Search Results: Authors starting with M from RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Third printing. Original cream colored cloth with gilt decorated front cover, gilt titled spine. 443 pages with deckle fore-edge and red top-edge stain. In the definitive English translation by M. F. K. Fisher. "The most famous book ever written about food and man's taste for it, Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste, which was first published--at the author's expense--in 1825, is today considered the bible of all serious eaters. There have been many translations, but there has never been one like M. F. K. Fisher's." Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908 - 1992) is considered one of America's greatest writers. Her writings revere the art of eating simply but well, of taking pleasure where it is found and of loving life with all of its challenges. This copy is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY M. F. K. FISHER to a close personal friend. "For Loverne Morris from Mary Frances with love always (and the tacit agreement of J. A. Brillat-Savarin)… Read More

Ashgate, 1998. Fine hardcover. No name, bookplate or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fine/No jacket as issued..

Routledge, 1992. Inscribed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. . Signed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1990. Collector's Edition. The Library of Great Lives. Handsomely bound in luxurious warm brown full premium leather. Elaborate gold embossed decorations, raised spine bands, lustrous gold silk moire fabric endpapers, all page edges gilt, and permanently bound-in ribbon page marker. Printed on fine archival acid-neutral paper. With a Foreward by Reynold M. Wik and Introduction by Allan Nevins. Color frontispiece portrait of Morse. With publisher's card laid in. Appears unread. . Full-Leather. Fine.

New York / London: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Limited and numbered large paper edition in the scarce linen cloth dust jacket titled in gilt and publisher's slipcase with printed paper spine label. This is number 83 of 150 copies bound in undressed white kid leather, gilt top, uncut. One hundred illustrations including nine full-page in photogravure. Ex-libris bookplate of John Needels Chester (1864-1955) and booksellers catalog description tipped to bottom of the front pastedown. The John Needels Chester Rare Book & Manuscript Library is housed at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Half-title page has a tipped printed Shakespeare quote and tipped example of the author's bookplate. Signed by Mabie on the colophon followed by a tipped in portrait of the author drawn by George T. Tobin. The portrait appears cropped and may or may not be original to the book? Hinges just slightly starting, still firmly bound, with clean and unmarked text. See photos.. Limited Edition. Hard… Read More

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1959. Original pictorial white boards with red map endpapers. xi, 260 pages, illustrated with historic photographs, plus bibliography and index. Inscribed in red ink on the map endpaper by the author: "1/20/61 For -- A new Anaheim resident from a native daughter Mildred Yorba MacArthur." Prior owner has applied a clear mylar dust jacket, attached to inside covers. Scarce, especially inscribed. . SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Walker and Company, 1970. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Very good hard cover with very good dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts / Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., 1860. Two Volumes. Engraved frontispiece of Lord Macaulay to Volume 1. SIGNED BINDINGS BY ZAENNSDORF. Uniformly bound in matching full dark blue morocco, spines with five raised bands compartmented with tooled gilt designs, red leather spine panels titled in gilt. Paneled covers with triple gilt ruling and sunflower corners, gilt inner dentelles, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. Prior owner bookplate in each volume, otherwise unmarked. Texts clean and bright. A very handsome set. Will require extra shipping.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

London: Henry Vizetelly / Clark, Beeton, & Co. , 1853. Two Volumes bound as one. SIGNED BINDING BY ZAENNSDORF. Bound in full dark blue morocco, spine with five raised bands compartmented with tooled gilt designs, red leather spine panels titled in gilt. Paneled covers with triple gilt ruling and sunflower corners, gilt inner dentelles, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. Prior owner bookplate, otherwise unmarked. Text clean and bright.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. Fifth Edition Complete in Three Volumes. SIGNED BINDINGS BY ZAENNSDORF. Uniformly bound in matching full dark blue morocco, spines with five raised bands compartmented with tooled gilt designs, red leather spine panels titled in gilt. Paneled covers with triple gilt ruling and sunflower corners, gilt inner dentelles, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. Front cover of volume III is detached but present. Prior owner bookplate in each volume, otherwise unmarked. Texts clean and bright. A very handsome set. Will require extra shipping.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore in Lucca , 1987. Red boards with gilt lettered spine in a bright pictorial dust jacket. 207 pages with full color and monochrome plates. Inscribed in Italian on the front endpaper otherwise a bright and nice copy. Quite scarce.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

University of California Press, 1988. Some soiling to covers otherwise a very good hardcover in dust jacket. No name, bookplate or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1995. Collector's Edition. "The Leather-Bound Library of Military History." Collector's Notes laid in. Very good with some lighty spotting on the gilt edges. . Full-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Capitola, California, U.S.A.: Meta Publications, 1988. Soft Cover. As New.

Pasadena: The Castle Press, 1937. Quarto [9" x 12"] bound in blue paper covered boards with printed paper labels to cover and spine. Tipped-in photo frontispiece of author protected by tissue-guard. Near fine with light shelf rubbing at base of spine and lower tip. Contents clean and bright. . Hard Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1976. Facsimile edition of the original 1922 printing. Thick green cloth hardcover with gold titles, 690pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. [International orders will require extra shipping]. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Sabbathday Lake, Maine : The United Society of Shakers, 1992. Exact facsimile reprint of the 1907 Second Edition as published by Press of the Knowlton & McCleary Co., Farmington, Maine. As new in full black cloth. No dust jacket, apparently as issued. . Hard Cover. Fine - As New.

Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 1983. Crisp, as new. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

White Pine Press, 1987. Bright and fine copy in acetate protective cover. Inscribed and signed by the translator Dennis Maloney. . Signed. Soft Cover. Fine.

Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 1995. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. One of 150 copies signed for Laissez Faire Books on special bookplate. Dark blue cloth lettered in bright gilt. No jacket as issued. In like new condition. A treat for those exploring the deepest philosophical issues of liberty.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No jacket as issued..