Search Results: Authors starting with M from Uncommon Works

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/none as issued. A very good first edition as registered with the Library of Congress in 1898. 1899 on title page, copyright 1898 on verso. Mustard yellow buckram, as issued, with green motif border and gilt stamping. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Spine and edges darkened. Cloth worn on rear board. Top edge gilt. Other page edges deckled and showing some wear. Some pages unopened. Previous owner's name inscribed on first free endpaper. Frontis. and 3 b/w plates. 319 pp. Twelvemo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/good +. Fine early printing in a good+ dust jacket. Green cloth boards with green and yellow stamping on cover and spine. Dust jacket has several tiny closed tears and shelf wear, bottom front corner missing small amount of jacket. Profusely illustrated, including a fold-out map of the region. Early printing 1947 (same as copyright date) as determined from ads for current and forthcoming books. 393 numbered pp., incl. index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall. From the jacket: "the finest collection of photographs", road maps, appendices, and expert-written text. This volume covers Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Nevada.

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. New/new. Douglas Smith. A brand new, stated first edition with complete number line in a perfect, new dust jacket. Perfect. Glossy pictorial boards. Map endpapers. Laid in is a brochure for the Wizard of Oz Museum in fine condition. Price label from Wizard of Oz Museum on back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 337 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. The second book in the Wicked Years series. "Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood… Read More

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. New/new. Douglas Smith. A brand new, stated first edition with complete number line in a perfect, new dust jacket. Perfect. Glossy pictorial boards. Map endpapers. Laid in is a brochure for the Wizard of Oz Museum in fine condition. Price label from Wizard of Oz Museum on back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 312 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. The third book in the Wicked Years series. "Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood… Read More

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Fine/missing. Douglas Smith. A stated first edition with complete number line. Missing dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards. Map endpapers. 312 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. The third book in the Wicked Years series. "Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba Thropp. The blockbuster Broadway musical Wicked, at its height running nine companies simultaneously around the world, was inspired by Maguire's first adult novel. The musical is the… Read More

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1948-1981. Book of the Month Club Edition, First edition (Mixed set). Cloth. Very good +/near fine. This complete six volume set includes a first edition (1948) of the first book, The Sage of Monticello. The remainder of the set is from the Book of the Month club. All titles and dust jackets in very good plus condition. Octavo. Shipping based on actual cost for the set. Dumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography, Jefferson and His Time, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Thomas Jefferson’s life. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Very good first edition. Dumbarton Oaks: "Trustees for Harvard University." Green cloth boards with foil titling on spine. Cream endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages and covers clean and bright. Book is very mildly cocked. Illustrated with black and white photos, graphs, maps, and drawings. 203 pp. Octavo, 8 x 10 1/2 inches tall.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. Near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket. Cream paper boards over green quarter cloth binding. Cream paper showing darkening at top edge. Otherwise clean and bright. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket has three tiny closed tears at top edge, and sunning on back cover near spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Fully illustrated with maps, charts, pictures and graphs. 495 pp. including index. Quarto, 10 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Heavy and large, additional shipping will be billed at actual cost. Chapters: Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech; The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing; Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background; Not One Calendar, but Many; Rewriting History; Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories; The Naming of… Read More

San Francisco: Williams Printing Company, ca. 1940's. Early Printing. Original wraps. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus, original dinner menu from Mardikian's famed San Francisco restaurant. Special of the day stapled in small format to menu. Minor peeling to rear corner. 9 x 12 & 1/2 inches tall when folded. Mardikian was among America’s first celebrity chefs and was as close to a Guy Fieri figure as San Francisco had — in terms of fame, relentless optimism and generosity. Fine-dining guides and Chronicle columnist Herb Caen celebrated him, NBC gave him his own radio show in the 1940s, and he wrote an autobiography and cookbook.-- SF Gate "America’s 'best known and best loved' chef ran a world-famous Armenian restaurant in San Francisco

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition, first printing, as stated, in a very good dust jacket. Buckram boards with brown and gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Toning to endpapers. Dust jacket a bit brittle at the edges and showing moderate loss and wear (now protected in a clear archival cover). xxx, 592 pages, including bibliography. Octavo. A collection by some of the world's most eminent anthropologists. The restoration of wonder / Margaret MeadThe world as stage / Nicolas CalasThe Egyptians and their cats / HerodotusCambyses and the defeated king / HerodotusTroglodytes / StraboGerman tribes: public and private life / TacitusThe first societies / Jean Jacques Rousseau (1726)The gens, its simplicity / Friedrich Engels (1884)Blood and cruelty as the foundation of all good things / Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)The totemic feast / Sigmund Freud… Read More

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Near fine, first edition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Marbled vellum-style paper cover with red quarter cloth covering spine. Near fine dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 244 pp. Small octavo, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in tall. An examination of that "vast natural experiment in social psychology which historians call the gold rush" sights along a new line -- the lack of women. Their absence was the cause of the "spree of the century" which was strictly stag, for the gold- seekers were conditioned to keep the female adventurers and glamour girls in a separate compartment from the sweethearts and wives for whom they had a worshipful homesickness. Here are the two years, 1849-1851, in which the men gambled, drank, horsed around, fought, made money, went broke, got sick and generally kicked over the traces, in contrast to the… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Stacy Drum, Jill Bauman, Charles Lang. A fine, signed limited edition. Number 162 of 200 printed. Signed by Graham Masterton on the limitation page. Appears completely unread. No slipcase as issued, no dust jacket as issued. Black cloth binding. 25 pp. Octavo. There's a phrase for it — "all-consuming passion."And that's what David and Melanie had for each other. They loved each other so much that they wanted to share everything, body and soul. If they could have done, they would have breathed the same air.Their family and friends thought that their hunger for each other was unhealthy. But they were blind to what anybody else thought about them. They shut themselves away from the world and their only companion was Echo — the cat which David gave to Melanie as a living token of their obsessive love.But then Echo went missing. And that’s when David and… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. With photos by MacDuff Everton and Justin Kerr. Pristine cream paper boards under black quarter cloth binding. Cream endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with drawings, maps, glyphs, and black and white photos throughout. 431 [1] pp. Octvao.

Cambridge: Harvard University; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff wraps. Near fine. A near fine first printing. In original stiff, vibrant red paper wraps, with titling in gold on cover and spine. Spine mildly sunned. From the private library of Larry Southwick. No tears, folds, creases or markings to cover or pages. Top edge toned. Interior pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with drawings, maps, and photos. 63 pp. Folio, 12 x 15 inches tall.

Albany, NY: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. Very good +. A very good+ first printing. Blue paper wraps with Maya glyph bottom right. Binding is sound, pages intact and unmarked. Sunning to spine and cover faded, not affecting titling. Illustrated in black and white. 195 pp. Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.

New York: Franklin Watts, Inc,, 1963. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/very good. First published by the US GPO in 1961. This is a fine copy, first thus, published by Watts. Aquamarine buckram boards with black title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is square and solid. Red topstain. In a very good, unclipped, dust jacket showing tears and minor loss at top and bottom edges. 506 pp. including index. Octavo. This book is concerned primarily with the combat (or tactical) groups that were active during the Second World War. Although such groups had numerous designations, nearly all fell within four major categories: bombardment, fighter, reconnaissance, and troop carrier. The book covers both the combat groups that served overseas and those that remained in the United States. It also covers combat organizations above the group level. It does not deal with provisional organizations or with air base, maintenance, supply, medical, transport, and other service or support organizations. Although this book is… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1885. First Thus. Pictorial boards. Good +/missing. Kate Greenaway. A good plus first thus, wil lovely sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Buff paper covered boards illustrated in red and black on upper and lower cover, lettered black and red, Spine peeled. Bumps and rubbing to lower corners.Top edge speckled red. Red endpapers. Peniclled initials on front pastedown. Text clean and bright. 108 pages, Frontispiece, 41 pp.26 decorative initials printed sepia, sepia drawings,, text printed black. Some separation of binding at page 24. A very good copy. Schuster 71,1a. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.

New York: Scholastic, 1974. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Fine. A fine softcover, first trade edition. Appears unread. November 1974.Octodecimo, 6 x 4 inches tall, Mayer's popular and engaging tale of two children's wild search for an unpredictable, elusive, but lovable cat is now available in a trade paper edition. Mayer's lovely text and colorful, whimsical artwork will light children's imaginations and make this a book they'll want to read again and again."

[San Francisco]: [Chronicle Books], 1970. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good. A fine first edition [Zempel & Verkler] in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Buckram over burgundy quarter cloth with the distinctive cameo of the author in burgundy. Gilt title stamping on spine. Good plus / Very good dust jacket has been reinforced on the inside with tape. Edgewear and two short tears to top edge. x, 288 pages. Octavo. Charles McCabe (1915–1983) was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from the mid-1950s until his death May 1, 1983 at the age of 68.TOC: 1. Ego2. Miscellany3. Booze4. Youth5. Personages6. Women7. Love8. English

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/missing. Near Fine/missing dust jacket. A near fine, stated first edition hardcover in teal boards with gilt stamp of cow skull on cover and title on spine. With photos, color plates, b/w plates, sketches, and other illustrations throughout by Frederic Remington, Paul Kane, George Caitlin, John Mix Stanley, and others. 232 pp. including index. Small quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall.