Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Bookpress, Ltd.

(OUD) MAANDBLAD. PERSPECTIEVEN VAN WORDENDE CULTUUR. N.P.: N.P., 1935. Square 8vo. Printed wrappers. 30, ((4) pages. April, 1935 issue of Dutch periodical on modern architecture and interior design. Articles by J.J.P. Oud. Wrappers creased, else very good.

MAASS, John. THE GINGERBREAD AGE. New York: Rinehart & Co., (1957). 4to. Cloth spine, boards. (vi), 212 pages. First edition. A survey of American Victorian architecture, with illustrations. Light cover wear, else very good.

MAASS, John. THE GINGERBREAD AGE. New York: Rinehart & Co., (1957). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. (vi 212 pages. First edition. A survey of American Victorian architecture, with illustrations. Name in ink front, free-endpaper, else very good in a worn dust jacket.

(ESPOSITION--PHILADELPHIA--1876) MAASS, John. THE GLORIOUS ENTERPRISE. Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, (1973.) 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 156, (1) pages. First edition. The first modern study of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and H.J. Schwarzmann, its Architect-in-Chief, with seventy-two illustrations. Name in ink on front blank, else very good in a chipped dust jacket. (9791).

MACARTHUR, Blanche, and Jennie Moore. LESSONS IN FIGURE PAINTING IN WATER COLOURS. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, n.d. 4to. Cloth. 25 pages, (16) color plate First edition. The sixteen color plates are from designs by Macarthur and Moore with special instructions by the painters. Light rubbing to edges, else very good.

MACAULAY, David. CITY, A STORY OF ROMAN PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1974). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages. First edition. The author constructs an imaginary Roman city to illustrate ancient building techniques and planning, with illustrations. Very good in slightly chipped d jacket.

MACAULAY, David. CATHEDRAL, THE STORY OF ITS CONSTRUCTION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1973). Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 80 pages. Third printing. Using a fictional cathedral, the author explains in detail how the great European cathedrals were built, through text and drawings. Very good.

(EXTRA ILLUSTRATED) MACAULAY, Thomas. THE WORKS OF.... Eight volumes, complete. London: Longman's green, 1873. 8vo. Maroon half-morocco, all edges gilt. A collection of Macaulay's works, edited by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, and h extra-illustrated with over one hundred additional plates taken from other works. Bound in handsome uniform bindings by Bayntun of Bath. With occasion light sporadic foxing. Still a most desirable set.

MACBEAN, L.C. KINEMATOGRAPH STUDIO TECHNIQUE. London: Pitman, 1922. 12mo. Publisher's cloth. xii, 110, (14) pages. First edition. The first volume in the Pittman Technical Primer's series, Macbean's book has photos of some of Great Britain's earliest motion picture studios. One secti gives instruction for blowing up an eighteen inch long miniature house. Whil the spine is slightly darkened and the covers lightly handled, this is still very good copy of an early technical book at the beginning of England's movie industry.

MACBETH-RAEBURN, Henry. Etching of Three Girls Gathering Flowers. A large etching (22 x 14 inches) of three girls in a forest gathering flowers The print is signed by the etcher, Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (1860-1947). The pr is dated 1890 and was issued by Colnaghi in London.

MACCARTNEY, B.G. WOMEN WRITERS. Two volumes. (Dublin): Cork University Press, 1946-1947. 8vo. Boards. 288; 296 pages, Thi and first printings. Covering English novelilsts from 1621-1818. Very good. (36315).

MACCHI, Giulio, Attilio Marcolli and others. SPAZIO, COLORE. Venizia: La Biennale, 1986. Folio. Stiff wrappers. 224 pages. First edition. One of the series of Arte E Scienza, an Italian language examination of the production of art from science and technology. Well illustrated. Fine.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) MACCORD, Charles Wheeler. THE TEETH OF SPUR WHEELS; THEIR CORRECT INFORMATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. Hartford: Pratt & Whitney, 1881. Square 8vo. Original limp wrappers. 52, (1) pages. First edition. Scarce item in the trade. A stamped presentation from Pratt & Whitney, and pencil ownership signature of the great American mechanical engineer Ambrose Swasey dated 1881, with his note "preserve." Tipped in at the front is "Tabl of cutters for teeth of gear wheels, made by Pratt & Whitney Company...Novemb 1879," the year Swasey took over the department at Pratt & Whitney. Tipped i at the rear is a Pratt & Whitney advertisement. Not only was Swasey a mechanical engineer, he was also an inventor, entrepreneur, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company in 1880. While with Pratt & Whitnewy he developed a new technique fo making gear-tooth cutters. With Swasey's bookplate.

(CALIFORNIA IMPRINT) MACDONALD, David F. THE MORAL LAW: A SERIES OF PRACTIC SERMONS ON THE DECALOGUE. Sacramento: James Anthony, 1858. 8vo. Publisher's sheep spine, marbled board (iv), 152 pages. First edition. An early Sacramento imprint of sermons on the ten commandments, published as fund raiser for the Emmanuel Church, Coloma, California. Spine heavily chipp and binding worn, title page repaired without loss of text. While OCLC lists thirteen copies, it is uncommon in commerce.

MACKENDRICK, Paul. THE MUTE STONES SPEAK. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1960). 8vo. Cloth. xiii, (i), 369 pages. Firs edition. ``The Story of Archaeology in Italy,'' with 171 in-text illustrations. Inscription in ink on front free endpaper, else very good.

MACKENZIE, J.B. THAYENDANEGEA: AN HISTORICO-MILITARY DRAMA. Toronto: William Briggs, 1898. 8vo. Later three-quarter morocco. Frontispiec (ii), 179 pages. First edition. An outdoor, historical drama about the Mohawk war chief of the Six Nations. Fine.

(PICASSO) MACKENZIE, Helen F. UNDERSTANDING PICASSO, A STUDY OF HIS STYLES DEVELOPMENT. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, (1940.) Folio. Portfolio. (3 leaves), 19 plates. First edition. Collection of plates showing the major works of Picasso compared with the styles and representative art examples that influenced him. Portfolio worn.

(MACKENZIE, Henry, editor). THE MIRROR, A PERIODICAL PAPER. Two Volumes. Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792. 12mo. Contemporary tree-calf. 316; 316 pages First American edition. This periodical was first published in Edinburgh from 1779 to 1780, and follo the format of the earlier Spectator and other popular series of literary essa on a variety of subjects. Spine and extremities rubbed.

MACKENZIE, Henry. THE LOUNGER: A PERIODICAL PAPER. Three volumes. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf. xii, 311; vi, 312; vi, 314, (1) pages. Sixth edition. Originally published between 1785 and 1787, The Lounger was a magazine coveri society and the arts in the manner of The Spectator and Tatler. Hinges strengthened, else very good.

MACLEAN, Robinson. THE BAITED BLONDE. New York: M.S. Mill Co., & Morrow, 1949. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 24 pages. First edition. The diary of a Dutch scientist working for the Germans during World War II provides a clue to the plans for an important military weapon. Very good in w dust jacket.