Search Results: Titles starting with M from Flamingo Books

Ambrose Bray, 1855-01-01. Hardcover. Good. In French. 1855 Amboise Bray, Libraire-Editeur (Paris), volume one of a two volume set. 4 x7 inches tall black leatherbound volume, gilt lettering to spine, xx, 391 pp. Covers are worn, bumped and edgeworn with corners worn and chipped. Prior owner's name to top margin of half title page. Foxing or staining to a few pages, especially title page. Otherwise, very good. ~DD~

American Water Works Association, 2005-06-15. Paperback. Very Good. 2005 second edition American Water Works Association (Denver, Colorado), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound, illustrated with black-and-white line drawings and diagrams, xviii, 157 pp. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP37~ [2.0P] Provides water supply engineers and operators a single source for information about fiberglass pipe and fittings. New in this edition are the addition of metric equivalents; an expanded discussion of pipe mechanical properties with stress vs. strain curves; Buried Pipe Design chapter has expanded discussion of deflections caused by live loads and soil properties, a second method of determining pipe stiffness, and a new equation for pipe buckling; Guidelines for Underground Installation has additional information on soil backfill considerations and minimum trench width, new information on angularly deflected pipe joints, pressure testing, and a new section on trenching on slopes.… Read More

Medjugorje Information Service. 2nd. Paperback. Good. 1985 second printing Pika Print / Medjugorje Information Service (East Sussex, England), 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall paperbound, 72 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing, edgewear and creasing to covers. A couple of pages with very slight marginal soiling. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce issue. ~SP04~ Describes the events at Medjugorje, a town located in the Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, around 16 miles southwest of Mostar and close to the border of Croatia. Since 1981, it has become a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage due to Our Lady of Me?ugorje, an alleged series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six local children that are still happening to this day.

Mexico, Editorial Grijalbo, 1977-01-01. 3rd. Paperback. Good. In Spanish. 1978 third edition, Editorial Grijalbo (Mexico City, Mexico), two 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall trade paperbacks, xv, 470, 622 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, especially to spine tips of Volume 1. Period Mexican bookstore price label to rear cover of Volume 1. Inside, a handful of instances of cracking at the gutter between pages, but the binding of both volumes is quite solid. Otherwise, a clean and unmarked copy of this scarce two-volume set. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders.~MM~ [4.0P] The magnum opus of Victor Manuel Villasenor (1904-1981), an American-educated economist who travelled to the Soviet Union with Vicente Lombardo Toledano in 1935. Along with Toledano, Vellasenor founded the Workers University and the Partido Popular.

Internationa Union of Geological Sciences, 1980-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. In English and Spanish. 1980 first edition International Union of Geological Sciences (Mexico City, Mexico), 8 x 10 3/4 inches tall paperbound in slick wraps, 361 pp. plus large folding map in pocket at rear of volume. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~UUU~

Automobile Quarterly, 1965-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1965 (from OCLC) first edition thus, Automobile Quarterly (NY), oblong 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound, copiously illustrated with mostly full-color photographs, [32] pp. Mild to moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight creasing to the spine. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce offprint with outstanding color images. OCLC (No. 71202849) locates only one copy at institutions worldwide, at the Benson Ford Research Center in Dearborn, part of The Henry Ford Museum/National Landmark. ~SSS~ A limited issue offprint by Automobile Quarterly of articles in the magazine's Volume IV, No. 2 - History of the MG, by F. Wilson McComb, color photography by Tom Burnside and Norman Willock; and MG Record Cars, by Beverly Rae Kimes. Automobile Quarterly was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical which focused on cars. The publication was well known for quality writing and photography about… Read More

Carlton Books Limited, 1989-11-01. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x6x1. 1989 signed and inscribed first edition, Andre Deutsch (London), 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 349 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to upper tips. Moderate foxing of fore page edges, with light foxing tofront and rear endpapers and dust jacket flaps. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely inscribed and signed by the author to the prior owner, Murdo J. MacLeod (b. 1935), a Scottish historian of Latin America, who published extensively on the history of colonial-era Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in an edgeworn dust jacket with chipping to the rear upper tip but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~R~ [2.5P] Traces the life of the Jamaican journalist, labor activist, and politician.… Read More

Geological Survey of Canada, 1962-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1962 first edition, Geological Survey of Canada/Department of Mines and Technical Surveys (Ottawa, Canada). Paperbound in green card covers with dark green lettering to front cover and spine, 6 x 9 inches tall, 122 pp., plus 8 full-page plates of fossils with facing page textual identification of the images, including index and fold-out chart. Edgewear and staining especially to spine. Prior owner's name to top of front covers. Otherwise, a very good+ copy - clean, bright and unmarked. [D1]~TT~

The Spanish Village Press, 1938-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1938 inscribed and signed first edition, The Spanish Village Press (CA) 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches tall yellow paperbound, 121pp. Covers mildly stained, rubbed, edgeworn and soiled. Slight marginal staining to first couple of pages. Otherwise, a clean, bright and unmarked copy with a beautiful author's inscription and signature. ~I~

Harry N. Abrams, 2011-02-28. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x1x11. 2011 first edition, Abrams (New York), 8 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches tall black pictorial hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, copiously illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, 334 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a near fine dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP34~ [4.0P] Marilyn Monroe is our supreme icon of glamour, vulnerability, personal magnetism, and the American dream, and her legend continues to grow four decades after her death. MM - Personal is a new look behind the veil of that legend, reproducing the most fascinating relics from her private archive - once thought to have been lost, and… Read More

C. Maar, 1913-01-01. Pamphlet. Very Good. 1913 first edition, C. Maar (Albany, New York), 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall pamphlet in beige printed covers, pamphlet stitched with purple twine, 13 pp. Slight soiling and age toning to covers. Otherwise, apart from slight marginal age toning, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this genealogy which is uncommon in its original issue. ~O~ [0.5] Johann Conrad Mahr (Maar), son of Johannes Mahr, a shepherd of Homberg-on-der-Ohm, Germany, married Elizabethe, daughter of Adam Zimmer, 16 Feb. 1768. They had seven children. Several of their descendants immigrated to America and settled in New York. They were: Henry (1836-1895, settled in Poughkeepsie, New York); Maria (1839-1912, married 1. Gottlieb Dilger; 2. August Staats, both of New York City); Marie (b. 1857, married Conrad Herbert, settled in Albany, New York); John (b. 1859, settled in Albany, New York) and Katharine (1871-1900, married Karl Throm of Brooklyn, New York).

Magee School, 1989. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 1989 Magee Secondary School (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), oblong 11 x 8 3/8 inches tall paperbound in glossy color covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, vii, 352 pp. Slight soiling and moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers. Inside, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~YY~ [3.0P] A history of the Magee Secondary School in Vancover, issued on its 75th anniversary in 1989. It is one of the first public high schools located in the Kerrisdale neighborhood and is fed by the surrounding elementary schools in its catchment area. They include Maple Grove Elementary School, Dr. R. E. McKechnie Elementary School, and David Lloyd George Elementary School. It was used as a temporary hospital during the Influenza Epidemic in 1918. The school was named after one of the first European… Read More

ASM Press, 2013-11-19. Paperback. Like New. 2013 ASM Press (Washington, D.C.), 6 x 9 inches tall trade paperback, illustrated with structural formulas, xiii, 298 pp. A near fine book, with no noted detractions, seemingly unopened. ~WWW~ [1.5P] Provides a historical overview of the medicines that have been used to treat malaria. It recounts how these drugs were discovered, how they have been used, and why they have failed to eradicate this disease. In addition, readers will learn about the use of larvicides, bednets, and DDT as well as recombinant DNA and monoclonal antibodies to block malaria transmission from mosquitoes to humans. This book will help microbiologists, parasitologists, pharmacologists, medicinal chemists, biochemists, physicians, and drug researchers better understand what has been done and what still needs to be done in the battle against malaria. C ontents: From breathing bad air to biting beasts; Myth to medicine : quinine; Synthetic dyes to drugs : atabrine and chloroquine;… Read More

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2000. paperback. Very Good. 10x8x0. 2000 National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound in color pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with color reproductions of artwork, essays and bibliography, 151 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers, with the slightest creasing to the lower tips. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP40~ [3.0P] Published on the occasion of the first major exhibition of Varo’s art in the United States hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC., studies the full range of Varo’s work. It considers her formal artistic training in the rigid academic atmosphere of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, and her sojourns in Paris in 1930 and 1937, which brought Varo into contact with the surrealist movement of André Breton that was to define her artistic expression for the rest of her… Read More

Maecenas K, 2001-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. In Hungarian. 2001 sixth edition Maecenas Konyvkiado (Budapest, Hungary), 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall pictorial hardbound, no dust jacket, 661 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Ink presentation inscription to title page. Neat intermittent highlighting for the first 80 pages of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Due to the weight of the book, additional postage will be required for standard international orders. ~HHH~

D.K.M. Moore, 1982-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1982 D.K.M. Moore (Gautier, Mississippi), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound in tan printed overs, black cloth binder's tape to spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of family documents, index, [10], 95 pp. Slight soiling and edgewear to covers. A couple of pages with very slight marginal soiling. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon genealogy and family history. ~O~ [1.5P] Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the known descendants of, Cornelius Mahan I (1750/1760-1831), who married Mary Shaver and lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. In addition to many entries for Mahan, other surnames which receive extensive coverage (among many others): Brelsfoard / Brelsford, Clark, Dick, Dobbins, Everett, Evringham, Flowers, Furrow, Hamilton, Heaton, Johnson, Kirby, Mitchell, Moore, Munson,… Read More

Kovach Printing. Good. 1988 first edition, Quasquicentennial Celebration Committee (Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania), oblong 11 7/8 x 9 inches tall x 1 1/4 inches thick paperbound in tan pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, 224 pp. plus folded 15 x 34 inches tall plat map of Mahanoy City laid in. Mild to moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight marginal soiling or creasing to a few pages. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. [d3] ~SP20~ [3.5P] A history prepared for the 125th anniversary of the founding of Mahanoy City, a borough located 38 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre and 13 miles southwest of Hazleton, in northern Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the southern Coal Region. It is located entirely within but is not part of Mahanoy Township. The name 'Mahanoy' is… Read More

M.A.D. Productions, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2020 M.A.D. Productions (n.p.), 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches thick blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, DXXXIX (539) pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very minor staining to blank front endpapers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Rare. Not in OCLC. ~SP10~ [3.0P] A Dungeons and Dragons Story: A nation divided. A war on the brink. Gods and demons. Heroes and villains. When an ancient evil arises, four unlikely people must face their destinies.

Charles E. Nash. Acceptable. 1915 Charles E. Nash and Son (Augusta, Maine), 4 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches tall stapled paperbound, illustrated with black-and-white engravings, 48 pp. Moderate soiling, creasing, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Hole punched in upper margin of book. Light soiling and creasing throughout. A few pages with marginal tick marks. Despite these detractions, still a decent reading/reference copy. ~SP28~ [0.5P]

Augsburg. Good. 1956 first edition Augsburg Publishing House (Minneapolis, Minesota), 6 x 9 inches tall stapled paperbound in green printed covers, 48 pp. Light rubbing and edgewear and moderate soiling to covers. Minor marginal staining to title page. A few pages with very slight marginal creasing. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce booklet designed to help Sunday school teachers use the Bible meaningfully and effectively in teaching every lesson, from preschool classes up, or any individual or group in studying and appreciating the Bible. ~SP41~ Contents: Introduction; The Bible: A Gift from God; The Bible and the Individual; The Bible and the Group; Teaching the Bible to Preschool Children; Teaching the Bible to Primary Children; Teaching the Bible to Juniors; Teaching the Bible to Youth; Teaching the Bible to Adults; The Bible: Ours to Make Concrete; The Bible: Ours to Appreciate in Literature, Music and Art.