Search Results: Titles starting with M from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York: Signet / New American Library., 1967. 3rd printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover wear. Age-toning. Creasing. Interior unmarked.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 176 p. Large red 'M' on cover w/ 3 die-cut 'Bullet' holes through front. Literary journalism: Author John Sack follows an Army Company from barracks inspection at Fort Dix to the senseless killing in Vietnam of a 7-year-old girl. Infused with serious reporting, humor, lyrical word-smithing. Considered one of the most important books to "come out of Vietnam" during the 1960s.

London, England.: Titan Books / DreamWorks Animation., 2009. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. New.. Dalton, Alex, and Laguna, Fabio. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 26 cm. Illustrations, color. Cartoon style sequential boxes; voice balloons. Audience: Children/juvenile. Science fiction graphic novel. Movie tie-in, prequel featuring B.O.B., Dr. Cockroach, The Missing Link, and Insectosaurus.

New York.: Ballantine by arr. w/ Alfred A Knopf., 1972. 2nd PB printing. 1971 author copyright.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Cover soiling moderate. Firm binding.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 215 p. White covers w/ blue, red, black. Gold page block dye, 3-sides. Author of "A Clockwork Orange", several other fiction and non-fiction works. A comic invention, "A dazzling book-length exercise in linguistics", New York Post.

Cover jacket subtitle: "The True Story of the Most Secret Counterespionage Organization in the World". Gold woven cloth over spine. Black paper over boards. Gold spine titles. Jacket: white w/ black and red titles, gold crown. Minor wrinkling to jacket. 20th century Great Britain history. Author-journalist specializing in intelligence matters; expert on wartime secret operations.

New York / London.: Summit Books., 1989. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. First end paper missing, torn out. Minor top DJ edge spotting.. Metz, Julie (Jacket design and illustration by).. 1 Gray cloth and tan paper over boards. Illustrated cover. B&W photo section. Audience: General/trade. Non-fiction memoir: Living in Kenya for 6 years, because her newspaper correspondent husband was assigned there 1980-1986, the author chanced upon a hitchhiker and his Maasai village. She came to know them, and this is their story. Rhode Island native Cheryl Bentsen herself brought a journalist's background to her Maasai observations.

Nashua NH.: Roskerry Press., 2011. Self-published.. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author.. Hickman, Kristina J (Cover art by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Illustrated color cover. 293 p. Small grayscale art repeated at start of each chapter. Audience: General/trade. A tale exploring the relationships among a small group of women in the fictional New Hampshire city of Lynton. Drew MacCollough dies suddenly where he is not expected to be. His widow Franny has questions, included where he died. Will his attorney and friend Neil Malone answer the questions or protect his friend's memory? And, there is an ex-wife. Against the background of an Irish-themed bar, the story unfolds.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Moderate cover soiling, top pages foxed. Tightly bound.. 1 392 p. Chapter Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. B&W photo frontispiece & 2 others: railroad. An American Studies classic based on the pastoral bent in defining this nation, and the influences of technology into that imagery. Concentration on 19th century.

Poole, Dorset, UK / Portugal: New Orchard Editions / Printer Portugesa, 1989. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. Caldecott, Randolph (Pictures by). 1 24p. Illustrated glossy paper over boards. Color and brown line art drawings. Brown text. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children's picture rhyming book reprint commemorating the artist Randolph Caldecott, for whom the annually children's book illustration award is named. Leaving his trade as a "quill driving" bank clerk in England, Caldecott (b.1846-d.1886) went to work as a magazine and book illustrator, competing with Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway.

New York.: Random House., 1957. Book Club Edition. Centenary edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Corner bumps, exposing board on 3 of 4. Spine and covers otherwise very nice. Sturdy binding, high quality materials.. 1 Blue cloth and light blue paper with darker blue repeated pattern, and gold GF, over boards. xv, 396 p. 21 cm. BOMC pink flyer tucked inside. Classic French fiction presented by the Book-of-the-Month Club on the 100th Anniversary of its initial publishing, and with a new English translation. This tale is of a provincial woman who could not bear the discrepancy between her romantic dreams and her routine life.

Paris.: Librairie Artheme Fayard., 1957. Trade paperback. Good. Lower front corner creasing. Age-toning to spine, edges. Damp stain, spine.. Bret, Francois (Cover art by).. 1 219 p. Trade paperback. 18cm. Cover in blue and gray. Fiction: in a small country town, each day, as happens around the world. Here is the story of a life lived simply by the author also of L'huile Vierge; Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe; Retour aux Iles; La Desirade. Ships from New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Fawcett Books, 1987. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 B&W photo sections. Index. Organizer of the Los Angeles 1964 Olympics, Ueberroth includes a list of the 'superstars' who were part of that effort. A businessman, when he took on the challenge of bringing the Olympics to LA, the media was pessimistic, 2 successive Presidents were indifferent, terrorists threatened, and the largest peacetime army of volunteers had to raised. He pulled it off.

New York.: The McClure Co., 1908. 6th impression since 1902.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Front free end paper missing. Light corner bumps. Minor cover soiling from handling. Tightly bound. 3 small red pencil marks, end paper.. Cory, F.Y. (Illustrated by).. 1 Gray ribbed cloth over boards, w/ cover art: children. White stamped titles. 5 p. L., 222, [1] p. 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. Contents: The Madness of Philip; A study in piracy; -Bobbert's Merry Christmas; The heart of a child; Ardelia in Arcady; Edgar, the choir boy uncelestial; The little god and Dicky. Bookstore small label inside back cover: Johnson's Bookstore, Springfield (state not noted).

Otto Penzler Books / Macmillan., 1993. First edition. 1st printing. 1st American Edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by author. Inscribed to 'Joanne' and signed by author on title page.. 1 Black cloth and red paper over boards. 610 p. Audience: General/trade. Crime fiction: 'Maestro' Louis Passau, America's greatest living orchestra conductor, is about to be honored on turning 90 by conducting yet again at the event. Scandal threatens. He is accused of having spied for Hitler and of clandestine KGB operations during the Cold War. Enter British SIS agent-runner Herbie Kruger of Gardner's Kruger Trilogy.

HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Light black book cover blemish.. 1 Paper over boards. 304 p. B&W photo section. Audience: General/trade. True Crime / Memoir: Wed as a teen in Brooklyn to a gang member who became a Gambino family operative, widowed after 22 years with her husband's body never found, and finally speaking out, Lynda Milito here tells her story. Themes of Mafia myths; money; betrayal; child molestation; marital abuse; living outside the law, estrangement from children.

Gold script spine and front titles. Deckled outside page block. Clean with light wear to cover, minor spine tilt. Classic autobiography sequel. Rare.

Signet Book, 1981. First edition. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. One light spine crease.. 1 Maggie is leaving her life, her husband, her children, her job. She is finding her new life, her new job, her new relationship with a woman who offered her one kind of happiness and a man who offered her another. Middle years lesbian awakening.

Minneapolis.: Chronimed Publishing., 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light surface wear. Great cover edges and spine.. Heffron, Joe (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Audience: General/trade. Cooking: "spilling the beans" about shopping for, soaking, preparing, and gas-prevention tips. Beans: low-fat, nutrient-rich, disease fighting. Each recipe offers nutrition breakdown, and prep time.

Andrews and McMeel Publishing, 1994. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. N.E. Thing Enterprises (3D illusions by). 0 Glossy illustrated paper over boards. 32 p. Another in a series: Seeemingly a repetitive illustration collage when viewed properly (tops inside) reveals another theme, message, or image. A contemporary full color optical illusion. Answer key in back.

Englewood Cliffs NJ.: Bradbury Press., 1969. First edition. 1st printing. Library edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor darkening to jacket spine. Interior clean. Sturdy, tight.. 1 Lime green illustrated cloth over boards, single color artwork matching 3-color jacket. Pen&Ink art throughout. 97 p. Audience: General/trade. Allegorical tale set at Enigma Headquarters where the pet animals were only theoretically trained by the human veterinarian to "behave better". The pets however were committed to keep the "noxious insect-eaters off their fancy patio and lily pool. A war starts because of injustice. It ends when justice is discovered to be more fun for all. Comic artwork.

New York.: Fawcett / Ballantine Books by arr. w/ Random House., 2001. First edition. 1st Fawcett, 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. Signed by previous owner. Prior bookstore ink stamp, inside cover. No name inked.. 1 Mass market paperback. Glued binding. 370 p. Audience: General/trade. Seven tales of living, dying, and and the terror that lies in between: Ashputtle, Isn't it Romantic, The Ghost Village, Bunny is Good Bread, Porkpie Hat, Hunger, an Introduction, Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff.