Search Results: Titles starting with M from Collectible Books

1. Inscribed, dated 1991, and signed by three Makk family members on title page. 1st ed. 1986. Published by the Makk Studios, Honolulu, Hawaii. Brown cloth with gold letters and emblem on the front cover. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. 256pp. Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase with reproductions of paintings on front and back, and light wear on corners and spine ends. 195 full color paintings. 17 are double-page. Color photo of a serigraph by Eva Makk titled GOLDEN DAYS laid in.

1. Stated first edition. 1985. Little Brown and Company. Original $19.95 on front dj flap. Brown cloth with bright silver letters to spine and front cover emblem. Clean, bright, square, crisp and tight. Appears unread. Untorn dj is very lightly bumped and rubbed.

1. Stated first edition. As issued, dustjacket isbn: 0879234075; copyright page isbn: 0906293057. Well kept. Almost like new but for small penciled '6.50' on dj flap next to original publisher price of $12.95, small chip to bottom dj flap, and 3 small corner creases. Pages unread, clean, bright, and tight.

1. 1988 Institute for International Economics. First edition. Center crease along spine, re-glued center hinge crack, minor edgewear.

1. The March Of Empire Through Three Decades. Geo. Spaulding & Co., San Francisco. 1884 on the title page. Maroon cloth with black letters and designs on front and pressed designs on rear cover. Spine print absent. Floral endpapers. 189pp. 5x7 inches. Some bump, rub and soil to spine and covers. Penciled bookseller notations on the front flyleaf. Light foxing on the frontispiece, tissue guard and title page. Contains the memoirs of Mallie Stafford who went to California in 1854 and later to Colorado. Howes S874. Scarce.

1. 1898 on title page. First Edition. Lamson Wolffe and Company, Boston. No dust jacket. Red cloth, bright gilt lettering on front and spine. 8 x 5.5 inches, (xxix),294pp+5pp(ads). Profusely illustrated throughout with descriptive text, drawings and full-page plates. Title page and map frontis in orange and black ink. Pressed borders and emblem on back. Spine slightly sunned. Very attractive with only a hint of wear to cloth. Inside crisp, clean, bright and tight. Much on Cuban history, war, battles, customs, industry, weapons, and lifestyle. Records Flint's travels and life with the Cuban army during the late 1800s.

1. Softcover. About 400pp. 1st ed. 1969 History, industry and agriculture of this region. Field research conducted for US-AUD in 1966-67 for developing improved marketing systems. An amazingly detailed joint effort of Michigan State and SUDENE, the Northeast Brazil Economic Development Agency. Reports occupations, products and foods, illnesses, market changes and strategies, transportation, food preparation, consumption, housing, etc. Illustrated with maps, photos, charts and diagrams. Minor edge rubbing. Pages clean, bright and tight.

1. SIGNED in pen on the title page, ""J.C.Oates"". First trade edition 1986 published by Dutton. Blue and white cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 310 pages. Mylar protected, price-clipped dustjacket. Otherwise book and dj are like new.

1. On the title page, ""A Memoir Of The Life And Public Service Of Joseph E. Johnston, Quartermaster General Of The Army Of The United States, And General In The Army Of The Confederate States Of America. Edited By Bradley T. Johnson, Formerly A Soldier In The Army Of Northern Virginia. Baltimore: R. H. Woodward & Company. 1891"". Original dark brown cloth, generally rubbed. Gilt letters on front cover and black letters on spine. xii, frontis,1-362pp. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with tissued frontis and 11 full-page plates of portraits and war scenes. On the first blank endpaper, handwritten in pencil, ""B W Bossieux 322 So. 3rd St. Richmond Va"". Bradley Johnson Bossieux was named after the author and son of Captain Louis Francis Bossiex, who was a distinguished officer and citizen of Richmond, and managed the author's campaign for Congress. Sturdy copy, tightly bound, pages clean and unmarked.

1. Printed by John Wilson & Son, Boston, 1863. VG scarce hardcover with 71 pages. Presented to the Maine Historical Society from the Essex Institute. Ex-lib shows bookplate and stamps. Tissue covered frontis portrait. Pages clean and bright. Dark brown cloth with embossed line borders to boards, gold letters on front cover. Extremities rubbed, small chipping to spine. Overview: Born 1776, geneology, 17 siblings, boyhood farm life in Methuen (Now Lawrence Mass.?), Christian devotion, troubles & joys, Cambridge 1783, highest honors 1797, Life in Medford, teacher, lawyer 1804, 1807 marriage, judge, wife's death, 1810-1815 state senator, remarried 1819, 2nd wife death 1821, 1824 third marriage 3 sons-1 survives, associations, publications, Federalist, philanthropist, writings and views on slavery, secession, unitarianism, life in Salem, death at 84 in 1861.

1. Stated First Printing 1961. Spine of untorn dustjacket is sunned, with light tanning overall. Dj spine scratch archivally back taped. Endpapers tanned with bookplate on fep. Cloth edges also faded. Else book appears unread, clean, bright, and tight.

SIGNED and inscribed by Gloria Gage on the front endpaper. 1937 House of Field, NY. With Addenda by Gloria Gage. 255 pages. Dust Jacket is chipped and torn around the edges but does not affect text blurbs, title or ads on back panel. Blue cloth with white letters on spine and front cover. Gage served in the cabinets of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and was a significant figure in forming American financial institutions and banking laws as Secretary of the Treasury. Faint foxing on endpapers, else pages clean, bright and tight.

1. MEMORIES OF BUFFALO BILL BY HIS WIFE, IN COLLABORATION WITH COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER. D. Appleton & Co. New York London MCMXX.(1920) Frontis portrait photo of Colonel William F Cody. Ex-lib. Maroon cloth. 326 clean, bright and untorn pages. 8.25""; x 5.5"";. Hinges intact. Light spine and corner wear.

1. Mexico: Picturesque, Political and Progressive by Mary Elizabeth Blake and Margaret F. Sullivan. 1st ed. 1888. Published by Lee and Shepard. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 x 8 inches. 228pp + 6 ad pages. Some rubbing to cloth cloth, mostly to spine ends and corner tips. Front endpaper faintly & finely inscribed - Presented to Miss Ada W. Mead by Helen A. Dodge, July 1889. Pages clean and tight. Travel guide containing observations by two newspaper correspondents who visited Mexico.

1. NY, E.P. Dutton. Stated 1st edition, 1st printing. Well stored, unread, clean, bright and tight.

1. 1908 on title page. Published by Longmans Green and Company. No jacket. (ix)+363 pages. Very attractive green cloth with stamped line borders on covers, and bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Very light spotted foxing to endpapers. NO cracking, tears, pons, or marks.

1. Publisher's $21.99 price on the dustjacket. Signed bookplate pasted inside reads,""I hope this book proves a blessing in your life and that you will see miracles in 2006 Pat Robertson"". Not sure that these were issued with facsimile or genuine autographs.

1. DIFFERENT PUBLISHER! 1928. First American edition. Published by Payson & Clark Ltd. 331pp+1pp(printers note). 5.5 x 7 inches. Green cloth with black letters to spine and cover. No dust jacket. Map frontis. Very light rub to spine ends and corner tips. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked.

1. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Elijah Jacobs on fep. Missouri Writers: a Literary History of Missouri, 1780-1955. By Jacobs & Wolverton. State Publishing. 356pp. 1955. 1st ed. Green cloth. Lightly rubbed edges; no fraying. Dull gilt to spine & front cover. Photo frontis of Gari Melcher's mural showing Mark Twain in steamboat pilot house. Pages clean, bright and tight. Includes bibliography & index. "";This survey, the most comprehensive yet published, covers frontier literature, fiction, poetry, literature of the Civil War, history, and biography. A 'List of Professional Missouri Writers' includes living (1955) Missouri authors and the city with which they are most closely associated.""; . . Insured.

1. NOT Kentucky Culture Series. By A. H. Carrier, Cincinnati: W. A. Clarke, 1858. 516 pages. Illustrated hardcover. 8 x 5 inches, blind and gilt stamped black cloth. (MA)Fitchburg Historical Society bookplate on pastedown, corners rubbed, faded gilt lettering on the spine. Very good, clean, bright and tight. Presents a biography of Henry Clay, his most important speeches, and memorial eulogies. Very comprehensive in small print.