Search Results: Authors starting with M from Crow Hop Rare Books

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. A Verse Play for Radio. 51 pp, silver endpapers. VG+, hinges weakened, in a VG+ dustjacket, designed by Gary Gore, with moderate scuffing, edgewear, and small tear at crown.

New York: Dutton, 1955. First Edition. VG+ (slight spine lean, a touch of soiling to boards) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with some moderate edgewear and rubbing on back. INSCRIBED by MacMahon to Nicholas Wreden (and wife), his editor at Dutton, on the ffep in the year of publication. Wreden’s ownership inscription on the front board is also present. MacMahon is the author of The Lion Tamer and Children of the Rainbow, and his work has been compared favorably to some of the best Irish short story writers of the previous century.

New York: Knopf, 1930. Limited Edition. Number 656 of 950 copies. Designed by L.J. Ansbacher. Near Fine (spine pastedown has a few tiny chips) in VG slipcase with entire label present.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. First Edition. Fine in VG+ dustjacket. Boldly INSCRIBED by Marceau on ffep and includes a drawing of a flower above his name. Written and illustrated by the “Master of Silence” Marceau, the legendary mime who died in 2007. Bip was his most famous character.

London: Heinemann, 1931. Limited to 375 copies, this one being #306, SIGNED by Masefield on limitation page. Beige cloth with gilt floral design on front board, gilt lettering on spine, and t.e.g., with some modest rubbing.

New York: Harper and Row, 1982. First Edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "To _ Bobbie Ann Mason." Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket (a touch of rubbing to rear). Author's first book.

Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1982. First Edition. 72 pp. VG+ Softcover (light rubbing). Front jacket photo by Ralph Mercer. Fifth collection of poetry from the former president of the Poetry Society of America.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition, later issue, with photographs at beginning and end of the book. SIGNED by Matthiessen on title page. VG+ hardcover with pictorial endpapers (bump and wear at bottom edge) in an about VG+ unclipped ($7.50) dustjacket (chipping at spine ends, rubbing, with a stamped purple star on front flap). Matthiessen's third book of nonfiction.

Garden CIty, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. VG (some staining to rear board and rear endpapers, a bit dusty) in an a Good+ or better dustjacket (staining, closed tear and chip to top edge, wrinkling at edges, fading to spine, price intact but clipped flaps).

New York: Harper & Row/Colophon Books, [1978]. Later Printing. VG+ llustrated softcover. INSCRIBED by Maupin on half-title page: "For Harry love Armistead Maupin." The first book of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

New York: Harper/Colopon Books, 1980. First Edition. VG+ llustrated softcover. INSCRIBED by Maupin on half-title page: "For Harry more love Armistead Maupin." Book 2 of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

New York: Harper/Colophon Books, 1982. First Edition. VG+ illustrated softcover. INSCRIBED by Maupin on half-title page: "For Harry further love Armistead Maupin."Book 3 of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

New York: Harper/Colophon Books, 1984 . First Edition. VG+ illustrated softcover. INSCRIBED by Maupin on half-title page: "Once again For Harry Armistead Maupin."Book 4 of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

New York: Harper & Row/Perennial, 1987. First Edition. VG+ illustrated softcover. INSCRIBED on title page: For Harry Armistead." Book 5 of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1998. First American Printing. 88 pp. Near Fine illustrated softcover. Rear cover blurbs from Maxine Kumin and Marilyn Hacker.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Uncorrected Proofs. Near Fine in orange wraps (slight crease to front cover). This case from 1987 was of a black teenager who claimed she was raped and kidnapped by a group of white men; a grand jury later ruled that Brawley fabricated her claims. Uncommon in proofs.

Cynthiana, Kentucky: The Hobson Book Press, 1945. First Edition. 82 pp. VG+ in an about VG clipped dustjacket (creasing and edgewear, soiling and light chipping). A scarce book of poems from McGregor, who was formerly Superintendent of two Sioux reservations, Rosebud Reservation and Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. The dustjacket flap describes McGregor as well qualified “to interpret the real Indian character to the white man.” In his Introduction, McGregor writes, “Cruel and unjust as it is, the Indians must follow the white way of life and share some of the good things and suffer from the bad. They will eventually be absorbed by the white race they have loved and hated, imitated and fought, praised and condemned.” Poems include “Chief Crazy Horse,” “The Sioux Meat Supply,” “Sioux in World War Two,” “Sioux Winter Count,” “White Schools,” “Sitting Bull,” “Mixed Marriages,” and “Indian Mother Speaks.”

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Octavo, 149 pp. (with Photographs from p. 111). First Printing. VG+ (shelfwear at extremities, stain to upper board) in a VG unclipped dustjacket, wrinkled and light vertical crease, with shelfwear and a touch of discoloration at edges. SIGNED by McPhee on the title page; INSCRIBED by Frank L. Boyden to “Sid” on ffep (whose ownership stamp appears opposite on pastedown—he graduated Deerfield in 1932, served in WWII, and worked as an advertising executive in New York before dying in 1998); and INSCRIBED to “Sidney” by Helen Boyden on p. 137 under a photo of her teaching at Deerfield. McPhee’s second book, a stirring portrait of Boyden, who was Headmaster of the prestigious Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts from 1902-1968. Scarce signed by McPhee and by both Frank and Helen Boyden.

Chicago: Chicago Tribune, [ca. 1950]. 5.5” x 8.5”, stapled in corner (rusted), with first three pages loose but present. Edgewear, toning, and soiling, about VG. 6 typed pp. In 1936, at the age of 27, Ruth Ellen Church came to the Chicago Tribune as Cooking Editor and used the pseudonym Mary Meade to write columns, recipes, and cookbooks.; the Chicago Tribune reported that under her guidance, “the Tribune was one of the first newspapers to establish a test kitchen. In 1962, Church became the first American to write a regular wine column. She collected dozens of awards from journalism and food service organizations before she retired in 1974.” Church was murdered in her Chicago home in 1991, at the age of 81. Uncommon; this title does not appear separately in OCLC.

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1892. Copyright belonging to his wife, Elizabeth S. Melville. Illustrations by A. Burnham Shute. Ownership signature on ffep belonging to Wallace Carnegie. About VG (fraying to head and tail of spine, small stain to upper edge, spine starting, edgewear). A striking copy of a 19th century edition of Melville’s most famous work, notably published the year following his death.