Search Results: Titles starting with M from Oshtemo Book Sellers

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), New York, 1994. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED book is NEW as is priced (15.95) jacket. Book is signed by the illustrator Vladimir Radunsky on the half title page. This is a wonderfully brightly illustrated book. The maestro plays. he plays proudly. he plays loudly. He plays slowly. He plays oh-ly. Bravo to the three maestros who created this virtuoso picture book.There is maestro Bill Martin, who writes cunningly, punningly, winningly, grinningly ,unsinningly. There is maestro Vladimir Radunsky, who illustrates smartly, artily, grandly ( never blandly) And there is the maestro of the story himself, who amuses wryly, informs on the slyly, and encourages children to see how masterfully they can play with words. Great book SIGNED by the first (Bill Martin) and second (Vladimir Radunsky) maestro. Signed by author and Illustrator.

New York: Cheshire house, 1932. 1st Edition First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Freda Bone. The Maides Tragedy with introduction by Christopher Morley.This edition is limited to 1200 copies(1064) and has been printed from type by Richard W. Ellis, and the wood-cut decorations printed from the original blocks. Book is near fine with slightly and quite readable spine, quarter bound in fine green morocco over beautiful green marbled boards. Top edge is guilt and the fore and bottom edges are untrimmed. Limited to 1200 copies. A fine collectible.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition with (K-P Oct. 1940) printing on copyright page. Some of the poems were written in October of 1940. Book is fine with leather binding and tips.Millay used this type of binding on most of her books. Greenish top stain. Jacket is VG+ with chipping along extremities and repairs to verso.($1.75) priced jacket. Extremely clean copy. " This volume. Edna St. Vincent Millay's ' 1940 Notebook,' is a collection of poems which deal with themes which vitally concern every American and the cause of democracy throughout the world" (1940) The emotional intensity of these poems gives them a quality of directness as clear and immediate as speech; but though they were written' in passion and in deep concern,' they nevertheless at moments flash with the wit or crackle with the ironic humour which have come to be recognized as no… Read More

knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1965. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Flawless book in perfect unread condition in a near perfect jacket. $3.95 price on flap is circled in ink and marker? Small neatly repaired half inch tear on verso. The Mallot Diaries is, perhaps, a love story of a sort in the customary Nathan vein and at the same time a serio-comic essay in archeology anthropology some where between Gulliver's Travels and his own The Weans and the eternal conflict between generations, between the young and the old. The story is about a young girl Linda who stole into a museum with friends. Need I say more. A fine Nathan collectible.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran , 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION STATED First printing by definition. A very clean, very solid and bright copy with bumped spine and minor wear to corners. Paper label on spine is fine. one small label on verso of cover may be a bookshop label but all it says is " The sign of the Mermaid". Top of text block is trimmed and retains it's black stain and the fore-edge and bottom of text block is untrimmed. The jacket is VG+ with chipping to spine top and extremities. Spine is faded slightly. Jacket is repaired on verso and unclipped ($2.50). and protected in mylar. Mamba's daughters is a stirring novel of the black people and white people (1929) of romantic and romanticized Charleston. It's pathos, it's humor, it's drama and it's vital realism are winning an even greater that came to the author's other famous novel, Porgy.

Item Description: Economy Printers, Ashland Kentucky, 1968. Soft cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A short biography of Jesse Stuart with text and pictures. Inscribed on front cover by Jesse Stuart and notated toward the end of the book about his daughter's first novel. No date " There are but few individuals like jesse Stuart. Only most rarely does God raise up a down-to-earth person who through the inspiration of his writings lifts tp to heaven his fellow human beings, our friend jesse Stuart is possessed of this ability. John R.Gilpin This description is a bit much, but i would agree that he is a great writer. This is a fine homage to jesse Stuart. Very collectible. Signed by Author

Garden City, New York: doubleday and Company, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nelson Algren's story( probably from experience) with the junkie world. is fine + in VG jacket repaired on verso with tiny chips to spine ends and extremities. Jacket a bit soiled now protected in mylar. Jacket is unclipped ($3.00) A great copy of a historic book. Nelson Algren is the eloquent and compassionate voice fro the meek and the lowly, the lost and the domed of this earth, unchained by poverty, frustration and despair. The Man With the Golden Arm is considered to be Algren's finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefla's gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt cards as if he could talk to them and they could understand, Frankie was tough, but not tough enough to throw the 35 pound monkey that rode his back which was his way of saying that he couldn't stay too long away from the dope needle.… Read More

New York, New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. #607 of 975 printed. Fine copy of Lewis's discussion of John Dos Passos' work " Manhattan Transfer" Fine clean copy with cardboard boards and cloth spine and corners. Title label on front cover shows wear No jacket as issued.

About this Item: Scribner / Simon & Schuster, New York, 2017. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition/first printing book is very fine in a fine priced (28.00) dust jacket. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Jennifer Egan's first historical novel follows here protagonists into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers and union men. manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities o9f women and men, of America and the world, It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the great writers of our time. Book is SIGNED by the author on the firat free end paper. Very desirable and collectible. Signed by Author

About this Item: Harper, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing is near fine, and would be new if not for a split at the top of the spine. Die cut priced (52.95) dust jacket is fine with a very small rub at the top of the front cover. Book is unmarked and untouched internally.The Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his acclaimed award winning fiction. This is a shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, a true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces,Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. Manhood for Amateurs was destined and has become a classic. Book is in great condition and should be added to any fine library.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in fine condition with only a little residue 1/2"x1/2" on ffe from previous price sticker. jacket is NF-, price clipped and with small water marks and residue from price sticker on front of jacket.

London: Johnathan Cape, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is as new as is jacket. Unopened, unread and untouched internally.A flawless book and jacket. First British Edition.

About this Item: Knopf, New York, 1976. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED book is AS NEW in a very fine priced (12.50) dust jacket. Internally unmarked, except for the authors signature on the title page, and unopened. This is a wonderful collectible for any serious library. Her book is herself. it is, of course, about dancing. About loving to dance as a small child in Shanghai. About ballet classes and ballet teachers, about practice and rehearsal. About making her debut as a Snowflake, at fifteen with the emerging Sadler's Wells Company, under the demanding rule of the brilliant and volatile Ninette de Valois. About her almost magical early success dancing Giselle at seventeen, and Swan Lake at eighteen and at nineteen dancing Sleeping Beauty and the effects on a young girl of sudden stardom. About the hard work of overcoming her limitations and her weaknesses. Above all, her autobiography is a revelation of a direct, warm hearted person who… Read More

Chicago: Privately Printed , 1939. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Franklin Meine. A conversation as it was by the social fireside in the time of the Tudors. Embellished, with an illuminating introduction, facetious footnotes and a bibliography by Franklin Meine for the Mark Twain Society of Chicago. book is limited to 550 copies this is # 106. Very fine press book signed by Meine. Spine paper label shows minor chipping at extremities. Top and bottom edge trimmed, fore edge untrimmed. For the Twain collector.

About this Item: Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1976. Hardcover. Condition: AS New. Barbara Fox (illustrator). 1st Edition. NEW book is beautifully bound in green top grain leather with gilt blind stamps and gilt spine lettering and a silk page marker tipped in. Book has never been opened. The illustrations by Barbara Fox are very fine. Updike has called his novel Marry Me, a romance. It would seem, at first, an ironic description; the story takes place in a world ill designed for romance: the world of Greenwood, Connecticut, ringed by shopping malls, car pools, and the trappings of suburbia. Beautiful book, fine read in AS NEW condition and a fine addition to any library. Seller Inventory # 001774

U.S.A.: Bantam, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, First printing of one of the world's greatest crime/mystery writers finest book, The Matarese Countdown. This book has it all. treacherous international cabal of power brokers and their hired assassins, a CIA and KGB team join forces to make sure that the Matarese conspiracy goes u in flames. 20 years after the cabal is broken, the bad guys are back. Like all of Ludlum best books this one travels the globe and brings the reader along for the ride. This is a very fine reading copy.

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1989. Limited Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In a total edition of 925 copies, of which 820 are bound in stiff covers (this is one of the unnumbered 820). The paper used is Sommerville Laid, Hahnemuhle and Zerkall papers. The book is set in 12-point Monotype Caslon at The Fine Bindery. Book is mint, with dozens of fine etchings and wonderful photographs on photographic paper.Cover shows a very evocative and beautiful print of a woman in back and white. (see photos) laid in is prospectus of the new edition Matrix 10 (1990). A must collectible for those interested in both reference material and beautiful printing.

About this Item: Linden Press, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FINE first edition first printing in a very fine price (18.95) dust jacket." And to my dearly beloved and only son, Captain Adam Scott, I bequeath the enclosed envelope, which I can only hope will bring him grater happiness that it did me. Should he decide to open the envelope, it must be on the condition that he will never divulge its contents to any other living person." Not since John Buchan's The Thirty Nine Steps (1915) has an author so deftly pitted an innocent man against the overwhelming force of a malign enemy.

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Beautiful As New limited edition #31/100 bound and signed copy of Maxfield Parrish The poets early and new poems. Eileen Myles is and American poet, playwright, novelist and performance artist who has been described as one of the savviest intellects in contemporary literature. This finely crafted book contains over 100 wonderful poems. " There's a thing that keeps heaving. My whole consciousness likes to stay as close as possible to falling apart, but not letting it totally end. That's my pleasure" Eileen Myles- Book is wrapped in publishers Mylar. Limited and scarce. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001703

About this Item: HQN, Ontario Canada, 2008. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by author on bookplate on the half title page FIRST EDTIION/FIRST PRINTING New in fined priced (16.95) dust jacket. Celebrate the holidays McKettrick style in this enchanting tale of New York Times best selling author Linda Lael miller's most beloved family. This warm and exciting novel has romance, money, danger, all the good stuff, this is a wonderful read and a fine collectible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001487