Search Results: Titles starting with M from Argonaut Book Shop

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1974 Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau. Illustrations by Sigmund Abeles. Purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Abeles, Sigmund.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1979 First American edition. Quarto. Illustrated with more than 350 color and black & white photographs, drawings, and paintings. White cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. A fine copy with lightly faded pictorial dust jacket. Margot Fonteyn shares her personal vision of the history of dance. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920 Later printing. Presentation, signed by the author. Small octavo. [8], 451pp. Blue cloth. Minor wear to spine ends, spine and covers slightly faded, else fine. Famous satirical novel of small-town America..

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1975 First edition. 4to. Illustrated with drawings by Eileen Kramer. Red cloth. Very light chipping to the spine-head of dust jacket. A fine copy..

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1976 Quarto. 225pp. Index. Illustrated with more than 150 black & white photographs, 48 scaled plans and diagrams, and 32 color plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy in lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Complete instructions and scaled plans are provided for building twelve minature rooms, vignettes, cycloramas, and dioramas, as well as their furnishings: an Art Deco clubroom, an Art Nouveau bedroom, a private theatre, a turn-of-the century garden party, an antebellum parlor, and a 1930's drugstore are just a few of the projects with illustrated directions. .

New York: American Heritage, 1985 Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white plates. Bibliography, notes, index. Two-toned cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor foxing beginning to form on covers, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket..

San Francisco: Don't Call It Frisco Press, 1987 First edition. SIGNED by the author. Very scarce. With an introduction by Herb Caen. Oblong octavo. xiv, [2], 197pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, Bibliography and index. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Spine a bit faded. A fine copy. An illustrated history of Golden Gate Park, from just after the 1906 fire and earthquake to the period just following World War II. Covers the recovery period, politics, monument problems, the Park bums, "sports stadium mania," the Depression years, the War years, etc. The author was an authority on the subject. This companion volume to the author's earlier work (The Early Years: 1865-1906) is far more scarce than the first volume..

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928 First edition. 391pp. Frontis portrait, 32 illustrations and facsimiles. Bibliography, index. Dark green cloth, gilt. Light wear to foot of spine and lower corners, damp stain to gutter of last ten leaves. A very good copy with worn and soiled pictorial dust jacket. An accurate biography of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a legend in his own lifetime: Pony Express Rider, Military Scout, Buffalo Hunter, Indian Fighter, Congressional Medal Of Honor Recipient, the Duel with Yellow Hand, Wild West Show Promoter, and his association with the likes of General George Armstrong Custer, Doc Carver, Calamity Jane, Captain Jack Crawford, "Wild Bill" Hickok, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, Major John Burke, etc..

San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1960 First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Quarto. 96pp. Frontis map, 18 plates (2 colored), 2 folding tables. Gilt-lettered and decorated tan cloth. Very minor dmap stain to extreme bottom of front board, slight bubbling to cloth at upper front corner. Overall, a fine copy. Alejandro Malaspina's expedition was scientific in nature and the September, 1791 visit to California resulted in one of the earliest and best descriptions of the province's settlements. John Green, a member of the crew, was the first American known to have landed in California. The work is illustrated with contemporary sketches, including four previously unpublished full-color drawings of birds by Jose Cardero. [Rocq: 5494]..

San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1927 First edition. 406pp. Tinted frontis portrait, 19 plates, 2 tipped-in color illustrations. Index. Green cloth, gilt. Minor damp stain to foot of spine, light offsetting to front endpaper. A near fine copy. Biography of Frémont, based on original source material supplied by Wagner; Bashford did the actual writing. The included illustrations are from old photographs, prints and portraits; the two color illustrations are after paintings. Signature on inner cover of Helen Weber Kennedy, direct descendant of Captain Weber, founder of Stockton, California..

San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1927 First edition. 406pp. Tinted frontis portrait, 19 plates, 2 tipped-in color illustrations. Index. Green cloth, gilt. Slight rubbing to edges and corners, light offsetting to front endpaper. A very good copy. Biography of Frémont, based on original source material supplied by Wagner; Bashford did the actual writing. The included illustrations are from old photographs, prints and portraits; the two color illustrations are after paintings..

New York: Pantheon Books, 1969 First American edition. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. Blue cloth-backed boards. Top corners slightly bumped, slight fading along extreme edges of covers, spine a bit cocked. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Part of the Martin Beck series of crime novels..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1962 Illustrated by Charles Mozley. Introduced by Lewis Casson. Marbled boards with maroon cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Spine faded with a few minor scuff marks. A fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase has a special pocket which houses "The Revolutionist's Handbook & Pocket Companion," a small red paperback "written" by John Tanner (the central character of the play). Slipcase is faded with a bit of wear and a small crack near the special pocket. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Mozley, Charles.

Spokane, Washington: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005 First edition. 303pp. Illustrated with photographs, prints and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Harry Love was an army courier and an express rider in Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico during and after the Mexican War, and was a popular and well-known figure. He arrived in California in 1850, during the Gold Rush and eventually joined the California Rangers. In 1853, the renowned bandit Murrieta met his fate at the hand of Love and his Rangers..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964 Introduction by Evelyn Waugh. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. Tan cloth, decorated in red and lettered in gilt. Minor scuffing to spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Mozley, Charles.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, 1958 Quarto. 250pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author. Dark green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Light foxing to edges and forst few pages, else a fine copy. .

New York: The New York Public Library, 1931 First separate edition, first appearing in various issues of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1930. Small quarto. 128pp. plus 2 photographic plates. Indexes. Tan wrappers printed in black. A very fine copy. Extremely comprehensive, this fine cartobibliography lists maps of Manhattan from c.1600 to 1930. Each of the nearly 2000 entries lists title, size, scale, bibliographic entry for the particular map, and institutional holdings. Includes holdings from the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, the Library of Congress, and various other New York city agencies. Includes an index of cartographers, engravers, printers, publishers, etc. as well as an index of subjects. A useful reference..

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970 First edition. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A biography of Mannie Lowenstein, accounting his experiences, family and friends of early-day Los Angeles..

Honolulu: Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange, 1928 Compiled and Edited by Rolla K. Thomas. Small quarto (10¼x7 inches). 158pp. Stiff gray wrappers printed in black. Index. Wrappers soiled, fore-edge of front wrapper slightly curled. A nice copy, internally fine and clean throughout. Manual for the year. Covers everything. Balance sheets, profits, dividends, surplus and market values, sugar quotations and fluctuations, etc. Sections include General Information (world sugar data, Hawaiian crops, beet sugar production, tariff information, pineapple production, etc.); Sugar Corporations (officers and complete statistics on Hawaiian sugar plantations); Miscellaneous Corporations (including sugar agencies, public utilities, oil companies, pineapple companies, rubber companies, etc.); Bonds (listed on the Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange); Range of prices (on the Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange for 1925, 1926, and 1927, with Record of Commission Rates)..

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1983 First edition. With photographic illustrations; index. Very minor ding to edge of front cover (also resulting in a tiny tear to dust jacket at same spot). Otherwise a fine copy in blue cloth. .