Search Results: Titles starting with M from Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller

London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, 1886. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. SIGNED by the author and inscribed to James Reid, "Oct. 1886", possibly Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet and physician to three monarchs. First edition. Vol. I: 8vo; 233pp +[1] [5pp publisher's ads]; gilt-stamped vignette and title to navy cloth, black stamped border; yellow glazed endpapers; author's inscription and signature to verso ffep along with other ownership in ink; colophon to title page; ownership in ink to verso title page; light wear to board edges, acid burn with offset of signatures to title page, light soiling to rear eps; very good. Vol. II: 4to; numbered plates to XXXIII plus 2 additional plates, printed one side only; gilt-stamped vignette and title to navy cloth, black stamped border; yellow glazed endpapers; light shelf-wear to boards; author's inscription and signature to verso ffep along with other ownership in ink; colophon to title page; ownership in ink to verso title page; near fine.… Read More

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1883. Stiff wraps. Very good. 4to; [16pp]; stiff glazed color pictorial wrapper, ownership in light ink to front top margin; publisher's string binding; pictorial title page on verso front wrapper, ownership in decorative ink on title page; chromolithograph illustrations every page with verse, all within a yellow border; chipping to wrapper edges, 2 ½" long chip to rear wrapper at fold, 1" closed tear to wrapper fore edge and first leaf, some light finger soiling in margins; illustrations are bright and binding tight; very good minus. Located in 5 WorldCat libraries. Bright and humorous chromolithographs of monkeys in circus acts, with an accompanying titled rhyme. The sixteen illustrations represent circus performances with anthropomorphic monkeys, including scenes of spinning dishes, jumping through a hoop on horseback, racing chariots, walking on a tight-rope, performing as a classical musical group, lovers riding in a carriage, a carriage accident, and a dinner… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1980. Pictorial boards. Fine/very good. James Thurber. 8vo; 253pp; cream cloth over board with stamped illustration to front and back covers and gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; colored endpapers; owner's book plate to front pastedown; lime green slipcase; fine in very good slipcase. Classic humor and cartooning by James Thurber.