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Mystery of ther Mooncusser: (Original title: Mystery at Boulder Point
by Eleanore M Jewett
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Cook Chinese
by Ma, Kuo-Ching
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- 2nd printing, 1970 revised; 1964 was 1st.
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Kodansha America, 1970. 2nd printing, 1970 revised; 1964 was 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Slight sun-fade to spine.. 1 Glossy pictorial paper over boards: 2 plated meals n black. Horizontal format, 9x7.5 in. 127 p. Cooking. Tacked inside, circular embossed gold paper medallion; reproduction of Bronze Medal awarded each of 4 cookbooks in set, by the Gastronomic Academy of Germany for 12th International Culinary Art Exhibition (1968). Others in the series: Rice recipes from around the World, Cook Japanese, Japanese One-Pot Cookery. Includes short biography of author; party menu w/ page references. Recipes by main dish category.
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Leo Africanus
by Maalouf, Amin, and Sluglett, Peter (Translated by)
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- First edition. ! st American edition. 1st printing.
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New York.: W. W. Norton & Company., 1989. First edition. ! st American edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Save for slight spine tilt.. Rubens, Peeter Pauwel ("Malay Ahmad" portrait reproduction by; Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts).. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 360 p. Audience: General/trade. Literary biography of geographer Hasan al-Wazzan who became known as Leo Africanus or Leo the African. This is written as an imaginary autobiography of al-Wazzan, born at the end of the 15th century in Grenada from where he and his family fled with other Muslim and Jewish families. The Christian conquest was advancing, and soon the Inquisition would mark the times. Settling in Fez, as a youth he worked in the public baths, in an insane asylum, and on a long journey with his uncle across the Atlas. And this is only the beginning. Author Amin Maalouf had been a journalist in Lebanon.
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Oak & Company
by Mabey, Richard
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New York.: Greenwillow Books., 1983. American edition. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor jacket surface wear. Lower edge wear to book. Small damp-stain patch, upper front corner jacket.. Roberts, Clare (Illustrated by).. 1 Jacket art is duplicated on glossy paper over boards. 28 p. 10.25in square. Audience: General/trade. Picture book with fine artwork for all ages, telling the story of the mighty oak tree from the acorn to its death 282 years later (count the crosscut rings). Its company of the varied plants and animals sharing its habitat. Lifelike artwork with softened edges and natural colors invite the curious learner.
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Building the Book Cathedral
by Macaulay, David (Text and Architectural Pen&Ink drawings by)
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Boston MA.: Houghton Mifflin., 1999. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Glossy illustrated paper over boards. 112 p. 36 cm. Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. David Macaulay's large format architectural volumes are always instructive in their detail. This volume amps up that opportunity. On the 25th anniversary of the his publication, "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction", Macaulay published this volume literally illustrated with the step-by-step development of that book. So, here are the quick drawings, smudges, early drawing drafts, hand-written and typed copy, reproduction proofs, revision notes, and more. Intriguing.
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Mosque
by Macaulay, David
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Boston MA.: Houghton Mifflin Company., 2003. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author.. 1 Illustrated Glossy Paper over boards. Jacket repeats cover art. 96 p. Pen&Ink Illustration w/ color pencil use. Audience: Children/juvenile. No one does detail work as intriguingly as architectural illustrator and historian David Macaulay. Step by step, a mosque in the Middle East is constructed, to become a worship center for Muslims and the practice of Islam. Glossary at back.
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White Waters and Black (The Natural History Library N5)
by MacCreagh, Gordon, and Oliver, Dr. James A. (Foreword by)
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Garden City NY.: Doubleday Anchor by arr. w/ Appleton-Century-Crofts., 1961. First edition. 1st Anchor edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top and right page block minor foxing.. Palacios, Rafael (Map drawn by).. 1 335 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Mass-market (rack) Paperback, slightly wider and taller. 2 B&W photo sections. Map frontispiece. Published with The American Museum of Natural History, this recounts the expedition launched by 8 greenhorn scientists setting off at the headwaters of the Amazon River, over 2 years, down the Rio Blanco and up the Rio Negro. They were 6 eminent professors including a self-appointed Director, an Entomologist, a Botanist, an Ichthyologist, and a Statistician intent on gathering biological specimens of this newly explored territory. It stands as an account of how NOT to conduct an expedition. Bickering dwindled the party to 2 survivors, one being the author MacCreagh, b.1886, Indiana-d.1953, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Songs of a Shanty-Man and Other "Dialect" Poems of French-Canadian Life
by MacCuaig, William Wilber
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- Author Foreword, "Montreal, 1913".
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The Musson Book Co., N.D.. Author Foreword, "Montreal, 1913".. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light cover edge-rubbing. Interior foxing: front and last pages mostly; not to end papers.. Binger, Wm. F. (Illustrated by).. 1 91 p. Dark blue buckram cloth over boards. Gold stamped spine and front titles plus cover art: log cabin woodsman in gold. Art in color plates, B&W line art. Author of the earlier "Habitant" publication, verses about the simple cultivator of the soil, W.W. MacCuaig, again draws portraits in verse from French Canadians, here among the lumber camps of Quebec Province. Here are the stories of the "broad-axe men" and of making pine timber square, drawing it by shanty-men over snowy winter roads to high mountain lakes, then floating the timber down streams to the "Grand River" where it was lashed into rafts headed for Quebec. There, timbers were cut to standard lengths and shipped on sailing vessels to Great…
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci: Definitive Edition in One Volume
by MacCurdy, Edward (Arranged, Rendered into English, and Introduced by)
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New York / Scranton PA.: George Braziller / Haddon Craftsmen Press., 1954. Book Club Edition. Early 1st publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock 1939.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Spine darkening to jacket and book, with added waviness to book spine. Solid, well-bound, but age-toning to glue inside covers near spine. Jacket has minor edge wear, and back jacket cover small holes.. da Vinci, Leonardo (Frontispiece self-portrait and other plates of drawings by). 1 Gray cloth and dark blue paper over boards; red spine titles. 26 cm. Bibliographic Notes; Index. Subtitle: "The reflections of Leonardo in philosophy, science, art, invention, in Life itself, the first manifestations of the speculative mind of Modern Man." First penned in "looking-glass writing", the Florentine genius of the Renaissance era had written also that he would organize his collection of notes later, by subject. He died before taking on that task. Leonardo da Vinci had begun his notes of March 1508,…
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The Neon Jungle
by MacDonald, John D.
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Greenwich CT: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book., 1953. First edition. d1699 9. Original price 50¢.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edge and cover wear. Smooth spine. Rear lower corner crease.. 1 174 p. Mass-market (rack) PB. Yellow page edges. Cover painting: night street cityscape; no art credit. Crime Fiction: Back cover, 'The smell of stale bedrooms and warm gin hovered over that whole section of town....There was a drifting threat of violence everywhere, and the kids of the neighborhood knew all about knives, garrison belts and bicycle chains...'
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The Crimson Quirt
by MacDonald, William Colt
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- 1st printing May 1949. #723.
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New York.: A Signet Book / New American Library by arr. w/ Doubleday., 1949. 1st printing May 1949. #723.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Foxing to covers; age-toning uniform to pages. Tightly bound. Light cover creasing.. 1 159 p. Cover illustration bright, sharp, dramatic: A cowboy punching another w/ attractive young blond expressively witnessing event. American Western w/ subtitle 'Gun-talk cracks a cow town murder'. Cowboy Pete Piper is riding into Beauregard City and discovers a bullet-riddled body of an old man. Nearby is a fancy red riding whip. As he stood there, bullets pelted near his feet and his ears. He set out to solve the mystery, winning over hash-slinging pert, blonde Cressy in the meantime.
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The Blue Hammer (a Lew Archer Novel)
by Macdonald, Ross
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Warner Books, 1990. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing, very readable titles.. Kelley, Gary (Cover illustration by). 0 278p. "About the Author", last. Mystery: Hired to find a pricey painting, and in a community of art lovers, he found a story of wayward sex, an Arizona desert murder, and a vanished artist. And, a woman he cared about was missing, a man had bled to death 'neath a magnolia tree, a killer was on the loose.
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The Chill (a Lew Archer Novel)
by Macdonald, Ross
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Warner Books, 1990. First edition. 1st Warner printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing. Slight spine tilt. Angled right edge line stain. Top edge black inventory stamp (JUL). Minor white speckling to cover.. Kelley, Gary (Cover illustration by). 1 Green spine, red & yellow titles. Cover doorway art, shadows, small red handprint. Mystery fiction: Five prior titles listed inside. MacDonald copyright 1963; author condensed version had appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. A blonde, a sticky pool of blood, a missing bride, a 10-yr-old murder and cover-up, some college types, California hills.
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One More Sunday
by Macdonald, John D
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- First edition. 1st Fawcett printing.
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Fawcett Books, 1985. First edition. 1st Fawcett printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing moderate; edgewear.. 1 Raised print titles, white against black sky, gray church steeple silhouettes. Mystery: The high stakes, big business of saving souls. At the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers use computers to solicit and process the dollars that pour in daily. Blackmail; passion, power, money, a missing journalist.
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The Neon Jungle (A Fawcett Gold Medal Book)
by MacDonald, John D.
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New York.: Fawcett Publications., 1953. d1689.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Front spine edge wear.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 174 p. Yellow page edges. Cover painting: night street cityscape; no art credit. Crime Fiction: Back cover, 'The smell of stale bedrooms and warm gin hovered over that whole section of town....There was a drifting threat of violence everywhere, and the kids of the neighborhood knew all about knives, garrison belts and bicycle chains...' MacDonald is well-known for his Travis McGee suspense series and his more than 40 other books.
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Elephants on Board
by MacDonald, Suse (Text and Illustrations by)
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San Diego, CA.: Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company., 1999. First edition. "A" on print line. "Reinforced Trade Binding".. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket seam tear closed from inside.. 1 Glossy illustrated paper over boards, matching jacket. 32 p. 10x9 in. horizontal format. Colorful near full-page artwork. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children's picture book. Rhyming text. A truckload of elephants are en route to the circus, and it's good they are early, as there are a few incidents along the way. Alternate transport is required.
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At the Back of the North Wind.
by MacDonald, George
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Philadelphia.: David McKay Publisher., 1919. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplates with preprinted owners' names. Spine seems to have been re-glued. Title page had horizontal crease, could have been tipped in after being folded inside. Plates are lovely. Spine titles bleached.... Smith, Jessie Willcox (Illustrated by). 1 Tan cloth over boards. Paste-on cover illustration slightly off-center. Blue titles, borders. Gilt top edge. 342p. 7x9.5in. 8 color art plates. George MacDonald's classic Christian-based fantasy set in the British Isles. End papers in shades of blue show a large female image reaching toward a small sailing ship tossing in the waves. Early 20th century Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith's work is collectible.
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The Plague and I.
by MacDonald, Betty (Bard)
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New York.: Ballantine Books / J.B. Lippincott Co., 1948. Presumed 1st. No print line. Reprint PB from Lippincott.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Age-Toning. short lower spine tear, 1/4 inch. Top page block spotting.. 1 First edition. Mass-market paperback. 222 p. 18 cm. Vivid cover art: triumphant woman w/ thermometer and foot on defeated dragon. Comic autobiographical author Betty MacDonald (The Egg and I) was diagnosed with tuberculosis while needing to support 2 small children. Convinced she was fatally ill, she entered a sanitarium, mid-20th century. Gifted with the balance of humor, MacDonald wrote near the start of her account, "By background and disposition some people are better suited to being hit by a bus than others". By Chapter Four, we are informed, "All New Patients Must First be Boiled", and next, "Oh, Salvadora! Don't Spit on the Flora! " Before entered the treatment center, she said goodbye to everything and every one. She would emerge, healthy.…
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Mutual Aid
by MacDougall, Ruth Doan
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Concord NH.: Plaidswede Publishing., 2009. Trade paperback. Fine.. Tyers, William (Cover art by).. 1 249 p. Trade paperback, 6x9in. Genealogy Tree. RARE Fiction set in small town 1980s New Hampshire with themes of local industry unemployment, interconnectness of town fire departments and of people, arson, A.I.D.S., heart attacks, and local safety services. Ruth Doan MacDougall is a recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University
by Macdowell, Edward, And Baltzell, W. J. (Editor)
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Boston: A.P. Schmidt / Stanhope Press (A.P.S. 9384), 1912. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Spine fraying moderate at top and bottom. Black ink mark near bottom of spine. Gold titles vg. Small top page edge water stain.. 0 292 p. Illustrated with some music notations. Lists, back of McDowell pianoforte solo compositions. In 1896, McDowell was offered the new position of Chair of Music at Columbia. A leading composer in America, he accepted and put forth a curriculum to teach music technically and scientifically, as well as, historically and aesthetically, as an element of "liberal culture". He wanted students of music to both perform and teach.
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