Search Results: Authors starting with M from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Simon & Schuster, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 4to, 78 pages, clothbacked boards Illustrated. "It is impossible in one lifetime to exhaust the possibilities of ornamental turnery, with its limitless scope for the artist, thje designer, and the technician - Foreword."

Tom Doherty, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 366 pages, cloth, inked initials on endpaper Signed and dated by Robinson on the title-page.

William Morrow, ( 2005 ). First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, clothbacked boards, short ink underline beneath the copyright date, remainder mark on bottom edge."Respected professor and noted author Jack Owens brought his son, Danny, to Gilbert, Inidana, to escape a past and a betrayal too painful to endure elsewhere."

Atheneum, 1994. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 12mo, 215 pages Inscribed to Evelyn on the endpaper.

Austin, TX: Eakin Pr, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 306 pages, cloth. An artillery captain's personal war. "At age 23 Richard Hardison was one of the 'older' captains in the 399th Armored Field Artillery Battalion during World War II [ in Europe]." Maps.

Winona Lake, IN: Winona Lake Christian Assembly, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo, 55 pages, clothbacked pictorial boards Mrs. Sunday's recollections of her courtship, marriage, and life with her famous husband, Billy. Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player before he became a world-famous evangelist. Laid in is a postcard of Ma Sunday. She continued evangelizing after Billy's death. Photogravures.

Chicago: Shop of P.F. Volland & Co., ( 1914). Second edition. Hardcover. Fair. Bonnibel Butler. 8vo, unpaginated, pictorial boards, inscribed at Christmas in 1915. rebacked with masking tape. Pencilled drawings, mostly of aircraft, added by a youthful hand. Variations on traditional people and tales. One of very few books illustrated by Bonnibel Butler. Early Volland children's. "Captain Kidd was a pirate wild / Who respected neither baby nor child. / Bitter and fierce, with his heartless crew, / He harried the nursery and garden, too. / He forced the dollies to walk the plank, / And he laughed 'Ha ! Ha !' as the poor things sank; / but his wild career came to sudden rest / When he ransacked his Mamma's silver-chest."

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 52 pages, cloth, bookplate American Poet Laureate's thoughts on the controversy over the award of the Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound

New York: McGraw-Hill, ( 1964 ). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped dj. 8vo, 438 pages, dark blue cloth; edgeworn dj

Belgrade,: Slavic Press, July 12, 1932. First edition. Approximately 5 x 7 inches. Rubber-stamped on verso for the Slavic Press.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/price-clipped dj. Folio, 78 pages, x-library with discreet call number on spine, rear pocket removed Macaulay illustrates and relates his imaginary process of demolishing, deconstructing New York City's classic Empire State Building. He describes how it is coordinated, the trades people involved, and what happens to the detritus, and how its footprint is re-purposed. Signed on the title-page by Macaulay in 1992 to "Readers at Hubbard Woods".

London: William Collins, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 47 pages, pictorial red boards and dj, chipped at tips. Issued in the Britain in Pictures series. With 8 colour plates, and 26 illustrations in black & white.

University of Toronto Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Octavo, xvi, [ii], 209 pages, cloth Advance Review Copy with slip. An intriguing book. The chapter covered on pages 132-161 is an incisive exploration of " Four Quartets " by T. S. Eliot. It is followed by a retrospective look at Toronto Canada's painting movement, The Group of Seven. Other essays on imitation, and design by this professor of philosophy.

New York: Jacobsen Publishing, ( 1925 ). Popular edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 12mo, 269 pages, tawny cloth, clipping burn on front flyleaves. Scarce thus. Victor MacClure is reportedly the pen name of Thom MacWalter. The S-F Encyclopedia reports that MacWalter's only novel is THE ARK OF THE COVENANT ( 1924 ). WorldCat credits MacClure with other fiction and non-fiction. He also appears to have drawn the art work for this dust jacket in 1925. This first appeared in England as THE BOOST OF THE GOLDEN SNAIL, the published in Indianapolis as THE GOLDEN SNAIL. This appears here as The Modern Reprint Library series, which featured authors such as Ronald Knox, C. S. Forester, Anthony Berkeley, and de Vere Stacpoole.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, ( 1964 ). First edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo, pink wrappers, cocked, one tip worn The second Travis McGee case. No. K1406

Boston: Lothrop, ( 1891 ). First American Edition. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo, viii - 634 pages, decorated dark blue cloth, lacks pages i-ii (the title-page) and the free endpaper. Offered strictly "as is". Scarce. First published at Londin as a triple-decker, [ Jordan p. 141]. Curiously, this title is lacking in Sadleir's 19TH CENTURY FICTION.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, ( 1966 ). First edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo, yellow wrappers, cocked, one tip worn The eighth Travis McGee case. No. T2135

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, (1952). Gold Medal. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo, bumped wrappers One of MacDonald's two sci-fi novels. Gold Medal R1993

Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, 79 pages , clothbacked boards, inked ownership note MacDonald was a professor of English literature at the University of Wyoming - Laramie, then "the highest institution of learningin the world", being at an elevation of 7500 feet. She represented Wyoming at the World's Columbian Exposition, where she delivered a talk at the Woman's pavilion, "LIterature for the Young". Here, after a printing of Browning's poem, follows her explication of the poem, including, as a finale, "Browning's Creed, As Suggested By His Poetry".

Fairfield, Washington, U.S.A.: Ye Galleon Press, 1973. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Issued Without Dj. Octavo, 23 pages, green cloth. This edition is limited to 210 numbered copies. Zero known copies of the first edition. All know prior editions appeared in the 18th century. Great addition to a collection on Indian Captivities. These two claimed to have been captured by the Chikkemoggas in the Ohio River Valley, and that they eventually escaped by fleeing up Lake Michigan, and then westward by water to the Pacific coast !