Search Results: Titles starting with M from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Leipzig: Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1908. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in one: I. Text - II. Kommentar. The earliest work on astrology that is extensive, comprehensible, and mostly intact, Marcus Manilius' Astronomica (circa AD 30-40) describes celestial phenomena, and, in particular, the zodiac and astrology. Octavo: xi, 149, [3] p. + xvi, [1], 196 p. with 3 folding tables. Full blue cloth binding, with gilt-stamped leather spine labels. Previous owner's ink signature and date to the front flyleaf. The spine is toned, with some minor wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. Hardcover. Very good. A New Edition, with Eighty-Five Portraits. From the library of the Bohemian Club, with the bookplate of the elite, invitation-only San Francisco institution to the front pastedown and a printed label die cut in the shape of an owl at the spine heel. Above the bookplate is a handwritten note by Charles G. Yale, Librarian, describing how the book was deaccesioned and given to member Edward F. O'Day in exchange for another volume. Octavo: xv, 540 p. with 32 p. publisher's ads. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt and blind stamping. Light foxing to the endpapers, with some general dust staining to the top edge. The spine is ever so slightly sun faded, with a bit of minor wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Bucharest: Passport Levant, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies" (this copy is unnumbered). A somber chef-d'ouvre which defies any sort of categorization, written by an absolute master of style and aestheticism. Frontispiece painting by Boris Grigoriev. Oblong octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping, red endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text and Design by Alain Wienc. Photography by Marcel Veronese and Jean-Claude Peretz. This brilliant series of images, primarily nudes, tells the story of Zoe, a beautiful young girl who undergoes a transformation in the night. Folio. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few tape repairs to the spine head; otherwise very good.

New York and Denver: Z2 Comics, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by Duncan Jones to his godfather, Eric Idle, on a post-it note affixed to the front flyleaf. A thrilling graphic novel set in the near future, by film director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and writer Alex de Campi (Bad Karma, Blade Runner: Black Lotus), with original drawings by leading comics artists like Glenn Fabry, Simon Bisley, Duncan Fegredo, and Pia Guerra. Jones (b.1971) is the son of English singer-songwriter David Bowie and American model and actress Angie Bowie. Folio. Original pictorial boards. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Co, 1886. Pamphlet. Very good. This small four-panel brochure is signed on the rear panel by the author. Laid in is a brief holographic poem entitled "Tis All the Same" which is written on Lucas' letterhead and signed by him, as well as a heliotype portrait, presumably of the poet. Little is known of him, however, there is an Oliver Lucas of Louisville who was clerk in that city during this time period and is credited as the author in 1873 of the charter of the city of Louisville, also printed by Morton. Lucas is also credited as the author of amendments to the city charter in 1888. This small pamphlet is printed in brown ink on two sides of 8 ½" x 5 ½" cream lightweight card stock, which is folded in half. All in very good condition. OCLC locates no copies.

San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Volume 46. Octavo: 562 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Magnetic reconnection is at the core of many dynamic phenomena in the universe, such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms and tokamak disruptions. Written by two world leaders on the subject, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this fundamental process." Tall octavo: 600 p. with textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A crisp and clean copy with some mild bumping along the extremities. Near fine.

Heidelberg: Springer, 2010. Hardcover. Fine. Solar physics in India has a tradition that can be traced to the establishment of the Kodaikanal Observatory in 1899. This conference on magnetic coupling between the interior and the atmosphere of the Sun, held December 2-5, 2008, was planned to coincide with centenary of the Evershed effect discovery at Kodaikanal in 1909. The aim of this meeting was to bring to a critical focus a comprehensive understanding of the important issues pertaining to solar magnetism with particular emphasis on the various MHD processes that operate in the solar atmosphere. Octavo: 538 p. with numerous textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 1999. Hardcover. Fine. ...the first comprehensive review of magnetic helicity in laboratory plasmas, the Sun, interplanetary space, planetary dynamos, and astrophysical objects." Geophysical Monograph 111. Quarto: 304 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. ...provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of magnetic field line reconnection, now a major subject in plasma physics." Cambridge Monographs on Plasma Physics 3. Octavo: 387 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light bumping to the tips; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is Number 643 of 1,500 copies signed by Sandra Day O'Connor. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from the publisher. The first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, O'Connor (1930-2023) explores the law, her life on the bench, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Edited by Craig Joyce. Octavo. Full black leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. Very tiny bump to the fore-edge; else a fine copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Thomas Pinney on the title page. "Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some names - such as Mondavi and Gallo - will be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in Missouri and supplied rootstock to save French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal concept over wines with misleading names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school." Octavo: xviii, 318 p. with 36… Read More

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of separate uninational states did not result from the breakdown of the political or economic fabric of the Yugoslav state; rather, that breakdown itself sprang from the destruction of the concept of a Yugoslav nation. Had such a concept been retained, a collapse of political authority would have been followed by the eventual reconstitution of a Yugoslav state, as happened after World War II, rather than the creation of separate nation-states." Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Tiny remainder mark to the bottom edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006. Wraps. Fine. To admire the seductively brilliant works of Francois Boucher (1703-70), Denis Diderot decreed, was to be a stranger 'to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art.' Making Up the Rococo challenges the long-standing critical disregard for Boucher's oeuvre and for rococo aesthetics in general, offering an engaging analysis of the cultural and artistic implications of makeup and of making up social, gender, and painterly identities." Tall octavo: x, 255 p. with numerous illustrations (some color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled over the course of 31 years, this is as detailed and authoritative a zoological taxonomy as you can find, with the animals divided by genus, and profiled by size, weight, common and latin names, range, unique physical and biological attributes, and behavioral traits. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, two volumes. Black marker over previous owner's address on the front flyleaf in both volumes; otherwise a very good set, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, Number 461 of 900 copies signed by John Varley. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Additionally signed by illustrator Kent Bash. An eccentric megabillionaire commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in this rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology. Octavo. Full black leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. Numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1975. First edition, limited to 900 copies bound in wrappers (100 copies were also bound in boards). The descriptive catalogue of the 1975-76 exhibition of the Linton Massey's Faulkner collection in the University of Virginia Library. Signed by Crane at the end of the compiler's note. Original printed paper wrappers. The spine is a touch sun faded, with some general minor edgewear; otherwise very good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. The author's second novel. Thick octavo: 742 p. Original pictorial boards. Light bumping to the corners and tips, with some general shelfwear to the dust jacket; else very good. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. In a posting for his Eric Idle Online! blog concerning his December reading in 1998, Idle wrote: "Full with a vengeance. A very heavy book. I feel he is more of an essayist who writes novels. There is something utterly unconvincing in his yarns. This one he hooks you on the story and sort of abandons it. Just too damn long for his own good. Set in Atlanta about a real estate… Read More

London: John Murray, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The scene of this novel is laid chiefly in the country beyond the North-West Frontier of India, and tells of the experiences and adventures of a British Officer of an Indian Lancer Regiment (Napier's Horse), who, for what he considered good and sufficient reasons, turned Pathan, and lived with the Tribesmen as one of themselves." Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a bit of toning along the spine and folds; otherwise very good.