Search Results: Authors starting with M from Michael's Pride and Joys

by Hadley, Michael Lfirst editionFirst edition. Hard cover. Mc Gill Queen's, Annapolis (1995) New in fine dust jacket. DJ has sign of former crease on the inside flap. Otherwise DJ also looks new Sewn binding. 253 p. pictures. New in new dust jacket. GIFT QUALITY. Well illustrated with b/w photographs.Shadow in scan is from scanner

OUTSTANDING QUALITY. An incredible survivor like new with name on fep. Otherwise about fine. Fold-out Colored map Department of Indian Affairs 1900 showing territory ceded under treaty no. 8 and the Indian tribes therein) in perfect condition. A host of other illustrations. Frontis is tissue-protected (both perfect). Errata slip tipped in. Front of boards incredibly fresh in gilt with two b/w photos inset. Printed on laid paper. Original printed cloth, pictorial onlay to front cover. Near fine. Peel 2004 . NOTE: PUBLISHER OMITTED TO INCLUDE A 2-PAGE ACCOUNT OF TRAVEL AND PROVIDED IT AS A LOOSE ADDITION. WITHOUT THAT "OMISSIONS PAGE" A FIRST EDITION WOULD BE INCOMPLETE. MY COPY HAS THAT PAGE. Mair was secretary of the commission negotiating the 1899 Peace River treaty

Les Drames Intimes Contes russes
par Marmier , Xavier
première édition
Première édition . 4.1 cuir . Michel Lévy Frères, Paris (1857 )
Amende . Pas de jaquette tel que délivré . Traduit du russe par Marmier 302 p . Cuir trimestre colonne vertébrale avec titre doré brillant 6 striées . Conseils en marbre . Original vert endroit cordon ( pas de ruban ) . On dirait sent et ouvre en neuf et jamais lu PREMIER EDITION Xavier Marmier a vécu de 1808 à 1892 Translated from the Russian of author Nicolas Alexeievith Polevoi, Russian journalist born Siberia 1796. . LANGUE FRANÇAISE

You get both volumes 1 and 2. Both in leather or leather-like binding as new and fresh as the day they were born. Maps diagrams layout of town of Granville, map of Vancouver fire. Privately published in 1932 by Major J.S. Matthews (City Archivist) "Copyright of Provincial Archives of British Columbia). A treasure of a survivor and in perfect gift quality. Some mystery exists over Matthews's work. Each of these volumes has a stereo-signed foreword by Matthews dated March, 1932. (He dies 1970) The foreword of volume 2 reads. "Early Vancouver" Volume Two. Its Reproduction--Five Copies "Early Vancouver, as in 1959.
Research indicates that Volume One was commenced in 1931 and consisted of two books, one in original typescript, which is in the city archives, a carbon copy was presented in 1932 to the Vancouver Public Library. Volume Two was commenced in 1933 and consists of an original typescript, also in the city archives, and two carbon copies....Inexperience was the cause of insufficient copies of "One"… Read More

Leather or leather-like binding as new and fresh as the day it was born. Maps diagrams layout of town of Granville,Matthews produced typed copy in 1931/32. This book is dated 1932 and states prepared from the typed and so I assume this is that elusive first edition first printing

FULL TITLE: The Dickensian: A Magazine for Dickens Lovers and Monthly Record of The Dickens Fellowship. Volume Four . All twelve issues of 1908 with all wrappers bound into the rear of the book in the usual manner in red cloth gilt with facsimile Dickens' signature on the front board. Gilt on spine 336 pages plus the bound-in covers, All interior like new, but at bottom of title page is a single stamp of a university. I cut short the scan of title page so as to conceal the name of the niversity

McLeod, Robert Randall Further Studies in Nature Halifax N. S: Commercial Printing Company 1910. Robert Randall McLeod born Nova Scotia 1842, died 1909 Massachusetts. This book was published a few months after his death and is gift signed to Dr Farish by his widow Agnes McLeod (nee Swansburg, married 1870). Dr Henry Greggs Farish (1825-1914) practised in Nova Scotia 126 p, Very good. No dust jacket as issued

Published by the author, 1931.. 1931.. Very good. - Octavo, pink wraps. Edge chipped & faded. 11 pp. Illustrated with a facsimile. Contents are very good .Reprinted from The Printing Review of Canada for December 1930 edition and limited to 250 copies

Cork Lines and Canning Lines Brand new and gleaming book and dust jacket. Impeccable166pp. 150 historical photos present a fascinating, revealing and nostalgic record of the people engaged in all aspects of the B.C. commercial fishery, ashore and afloat, from the 1870s to the boom years of the 1950s.Shadow is from scanner, not on the book

Seltsame Geschichten aus Shikoku Der Krieg der alten Dachse
by Meissner first edition First edition. First edition and First (only? ) printing. Hard cover. Verlag Asia Major g.m.b.h.Tokyo (and listing Leipzig as publishing agent) in Germany (1932) Very good in good dust jacket. Startlingly nice condition for this book-by far the best any of my fellow collectorts have seen. All colour plates present. 108 p. Tipped in between cover and fep is the following "We send them today as a gift from our Chairman his recently published translation of the war the old badgers." This is a very well known throughout Japan and especially in Shikoku folk tradition that has been yet translated into any other foreign language. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia. Tokyo, Juni 1932. Evidently an early copy of the book The book is unmarked (not even bumped) and it even has a good or good-plus dust jacket that has just minor edge defects. See scan

Gallus Or Roman Scenes of the Times of Augustus London: John W. Parker 1844. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Translated from the German of Professor Becker by Frederick Metcalfe, St John's College, Cambridge. lightly-scuffed book in magnificent condition, probably never read as marbled page edges sit perfectly flat. Inside front boards are the bookplate of Dr. Charles Collier F.R.S. and a prize plaque awarding the book (at Harrow School) to Robert Collier for excellence in History and Latin verse, dated 1846. Dr Charles Collier (c1784-1870) was a Fellow of The Royal Society. I assume from the date 1846 that Robert was the son of Charles. Eminently collectible. This is something I have not seen before: the date is on the tirle page in Roman numerals and ALSO at bottom of leather spine in our Arabic numerals. Spine is highly decorative with 7 gilt raised bands, 5 of the spaces between band with decorative incuse blind pattern, and title in 6th panel. Marbled page edges are like new.… Read More

by Meyerfirst editionFirst edition. XVII, 408 pp plus ad. Hard cover. MacMillan, London (1907) EXTREMELY RARE. Very good. No dust jacket. Scan is of the title page because book has a large....Library illustrated label on front. .Call number sticker at bottom of spine and a pocket at back. Has been in transparent binder since new that has left those brown traces inside f/b... 408 p. Includes index. Blind circular ownership impression on title page. With massive amount of information on Brit telegraphs, the purchase by the State, pressure from employees, failure to profit and some comparisons with other nations' telegraphs. Wonderful research material. Book is in excellent condition Ask for a scan of the front.And a pocket at back.

Gleaming New in gleaming new dust jacket. Digestive function and therapeutic strategies from antiquity to 17th c.; digestive agents; gastric fistulae; the French contribution; pepsin, neglected enzyme; vagal; surgical; histamine; gastrin; cellular mechanisms; pharmacotherapy; proton pumpgastric; proton pump inhibition. Brilliant color illustration-s.

xxii, prelims 355pp.Superbly bound in burgundy three quarter calf.with gil reflief lines. Gilt decorated and titled spine, with five gilt raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece. A notable feature on this edition is the extent and quality of the illustrations. 16 full plate full colour illustrations tipped in. The book is looking-new condition with a name on fep

Red Regime:United F.C. and P.L.C. Gift signed by authorBRAND SPANKING NEW UNTOUCHED UNREAD