Search Results: Titles starting with M from EGR books

1st U.S. edition (first edition stated on copyright page) of his first novel. Very good (owner inscription on green pastedown); Hardcover spine is faded but still can be read; the DJ has chips to spine, edges, and tips. DJ has been repaired with tape along the edges, primarily on inside of DJ but also in one location on front of DJ and one location to outside back of DJ. DJ is somewhat browned. Internally, the pages are very clean. Very scarce with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, no further printings listed. Signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. on FFEP. Hardcover has some age toning/fading along board edges and spine. Small amount of tape residue to rear board where it came into contact with DJ tape repair. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has tape repair to rear panel tear in jacket - outside and inside. A few chips along edges and spine and wear to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Two volumes. Burgundy boards with gilt text and gilt top edge. Clean interior. Very light edgewear. Faint stain to upper board (near hinge) and spine of Volume 2. Large item. Additional postage may be necessary.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Very Good+. Limited Edition. 409pp. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy number 187. Bound in publisher's vellum with gilt lettering and floral design. Gilt textblock top. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Light soiling to boards. Binding is tight and square. Large book. Extra shipping may be required.

Hardcover. VG. First Edition, second printing; binding 'A' with Bowen-Merrill imprint on lower spine and comma in last line on copyright page to the right of "n' in Brooklyn. 8vo. 245 pp. 12 color plates as well as black & white illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with color plate affixed to front cover; gilt lettering and decoration. Light wear to extremities. Title page, dedication page, and table of contents have been repaired with tape (browning) visible. Owner inscription on title page in pen. The author dedicated this title to his second son, Robert, and it is generally thought that Rob, the novel's protagonist, was based on Robert Baum. A unique story by the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1867. 8vo. v,12pp. and Illustrations. Full leather with decorative stamped pattern to front and rear boards. Decorative endpapers. t.e.g. Shelf wear to extremities.. Light, scattered foxing. A beautiful binding. Maud Muller is a poem about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller. One day, while harvesting hay, she meets a judge from the local town. Each is smitten with the other. The judge thinks that he would like to be a local farmer married to Maud, while she thinks that she would like to be the wealthy judge's wife.
Neither voices these thoughts, however, and both the judge and the maiden move on. The judge marries a woman of wealth whose love for him is based on his riches. Maud Muller marries a young uneducated farmer. Throughout the rest of their lives, each remembers the day of their meeting and remorsefully reflects on what might have been.

This poem contains the well-known quotation: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It… Read More

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-/Good+. A scarce Civil War item. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black. Companion to Pauline of the Potomac (1862). Wesley Bradshaw was the pseudonym of author and publisher Charles Wesley Alexander (1837-1927). Irregular pagination, as published, pp. [2], 21-30, [31-32], 39-52, [53-54], 61-74, [75-76], 85-100; Frontispiece. Full-page woodcut illustrations included in the pagination. "A thrilling narrative of the adventures of Miss Pauline D'Estraye, a young and beautiful French lady, who, after performing the most heroic deeds in Virginia, in behalf of the Union, was sent officially to the Department of the Mississippi, where she rendered herself for ever famous by her conspicuous daring and bravery during the Vicksburg Campaign under Major-General U. S. Grant." Some page edges have short tears. Some staining and foxing. Pages 43-44 have a piece missing along the edge, about the size of a thumb (some text is missing). Some pages loosening,… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing (with full number line), hardcover. Quarter bound in green paper with silver titles, over black paper covered boards. 375 pages. Like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First US edition, first issue. Contains the suppressed story "The Cardboard Box" and six pages of ads to rear. With 25 illustrations and frontispiece. Slight spine lean. Tiny bump and cloth tear to bottom front tip and another bump to bottom front board edge near the bottom. Some spotting to rear board. Light, vertical line of fading to cloth to board. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Crack to rear gutter endpaper running about one fifth of the way down from top. Plate between between pages 148 and 149 detached but included (needs to be tipped in).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Four volumes. Translated from the French by P. Davall and dedicated to William Congreve. Scarce first British Edition. Bound in 3/4s calf with marbled boards. Five raised bands on spine. Gilt tooling to spine. Some rubbing to edges, spine, and tips. Ownership inscription of FFEP. Interiors are clean. Bindings are tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition; Very Good. Two volumes. Author's 1889 signed letter is tipped in at front. Fading and wear to spine. Both volumes are have clean interiors and are squarely and tightly bound.

Hardcover Condition: VG+. First Edition. Illustrated by eighteen steel portraits. Original green cloth with gilt design and lettering at front board, gilt lettering and design at spine. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Contents are clean, except for some light foxing to a few of the early pages. Square, tightly bound book.

Hardcover. VG-. Nouvellle Edition. Pages internally clean except for foxing to title page FFEPs and rear end papers.Marbled end papers. Edge wear. Tips rubbed. Writing on title page as well as stamp. Black stain to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine/Fine+. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing in as new, unread hardcover condition. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on the half title page. Unclipped dust jacket is Fine/Fine+ with light wrinkle on rear panel at top near the spine, otherwise As New. Original price of $20.00 intact on dust jacket.

Hardcover Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original blue cloth with gilt, Octavo. Interior clean and bright. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear to extremities and small, closed tear front panel at top near hinge. Acetate cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine/As new. Dust Jacket Condition: fine/As New. Patrick Benson (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 48pp., illustrated in color by Patrick Benson. Presents as new or almost as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing with full number line. Dust jacket is not clipped. Signed and inscribed by author on the title page to former colleagues from the law firm at which she had previously worked.Miracle Creek is an international bestseller and Edgar winner, named a "Best Book of the Year" by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus, and The Today Show, among others. Her novel also won the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics' Award, and the Pinckley Prize.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover is square and tight. Dust jacket is unclipped. No tears or chips. Light rubbing and small push to the top of the spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition and first First Printing with the full number line. One of the reported 3,000 first printing copies.

Condition. VG. Publishing Date Unknown. Gilt text block. Some rubbing to spine. The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit. Square and clean copy of this rare book.