts based on new research, created gorgeous new drawings, in some cases wholly re-imagined scenes from the books—bringing Castle and Cathedral to life in full-color for the very first time. The resulting illustrations add to the reader's understanding of these buildings, capturing intriguing new perspectives and a depth of detail in structure and atmosphere.

Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1884. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Volumes I, II and IV: Hinges starting. All volumes: Boards soiled, ink name on front flyleaf. 1884 Hard Cover. Five volume set. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death.

Chicago, New York, and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1888. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper of each volume (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Minor cosmetic wear to edges. 1888 Hard Cover. vi, [7]-829; 814; vi, [7]-826 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles. A collection of writings on important historical figures and reviews of works of literature contemporary with Lord Macaulay. CONTENTS: Preface; Milton; Machiavelli; Hallam's Constitutional History; Southey's Colloquies on Society; Mr Robert Montgomery's Poems; Civil Disabilities of the Jews; Moore's Life of Lord Byron; Boswell's Life of Johnson; Southey's Edition of The Pilgrim's Progress; Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden; Burleigh and His Times; War of the Succession in Spain; Horace Walpole;… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1970. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Signed by author. 2nd printing. Signed without inscription by author on half-title page. Minor wear to corners, spine toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. 79, [1] pp. Four works of verse by the Scottish poet and member of The Group (seen as a successor to The Movement), who also worked for BBC Radio.

London: Academy Editions, 1970. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by author. Limited edition, #55 of 250 copies. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Light crease on front corner, wrappers lightly toned. 1970 Soft Cover. 21, [3] pp. Sewn binding. A short book of verse by the Scottish poet and member of The Group (seen as a successor to The Movement), who also worked for BBC Radio.

Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart, 1998. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x0x12. First edition. Remainder mark, 1 inch tears on front and back of jacket, left flap clipped. 1998 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. From the poetry of Yeats to the strife between landlords and tenants to the terrors of Bloody Sunday and the struggle for peace, "The Irish Century" explores the Emerald Isle's unique history, culture, and people with an intimacy that only imagery can bring to the page. 300 photos.

New York: Richards Rosen Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First edition. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, pages foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. 192 pp. The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) conducting security cooperation and providing air, space, and cyberspace capabilities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Established on 20 August 1942 at Bolling Field, District of Columbia, 12th Air Force was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of World War II. It engaged in operations in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Western Europe. During the Cold War, 12 AF was one of the Numbered Air Forces of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and later… Read More

New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x1x8. Signed by author. Ninth printing. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For David." Edge wear, front cover creased. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 831 pp. "At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians—from the zealous Martin Luther to the radical Loyola, from the tortured Cranmer to the ambitious Philip II. Drawing together the many strands of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and ranging widely across Europe and the New World, MacCulloch reveals as never before how these dramatic upheavals affected everyday lives—overturning… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Siegel, Hal (jacket art). First edition. Jacket has a few tiny perforations, front board slightly bowed. 1973 Hard Cover. "In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. No jacket. Spine bowed, minor loss to spine base. 1928 Hard Cover. 278 pp. Cabinet Minister John Hoode is found bludgeoned to death with a woodworker's rasp in the study of his country house. Was it an intruder? An insider? The men of Scotland Yard are baffled. Colonel Anthony Gethryn, an Oxford scholar and former British secret service agent, is asked by an old friend to investigate the brutal murder.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Sticker ghost on front jacket panel, small tear to jacket edges. Jacket and page ridges foxed. 1986 Hard Cover. 229 pp. Tucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour but gets caught up in the footwork of a skilled swindler.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x0. First edition. Jacket price clipped, minimal wear to jacket spine head. 1968 Hard Cover. 227 pp. Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree' And is the daughter simply his nympho… Read More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12x9x1. First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn. 1986 Large Hardcover. 192 pp. This book recreates twenty-five of the most memorable battles of the Second World War, from the invasion of Poland to Okinawa.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. First edition. Top edge of jacket bumped. Top page ridge foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. 246 pp. Hired to find the person who killed an ailing tycoon with his bare hands, Travis McGee must contend with the tycoon's disinherited artist son and his aging actress wife.

New York: Bantam Books, 1972. 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. 2nd printing. Spine lightly creased. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle--a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.