Search Results: Authors starting with M from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, pp. (x), 102; photographs, maps; original pictorial paper wrappers. Very good. Jackson's impacted Lee's Army not just emotionally but also tactically. He had proved himself a great asset in the early days of the War.

Lynchburg: J. P. Bell Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp. (1-7)-8-189; green cloth, gilt; Very good. Historical fiction of the early days in the Old Dominion.

New York: Irish Publishing Company, 1918. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; (iv), ads, (5), 7-236, (ii), Ads; decorated green cloth, gilt; Very good, a nice tight copy. A discussion of Irish oppression by the English.

New York: Judge Company Publishers, 1906. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Emil Flohri, the cover measures 10" x 13.5";. Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947. It was launched by artists who had seceded from its rival Puck. The founders included cartoonist James Albert Wales, dime novels publisher Frank Tousey and author George H. Jessop. This cover shows a thrown piece of coal at the back of "The Peoples" neck;.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1906. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Joseph Keppler, the plate measures 10" x 13.75";. Illustration shows J. D. Archbold feeding "college building crackers" to a Chancellor Day, (Syracuse University) as a parrott. Archbold used his influence as a highly placed Standard Oil official to get Day appointed at Syracuse. The old stadium at S.U. was "Archbold Stadium"

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1906. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Joseph Keppler, the cover measures 10" x 13.75"; We have used the image from the Library of Congress, our piece does not have the library stamps pictured on that copy. Illustration shows Charles W. Fairbanks as Robinson Crusoe sitting on a rock labeled "Vice-Presidency" on the shore of a vast sea. Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1906. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by L. M. Glackens, the cover measures 10" x 13.75"; We have used the image from the Library of Congress, our piece does not have the library stamps pictured on that copy. Illustration shows a woman labeled "Wall Street" as a nursery rhyme figure, possibly Little Bo Peep; she has pulled all the paper petals labeled "Tight Money" and "Easy Money" off a paper flower, the center of the flower, on the ground among the petals, shows a medallion that states "In Cortelyou We Trust". Her bodice is labeled "Stock Exchange". George B. Cortelyou, dressed as an Elizabethan suitor, is standing behind her, they are embracing as he holds aloft a diamond ring labeled "Treasury Aid". Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1907. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Frank H. Nankivell, the cover measures 10" x 13.75";. Illustration shows a woman labeled "Wall Street" as a nursery rhyme figure, possibly Little Bo Peep, pulling paper petals of a paper flower that are labeled "Tight Money" and "Easy Money", as she says "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not". The center of the flower shows a medallion that states "In Shaw We Trust", but with a line drawn through "Shaw". Her bodice is labeled "Stock Exchange". George B. Cortelyou, dressed as an Elizabethan suitor, is looking over her shoulder.Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1907. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Frank A. Nankivell, the plate measures 10" x 13.75";. Illustration shows in six panels TR doing unlikely things, photographing a bear as opposed to hunting one, breaking up a fight between two boys etc.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1905. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by J. S. Pughe, the cover measures 10" x 13.75"; We have used the image from the Library of Congress, our piece does not have the library stamps pictured on that copy. Illustration shows James H. Hyde labeled "Life Insurance Company" drowning in a sea of papers labeled "Exposure, Bribery, Syndicate Profits, Dummy Deals, Wholesale Graft, Fake Transactions, Juggled Reports, 'Yellow Dog' Funds, Rake-off, [and] Investigation", he is holding in his raised left hand a "Receipt for Campaign Funds Republican Nat'l. Com."; the Republican Elephant labeled G.O.P. is dashing around a bluff on the coastline, losing a top hat and halo labeled "Geo. B."; out to sea, lightning flashes labeled "Publicity". Someone, possibly George B. Cortelyou, has tossed Hyde a bouquet of flowers labeled "J.H.H." Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political… Read More

Philadelphia: The Doire Publishing Co, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 140; blue cloth with a white label at center of the front board; Dime size water stain to the front board, previous owner's gift inscription, else very good or better. Discussion of the Irish in the American Colonies. Lists of Irish Continental soldiers by regiment.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. viii, xiv, (2), 3-409; Folding Map; blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, blue coated endpapers;. No one had a greater influence on TR in matters Naval than Mahan; TR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and as President implemented many of those ideas and the overall general theory, that a great nation must have a great Navy.

New York: Stackpole Books, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. (New York), (2002). Octavo (6" x 9.25"), brown and tan boards in pictorial jacket. 239pp. with notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated in black and white with maps and photographs. Very good or better. Just a little smudge on the fore-edge. Light wear to the jacket, primarily faint scuffs and scratches. "Lee, a diehard Southerner, and Chase, a firm supporter of the Union, are profiled by their own words, their diaries written at a time when the uncertainties of the violent conflict weighed heavily on the minds of the nation."

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1981. Later printing. Paperback. Minor edge wear else very good. Octavo; pp; xxiii, (i), 551, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; original printed paper wrappers, paperback;. The final volume of six in this monumental biography of Jefferson.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good or better. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 337, index; eight plates, map endpapers; beige linen in a dust jacket, top edge stained red; jacket chipped at spine ends;. An inciteful account from both sides of the lines by a Red Cross PR officer in Europe in the early part of World War II. A humanitarian's view of the "scourge of man, war"

New York: Random House, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine darkened, lacks the jacket, gilt faded, a solid internally clean good or better copy;. Octavo; pp; (vi), 511; red and blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt;. A masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War.

New York: Da Capo Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (xvi), 287, index; illustrated with color photographs and three maps; black cloth and tan paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. The Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China—and each figure was individually carved. Weaving together history and a first-hand account of his experiences in China, John Man tells the fascinating story of how and why these astonishing figures were created in the third century BC, and how they have become a symbol of China's history, culture, and society.

Portland: Frank Amato Publications, 2008. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Quarto (8.5" x 11"), blue boards, gilt, in ictorial jacket. 468pp. with bibliography, index of flydressers, index of fly types, and general index. Very good or better in very like jacket. "The most comprehensive directory of Salmon flies ever published."

New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp. xiv, (1), 3-335 with index; Illustrated; cream cloth lettered in blue and red in a dust jacket;. The TR/Taft relationship was affectionate, complicated and sadly gave rise to TR's Bull Moose campaign.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; ix, (iii), 222, index; two maps; blue cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Modern gold mining in Montana and the threat posed to a storied western river.