Search Results: Authors starting with M from Ken Spelman Books Ltd

Manchester, 2013. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good hbk, pale green cover, 8vo.

Cork, 1946. Hard Cover. Good/Good. A good hbk in good d/w, 1st edition, scarce, bookplate to f.e.p., 8vo.

Cambridge University Press, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good. a very good pbk, with dedication from author in pen on first page, 8vo.

1990. Unbound. Very Good. George Mackie - hand-signed original poster. c1990. 420mm x 300mm In very good condition, and will be sent safely rolled in stout tube for safety.

Hakluyt Society, 1999. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper. Two volumes.

Bath: Meyler, 1832. Hard Cover. Good. and containing much information for professional students. [8], viii, 169pp., lithograph portrait frontispiece with pink tissue guard. A very good uncut copy bound in original linen backed boards with paper spine label. Some foxing, particularly to the frontispiece. Scarce. Later ownership inscription. 8vo. Meyler. Bath. 1832. An anthology of writings by Reynolds, du Fresnoy, Richardson, Opie, Gilpi, et al., arranged by subject. Mainwaring had been a naval officer for 37 years, but in 'these monotonous times of peace', with 'an unwilling retirement to half-pay', had time for such a work.

Smith, Elder & Co., 1861. Hard Cover. Very Good. MALING, E.A. Miss. In-Door Plants, and how to grow them, for the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse: containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers. First edition. viii, 150pp., coloured lithograph frontispiece by Day and Son. A very good copy in slightly rubbed original gilt decorated green cloth. Bookseller's ticket of J. Cox, Aberystwith (sic). small 8vo. Smith, Elder and Co. 1861. ~ "... I think it is only necessary to show how small an expenditure is required, either of time or money, to induce many ladies to begin to grow them... It is important to have some such fixed plan, in order that the plants may be in harmony with each other and form a well-assorted group, and also that the lady gardener may not be liable to find herself at one time overstocked with favourite plants in blossom, and at another time in a state of comparative destitution." Hopefully the contemporary owner of this… Read More

N.p., 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper.

1825. Unbound. Very Good. Sir James Mansfield Portrait, over three-quarter length; seated in an armchair in front of a curtain and pillar, directed slightly to right, facing front; wearing a a wig, dark overcoat, coat, breeches and stockings; his right arm resting on chair arm, holding a hat in his hand; holding a walking stick in his left hand; on right in foreground a dog in profile to left, looking up at the sitter; behind on right table with books, papers, candlestick, inkstand, inkwells and pen; after Edridge; 1825 c30 cm x 22cm Trimmed, laid on paper, and some edge wear and light creases towards the bottom.

Northwich: F. Carnes, 1865. Unbound. Very Good. EARTHENWARE & CHINA MANUFACTORY, Longton, Staffordshire. The original folio sheet announcement for the sale by auction of George Townsend's St Gregory's Pottery on 26th June 1865. Folio sheet folded, with docket title on the rear panel. Printed on light blue tinted paper, and in very good condition. Unrecorded. folio. F. Carnes, printer, Northwich. 1865. ~ St. Gregory Pottery Works on the north side of High Street, Longton was established by George Barnes in 1794, and it was still in his hands c.1800. It was then owned by Chesworth and Blood in 1824; Wood and Blood by 1827, and by Beardmore and Birks from 1830 or 1831 until 1843. It seems then to have passed to Sampson Beardmore who in 1850 was succeeded by George Townsend. Tams and Lowe took over the works in 1864 and were still in possession in 1874. "The goods produced comprise all the usual varieties of articles in useful ordinary earthenware, and in china of an average quality. In the former,… Read More

1771. Unbound. Very Good. 1771 - Rodborough, Glos. Lease For Property Called Achers. Thomas Houldy. Five sheets fixed together. Folded, very good condition.

Collins, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in very good dust-wrapper. The 2nd printing of 500 copies.

1747. Unbound. Very Good. MARRIOTT, Thomas., of Ughill, Bradfield in the parish of Eclesfield and County of York. A signed copy of an obligation bond made by Thomas and his wife Mary with Humphry Bray of Kirkburton, for the sum of two hundred pounds. It is signed by Thomas Marriott. Uriah Tinker, and Jn. Batty. Docket title on the reverse which is dusty. 320mm x 200mm. 27th September 1747. with... MARRIOTT, Thomas. A signed agreement recording the sale to Humphrey Bray of Hepworth, "all that messuage or tenement situate at Lower Snowgateshead." It is signed and witnessed. 325mm x 205mm. 30th July 1747. ~ The Marriot family had settled in Ughill in the 15th century, they were a Norman family who rose from modest beginnings to become minor gentry throughout Hallamshire. Thomas Marriott (1679-1754) became Lord of the Manor in the early part of the 18th century, where he was styled Mr Marriott of Ughill Hall. He was a Dissenter who in 1743 built Underbank Chapel, to the east at Stannington. Thomas was… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 1876. Hard Cover. Good. The Dramatic And Poetical Works Of Westland Marston. Two Volumes. Chatto and Windus. 1876. A good set in original gilt lettered cloth. Some slight foxing.

Brill, 2018. Hard Cover. As New/As New. A very good, as new hardback copy in dust wrapper. Published at c£135.

MARYAN, Pinchas. Abstract Composition, 1958. Hand signed, and numbered 287/300Pinchas Burstein, mainly known by his nickname Maryan, was an American painter of Polish origins born in 1927, who died in 1977 in New York.A teenager during the World War II, he was sent to Auschwitz and was the only one of his family to survive from there. When the Russians arrived, the Germans decided to shoot the prisoners; he survived but had one leg amputated. He then went to Jerusalem to study art and painting at the New Bézalel Art School. Three years later, he moved to Paris and studied lithography in the studio of Fernand Léger at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.Maryan is considered one of the fathers of New Figuration. In the 1950s, his art oscillated between abstraction and figuration. In the 1960s, he switched to an expressionist and symbolic figuration, representing derisively solitary characters. His work was exhibited at the Breteau Gallery in 1952, then at the Gallery of France in 1956. The Museum of Art and… Read More

W.H. Allen, 1876. Hard Cover. Very Good. Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management. Revised and improved by James Irvine Lupton. 356pp., half-title., text illustrations. A good copy in original dark green gilt lettered cloth. Owner's book-plate, and some early pencil notes to the back of the half-title. 8vo. Wm. H. Allen & Co. 1876.

Seeley, Burnside, 1846. Hard Cover. Very Good. [MAYO, Elizabeth]. Lessons on Shells, as Given to Children Between the Ages of Eight and Ten, in a Pestalozzian School, at Cheam, Surrey. Illustrated by ten plates, drawn from nature. Third edition. xiii, [3], 228pp., half-title., 10 engraved plates each with leaf of text identifying the specimens. A very good copy bound in full contemporary green calf, ornately decorated in gilt. Wide gilt borders, central gilt panel with corner piece ornaments, and gilt panelled spine. Original morocco label just chipped at one corner, and some foxing. 8vo. Seeley, Burnside and Seeley. [1846]. ~ Charles (1792-1846) and Elizabeth Mayo (1793-1865) were brother and sister educational reformers and followers of Pestalozzi. Charles Mayo opened a school in Epsom in 1822, which his mother and sister helped run. They wanted children to learn by observing, touching, and experimenting with the things around them, and they developed a practical curriculum including these 'object… Read More

F.Lewis, 1963. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good clean hardback copy in just slightly torn dust-wrapper.

New Forest Leaves, 1991. Hard Cover. Very Good. MAYS, James O'Donald. Tokens of those Trying Times. A social history of Britain's 19th century Silver Tokens. 248pp., illustrations. A very good hardback copy. Signed by the author on the title-page. From the library of Christopher Challis. large 8vo. New Forest Leaves. 1991.