Search Results: Authors starting with M from Lighthousebooks, ABAA

N.l., 1956. Duodecimo, stiff red stapled wrappers, 60 pp. Near-Fine, with sunning to edges. Chapters include: The First Pioneers, The Last Indians, The Last Panther, The Last Bear, After the Civil War, Life in the Early Days of Dunedin, Old Homes, The Presbyterian Church, The Post Office, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd; Library Hall and Dunedin Library; The Years Following 1889; Citrus in Pinellas County, Incorporation of Town and Its Government; The coming of the Automobile; Dunedin Schools; The Islands; Newspapers; The Boom and Depression Years; Other Churches; The Hospital; Industries; Present Day Recreational Facilities.

Toronto: Trans-Canada Press, [1987]. First Edition. Quarto, green cloth, 128 pp. Color photos, photos. Fine.

Nashville, TN: Cool Springs Press, (1999). Quarto, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. white wrappers), 415 pp. Fine (As New). Illustrated.

Quarto Knows, (2012). Quarto, softbound (slick, full-color illus. stiff wrappers), 271 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The one-stop answer book for all your Florida gardening questions! Tom MacCubbin and Georgia B. Tasker, with expert gardeners Robert Bowden and Joe Lamp’l, have combined years of gardening expertise into the best resource for the Sunshine State. Whether you live in Pensacola or Key West, or anywhere in between, the Florida Gardener’s Handbook is the must-have guide for your Florida gardening success. Florida Gardener’s Handbook features: eleven popular plant categories, from annuals to vines; chapters on edible gardening including citrus, fruits, nuts, and vegetables; extensive selection of beautiful tropical plants; twelve months of around-the-garden advice for each of the plant categories; information on sustainable and environmentally sound gardening practices. With input from the most authoritative gardeners in Florida, we have compiled a complete garden reference to… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1974). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 228 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription, in a Very Good+ original state dust jacket with price intact, light edgewear. From jacket: That waterfront kight-errant Travis McGee is never one to turn away an old friend in need -- especiallly if that old friend is young, lovely, and looks like she hasn’t slept for three days. Her name is Carrie Milligan, and at 3 A.M. she turns up on McGee’s houseboat with an ordinary box filled with an extraordinary amount of cash -- 104,200, to be exact -- in old bills all tied up in neat bundles. She just wants McGee to hold the cash in safekeeping until she can pick it up, no questions asked, and McGee gets ten grand off the top for his trouble...Two weeks later Carrie turns up dead, struck by a truck on a deserted country road...

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. 1st American edition. Octavo, green cloth, v, 239 pp. Very Good; spine dull, otherwise very clean and tight.

Cleveland: Sam Fox Pub. Co., (1927). Sheet music. Quarto, color-illustrated self-wrappers with a portrait of Clara Bow kissing Charles (Buddy) Rogers, [6] pp. Buddy Rogers starred in the film as an all-American boy who goes off to fight the Hun as a member of the Army Air Corps in William A. Wellman’s classic World War I spectacle, whose cast included Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, and Gary Cooper. “Wings” (1927) was the first film to win an Academy Award. Very Good; light rubbing, lower corner bumped.

Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, [1986]. 1st edition. Quarto, green boards (hardback), xiv, 669 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Octavo, green illus. boards (hardcover), uncut, [v] 244 pp + [i] pp. Good, with lightly rubbed and soiled covers, foxing (age darkening) to endpapers. The 2nd title in the Lew Archer Series & Film Classic. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From Foreword: Lew Archer, who made his debut in The Moving Target, returns to the private wars of his calling to find the answer to a lady’s question. At least Maude Slocum looked and talked like a lady, though her question concerned the authorship of certain written aspersions on her chastity. When Mrs. Slocum’s mother-in-law was very shortly drowned, the question became more urgent. It took Archer a long way down from the hill-top where the Slocums lived in two-car poverty. He pieced the answer together from many sources: an English lordling living in California, thieves and hoodlums living and dying on various income levels, a beautiful woman grotesquely married to a millionaire graduate of… Read More

Images Publishing (Malvern) Ltd., 1994. New Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 383 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate; in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Beside the main road from Bucharest to the famous oil town of Ploiesti lies the beauituflly tended Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. While British Defence Attache in Romania (1979-82) the author became curious to know how the 80 British and Commonwealth airmen, who lie in this peaceful place, met their deaths between May and August 1944. He discovered that they were from the RAF’s 205 Group which, flying from airfields in the Foggia Plain of Italy, was the night-bomber component of the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force. They had lost their lives during the sustained day and night offensive against the Romanian oil industry and its distribution network, the transportation system supporting the German front in Moldavia and the mining of the Danube.… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, (1990). First Edition, stated Oblong quarto, slick full-color illus. boards (hardcover), [28] pp. Near Fine.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1968]. Signed & Inscribed by Author. Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), xix, 236 pp. Biography of Bernarr Macfadden.

St. Augustine: [Florida East Coast Ry.], 1898. Slim octavo, printed wrappers, tapled, 48 pp. Photogravure plates and illustrations. Very Good.

New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1972. Duodecimo, green cloth (hardcover), xiii + 177 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). Contents: Initiation; Magic: Totem Masks -- Ivory Coast, New Britain, Congo, New Guinea, British Columbia; Demon Masks -- Tibet, Congo, New Guinea, British Columbia, New york and Canada (Iroquois); Medicine Masks -- Ceylon, Arizona (Navaho); Awe: A Mummy Mask -- Egypt; Spiritualistic Masks -- New Ireland, New Hebrides, Liberia, Congo, Slave Coast, New Britain; A Skull Mask -- Mexico; Idol Masks -- Guatemala (Aztec), Mexico, Yucatan (Maya); Disciplinary Masks -- New Britain, Congo, New Guinea; A Divine Mask -- Delaware; War Masks -- Japan, Alaska, British Columbia, New Guinea; Carnival Masks -- The Tyrol; Initiation Masks -- New Guinea, Arizona (Ap-ache), Birith sColumbia; Legend: Automatic Masks -- British Columbia; Rain-Making Masks -- New Mexico (Zuni), Arizona (Hopi); The Play Begins: Heroic Masks -- Greece, Japan; Admonitory Masks -- China, Tibet;… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, (1910). First Edition. Octavo, olive cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, tissue-protected frontis., 370 pp. Upper hinge starting; otherwise, Near-Fine, with very light rubbing to edges.

Port Richey: Jill Noblit MacGregor, (2006). Octavo, photo. illus. slick boards (hardcover), xv, 159 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Refreshingly frontier -- History made new! The legendary bayou legacy of Tarpon Springs Pioneer, G. E. Noblit, Sr., “The Daddy of Pinellas.” This historically intriguing recollection recounts the formation years of Tarpon Springs and the birth of Pinellas County as experienced by one of the leaders who helped shape their history. Over half a century later, emerges an historic account reintroducing the Bay Area to one of its own local legend -- a man time remembers well... and one you won’t soon forget.

Beloit, Wis.: Yates-American Machine Co., (1935). Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, stapled, [28] pp. Photos throughout. Includes jig saws, lathes, turning tools, drill presses, shapers, grinders, jointers, circular saws, sanders, with accessories, tools, etc. Near-Fine with 4-page Price List and Order Form laid-in.

Beloit, Wis.: Yates-American Machine Co., (1936). Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, stapled, [28] pp. Photos throughout. Near-Fine with 4-page Price List and Order Form laid-in.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, (1972). Narrow octavo, illustrated boards (hardcover), 62 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From Introduction: Yoga is a discipline. It is a system which, if followed diligently, brings to its practitioner a feeling of physical well-being and inner tranquility. Ghandi was a yogi, and there have been thousands like him. This is a small book, yet, it is hoped that it contains more authentic yoga theory and practice than books twice its size. There are descriptions of the eight steps to yogic enlightenment, two meditative positions, six physical exercises, a word on gestures and chants, and instructions on sense control, concentration, contemplation, and meditation. The object has been to describe yoga in simple language and to provide positions and exercises anyone can do... Yoga is for everyone, a blend of the physical and the spiritual, exercises for the body and for the mind. Yoga is growth, inspiration, and enlightenment.… Read More

London: Allegro Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, softbound (slick white stiff wrappers), 154 pp. Fine. From Foreword: Music lovers are not always aware of the fact that composers, unknown to them, may be very well known in their own country. Thus Stanislaw Moniuszko here remains to many people a name connected with music but not much more, for we have had little opportunity of hearing his works. Nevertheless his best known opera Halka (it is as an operatic composer that he is most widely known) was performed by the students of London University Musical Society in 1962, while a later opera The Haunted Manor was staged by the University of Bristol Opera Society in 1971. It is to be hoped that these manifestations of interest in the composer will be followed by a fully professional performance by one of our established Opera Companies. In this book, Mr. Maciejewski gives us an engaging picture of Moniuzko -- clearly a natural composer as well as a charming and good-natured man, who, after the… Read More