Search Results: Titles starting with M from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Cobham, UK: TAJ Books, 2003. Hardcover. Square folio. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 96pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this slim but large study of the bafflingly brilliant work of this Dutch graphic artist.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Teal green cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 404pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of this medical novel "about doctors: what they do to each other and to their patients. Delightful bodice-ripping stye tawdry jacket art, though no heaving bosoms are evident.

Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and brown patterned paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 60pp. Numerous maps and floorplans (some foldout), illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket rather worn, with couple of edge chips and archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. First separate printing of this fascinating archeological report, which first appeared under the title "The Archaeological Survey of Masada, 1955-1956" in "The Israel Exploration Journal" (Vol. 7, No. 1). Tight and attractive.

N.p.: Military History Quarterly, 1989. Hardcover. 4to. Black paper over boards with color plate. 128pp. Numerous illustrations and maps (many color). Near fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 228pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition.

New York: Orion Books, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with white lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 216pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Perfectly pristine and tight first edition.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial stamped tin. 216pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Covers bright and handsome, with spine rusted to appearance of brown velvet. Attractive first edition of this famed exhibition catalogue.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Hardcover. Translation by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with red metallic lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket.211pp. Near fine/near fine. Small red inkstamp on bottom page edges. Tight and handsome first American edition of this Puerto Rican fiction.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. ix, 370pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good., Mild edgewear; contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, clean, nice reprint of the 1930 Farrar & Rinehart text.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 298pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, clean, nice first edition of this bizarre travelogue: Saith the front wrapper, "A 47,000-Hour Dashboard Adventure -- From Paradise, California, to Royal, Arkansas, and Up the New Jersey Turnpike." On the front flyleaf, co-author Lane boldly inscribes and signs in black marker ("Meet me at the Truck stop. / Michael Monk"), and below this co-author Crotty also inscribes and signs in black marker ("What a Great Night. / Let's Do it Again. / Jim the Mad Monk").

Lexington: Buggy Whip Press, 1983. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 193pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Slight jacket wear. A tight and handsome first edition of this biography of the colorful Kentucky child of a prostitute who continued the family tradition, becoming proprietor of one of the most well-known brothels in the south. Signed and inscribed large and bold by the author in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "To Scoop Riddell / Nov 20, 1983 / Buddy Thompson." Laid in is one of author Buddy Thompson's business cards (bright red with gilt lettering, of course!), a bookmark specific to this book with artist's depiction of Belle Brezing's famed house, and a "Lexington Courier-Journal" 1984 lengthy review of this book.

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1991. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. 79pp. Color illustrations. Fine. Name/address of noted antiques publication lightly inkstamped on inside front and rear wrappers.

New York: Pocket Books, n.y.. Hardcover. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. 16mo. Green leatherette spine with gilt lettering and decorations and green decorated paper over boards. 370pp, (7pp). Matching decorative endpapers. Near fine. Small ownership signature on half-title page. Wonderfully tight and handsome edition, a volume in the "Collector's Editions" imprint that Pocket Books marketed as "Fine Books for Everyman-With-A-Dollar" -- and with the small 4pp leaflet for this series laid in. Undated, but circa 1950s.

Avon, CT: The Heritage Press, 1950. Hardcover. Translation and introduction by J. Lewis May. Illustrations by Pierre Brissaud. Small 4to. Quarter lavender cloth with gilt lettering and patterned paper over boards, slipcase. x, 348pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustations. Near fine/very good. Book spine and slipcase lightly sunned. Tight, handsome later trade edition of the 1950 Limited Editions Club edition (their second version of the 1857 classic, the first being 1938). Appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in.

Chicago: Bonus Books, 1991. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 350pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First paperback edition, inscribed nicely by the author on the half-title page: "To Helen -- / A very good friend / of many, many years / now. I hope you enjoy / reading my book! / Best wishes always, / Victoria / Houseman / September, " Apparently not THAT good a friend.

New York: Viking Press, 1961. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with black spine lettering and pictorial stamping. 56pp. Numerous color illustrations, color pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild binding wear and faint cup circle to front board. A tight and decent first edition of Bemelmans' fifth and final title in this series before his death at age 64 in 1962, though two titles were released decades later. Only flaw would be the original toddler-owner's enthusiasm for the subject, expressed in the form of extra-illustrations (i.e., scribbling) in purple crayon on pages 54-55. From the library of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (b. 1930) of Illinois.

N.p.: The Pierre Louys Society, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrations by Clara Tice. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and gold/purple decorated paper over boards. 407pp. Color frontispiece, 11 full-page partly-color illustrations. decorative endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear. Lovely and tight illustrated edition of Gautier's racy 1835 romance, with colophon at fron noting 1250 numbered copies (this #228).

London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Translation by Oliver Coburn. Illustrations by Jacques Roubille. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 150pp. Numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. First English-language edition, tight and attractive. True tales of daredevils attempting to cross the Atlantic "alone or with one companion, by sail, by motor-boat, even by kayak and rowing-boat!"

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 167pp. Numerous music notations. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this uncommon title. From the collection of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94), with his flamboyant full ownership signature in blue ballpoint (dated "New York City / 7 December 1975") on the front flyleaf.

New York: Pyramid Publications, 1975. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff black and white pictorial wrappers. 159pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor staining on front and rear covers; pages slightly buckled. Ownership signature of George Eells. First edition, from the "Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies" series. Ownership signature of West biographer George Eells on the half-title page.