Search Results: Authors starting with M from KALAMOS BOOKS

London: A & C Black, 1993 Book. Fine. Printer Wrapper. 1st UK Edition.. This guide provides detailed coverage of the area in 12 carefully planned routes, providing lists of hotels and restaurants, with sections on holidaying with children, walking in Umbria and local festivals and fairs.Complete guide to archaeological and other interesting sites in central Italy 191p. maps .plans. index..

London: Ernest Benn., 1981 Book. Fine. Printer Wrapper. 2nd.ed.. Complete guide to archaeological and other interesting sites in Sicily. 208 p.maps.plans. index.(16 pages of maps at end) .

London: A & C Black/ W.W.Norton, 1991 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 5th.Ed... "Florence is described in 30 itineraries, most designed to be followed on foot, and the environs, including Fiesole,Settignano, the Medici Villas and Poggio a Caiano are also covered. The new edition has been expanded to include descriptions of many of the less well-known palaces, churches and gardens and to incorporate up to date information" 2721p. (+ 16p. maps) illus. index. Name of owner, remainder mark. else fine..

Athens: Arlekin, 2006 Book. Near Fine. Pbk.. Harlequin romance - Desire series # 703.

Izmir: Izmir Ticaret Odasi Kultur, 2009 Book. New. Hardcover in Slipcase. First Edition.. [Series Izmir Ticaret Odasi Ku ltu r, Sanat ve Tarih Yayinlari, 9.] Parallel Turkish and Greek texts describing the fate of the Turkish ship SS Kurtulus which sank in the Marmara in 1942 when carrying emergency food aid to starving Greece during the Nazi occupation. Translated into Greek by Ferah Kunelaki.153p. illus. bibliography [10 copies found in Worldcat] .

London: Collins, 1956 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. "Tthe gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt, and the difficulties, moral and intellectual, of being a Christian in the modern world." 288p, Neat tight cop, .

Boston: Sandpiper / Houghton Mifflin, 1973 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. "Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century. The craftsmen were the master quarryman, the master stone cutter, the master sculptor, the master mortar maker, the master mason, the master carpenter, the master blacksmith, the master roofer, and the master glass maker" A stunningly illustrated book that well deserved to win the Caldecott Medal. Crisp, tight unmarked copy.[ 80p.] Illus (B & W).

London: Arrow, 1950 Book. Very Good. Pbk.. Reprint. Vintage pbk copy"Fabled Shore is a true description of this long strange coast and its haunted hinterland, to which Homer sent Odysseus voyaging, where, in the regions about Tartessos, dark Tartarus was placed, and the Elysian plains, the abode of the blest, 'at the ends of the earth, where life is easiest. No snow is there, nor great storm, nor ever any rain; but always Oceanus sends forth the breezes of clear-blowing Zephyrus"That, as Strabo observed, is obviously Iberia."220p. illus .index maps on endpapers.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. "Fabled Shore is a true description of this long strange coast and its haunted hinterland, to which Homer sent Odysseus voyaging, where, in the regions about Tartessos, dark Tartarus was placed, and the Elysian plains, the abode of the blest, 'at the ends of the earth, where life is easiest. No snow is there, nor great storm, nor ever any rain; but always Oceanus sends forth the breezes of clear-blowing Zephyrus"That, as Strabo observed, is obviously Iberia."220p. illus .index maps on endpapers.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 Book. Illus. by Roloff Beny. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Roloff Beny interprets in photographs the " P|easure of Ruins" of Rose Macaulay. The text was selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Pages 9-14 feature 16 full page plates in colour, followed by 140 monochrome plates and 26 maps and plans of the historic site covered. 240p. index to plates. Decorative end papers. Neat tight copy. NOTE : This is a heavy [1.2 kg] oversized [ 26x20c3cm].

to: Key Porter Books, 1989 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. "This splendidly illustrated book brings together archival and contemporary photographs; superb reproductions of rarely-seen paintings belonging to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa; and an astute text by veteran naval officer, Jack Macbeth. Together they vividly convey the proud story of what was once the fourth most powerful navy in the world." 176p.illus index..

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1977 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Ed... This delightful account of how American heiresses in the post-Civil War era packed up their trunks and went husband-hunting in England demonstrates that our national infatuation with British aristocracy is nothing new. The young women had good looks and big bucks; the often debt-ridden Brits had titles, castles and a society that was "more stimulating and more permissive, more leisurely and more sophisticated than Old New York." MacColl and Wallace (editor of and contributor to, respectively, The Preppy Handbook ) chronicle the lives of the rich and famous on both sides of the ocean, dishing up spicy gossip, pithy social commentary (by 1910, "Society in America became more sure of itself. Social climbers no longer needed titles for legitimacy") and obscure historical tidbits (because they were almost never allowed to sit in Queen Victoria's presence, her ladies-in-waiting "habitually bought shoes a… Read More

London: AAA/ Spiral Guides, 2000 Book. As New. Spiral Bound. First Thus. [Spiral Guides Series] Well illustrated guidebook, packed with interesting and practical information - an excellent introduction for visitors. 192p. illus maps (col) index maps on end papers.

Fredericton: Brunswick Press , 1954 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed.. Describes the activities in Canada for assistance to occupied Greece in WW II, Medical supplies , consignments of food, especially Canadian Wheat, for famine relief, and later aid sent after the earthquakes in 1953.Illustrated with contemporary photographs 193p. plates tables (Flora Macdonald's later career included becoming a well respected Member of the Canadian Parliament and Minister) Laid in is a typed letter from "The Greek War Relief Fund" requesting support..

Wilson Macdonald Ex-Library. Very Good. Stapled Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Canadian Edition. Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (May 5, 1880 - April 8, 1967) was a popular Canadian poet who "was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities" as a reader [in dialect] of his own poetry. By reading fees, and by selling his books at readings, he was able to make a living from his poetry alone. Paper wraps with a coloured roundel in the front, and inside an illuminated page "Poem and design by Wilson Macdonald' Presumably this is one of the souvenir brochures sold at his performances.It is signed inside the front cover in his distinctive script and is copy "No..110" The price $2.00 is inked inside the back cover. Undated c. 1930?] Unpaginated [12p.].col. illus.Inoriginal apaer wraps Library book sales stamp, else near fine.n WorldCat].

New York: Smithmark Pub, 1999 Ephemera. As New. Boxed Set. 1st US Edition.. Imagine that nearly 2,000 years ago a Roman child collected some everyday objects that were precious to him and hid them away in a secret box. The secret compartment in this book contains sturdy cardboard replicas of ten secret Roman treasures play with - Roman coins, oil lamp, game pieces, gold lucky charm, fresco portrait, health charm, curse tablet, protective statue, floor mosaic, laurel crown. All parts present and complete in the box.] A nice gift!flott a.

Buffalo, NY: Broadway Press, 1959 Book. Illus. by Guy Rutter. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 4th Edition. Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (May 5, 1880 - April 8, 1967) was a popular Canadian poet and entertainer who "was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities" as a reader [in dialect] of his poetry. By reading fees, and by selling his books at these readings, he was able to make a living from poetry alone.The First edition, published under the title "Paul Marchand" in 1933, The Second edition revised to include "Quintrains of Callender"[on the Dionne Quintuplets] in1935, Third edition,1940, Fourth edition under the title" Armand Dussault' in 1946, This copy is the 7th printing in 1959. Illustrations by Guy Rutter 46p. Illus.Crisp Author inscription on half title in his distinctive script..

Toronto: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2014 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. "... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and thee Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography.

Toronto: Descant, 1976 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. This issue of the Canadian literary magazine DESCANT includes "Lawrence Durrell Classical Puppeteer [Pages 52-67] a transcript by Robert Macdonald of an interview for CBC radio with Lawrence Durrell on Saturday November 22, 1973..