Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1923 (German language), Band 38 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 11 pages text. Very Good copy, 1/2 inch closed tear at bottom of spine. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Gustave Franciscus De Smet (21 January 1877 – 8 October 1943) was a Belgian painter. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish… Read More

Grove Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2020, signed by Helen Macdonald on designated signature page ("This First Edition of Vesper Flights has been signed for you by the author"). Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 261, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with white titling on spine, pictorial jacket with bird in flight. In Fine/Fine Condition: unread, bright cover, jacket has minimal wear (light bruising) at spine bottom. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us (Courtesy GoodReads). Named a Best Book of the Summer 2020 by… Read More

Grove Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2020, SIGNED by Helen Macdonald on bookplate. Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 261, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with white titling on spine, pictorial jacket with bird in flight. New. Fine in Fine Condition: unread, bright cover, jacket has minimal edge wear. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us (Courtesy GoodReads). Named a Best Book of the Summer 2020 by Entertainment Weekly, TIME, and Literary Hub.

Lord John Press, Northridge CA, 1992, First and Limited Edition, J of the lettered edition of 26 Signed by the author. Hardcover issued without jacker, pp. 28, 19 x 14 cm, bound in full leather binding (black morocco), with gilt "NM" lettering on cover, printed on (cream colour) Curtis Flax Text paper with Palatino type. In Fine Condition, shows exceptionally well. A beautiful book, designed by Susan Flake, printed by Page Printing Services, binding by Marianna Blau.

Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1990, hardcover in card slipcase, pp. 166, 29+ cm tall, 22+ cm across, ribbon marker, black cloth with gold-stamped titles and glossy illustration mounted on front board, full of colour color plates of lacquer painting produced at Fedoskino. Fine in a Very Good card slipcase - test and illustrations are sharp, book corners are sharp, slipcase has crease on spine. Fedoskino miniature (Russian: федоскинская миниатюра) is a traditional Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache, named after its original center Fedoskino (Федоскино), an old village near Moscow widely known from the late 18th century. The contemporary Fedoskino painting preserves the typical features of Russian folk art. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1921 (German language), Band 28 (first edition), pictorial stiff card boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 21 x 15 cm, colour frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 15 pages text. Near Fine Condition, shows very well, pages clean, binding firm, light rubbing to label, cockling of pages at spine (typical for series), minimal board curl. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Lodewijk Schelfhout (1881-1943) was a Dutch… Read More

Random House, New York, 2000, First Edition (later printing), boldly Signed by author. Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 973, 24 x 16 x 5 cm, quarter bound - black paper-covered board with black spine, The North and The South maps on endpapers by Jeffrey Ward, pictorial jacket with helmet. Fine in Fine - minimal wear to book and DJ at spine top and bottom.

Oxford University Press, London, 1960 Reprint of Volumes I and II in one volume. Hardcover with DJ, Book I: pp. 410, Book2: pp. 428, 25 x 16 cm, blue cloth with gilt titling, foldout map, light blue jacket with floral borders around titling. Condition is Near Fine in Near Fine, book is clean and bright with light spotting on top edge, map is Fine, Jacket (in Mylar) has light tanning/soil and tint surface blemish on rear. A nice, clean copy of this important work, song lyrics with different tune settings in standard musical notation.

Robbins Music Corporation, New York, 1931, Sheet Music with piano accompaniment, pp. 5. Good - tear along half of spine and top of page - score unaffected. Art work (images of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable) is bright and lustrous - "pops out"

Random House, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Imbolo Mbue on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 364 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, tan paper over black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features illustration in gray of arms crossed, decayed ostensibly as from a statue. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an America oil company.

1st Signet Printing (Y7030, $1.25), June 1976, inscribed by Ed McBain. Mass Market Paperback, pp. 158, 18 x 11 cm, classic 70s cover illustration of police standoff. Condition is Very Good - light tanning of pages,front hinge slightly fragile, light edge-wear, in overall nice shape. Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels have become staples of the police procedural genre.

Eight Days A Week - The Beatles. Northern Songs, Maclen Music, Inc, 1964 (75c, Keys Feb 1. Chart). 4 pages (folding card), 11 x 8.5 in, sepia Beatles photograph on front, 2 pages of sheet music (melody, lyrics, piano arrangements, and guitar chord diagrams). Condition is Very Good: crisp copy, some thumb prints, evidence of handling. Classic 60s card songsheet.

Little, Brown, London, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED with a Sharpie by Val McDermid on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 418 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black-papered boards with white lettering on spine, dockland scene on endpapers, repeated on jacket. NEW book (unread). Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy with minimal edge wear to jacket. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. The First Allie Burns Thriller from the celebrated and best-selling Scottish crime writer. The year 1979 marked, of course, the end of the 1970s and the beginnings of the 1980s, but decades tend to bleed into each other; definite ends are only a calendar device. And each decade is rife with problems, from political to culture upheavals — all of which play major parts in Val McDermid's masterful "1979."

Nan A Talese, Doubleday, New York, 2007. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Pp. 203, 7.5" tall, atractive tan boards with light blue spine, fine in fine just jacket. Title was on 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.

Hutton Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Jason Mott, on a bookplate affixed to the half title. Hardcover with dust jacket, 319 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, book features black paper over bright yellow textured boards, jacket printed in yellow and black with a creative "cut-away" book illustration by Christopher Lin. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a crisp copy with minimal shelf wear. 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Winner (Fiction) . With audacity and invention, Jason Mott s Hell of a Book weaves together three narrative strands an unnamed author, a boy named Soot, and a figure known as The Kid into a masterful novel. In a structurally and conceptually daring examination of art, fame, family and being Black in America, Mott somehow manages the impossible trick of being playful, insightful and deeply moving, all at the same time. A highly original, inspired work that breaks new ground (NBA Judges' Citation).