Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1987 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Large Octavo. 247 pages. Signed by author on half-title. Blue boards and binding with white lettering. Some light stains on top and fore edges of text. Minor creasing at head of jacket spine, rear jacket rubbed..

New York: Moorhead, Bond & Co., 1868. The author, a Scottish geologist, appears to argue that humankind was created by a higher power by adaption of a few basic designs, evolved towards complexity - not in a single 'creation' event; that physical surroundings also alter created beings; that the white race is clearly superior to others, and thus the most recent or highly evolved; that later 'races' are more civilized and will raise up or destroy lower races; and that both geologic and humanistic evolution suggest the antiquity of earth & man is much greater than was commonly supposed. Published to respond to mischaracterisations of two of the author's lectures at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in 1866. First American edition, published in Scotland a year earlier. Hardcover, as pictutred. Light wear, corners bumped & rubbed, a bit of silverfishing to rear cover; ink name & date on free endsheet. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

New York: Mira Schor & Susan Bee, 1995. Journal of contemporary art issues; contributors include Faith Wilding, Lenore Malen, Irving Sandler, Michael Brenson, Debra Bricker Balken, Michi Itami, Pam Longobardi, Misko Suvakovic, Nick Piombino, Tom Knechtel, Corinne Robins, Robert C. Morgan. Paperback, light wear, minor spine fade, rrar cover & a few pages creased. Text clean; 78 pages.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8½" by 11".

New York: Congdon & Lattès, 1980. Collects Stamaty's , title label chipped & manically detailed comic strips from the Village Voice. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Stated first edition (first printing). Oblong paperback, color covers. Hint of creasing to covers, corners ever-so-slightly curled. Text clean; 96 pages.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Mark Alan Stamaty. 11" by 7".

Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Lexington Books, 1999. Scholarly study of Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy' and the classical origins of some of his political theories. Stout paperback, as pictured. Light wear, ink name. Text clean; ix, blank, 367 pages; index, bibliography, notes.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5¾" by 9".

New York: Belmont Books, 1963. Six short stories, two featuring the same character, a film director battling madness; others on alcoholism, some humor, Twilight Zone-style twists. Pocket-sized paperback, as pictured; Belmont 90-286, a paperback original. Light wear, light creases along covers by spine, pages tanned.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4¼" by 7¼".

Königstein im Taunus: Karl Robert Langewiesche / Hans Köfter, 1965. Reprint of this classic anthology of German children's verse & songs, 'The Blue Book'. Text in German. Small hardcover in jacket. Light wear to book, jacket shows some edgwear, minor chipping. Text in German.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.

Cythiana, TX: Purple House Press, 2001. Reprint of this first collection of stories of technology-tinkering & pranking boys, first published in Boys' Life magazine. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; third printing thus, "40th Anniversary Edition with original text restored". Light wear to book & jacket; near fine. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Geer. Octavo.

[Madison]: Dane County Historical Society, 1977. Centennial reprint of this early history of Wisconsin's capital city & surrounding towns, firs published in 1877. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling & decoration. Light general wear, covers show a little mottling, minor foxing to endsheets & page edges. Text clean; [4], 664 pages + 8 pages ads as in the original; with 35 page index prepared for the reprint by Gladys Dieruf & Ruth Gordon.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5¾" by 7¾".

Madison: Wisconsin State Journal, 1939. Cass was a popular columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal from the late 1920s to early 1940s and local personality. This is one of an annual series collecting tidbits educational, humorous, political, social and local from her column; reflecting the tenor and mores of life and times in depression Madison and the Capitol: "Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright once found her little daughter Iovanna, warming her hands between the cakes in a stack of buckwheat cakes on her plate in a Denver hotel one winter morning." "There are some people named Halmer in Fond du Lac who built themselves 17 fine large clothes closets and then built a house around them." Stapled pamphlet, black & red cover illustration by John Steuart Curry, printed directly from the lithographic plates upon which Curry drew; thus, an original lithograph by Curry. Shows some wear, covers lightly foxed with a somewhat obtrusive stain to the lower front cover, minor insect damage to… Read More

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1934 Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo. 229 pages. Analysis of statistics about the city of Madsion, Wisconsin. Number 21 in University of Wisconsin Studies in the Social Sciences and History. Wear to head and tail of spine; upper corners bumped; foxing on bottom edge. Text is clean and binding is tight..

Madison: Pickarts & Nicodemus, 1900. 12 color views of Madison attached to linen hinges, copyright by the Detroit Photographic Co.; including university buildings, the lakeshore path (with bicycle!), view of and from Bascom Hall, the State Capitol building, lakes, Picnic Point, panorama of the city. Softcover, full red buckram with yapp edges, gilt titling. Shows some wear, light creasing, mouse-nibbling to the edges, waterstain to the inside of the front cover, not affecting the contents; light smudging; the plates showing the Capitol and three lake views (two leaves) are creased; small spot to the edge of another plate. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 9" by 6".

Madison: Wisconsin State Journal, 1937. Cass was a popular columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal from the late 1920s to early 1940s and local personality. This is one of an annual series collecting tidbits educational, humorous, political, social and local from her column; reflecting the tenor and mores of life and times in depression Madison and the Capitol: "Frank Lloyd Wright once crossed the Pacific in the same stateroom with two revolutionists who ate asafetida continually to prevent seasickness, which is one reason Mr. Wright doesn't much care for revolutionists." INSCRIBED by the author to a local family inside the front cover. Stapled pamphlet, red line drawing covers by Carl Anderson, featuring his 'Henry', et al. Light wear, covers a bit foxed & lightly stained; some staining and insect damage to pages 31-34. Text clean; 64 pages.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Good. 4" by 9".

Madison: Wisconsin State Journal, 1933. Cass was a popular columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal from the late 1920s to early 1940s and local personality. This is one of an annual series collecting tidbits educational, humorous, political, social, and local from her column; reflecting the tenor and mores of life and times in depression Madison and the Capitol: "In one of the banks in a small town near Madison the big brass signs saying "LOANS," which, polished and gleaming, used to be as important a part of the bank as the cashier himself, now tarnished with neglect, are used as door stops." Cass was a popular columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal from the late 1920s to early 1940s and local personality. This is one of an annual series collecting tidbits educational, humorous, political, social and local from her column; reflecting the tenor and mores of life and times in depression Madison and the Capitol: "Article 4, section 24, of the constitution of Wisconsin… Read More

London: Max Reinhardt, 1959. History of food giant Heinz. Light wear to book; jacket edgeworn with some chipping & short tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by David Knight. Octavo.

New York: David McKay, 1953. Pre-teen girls have adventures in oil-field Texas. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, full orange cloth, navy titling & decoration. Light wear to book; page edges spotted/foxed; jacket rubbed & tanned with minor spine fade, a few short tears, chips. Text clean; [10], 148 pages, line drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Charlotte Baker. Octavo.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. Octavo. Rear corners bumped, ink stains on bottom edge & scattered spots on page edges; small abraded area on front fly leaf; price clipped jacket. 309 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page..

New York: Colophon Corporation, 1991. Story of a high school magician attacked by young hoodlums, the trial of one hoodlum, with a shocking finale. Banned in Montello, Wisconsin! Full black cloth, gilt titling. Light general wear to book and jacket; tiny spot on bottom edge. Bookplate on first page, INSCRIBED by the author 'For Bob Williams'; #904 of an unspecified number of the 20th anniversary edition. . Inscribed by the Author. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 8½".

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. Scholarly study of the Kalauna people of Papua New Guinea, their mythology, beliefs, and social systems. Hardcover, full black cloth. Light wear, lacking the jacket. Text clean. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1965. Reprints the text of the earliest form of the Magna Carta, from the original copy lying in Lincoln Cathedral, translation taken, "with slight revision", from 'Facsimiles of National Manuscripts', 1865. Forced upon King John by rebellious Barons led by Robert Lord FitzWalter, the Magna Carta represents the first statement of individual liberty in Western Europe and the beginning of the rule of law there; 1965 saw its 750th anniversary. With frontispiece showing FitzWalter's Arms and King John's, separated by the cross of Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury. Finely bound miniature book, one of 1250 printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen using Eric Gill's Perpetua type on handmade 'Hayle' paper, bound in full smooth beige leather by Proost & Brandt; gilt titling, blind tooling, all edges gilt. Light wear, small stains to covers. Text clean; 70 pages including the colophon.. Limited. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read More