Search Results: Titles starting with M from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: American Historical Publications. 1994. hardcover. 112pp. illus. hardback 4to: Fine. An issue of MHQ devoted entirely to the Normandy landings.

London: Collins, 1978 2nd ptg. 112pp. illus. hardback 4to: Fine in a near Fine dj [ink name ffep; else F]

New York: Putnam's, 1869 1st ed. 487pp. green cloth 12mo w/gilt spine decorations: a complete reading copy only [name stamp blacked out on pastedown; front hinge is cracked but attached; foxing and age browning; else a complete and tight copy] A novel by the German writer Bolte (1811-91).

Lumpkin, GA: Westville Historic Handicrafts, Inc., 1999. 128pp. illus. burgundy cloth oblong 4to w/gilt titles: Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [touch of tiny edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy; dj = nicked @ spine tail; else nrF] The story of a "meticulously recreated" 1850 Georgia town in the Chattahoochee River valley well illustrated with high quality black & white photographs.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946 reprint. 387pp. decorated red & black cloth 12mo: ex lib. copy; typical markings from a school library; else a clean, complete & tight copy. Subtitled: "Music Week, its Origins and Observance; Musical Memory Contests, Games and Entertainments; Music Study; The Music Cure; Stories; Plays; with an Anthology of the Best Prose and Verse on Music from Plato to Millay."

London: The Herbert Press/Royal Botanic Gardens, 1988 1st ed. 127pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Fine. A black & white photographic essay on Kew Gardens.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967 4th ptg. 410pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj [edges are age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = foxing to white paper; else G] A comprehensive volume on the subject.

Edinburgh: Canongate Classics. 1990 1st ed. thus. 308pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [text is age browned; else nrF] A humorous novel satirizing Scottish life, literature and politics of the 1930s by the prolific and eclectic British writer Linklater (1899-1974). Originally published in 1934, the novel is based on the author’s own experiences in an East Fyfe by-election in 1933.

New York: Crown, 1977. 96pp. illus. hardback 4to: near Fine in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some top edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy; dj = torn @ spine head; else nrVG] An attractive volume on the Belgian Surrealist Magritte (1898-1967), with 52 color and 25 black & white reproductions of his work.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1991 1st ed. INSCRIBED ffep by author. 222pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Humorous essays by the Atlanta lawyer Steed (1936-2016) with great Jack Davis illustrations and dust jacket art.

New York: Soho, 1996 reprint. 231pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. A Grijpstra-de Gier mystery by the Dutch writer van de Watering (1931-2008) that won the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1984.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1910 1st Am. ed. 259pp. decorated grey cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [ffep has been removed; front hinge is cracked but firm; bit of interior foxing; else a complete & tight copy] A treatise by the Italian writer Melegari (1849-1924).

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. 236pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [hint of age browning top edge; else a very nice clean & crisp copy] A humorous travel sequel of sorts to the author's "Night Train to Turkistan." Martin Amis: "You would have to be out of your mind to go anywhere with Stuart Stevens." Dervla Murphy: "uncommonly well-written and hilariously funny.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958 1st ed. SIGNED ffep by author under "Best wishes." 192pp. tan cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [edges & endpp. are age browned; else VG] Celestine Sibley (1914-99) was a favorite of readers of her (over 10,000) columns written for the Atlanta Constitution during a 55-year period. This is her first novel, set in an Atlanta newsroom, a scene she knew inside out.

San Gwann, Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1994 2nd ptg. 307pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Very Good.

London: Robinson Publishing, 1993, 1995 reprints. 522pp., 532pp. paperbacks: near Fine in slipcase [light age browning; else nice crisp copies; slipcase shows some foxing] A two-volume set, the first featuring an Ellis Peters foreword.

New York: Warner Books Mysterious Press, 1993 1st ed. thus. 265pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; edges are foxed; rem. X top and bottom edges; else a nice tight and uncreased copy] A whodunit set in British-run Egypt in 1908.

New York: Ticknor & Fields. 1991 1st ed. 253pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj [some age foxing of top edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Humorous travels in Kenya reported with a sardonic tone a la P. J. O’Rourke. Surprise: O’Rourke congratulates the author on the dust jacket.

Atlanta: Atlanta History Center/Longstreet Press, 1996 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by both author & subject. 240pp. illus. brown cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A biography of the dean of Atlanta's local historians, Wisconsin born Franklin Garrett (1906-2000), who was Atlanta's unofficial and ultimately official historian for many years. South Dakota born Doris Hinkley Lockerman (1910-2011) was a famous Atlantan in her own right as long time newspaper editor and writer who, in her youth, had been secretary to Melvin Purvis, the famous FBI agent in charge of the Chicago office who personally led the shootouts that stopped John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Atlanta: Atlanta History Center/Longstreet Press, 1996 1st ed. 240pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [a light top edge bump; couple of tiny bottom edge spots; else a very nice clean and crisp copy] A biography of the dean of Atlanta's local historians, Wisconsin born Franklin Garrett (1906-2000), who was Atlanta's unofficial and ultimately official historian for many years.