Search Results: Authors starting with M from Parnassus Book Service

Woodstock, NY:The Overlook Press. , 1991. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Woodstock, NY:The Overlook Press. 1991. 15pp. + 84 plates and frontispiece. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy inside and out, with a slightly shelfworn and sun-faded (along spine strip) dust jacket. It is not price clipped.

The Macmillan Company, 1909. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1909. First Edition, October 1909. Green hardcover with spectacular gilt decoration to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt.  xix + 369pp.+adverts. Very Good+ condition. Owner signature to ffep. Gilt cover is bright, contents are clean with no foxing, binding is square and secure. A lovely, collection quality, copy of this assemblage of writings by noted authors (Tennyson, Dickens, Hugo, Shakespeare, Browning and many more) on the subject of Christmas. (cfm)

New York:The Macmillan Company, (1969). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/03/0_img_3515.jpg. New York:The Macmillan Company. (1969). 1st American edition. xi +886pp. Illustrated with 6 maps. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Black boards lightly shelfworn, but otherwise in very good, clean copy. The dust jacket is in very good condition. *"This work of monumental scholarship is a narrative history of the hundred-year power struggle between the ancient dynastic empire which ruled Central Europe and the new national, political, and social forces in conflict with it and with one another."...dj

New York:G. P. Putnam & Co, 1852. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:G. P. Putnam & Co. 1852. 230pp. + 2pp. advertisements. Some foxing on the margins, otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. An attractive gold-leafed embossed illustration of a Chinese junk on the front binding. Binding shows some very minor scuffing and wear to spine ends. Altogether, a very good copy. 

London:Harper Collins Publishers, (2005). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/01/0_img_1971.jpg. London:Harper Collins Publishers. (2005). 1st edition. Signed by author on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good, clean copy, inside and out with a very good dust jacket. *Author's first book.

London:George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1962. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/09/0_034.jpg. London:George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1962). 354pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very good, clean condition save for a penciled bookseller notation on the last free end-page. Externally, save for a bit of sun-fading to the very top edge, the red boards are clean and bright. Dust jacket is faded at spine, but otherwise in very good condition. *"A History of Bulgaria 1393-1885 deals with the relatively unknown period of the Turkish yoke, and much of the material now appears in English for the first time. The subjects covered include Turkish methods of administration, the economic development of Bulgaria, the growth of schools and modern education, the history of the Bulgarian Press, literature and arts, the long struggle for independence waged by the Bulgarian Church against the Greek Patriarchate, the… Read More

Castle Wynd Printers Limited . soft cover. Very Good. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers. 31pp. Author's name listed as Hugh MacDiarmid, which is a pseudonym for C.M. Grieve. Wrps. clean with mild shelf wear. Small crack at top of spine. Pages clean and bright. A very good copy.  

Edita, 1973. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Edita. 1973. 1st edition. 314pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. A near-fine copy and dust jacket, with a shelfworn slipcase. 

The Whitman Publishing Co, 1935. First Edition. soft cover. Good/No jacket. Racine, WI: The Whitman Publishing Co. (1935). 216 pp. Mass Market Paperback. Covers are worn at the edges and spine but otherwise in good condition. Covers also lightly soiled. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though the pages are significantly age-toned. All in all, a good copy.

London: Oxford Univ. Press., (1958). First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/09/0_019.jpg. London: Oxford University Press. (1958). 144pp. 2nd printing. Hard bound. A very good copy. *Early English Text Society #193. S110.

London:John Murray, 1908. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:John Murray. 1908. 1st edition. xii+408pp+4pp ads. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Decorated blue boards soiled and shelfworn, with evidence of silverfish grazing to edges of both front and rear boards. Spine strip darkened and spine ends worn, with some chipping/fraying.  Top edges gilt, but scratched.  Internally end paes lightly age-toned with South American written in pencil across 1st free end-page. Otherwise, aside from a couple penciled notes to last free end-page, a good, solid copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.

London: Alexander Strahan Publisher, 1866. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. With nineteen illustrations by F Kanitz. and 4 maps. London:Alexander Strahan, Publisher. 1866. 687pp. Hardcover.  Ex-library.  Boards are mottled and lightly soiled; the spine is faded and the Authors name and library number are written in white ink.  Internally, a small library bookplate is on the inside front board and a small oval red library stamp is on the title page as well as all plates. There is foxing scattered througout, also affecting all maps and some plates. The hinges are intact and the binding is tight. The color map at page XV has a tear to a seam and the folding plate at page 5 has wear due to being folded poorly. Overall, a good solid copy.

Vineyard Haven, MA: Salt Works Press, 1981. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by author. Vineyard Haven, MA:Salt Works Press. 1981. 1st limited edition, No. 41 out of 100 Hardcover copies, signed by the translator and Illustrator on the colophon page. 61pp. Illustrated by Pia MacKenzie. Hardcover with acetate dust wrapper.  Grey boards soiled along edges and sunfaded along spine strip and edges of front and rear board. Internally a very good, clean copy, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Illustrations bright. 

Chicago:A. C. McClurg and Company, 1892. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Chicago:A. C. McClurg and Company.. 1892. 1st edition. 518pp. Hardcover.  Red boards decorated in wite, lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges, spine ends and edge points. Top page edges gilt. Internally, end pages age toned with previous owners name to 1st free end-page, otherwise aside from an occasional spot of foxing scattered throughout, a very good copy. The binding is tight, but slightly cocked, with hinges intact. 

Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by authors. Boston:Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1954. 1st edition. 58pp. Signed by Author on half- title page. Hardcover with glassine dust jacket and slipcase. Book in very good, clean condition. Glassine dust jacket is still in very good condition. Slip case is age-toned with some foxing around edges, but still in very solid condition. 

Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. (Pittsburgh):University of Pittsburgh Press. (1975). 50pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good, clean condition. Dust jacket, slightly shelf-worn with wear to edges and folds, still in very good condition. 

Boston: Branden Press, Publishers, (1967). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2022/08/220710-pbs-140.JPG. Boston:Branden Press, Publishers. (1967). 1st American edition. 356pp+11pp(Epilogue and index). Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  The book is in very good condition. Internally end-pages lightly age toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dust jacket is soiled and shelfworn, with wear to all edges and sun-fading to spine strip. It is not price clipped. 

Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, 2009. First Edition. soft cover. Fine/No jacket. (Portland. Maine): Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon. 2009. 345 pp. Illustrated. Softcover. Wraps show no visible wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of markings. A fine copy.

New York:Dodd Mead and Company, 1950. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Signed by authors. New York:Dodd Mead & Company. 1950. 2nd printing. xiii+177pp. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Signed by the Author on the 1st free end-page, with an Eskimo greeting. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear to spine strip and spine ends. Internally end-pages lighlty age-toned with a bit of soiling but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is still in one piece but soiled and quite shelfworn, with chips and tears to edges and folds. It is not price clipped.

London:Christopher Johnson, (1960). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. London:Christopher Johnson. (1960). 1st edition. 247pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with title in gilt on spine still bright. Page edges soiled. Internally, previous owners gift inscription on top of 1st free end page, with age toning and offset from the dust jacket to endpapers. Otherwise a very good clean copy  The dust jacket is still in very good condition, with light soiling and wear along edges. It is not price clipped.