Search Results: Titles starting with M from Elk River Books

Colognola ai Colli, Italy: Demetra, 2000. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Near fine. 12mo (19.5 cm), pp. 96. Illustrated wraps. Minor edge wear, else fine.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. First Clark City Press Edition. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. Slight bump to upper corner at spine. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand."

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Stamped with author's signature by his daughter, prior to his death, but after he developed Parkinson's and could no longer manage the task. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand."

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. First Clark City Press Edition. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. Slight bump to upper corner at spine. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand." As new, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1985. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very good. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 654. Pictorial color wrappers. Spine is slightly cocked, light edge wear. Book Three in the Earth's Children series.

New York: Tyndale House Publishers, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo. 380pp. Appears unread. Includes Reading Group Guide. Yellow boards with blue text on spine.

Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2013. Paperback. New. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 285. Pictorial wrappers, lushly illustrated with color photos. Includes index.

Butte, Montana: Harper, MacDonald & Co., 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Color lithographic map of mining claims near Butte, Montana, measuring 37" x 49" when opened. Map is glued onto linen and bound in red cloth hardcover with gilt text. Binding with moderate wear to extremities with some material loss and closed tears. Maps has light edge wear, as well as multiple closed tears at creases (stabilized by linen backing), and faint stain on verso along one fold. One set of claims -- for the Blue Bird silver mine, discovered in 1881 -- marked in orange crayon.Butte was known as "The Richest Hill on Earth" for mines that made fortunes for Copper Kings Marcus Daly, William A. Clark and F. Augustus Heinz. The city's rich history includes a stint as a hotbed of socialist activism, home to a thriving Chinese community whose members came to work in the mines, and scene of some of the most deadly mine disasters in U.S. history (including the Pennsylvania Mine Fire, which killed 21 men the year this map was published).

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 210. Pictorial wrappers with light edge wear. Includes 22 maps, 44 black and white plates, references and index. Author's name written on front cover, former owner's stamp on rear.

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 146. Black boards with green text on spine.

New York: Ecco, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 360. Black boards with red quarter cloth binding and black text on spine. Light wear on spine and corners, with one larger bump on bottom center of front board.

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Husson Co., 1893. Very good. 23.5 x 16 cm. Color frontispiece. One of 1000 copies published of the Aquarelle Edition of The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopidia of Universal Authorship, the 10-volume set was edited by Ainsworth R. Spofford and Charles Gibbon. "The photogravure illustrations form a gallery of art exclusively devoted to the representation of literature, such as has never been seen till now; and these pictures, by the best artists of all nations, conclusively prove the importance of the editors' selections from literature, because the paintings were made for the text, not the text for the paintings, and the great modern painters confirm the good judgement of the editors in their selection of great masterpieces."

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 200. Pictorial wrappers. Includes appendices, references and index. Wrappers with very slight wear.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 412. Pictorial wraps. Includes black and white photos, color photo section, index. Wraps have light edge wear.

Bozeman, MT: Haynes Studios, Inc., c. 1950. Fine. Letterhead (28 x 21.5 cm), with envelope (10.5 x 24 cm). Letterhead is white stock and the envelope is tan stock.

New York: Fawcett Crest, 1978. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Very good. 12mo (17.5 cm), pp. 222. Yellow, orange and red wraps with yellow publisher's stain to text block edges. Minor creasing and wear to wraps, sun-fading to spine. A New York Times bestselling collection of comic essays. From the personal library of comedian, filmmaker and SNL alum, Rich Hall.

New York: Warner Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by author on title page. Black boards with black quarter cloth and red spine titling. Red endpapers. Postcard announcing Crumley's reading at Missoula's Fact & Fiction bookstore, with a comic of Crumley on verso, laid in. Also laid-in are two newspaper articles: one discussing The Mexican Tree Duck winning the Hammett Prize and the other a review of the book by Dennis Held. Slight bumping to spine ends, else fine.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 712 with index. First American edition. Pictorial wraps. Cover has moderate wear and is creased at bottom corner, beginning to tear along crease. Oversize book will require additional postage.

Cambridge: IUCN, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 258. Black wraps with photo of brown long-eared bat on front. Global Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos, maps and charts. Wraps have rubbing and edge wear, former owner's name on title page. "Bats make up a quarter of all mammals, and almost half of the species can be considered threatened or near threatened at a global level. This publication offers the results of the first comprehensive review to identify the conservation priorities for the 834 species of Microchiroptera. Rather than give an account of each of these species, this volume aims to be used as a basis for the development of more local or regional action plans, or actions for particular groups of bat species, by taxon or by habitat." (Abstract)

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 304. Dark gray cloth boards with red spine text. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To my old friend ---, with all good wishes. Dick O'Malley." Bumping to spine edges. Jacket, with original $6.95 price, shows moderate to heavy edge wear, small closed tears and chipping. The classic memoir of growing up in the mining world of Butte, of which publisher Russell Chatham (in his 2004 Clark City Press reprint) wrote, "If you want to read only one book, hoping to finish it with a fairly comprehensive understanding of Butte, Montana, you are holding it now."