Search Results: Authors starting with M from Island Books

Leicester University Press, Leicester,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with maps and plans in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

[1962]. 8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER VERSO. VERY SCARCE.

Architectural Press,, 1930-32. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous plates and maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth (grey/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips framed and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. Published on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the set comprises Vol. I: Kent Surrey and Sussex, 1930); vol. II: (Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London, 1932). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 165, 280.

Architectural Press,, 1930-32. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous plates and maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat contemporary uniform signature on front free endpapers; cloth (grey/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips framed and lettered in black, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH A COPY OF THE PUBLISHER'S PRINTED AND ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTUS LOOSELY INSERTED IN EACH VOLUME. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. Published on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the set comprises Vol. I: Kent Surrey and Sussex, 1930); vol. II: (Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London, 1932). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 165, 280.

Pall Mall Press,, 1905. 4to., Fifteenth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, illustrations and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the Charing Cross Turkish Baths - a favourite haunt of Holmes and Watson!

Collins,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 59. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

Oak Knoll Press & University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA,, 2002. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Airlife,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent addition to an under-written aspect of the RN, providing technical and biographical detail of all minelayers and minesweepers from 1908 onwards.

Spottiswoode & Co.,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 22 fine coloured plates and 2 monochrome plates depicting hundreds of plant conditions, and several illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, title lightly spotted; original buckram, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Reprinted from the 'Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society', vols. XXVII-XXIX.

Beare & Son, Penzance,, 1890. 8vo. First Edition, title browned; original plum cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite on front paste-down. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Revised and reprinted from the Folk-Lore Society Journa

W. Nicholson,, n.d. [c.1890]. 8vo., wanting rear free endpaper; cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled edges, page edges very lightly browning else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 7pp publisher's catalogue (unopened) bound in at end. First published in the US in 1857.

Longmans,, 1928. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled; original ivory buckram, upper board blocked with school crest in red, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and worn with minor loss at edges. With a copy of a printed School booklet loosely inserted. SCARCE.

Houlston & Sons,, 1896. 4to., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous line illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly browned, inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial boards, lowest quarter of backstrip rubbed, boards a little age-soiled and scuffed at edges else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. With neat personal bookplate. Goddard, p.29.

Methuen,, [1909]. 8vo., Second Edition; red cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good clean copy. Substantially revised version of the original work of 1855. VERY SCARCE. Davies 885.

Macmillan,, 1900. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded and chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Hackett, p.144.

Darwen Finlayson, Beaconsfield,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Railway and Canal Historical Society, [Caterham],, 1973. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright copy.

David & Charles, [Newton Abbot],, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Blackie,, n.d.. 12mo., with a frontispiece by H. M. Brock, title hinge neatly reinforced with adhesive tape; pictorial boards, binding a little shaken else a good, sound copy.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette and plates; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, binding a little loose at title else a very good, bright, clean copy. The first omnibus edition of Hughes' classic trilogy, comprising A London Child of the Seventies (1934), A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) and A London Home in the Nineties (1937). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION