Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bygone Books

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books LLC, 1989. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 1st American ed. 224p. color illus, photographs, bibliography; green boards (HC); quarto. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has sl. crease to spine head and sm. tear to front top corner (in protective mylar)

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,, 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 0252006763 1st edition, 8vo, burgundy cloth hardcover, 324 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has a slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight; jacket has small chips and tears along top edge, sunning to spine and along top edges. The first extensive examination of the fiction of Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, the Baroness de Stael-Holstein (1766-1817), the out-spoken 18th-century French woman writer...

London / NY: Routledge, 1996. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG+. 1st softbound edition, 8vo, 242 pages, b/w illustrations, extensive bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear, a slightly sunned spine. "A lively and revealing historical exploration of the immensely popular ladies' magazines of the 19th and early 20th century; Beetham investigates how these magazines deployed visual images and a range of written forms to define the femininity of their readers and to address their desire.

New York: Mentor Association, 1919. Soft cover. Very Good. From The Mentor's Department of Literature, Volume 7, Number 13, August 15, 1919, Serial No. 185. Large 8vo, stapled wraps, 12 pages, six photogravures laid-in. Condition is VERY GOOD: light edgewear around paper covers and spine, internally clean and tight with all six gravures present and in excellent condition. The full-page gravures include Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gertrude Atherton, Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Mary Roberts Rhinehart; the essay discusses many other American women writers, an incredible amount of information in these 12 pages!

London: Michael Joseph, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+. Folio Miniatures. 1st edition [First published in 1975], 12mo, pictorial boards, 48 pages, b/w illustrations and color plates. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with a small dink to bottom edge of front cover, the coating on the paper is pulling away in a few places in the spine gutter (but is not torn - see image], internally clean and tight. The illustrations are reproductions of works by the great landscape and botanical artists of the day.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1939., 1939. Soft cover. VG. First edition, 8vo, stapled stiff wraps, 33 pages, folded map in pocket. Condition is VERY GOOD: light fading / discoloring to card stock covers, owner name in pencil on fep, internally clean and tight with map in fine condition.

Middletown, NY: The Author, 1956. Soft cover. VG. Topsy Samuelson. A story and coloring book (book is clean) 8vo, stapled wraps, [24] pages. VERY GOOD with light edgewear, light soiling to rear cover, clean throughout.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Fine. There is no publication information - this is a reprint of the 1931 edition by Jonathan Cape, bound in black buckram, published by Houghton Mifflin. 8vo, black cloth, 468 pages, b/w frontispiece, index. The introduction by F. V. Barry is an early literary analysis of Edgeworth [1768-1849]; the selected letters cover 1791-1849. FINE / no jacket [as issued] - this book is brand new.

NY: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. Soft cover. VG. Exhibition auction catalog: February 14, 1980. 8vo, wraps, 64 pages, b/w and color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD: VERY minor edgewear.

NY: Coward McCann, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. Waldman, Neil. 1st edition. 8vo, blue boards / white cloth backstrip, 95p, b/w illus. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: jacket has a few sm. pieces missing from top edge. [ NOT a former library book ]

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, was very popular in her day, her poems read and respected alongside her contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, etc. She had five children in six years, was abandoned by her husband, spent the rest of her life writing in order to survive and was dead by the age of forty-one. You can read more about her at the Chawton House Library website.

NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. VG+. Reprint of edition first published in 1927, edited with a preface, a supplement chronologically arranged and containing hitherto unpublished or uncollected material and a bibliographical note by W. Clark Durant. 8vo, dark green cloth, 352 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket (as issued): nearly new.

New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Susan Hale. Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898 / Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1898. 1st thus ed. 12mo, green cloth with black decoration, gilt titles on spine, 326 pages, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight rubbing at edges, slightly dusty top page edge, internally clean and tight (i.e someone did not do their homework...) One of the books published for the 1898-99 year of The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. "Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature" heads the title page. Includes chapters on Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Charlotte Lennox, Joseph Addison and John Gay; Samuel Richardson and Harriet Byron; Henry Fielding; Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray; Evelina (Frances Burney) and Samuel Johnson; Beau Nash and Bath; and Mrs. [Ann] Radcliffe and her Followers.

NY: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company [ n.d. ]. First Edition . Soft cover. Collectible; VG. Emma Clark.. 1st printing, no date, (a) 311 L.W. on rear cover. 12mo, unpaged stapled pamphlet wraps, three-tone color illustrations. Condition: VERY GOOD with light edgewear, crease at top corner rear cover, pencilled owner name in "This Book belongs to..." Lovely and fun illustrations of some of our favorite nursery rhymes.

New York: Mayflower Books,, 1978. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thomas H. Shepherd. Metropolitan Improvements; or, London in the Nineteenth Century with a Series of Views of the New and Most Interesting Objects, in the British Metropolis and Its Vicinity. From Original Drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd, with Historical, Topographical and Critical Illustrations by James Elmes. Reprint edition of the original published in 1827 by Jones & Co. New York: Mayflower Books, 1978. 4to, red cloth boards, 172 pages, 2 pages index to engravings, b/w engravings throughout. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book Is like new, jacket has light edgewear.

New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Metropolitan Cook Book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Description: 12mo, stapled wraps, 56 pages, index. Covers all manner of recipes: Beverages, Cereals, Quick Breads, Yeast Breads, Cakes, Frostings and Fillings, Cookies, Soups, Fish, Meat, Poultry, Leftovers, various sauces, Eggs, Cheese, Vegetables, Salads / Dressings, Puddings, Dessert Sauces, and Pastry. and more. Vintage advertising cookbook, published and reprinted over a number of years. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight wear. A nice copy.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to, stapled wraps, 52 pages, color and b/w illustrations, centerfold of girl paper dolls on stiff cardboard. Condition is VERY GOOD+: light edgewear to extrmeities, crease along top edge of front cover, internally clean and tight - appears unread. A visual feast of American ephemera, mostly from the Burdick Collection at the MMOA.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1961. Soft cover. VG+. First published March 1952, reprinted with amendments 1961. 12mo, paperwraps, 30 items with b/w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear.

New York: Britannia & Eve / Tri-Arts Press, 1933. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. No additional printings noted, 8vo, stapled wraps, [20] pages, 2 double-sided color plates of Spode china. Conditon is VERY GOOD, with light edgewear to covers, 1" closed tear top front cover.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Herbert Tauss. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. Description: Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. 8vo, green cloth with gilt decoration / green leather backstrip, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark, 536 pages, b/w illustrations by Herbert Tauss. Condition: NEAR FINE / no jacket as issued: book is like new; half-title page is lightly creased. Eliot's classic tale of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver, originally published in 1860 in 3 volumes by William Blackwood.