Search Results: Authors starting with M from Books Northwest

New York: Farrar, Strous & Giroux, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 350pp, black quarter cloth on blue boards with author initial in black lettering on front, gold gilt lettering on spine. Dj complete and in protective clear cover. Seemingly unread presentation copy of of this classic collection of 25 short stories from an acknowledged master of the form.

324pp, grey boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Many black and white illustrations, 25 color plates on glossy paper. Memoir of the scientist who discovered a new method of geometry called fractals. Dustjacket is unclipped and in protective Brodart cover. Very scarce in this nearly As New condition.

182pp. Near Fine due to slight shelf wear on front cover. Very small stain on top corners of 11-20 does not effect text block. First book by Greil Marcus, who is still writing in 2020.

552pp, Blue boards with wheat endpapers. Second printing of Second edition. Conservate rated is due to small light scrape on top right of back cover, otherwise would post as Fine or As New. Unmarked. History of embalming and current (1996) embalming techniques. Textbook for embalming school.

261pp, blue boards w/silver lettering on spine, numerous line drawings. Fine/Very Good. DJ in clear protective cover. Detailed descriptions of dozens of building failures. From the Preface: "This collection of case studies has been assembled to help architects, engineers and contractors build more safely." From Chapter 1: "The primary purpose of this book is to tell the story of some structural failures for the benefit of those people whose livelihood may be affected by the lessons to be learned from them: architects, engineers, contractors, clerks-of-the-works, inspectors, building maintenance men, building owners and others."

New York: Vanguard Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fair. New York: Vanguard Press, 1951. 157pp, black cloth with white lettering on front and spine, numerous b&w illustration of advertisements and other examples, left corner of cover back bumped, v. slight bumping on top front cover, otherwise in fine condition, clean, unmarked.Dj has pieces on back and front top missing and other small tears, in mylar dj. Marshall McLuhans first book. A cornerstone of media theory, McLuhan comments on numerous examples of persuasion in contemporary popular culture. Rare in this condition.

unpaginated. Black and white photographs of Fonteyn with commentary contributed by Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Keith Money and Margot Fonteyn. price-clipped dj with very light scratch to coating on front to right of "The Art of" in title, impression of paper clip on top of back end paper. Boldly signed by Margot Fonteyn on half-title page. Photographs of Fonteyn included eighteen different ballets over a period of almost two years, action photos of performance or rehearsal. Printed in Great Britain on thick uncoated stock.

266pp, hardcover w/no dj. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover (see photos), faint traces of erased pencil inscription on ffep. Bookstamp of bookseller Paul Elder & Co. applied on lower left corner of inside back cover. Illustrations: Frontispiece image of Walt Whitman, ten additional images/photographs of buildings and paintings. Printed on thick paper stock. Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, sociologist and literary critic. His sixth book, a beautiful copy of this scarce first edition.

Hardcovers with dust jackets in Slipcase. 2 Vol. with 1774 pages.First printing of first edition. Slipcase has faint signs of wear and $60.00 price on bottom crossed with red ink (see photos). Vol. 1 has gap in top of block at pp. 276-277 from bookmark. Otherwise book and dj are both clean and unmarked.
'The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.
The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. The book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and no one single theme dominates.
A very nice presentation of a famous literary achievement.
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