Search Results: Authors starting with M from Downtown Books & News

Barcelona, Spain: Ambit Serveis Editorials, S.A., 1999. First edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 4to. 192pp. Illustrated paper covers with french flaps. Color plates throughout. Includes biography & bibliography.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Laing and Forbes, 1836. First edtiion. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (8.5"x10.5"). 213pp along with one page of errata. Brown buckram wrapped boards (rebind). Corners bumped. Front top corner missing (.25"). Title spine label chipped. rear top corner crushed (.5"). Prior owner (Duncan Eanes) book plate pasted to interior of front board. 1.5" and 3.25" tears on portrait frontispiece page. Creases to same. Generally text block is yellowed with occasional foxing. Book inscribed by "The Author".

Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable & Co, 1805. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo (8.5"x5.5"). 343pp. +appendix. 1/2 bound leather & marbled paper-covered boards with giltstamped spine, all edges stained red. One color plate, one B&W plate and one B&W facsimile fold-out. Small dampstains, slight cracking and rubbed corners to leather. 1/2 cracks to upper joint leather at extremes. Gilt mostly rubbed from spine. Marbled paper is heavily rubbed, dents to lower fore-edge. Small pen marks to rear pdep. No other marks, binding tight.

Webster, NC: Webster Historical Society, 1985. Limited edition of 500 copies, this is #249. Softcover. VG. 8vo. 77pp. Wine red covers. Japanese style, sewn binding. Minor crease to one corner of upper cover. Top edge of text block foxed. Tipped in B/W photograph of author. Handsome, deckle edged chapbook copy of Madison's poetry.

Paris, France: Compos Juliot, 2006. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dj. as issued. 4to. 173pp. TEXT IN FRENCH. However, there is little text. The book focuses more on color reproductions of Maly's art. Illustrated boards lightly scuffed with slight wear to ends of spine. Text block is bright and clean.

Rome, Italy: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 4to (11.5"x9.5"). 604pp. Tan cloth-covered boards with brown-stamped title & decoration; leather giltstamped spine labels, deckle edges. Slightly sun-darkened spine. Light foxing to covers. Lower/tail corner bumped. Binding starting. Toned textblock edge, pages toned. Bookseller stickers to rear fep. B&W plates. Text in Italian. #1290 from a limited edition of 2000. Typographic dj. covered in protective mylar: sun-darkened spine (creased, soiled), chipped spine extremes & corners with 1/2" closed tears, toned.

Milano, Italy: Electa, 1989. No additional printings indicated. Softcover. Very Good -. 4to. 174pp. Pictorial wraps. Very light, ubiquitous discoloration to exterior of wraps. Spine creased in two places. Small ding to fore edge of text block. Binding is tight. Text is in Italian. B/W and color plates throughout.

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo (9"x6"). 75pp. Illustrated paper covers. Long inscription to Robin and Suzanne, signed by Marion, "Danny" and dated 4/19/09. Flat signed & dated to title page.

First Edition Society, 2006. Hardcover. 4to (11"x8.5"). 128pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jacket as issued. B&W illustrations throughout. This book uses the OSRIC (Old School System Reference and Index Compilation) via the Wizards of the Coast Inc. Open Game License in 2000.

Belfast, Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to (10.5"x8"). 290pp. Blue paper-covered boards with giltstamped title. Color photos throughout. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Publishing House, 1971. First edition, 1,00 copies, june 1971. Paperback. Good +. 8vo. 88pp. Blue Wraps over cardboard, chipped along head of covers. Wraps scuffed and rubbed. Text block toned. Written by a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi.

Rudolstadt, Germany: Edition Roter Drache, 2007. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. B&W illustrated paper wraps; perfect bound. B&W illustrations & diagrams throughout. 10-15-19.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1993. First edition, first printing. Softcover. Fine. Based on the writings of Harold W. Percival.

Delhi, India: Vikas Publishing House, 1974. No additional printing listed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo (8.5"x5.5").189pp. Orange paper-covered boards. Small dents to joints at spine extremes. Dust jacket covered in protective mylar: edgewear, 1/2" closed tear & chips to upper spine extreme, creasing to laminate. No marks, binding tight.

Brookline, Mass: Paradigm Publications, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to (11"x9"). 484pp. Grey cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles. Textblock edges lightly soiled. B&W diagrams throughout. Out of print. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

Winona, MN: Sutton Hoo Press, 2003. First edition, limited. Hardcover. VG+. 8vo (9"x6"). 79pp. Charcoal silk covered-boards with pastedown label to spine and pastedown intaglio to upper cover, deckled edges, cold-pressed paper, letter-pressed text. Flat signed by Sebastian Matthews. B&W and single-color intaglios by Cristofaro: frontis and throughout. From a limited edition of 200 copies. No dj. as issued, covered in seller's mylar. Slightly faded spine, slight spine slant.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. Reprint edition, facsimile. Hardcover. VG+/VG+/VG+. 8vo (9"x6"). 591+705pp. Red cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title. Vol1. very slightly cocked. Light tone to textblock edges. No dust jackets. Facsimile edition of the original 1765 title: The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences as Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, During the Most Ancient Periods of the World. From the series, Myth & Romanticism: A Collection of the Major Mythographic Sources Used by the English Romantic Poets edited by Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Library Gazette, 1961. First edition thus, limited. Paperback. Good+. 8vo (9"x7"). 7pp. Typographic paper wraps, toned, lightly soiled, 1" closed tear to tail of spine. Hand-numbered 12 from a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by Earle Mayfield (then senator of Texas) to the colophon. Published in Vol. 35, No. 2 of the Yale University Library Gazette in October 1960.

Technomic Publishing Company, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No dj. as issued. 8vo. 416pp. Green and yellow paper-covered boards lighty scuffed. B&W diagrams throughout.

Berkeley, CA: Michael McClure, 1965. First edition, proof. Softcover. Very Good+. Folio (8.5"x13"). 70pp. Sepia photographic paper covers. Few lightly soiled spots to covers. Light rubbing to corners, light creasing to bottom edges. Some pages lightly toned (two paper types). Covered in seller's protective mylar. Original proof printed for actors & friends, from approx 330 copies.