Search Results: Authors starting with M from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. Captioned album of Daniell Brown from Lithia Springs, GA. Excellent condition. 150 snaps and press photos. Scenes of Newfoundland, Guantanamo Bay, + ephemera. Album and repaired covers in excellent shape..

Pittsburgh: T.M. Walker, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. signed. 1909--THE MELODIES OF STEPHEN C. FOSTER...ALDEN EDITION. This is one of 300 copies [this unnumbered] - signed by T.M. Walker, Publisher. Pittsburgh edition.. illustrated, all edges gilt...full leather, recently re-backed. 305pp. Very good condition .

New York: Chelsea House Pub, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Signed on the cover by Tom Seaver. Excellent collectible condition..

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1994. Book. Illus. by Illustrated from Photographs. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed Nelson Mandela. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾.

NY: Doubleday, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). The book chronicles Mantle's career from his youth in hardscrabble Oklahoma mining and farming country, through his meteoric rise to baseball greatness, and on past the twilight of his Yankee years to his present status as a golfer and celebrity/businessman. The heart of the book covers his years with the great Yankee teams that won twelve American League pennants and seven World Series victories, and Mantle effectively captures the energy, determination and professionalism of these teams. His brief, telling sketches capture the essential personalities of his teammates, particularly the smooth, composed Whitey Ford and the irrepressible, irascible Billy Martin, his closest friends. The dry wit, wisdom, and warmth of Casey Stengel stand behind the team's success, and the egocentric, frigid cleverness of George Weiss, the general manager, shows how even a player of Mantle's magnitude was exploited before the players'… Read More

Bologna, Italy: Arnaldo Forni, 1963. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Hardcover. Facsimile edition. Prepared in 1963 for the tri-centenary of Francisco Grimaldi's death. The Discovery of Optical Diffraction Added title-page with a large engraved vignette & woodcut diagrams in the text. Both titles printed in red & black. 11 p.l. (including the added title-page), 535 pp., 8 leaves. 4to. Bologna: Heirs of V. Benati, 1665..

Handwritten. Good. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). c1905. Signed by R--- Maroske. Moderate tempo, music scored for a Tenor. 3 stapled, 11"x7", handwritten sheets with covers. Handle with care; pages are a bit brittle..

Book. Illus. by Martin Cleaver. Good. No Binding. 1984. -- STUDENT PROJECT, 8"x 10", 'THE PARABOLA'-- by math student at the NY High School of Music & Art. Ink & yellow, green, orange watercolors with green-taped border. In mathematics a 'parabola' is the U-shaped curved line created when a quadratic is graphed-- many real-word objects travel in a parabolic shape. Signed art made in 1984 by NYC's HS of Music & Art math student Martin Cleaver and presented to his senior year math teacher, Mrs. Francine Eisen. In excellent condition..

California/NY: Ten Speed Press, 2022. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Folio - over 12. This lavish visual history--featuring over 180 illustrations--is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. This signed 1st edition includes an event ticket signed by Kevin Smith -Red Bank, NJ native, and a Hollywood filmmaker and co-owner of SModcastle Cinemas in NJ. The event "Curious George," an evening of conversation with George R R Martin, a Bayonne, NJ native, occurred Nov.3, 2022. .

Scrapbook. Very Good. Hardcover. --'A Southern Lady's Scrapbook, made by MARY ALICE GATLING'-- cut & pasted news-clippings of civic events & society life in Birmingham, Alabama, 1896-1919. Mary Alice Gatling was a published author, lecturer for womens' organizations, member of the DAR; she favored prohibition and women's suffrage, and was described as 'the only woman paragrapher [editorial page writer] in the South'. Miss Gatling's 'Scrapbook' is packed: (136) pages of news stories on women's suffrage/ the 1919 women's right to vote/ articles about Confederate veterans (several on the 1908 death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee)/ Presbyterian Church news/ a program for the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, that opened in 1885 to teach Mississippi women only, and drew immediate controversy over the question of whether to teach poor girls liberal arts or just job skills/ news articles by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, an editor at Tennessee newspaper,… Read More

NY: New American Library, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 2000, 1st Edition. Matt Drudge signed, inscribed the book. 'The Drudge Manifesto' features a transcript of the Q & A session held June, 1998 in Washington, DC's National Press Club. The book lays out Drudge's raison d'être; his stream-of-consciousness writing describes how he got his 'Drudge Report' stories, how he focused the news in a particular direction and of his mocking his critics. The book contains emails sent by readers to Matt Drudge, who's start-up news-site was the first to expose the Bill Clinton/ Monica Lewinsky blue dress story- thereby establishing the Drudge Report as the go-to site for the next 2 decades. Drudge dedicated his book to Linda Tripp (Monica's confidante), who went public with details of President Clinton's sex scandal. In fine condition. .

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Brochure. Illus. by Roberto Matta. Good. Soft cover. Signed Roberto Matta. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: volume 25, no. 1. "Jack Palance Collection 2006" sticker on cover. Housed in a custom-made hardcover binder. Opening front sheet starting..

London: The Fortune Press, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. bright, tight copy. 1 of 800. Pseud. of the Duchess of Rochefoucault.

NY: The Viking Press, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition bound in mustard colored cloth with black lettering and a silhouette design. A VG copy in a nice dust jacket..

Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The album belonged to high school tennis player Betty McClurg. 1949, pre Title IX women's tennis with an original Alice Marble autograph. The album has a ten 8x10 & 5x7 photos laid in, tournament entry forms, tournament rules and newspaper articles covering girls and women's tennis in Oklahoma City in the 1940's. There is a ticket to a 1949 tennis clinic put on by Alice Marble, with her autograph on the front of the ticket. The slipcased album is 10"x12", approx.42 pages+ the photographs.Several clipping laid in, a few others are loose because of dried out glue. Nice condition..

Boston: Little, Brown, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Red cloth & Gilt. Owners Sig. & cont. date on title page. Gift presentation card laid in..

U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Every once in a while you find a book that is so perfect and so beautiful it leaves you with that contented feeling that everything is calm and right with the world. Land O' Goshen leaves you with a warm and fuzzy euphoric high. This is the story of a boy, Buddy, his mysterious companion, Sack, and his new girlfriend, Cissy. The boy and the girl meet during a brutal religious war, fall in love in the midst of nature's grandeur, and literally hurtle across the Alabama landscape in a phantasmagoria of Southern folk legendry and late-twentieth-century pop culture. .

NY: Anthropological Press, 1933. Book. Illus. by Robert Meadows - Translator. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1933. 1st, Limited Edition. [curiosa] "THE EROTIKON -- An Illustrated Treasury of Scientific Marvels of Human Sexuality"-- by Dr. Augustin Cabanes. Privately issued by Anthropological (Falstaff) Press, NY. Translated from the French. TRANSLATOR ROBERT MEADOWS' signature is tipped-in [by publisher] on half-title page. "The Erotikon"-- hardcover, 251 pp., with (30) b&w plates of unusual illustrations (including male & female Skopzi body modifications). Limited Edition of 1500; this is #418. Bright, very nice collectible condition..

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books Inc, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Multi-signed. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. AUTOGRAPHED inside front cover by 20 different boxers, including Joe Frazier, Gaspar Indio Ortega, Earnie Shavers, Tony Demarco, Christy Martin, Jimmy Ellis, "Joltin" Jeff Chandler, Joe Miceli, Jose Torres, Gene Fullmer, Iran Barkley, Kid Gavilan, and 8 others! Please see photos up close for more detail. Boxing: Heroes & Champions by Bob Mee. Published in 1997 by Chartwell Books. Hardback with dust jacket is still in very good condition overall. Binding is sound and pages are generally unmarked with the exception of a few occasional smudges. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear..

Photographic Image. Good. Hardcover. 1930s-1958. PHOTO & SCRAPBOOK ALBUM-- Rural America and 'The Don Hopkins Story'. 50 pp. 12"x 14.5". 'A boy's life' and rural Oklahoma in 1930s-50s-- the 'circle of life' in snapshots & mementos. The life of an American boy to manhood - from youth to high school, service in the Air Force, marriage and the birth of a child. Album photos & ephemera prominently feature the years of high school-- photos of football, baseball, bowling league, band practice, parades, stock-car races. There are cards of congratulation addressed to Don Hopkins, and photos of Don as a youngster playing guitar & trumpet (tipped in with a Valentine card from his father (Don Hopkins Sr.) "....Grandma tells me what swell music you can play. Boy howdy, you just keep that up for I am rearing to hear some of that swell music..." In 1950, after HS graduation, Don Hopkins enlisted in the Air Force. In 1951, he and his high school… Read More