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    Macartney, Clarence E.:  Lincoln And His Cabinet.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in its original red-brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 5/8 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. 366 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with plates from black and white photographs or engravings. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32845  $45.00



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    MacCarthy, Cormac:  Cities of the Plain.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the author's initials in gilt on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The third volume in The Border Trilogy. 292 pages of text.
    TB31457  $25.00



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    MacD, Dixon, Merkt with Mark H. Lytle and Richard M. Grave:  Shang A Biography of Charles E. Wheeler.  Spanish Fork, Utah: Hillcrest Publications, Inc., (1984). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in brick red buckram cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a minor rubbing mark at the upper fore corner of the front panel. Boldly signed by the author on the fly title page. 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. A handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB26998  $150.00



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    MacDonald, George:  At The Back Of The North Wind.  Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919. First edition thus, first issue.. Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine, gilt tool work with a color, illustrated paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. Without a dust jacket. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 7 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the spine.. Containing 342 pages and illustrated with eight full color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith who also provided the illustrations for the end sheets and title page. Overall an exceedingly clean, handsome and bright copy.
    TB33433  $60.00



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    [Macgregor, Lieut.-General Sir Duncan]:  A Narrative Of The Loss Of The Kent East Indiaman, By Fire, In The Bay Of Biscay, On The 1st March, 1825 In A Letter To A Friend..  Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1825. First Edition. In new, dark brown, full leather covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A 16mo of 7 by 4 1/4 inches with just the slightest rubbing at the upper fore corner of the front board. The contents are in very good condition as the pages are uniformly tanned and the title page shows an early prior owner's name and date and notes the author's name and regiment. Without a dust jacket. 78 pages of text which includes a 14 page appendix reproducing letters of gratitude and approbation following the disaster. The ship Kent (an East Indiaman vessel) was bound for Bengal and China with 641 persons on board the many of whom were 364 soldiers of the 31st Regiment of Foot. The Kent was caught in a violent storm during which a cask of spirits broke and caught fire engulfing the ship. The brigantine Cambria was near enough to see a distress signal from the Kent. Coming to the Kent's aid her crew and passengers helped rescue 550 survivors. 14 seamen were rescued by a second ship coming to the aid of the Kent. In all 81 persons lost their lives.
    TB29643  $150.00



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    Mackay, Malcolm S.:  Cow Range And Hunting Trail.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. An ex-library copy in near fine condition in a recent binding of simulated leather made of black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine which has five embossed bands. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 3/8 inches with new end sheets and headbands at the head and heel of the spine. The sole library marking is on the title page with an embossed library stamp. Without a dust jacket, but the book is contained within a fine black cloth covered slipcase the cloth of which matches the book's cloth covering. 243 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from art by Charles Russell and 37 plates from black and white photographs and drawings by Charles Russell. (Howes, M-120; Adams -Hurd, 1411; Rader, 2304)
    TB31494  $300.00




  • Maclean, Alistar:  Caravan to Vaccares.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in very clean, charcoal colored cloth boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel & light rubbing to the spine ends. The author's 13th novel.
    TB07573  $9.80




  • MacLeod, Robert:  The Medicine Bull.  New York: John Day Company, 1963. First Edition. Fine in linen covered boards with black text on the front board and on the spine with dust staining on the top edge and fore edge. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/2" rent in the sine area and rubbed at the spine ends and corners. A story based on fact about a young Indian brave, Red Bird, who seeks the magic from the "Medicine Buffalo" which will save his people from the reach of the white man.
    TB01150  $45.00



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    MacLeod, D. Peter:  Northern Armageddon The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with tan text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with printed end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 400 pages followed by two pages of illustration credits. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art throughout the text.
    TB28623  $35.00



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    Macy, Obed:  The History Of Nantucket; Being A Compendious Account Of The First Settlement Of The Island By The English.  Boston: Hilliard, Gray And Co., 1835. First Edition. Very good+ in its near original blue-green, blind embossed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches with the unfortunate fact that the spine has been stamped up-side-down with gilt text. The cloth over the lower tips of the boards and one small spot on the heel of the spine is worn through. tips of the boards and in a few places on The contents are quite clean and free of foxing; however the end sheets do show mild foxing. 300 pages of text followed by 8 pages of ads by the publisher. Illustrated with a frontispiece map (with spots of foxing) of the Island and one plate from an engraving. Wright Howes considers this title "mildly rare". (Howes, M-195; Sabin, 43687)
    TB32532  $550.00



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    Maddow, Rachel:  Prequel An American Fight Against Fascism.  New York: Crown, {2023}. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold silver text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 382 pages including an index, photo credits, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with black and white images from photographs.
    TB33090  $35.00



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    MadLean, Alistair:  Caravan to Vaccares.  Garden City: Doubleday & Comany, Inc., 1970. Reprint. Near fine in black cloth covered boards with red text on the spine and front board. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with light wear and short closed tears to the ends of the spine area and with a one inch closed tear to the rear panel. 259 pages of text.
    TB31311  $10.00




  • Magoun, F. Alexander:  The Frigate Constitution & Other Historic Ships.  New York: Bonanza Books, 1928, 1977. First Bonanza Book Edition of 1977. Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with a prior owner's name on the front end paper. In a fine jacket with only a hint of soiling on the front panel. 155 pages containing an index, 30 illustrated plates, 16 plans of ships and 63 detailed illustrations of a viking ship, the Santa Maria, the Mayflower, the Constitution, the Flying Cloud, and the Bluenose.
    TB14477  $30.00



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    Mahan, A. T.:  The Major Operations Of The Navies In The War Of American Independence.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. Very good+ in its original, dark blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn through, rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the boards and a 1/3 inch ding to the fore edge of the front board and a 1913 Christmas note from a previous owner on the second free end page and with repairs to the rear hinge. Many of the pages of this copy have not been opened. Without a dust jacket. 280 pages including an index and glossary and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white photograph and with plates of major personages from earlier works of art throughout as well as maps and battle plans and a fold-out map of the North Atlantic Ocean at the rear of the book. (Gephart, 7456)
    TB32864  $225.00



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    Mailer, Norman:  Marilyn A Biography. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers.  New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., (1973). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright white cloth covered boards with brown text stamped on the spine and with blind embossing of "Marilyn" at the top edge of the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 9 1/8" with brown end sheets with faint dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on a special label which is adhered to the first free end page. 271 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs taken by numerous photographers taken from Norma Jean's baby picture to 1962. A beautiful, tight and clean copy with no previous ownership markings of any kind.
    TB27824  $225.00



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    Mailer, Norman:  Some Honorable Men Political Conventions 1960-1972.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1976). Second Printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver and red colored text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with flecking of the colors at the ends of the spine area and to the areas over the tips of the boards. Simply signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 499 pages of text. A collection of essays written by Mailer covering the presidential campaigns of 1960 through 1972.
    TB29208  $60.00



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    Mailer, Norman:  The Naked and the Dead.  New York: Rinehart and Company and by The First Edition Library, 1948, 1976. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint. Fine in black cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2". In a fine, facsimile, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a near fine slip case covered with light gray cloth with reproductions of the front and rear panels of the dust jacket on the panels of the slip case. 721 pages of text. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book to include all the issue points that were present in the original first printing.
    TB24010  $50.00



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    Mailer, Norman:  The Time Of Our Time.  New York: Random House, (1998). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and red paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and the author's initials blind stamped on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page without an inscription or date. 1286 pages of text.
    TB29209  $40.00




  • Malamud, Bernard:  The Tenants.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Gir, 1971. First Edition, First printing. Fine in organge cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with a tiny rub mark at the base of the spine area A novel dealing with "a portrait of the terror and violence of racial confrontation". The author's eighth work of fiction. The author has twice won the National Book Award.
    TB05649  $24.50




  • Malcarne, Donald:  Houses Of Essex Volume II.  Ivoryton (Essex), Conn.: The Ivoryton Library Association, (2007). First Edition. Fine in printed, heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 179 pages including a list of photographic credits and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of homes in Essex and in Ivoryton. Nearly every page in the book is devoted to a single historic home and provides a history of the building.
    TB29155  $65.00



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    Malcomson, Thomas, and Robert Malcomson:  HMS Detroit The Battle For Lake Erie.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1990). First Edition, First Pringint. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 11 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a minor 1/4 inch closed tear at the upper edge of the spine area. 151 pages containing picture credits, index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps, line drawings, images from black and white photographs and earlier works of art.
    TB31328  $40.00




  • Malley, Captain Thierry:  Glimpses Of The Barren Lands.  New York: Revillon Freres, 1930. First Edition, First printing. Very good- in 1/4 light green cloth and paper covered boards with red text on the front board and with light gray end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" Without a dust jacket. 142 pages of text illustrated with seven engravings on individual pages. A collection of seven true stories of the far north (Canada) including: Glimpses of the Barren Lands; The Battle of the Drums; Some Men I have Met In the North; Three Moose; My Friend Kakoot; Fur and Traders; and, When the Caribou Failed.
    TB23781  $10.00



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    Malone, Dumas:  Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty..  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt seal on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with three short closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area with related creasing and light rubbing and with rubbing and flecking of the colors at the lower corners of the spine area and at the fore corners of the front panel. 545 pages including an index.
    TB28661  $15.00




  • Malone, Michael P. and Richard B. Roeder:  Montana A History of Two Centuries.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976. First Edition. Near fine in red-orange cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with a light remainder spray to the top edge of the text block. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area and at the fore corners of the panels. 352 pages containing an index, bibliographical essays, text and illustrated with maps and three sections of photographs.
    TB16475  $40.00



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    Maloney, Edward T. and Uwe Feist:  Chance Vought Corsair.  Fallbrook, Calif.: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1967. . Very good in printed, heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches with wear to the ends of the spine area and around the edges of the wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, but containing 50 pages with four pages of color drawings and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.
    TB29013  $10.00




  • Malouf, David:  The Conversations at Curlow Creek.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket.
    TB06002  $9.80



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    Malzberg, Barry:  Beyond Apollo.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1991. Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark gray leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both covers. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2". The end sheets are printed paper with a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. Containing 138 pages of text. With artwork by David Deitrick and with an introduction by George Zebrowski. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB25936  $50.00



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    Mamet, David, and Donald Sultan:  Warm and Cold.  New York: The Grove Press, (1988). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout.
    TB29997  $15.00



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    Mandela, Nelson:  Long Walk To Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.  London: Little, Brown & Company (UK), 1994. Signed, Limited Edition. Fine in full, dark green morocco leather with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with all edges of the text block gilt and with map end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is within a dark green, cloth covered slip case. One of only 250 copies issued, bound in full leather and signed by the author. This copy is numbered 147 and signed by Nelson Mandela on the limitation page. 630 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with three sections of images from black and white photographs. There are no marks, notations or any prior ownership markings in this copy except for the signature and number noted above.
    TB32702  $5600.00



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    Manly, William L.:  Death Valley in '49.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1927. First thus. An ex-library in very near fine condition in green cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge with minor rubbing the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and tips of the boards. There is a call number written in ink on the margin of page v and a library pocket on the rear paste down. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. to The gilt on the front board is bright and clean. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. With a tipped-in fold-out map preceding page 3 which is in perfect condition. Laid-in at the front of the book is a compliments of the season card from Thomas E. Connelley, President of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. First published in book form in 1894 under the title Death Valley in '49 The autobiography of a Pioneer. The 25th volume in the series and the last to be bound in dark green cloth. This copy has no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33158  $85.00




  • Manners, David X.:  The Great Tool Emporium.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979. . Near fine in yellow paper covered boards with light soiling on the front board. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 407 pages containing an index, text, photographs and illustrations through-out.
    TB11663  $8.40



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    Mansell, William, and Gary Low:  North American Birds of Prey.  New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with silver text and decorations on the spine and on the front board with the pages of the text slightly waved from humidity. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 176 pages including a bibliography. A quarto measuring 11 3/4" tall by 9 7/8" deep. Illustrated with 27 full color plates and numerous color drawings within the text.
    TB22232  $25.00



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    Marcy, Randolph B.:  The Prairie Traveler A Handbook For Overland Expeditions.  n.p.: Westvaco Corporation, 1961. Limited Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 decorated black leather and printed paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine with embossed decorations, map end sheets and with the top edge of the text block stained light yellow. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a fine, paper covered slip case. 220 pages of text illustrated with line drawings. Originally published by Harper & Bros. in 1859 "as a manual and guide for the tenderfoot undertaking overland treks through the untamed West." (from the book's foreword) The Christmas 1961 issue by Westvaco which is the forth volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. 260 pages of text illustrated with with two color frontispieces.
    TB26004  $125.00



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    Marcy Crofut, Florence S.:  Guide To The History And The Historic Sites Of Connecticut.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spines Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 1/8 inches. Both are in good, unclipped dust jackets with numerous chips and closed tears. Volume I contains 459 pages of text illustrated with a fold-out map and images from black and white photographs. Volume II contains pages 461 to 973 which includes an index to both volumes and is illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs.
    TB31603  $200.00



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    Marlow, A. W.:  The Early American Furnituremaker's Manual.  New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., c 1973. Third Printing of 1974. Fine in black cloth covered boards with silver color text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 130 pages of text illustrated with scaled and dimensioned line drawings.
    TB26029  $12.00



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    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:  Strange Pilgrims.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with bold silver colored text stamped on the spine. An octavo measuring 8" by 5 3/8" with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the first free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages of text. A collection of twelve short stories. Translated from the Spanish by Eith Grossman.
    TB28378  $20.00



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    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:  The General In His Labyrinth.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine. An octavo measuring 8" by 5 3/8" with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the third free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages of text. Translated from the Spanish by Eith Grossman.
    TB28379  $20.00



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    Marryat, Captain Frederick:  The Pacha Of Many Tales; Percival Keene; The Mission Or Scenes In Africa; The Privateersman; and, The King's Own (Author's Connoisseur Edition).  Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d. (1898). Limited Edition, Author's Connoisseur Edition. All five volumes of the original set of 24 volumes are in very good+ to very good- condition all in 3/4 red, morocco leather and red, marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spines with gilt text and gilt tool work in the compartments. The top edges of the text blocks are gilt and the end pages match the marbled paper on the . boards. Each is an octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 with the leather rubbed and worn at the tips of the boards. The volume of The King's Own has its upper fore corner of the front board chewed away to a depth of 3/8ths of an inch. Each volume is a limited edition of 74 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, and each is identified as number 27. Each volume contains from 287 to 397 pages and each is illustrated with double frontispiece and multiple plates from engravings. The contents are all clean, free of foxing and tanning and with no prior ownership markings. Each contains a general introduction by W. L. Courtney.
    TB31646  $275.00



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    Marryat, Captain [Frederick]:  A Diary In America With Remarks On Its Institutions.  New York: Wm. H. Colyer, 1839. First Edition by Colyer. Very good+ in original 1/4 brown cloth and tan paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 4 3/8 inches with light wear and rubbing to the tips of the boards and foxing to the end sheets and with an early prior owner's name at the upper edge of the title page. Without a dust jacket. 263 pages of text. Complete in one volume. The author records his impressions of his travels through the US and Canada during the years 1837 and 1838. (Howes, M-300; Sabin 44696; Clark, III, 204)
    TB28529  $80.00



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    Marshall, Frank J.:  Marshall's Chess Swindles Comprising Over One Hundred and Twenty-Five Of His Best Tournament and Match Games At Chess.  New York: The American Chess Bulletin, 1914. . Poor in its original dark red, ribbed, cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the front board. An octavo o 8 3/4 by 6 inches with the text block dis-bound from the boards as a result of the front and rear hinges broken and with the signed, first free end page, frontispiece and title page loose from its binding. The remainder of the pages are tight and clean. This copy is signed and inscribed on the first free end page by the author as follows: "Attleboro, Mass.| Jan 12th, 1923 | To | Dr. J. L. McCarthy | For his fine game | this evening against | Frank J. Marshall | author." 130 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece with portraits from photographs of four chess masters of the time and a few game board images. A good candidate for repair and re-backing.
    TB32295  $350.00



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    Marshall, Paule:  Soul Clap Hands and Sing.  New York: Antheneum, 1961. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 red-orange cloth and brick red paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine, orange end sheets and the top edge of the text block is stained pink. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with just a touch of dampness staining to the rear flap. 177 pages of text. A collection of four short novellas. The author's third book. A clean, tight and unread copy.
    TB25089  $60.00




  • Marshall, James Wilson:  From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1993. First thus. Near fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text & decorations with a gilt top edge. There is a small 3/8" long but very narrow paint stain (?) at the joint to the front board. The Lakeside Classic release of 1993. Co-authored with Edward Gould Buffum. Both authors grew up in California. Each of their books were first published in 1870 and 1850.
    TB22359  $20.00



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    Marshall & Howard Peckham, Douglas W.:  Campaigns of the American Revolution An Atlas of Manuscript Maps.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1976. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 13 by 9 3/4 inches. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 138 pages containing an index, text and illustrated with 58 maps and sketches of principal battles fought during the American Revolution.
    TB32765  $40.00



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    Martel, P.:  A New Plan of Fort Louis of ye Rhein - Le Fort Louis du Rhein.  : , July 28, 1744. . A map in fine to near fine condition professionally washed and backed under the supervision of the Clements Library. It measuring 13 3/8" across the bottom edge (while the image size is 13 1/16" (border to border) by 11 1/8" tall with the image measuring 10 11/16" tall (border to border). It illustrates the classic Vauban-style fortification which presumably played a role in the European conflicts of 1744. It may have originally been published in an English magazine or work on military fortifications. There is a watermark of the fleur-de-lis embedded in the paper.
    TB18622  $175.00



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    Martin, Joseph Plumb:  Private Yankee Doodle Being A Narrative Of Some Of The Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings Of A Revolutionary Soldier.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1962). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in salmon colored cloth covered boards with a gilt on red title block on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches with detailed map end sheets with a prior owner's name blackened out at the upper edge of the first free end page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with the spine area slightly tanned and with a 1/4 inch deep chip across the lower edge of the spine area. 305 pages including an index and text. Edited by George F. Scheer. A first person account of the author's experiences as a young soldier in the American Revolution during which he participated in the Battle of Brooklyn, New York, Harlem and White Plains. Then as a member of the Continental Army he fought in battles throughout the rest of the war until the army was disbanded in 1783. (from the editor's introduction). This title is a republication of the original narrative published in 1830 anonymously under a very similar title.
    TB33424  $125.00



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    Martin, Don :  Don Martin's Droll Book.  Milwaukee, Oregon: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., (1992). First Paperback Edition. Fine in heavy printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8 1/4". Without a dust jacket as issued. 126 pages of comics. A perfect copy with no signs of rot, rodents or any other anti-social behavior.
    TB24708  $20.00




  • Martin, Albro:  Railroads Triumphant The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 yellow cloth and paper covered boards with metallic red text on the spine. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. 428 pages including an index, text and illustrations.
    TB17146  $8.40



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    Marvel, IK.:  Reveries of A Bachelor: or, A Book Of The Heart.  Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1893. . Very good+ in purple cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. A 24mo measuring 5 3/4" by 4" with an early prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. A collection of 29 short stories. 306 pages of text followed by two pages of ads by the publisher.
    TB24161  $10.00



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    Masefield, John:  The Dream.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Signed, limited first Edition. Very good in 1/4 black cloth and decorated blue-gray paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine and on the front board. The paper label on the spine has a number of very small chips around the edges none of which impact on the text. Without a dust jacket. With woodblock illustrations by Judith Masefield. One of only 750 signed and numbered copies printed and sold and this one is identified as copy 281 and signed by the author on the verso of the second free end paper. A small quarto measuring 9 5/8" tall by 56 1/2" deep containing 37 pages of text.
    TB19427  $30.00




  • Masefield, John:  The Locked Chest/The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight.  New York: The Macmillan Co., 1916. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in paper covered boards with a title block on the front board with light soiling and foxing. Without a dust jacket but protected with a plastic covering. Copy 621 of 1,000 limited edtion copies. The frontispiece is a photgraph of the author. Two one act plays presented on 114 pages.
    TB05546  $20.00




  • Masefield, John:  The Taking of the Gry.  New York: The Macmillan Co., 1934. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with decorated map end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket lightly worn at the spine ends and a narrow chip at the top of the front panel. The author, better known as a Poet Laureate, produced this tale that takes place on the Eastern Spanish Main.
    TB05580  $6.72



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    Mason, A. Hughlett:  The Journal Of Charles Mason And Jeremiah Dixon.  Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969. First Edition. Near fine in light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A quarto of 11 3/4 by 9 1/4 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the heel of the spine. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with light soiling to the panels and chipping at the ends of the spine area which has been reinforced with white tape to the verso side of the jacket. 231 pages of text including an appendix and illustrated with a frontispiece from a photograph and with line drawings and maps. Transcribed from the original in the United States National Archives.
    TB30712  $45.00




  • Mason, Bobbie Ann:  In Country.  New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Near fine, corners bumped else fine. In a near fine dust jacket with the upper corner worn, else fine. The author's first novel which was made into a film.
    TB03298  $28.00




  • Mason, Bobbie Ann:  Feather Crowns.  New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. A 1993 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her fourth book and second work of fiction.
    TB03166  $19.60




  • Mason, F. Van Wyck:  Trumpets Sound No More.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a prior owner's name on the first free end paper. In a very good+ dust jacket with very modest wear and rubbing to the spine ends. An historical novel which deals with the years following Appomattox in the south's efforts to return to normal amid the devastation and gangs of wandering, pillaging ex-soldiers.
    TB07802  $12.60



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    Masters, John:  Trial At Monomoy.  New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt and black text on the spine and a gilt facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 5/8 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear and short closed tears at the upper corners of the spine area and at the upper fore corner of the front panel. 341 pages of text. The author's first novel with an American setting. (from the dust jacket flap) A bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28756  $60.00




  • Masters, John:  To the Coral Strand.  New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition, First printing. Fine in coral cloth covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with a small (1/8") chip at the top edge of the spine area and rubbed at the fold to the front flap.
    TB06328  $9.80



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    Mather, Cotton:  Magnalia Christi Americana Or, The Ecclesiastical History Of New-England From Its First Planting in the Year 1620 unto the Year of our Lord, 1698 In Seven Books In Two Volumes.  Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1820. First American Edition. This two volume set is in good+ condition in their original, full leather bindings. Volume 1 has had its joints professionally reinforced using Japanese tissue blended in color to conform to the color of the leather. Both are octavos of 8 5/8 by 5 3/8 inches with the leather at the heads and heels of the spine worn as is the leather at the edges of the boards. An early prior owner's name is written in ink on the first free end pages. A second prior owner has written his name on the front paste down of volume II. The contents of both volumes are generally clean with only occasional spots of foxing. This is the first American edition printed "from the London edition of 1702". Howes in his bibliography U.S. Iana states: "Most famous 18th century American book." (Howes, M-391; Sabin, 46392;
    TB33422  $650.00



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    Mather, Fred:  In The Louisiana Lowlands A Sketch Of Plantation Life, Fishing And Camping Just After The Civil Waar, And Other Tales.  New York: Forest And Stream Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. Very good+ in original olive green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 7/8 inches with faint soiling on the lower half of the front board and with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine crimped inward. Without a dust jacket. 321 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait from a black and white photo of the author. Considered by Bruns to be "scarce". (Wetzel, p181; Bruns, 78)
    TB31027  $200.00



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    Mathewson, Worth:  Reflections On Snipe.  Amity, Oregon: Sand Lake Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather-like, textured cloth, covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text and decorations on the front board. Without a dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Eldridge Hardie with line drawings and a frontispiece etching. Signed "Best Wishes" by the author on the first free end page underneath of which he has taped a small feather from a snipe. This copy is numbered "56" of only 600 copies printed. 130 pages of text and illustrations. The book also comes with a fine, signed and numbered (56) etching by Eldgridge Hardie which matches the frontispiece in the book. This original etching is only one of one hundred copies produced. The image measures 6 3/4" tall by 4 7/8" wide on laid paper measuring 11" by 9".
    TB20912  $250.00



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    Matthews, Frederick C.:  American Merchant Ships 1850-1900 (Series One and Two).  Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1930 & 1931. First Editions. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the spines and embossed boarders on the front boards. Both are small quartos of 10 by 6 7/8 inches with mild foxing to the fore and bottom edges of the text blocks. The top edges are stained blue. Both volumes are in near fine, unclipped (no prices) dust jackets. The first volume contains 399 pages including an index and is illustrated with a color frontispiece and throughout with images from earlier works of art and black and white photographs. The second volume (Series two) contains 358 pages including an index and is also well illustrated with images as aforesaid. Very uncommon to be found in such nice condition in their original dust jackets. These volumes are the Marine Research Society's Publications Number 21 and 23.
    TB31554  $350.00



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    Matthews, Frederick C.:  American Merchant Ships 1850-1900.  Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1930. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 6 7/8 inches. As to be expected with any volume in "fine" condition, the binding, hinges and joints are all strong and all pages are present without any evidence of foxing or tanning. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Containing 399 pages including an index, text and illustrated with 127 photographic plates of merchant sailing ships. The twenty-first volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society. (Howes M-424)
    TB31638  $100.00



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    Matthews, Frederick C.:  American Merchant Ships 1850-1900 (Series II) Limited Edition.  Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1931. Limited Edtion. Very good in 1/4 black cloth and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on a faded cloth spine and with marbled end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10 1/4" by 7 1/4" with the tips of the boards worn and several short closed tears to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. One of only ninety-seven printed of which only 87 were for sale and this volume is identified as number 81. 358 pages including an index. Illustrated with 53 photographs or photographic reproductions of works of art. The twenty-third volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.
    TB25074  $65.00




  • Matthews, Greg:  The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  New York: Crown Publishing, 1983. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 light green cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Although Australian by birth, the author is now living in the US. This is his first book. This novel takes the story of Huck and Jim beyond where Mark Twain left off.
    TB05289  $22.05



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Seal Pool.  Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in color illustrated cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with a color illustration on the front board with black text. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket however, the jacket's original price was clipped to allow the publisher to attach a new price on a sticker. Signed by the author on a bookplate which is tipped on to the first free end page. 79 pages of text with 17 color plates Illustrated by William Pene duBois. Matthiessen first book for children.
    TB29304  $250.00




  • Matthiessen, Peter:  In The Spirit of Crazy Horse.  New York: Viking Press, 1983. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with a prior owner's blind, embossed seal on the fly title page. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with several short closed tears on the lower edges of the spine and panels together with some related creasing with several creases to the front flap. Signed by the author on the first free end paper. This is the true first edition of the book which was suppressed and recalled for destruction shortly after its publication due to complaints made by the FBI. The title was re-leased in 1991. This is one of the scarce volumes which made it to the market and avoided capture.
    TB20000  $225.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  In The Spirit of Crazy Horse.  New York: Viking Press, 1991. First Edition of the 1991 Reprint, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and brown paper covered boards. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription. 645 pages containing an index, chapter notes, an afterword by Martin Garbus, epilogue by the author and text. Illustrated with maps.
    TB29590  $200.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  In The Spirit of Crazy Horse.  New York: Viking Press, 1983. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and light orange paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with light foxing appearing on the edges of the text block. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket with a small 1/3" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel and with two small nicks at the lower corners of the front panel and a crease to the front flap. This is the true first edition of the book which was suppressed and recalled for destruction shortly after its publication due to complaints made by the FBI. The title was re-leased in 1991. This is one of the scarce volumes which made it to the market and avoided capture. 628 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. A very handsome copy with no ownership marks, notations or book plates.
    TB01095  $125.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Raditzer.  New York: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition, First printing. Very good in 1/4 white cloth and blue paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine. The spine is soiled and the front board is somewhat bowed. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with light wear and flecking of the colors, creasing and short closed tears at ends of the spine and at the folds. The spine area is also slightly faded. Laid-in is an envelope from the author containing an undated short letter on an index card regarding his willingness to answer questions of the recipient on his book The Snow Leopard. It is signed "Sincerely | Peter Matthiessen" The author's fourth book and third novel which takes place on a troop transport vessel near the end of World War II. 152 pages of text.
    TB16769  $125.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Lost Man's River.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1997. Signed First Edition. Fine in full royal blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 3/16" tall by 5 3/4" deep containing 539 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page and accompanied with a laid-in Certificate of Authenticity from the publisher. This is copy number 573 of only 1,150 copies signed and numbered by the author. One of The Easton Press' signed, first edition, leather bound books. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates to mar its appearance.
    TB19530  $125.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Raditzer.  New York: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and blue paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 3/8". In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 1/8" deep chip at the upper rear corner of the spine area and with a 1/4" deep closed tear at the front corner. The spine area is faded to a light blue and that hue carries around to the front panel by another 1/3". The author's fourth book and third novel which takes place on a troop transport vessel near the end of World War II. 152 pages of text. Overall, an excellent and very collectible copy!
    TB23672  $125.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  At Play In The Fields Of The Lord.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 2001. Collector's Edition. Fine in full, dark green leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine, gilt text and tool work within the compartments, gilt tool work on both boards, silk end sheets, gilt to the edges of the text block and there is a placement ribbon sewn-in at the top of the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" without a dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author on the second free end page. Laid-in is the publisher's note card about the author and this book. 373 pages of text. This title was nominated for the 1965 National Book Award.
    TB24401  $100.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  The Snow Leopard.  Franklin: The Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition. Fine in full tan leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt tool work on the boards. The edges of the text block are gilt, the end sheets are silk and there is a matching placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. There are minor touches of wear to the tips of the boards and minor fading to the leather on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" containing 348 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. This printing is the true first edition of this book. It was the winner of the 1979 National Book Award. 348 pages including an index.
    TB29410  $100.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia.  Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches. In a fine dust, unclipped (no price) jacket. Signed on a small book plate by the author and tipped in at the second free end page. 89 pages of text and full color photographic plates. Essay by Peter Matthiessen and illustrated with a map and 50 color photographs by Boyd Norton and edited by Chez Liley. A handsome, clean and tight volume with no prior ownership marks or notations.
    TB29596  $65.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Sand Rivers.  New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in white cloth covered boards with blue and red text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches with minor soiling to the cloth on the boards. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with the soiling from the boards offset onto the verso of the dust jacket and with rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. Signed by the author without an inscription on the title page. 213 pages including notes and text. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and color photos by Hugo van Lawick
    TB29585  $45.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Men's Lives.  New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and map end papers. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 8" with a long, dated gift inscription on the fly title page, else fine. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket, else fine. Laid-in at the front of the books is an article from the New York Times about the "L.I. Baymen Face toughest Winter". "The surfmen and baymen of the south fork" of Long Island. This is the author's tribute to the fisherman of the eastern tip of Long Island. 339 pages of text, notes and black and white photographs.
    TB33362  $30.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Indian Country.  New York: Viking, 1984. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and tan paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/8 inches with map end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 338 pages including an index.
    TB29345  $25.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Wildlife in America.  New York: Viking Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 white and decorated brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on a title block on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 332 pages including an index, bibliography, reference notes, appendices and text. Illustrated with line drawings by Bob Hines, a map, eight color plates and a section of images from black and white photographs. Originally published in 1959 this is the revised and updated edition. A very handsome, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32943  $25.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  Tigers in the Snow.  New York: North Point Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and burnt orange paper covered boards. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with map end sheets. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. With an introduction and photographs by Maurice Hornocker. 185 pages containing notes, text and color photographs through-out.
    TB29360  $20.00




  • Matthiessen, Peter:  Blue Meridian.  New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition, First printing. Very Good with the first free end page stuck to the front paste down. The edges of boards dampness stained with no impact to the text. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket.
    TB01690  $12.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  African Silences.  New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket.
    TB00729  $10.00



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    Mauch, James W. John D. Townsend and Arthur Kerber:  Aware A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Eric Sloane.  Laurys Station: Garrigues House, Pub., 2001. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine and a gilt decorative stamping on the front board. In a fine jacket with a classic Eric Sloane barn on the front panel. A beautiful 4to measuring 11 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches containing 232 pages of text and color and black and white illustrations by Eric Sloane through-out. An outstanding biography of the artist-writer with contributions by Arthur Kerber on the art of Eric Sloane and John Townsend describing the first editions by Sloane. Signed by two of the authors: James Mauch and John Townsend on the first free end paper with an inscription by the second.
    TB30995  $150.00



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    Mauch, James W. John D. Townsend and Arthur Kerber:  Aware A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Eric Sloane.  Laurys Station: Garrigues House, Pub., 2001. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine and a gilt decorative stamping on the front board. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a classic Eric Sloane barn painting on the front panel. A beautiful 4to measuring 11 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches containing 232 pages of text and illustrated with color and black and white illustrations by Eric Sloane through-out. An outstanding biography of the artist-writer with contributions by Arthur Kerber on the art of Eric Sloane and John Townsend describing the first editions written by Sloane.
    TB33319  $85.00



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    Maugham, W. Somerset:  The Circle A Comedy In Three Acts.  New York: George H. Doran Company, (1921). First Edition. Very good in off-white paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine and a second paper label on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 7/8 inches with the paper at the head and heel of the spine worn down to the edges of the text block, heavy wear to the lower edges of the boards and with a prior owner's name and date of 1921 on the first free end page. 92 pages of script.
    TB30238  $25.00




  • Maxtone-Graham, John:  Liners to the Sun.  Neew York: MacMillan Publishing, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in light blue cloth and paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and map end sheets with some bumping and wear to the lower edge of the boards. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the lower edges of the spine and to the front panel. The unusual jacket for this book can be unfolded to become a wall chart of the cruise ships of the late 20th century. 495 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps and many black and white photographs throughout.
    TB21261  $20.00



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    Mayhew, Ralph, and Burges Johnson:  Little Mischief Bubble Book.  New York: Harper & Brothers, (1920). . Very good in illustrated paper covered boards containing two of the three, three records. The first being "There was a Little Girl" and the second being "Oh Dear What Can the Matter be?". The recordings are sung by Bobby Shaftoe.Both records appear to be in good shape. Without a dust jacket. The tenth volume in the Harper-Columbia Book That Sings. 16 pages of text illustrated with four color pages by Rhoda Chase.
    TB31903  $50.00




  • Mayor, A. Hyatt:  Popular Prints of the Americas.  New York: Crown Publishing, 1973. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine & front board with the lower edge of the boards lt. soiled. In a very good- dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a number of closed tears around the edges of the panels which are also tanned at the edges. 183 pages including an index together with 195 illustrations 47 of which are in full color.
    TB13832  $21.00



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    Mazer, Ben:  Rockwell Kent's Bookplate For John Whiting Friel.  Boston: Boss Fine Books, 2002. First Edition, Limited Printing. Fine in heavy, brown paper wraps over a sewn binding with one of the four sizes of bookplates created by Rockwell Kent for John Whiting Friel on the front panel. A small quarto measuring 9 3/4 by 7 inches One of only 250 copies printed. 15 pages of text. Tipped in are four bookplates by Rockwell Kent all made for John Whiting Friel. The author describes the genesis of the commission given to Kent by Friel to create not only a large format bookplate, but also one which was created in four sizes.
    TB28836  $125.00



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    Mc Dougall, Walter A.:  The Heavens And The Earth A Political History Of The Space Age.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1988. Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. With illustrated end papers and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 9" tall by 6" deep containing 555 pages of text including an index Laid-in is the publisher's brochure outlining the contents of this volume. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The Library Of American History series. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB25943  $75.00



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    McAdam, Roger Williams:  Salts Of The Sound An informal history of steamboat days and the famous skippers who sailed Long Island Sound.  New York: Stephen Daye Press, (1957). Revised and Enlarged Edition. Near fine in light orange cloth covered boards with black and white text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with light foxing to the front map end sheets and a prior owner's name stamped on the fly title, title, dedication and first preface pages. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with spots of foxing on the verso side of the jacket which is probably a result of the reaction with the cloth on the binding of the book. Laid-in at various points in the book are article from magazines and newspapers on related topics. 240 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with two sections of plates with images from black and white photographs.
    TB33295  $30.00




  • McAdam, Roger Williams:  Priscilla of Fall River.  New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1956. Revised Edition. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with map end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 1/4" deep chip from the lower corner of the spine area and with several short closed tears to the edges of the panels. 224 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.
    TB23854  $18.00



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    McBride, William M.:  Mark Twain A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial.  Hartford: McBride Publishers, 1984. First Limited Edition. Fine in simulated leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the lower corner of the front flap. 497 pages of text and photographs. A remarkably comprehensive bibliography of Mark Twian. A must have for every Twain collector.
    TB24881  $40.00



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    McCabe, James B.:  The Household Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms - Salesman's Sample.  Hartford: Aetna Publishing Co., 1883 (?). First Edition, First printing. Good to very good condition bound with two bindings: one decorated cloth & the other and tooled and gilt decorated morocco with all edges worn. Without a dust jacket. This is a salesman's copy of the book as it contains several pages for the inclusion of subscribers' names, their residence and style of binding desired. Both bindings examples have a fold-out flap end which illustrates the style of binding on the spine. Containing approximately 150 representative pages from the 872 pages in the finished product which is followed by a number of blank, ruled pages for the salesman to write in subscriber's names and addresses.
    TB09198  $80.00



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    McCague, James:  The Cumberland.  New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1973). First Edition. Fine in yellow-green linen cloth covered boards with a green and gilt text block on the on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and with minor rubbing to the ends of the spine area with a 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the spine area and a 1" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. The 63rd volume in the Rivers of America Series. With illustrations by Charles Walker. 225 pages including an index and bibliography. A very nice collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30593  $90.00




  • McCaig, Donald:  The Butte Polka.  New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1980. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. This Butte, Montana born author's first novel under his own name.
    TB13177  $25.00




  • McCaig, Donald:  An American Home Place.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Near fine with remainder mark on top edge of the text block. In a fine dust jacket.
    TB02414  $14.00



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    McCain, Diana Ross:  Connecticut Coast A Town-by-Town Illustrated History.  Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, (2009). First Edtion, First Printing. Near fine in brown paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches with a bump to the top fore edge of the front board and with a long, dated, gift inscription on the first free end page. There are also more mild bumps to the lower fore corners of the boards. In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. (276) pages of text. Illustrated from black and white photographs from The Connecticut Historical Society. A pictorial examination of the twenty-four shoreline towns of Connecticut stretching from the New York to the Rhode Island borders.
    TB30381  $20.00




  • McCarthy, Don:  Afternoons in Montana.  Aberdeen: North Plains Press, 1971. First Edition. Fine in simulated brown leather covered boards with orange text on the spine and front board. In a near fine dust jacket with a small dampness stain at the lower edge of the rear panel. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first free end paper. "A collection of memorable moments by a former newspaperman in the Big Sky country." 124 pages containing an index, a glossary of western expressions & several illustrations.
    TB11992  $45.00



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    McClary, Ben Harris (Editor):  Washington Irving and the House of Murray: Geoffrey Crayon Charms The British, 1817-1856.  Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright orange cloth covered boards with a gilt on black spine label. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 242 pages including an index, bibliography and appendices. Illustrated with earlier works of art.
    TB27183  $10.00




  • McClendon, Lise:  Painted Truth.  New York: Walker & Company, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. An Alix Thorseen mystery.
    TB04225  $14.00



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    McClintock, Captain:  A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin.  Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Author's Edition. Very good in purple, pebbled, blind stamped cloth covered boards with faded copper colored text stamping on the spine which is slightly faded. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 4 7/8 inches with yellow end sheets. The text block is completely foxed around the margins of each page 375 pages including an appendices and text. The two, fold-out maps are located at the end of the text are in excellent condition. The text is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece with 14 plates and one engraving within the text (one plate is missing) plus three maps of four called for and the facsimile of the Record found of the Franklin Expedition.
    TB30239  $40.00



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    McCord, David:  Take Sky More Rhymes of the Never Was and Always Is.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961, 1962. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in light green cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and black text with a sketch with a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2" with a very faint circular 2" dampness stain on the front board; else, fine. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the corners of the panels with light soiling to the front panel. Signed, warmly inscribed and dated "July 1963" by the author on the first free end page with a small sketch of an owl. 107 pages of text with drawings by Henry B. Kane. A collection of 48 rhymes and poems for children.
    TB24041  $25.00




  • McCord, Christian:  Across the Shining Mountains.  Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with very modest wear to the upper edge of the spine area and light soiling to the upper 1/2 of the spine area. One of the volumes in the Frontier Library series by Jameson Books. This volume deals with the fictionalized account of Nathaniel Wyeth who moved west to seek his fortune in the 1830's.
    TB07976  $17.50



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    McCourt, Frank:  Angela's Ashes A Memoir.  New York: Scribner, (1996). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and maroon paper covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with green end sheets with very minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket which shows modest crimping to the ends of the spine area. Signed by the author on the title page without a date or inscription. The Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. 363 pages of text. An extremely handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32094  $185.00



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    McCracken, Harold:  Frederic Remington Artist of the Old West.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lioppincott Company, (1947). First Edition. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with a gilt on red title block on the spine. A quarto of 12 by 9 inches with a Christmas, 1950 gift inscription on the first free end page and with wrinkling and dampness staining to the upper fore corners to the bulk of the plates in the rear of the book. Without its issued dust jacket. 157 pages including an index, bibliographic check list of Remington's work and text all followed by 48 black and white and colored plates.
    TB31805  $35.00




  • McCracken, Harold:  Portrait Of The Old West.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1952. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with gray text and decorations on the spine and front board. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact but with a 1/2" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area and small chips from the lower edge of the front panel. 232 pages containing text, sketches, full color plates and a biographical check list of Western Artists.
    TB14935  $14.00



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    McCreight, Major I.:  Buffalo Bone Days A story of the Buffalo slaughter on our western plains.  DuBois, Penn.: Self-Published, 1950. First Edition in book form. Near fine in brown, pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with minor fly specking at the upper edge of the front board. Without a dust jacket presumably as issued. Across the face of the title page the author has written a long inscription to his editor. Reprinted from a series of articles appearing in the Dubois Courier-Express in 1949. 85 pages of text including an appendix and epilogue. Illustrated with reproductions of a number of black and white photographs. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28789  $600.00



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    McCullough, David:  The Great Bridge.  New York: Simon & Schuster, (1972). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with copper colored text and decorations stamped on the front board and on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with printed end sheets with a tiny date stamp of "April 16, '73" at the upper fore corner of the first free end page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear at upper edge of the front panel near the fold to the spine area and with a 1/4 inch closed tear at the upper edge of the spine area and small nicks to the fore corners of the front panel over the tips of the boards. "The epic story of the building of the Broooklyn Bridge." The author's second book. 636 pages with index, text and images from photographs. A very clean and attractive copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32392  $150.00



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    McCullough, David:  1776.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and decorated end papers. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 386 pages including an index,bibliography, source notes, text and illustrated with three sections of reproductions of contemporary works of art, maps and facsimiles of original documentation. A very attractive and collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33408  $150.00



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    McCullough, David:  John Adams.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Fine in black and brown paper covered boards with elaborate gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. There are no names, dates or inscriptions or any defects to this volume. 751 pages including an index, list of sources, text and illustrated with reproductions of color and black and white contemporary art. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
    TB32840  $50.00



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    McCullough, David:  1776.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and decorated end papers. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 386 pages including an index,bibliography, source notes, text and illustrated with three sections of reproductions of contemporary works of art, maps and facsimiles of original documentation. A bright, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28395  $30.00



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    McCullough, David:  The Wright Brothers.  New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015). First Paperback Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 320 pages including an index, bibliography, source notes and text. Illustrated with three sections of black and white photographs.
    TB28554  $10.00



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    McCurdy, Michael:  Thoreau at the Cabin.  Great Barrington, Mass.: Self Published, 1989. Limited Edition Etching. A fine broadside etching on wove paper measuring 16 by 12 inches with Book Week New England 1990 printed in red across the top side of the image. The image of Henry David Thoreau standing at the open doorway of his cabin gazing in contemplation at Walden Pond measures roughly 8 by 6 inches. There is a minor, 1/4 inch printer's smudge at the upper left hand corner of the sheet very close to the edge of the paper. One of only 100 numbered and signed copies with this one identified as number 37 and signed by the artist in pencil. Hand-printed in December, 1989 for the New England Booksellers' Association for Book Week New England 1990. The etching originally appeared in the Yolla Bolly edition of The Winged Life.
    TB29445  $125.00




  • McCutchan, Philip:  Tom Chatto: Apprentice.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in charcoal cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Preceded the US publication which was entitled: The Second Mate which was not released until July of 1996.
    TB06295  $15.00




  • McCutchan, Philip:  Tom Chatto, Second Mate.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in charcoal cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Preceded the US publication which was entitled: The Second Mate which was not released until July of 1996.
    TB06294  $10.00




  • McCutchan, Philip:  Coach North.  New York: Walker & Company, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Fine in ivory paper covered boards with black text on the spine. In a very near fine dust jacket with only slight slight rubbing at the corners and ends of the spine area. A sightseeing coach is hijacked while on its way north to the Scotish Highlands by a group of militants who will hold the tourists hostage until their spy associates are released.
    TB11018  $10.00




  • McCutchan, Philip:  The Second Mate.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The second novel in the Tom Chatto series.
    TB04865  $5.25




  • McCutchan, Philip:  The New Lieutenant.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The third in the Tom Chatto series where the protagonist leaves the Merchant Marine for the Royal Navy Reserve. He serves on a vessel in the Mediterranean to draw enemy U-boat fire.
    TB04863  $3.00



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    McDonald, John, Assisted by Sherman Huhn and Dwight Webster:  The Origins of Angling.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1997. Collector's Edition. Fine in dark brown leather covered boards with seven raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and gilt text in the compartments with gilt borders and tool work on the boards. The end sheets are silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All edges of the text block are gilt. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 inches containing 273 pages of text illustrated with color paintings by John Langley Howard. This copy is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap. One of the volumes in the Easton Press Library of Fly-Fishing Classics. Illustrated with paintings by John Langley Howard. An extremely handsome copy with no names, dates, notations or prior owner's book plates. A title which is no longer printed and sold by The Easton Press.
    TB33052  $75.00




  • McDonough, Peter, and Eugene C. Bianchi:  Passionate Uncertainty Inside the American Jesuits.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 black cloth and brown paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine with occasional penciled marginal notes. In a near fine dust jacket. 380 pages including an index, chapter notes and text.
    TB17781  $8.00




  • McFarling, LLoyd:  Exploring the Northern Plains 1804-1876.  Caldwell: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1955. First Edition. Very good+ in decorated tan cloth covered boards which are intermitantly stained around the edges. In a very good+ dust jacket with modest rubbing at the ends of the spine area but with the price intact on the front flap. Under the editorship of Lloyd McFarling the book contains 36 chapters written by 28 explorers and travelers of the Northern Plains between the Platte and Missouri Rivers. 441 pages containing an index, a bibliography, text and 21 maps.
    TB13031  $50.00



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    McGinty, Brian:  Archy Lees Struggle for Freedom: The True Story of California Gold, the Nation's Tragic March Toward Civil War, and a Young Black Man's Fight for Liberty.  Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, (2020). First Edition. Fin in full, gray paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 228 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, chronology and text. Illustrated with a section of 16 pages of images from black and white photographs and earlier works of art.
    TB32201  $30.00



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    McGoogan, Ken:  Fatal Passage The Story of John Rae, The Arctic Hero Time Forgot.  New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black and blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with map end sheets. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with faint curling at the upper edge of the spine area. First published in Canada in 2001. 328 pages including an index, picture credits, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps, reproductions of contemporary works of art and photographs.
    TB22708  $35.00




  • McGrath, Roger D.:  Gunfighters Highwaymen & Vigilantes.  Berkeley: University of Calif. Pres, 1984. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a very near fine dust jacket with a 1.5" closed tear on the rear panel at the fold to the flap and with small creases on the edges. 291 pages with index with a number of period photographs. Unfortunately portions of pages 264 through 271 have been underlined in black flow pen.
    TB06092  $21.00



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    McGuane, Thomas:  The Sporting Club.  New York: First Edition, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with the front hinge begining to part. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a small nick and soiling to the upper rear corner of the spine area where it meets the rear panel and mild staining to the outside edges of the rear flap. Signed by the author on the first free end page without a date or inscription. This was McGuane's first book which has become quite uncommon in such nice condition. It is a work of fiction which deals with two men who "resume a long-standing and destructive competitive friendship" while at a hunting and fishing club in Michigan.
    TB31648  $200.00



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    McGuane, Thomas:  The Sporting Club.  New York: First Edition, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with a prior owner's name on the upper edge of the first free end paper and mild foxing to the fore edge of the text block. There is also a very small area on the cloth at the heel of the spine which is slightly sun faded. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and very slight wear at the ends of the spine area. The prior owner's name at the upper edge of the front free end paper is none other than William Shirer (1903 -1993), who was a journalist and one of "Morrow Boys" broadcasting the news of Europe in the early days of World War II. His most famous volumes were Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This was McGuane's first book which has become quite uncommon in such nice condition. It is a work of fiction which deals with two men who "resume a long-standing and destructive competitive friendship" while at a hunting and fishing club in Michigan.
    TB19035  $150.00



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    McGuane, Thomas:  The Bushwhacked Piano.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and black images of bats on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/16 by 5 1/2 inches with a black remainder mark on the lower edge of the text block and with the first 7/8ths inch neatly cut from fore edge of the first free end page. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with slight tanning to the spine area and outside edges of the panels. Signed by the author on the first free end page without a date or an inscription. The author's second book. 220 pages of text.
    TB31649  $150.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Panama.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 green cloth and green paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page.
    TB13588  $95.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Ninety-two in the Shade.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Gir, 1973. First Edition. Near fine with edges of boards lightly faded. In a fine dust jacket. The author's third book.
    TB01190  $75.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Panama.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Gir, 1978. First Edition. Fine with the upper & lower edges lightly faded in light green 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a fine jacket with a 1/16" soil mark on the spine area. Considered by the author to be his best book.
    TB04487  $65.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Nothing but Blue Skies.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 blue cloth and paper covered boards with top 1" of front cover very slightly faded. In a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated in 1992 by the author on the title page.
    TB05761  $55.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Keep the Change.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition. Fine In a near fine dust jacket with the head of the spine very slightly rubbed and sticker glue on the rear panel on top of the bar code.
    TB04200  $30.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Nothing but Blue Skies.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Fine, In a near fine dust jacket with a very small (1/16") nick on front panel.
    TB01915  $25.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  Panama.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Gir, 1978. First Edition, First printing. Near fine with the heel of the spine area dampness stained in light green 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with a hint of wear to the base of the spine area. Considered by the author to be his best book.
    TB04486  $20.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  To Skin a Cat (1st UK).  London: Secker & Warburg, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text lettering on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's eighth book in its British format which is quite different from its American counterpart.
    TB07765  $20.00



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    McGuane, Thomas:  Keep the Change.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 tan cloth and light green paper covered boards with green metallic text on the spine and a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed without an inscription by the author on the title page. 230 pages of text. A fine, bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29322  $12.00




  • McGuane, Thomas:  To Skin a Cat.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket. Advance Reveiw Copy with a photo and publisher's materials laid in.
    TB01311  $8.00



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    McIlhenny, Paul, and Barbara Hunter:  The Tabasco Cookbook.  New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, (1993). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark green paper covered boards with bold white text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. "125 Years of America's Favorite Pepper Sauce". Containing 82 recipies. 144 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with 35 images from duotone photographs.
    TB31405  $35.00



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    McIlvaine, Mabel:  Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1914. First thus. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt border on the front board and gilt text on the spine with wear and light rubbing of the cloth at the head of the spine. The gilt decorations and text on the spine are clean and bright and free of tarnish. The first 66 pages of the book show a faint dampness stain to the lower fore corners of the pages. This stain (perhaps better called a faint discoloration) picks up again from page 137 to almost to the end of the text block. The book contains first person narratives dealing with the period of time just prior to and during the early part of the Civil War. The twelfth Lakeside Classic from Christmas, 1914. An early Lakeside Classic which is fast becoming more difficult to find in collectable condition.
    TB27902  $375.00



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    McIlvaine, Mabel:  Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1913. First thus. Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt border and logo on the front board and gilt text text on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is very slightly rubbed. The gilt text on the spine is only very, very slightly tarnished. There are no prior ownership markings of any kind. The eleventh Lakeside Classic issued in 1913 and rather uncommon.
    TB32736  $300.00



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    McIlvaine, Mabel:  Reminiscences of Early Chicago.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1912. First thus. Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt border on the front board and gilt text on the spine. The gilt text on the spine and the gilt decorations on the front board are bright, clean and easily seen. The cloth on the front board is faintly marred with the nibbling of silver fish and there is a prior owner's attractive book plate on the front paste down; otherwise, there are no other prior ownership markings of any kind and with light foxing to the rough cut fore edge of the text block. The tenth Lakeside Classic issued during the Christmas season of 1912. This book contains narratives from visitors to Chicago as early as 1834 when it was a village. 174 pages and illustrated with a frontispiece. A very collectible copy.
    TB30336  $275.00



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    McKee, Alexander:  H.M.S. Bounty.  New York: William Morrow & Co., 1962. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 blue cloth and paper covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and 1/8" chips across the upper edge of the spine area. A true account of the famous mutiny of 1789. Published in the UK under the name of "The Truth About the Mutiny on the Bounty."
    TB11568  $12.00




  • McKelvie, Colin:  Flyfishing for Salmon An Introduction.  Shewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 160 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, color photographs and line drawings.
    TB20472  $20.00




  • McKenna, Richard:  The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First Edition. Fine in 1/2 red-orange cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with only a hint of rubbing to the upper edge of the spine area. McKenna's best-selling 1962 novel, The Sand Pebbles, was his only published book. He wrote a number of short stories some of which were published in magazines. This book, published after his early death in 1964, puts into one place his best stories.
    TB15096  $100.00



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    McKenna, Richard:  The Sons Of Martha and Other Stories.  New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in yellow-green cloth covered boards with metallic blue text stamping on the spine. The spine is tanned from offsetting from the verso of the dust jacket. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/4" deep chip at the lower edge of the front panel with light rubbing and wear at the ends of the spine area. The price is intact on the front flap. An uncommon book by the author of The Sand Pebbles. The contents of this book comes from an unfinished manuscript which was published after the author's early death in November of 1964.
    TB16772  $35.00



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    McKenney, Thomas L.:  Sketches of a Tour To The Lakes, of the character and customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of incidents connected with The Treaty of Fond Du Lac.  Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1972. Reprint. Near fine in 1/4 dark green and light green cloth covered boards with light green text stamped on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10" by 6 1/2" with the front joint cracked approximately 3" down from its upper edge. This volume is otherwise tight, with all pages present and with no prior owner markings or bookplates. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a fine printed paper covered slip case. One of only 1,950 copies produced and this copy is out of series. 414 pages including an extensive appendix and text. Illustrated with 29 color and black and white plates.
    TB23950  $25.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  The Sea Arount Me...The Hills Above.  London: Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and the gilt image of the author on the front board. An octavo 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches with a minor bump to the upper fore corner of the front board. In a near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Both the book and its jacket are contained within a near fine, paper covered slip case with a bump to a lower rear corner. One of only 1,000 copies bound, printed and signed by the author. This copy is number 38 signed twice by the author the second time in heavy black pen with an inscription and date. 152 pages of poems and illustrations. An extremely clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29559  $80.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  Finding My Father One Man's Search for Identity.  London: Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in purple cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and the gilt image of the author on the front board. An octavo 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches. In a fine clear acetate dust jacket. Both the book and its jacket are contained within a near fine, paper covered slip case. One of an unspecified number of limited edition copies. This copy is signed, inscribed and dated by the author on the fly title page in heavy black pen. 255 pages of poems and text. Illustrated with several sections of black and white photographs. An extremely clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29561  $80.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  We Touch The Sky.  London: Elm Tree Books Hamish Hamilton, (1979). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and a gilt sketch of McKuen on the front board. An octovo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a hint of rubbing at the upper edge of the spine area. Signed, inscribed and dated "With love to Phil from Tthea & Rod McKuen November, 1993" on the fly title page by the author in green flow tip pen. (153) pages of poetry.
    TB29764  $65.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  Intervals.  New York: Harper & Row Publishers, (1986). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and a black sketch of McKuen on the front board. An octovo of 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a hint of rubbing at the upper edge of the spine area. Signed, inscribed and dated on the fly title page by the author in black flow tip pen. 141 pages of poetry.
    TB29763  $50.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  Beyond The Boardwalk.  Los Angeles: Cheval Books, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with bold brown text on the spine and the sketch of the author on the front board. An octavo 8 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches. In a near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Both the book and its jacket are contained within a near fine, paper covered slip case with very minor soiling. One of an unspecified limited edition copies signed by the author with a stamped number of 76 on the first free end page. This copy is signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the same page. 162 pages of poems and illustrations. An extremely clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29560  $40.00



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    McKuen, Rod:  The Power Bright & Shining Images Of My Country.  New York: Cheval Books Simon and Schuster, (1980). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and blue paper covered boards with black text on the spine and a black sketch of McKuen on the front board. An octovo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches. In a fine, price clipped dust jacket. Signed, inscribed and dated on the fly title page by the author in black flow tip pen. 168 pages of poetry.
    TB29765  $25.00




  • McLanathan, Richard:  The Brandywine Heritage.  Chadds Ford: Brandywine River Mus, 1971. First Edition, First printing. Fine in heavy brown cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel and slight curling of the upper edges of both the front and rear panels. A collection of 18 color plates and 80 black and white illustrations of the art of Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth & James Wyeth. With an introduction by Richard McLanathan.
    TB08146  $35.00




  • McLeod, John Angus:  From These Stones Mars Hill College 1856-1968.  n.p.: Mars Hill College, 1968. Revised Edition of 1968. Fine in blue-gray cloth covered boards with a gilt on dark blue title block on the spine and a gilt embossed seal on the front board. In a near fine price clipped dust jacket. 327 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB22307  $10.00



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    McLynn, Frank:  1759 The Year Britain Became Master Of The World.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 cream cloth and cream paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine with black end sheets. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 422 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and two sections of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The conclusion of the French and Indian War (as it was known in North America) and the Seven Years War (as it was known in Europe) was brought about by two major British military victories at Quebec and Quiberon. These victories gave Britain global supremacy over France and effectively changed the course of history making 1759 one of the most decisive dates in modern history.
    TB22787  $25.00



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    McMurtrie, Douglas:  New York Printing MDCXCIII.  Chicago: The John Calhoun Club, 1928. First Edition 1/240 copies. Good+ with the spine area tanned and cloth at the ends of the spine torn about 1/2" from the head and heel & rubbed at the corners. A folio of 19 by 13 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket. This is copy 199 of only 240 numbered copies produced. 30 pages of text followed by 78 plates of facsimiles of all known New York imprints for the year 1693.
    TB13048  $50.00



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    McMurtry, Larry:  The Last Picture Show.  New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in tannish cloth covered boards with metallic red text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches with the cloth on the spine showing a minor 3/16th inch stain on its lower quarter. Without its issued dust jacket. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. 280 pages of text. The author's uncommon third novel.
    TB33063  $125.00




  • McMurtry, Larry:  Daughter of the Tejas.  Greenwich: N. Y. Garphic Soc., 1965. First Edition 2nd State DJ. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with brown text on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 3/4" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and a small nick at the base of the spine area. Ghost written by McMurtry for Ophelia Ray. Contained in the second state dust jacket which has a white background. Despite the noted flaws this is still a very presentable, handsome copy.
    TB09834  $40.00




  • McMurtry, Larry:  Zeke and Ned.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. Co-authored with Diana Ossana. A review copy with the publisher's material laid-in.
    TB05501  $10.50



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    McNamara, John:  In Perils by mine own Countrymen, Three Years On The Kansas Border.  New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. An ex-library copy in good condition in its original 1/4 leather and marbled paper covered boards with no text remaining on the spine's backstrip. A 16mo og 6 7/8 by 4 3/8 inches with both boards loose, the leather over the spine deteriorated with no title or author shown, a library book plate on the front paste down, notations on the title page and copy right page in pencil, a library call number on the dedication page, a penciled notation at the top of the first page of text, the ghosts of old library materials having been pasted to the rear end sheets and a library EFT fixed to the rear paste down. The contents remain clean and free of foxing and tanning and show only occasional library stamps. 238 pages of text. The book remains protected in a library chemise with a ribbon tie. The title only attributes the author as "A Clergyman Of The Episcopal Church"; however, his real name was John McNamara (1824-1885) who an Episcopal minister and an outspoken abolitionist during the years of "Bloody Kansas" and the border wars with Missouri. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. (Howes M-174, Graff, 2645; Wagern-Camp, 277)
    TB32177  $60.00




  • McNamee, Gergory:  Gila.  New York: Orion Books, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and charcoal gray paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by author on the title page. Sub-titled: The Life and Death of an American River.
    TB02437  $30.00




  • McNamer, Deirdre:  Rima in the Weeds.  New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's first novel which takes place in a small Montana town in the high plains. Well reviewed on the back panel by Barbara Kingsolver, James Welch, Stephanie Vaughn & Ian Frazier.
    TB05646  $45.00




  • McNamer, Deirdre:  One Sweet Quarrel.  New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Fine in paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's second novel which takes place in Shelby, Montana in the early 1920's and involves the famous fight between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons of 1923.
    TB05762  $35.00




  • McNelis, Sarah:  Copper King at War.  Missoula: University of Montana Press, 1968. First Edition. Fine in gray cloth covered boards with red text and deorations stamped on the spine and front board. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1" closed tear on the rear panel and lightly soiled on this white background jacket. The biography of F. Augustus Heinze who owned the Montana Ore Purchasing Company at the time of the great Copper war which took place in Butte.
    TB06243  $35.00



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    McNulty, Marjorie Grant:  Glastonbury From Settlement to Suburb.  (Glastonbury): The Historical Society of Glastonbury, 1983. Reprint of 1983. Fine in brick red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with map end papers. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 163 pages containing an index, list of sources, appendix which includes a list of original land holders of 1640, and a list of petitioners for separation of 1690. The text is illustrated with early photographs of houses, buildings, persons and reproductions of early art work.
    TB31848  $45.00



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    McPhee, John:  Oranges.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with the upper edge of the text block stained light yellow. The lower edges of the boards shows minor fading; otherwise the book is fine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8" tall by 5 3/8" deep containing 149 pages of text. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page and dated in 1969. The author's third book which has become rather uncommon.
    TB22008  $275.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Crofter & the Laird.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. An extremely handsome copy of one of McPhee's more sought after titles. The author's seventh book which details his return to his Scottish roots in the Herbrides. 159 pages and illustrated with black and white line drawings by James Graves.
    TB32741  $150.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Control of Nature.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red-brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a black illustration on the front board. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author without a date or inscription on the fly title page. Mcphee visits with the engineers who must prevent the Mississippi from leaving its old established course; an Icelandic physicist who devised a means to prevent molten lava from taking over and filling-in Iceland's most important port; Hawaii to view similar attempts to control lava and in Los Angeles to meet with those responsible for trying to control the rapid disintegration of the mountainous terrain surrounding that area. 272 pages of text.
    TB32746  $145.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Headmaster Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Possibly an ex-library copy in near fine condition in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with Rock Village Library book plate on the front paste down, and a number "9500" at the upper edge of the title page with that number repeated on the rear paste down. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. 109 pages of text followed by a number pages of black and white photographs to page 149. The author's second book, difficult to find in such collectible condition.
    TB29603  $125.00




  • McPhee, John:  Pieces of the Frame.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with a prior owner's name on the front free end paper. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and only a hint of rubbing at the upper edge of the spine area. A collection of eleven memorable stories or essays which have appeared in The Atlantic, Holiday, Playboy and The New Yorker magazines. 308 pages of text. One of the more uncommon titles by McPhee.
    TB16308  $120.00



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    McPhee, John:  Encounters With The Archdruid.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1989. First Edition. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with blind decorated stamping on the front board and gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with only tiny hints of wear to the ends of the spine area and with a small 1/3 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. One of the more difficult titles by McPhee to locate in collectable condition. 245 pages of text.
    TB32742  $95.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Second John McPhee Reader.  New York: Farrar, Sraus & Giro, 1996. First Edition. Fine in gilt decorated green paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. A collection of 14 writings from eleven of John McPhee's books selected by David Remnick and Patricia Strachan and edited by Patricia Strachan. A very uncommon title by McPhee.
    TB11164  $90.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Curve of Binding Energy.  New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with a faint, inconsequential 2 inch oval stain to the front board. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a minor, faint 1 1/2 inch red crayon mark at the upper edge of the rear panel. "A journey into the awesome and alarming world of Theodore B. Taylor...one of the most inventive nuclear scientist of our time." 232 pages of text. A clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29279  $70.00



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    McPhee, John:  Coming into the Country.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. First Edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine with printed end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, price clipped dust jacket with a bookseller's price tag on the upper corner of the rear panel and with modest wear to the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. McPhee's award winning classic of Alaska. 438 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece map of Alaska.
    TB32751  $70.00



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    McPhee, John:  In Suspect Terrain.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1983. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with illustrated end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The author's sixteenth book and the second in his geological series of books. 210 pages of text A fine, bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32745  $30.00



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    McPhee, John:  Silk Parachute.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2010). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in white paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 227 pages of text. A collection of ten essays.
    TB28631  $25.00




  • McPhee, John:  La Place de la Concorde Suisse.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light gray cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. In a fine jacket with with the price intact on the front flap. McPhee's classic narrative of the Swiss Army through the eyes of Luc Massy, who like 650,000 other Swiss citizens, is a member of the army which can be fully mobilized in less than 48 hours.
    TB16309  $20.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Founding Fish.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black and dark gray paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 358 pages of text. The author's 26th book. This title is about the American shad.
    TB28634  $20.00



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    McPhee, John:  Table of Contents.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 293 pages of text.
    TB29255  $20.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 charcoal gray and orange paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A quarto of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with minor bumping to the edges of the boards. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to the ends of the spine area, minor light soiling to the front panel and a crease to the front flap. 184 pages of text.
    TB32748  $20.00



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    McPhee, John:  The Ransom of Russian Art.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine in deep red cloth covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. A quarto of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author examines the unlawful "departure" of underground artist's works during the 60's and 70's in Russia. 181 pages of text and illustrated with a number of color plates. A very clean, bright and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29281  $10.00




  • McPhee, John:  Giving Good Weight.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition, First printing. Near fine In a fine jacket but with a price clipped front flap.
    TB00038  $7.00




  • McPhee:  Looking For A Ship.  New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket.
    TB00413  $7.00



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    Meacham, A. B.:  Wigwam and War-Path Or The Royal Chief In Chains.  Boston: John P. Dale And Company, 1875. First Edition. Very good in its original, red-brown, cloth covered, beveled boards with gilt and black text and decorations on the spine and on the front board with clay coated end sheets. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine, the cloth over the rear joint is just beginning to separate, rubbing to the cloth over the front joint and the cloth over the lower tips of the boards is worn through. There is a long pencil line on the front free end sheet and an early prior owner's name and date on the front fly leaf. Save for 1/4 deep chips at the upper edges of pages 47 through 54 and soling to page 588 the contents are extremely clean, tight and free of foxing and tanning. 700 pages of text followed by a one page ad. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of the author, and 19 engraved plates. "The author was a superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon and had over thirty years experience among the Indian tribes of the Northwest." (Peter Decker: The George W. Soliday Collection of Western Americana, 1067) As stated by Robert E. Cowan in his bibliography of California: "This work on the Modoc Indians was written by a most competent author on the subject, making the volume of great historic value." (Cowan, p. 421)
    TB30088  $350.00



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    Meacham, Jon:  American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House.  New York: Random House, (2008). Ninth Printing. Fine in 1/4 black paper and brown paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with printed end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a tiny, minor nick to the upper fore corner of the front panel. 483 pages of text including an index, bibliography and chapter notes. Illustrated with two sections of plates from black and white photographs and earlier works of art.
    TB32841  $15.00




  • Meader, Stephen W.:  Whaler 'Round the Horn.  New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1950. First Edition. Very good+ in light blue cloth covered boards with dark blue text and decorations & illustrated end papers. In a very good- dust jacket with a price clipped front flap, a 1/2" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area, a 1" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel and with tiny chips at the fore corners of the panels. Still, a very nice, attractive copy. 244 pages of text with illustrations by Edward Shenton.
    TB14843  $60.00




  • Mears, Richard C.:  Ebb of the River.  New York: Wyndham Books, 1980. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 green cloth and gilt decorated paper covered boards with a remainder mark on the lower edge of the text block near the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with a minor 1/2" stain in the lower center of the front panel. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the first free end paper. A fictional memoir of a boy and a river.
    TB11590  $14.70




  • Melville, Herman:  Moby Dick Or The White Whale.  New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1923. Early reprint. Near fine in black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine, but with brighter gilt text on the front board and blind embossed borders. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 1/8 inches with slight fading of the gilt text on the spine. Without a dust jacket. 540 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece and eleven color plates from paintings by Mead Schaeffer. The end pages are particularly emblematic as they leave not doubt about the book's title. An extremely handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind with the hinges and joints tight and strong.
    TB33473  $75.00




  • Mendelsohn, Jane:  I Was Amelia Earhart.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine in white cloth covered boards. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. The author's first book which became a run away best seller. The first edition had a limited print run.
    TB06743  $10.00




  • Mendelson, Michael:  The Complete Outfitting & Source Book for Hang Gliding.  Sausalito: The Great Outdoors Trading Company, 1977. First Edition, First printing. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a very good+ dust jacket with several short closed tears at the upper edge of the front panel with related creasing. Overall a very handsome and collectable book. 208 pages of text and illustrated through out with photographs and drawings.
    TB17436  $15.00



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    Meriton, John, and Carlo Dumontet:  Small Books For The Common Man A Descriptive Bibliography.  London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a sew binding of black, illustrated paper covered boards with white text on the spine. A thick, heavy quarto measuring 10" by 7" with purple end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued. 1008 pages including several indexes, list of sources, glossary, appendices, bibliographic analysis, bibliographic method and text. Containing listings and bibliographical data for 761 children's ephemeral titles published between 1736 to 1850.
    TB26890  $100.00



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    Merrick, George Byron:  Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863.  Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1909. First Edition. Very good in blue, ribbed cloth covered boards with gold text stamping on the spine and with the top edge of the spine gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. There is an attractive prior owner's engraved book plate on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. One of only 1,276 copies printed. Although unstated, this title is part of the American Waterway Series I. 303 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece,maps and reproductions of 23 early photographs. Howes considers this title "quite scarce". In an article in the April, 1909 American Historical Review, James K. Hosmer stated that there is "no better account, from the inside, of steamboating." And, the revised bibliography by Robert A. Clark and Patrick J. Brunet of The Arthur H. Clark Company publications says of this title: "The recollections of Merrick are extremely divers, and include information touching on a variety of subjects, from economic and industrial to historical and ethnological." (Howes M539; Clark & Brunet 186; Graff 2756)
    TB29685  $100.00




  • Merz, Charles:  And Then Came Ford.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gilt decorated medium blue cloth boards with moderate shelf wear and faint spotting to the boards. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and with 1/4" chips at the corners of the spine area and the panels at the folds to the flaps with a faint name written on the front panel. An early history of Henry Ford and the American automobile business.
    TB11584  $42.00




  • Messenger, Charles:  The Steadfast Gurkha Historical Record of 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifle.  London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The third volume in the history of the Gurkha from 1948 1982. 147 pages including an index, appendices, text and photographs.
    TB14669  $17.50




  • Meyer, Charles R.:  Whaling And The Art of Scrimshaw.  New York: David McKay Company, 1976. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in simulated brown leather binding with gilt text stamped on the spine. In a good+ unclipped dust jacket with numerous short closed tears and shallow chips around the edges of the panels and spine area. 271 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, works of art and photographs.
    TB21316  $35.00




  • Meyer, Larry L.:  Shadow of a Continent.  Palo Alto, CA: American West Publis, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red textured paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket although with a price clipped jacket flap. The author offers his research to support the belief that the "real prize" of the American Revolutionary War was not the colonies by the lands to the west of the colonies.
    TB07782  $21.00



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    Meyers, William H.:  Sketches Of California And Hawaii.  n.p.: The Book Club Of California, 1970. First Edition. Fine in multi-colored cloth covered boards with a paper label on the spine. A folio of 15 by 10 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 450 copies printed. The 136th publication by The Book Club of California. Illustrated with 21 color plates by the author. Laid-in at the front of this copy is an invitation to join the Christmas Open House on 12/14/1970 as well as Book Club of California's announcement of this publication which contains Plate XV.
    TB30688  $100.00



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