Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Sensible Magpie

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Paperback. Near Fine. All three volumes of MacCaffrey's "...trilogy on Elizabethan high politics...": I: THE SHAPING OF THE ELIZABETHAN REGIME: ELIZABETHAN POLITICS 1558-1572 (1968, ISBN: 0691007675); II: QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE MAKING OF POLICY 1572-1588 (1981, ISBN: 0691101124); III: ELIZABETH I: WAR AND POLITICS 1588-1603 (1992, ISBN: 0631036519). All volumes near fine, with just a wee bit of shelfwear. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. a grand-scale work acclaimed for its dramatic rendering of the personalities and forces that shaped the Queen's decisionmaking throughout her reign. Combining pleasurable reading with subtle analysis, the three books address readers interested in debunking Elizabeth's many mythic images and in following the steps of Elizabethan policymakers as they grapple with the most crucial political problems of their day..." (Kenneth Bartlett, Canadian Journal of History).

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. Smith, Jessie Willcox. Front hinge just started. Bumped corners, light rubbing to edges, smudging and shelfwear to boards. An occasional small smudge in margins of text, slight mustiness. Gilt lettering to spine, dark blue lettering to front board and a lovely color paste-on bordered in a thick gilt band and dark blue. Decorated endpapers. 342 pp. "I have been asked to tell you about the back of the North Wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there." A beautiful book, with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

NEW YORK: John Wiley & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Minus. Aimed at experimental physicists working in some field connected with electron transport, and also to theoreticians who want a survey of thermoelectricity and related questions. This book traces the early history of thermoelectricity from discovery up to the present day, and includes and discusses a large amount of experimental data. 133 pp. Previous owner's name blacked out to top edge, very slight edgewear to book. Very slight edgewear to DJ, light fading to DJ spine, lightly scuffed surfaces. White lettering to book spine, blue cloth-covered boards. Tight, bright, clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. No dustjacket. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Mild wear to spinecaps, gently folded under. Pages age-tanned. A 1" piece torn from bottom corner of title page. Gilt rubbed off to titles on spine. Silver and black art deco design to front of black leather-like boards. Sepia illustration to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Clean, tight. 278 pp. This is one book of a six-volume set. A whodunit mystery novel which introduces the series character, Detective Colonel Anthony Gethryn. It is set in a country house in rural England. Gethryn, ex-secret service agent, investigates the murder of cabinet minister, John Hoode who is found battered to death with a wood-rasp.

New York: Gramercy, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SHARP AND CRISP. Dustjacket very good. Light sunning to spine. Moderate scuffing to surfaces, light edgewear. Royal blue lettering to spine of pale blue, cloth-covered boards. With 64 black and white plates. Clean, tight, bright. 144 pp with bibliography and index. Preface by Philip Adams. This book is for anyone who loves fine china, every collector of Wedgewood, and everyone interested in the classic revival of the Eighteenth Century. The author delves into the sources of the classical designs used by Josiah Wedgewood and a look at how some of these sources were really forgeries from the Renaissance and later. (taken from front flap and rear cover).

Barcelona, Spain: Ambit Serveis Editorials, S.A. , 1999. Paperback. VERY GOOD . Prologue by Pilar Velez, Foreword by author, and Epilogue by Francesc Fontbona. 4to, 11.75" x 9.50". 202 pp. including Exhibition List, Index of Names, and Bibliography. Filled with Color (mostly) and black and white prints. Just a little wear to spine caps.

NEW YORK: A.A. Wyn, 1951. First EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good. PHOTOGRAPHS BY NINA LEEN. 4to. Red boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Minor chipping and edgewear to dujstjacket. Previous owner's name/address to front pastedown. "...This is the Cinderella story of Lucky, a mongrel dog who, by the purest chance, was saved from certain death on the Texas plains. Perhaps no dog in recent years has become so endeared to the American public as this famous founding..."

Middlesex, England: King Penguin, 1953. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Good Plus Dustjacket . REPRINTED WITH REVISED COLOUR PLATES. Light wear to extremities. Sunning to spine of jacket. Small chips and tears to spinecaps and edges. Book and like jacket are illustrated with colorful, detailed rows of images such as animals, bowmen, people. 8 color plates, 81 black and white illustrations. 78 pp. Clean and tight. The tapestry depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Tales of life and death in the Scottish town Drumtochty in the late 19th century, narrated with a rich dose of Scots dialect and a strong religious bent. 236 pp. plus ads. Just a bit of shelfwear. Measures 6.5 x 4.5 x 1 inch. Gorgeous deep blue boards with elaborate red, black and gold design to front board, and to spine. Decorated endpapers. Mild rubbing to extremities. Binding tight. A lovely little gem of a book!

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Lowe, Jason. Previous owner's inscription to preliminary page. Tiny bump to front top corner. Dustjacket very good plus. Sunning to spine and front cover. Mild edgewear and scuffing to surfaces. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of dark brown Gold seal affixed to jacket front, "Winner Glenfiddich Visual Award". With 250 beautiful color photographs, illustrations, maps. Book measures 11.25 x 9.75". Clean, tight, bright. 176 pp with appendices and index. Comprehensive guide to malt whiskies. Divided into five sections, it focuses on history, how whisky is made, whisky appreciation, whisky regions and what are the stylistic differences between the malts. "An indispensable directory of all available malts, with tasting notes, distillery profiles and labels, completes the book-perfect for quick reference or for mulling over when deciding which malt to try next," (front flap).

Phoenix, AZ: Southland Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, LIMITED EDITION, numbered 283/400 copies printed. "The warm, fast-moving account of the life of one of the West's most mysterious and colorful characters, Bernard A. Gillespie. Travel with him along the Mexican border in his quest for gold, adventure, and beautiful women at an age when most men look forward to retirement." 81 pp. Very slight edgewear to book, upper front corner very lightly bumped, a little bit of pen marking (partly rubbed away) to FFEP. Light wear to DJ extremities, a 1" closed tear to front panel top edge. Brown lettering to spine and front board with illustration, marigold cloth-covered boards. With 38 interesting illustrations, old photos and artwork by author. Clean, tight, bright.

Ostfildern, Mairs Geographischer Verlag, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine. In German. 7.5" x 12" One small spot to front cover. Nice sharp corners. Maps to endpapers. Colored photographs of scenic views, foods and area map to glossy red front board. Over 250 pp. plus location register. Clean, tight, bright. Special section showing 27 culinary recommendations by route. Recommendations for hotels, gastronomy, holiday resorts. Mileage chart, over 120 maps, charts of international regulations, locations register with index.

Sykesville, MD: Greenberg Publishing Company, 1990. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. The histories, listings, and values for Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Ives, as well as 18 other toy trains like AMT, Hafner, and Thomas. The ultimate collector's handbook for model train enthusiasts, antiques dealers and yard sale treasure hunters. A lovely color gallery precedes specifics. 287 pp with glossary. A few tiny spots to fore edge, a very light stain to bottom edge where there may have been brief water contact, no damge to text or any warping to pages. Mild shelfwear, a little bit of creasing and slight curl to front cover. Clean, tight, bright.

San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Previous owner's inscription to preliminary end paper. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Lightly age-tanned. Clean, bright, solid binding. 254 pp with notes and bibliography. A comprehensive one-volume collection of classic Eastern Christian readings from the first to the twentieth century.

Cusco Peru: NA Hancco Mamani, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Looks like a bite mark to front lower over. White lettering to spine, black lettering to front of glossy illustrated covers. 218 pp with bibliography. Clean, bright, solid. "Dictionary that includes words from the Quechua language of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, which were minted for centuries and jealously guarded by the author as a legacy of their ancestors," (Worldcat).

Paris: Hermann & Cie., 1936. Paperback. Good. EX-LIBRARY with card pocket to RFEP, stamps to endpapers and codes to front cover and front endpapers. Front cover detached from lower spine 4" and upper 1", a light 2" circle stain to front cover. Some mild wear to edges. Red adn black lettering to soft card covers. No markings within. 40 pp. Written in French, full of equations. Actualites Scientifiques et Industrielles, number 305. Under the direction of Paul Montel, science professor at the University of Paris.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Very Good Dustjacket. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Very mild edgewear to boards. A tiny dent to rear upper board near spine. Bottom spine cap gently folded under. Occasional faint indentations, from what looks to be a small paperclip, to upper pages. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to jacket spine. A .75 x .5" sticker ghost to upper rear jacket panel. A .25" closed tear to front upper panel edge. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine. Black buckram covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. Mylar protective cover to jacket. 318 pp. with bibliography, index of names, and index of subjects. A new volume in the International Library of the Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method. General editor, C. K. Ogden. Preface by Louis Wirth. Translated from the German by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils. "In sharp contrast with contemporary literature which has talked about the "decline,"… Read More

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. An ideal companion text for graduate-level courses in optics, industrial scientists and engineers. Covers a broad range of major topics, including classical diffraction theory, optics of crystals, polarized light, thin-film multilayer stacks and coatings, ray-tracing, interferometry, holography and non-linear optics. Chapters in the first half cover the basics, while the second half deals with technological applications. 502 pp. Light scuffing to surfaces, 3" crease to rear cover lower corner and some pages, slight curl to front upper corner. No markings to text, tight, bright, with many diagrams, graphs and computer simulations.

New York: Brown Manufacturing Co., 1111. Paperback. NEAR FINE. REPRINT, SCARCE EVEN IN THIS FORM. STAPLEBOUND. Black and white woodcut illustrations. Black lettering on peacock-blue cover. Clean, bright, solid binding. Unpaginated (20 pp). Volumes covers the Ballard Breech-Loading Sporting Rifle.

Grand Island, NE: Hornady Manufacturing Company, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Ken Klostermeyer and Chuck Schreiber. SECOND PRINTING. Slight wear to extremities. Edgewear to bottom of DJ, a couple small tears at flaps, and a tape-repaired closed tear spots of sticker residue. Gold and black lettering to spine and front board, full color illustrated glossy boards with DJ to match, decorated endpapers. Hundreds of illustrations (some in full color), charts and tables. Very clean, tight, bright. 512 pp with illustrated glossary. This accurate and informative volume is a comprehensive guide to the handloading and shooting of nearly 100 rifle/pistol/cartridge combinations.