Search Results: Authors starting with M from Bensons Antiquarian Books

Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Hard back in good+ condition. Minor marking to covers, foxing to external page edges. Internally clean, binding is very good. 35 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Williams and Norgate, 1924. 1st Edition . Half-Leather. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Red leather spine with red cloth covers. Ex library, with Belfast Library in neat gilt at the base of the spine and number etched out at the top of the spine, smart looking early 20th century pictorial bookplate on the endpaper and very faint blindstamp (without ink) at the top corner of the title (no other markings). The hinges are good, the pages are browned, marking to the endpapers. A good reading copy. 256 pages, woodcut illustrations in the text. Includes; nucleus as the bearer of hereditary qualities, development of the germ into adult, inheritance of habits, inheritance of fluctuating variations, inheritance of mutations, inheritance of sex, causes of mutations.

Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Hard back in good+ condition. Minor marking to covers, small tear at top of spine, foxing to external page edges. A couple of spots of foxing internally, otherwise clean. Binding is very good. 35 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Scotland, 1960. Soft cover. Good. A staple-bound booklet in good+ condition. Minor rubbing and creasing to covers. A very few minor markings internally, otherwise clean. Binding is very good. 66 pages. No publishing date, circa 1960s. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Edinburgh: Paterson & Sons, 1891. Full-Leather. Good. Dark purple morocco leather, worn and chipped (with some leather loss) on the spine, front cover held by the strings- handle with a little care, wear around the board edges. Tidy internally, some toning, mostly minor marking. Pages; (4), 201, (1). This edition edition/copy bound without a frontispiece portrait. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Red buckram cloth spine with red cloth covers, the hinges are in good order. The text is complete, light stain to the bottom half of the fore-edge margin, some toning and a few marks to the title. 166 pages. Belfast library in neat gilt at the base of the spine and early 20th century pictorial bookplate on the floral endpaper, faint number at the top of the spine, neat blindstamp (without ink) at the top corner of the title, and faint number on the title reverse. The larger part of the book being on the subject of criminology, includes several pages on the mafia, a case of 'pure murder'.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1928. Cloth. Good. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling. In good condition. Darkening to spine, minor marking to covers. Browning to end papers, light foxing to page edges, otherwise clean internally. Binding is very good. 172 pages. Most of these essays originally appeared in the Saturday issues of the Brisbane Courier. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Blackie & Son. Cloth. Good. Arthur H. Buckland. Bound in pale orange cloth with purple titling. In good condition, an acceptable reading copy. Some marking and rubbing to covers, light foxing to external page edges. Free front end paper is missing, a few spots of foxing and minor markings internally, generally clean. Binding is good and secure. Smells slightly musty. 380 pages. No publishing date, circa mid 20th century. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Memoirs of MacDonell, trained at RAF Cranwell, before being posted to 64 Spitfire Squardon at Kenley, shot down and spent 4 years as a POW. 354 pages.

New York: Macfadden Book Company Inc., 1933. First Edition. . Cloth. Good. Hard back in good+ condition. Gilt is darkened on spine, minor discolouration to covers. Binding is sound, internally very clean apart from browning to end papers.Pages 1177 - 1556 of the Home health library, complete within itself. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Charles Knight, 1844. Cloth. Good. Complete in 2 volumes. Green cloth bindings, slightly later 19th century bindings retaining the publisher's original covers internally (Knights Weekly Volume). The cloth is rubbed, the inner hinges have loosened (loosened internally) and the text blocks loosening from the covers, volume 1 with repaired tear to the title page and the introduction page, with the repair covering but not obscuring the text on the intro page, margin repair to 42 in volume 2. Some toning and marking in places. Armorial bookplate and signature on the endpapers. Pages; 222/240, with ads. Historical novel by Scottish writer Charles Macfarlane 1799-1858. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Edinburgh: The Church of Scotland, 1943. Soft cover. Good. A slim staple-bound booklet in good condition. Light creasing to covers and pages, otherwise clean, binding is very good. 8 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titling. Neat rear spine edge repair, a couple of marks on the front cover. Front endpaper removed, browning to half-title page, otherwise clean internally, a bit overpulled in the centre. 303 pages. William Malcolm MacGregor 1861-1944 (Principal of Trinity College, Church of Scotland's College at the University of Glasgow). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Hutchinson. Cloth. Good. Bound in dark cloth with gilt titling. In good+ condition. Minor rubbing to covers, ink inscription on front end paper, slight browning to pages, otherwise clean. Binding is very good. 384 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: I.B.Tauris, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean- the jacket with minor signs of use. Clean internally- slight toning to the outer page edges, no inscriptions. 352 pages. A critical overview of the SAS from the Malayan emergency (1948) to the present day, preceded by 2 chapters on its origins in WW2, and general outline.

London: (printed in Glasgow by Edward Khull for) Longman., 1841. 1st Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pages; XV, (1), 292, (4), 16. Woodcut illustrations throughout. ?Dimensions; 230 by 145mm. Decorative dark green cloth, rebacked. Some fading and rubbing to the cloth, the hinges are in good order. The text is complete, tidy internally, light browning to the pages. Ex Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, their neat stamp on the title and at the top of page 1. First edition. William Mackenzie 1791-1868, surgeon-oculist to Queen Victoria, he raised opthalmic surgery to the place it is today.

Edinburgh: York House, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise. Clean internally, no previous owners inscriptions etc, slight toning to the outer page edges. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Blackie & Son, 1910. Cloth. Good. Bound in red cloth with illustrated front cover and spine. In good condition, an acceptable reading copy. Marking and rubbing to covers. Browning to end papers, inscription on front end paper, A few markings internally, none serious. Front hinge is cracked but secure, binding is otherwise good and secure. 96 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

London: Religious Track Society, 1888. Decorative Cloth. Good. Smart looking decorative light blue cloth, with bird (stork) decoration on the front cover, butterfly on grass on the rear cover. Light rubbing to the covers, the hinges are secure- inner front hinge pulled bit. Tidy internally, some toning, a few light marks on the title and elsewhere. Pictorial endpapers, frontispiece of an eagle, some other smart bird woodcuts in the text. Early inscription on the endpaper. Pages; 128 + 16 page publishers catalogue. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Londion: Hutchinson , 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with the dust jacket. The covers are in excellent condition, the jacket also clean with minor signs of wear. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Pages; XIV, 325. With 16 photographic illustrations on 4 sheets, 3 sheets of folding maps, + 10 maps in the text (1 double page), illustrations checked complete.