Search Results: Authors starting with M from Backstory Books & Yarn, CBA

Peyton, KM. Fly-by-night. New York: Pocket Books, 1968, 1973 print, 224 pp., illustrations throughout by author.Very good paperback in illustrated wraps. This is a pocket paperback with a blemish of less than 1 cm in length on the back cover and a previous owner's name on the inside cover. The binding is tight and there are no marks in the text.

Margolis, Adele P. How to design your own dress patterns: a primer in pattern making for women who like to sew. Garden City: Hanover House, 1959. 288 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in acid green cloth, title on spine in gilt and author and publisher in red on spine. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Dust jacket is very good with wear at head and tail of spine, in mylar.

[Neah Bay, WA]: Makah Cultural & Research Center. copyright 1987, this copy not dated. 67 pp. Very Good paperback. Clean, unmarked copy.

Martines, ed. Lauro. An Italian Renaissance sextet: six tales in historical context. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1994. 278 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover bound in red-orange paper with a very good dust jacket. The corners and edges show rubbing. The pages are slightly yellowed with age, but contain no marks. Binding is tight. Translations by Murtha Baca. Contents: Ricciarda by Giovanni Gherardi da Prato; Scopone by Gentile Sermini; Friar and Priest by Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti; Bianco Alfani by Piero Veneziano; Giacoppo by Lorenzo de' Medici; The Fat woodcarver by Antonio Manetti.

This is a very good condition paperback book. There is shelf wear including corner bumping that keeps this from being in fine condition. The text is clean and looks unread.
McDermott, Philip. Migrant languages in the public space: a case study from Northern Ireland. Zurich/Berlin: LIT Verlag, undated but probably 2007, 305 pp., maps, tables, bibliography, index.

McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's notebook. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, Inc., 1963, first edition, 96 pp. Designed by Clyde R. VollmerHardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in pink cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover, as well as some of the whimsical images that adorn the interior on the cover in gilt. There is some foxing on the page edges. The dust jacket is in good plus condition with fading and wear on the spine as well as a half inch closed tear on the cover. The binding is tight and there are no marks in the book, save a price written on the dust jacket, which is price clipped.

McWhirter, Cameron. Red summer: the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America. New York: A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt and Company, 2011, 352 pp., black and white illustrations.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good condition hard cover bound in red paper. Very good dust jacket. No marks in book, binding is tight, corners are sharp.

This is a very good condition paperback. There is some shelf wear that keeps it from being in new condition. The text is clean.
Mehdi, Rubya and Werner Menski and Jorgen Neilsen, edited by. Interpreting divorce laws in Islam. Copenhagen: DJOF Publishing, 2012, 317 pp., bibliography.

Mensch, Jennifer. Kant's organicism: epigenesis and the development of critical philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2013, notes, bibliography, index, 246 pp.Very good minus hardcover book and dustjacket. Both hardcover and dust jacket suffer from a bumped corner, otherwise in great condition: no marks, tight binding, hardly any signs of wear. There is also a remainder mark on the bottom of the text block.

This is a very good condition hardcover book with no marks. The jacket is good plus condition with some signs of shelf wear affecting the adhesion of the plastic coating to the paper jacket. There is no loss of the plastic, nor is it peeling.
This is a Chinese-English dictionary, the majority of the writing in Chinese. It does not include an English to Chinese translation component.
Dai Mingzhong. A Comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 1997 print, 1265 pp.

This is a very good condition hardcover book. There is some shelf wear, mostly to the corners, that keeps this from being in fine condition. The text is clean.
Izuhara, Misa - editor. Ageing and intergenerational relations: family reciprocity from a global perspective. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2010, 165 pp., tables, index.

Moore, John. Zeluco: Or, various views of human nature, taken from life and manners, foreign and domestic. Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2008, notes, appendices, 416 pp. Edited with introduction and notes by Pam Perkins.Very good paperback copy. No marks in text, binding is tight.

Moore, Todd & Gina Bergamino. American cannibal. East Meadow, NY: Mulberry Press, 1992, 20 pp. Inscribed by Todd Moore to previous owner with the message "Death, love and outlaw poetry."Very good chap book in stapled paper wraps, the cover illustrated with eyes below the title.

Moraes, Vinicius de. Nova antologia poetica. Selecao e organizacao: Antonio Cicero & Eucanaa Ferraz. Sao Paulo: Companhia de Bolso, 2005. 252 pp.Small paperback in excellent condition, but for a nick at the base of the spine. In Portuguese.

This paperback book is in fine condition. It shows no signs of wear, the text is clean.
Moyakine, Evgeni. The Privatized art of war: private military and security companies and state responsibility for their unlawful conduct in conflict areas. Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015, 477 pp., summaries in Dutch and Russian, selected bibliography, table of cases, index. Volume 67 of the School of Human Rights Research Series.

Mozumdar, A.K. The Triumphant spirit: lesson book of the ages the Christ message of today convincing, dynamic, practical and spiritual. New York: Published Privately, 1943. 295 pp.Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very Good flexi-bound hard cover in black cloth with yellow titles on cover and spine.

Myles, Eileen. Chelsea girls. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. 8vo. Third Paperback Printing. 276 pp.Good paperback in yellow wraps with original price sticker on back cover. One inch rip on back cover, One cm chip out of front cover, other small nicks to cover. Now in mylar.