Search Results: Titles starting with M from Backstory Books & Yarn, CBA

Very good hardcover with very good price-clipped dust jacket, in mylar. Bookplate on front end paper, front right corner slightly bumped, other corners are sharp. Binding is tight and there is little sign of wear or age.Payne, Robert. Marx: a biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968, 582 pp., appendices, index, illustrated. Stated First Printing.

Coulson, Thomas. Mata Hari: courtesan and spy. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, reprint edition, 312 pp., illus with two black and white photographs.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine. The top edge of the text block is black. The bottom rear corner is bumped. The binding is tight and there are no marks. The dust jacket is in good plus condition. There is some wear to the edges.

This is a very good condition paperback book. There is shelf wear including corner bumping that keeps this from being in fine condition. The text is clean and looks unread.
McDermott, Philip. Migrant languages in the public space: a case study from Northern Ireland. Zurich/Berlin: LIT Verlag, undated but probably 2007, 305 pp., maps, tables, bibliography, index.

This is a very good hardcover book, signed and inscribed by the author. It is showing its age with some shelf wear, but the corners are still sharp and it is tightly bound. The dust jacket is in very good minus condition with some wear around the edges. Inside back cover of the jacket contains some choice excerpts of letters to the author in lieu of reviews. A one of a kind effort.Paul, Wolfgang. Mining lore: An illustrated composition and documentary compilation with emphasis on the spirit and history of mining. Portland: Morris Printing Co., 1970, first edition: memorial edition, 940 pp., appendices, index of names, illustrated throughout.

Gilmore, H.H. Model planes for beginners. New York: Harper & Row, [1964] F-O print, 1959, new edition. 96 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hard cover bound in blue cloth with very good price clipped dust jacket, protected by mylar. Bright clean copy.

This is a pocket paperback book, in very good minus condition. It has a slightly bent front cover with a little tear and a previous bookstore stamp on the first page. The spine is not creased and it looks unread, with unmarked text. The vintage cover is quite charming.
Moravia, Alberto. More Roman tales. New York: Signet/New American Library, first Signet printing 1965, 190 pp. Selected and translated by Angus Davidson

This is a fine condition, first edition, hardcover book with a fine dust jacket with mylar protective covering. All inserts are present, corners are sharp.
Bantock, Nick. The Morning star: in which the extraordinary correspondence of Griffin and Sabine is illuminated. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003, unpaginated.

The Mountaineer Volume XII, December, 1919. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1919. 86 pp., and 5 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs. Good periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Paper cover has completely detached from pages. Titles printed on cover. Title and date handwritten on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight.

The Mountaineer Volume VI, 1913. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1913. 87 pp., and 7 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs. Very good periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Titles printed on cover. Title and date handwritten on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight. This is a fresh, bright copy. Retains the tissue for the first illustration, Chas. Albertson's photograph of Mount Olympus.

The Mountaineer Volume XVII, number one, December 15, 1924. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1924. 91 pp., and 7 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs throughout. Very good minus periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Staples show signs of rust, starting to transfer to inside covers. Titles printed on cover and spine. This journal is in fantastic condition for its age, but for a handful of pages near the end with one inch nicks near the upper gutter. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight.The late Colonel H. Appleton illustrates his own essay on the history of climbing in the Himalayas.

The Mountaineer Volume X, December, 1917. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1917. 106 pp., and 4 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs. Very good periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Titles printed on cover. Title and date handwritten on spine. Cover has a scratch on the rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight. This is a bright, clean copy.

The Mountaineer Volume XIII, November, 1920. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1920. 97 pp., and 6 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs, illustrations, including map of 1920 Mountaineers Olympic Outing. Missing separate map of Snoqualmie Lodge Distric.Very good periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Staples starting to show signs of rust. Titles printed on cover. Handwritten title and date on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight.

The Mountaineer Volume VIII, December, 1915. Seattle: The Mountaineers Incorporated, 1915. 118 pp., and 2 pp. of ads in rear. Black and white photographs. Very good periodical bound in brown paper wraps glued over stapled pages. Titles printed on cover. Title and date handwritten on spine. Cover has some general wear. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight.

This is a very good hardcover copy with no significant signs of wear. It is tightly bound with no marks.Loy, Gareth. Musimathics Vol. 1: The mathematical foundations of music. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006, first edition, 482 pp., appendices, indices, glossary, notes, references.

Spoerri, Daniel. Mythology and meatballs: a Greek island diary / cookbook. Berkeley: Aris Books, first paperback printing, 1982, 238 pp. Translated by Emmett Williams; Introduction by L. John Harris; Illustrated by Jeanne Jambu.Very good paperback copy. Binding is tight, no writing in text. There are no significant signs of wear.