Search Results: Authors starting with M from Borg Antiquarian

London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1816. First Edition. Cloth and marbled boards. Very Good. 24mo (5 1/2" by 3 1/2"), [likely rebound in:] marbled boards backed by linen, 60 pages. Rare copy of a humorous pre-Dickensian "disposable" pamphlet.

[Richmond, ?Virginia]: [Nimrod House, Inc.], 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 202 pages. Martha Mabey, Ph.D. (1937 - 2019) was the director of an art foundation, had an art gallery, an educator, and wrote four books: The Anointing; a non-fiction book Resolved to Sail: The First Seventy-Five Years of the Gulfport Yacht Club; ARTISTS DIE BEST IN BLACK (a major motion picture directed by Price Hall) filmed in Biloxi, Miss.; and the biography of artist Rodolfo Morales. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION as is the dust jacket (unclipped).

New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc, 1959. First U.S.Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. Loke Wan Tho. Quarto (9 1/2" x 6 5/8"), black quarter cloth with bold gilt lettering on spine over gold boards with title and device in black, illustrated with color frontispiece photo & 111 B&W photos by Like Wan Tho & author, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a wall of female buddhistic statues in relief, green endpapers, 158pp of text + 111 B&W photos. EXCELLENT description with many B&W photos of Angkor Wat. <br /> <br /> Tight, clean copy with unfoxed bright color frontispiece and 111 B&W photos of Angkor. Dust jacket is unclipped and clean with some minor edge-chipping. Bookplate on ffe.

London Glasgow Bombay: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1923. First Edition. dark gray gilt-stamped cloth. Near Fine. 17 B&W illustrations. 8vo, blue cloth boards, illustrated with 17 B&W plates, xv + 257 pages. Seminal study. Binding tight & pages clean. Illustrated with several B&W photos, line cuts, and maps. Bookplate.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Period glossy images. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine; profusely illustrated with some glossy color images (frontispiece et al.) plus several B&W period images; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the death of Captain Cook painted by John Webber; map endpapers, 192 pages. Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 - 2 February 1987) was a 20th-century Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963).<br /> <br /> Captain Cook is a 1972 non fiction book about Captain Cook by MacLean who wrote it out of his great admiration for Cook.<br /> <br /> SUPERB OVERALL CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the photographic half title, tall 8vo, blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting two women overlooking a river cityscape, 339 pages + [1] blank + [1] About the Author + [2] Ads. Debbie Macomber (born 1948) is an American #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR CONDITION: VF/NF with chips at the head of the unclipped dust jacket. Red remainder dot on page bottoms. No previous owner marks.

New York: Crown, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth with bold gilt lettering on spine over ivory boards, archival mylar-protected cartoon dust jacket (unclipped) with image of Spiro Agnew beside a bag of money by Tom Bachtell, x + 291 pages + [3] About the Authors. The Fall of President Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew as a Prequil to current political events by brilliant MSNBC political pundit Rachel Maddow and award-winning journalist Michael Yarvitz.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR COPY of a book also available on podcast and soon to be a movie documentary. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. Limited Signed Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, multi-colored boards with map detail of Oxford, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with silhouettes of Alice falling & the White Rabbit, [xii] + 273 pages. SIGNED Limited Edition by The New York Times' Bestselling Author of Wicked. "Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings--and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend of Alice's mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend but arrives a moment too late--and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself."--jacket. Exceptional Condition!

New York Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo, black cloth with white lettering on spine, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) with a black background designed by SKA Associates, [vi] +312 pages. BARBARY SHORE was Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. <br/><br/>Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is often considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer's Armies of the Night… Read More

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on front endpaper, thick quarto (9 1/2" x 6 3/8" x 2 3/4" !), black quarter cloth with gold lettering over red boards, [i-ix] + x-xix-[xx] +1286 numbered pages + [2] About the Author + "About the Type." 3 lbs 15 oz = <br/> > 4 LBS SHIPPED. SIGNED by NORMAN MAILER on a tipped-in page issued by the publisher. This lovely Beast of a Book consists of Mailer-selected and -edited selections from his many books and essays that are designed to illuminate the changes that have taken place in America over 50 years.<br/> <br/> Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is often considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for… Read More

Boston and New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition [printing not specified: presumed first]. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author in black ink on the front free red endpaper, thick & tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 3/8" x 1 7/8"), black cloth with gold & shiny scarlet lettering on spine & Egyptian symbols on front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the great pyramid during a red sunrise, red endpapers, 709 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 5 oz. BARBARY SHORE was Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. <br /> <br /> Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor,… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near Fine/None. SIGNED by the Author on titile page, thick 16mo (6 7/8" x 4 1/8" x 1 1/8"), photographic wrappers with silhouette of a man standing on steps overlooking a crimson sunset over the ocean, publisher's yellow page fore-edges stain, 370 numbered pages + [2] Quotations + [2] About the Author & Ballantine Ad. SIGNED neatly by NORMAN MAILER on the title page. Tight copy with some rubbing to edges and uniform moderate age-toning.<br/><br/>Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is often considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer's Armies of the Night won another Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with author's name in gold and title in red on spine with signature of Norman Mailer in gold on the cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with cover photo of the author by Judy Scheftel, 532 pages. Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. Mailer's famous essay "The White Negro" (1957) fleshes out the Hipster figure who stands in opposition of forces that seek debilitating conformity in American society. It is one of the most anthologized, and controversial, essays of the postwar period. Mailer republished it in 1959 in his miscellany ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF which he described as "The first work I wrote with a style I could call my own." The reviews were… Read More

New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photographs. Square 8vo (8 1/2" x 8 1/2"), gray boards with black lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with B&W and color photographs--some full-page & many smaller but exquisite--also 7 useful maps, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), dark green patterned endpapers, xvii + 206 pages. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED book in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, unmarked, not remaindered--virtually "as new."

London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. B&W maps & photographs. Small 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, 6 figures in text & 8 B&W photographic plates, xiii + [170] pages. The Schweich Lectures had contributions from the finest scholars, as is exemplified by Abraham Malamat. His discussions on Mari are very important for studies of early Israel, its myths and beliefs. The photographic plates of ancient artifacts are also quite interesting.

New York: Farrar * Straus * Giroux, 1983. First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, black one-third cloth with gold lettering on spine over dark blue boards with gold "B.M." and blind-stamped spiral on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) designed by Cynthia Krupat, xiii, [xiv-xvi] + 349, [350] pages. Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean in a comparable dust jacket (price-clipped). Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1984. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Small 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket, Exceptional Condition! Previous owner's signature on free front endpaper.

New York Hagerstown San Francisco London: Harper & Row, Publishers: Harper novel of Suspence, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, gray quarter cloth with black lettering on spine over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (uncllipped) depicting newspaper stock quotes, Harper Suspense patterned black endpapers, 244 pages. Arthur Maling (1923 - 2013) was an American writer of crime and thriller novels. The Koberg Link is fourth in his Brock Potter series.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket (unclipped). No marks by previous owners or remainders.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth with red lettering over red boards, archival photographic dust jacket (price-clipped, black & white Harper Suspense endpapers, 257 pages. Arthur Gordon Maling (1923 - 2013) was an American writer of several crime and thriller novels. His novel The Rheinbold Route (1979) won an Edgar. FROM THUNDER BAY deals , in part, with a Canadian-Jamaican gun-smuggling ring, an American Army deserter, and his murder of a Royal Canadian Mountie that leads to a desperate hide-and-seek terminus. Condition: Clean, tight, bright cloth; bright unmarked pages. Dust jacket has some rubbing and a few small clean nicks to its edges. No remainder marks.

London Toronto Sydney Auckland Johannesurg: Bantam Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on its spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), Afternote: Navarino, pictorial endpapers with blueprint crosssection of a "Three Deck First Rate Line of Battle Ship c.1827." 349 pages + [3] Matthew Paulinus Hervey - Curriculum Vitae. SUPERIOR CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable unclipped dust jacket with minute curl to its upper edge. No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Brigadier Allan Mallinson (born 1949) is an English author and retired British Army officer. He is best known for the series chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, an officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial worldwide conflicts.