Search Results: Authors starting with M from Bygone Books

NY: Oak Publications, 1965. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. Quarto wraps, 96 pages, b&w illustrations, musical notation. Condition is VERY GOOD: lt. edgewear, sl. sunning to spine

London: Collins, 1964. Soft cover. VG. 432 questions and answers arranged in 38 sections, also 60 essay and discussions subjects and a comprehensive index of Skakespeare's characters." "First published April 1964" on copyright page. 8vo, stapled wraps, 48 pages, decorations by Ian T. Morison. VERY GOOD with some light edgewear, crease to bottom right corner, two owner names inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight throughout. "In what two plays do the directions for the opening scene include "Thunder and lightning"? [call for answer!]

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1995. First American edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st American ed. (number line). Lg. 8vo, maroon boards, 128 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: like new - appears unread. Covers the social and domestic life in Jane Austen's time, how food features in her novels and letters, and many recipes from the period - including a "Mr. Darcy's Dinner or the Dinner Which Never Happened.

London: Raphael Tuck, 1955. Hardcover. VG. 80p. illus. with b/w photographs. 12mo. 5th edition (1955). blue cloth / silver and gold decoration. VERY GOOD / no jacket: sl, edgewear, sl.yellowing; spine blue and lettering beginning to fade.

New York: Michael di Capua / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. 1st edition (stated), oblong 8vo, unpaginated, color illustrations on every page. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: tiny spot on front endpaper, otherwise, no visible wear; the jacket is price-clipped. A lovely copy. An old tale by Wilhelm Grimm, first discovered in 1983 and newly translated by Ralph Manheim, this is the first edition of this tale with the magnificent illustrations by Maurice Sendak.

Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co., 1917. Soft cover. Very Good. The Angora Twinnies: A Child's Story. No. 301. Drawings by Margaret Evans Price. Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co, 1917. Folio (13 ¾"), stapled illustrated wraps, color lithographs and blue/white illustrations throughout by Margaret Evans Price. Condition is VERY GOOD with light edgewear, light creasing at spine, crease to front cover, stain at spine tail on last 2 pages and rear cover. Adorable!

New York: Praeger, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. 1st American edition, 8vo, dark green cloth, 153 pages, [4] pages maps, b/w illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has slight rubbing to top edge of boards, internally clean and tight; jacket has light edgewear, two small closed tears to front panel, light toning to white. A splendid introduction to the Regency Period of London, according to Ms. Margetson, "the gayest, the most opulent, the most fashionable city in Europe.

Philadelphia, PA: P.F. Volland for Public Ledger, 1916. Soft cover. VG-. Julia Dyar Hardy, Ella Dolbear Lee.. Originally published in 1914, this reprint was part of the Juvenile section of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Sunday, May 14, 1916. (the list of published books for children in the rear of the book numbers 12 including this title), last page is an instruction page "How to make up this book," verso of last page is an ad for the Volland edition of Mother Goose. 24mo, wraps, tied with ribbon, [28] pages not including covers, color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD- : lt. edgewear and creasing to covers, lt soiling to covers, pages have lt. edgewear, faint scattered smudging. A charming book!

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York Public Library, 1993. Soft cover. NF. 0-87104-434-x wraps; limited edition of 1000 copies; stamped on bep: " Stinehour Press, Defective copy" but is complete, no visible defects, except for small glue error at front inside hinge. NEAR FINE with no visible wear.

Regal Record Co, 1920. Soft cover. Very Good. Little Tots' Nursery Tunes: "Mulberry Bush". 5'x6" Vintage card from game series / record, published in the 1920s by Regal Record Co. Words to "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" is printed on the back, color illustration by Maud Trube on the front. Condition is VERY GOOD- with some edgewear and two corners chipped. Beautiful illustration.

Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG-. 1st edition [NAP], quarto, pale blue cloth, 96 pages, color illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has light sunning to the top and bottom edges of boards, a small faint stain to spine tail, internally clean and tight; jacket has a 2" closed tear at front fold, price-clipped. "Traces the history of the fan, concentrating on the peak periods of fan-making- the 17th- early 20th centuries. Painted, printed, European, Oriental, ethnic, novelty and feather fans are all included. Over 200 fans are photographed, illustrating the diversity and detail of these most feminine and artistic of accessories.

London: Horizon, 1949. Soft cover. G-. Small 8vo, paperwraps, 80 pages. Horizon prize issue, the whole issue is McCathey's short novel, published here for the first time. It was published in book form by Random House in 1949.. Condition is FAIR - GOOD : chips w/ a few small missing pieces to covers & spine ends; soiling; sl browning; interior pags are VERY GOOD.

Swansea: Celtic Educational services, 1976. Soft cover. VG+. Oblong 16mo, wraps, 48 pp. Condition is VERY GOOD+: sl. cover wear. Delicious.

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st ed. (U.K.) 8vo, hot pink cloth / gilt titles, 182 pp, 8 colour plates, 64 monochrome plates, 9 line illustrations, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has small stain to top page edge, contents clean and tight; jacket has sl. edgewear, soiling along folds, stain across bottom of rear panel, spine lt. tanned, prcie-clipped. A nice copy of this book that looks at the fascinating period of book design and printing in nineteenth century Britain.

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962. Soft cover. NF. 2nd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 50 pages, b/w illustrations. NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-. 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, navy cloth, 292 pages, color frontispiece by Kitty Shannon, 16 b/w plates, chronology, index. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: some faint scuffing to the boards, a few tiny tears to spine head, light spotting to page edges, some faint occasional foxing to page margins. The life of Henrietta Hobart, afterwards Countess of Suffolk [circa 1688 - 1767] - she is mentioned by nearly all of her contmeporaries, and references to her and her circle will be found in innumerable books; her name appears frequently in the works, correspondence, and memoirs of Swift, Pope, Gay, Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, Hanbury Williams, Lady Lary Wortley Montague, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, Charlotte Lady Sundion, John Lord Hervey, Mary Lady Cowper, etc. [from the preface]

New York: Pantheon, 1986. Soft cover. VG. 0-394-74425-X. 1st American ed. softbound, 311 pages. VERY GOOD with sl edgewear; pgs sl browned; sticker.

PML Editions, 1994. Hardcover. NF/NF. French text. 128p. color reproductions; blue pictorial glossy boards, folio. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. Hardcover. NF. Woodroffe, Paul (illustrator). Nursery songs" was first published in 1912; this new edition has been produced from the original watercolor illustrations, musical notations, and hand-lettered texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 4th printing of the reprint edition. [33p.] color illus. white glossy pictorial boards; illus. eps. NEAR FINE / no jacket (as issued) : no visible wear.

NY: Macmillan / Viking, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, gray / black cloth hardcover, 305 pages. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has the slightest of marking to top page edge; jacket has a sl. tanned spine, sl. edgewear, scratch to spine.