Search Results: Titles starting with M from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Samuel French, New York, Acting Edition, 1st Thus, 1982, paperback, 18cm tall, tan wraps. Near Fine with minimal edge wear. Semi-autobiographic work from important South African playwright.

Penguin Random House UK, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Colm Toibin on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 437 numbered pages, 24 x 15 cm, green boards with black title on spine, pictorial wraps of gondolas in Venice. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "No living novelist dramatized artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin, or conveys so well the entanglement of imagination and desire" (GARTH GREENWELL).

Shortstop Press (2nd publication thereof), New York, NY, March 1965, edition limited to 500 copies, initialed by author on cover verso. Chapbook (stapled), 17 x 12 cm, cover artwork by Fielding Dawson, 2 sheets folded and gathered, text of story on 5 pages, including rear cover. In Fine condition. Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) was an important member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets. A charming petite chapbook with a 60s feel.

Emile-Paul Freres, Paris, 4th Edition - a limited edition (volume out-of-sequence), 1932, broché (sewn) paperback, pp. 127, quarto, 19 x 15 x 1.5 cm, pages unopened, in marbled paper wrappers - has a laid-in card with a hand-written address for Godoy as well as a laid-in sheet of paper ( a very literary blurb). poetry in French language. In Good condition with small open tears on front cover, light edge wear, spine backing visible between some gatherings. Armand Godoy was born in Havana in 1880 and died in Lausanne in 1964 - a very intriguing volume form the Cuban Symbolist poet.

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED in characteristic artistic style by Lauren Groff on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 260 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Stylish olive paper (with embossed "LG" in the center) over tan boards, with gray titling along spine. Jacket is printed in yellow, gray-green and black, featuring a starburst effect. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine - minor ding along top edge of upper board. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box.The fourth novel by the author of Arcadia and Fates abd Furies, the story of a seventeen-year-old woman who is cast out of courtly life England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award Finalist.

Hutchinson Heinemann, London, 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Lauren Groff on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 260 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt title in spine, jacket printed in tan, blue and gold with a whimsical illustration of cartoon nuns in a tree, includes publisher's blurb wraparound. A very stylish production. NEW book, unread. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy. The fourth novel by the author of Arcadia and Fates abd Furies, the story of a seventeen-year-old woman who is cast out of courtly life England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award Finalist

*SIGNED by the Author* PUBLISHER: Cowley, 1983; BINDING: Paperback; CONDITION: Very Good: crisp copy, store stamp, clean text, tight binding, light edgewear and small dings to cover;

Avon 29959 ($1.50), First Avon Printing September 1976, "First Paperback Appearance. The Modern Master of Science Fiction." MMPB, 192 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (surreal naked figure walking into distance). Condition: Near Fine. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, minor edgewear. Theodore Sturgeon described Memoirs Found in a Bathtub as "A well-wrought nightmare indeed."Lem himself describes the book as a "combination of grim weirdness with humor". He writes that the novel goes beyond casual political satire: it puts forth the "totalization of the notion of intentionality". Explaining the concept, he writes that everything which humans perceive may be interpreted by them as a message, and that a number of "-isms" are based on interpreting the whole Universe as a message to its inhabitants. This interpretation may be exploited for political purposes and then run amok beyond their intentions.(Courtesy Wikipedia).

Delacorte Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2017, SIGNED by author. Hardcover, black boards with pictorial jacket, pp. 367, 9 x 6 inches, Very Fine in Very Fine. Lee Child is at his brilliant suspenseful best, and is now taking on some serious issues such as the opioid epidemic and veteran issues in his head-on style.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Jeffery Deaver on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half title. Hardcover with dust jacket, 434 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, navy blue boards with silver titling on the spine, jacket illustration of purple building in a blue sky with multi-colored lines of text. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest thriller featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara CA, Septemver 1973. Chapbook (stapled), 11 page story, 24 x 16 cm. Cream pages, pictorial cover with red and black design, includes current Black Sparrow publications on rear. In Near Fine Condition, with very minor creasing and tiny scuff on cover. Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) was an important member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets.

First Canaveral Edition, New York, 1962, illustrated by Grolier award winner Mahlon Blaine, pp. 188, 21 cm tall with red cloth covered boards and black lettering, dust jacket (in mylar) with cover, frontispiece and occasional plates illustrations. Fine in Fine - jacket is bright, book is crisp with sharp corners. First appeared in print under the title of "A Man Without a Soul" in the November, 1913 issue of All-Story Magazine, and was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in March, 1929 under the title "The Monster Men." Classic Canaveral reprint with spectacular science fiction illustrations by tortured soul Blaine.

Greenwood Press, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1985. Hardcover, red boards with silver lettering on front board and spine. 21+ x 14+ x 2 cm. Fine with sharp corners on boards, clean and bright pages.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara CA, October 1976, Signed by Fielding Dawson. Chapbook (stapled), 12 page story, 24 x 16 cm. Cream pages, pictorial cover with red and black design, includes current Black Sparrow publications on rear. In Fine Condition. Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) was an important member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets.

Coleman Heritage Centre, Gurteen Co. Sligo Ireland, First Edition 1998. Sheet music (Irish). Traditional with pictorial wraps, pp. 34, 30 x 21 cm, no CD. In New condition. This compilation of tunes is seen as a learning aid and is part of the development of Traditional Irish Music Schoool at the Coleman Heritage Centre. The versions of the tunes are written in the style they are played in the South Sligo area. This work and research was undertaken by Colm O'Donnell, Gregory Daly and John Carty. Jackie Small edited the publication. Fantastic resource for pure playing.