Search Results: Titles starting with M from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg and Texas Tech University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 285 pages. 9-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Later printing. Pamphlet. Near fine. The legendary guide to M16 rifle maintenance published during the Vietnam War and designed and illustrated by cartoonist Will Eisner as part of his work on the Army's Preventive Maintenance Monthly comics magazine. 32 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. DA Pam 750-30, 1 July 1969. First issued in June 1968. Minor scuffing to the covers, else a fine copy.

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The catalogue for a fascinating show of Avedon's fashion photographs made in the 1950s for Harper's Bazaar magazine. These are working photographs, with Avedon's and the editorial department's notations on the front and back, here reproduced in full-size facsimile. Published in an edition of 5000 copies. With an essay by Judith Thurman; thumbnails of the magazine showing how the photographs appeared in print, and a one-page afterword by Avedon. [56] pages. 11 by 14-3/4 inches. First edition (one of 5000 copies). Tiny ding to lower front corner, else fine. No jacket, as issued. With two price sheets from the show (with prices for five images) laid in.

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Lynd Ward's second wordless novel; this being one of 309 copies printed from the original wood blocks (essentially, this is a bound volume of 128 original wood engravings by Lynd Ward). Like Ward's other proto-graphic novels, he explores social-realist themes here, incorporating that with tropes from 19th century horror novels. The story begins with a white slave trader killing an African in order to steal his drum. The enslaver returns home to great prosperity, but gradually the curse of the drum takes hold and the characters become dissolute, die, are hanged, and are forced into prostitution. One even becomes a writer (the horror!). The story is anachronistic, seemingly set during the slave trading era, but with Communists and large telescope observatories. 132 leaves, including two blanks (260 printed pages, with all the wood engravings printed on only the front (recto) of the sheets. First edition (first… Read More

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Four non-fiction pieces: "Madonna at Ringside", an account of an evening Crews spent with Madonna and Sean Penn at the Trump Hotel to watch the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks fight; "Fathers, Sons, Blood", a meditation on fatherhood and Crews's son's death by drowning; "Knowledge and the Language of the Groin", thoughts on the male sex urge; "Carny", about carnival people. 65 pages. Published in an edition of 301 copies plus extras for the participants. This is one of 275 numbered copies, signed by Crews. A fine copy in a plum-red cloth binding. Signed by Crews on the half-title page, as issued.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Four non-fiction pieces: "Madonna at Ringside", an account of an evening Crews spent with Madonna and Sean Penn at the Trump Hotel to watch the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks fight; "Fathers, Sons, Blood", a meditation on fatherhood and Crews's son's death by drowning; "Knowledge and the Language of the Groin", thoughts on the male sex urge; "Carny", about carnival people. 65 pages. Published in an edition of 301 copies plus extras for the participants. This is one of 26 lettered copies, bound in quarter-leather, and signed by Crews. A fine copy. Signed by Crews on the half-title page, as issued. Copy B of 26.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 182 pages. A Double D western. Lansdale's first hardcover book and something of a cult classic. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A terrific copy, inscribed to Lansdale's friend and fellow Texas writer, Neal Barrett Jr. "For Neal, a real writer, from Joe, the toy writer. Jose R. Lansdale." With a review slip laid in and a custom green slipcase for protection. This copy came from the collection of the late Tom Garner, to whom Barrett's Interstate Dreams is dedicated. Garner was a friend of both authors.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. 411 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 1000 signed, numbered copies. 411 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a fine slipcase. No. 651 of 1000 signed by Little.

Portland, OR: Palmer Printing, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A genealogy, dating back to the 18th century, of the Malcom family of Philadelphia and the Cox family of New Jersey. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of documents. 166 pages. One of 150 copies printed. First edition. A fine copy in green cloth (no dust jacket, as issued). This is copy 107 of 150.

Kyle, TX: Insidious Productions, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. 97 pages. Illustrated by Tom Moran and Zach McCain. A horror novella, published in an edition of 100 copies. Softcover Novella Series no. 1. The author's first book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback), with a touch of wear at the edges. One of 100 signed and numbered copies.

New York: Carnival Books / Hanro Corporation, 1955. Trade paperback. Very good. No. 949. A large-size pulp novel (5-3/8 by 7-1/4 inches). 129 pages. Originally published as Pleasure Bound. Second edition (stated). Near fine in wrappers.

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine/fine. A novel, in French. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback) in a fine dust jacket. This copy is nicely inscribed to the writer and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. On the final blank, Gould has noted two page numbers in pencil, his practice for annotating books.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 196 pages. One of 510 numbered copies signed by Fowles on a limitation page. First US edition. This is number 61 of 510 signed and numbered copies. Spine a touch faded; light scuffing to slipcase.

London: J. And A. Churchill, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With dozens of text figures and 11 plates. vii, 200, 40 (ads) pages. First edition. One gathering loose, else near fine.

Paris: A. Delahaye & E. Lecrosnier and Alexandre Coccoz, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Deuxième édition, revue et augmentée (Second ediiton, revised and expanded). 477 pages. With 177 figures in the text. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Generally very good. Corners worn.

Ottawa: National Galley of Canada / Yale University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated with 64 full-page, full-color plates of often beautiful scenes of environmental destruction. 11 by 13 inches. 160 pages. With several introductory essays and an interview with the photographer. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase of wine at half price from L. Wolfskill (probably Luis Wolfskil, the son of wine industry pioneer William Wolfskil), which the writer expects to ship to New York at a substantial profit. The second paragraph expresses surprise at the "sheep account," and values the partners' flocks at $18,000. The letter concludes with the observation, "I see with pleasure that Green Backs are $6 odd, that ought to help us." Somewhat fragile with old folds, about very good.

London: Gollancz, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel about military contractors set in the future. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2008. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. Fine. 245 pages. An early, unfinished novel by Bradbury, with related short stories. An uncommon advance copy, in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Signed by Bradbury on the title page.