Search Results: Authors starting with M from Lansdowne Books

This is a high quality publication delivering a comprehensive guide to the flora of the UAE. Contains descriptions and geographical locations of 550 wild plants in full detail with another 205 species recorded briefly. The scientific index serves as a checklist of 775 local species in 81 families. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with high quality pages clean and tight. Overall a near fine copy. Heavy book additional postage will apply.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: VG+. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Contents: 1). Introduction. 2). Summer in Capri. 3). Summer in Capri - by Gillian Mais. 4). Winter in the Italian Alps. 5). Winter in the Italian Alps - by Gillian Mais. 24 b/w plates.

8 full page colour plates plus the paper covers, with a colour illustrations on boards. Other illustrations in text. Original papered hardcover boards with some wear, linen spine, pages are tight with some light markings. No tears. No dust jacket issued. Pepita & Pip the Mice and their family through an elegant Christmas Party.

Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Pages tight and very clean and sound with minimal wear. Overall a fine copy.
Subjects Mar, M. Elaine, 1966- | Chinese American women -- Biography. | Chinese Americans -- Biography. | Denver (Colo.) -- Biography. | Hong Kong (China) -- Biography.

Hardcover. Stated Collector's First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Leather Bound with gilt lettering. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges for this milled edition. The endpapers of moire fabric with silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines with pages clean and tight. A fine collector's copy. This title may be collected from Port Fairy, Victoria.

First Edition. With 28 fine plates, including 16 in colour and 12 in monochrome, and with 34 line drawings within the text, many of which are quite large, decorated title-page printed in black and red. Publisher's original olive cloth-covered boards backed in buckram and ruled and lettered on the spine in dark green titling to spine. Top edge of pages green with front and bottom edges untrimmed. Sound and firm with no staining or foxing to contents. A very clean and tight copy, the text clean and fresh, the plates all very fine, the binding solid.Maxwell, an official artist sent by the Imperial War Museum, was a most original writer, artist and traveler.

Hardcover. 1st Edition.Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired school master from Provence says, "The religion of France is food. And wine, of course." And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income on food and drink than any other nation in the world. Literally hundreds of gastronomic fairs and festivals take place throughout the year all over France - a frog fair, an hommage to the sausage, to the turnip, to the quiche and the noble Camembert. What kind of person is a snail-fancier? Is there a brotherhood of sausage connoisseurs? How can you devote an entire weekend to the French fry? Peter Mayle finds out and brings to life the people who can get passionate about a frog's leg or a well-turned omelette. Over ten years ago he transformed our… Read More

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger who just might be Prince Charming in disguise. Set in the Blue Mountains.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Binding: Hardback ---Publisher: Hutchinson ---Date: 1987 ---Edition: 1st ---Pages: 132Description: All of the pages are unmarked, uncreased and tightly bound in red cloth boards with dust jacket in protective mylar. Delightfully illustrated by Peter ChapmanSometimes fairy tales can come true--even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger... who just might be Prince Charming in disguise.

Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.
Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans in the post-9/11 terrorist war context about the history of a perennial "hotspot" that has long viewed the US as an empire. Includes a map of Asia and photos of US, British, and Soviet players in the region

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

Cloth cover with pages clean and tight and 249 marginal sketches. Dust jacket (price-clipped) with a few chips and now in a protective sleeve. A light hearted autobiography.

Blue buckram, gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket [original artwork in pastel by artist Jillian Willettnow ] now in protective mylar with slight damage at top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs: contemporary portraits and the author's own photographs of the places mentioned. Romance and thriller in one, all based on factual records. Set in diplomatic and royal circles. A sequel of the next generation to Anna and the King of Siam. (Biography, Thailand, Siam, Southeast Asia, History)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective Mylar. Ainslie Roberts (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2nd. Printing. Previous owners inscription.This was the third of the Roberts/Mountford trilogy of myths of the Aboriginal First Nation people. It began in 1963 with an exhbition of Ainslie Roberts' remarkable paintings of central Australia, its people and stories. Part of the co-authorship of The Dreamtime", next "The Dawn of Time", (1968) followed by this volume "The First Sunrise" with 32 new paintings by Roberts based on First Nations People explaining the creation of the world with texts and interpretation by anthropologist Charles Mountford. Both men for years were very close to the people. Cultural ownership has shifted since then but it is a trilogy the publisher then could claim had no parallel in Australian literature.

First Edition Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Ainsle Roberts (Artist). Illustrated brown boards/Fine. DJ/NF in protective mylar. previous owners inscription. 32 colour plates Full-color companion volume to The Dreamtime (1965) and predecessor to The First Sunrise (1971) Anthropologist and photographer Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890 - 1976) and artist and photographer Ainslie Roberts (1911 - 1993). Superb record of Aboriginal mythology with line drawings and painting produced in full color.