Search Results: Authors starting with M from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

London: Quartet Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse, this historical novel revolves around the 11th century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and his poetry collection Rubaiyat. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Very light dust staining to the top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

American Baptist Publication Society, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Philadelphia First edition. MacArthur was the Minister of Calvary Baptist Church in New York. Blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some minor edgewear to the boards; otherwise a crisp and clean, very good copy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, n.d. A volume in the Oxford Plain Texts series. A slim volume, with sixteen numbered pages, bound in red cloth with black stamping. A very good copy.

New York: Random House, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The story of a university professor's love affair with a student and how it affects his wife and son. Some mild rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise a crisp, near fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Signed by Ross Macdonald on the title page. The fifth hardboiled mystery featuring Southern California private detective Lew Archer. "Ross Macdonald" was the primary pseudonym employed by American-Canadian writer Kenneth Millar (1915-83), who dropped the "John" after the publication of this novel. Octavo. Original patterned paper-covered boards. The spine is ever so slightly leaning. Faint staining along the extremities of the dust jacket, which is a bit toned with some minor shelfwear; else very good.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first American hardcover edition in the first state dust jacket. The ninth novel in the Travis McGee series. The plot revolves around McGee's investigation into the death of his close friend Tush Bannon, who he suspects has been murdered because of his refusal to sell his waterfront property to developers. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Small address label to the front flyleaf, with a very faint spot to the top edge. Light wear to the corners and tips. Some general rubbing to the dust jacket, with two small scuffs to the spine heel; else crisp, clean, and very good.

Oxford: Published for The Royal Institute of International Affairs by Oxford University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The second installment in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chinese from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, this volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward - Mao's utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-fist century by mobilizing his nation's greatest asset: its disciplined, manpower. The effort produced economic disaster and political dissension, and helped to precipitate the Sino-Soviet split. Octavo: xvii, 470 p. with 17 illustrations. Original red cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. A very good or better copy in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Oxford, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first volume in this landmark trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chinese from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Octavo: xii, 439 p. with 5 illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some mild edgewear; otherwise very good.

London: John Murray, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A compilation of letters written and edited by the author, detailing his journeys across northern Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, China, and Japan. Includes accounts of the Torres Straits islanders and the Solomon Islands and New Britain under German rule, as well as Java and Sumatra. Octavo: xiii, 347 p. with 8 color plates and 45 illustrations. Original green cloth binding, with gilt and black stamping. Largely uncut. Tiny stain to the bottom edge of the rear board. The spine is s bit sun faded; otherwise very good.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, with the publisher's "with compliments" stamp on the half-title. A selection of sketches and articles from The Field, The County Gentleman, Land and Water, Rod and Gun, St. Paul's, and other sporting periodicals. The first part of the book, containing some twenty chapters, deals with such topics as heather-culture, grouse disease, rent of shooting, driving, deer-stalking, etc.; the second consists of a series of letters (supposedly addressed to the author by the tenant of a highland shooting lodge) full of local gossip. Octavo: 248 p. with four plates and numerous period advertisements at the front and rear. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt and black titles. "Rod and Gun" is underlined in the introduction, with an ink bookseller's stamp to the half-title. Some mild foxing and toning to the contents and along the edges. The top edge is dust stained. Slight… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. London Oriental Series, Volume 22. Octavo: 77 p. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is very lightly sun faded; otherwise very good.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 999 copies (this copy is unnumbered). A translation with introduction and notes of those sections of the chuan on the Uighurs in the Chiu T'ang-shu and Hsin T'ang-shu referring to the period 744 to 840. Octavo: 226 p. with 6 maps. Original decorative buckram boards over a black buckram spine, with gilt and red stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 999 copies (this copy is unnumbered). A translation with introduction and notes of those sections of the chuan on the Uighurs in the Chiu T'ang-shu and Hsin T'ang-shu referring to the period 744 to 840. Octavo: 226 p. with 6 maps. Original decorative buckram boards over a black buckram spine, with gilt and red stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A junky's account of the drug underworlds of Sydney and Melbourne. Small octavo: 155 p. Original black cloth binding, with cream titles. Faint smudge to the fore-edge; else very or better in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 25 plates, including the frontispiece. Octavo. Original pebbled black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles on the front. Previous owner's ink signature to the front pastedown, with her small ink stamp to the bottom edge and the vestiges of a removed label to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is browned, with some general edgewear, including two thumbnail-size chips, and tape reinforcement to the verso; otherwise about very good.

New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated Theatre Edition, with scenes from the play. A stage production that was adapted for the silver screen in 1921, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush was one of the first films on which Alfred Hitchcock worked when he joined the London branch of Famous Players-Lasky as a title designer. Full blue gray cloth binding, with decorative stamping in black, white, and light blue. A very good copy.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A thoroughly revised and expanded version of the author's Dissertation on the Topography of the Plain of Troy (1822). Scottish journalist and geologist Charles Maclaren (1782-1866) was the first person to successfully identify the mound of Hisarlik in Turkey as the location of the lost city of Troy, despite never having visited the region. His theory was based to an extent on observations by the Cambridge professor of mineralogy Edward Daniel Clarke and his assistant John Martin Cripps, and later confirmed through archaeological excavations conducted by Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann. Octavo: xviii, [2], 224 p. with 3 folding topographic maps and 12 woodcuts. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt stamping. The printed name of Paul Naiditch, former Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at UCLA, appears on the front flyleaf, with the bookplate of Christopher Nicolson, County of Meath, on the front… Read More

New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. MacMillan draws parallel narratives of how the two world leaders met in a momentous handshake, and peppers her analysis with fascinating details, such as what led to Mao's 1958 decision regarding the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu and the American commitment to defend Taiwan. Textual photographs. Signed by MacMillan on the title page. Octavo. A near fine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 529 p. Frontispiece, with numerous textual illustrations. An account of the California theatres, their social influence, the favorite players, performances, circuses and other shows from the discovery at Sutter's Mill in 1848 until 1860. Presentation copy, inscribed by MacMinn to William Huse, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with green stamping. Light dust staining to the top edge. In the uncommon dust jacket, which is somewhat edgeworn with a bit of browning along the spine, a small chip to the spine head, and a large triangular piece missing from the top of the rear panel. Inscribed by Author.

An undated and unsigned holographic letter believed to have been written by First Lady Dolley Todd Madison (1768-1849), the wife of James Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17). This letter was written to a close friend from her youth in Philadelphia, Captain Anthony Morris, whose name is written on the verso. The letter centers on "our beloved Phoebe" and an "unpleasant" incident at a ball. Morris' daughter, Phoebe (1791-1825), had a close relationship with the First Lady, who invited her to balls at the President's House and to other social events in Washington, D.C. She lived with the Madisons for several months in 1812, and Dolley tried unsuccessfully to play matchmaker between Phoebe and her son from her first marriage, Payne Todd. Morris, a devout Quaker lawyer, was a widower who was dispatched by President Madison in 1813 as a special envoy to Spain. The letter reads: "You have always given me (credit), my dear friend for a lively perception of what was right upon the… Read More