Search Results: Titles starting with M from LaCelle Rare Books

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct 1919 date on title page, etc.  SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; last few pages have small tears; light wear; no jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Photographs (Illustrated with). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1921). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 275 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only slight wear; dust jacket is worn with small chips along edges; price not clipped ($2.50).  Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 - November 25, 1920) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, which advocated women's rights, and she lived to see the women of Kentucky vote for the first time in the presidential election of 1920. She also initiated progressive reforms for compulsory school attendance and child labor. She founded many civic organizations, notably the Kentucky Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis, an affliction from which she had personally… Read More

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1870. Wraps. Fair. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [n.d. circa 1870]. Original wraps. Illustrations in color. 8 1/2" x 5 1/4".  Fair. Looks like it's been resewn; pages and covers have small tears along edges; a few smudges; worn.  A wonderful antique McLoughlin Brothers ABC book from circa 1870. Scarce. Sold for $259 at auction in 2005.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1930. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Early Printing. 341 pages. Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; moderate wear and a couple of small bumps; slight spine slant; dust jacket is fairly clean with small chips and tears along edges.   Lefevre's famous biography of John K. Wing, a senior partner of Bronson and Barnes, a major Boston stockbrokerage, whose approach to the business provided a contrast to that of Jesse Livermore, the veiled subject of his earlier book. Scarce in dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with all first issue points. 495 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket. Rear hinge cracked else tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary inscription on a blank page - "Mr. Ravcoe[?] Hines / a gift from / Hon. Wm. E. Chandler / Dec. 12, 1911 / by the hand of his friend / SWC" - I'd like to think that the friend here was Willa Cather with the writer of the inscription mixing up her initials but who knows; moderate wear and bnumping to corners but still nice; dust jacket is quite worn with several chips; mostly backed with brown paper; some tears and soil. Cather's fourth book. David Stouck, in his introduction to the University of Nebraska Press edition, wrote that Cather's portrayal of Eddy "contains some of the finest portrait sketches and reflections on human nature that Willa… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1952 date on title page and correct dust jacket blurbs. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; moderate wear; dust jacket is clean with several tears and chips along edges; price clipped.  Classic picturebook. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Fair. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 97 pages + ads.  Fair. Tight binding; moderate foxing; some soil to endpapers; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; owner stamp on another blank page; covers soiled and worn. An early printing of the AMA's code of ethics and etiquette. Scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: Andre Deutsch, (1970). Third Edition. 872 pages.  Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; spine a bit cocked; light wear; dust jacket is a bit worn with several large tears.  The most important bibliography/checklist of Medical books.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946. Early Printing. WITH ETCHING SIGNED BY HANDFORTH IN PENCIL (TIPPED IN). Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; contemporary owner's name on half title; ETCHING SIGNED BY HANDFORTH IN PENCIL TIPPED IN ON FRONT ENDPAPER along with a newspaper clipping about Handforth; more newspaper clippings about Handforth opposite of title page; title page a bit browned; slight wear; Dust Jacket is very worn with large chips and tears. Price not clipped ($2.00). Caldecott Medal Award Winner. Very scarce with signed etching. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & J.H. Power, 1852. Hardcover. Good. Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & J.H. Power, 1852.  Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 390 pages. Frontispiece. Good. Tight binding; pages have foxing; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; some wear to covers.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1895. Hardcover. No Book/Fair. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, (1895). DUST JACKET ONLY - NO BOOK. Dust Jacket is Fair. Quite worn with some chipping and tears. Stained. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Hopkinsville, Kentucky: The Historical Record Association, 1939. Hardcover. Fair or better/No Jacket. Hopkinsville, Kentucky: The Historical Record Association, [n.d. circa 1939]. FOUR VOLUMES, COMPLETE SET. FIRST EDITION. 1478 pages. Fair or better. Hinges very cracked; one reinforced with booktape; clean pages; some wear. Scarce history of the state of Mississippi. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: W.H. Allen, 1866. Hardcover. Good. London: W.H. Allen, 1866. FIRST EDITION. Later cloth. 278 pages + ads. Good. Tight binding; lacking original endpapers and half-title page; rebound in later cloth; some foxing to pages; light wear to covers. An important and scarce history of the Mughal Empire of India.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1838. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 11 1/4" x 8 3/4". 178 pages + appendix. 24 plates, 6 of them hand-colored by Edward Lear (as called for) as well as a number of text illustrations. Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages; foxing to endpapers; H. Bradley Martin's copy with his bookplate on front endpaper; moderate wear. Thomas Campbell Eyton (10 September 1809 25 October 1880) was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories. Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles Darwin. After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall. References: Nissen IVB 307; Mullens & Swan p.203. A very scarce… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Hardcover. Fair/Good Box. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1946). FIRST EDITION. Contains all the animal food pieces, which is very rare. Fair in Good Box. Cardboard binding split into two pieces (someone like Brian Anthony could repair and restore to almost new); all animal food pieces in little container; box taped at botoom; one corner flap of box lacking. A very scarce toy book by the author of Pat the Bunny. Especially rare with all the food pieces. Last example I saw listed was $3500. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Reliance Newspaper Syndicate, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. New York: Reliance Newspaper Syndicate, (1913). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Very Good in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; light foxing to pages; more to endpapers; only slight wear; dust jacket has slight foxing and moderate wear; a nice example. First edition of an early book on movie acting, filled with photographs and instructions for actresses and actors. Quite scarce in dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Philadelphia: Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co., 1892. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 270 pages. Illustrated. Fair or better. Hinges very cracked, especially in front; binding slightly shaken; clean pages; some wear to corners. Scarce regimental; none on current market.  The 114th Pennsylvania was the brain-child of Charles H. T. Collis, an Irish immigrant who settled in Philadelphia becoming a prominent young lawyer. Collis initially raised only a small company of men calling them the "Zouaves d'Afrique" which served while attached to other regiments. They saw action in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and the Battle of Antietam. The "Zouaves d'Afrique" were much admired for their military bearing and prowess in battle to the point that it was decided to raise a full-sized regiment which was given the numeric designation of 114th Volunteer Infantry. Like other Zouave… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with FIRST EDITION stated on copyright page, as well as correct price and jacket blurbs.  Very Good in almost Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; moderate wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with a few very small tears and chips; price not clipped ($2.50).  First edition of Burrough's account of his boyhood and youth. Quite scarce in dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

(Philadelphia: I.W. Klopp Co.), 1918. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. (Philadelphia: I.W. Klopp Co., 1918). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Original cloth, lettered in gilt.  216 pages. Illustrated by author. Fair or better. Hinges quite cracked else tight binding; contemporary owner's inscription on front endpaper; pages fairly clean; covers worn; some splitting along rear of backstrip; no jacket.  Shackelford was a African-American poet born in Canada. Quite scarce.   SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, (1912). FIRST EDITION. Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with lots of chipping to spine and much rubbing to folds.  Queen's Quorum title. Very scarce in jacket.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .