Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Last Word

London: Hodder & Stroughton, no date c. 1910. Hardcover. Good. Arthur Rackham. 24 drawings illus 2 loose and small tear not into the picture, 11 creased with small edge gtears plate 21 has 2 vertical creases and loose, 22 loose, all plates present but some are not where stated in list of illustrations. Spine separated at front edge. 126 pages no date given about 1910, tissue-guarded colour illustrated plates with titles (including frontispiece), endpapers illustrated with Peter Pan's Map of Kensington Gardens', illustrated title page and illustrations in text throughout, Original Edition some plates loose, green cloth with gilt illustration to upper board of peter on a toadstool playing pan pipes, gilt titles to spine, green endpapers with illustrated map, quarto, 21 x 15.5 cms Hardback

Dundee & London: Valentine & Sons Ltd, c. 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Louis Wain. No date. c. 1920. Some light foxing Original red paper covered boards with mounted colour plate on upper cover. The red paper covered boards are a little faded and the spine is faded. Some small tears at top of spine. with the fourteen colour plates + one on the front cover. Scarce. The plate on the front cover has one corner a bit creased. The internal plates are very clear and bright - one has a tiny tear at top about 5mm not into the picture.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1958. First printing. Cards. Very Good. R G Campbell. The Kingfisher Books fourth Series. 66 pages Owner name neatly stamped on front cover and to first title page

Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 73 pp plus index. plus 3 pp adverts. Red cloth boards with black titles. School stamp to page edges but no other marks. Front end paper split at foldabout half way.

Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 73 pp plus index. plus 3 pp adverts. Red cloth boards with black titles.

Wellington, New Zealand, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; pp. xii, 619; decorated endpapers, index; original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, top of spine split and corners bumped, previous owner name to front free end paper. Newspaper article attached in rear. Some ticks against book titles

australia: Knopf, 2009. First edition thus. Hardcover. New/new. First printed in United Kingdom by Harvill Secker in 2009. This is the first printing first edition of the Australain edition. Has number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 266 pages. Perfect condition - unopened, unread. Dust Jacket put in Brodart archival clear cover from new. On Man Booker Prize shortlist in 2009. "A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father"

Bristol, UK.: The Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1982. First printing. Cards. Very Good. errata, Some tape marks to rear cover. 90 pages.

London: T Nelson and Sons, 1890. Leather_bound. Very Good. First published 1861. Full leather bonding

Auckland, New Zealand: Discovery Press, 1998. First printing. Softcover. Near Fine. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0473045052 . No signatures. ; [8], 406 pages. some orange highligther in forward. Thin card wrappers. With illustrations, some in colour. Page Dimensions: Oblong, 200mm x 208mm. "For the first time this book brings together all the pre-Tasman evidence and presents convincing arguments that explorers visited these shores hundreds of years before Tasman and Cook were born."

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1892. First edition thus. leather_bound. Very Good. Very clean text block - some foxing to title page. Pages edges marbled. Green leather three quarter leather and marbled paper to front and endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine with raised spines. Spine slightly sunned 19 x 13 cm. Cover missing on one volume. Volume I, Vanity Fair; Volume II, The History of Pendennis; Volume III, The Newcomes; Volume IV, The History of Henry Esmond Esq.; Volume V The Virginians..... VII The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch Book and Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo; Volume VIII, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Memoirs of Mr C.J. Yellowplush and Burlesques; Volume IX, The Book of Snobs; Volume X, Roundabout Papers, The Four Georges, The English Humourists to which is added The Second Funeral of Napoleon; Volume XI, Catherine, Lovel the Widower, Denis, Duval, Ballads;, black and white frontispiece to each volume with portrait to volume I (missing… Read More

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1863. First edition thus. leather_bound. Very Good. Very clean text block - some foxing. Red leather three quarter leather and marbled paper to front and endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine with raised spines. 19 x 13 cm., black and white frontispiece. Front hinge broken Splits to top and bottom of spine. Has a General Assembly library NZ monogramme to front cover withdrawn plate inside on FEPs.

London: Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. Poor. Signed from author to H G Wells 1934. Poor condition - no front cover , rear cover detached, insect damage. First Edition First Edition, large 8vo, 300pp.,, orig. cloth. Discovers the truth about the struggle for the freedom of the press in England during the period 1640 to 1658 when that struggle was at its height. . From H G Well's own library. - moved to New Zealand during WW2.

Edinburgh: Thomas & John Turnbull, 1800. First edition. 1/2 cloth. Good. 670 pp. , MDCCC Good Half Calf 8vo. Raised bands and green with gilt title label to spine. Some wear to edges of leather, else good.

London: The Crime Club - Collins, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 192pp. A first UK edition of this novel published for The Crime Club by Collins. Clean and tight. Dust wrapper not price clipped with light fading to the spine of the wrapper. Rubbing to the edges of the wrapper. All the authors here are women - hence the title. Some thinning of a front free endpaper where somethings has been pulled off. A couple of red stains on the fixed rear end paper. There is some paper reinforcment to the rear of the edges of the dustjacket.

USA: Physical Culture Pub. Co., 1916. First printing. Soft Cover. Good. 99 pages and 60 pages of adverts. .. page 429 - 526 ten pages of adverts at front and fourteen at rear. Bottom right hand corner has some water damage. Spine has some loss top and bottom - one inch at top and half an inch at bottom.

London: William Heinemann, 1898. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, octavo, x and 403 pp. corners gently bumped. library on fep. Front and rear hinges are starting, but holding well. Book catalogue to end papers - end fep missing. Some library stamps on some pages and pocket and slip in rear (libraries were open until 9 PM in 1904!)

Sydney, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. very Good. Small quarto. Slightly age-toned, very near fine dustwrapper - price clipped. Copy number 318 of 500 copies numbered and Signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd,, 1925. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First Edition Octavo. Original light brown cloth, titles to spine and front board in dark blue, small publisher's paste-on to front board. .Spine a bit cocked. No dust jacket. First edition, first impression.

Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1907. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Rare Signed 1907 First Edition Of Poems inscribed on the half title, signed in pencil above by Pat Lawlor, tipped in catalogue or auction description of the book, untrimmed, BP of Linda Harrington-Hutchings, printed grey soft card wrappers. Very scarce