Search Results: Authors starting with M from Bountiful Books

San Francisco, CA: Howell-North Press. Gold wraps show minor soiling, else clean and sound. McGettigan's signature and wishes for a happy holiday season on ffep. Poetry centering on California - it's history, Indian legends, and nature. With b/w line drawings at section breaks. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1943.

Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints. Tan cardboard covers with cloth spine show bumped corners, else clean and sound. Interior is unmarked. Copious black and white photos, including one of an early Walt Disney creation. Official Yearbook of the Puppeteers of America. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1938.

Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints. Tan cardboard covers with cloth spine show bumped corners, else clean and sound. Interior is unmarked. Copious black and white photos. Official Yearbook of the Puppeteers of America. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1941.

Madrid, Spain: Imprenta Real. Brown leather bindings with gilt trim are clean and sound, with spine labels missing from all but Book III. Ex-library, with stamps to edges of volumes and verso of title pages, and remnants of book plates on rear pastedowns. There are personal book plates on the front pastedowns. Minor foxing to first few pages of each volume, not affecting the frontispiece portrait of the poet in Vol. I. Else, pages are clean and unmarked. This is a new edition of the complete poems of Melendez Valdez, the first edition having been published in 1789. The author was a renowned poet of his time, as well as a jurist and prominent political figure in Spain. Tomo I: 358 pages; II: 403 ; III: 341 ; IV: 335. . Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition Thus. 1820.

Paris: Garnier Freres. 4 volumes, all very nice, 5th edition. Red calf spines, raised bands, gilt trim, marbled boards, marbled edges, and marbled endpapers. Corners bumped, extremities show minor rubbing, some very light foxing. In all, a beautiful little set, covering the high points of French literature from Celtic poetry to Beaumarchais. . Near Fine. Half-Leather. 1868.

London: Richard Bentley. First edition in English. Original patterned green cloth boards show wear, bumped corners, frayed hinges, top 1/8" missing from spine head. Penciled name on ffep, minor foxing on frontispiece, else interior is unmarked, with several unopened pages. Front hinge starting, else text block is sound. A rare copy by the famed French author of Carmen, basis for the opera of the same name, this non-fiction work covers an unsettled but fascinating era in Russian history, includes references. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 1st Printing. 1853.

San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press for Book Club of California. Red morocco over tan cloth binding is clean and sound. Tiny spot at top of title page, else interior is unmarked. Plane paper dust jacket is worn at edges, several closed tears, lightly soiled, sunned, with off-setting from leather spine. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Includes selections from the journal and drawings of William Meyers, at that time acting gunner on U.S. Navy ship Cyane in the early 1840s. xvi + 68 pages + 11 plates (including frontispiece map and 10 full page color illustrations.) . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 1st Printing. 1955.

San Diego, CA. Covers show light foxing, interior is clean and unmarked. Program for the 1938 production of "Chonita" a historical drama set to music, about life in San Diego, California in 1853. The musical was presented in the then-named Ford Bowl in Balboa Park, and was a sequal to an earlier production called "Heart's Desire". The scene of the action was San Diego's historic Gila House. The program includes a history of early San Diego by Millan. 32 pages, and a treasure for scholars of San Diego history, if only because of the numerous ads by politicians and businesses of the era. . Very Good. Stapled Wraps. 1st Edition. 1938.

Paris: Marc-Aurel. Marbled boards are clean and sound, brown calf spines with gilt trim show minor rubbing. Probable ex-library, with small stickers and evidence of bookplate removal on front paste-downs of each volume. Marbled end papers. Bookstore stamp on title page of Vol. I and on half-title page of Vol. II, and occasionally thereafter. Light foxing throughout. Vol. I 435 pps.; Vol. II 448 pps. A handsome set offering a detailed analysis of the Conquest of Algeria during the years 1830 - 1847. . Very Good. 1/2 Leather. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1847.

Boston: Dana Estes & Co.. True First Edition, Preceding The English Version. Green Cloth Boards With Delightful Color-Stamped Illustrations On Front Board, Rear Board And Spine, Are Clean And Sound, With Minor Wear To Spine Ends. Color Illustrations On Front And Rear Paste-Down. Gift Inscription On Ffep, Else Interior Is Unmarked, Except For The Occassional Finger Smudge, And A Light Dampstain To Edges Of Endpapers. Jo Mora's Whimsical Illustrations Adorn Virtually Every Page, With Dozens Of Full Page B/W Illustrations And 14 Vivid Tipped-In Colored Plates. Five Of The Tipped-In Plates Have Come Loose From The Binding And Consequently Show Tears And Chipping At The Edges. One Of These (P. 207, Frogs Desiring A King) Has A 2" Long X1/2" Deep Piece Missing At The Edge Plus Several Long Closed Tears Which Have Now Been Professionally Repaired With Japanese Silk Paper. 212 Pages, Additional Photos Available On Request. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1900.

London: Oxford. One corner lightly bumped, a touch of foxing on top edge; else fine boards and interior. Dust jacket shows minor edgewear along top edge of rear panel, else clean and bright. A comprehensive study - monastic, administrative and economic - of the English priories and manors of the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin. 164 pps. including Index. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1968.

Chicago & Philadelphia: Elliott and Beezley. A Clean, Sound Copy With Olive Cloth Boards And A Charming Front Paste-On Of Children Sledding In The Snow, Decorated Endpapers. First Edition With This Cover, After The Original 1887 Version. Corners And Spine Ends Slightly Worn. Pencilled Gift Inscription On Ffep, Dated Christmas 1889. This Is A Compendium Of Children's Stories And Poems, Mostly Unattributed. Profusely Illustrated With Beautiful, Exceptionally Bright Tipped-In Colored Plates, And B/W Engravings. From The First Story, "The Treasure Box" To The Last, "Cheer Up", This Is A Jewel Of A Book. 246 Pages. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 1889.