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  • Moffat, Alexander W.:  Maverick Navy.  Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine & with a handwritten date on the title page. In a very near fine dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and with moderate rubbing at the corners and folds. "A narrative memoir of the little-known and largely forgotten anti-submarine warfare in World War I - a moving story of ingenuity, resourcefulness and adventure at sea."
    TB11969  $17.50



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    Moliere:  Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Fine in full dark red leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with extensive gold tool work on the boards and in the compartments on the spine with gilt text stampings. With silk end papers and a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 10" tall by 6 1/4" deep containing 197 pages of script and illustrated with drawings by Serge ivanoff. Translated by H. Baker and J. Miller and with an introduction by Henri Peyre. A very handsome, crisp copy with no markings, notations or prior owner's book plates.
    TB20860  $65.00




  • Momaday, Scott:  In the Presence of the Sun (Signed Limited Edition).  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First Ltd. Edt.. Fine, No dust jacket was issued; however, in a fine slipcase. Signed by the author on the fly title page. One of an unstated number of limited edition copies in maroon covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine in a maroon slip case.
    TB02500  $75.00



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    Monaghan, Jay:  The Overland Trail.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1947. First Edition. Near fine in bright red, gilt decorated cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with decorated map end papers. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 3/4". Without its issued dust jacket. The second volume in The American Trails Series which followed The Wilderness Road. Three volumes were published by Bobbs-Merrill before the series was continued by McGraw-Hill. 431 paqes including an index.
    TB28014  $40.00




  • Mondlin, Marvin, and Roy Meador:  Book Row An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade.  New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. Second Printing. Near fine in brown and tan paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and pictorial end papers with a black remainder mark on the lower edge of the text block. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 405 pages including an index, appendix, a list of references and text. Illustrated with photographs.
    TB23490  $20.00




  • Mongomery, M. R.:  Many Rivers to Cross.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03130  $24.50



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    Monroe, James:  The People The Sovereigns.....  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. First Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition which has been rudely rebacked with heavy brown cloth and marked with the title and library call numbers in white on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 4 5/8 inches with brown clay coated end sheets, with an early prior owner's name and date of "1869" at the upper edge of the title page, a blind embossed library seal on the title page, a library plate on the front paste down and call numbers in pencil on the first page of the table of contents, and the typical library pocket and date due slip on the rear end sheets. A number of the first signatures are loose due to fractured sewing thread. 274 pages of text. The full title reads: "The People The Sovereigns Being A Comparison Of The Government Of The United States With Those Of The Republics Which Have Existed Before, With The Cause Of Their Decadence And Fall." Written by the late President sometime between his retirement from the Presidency (1825) and the time of his death (1831).
    TB28872  $125.00




  • Monsarrat, Nicholas:  The Master Mariner Running Proud.  London: Cassell, 1978. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. For 25 years the author dreamed of creating an epic tale encompassing 400 years of British Naval History as experienced by one man. The first volume in the work was The Master Mariner Running Proud published in 1978. The author's early death came shortly after starting the second volume.
    TB23846  $12.50




  • Monsarrat, Nicholas:  The Master Mariner Book 2 Darken Ship The Unfinished Novel.  New York: Wm. Morrow & Company, 1981. Second printing. Near fine in blue paper covered boards with modest spots of foxing on the lower edge of the text block. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The second volume in The Master Mariner series. This title was preceeded by Running Proud.
    TB23845  $5.00




  • Montgomery, M. R.:  Jefferson and the Gun-Men How the West Was Almost Lost.  New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Fine in red and cream paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 333 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps. The author, a native of Montana, examines the events following the Louisiana Purchase and the treacherous plot which Aaron Burr hatched with General James Wilkerson to take over control of the Louisiana Territory as well as Mexico. The flow of the book provides a matching timeline narrative of the events occurring during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the two Pike expeditions, the treachery of Burr, the double dealing of Wilkerson and the inaction by Jefferson to deal with the Burr embarrassment.
    TB16075  $30.00



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    Moore, Mary Tyler:  After All.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1995). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and light yellow paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the author's initials in gilt on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with very faint spots of foxing to the edges of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with no inscription or date. 332 pages including an index, photo credit and text. Illustrated with black and white photos throughout. A tight clean and collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29125  $250.00



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    Moore, Clement Clarke Gennady Spirin: The Night Before Christmas.  Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in fully illustrated paper covered boards with white text on the spine and orange text on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 27 pages followed by two final pages highlighting the history of the poem. Illustrated with full color images on each page by Gennady Spirin.
    TB31032  $75.00




  • Moore, Clement Tomie De Paola: The Night Before Christmas.  New York: Holiday House, Inc., (1980). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/2 red cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 11 by 8 1/2 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a 3/4 inch closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and a 1/4 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. This copy is signed on the fly title page and inscribed "For the Small Family" by the author and dated "'96". Unpaginated, but containing 31 pages of text and full color illustrations by the author.
    TB33457  $75.00



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    Moore, Clement C. Florence Kent: The Santa Claus Book - The Night Before Christmas.  New York: Capitol Publishing Company, Inc., 1947. . A shape book in very good condition in printed paper covered boards bound with a metal spiral binding with the rear board loose from the spiral comb. Although the boards are considerably larger than the pages the contents are 32 mo. of 5 by 9 3/8 inches with a gift inscription on the verso side of the front cover and the number "5513" on the front cover and on the upper corner of the second page. Unpaginated but containing 20 pages counting the inside of the covers. A number of the pages are mounted on heavy binder's boards. Each page is illustrated in bright multiple colors by Florence Kent.
    TB30365  $60.00



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    Moore, Kathleen Dean:  Holdfast At Home in the Natural World.  New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black and blue paper covered boards with white text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. 176 pages of text.
    TB18924  $35.00



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    Moore, Clement C. with illustrations by Janet and Alex D'Amato: The Night Before Christmas.  Mahwah, NJ: Educational Reading Service, 1970. . Fine in printed, pictorial heavy paper wraps over a double stapled binding. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 7 1/4". Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated containing 24 pages of text and color illustrations by Janet and Alex D'Amato.
    TB26416  $10.00



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    Moore, Marie, and Photographs by Joseph C. Farber:  Portrait of Essex.  Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1969. . Fine in red cloth covered boards with silver colored text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 6 7/8 inches with a prior owner's name and address stamped on the first free end page. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with modest rubbing at the upper and lower edges of the spine area. 94 pages of text and black and white photographs of the downtown area of Essex, Connecticut.
    TB30962  $15.00



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    [Moore, Clement C.] Illustrator not identified: A Visit From Santa Claus with Santa Claus And HIs Works.  New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1899. First Edition. Very good in heavy paper, printed wraps over a replacement sewn binding. A quarto measuring 12 1/8 by 9 7/8 inches with a 2 inch closed tear to the fold of the spine of the cover from its lower edge which has been repaired with archival tape. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages with 7 full color lithographic plates (counting the cover) and line drawings throughout. Identified on the as "158" with a copyright date of 1899 on the front cover. The illustrator is not indicated. Clement Moore's poem comprises the first six pages which includes three full color plates. The remaining pages of text and three plates contain the poem Santa Claus And His Works written by George P. Webster. (Not listed in Marshall).
    TB30985  $250.00



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    [Moore, Clement C.] Illustrator is not identified: A Visit From Santa Claus.  New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1898. First Edition. Very good- in heavy paper, printed wraps over a double stapled binding. A small quarto measuring 10 5/8 by 8 1/4 inches with a 3 inch split to the lower end of the fold of the spine, and rubbing to the fold and to the fore edge of the front cover with creases at the fore corners of the front cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages with 6 full color lithographic plates and line drawings throughout. Identified on the front panel as "105". The illustrator is not indicated. Not listed in Marshall. Very uncommon as no other copies are listed elsewhere. The copyright date on the rear cover indicates 1898.
    TB33073  $250.00



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    [Moore, Clement, C.]:  The Night Before Christmas.  New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1896. . Very good in heavy, pictorial paper wraps over a stapled binding. A quarto measuring 12 1/2 by 10 inches with a 3" area of printed and background color torn from the lower edge of the front board and with similar losses to the rear cover. This copy has a publication number of 159 in the lower left corner of the picture of Santa on the front cover. Counting the inside of the covers there are 14 pages printed or lithographed in color. The front cover is a color image of Santa's face with no doll or horn in the corners. Of note is the large double spread of Santa and the reindeer in flight. The illustrator is not identified. Of interest is the fact that Santa in several instances appears with a heavy brown overcoat. (Marshall, 118)
    TB29564  $225.00




  • Moran, USMCR (Ret.), Capt. John B.:  Creating A Legend The Complete Record of Writing about the United States Marine Corps.  Chicago: Moran/Andrews, Inc., 1973. First Edition, First printing. Fine in olive green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. A descriptive catalog and bibliography of the writing about the U. S. Marine Corps covering more than 1,000 books, 6,500 magazine articles all completely annotated and presented in a directory, subject-organized fashion. 681 pages including an index.
    TB16920  $31.50



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    Morgan, Dale L.:  The Great Salt Lake.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1947. First Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with modest rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine. An octavo of 9 3/8 by 5 7/8 inches. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. A special limited edition signed by the author on the decorated, tipped-in, second free end page. The 8th volume in The Lakes of America Series and one of the more difficult ones to locate. 432 pages including an index. Overall a beautiful copy! (Fitzgerald, AL2a)
    TB32992  $165.00



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    Morgan, Edmund S.:  American Heroes Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (2009). First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and the author's facsimile signature on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to the upper edge of the spine area. 278 pages including an index.
    TB26313  $20.00



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    Morgan, Robert:  Lions of the West heroes and Villains Of The Westward Expansion.  Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 497 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB26946  $20.00



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    Morgan, Dale L. and Eleanor Towles Harris:  The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson The West In 1834.  San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1967. First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 6 3/4 inches with map end sheets. The first free end sheet has the stamp of the prior owner's name and address and that same prior owner has written in pencil the date and place of purchase on the inside margin of the title page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with small chips from the ends of the spine area and multiple closed tears to the edges of the panels. One of only 1,500 copies printed. 430 pages including an index, bibliography and text with all pages in exceptional condition with no foxing or tanning. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of William Marshall Anderson from an earlier work of art.
    TB33316  $60.00




  • Morice, Bernard:  Le Palais Du Luxembourg Et Ses Metamorphoses.  Paris: Draeger, 1975. . Fine in ivory colored cloth covered boards with gilt tool work around the board edges and gilt embossing on the front board. a glassine protector which is in In a very good+ dust jacket condition with 1/3" closed tear to the front flap edge. The book is in French and was published to commemorate the 100th aniversary of the Belgian Senat. This is copy number 8,952 of 10,000 copies issued. The second free end page is inscribed by Senator Charles Errant in 1985. Laid-in are two menues from the Senat Restaurant.
    TB07334  $52.50



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    Moring, Thomas:  One Hundred Book Plates Engraved On Wood.  Toronto: The Musson Book Company, [1900]. First Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in 3/4 light brown cloth and paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 6 3/4 inches with a 1/3 inch long hole in the cloth of the rear gutter, the two lower tips of the boards are bumped and the cloth on the spine is slightly faded and there is a library book plate on the front fixed end sheet. (xxv) pages of introduction followed by 100 plates.
    TB28995  $125.00




  • Morison, Samuel Eliot:  The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and black image of a ship on the front board and with map end papers. The cloth at the head spine has a 1 inch closed tear which has been expertly repaired. In a good+, unclipped very uncommon dust jacket with chipping at the head and heel of the spine area and heavy wear and rubbing to the folds and edges of the front panel. 421 pages including an index, bibliography, supplement of letters, text and illustrated with reproductions of period works of art. Very uncommon in its issued dust jacket. Robert G. Albion in his Naval & Maritime History an Annotated Bibliography considers this work: "One of the classics of maritime literature, combining original approach, sound scholarship, and delightful style. Its topical arrangement covers various aspects ashore as well as the different spheres of distant activity." (Albion, p137)
    TB33443  $175.00



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    Morison, Samuel Eliot:  John Paul Jones A Sailor's Biography.  Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. Second Printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on a blue title background on the spine and with a gilt decoration of a sailing ship on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area with no chips or tears. Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for biography for this title in 1959. 453 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices, text. Illustrated with a frontispiece image of Jones' bust from a photograph and with 15 plates with images from contemporary works of art and from photographs as well as maps and charts.
    TB32843  $60.00



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    Morley, Geoffrey:  The Smuggling War The Government's Fight against Smuggling in the 18th and 19th Centuries.  Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10" tall by 6 1/2" deep. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 170 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB23080  $25.00




  • Morrell, David:  Desperate Measures.  New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine. In a fine dust jacket. By the same author to write First Blood and Rambo, both of which were made into movies.
    TB07402  $7.35




  • Morris, Willie:  My Dog Skip.  New York: Random House, 1995. First Limited Edition. Fine without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a fine slipcase. Signed by the author and numbered 402 out of only 500 copies printed.
    TB06001  $275.00



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    Morris, William:  Pre-Raphaelite Ballads.  New York: A. Wessels Co., 1900. First Edition, Limited Edition. Good in its original illustrated, 1/4 light brown cloth and paper covered boards with black decorations and red text on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 5/8 inches with wear and two small stains to the cloth over the spine and wear to the lower edges of the boards and with the paper over the tips of the boards worn through. The front hinge is cracked, the rear hinge is holding as are the joints. The contents are free of foxing. The majority of the pages have a very faint water stain in the fore margins. Without a dust jacket. One of only 500 copies printed on "Old Stratford paper" with this copy identified as number 101. Unpaginated, but containing 26 double fold pages printed in black and red. Illustrated throughout by H. M. O'Kane.
    TB33427  $125.00



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    Morris, Edmund:  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.  New York: Coward, McCann Geoghegan, Inc., (1979). Third Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A thick octavo measuring 9" by 6", In a good, unclipped dust jacket with two 1/2" closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel, shallow chipping from the ends of the spine area and a large 3" deep chip from the lower edge of the rear panel. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for this outstanding biography of Theodore Roosevelt. 886 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography, text and illustrated with 39 black and white photographs. Overall an extremely handsome and very collectable, later printing copy of this monumental biography.
    TB26820  $60.00



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    Morris, Wright:  A Cloak of Light Writing My Life.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1985. First Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with gilt decorations on the boards. The end sheets are marbled paper, the edges of the text block are gilt and there is a blue silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Carefully signed by the author on the second free end page. 306 pages of text with a section of black and white photographs. One of the volumes from The Franklin Library's collection for The Signed First Edition Society.
    TB24489  $40.00



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    Morris, Paul C.:  Maritime Nantucket A Pictoral History Of 'The Little Grey Lady' Of The Sea.  Orleans, Mass.: Lower Cape Publishing, (1996). First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with map end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with only hints of wear at the ends of the spine area. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid-in at the front of the book are two newspaper articles regarding the release of this title. 264 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs.
    TB28648  $40.00




  • Morris, Gregory L.:  Talking up a Storm: Voices of the New West.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author interviews fifteen contemporary authors of the American West to uncover what they all have in common. The authors include Ralph Beer, James Crumley, Ivan Doig, Ron Hansen, American West to uncover what they all have in common. These John Keeble, Richard Ford, William Kittredge and Tom McGuane.
    TB06995  $35.00




  • Morris, Edmund:  Theodore Rex.  New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6 1/4". In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The Pulitzer Prize winning author's second book on the life of Theodore Roosevelt. 772 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and occasional black and white photographic reproductions within the text.
    TB14830  $35.00



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    Morris, Roger:  Haig: The General's Progress.  n.p. (Chicago): Playboy Press, 1982. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in 1/4 dark blue cloth and peach colored paper covered boards. The paper covering to the front board is quite faded. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket where the price has been lined out with a single ink line. Signed and inscribed by General Haig on the fly title page. 450 pages including an index.
    TB19445  $35.00




  • Morris, Paul C.:  American Sailing Coasters of The North Atlantic.  Chardon, Ohio: Bloch and Osborn Publishing, 1973. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and decorated map end papers. In a very good- dust jacket with moderate wear at the ends of the spine area and wear around the edges of the panels. With a forward by Edouard Stackpole and containing 146 pen and ink illustrations with one fold-out rigging plan for a typical four-mated schooner. 224 pages including an index, glossary, bibliography, appendices, text and a large section of black and white photographs.
    TB16033  $20.00




  • Morrison, Toni:  Paradise.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine and front board. In a fine dust jacket. The Nobel Prize winning author's novel of the story of a small town in Oklahoma during the mid-1970's.
    TB05912  $45.00




  • Morrison, Kathleen:  Robert Frost A Pictorial Chronicle.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 brown cloth and tan paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine which is slightly rolled. Without its issued dust jacket. 133 pages of text and illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB22239  $10.00




  • Morse, Frances Clary:  Furniture of Olden Time.  London: Macmillan Company, 1902, 1910. 1910 Edition. Good+ but with the front hinge broken at the second free end paper. All pages present and tied-in. Without a dust jacket 371 pages with 2 pages of ads and several blank pages to follow. Containing text and photographic illustrations.
    TB10251  $5.00



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    Moser, Barry:  Crown - Artist's Proof of art work for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking-Glass.  West Hatfield, Mass.: The Pennyroyal Press, n.d. circa 1983. Artist's Proof. An artist's proof of a woodcut depicting a crown on a page measuring 16 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches sealed with a foam backing board in shrink wrap. The image alone measures 1 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches. This image is in fine condition with no visible wear. Signed in pencil by Barry Moser beneath the image and followed by "ap". This image of a crown adorned with upright leaves appears on the dedication page of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
    TB29246  $100.00



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    Moser, Barry:  Scepter - Artist's Proof of art work for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking-Glass.  West Hatfield, Mass.: The Pennyroyal Press, n.d. circa 1983. Artist's Proof. An artist's proof of a woodcut depicting a scepter on a page measuring 16 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches sealed with a foam backing board in shrink wrap. The image alone measures 8 1/2 by 7/8 inches. This image is in fine condition with no visible wear. Signed in pencil by Barry Moser beneath the image and followed by "ap". This image of a scepter appears on the fly title page of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
    TB29247  $100.00



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    Moser, Barry:  Crown with crosses - Artist's Proof of art work for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking-Glass.  West Hatfield, Mass.: The Pennyroyal Press, n.d. circa 1983. Artist's Proof. An artist's proof of a woodcut depicting a crown with two crosses on a page measuring 16 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches sealed with a foam backing board in shrink wrap. The image alone measures 3 by 5 5/8 inches. This image is in fine condition with no visible wear. Signed in pencil by Barry Moser beneath the image and followed by "ap". This image of a crown adorned with two crosses and fleurs-de-lis appears on the dedication page and pages xix and 119 of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
    TB29248  $100.00



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    Moser, Barry:  Jeweled Crown - Artist's Proof of art work for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking-Glass.  West Hatfield, Mass.: The Pennyroyal Press, n.d. circa 1983. Artist's Proof. An artist's proof of a woodcut depicting a jeweled crown on a page measuring 16 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches sealed with a foam backing board in shrink wrap. The image alone measures 3 5/8 by 3 3/4 inches. This image is in fine condition with no visible wear. Signed in pencil by Barry Moser beneath the image and followed by "ap". This image of a jeweled crown appears on the first preface page and page 157 of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
    TB29249  $100.00




  • Moser, Barry:  Polly Vaughn.  Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a fine dust jacket. "A traditional British ballad designed, illustrated, and retold in an American setting by Barry Moser."
    TB07070  $14.00




  • Mosher, Howard Frank:  The Fall of the Year.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 linen and paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket with price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page.
    TB11160  $28.00




  • Mosher, Howard F.:  North Country.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. A personal journey along the border country area which separates the US from Canada. Well reviewed with blurbs by Lawrence Millman, Frank McCourt, Richard Ford and Howard Norman. The author's sixth book.
    TB05311  $24.50




  • Mosher, Howard Frank:  The Fall Of The Year.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 tan cloth and paper covered boards with black text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. A review copy with a 4 1/2" by 6 1/2" black and white photograph of the author from the publisher laid-in.
    TB17139  $14.00




  • Mosley, Walter:  A Little Yellow Dog.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. An Easy Rawlins mystery and the author's 6th book of fiction
    TB04349  $14.00




  • Mosley, Walter:  RL's Dream.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in cloth and paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. Walter Mosley is best known for his Easy Rawlins crime mysteries. However, with this book the author departs from his normal course and supplies a book of rare insight into the world of black tragedy and the blues.
    TB04338  $12.25




  • Mosley, Walter:  Gone Fishin'.  Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in half cloth and paper covered boards with red embossed spine lettering. In a fine dust jacket. Although this is the first Easy Rawlins mystery it remained unpublished until 1997 when the author abandoned his publisher of his first six novels, W. W. Norton, in favor of a small black publishing house in Baltimore.
    TB04362  $12.00




  • Mosser, Marjorie, and Kenneth Roberts:  Good Maine Food.  New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. Early reprint. Near fine in tan buckram cloth covered boards with brown decorations and text on the spine and on the front board. The front end papers are very slightly tanned as is typically seen with this title. In a poor dust jacket with upper five inches of the spine area missing and the balance faded and with a with several chips from the edges of the panels. Signed by both Marjorie Mosser and Kenneth Roberts on the first free end page. It has also been signed and inscribed to "Elva | With Love, | Clara | December 25, 1939". This was Clara Claasen, Kenneth Roberts' long-time editor at Doubleday, Doran. A fine association copy. 381 pages containing an index, recipes and an introduction by Kenneth Roberts the uncle of the author.
    TB21260  $200.00



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    Motley, John Lothrop:  History Of The United Netherlands From the Death of William The Silent To The Twelve Years' Truce-1609 In Four Volumes.  New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. (circa 1868). Reprint. All four volumes of this complete set are in very good condition in 3/4 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with four raised bands on the spines with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with the upper edges of the text blocks gilt. The end sheets are of matching marbled paper. Each volume is an octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 3/4" with the leather rubbed and worn at the heads of the spines and at the tips of the boards. Volume I contains 532 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece and a fold-out map. Volume II contains 563 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece. Volume III contains 599 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece; and, volume IV contains 632 pages including an index to all four volumes and is illustrated with a frontispiece.
    TB27158  $120.00



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    Moulton, Gary E.:  The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Volume 5).  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The 5th volume in The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This volume contains the journals of Lewis and Clark for the period July 28 through November 1, 1805 which covered the arduous passage over the Bitterroot Mountains of present day Montana and the Cascades near the Columbia River. 415 pages including an index , a list of sources cited, text and illustrated with photographic reproductions from the original journals.
    TB22750  $250.00




  • Moulton, Gary E.:  The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Volume 3).  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Third Printing, 1992. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket due to tanning of the spine area and very light wear to the upper edge of the spine area. The 3rd volume in The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This volume contains the journals of Lewis and Clark for the period August 1804 to April 1805.
    TB03966  $66.50




  • Moulton, Gary E.:  The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Volume 2).  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Third Printing, 1989. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. The 2th volume in The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This volume contains the journals of Lewis and Clark for the period August 1803 to August 1804.
    TB03965  $60.00



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    Moulton, Mark Kimball Susan Winget: The Visit The Delightful History and Origin of The Night Before Christmas.  Elafield, Wisc.: Lang Books, (2001). Sixth Printing. Fine in brick red paper covered boards with a blind stamped title on the front board. An oblong small quarto of 10 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a near fine, printed, paper covered slipcase with rubbing and wear to the paper at all the corners Unpaginated, but containing 52 pages counting the free end sheets. Illustrated throughout with full color images. From both the slipcase and the front panel of the dust jacket the full title and subtitle read: "The Visit The delightful History and Origin of 'The Night Before Christmas' As Recalled by Dinghy Sharp storyteller and great-great-grandaughter of author, Clement Clarke Moore." Printed in the rear of the text is a facsimile, handwritten copy of Clement C. Moore's poem dated well after the original first appeared.
    TB33014  $50.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Sibur My Discovery of Siberia.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. First Edition. Near fine with dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good dust, price clipped dust jacket with minor chips and creases at the upper edges of the panels and spine area. Signed by the author on the title page with no dedication or inscription. 313 pages including an index.
    TB00584  $100.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The Grey Seas Under.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1958. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with light soiling and spots of foxing to the upper edge of the text block and minor foxing to the hinge areas. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with map end sheets. In a good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4 and 1/2 inch deep chips at the ends of the spine area and rubbing and wear to the panels. If one enjoyed The Perfect Storm this is a must! The author narrates the 15 year history of a Deep-Sea salvage tug, the Foundation Franklin, off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia saving hundreds of ships from the perilous seas and treacherous coasts. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a line drawings of the Foundation Franklin. This is the very uncommon first Canadian edition with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32638  $100.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  My Discovery of America.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First Canadian Edt.. Near fine in full gray cloth covered boards with white text printing on the spine with a hint of rubbing to the cloth at the head of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a tiny hint of wear at the top of the spine area and modest soiling to this predominently white jacket. Signed by the author on the fly title page with the date of "85" with no inscription or dedication. Farley Mowat recounts his experiences at being rejected by the US Immigration and Naturization Service at the US/Canadian border in an understandably indignant, but mostly in a humorous style. 125 pages. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB05129  $65.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The People Of The Deer (First Installment, The Atlantic January, 1952).  Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1952. First magazine appearance. Near fine in illustrated paper covered wraps. This issue constitutes volume 189, number 1 of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. Without a dust jacket as issued. The cover art is of Farley Moat done by Mimi Korach depicting the young author sitting atop a rock in the Barren Lands of northern Canada wearing a parka, boots and behind him is a herd of caribou. This is a seven page (page 31 to 37), first installment and the first appearance of Farley Mowat's first book: The People Of The Deer.
    TB19896  $50.00




  • Mowat, Farley:  My Discovery of America.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First Canadian Edt.. Fine in full gray cloth covered boards with white text printing on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Farley Mowat recounts his experiences at being rejected by the US Immigration and Naturization Service at the US/Canadian border in an understandably indignant but mostly humorous style.
    TB07682  $42.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  A Farley Mowat Reader.  Niwot: Roberts Rinehart Pub, 1997. First Edition. Fine in decorated paper covered boards with art work that matches the dust jacket. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of anecdotes from Farley Mowats best books. With black and white illustrations by Wendy Thomas. 189 pages.
    TB05734  $40.00




  • Mowat, Farley:  Sibur.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light green cloth covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket but with a price clipped jacket flap with very light wear and flecking to the spine ends and rubbed at the folds to the flaps. With a 1" closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. Mowat's journey of discovery to Siberia.
    TB05910  $35.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The Serpent's Coil.  Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1961. First Edition. Near fine in pale yellow cloth covered boards with light blue text and decorations on the spine and on the boards with map end sheets. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with two 1/2" deep chips at the upper edge of the rear panel and with several, narrow very shallow chips from the edges of the front panel and spine area. 189 pages of text illustrated with drawings by F. Newfeld. The author recounts the factual struggle of several men and ships to battle three successive hurricanes in the north Atlantic in the fall of 1948. This is the uncommon, first Canadian edition which preceded both the first American edition by Little Brown in 1961 and the first UK edition by Michael Joseph in 1962.
    TB23270  $35.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The Boat Who Wouldn't Float.  Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1970. First Amer. Edition. Near fine in cloth covered boards with map end sheets with dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with minor soiling to the front and rear panels. 241 pages.
    TB00233  $30.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Canada North.  Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Fine in navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a two inch long closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and light rubbing to the folds. A photographic book of northern Canada. 128 pages.
    TB00565  $30.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World.  New York: Roberts Rinehart, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03750  $30.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Bay of Spirits A Love Story.  New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007. First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue and cream colored paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 360 pages of text followed by two pages of ads for other books by the author. Illustrated throughout with photographs.
    TB22630  $30.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  A Whale for the Killing.  Boston: Atlantic - Little Brown, (1972). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with black and silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the heel of the spine. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with three closed tears to the spine area. 239 pages of text with map end sheets.
    TB31938  $30.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  My Father's Son.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Amer. Edition. Fine. In a fine dust jacket. 340 pages.
    TB01087  $25.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The Siberians.  Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine. Near fine with a price clipped front flap and with minor creasing at the lower edge of the spine area and the front panel. 360 pages.
    TB01384  $25.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The World of Farley Mowat.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980. First CN Editon. Fine. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket very slight wrinkling at its the ends of the spine area. A collection of Mowat's works. 338 pages.
    TB02115  $25.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The Farfarers.  Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with a blind embossing of the author's signature on the front board. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author takes an unusual departure from the norm by suggesting with this account that a forgotten race of early Brits by the name of the Albans may have first settled in North America well before the Vikings first appeared in the area. 377 pages.
    TB11067  $25.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Virunga The Passion Of Dian Fossey.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 bright green cloth and bright green paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine with illustrated end sheets with modest fading of the rear board due to dampness and with a very faint dampness stain to the margin areas of the last 40 pages of text. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with dampness staining to the verso side of the jacket over the spine area. 380 pages including an index. Illustrated with two sections of color photographs. This, the first Canadian edition, preceded both the British and American first editions which were titled Woman in the Mists: The Story of Diane Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa.
    TB23266  $25.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  The New-Founde-Land.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. First Edition. Fine, In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 330 pages.
    TB02337  $20.00




  • Mowat, Farley:  Woman in the Mists.  New York: Warner Books, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered baords with bright gilt text stamping on the spine with the upper 1/8" of the boards slightly faded as typically seen with this title. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Mowat details the life and work of Dian Fossey to safeguard the lives and habitat of the mountain gorilla. Illustrated with two sections of photographs.
    TB19910  $20.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  Sea of Slaughter.  Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. 438 pages including an index.
    TB00487  $15.00



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    Mowat, Farley:  John O'Groats.  John O'Groats: Privately Printed, none stated. 14th Edition. Fine in printed paper wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. The forward is by Farley Mowat. The book appears to be written by his son, Bill Mowat. The book is about the last northern town of the mainland of Scotland, John O'Groats.
    TB05909  $15.00




  • Muir, Percy:  English Childrens's Books.  New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1954. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine with light rubbing to the heel of the spine and with light shelf wear to the board edges. In a good+ dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and with 1/4" deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area with a 1/3" deep by 2" long chip at the lower edge of the front panel and a 2" closed tear to the rear panel. 256 pages including an index, text and with over 100 illustrations through-out.
    TB15346  $28.00



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    Mumey, Nolie:  The Life of Jim Baker 1818-1898.  New York: Interland Publishing Inc., 1972. Signed, deluxe limited edition. Fine in 1/2 yellow leather and patterned, paper covered boards with gilt on dark green title labels on the spine as well as gilt borders and tool work. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with reinforced cloth hinges and marbled end sheets and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 100 copies printed and made available for sale. This copy is out of series and it is signed by the Joe Grandee and Peter Decker who provided the foreword. 234 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of a painting of a mountain man by Joe Grandee. Tipped in after the fly title page is a large fold-out map of the western United States showing the travels and expeditions of Jim Baker. This is a facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce, original 1931 edition which was only printed in 250 signed and numbered copies.
    TB28866  $225.00




  • Munroe, Kirk:  The Flamingo Feather.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with an illustrated paper plate affixed to the front board. There is a small narrow stain at the lower edge of the front board and minor small ink stains on the text block edges. A gift inscription has been written on the front free end paper and there is a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the fly title page. There are no marks or notations in the book and the paste-on label has no wear, loss or rubbing. With illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. 222 pages with all 10 color plates present.
    TB15496  $40.00



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    Murdock, Harold:  The Nineteenth of April 1775.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. First Trade Edition. Near fine in 1/4 black cloth and red paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. Within a very good- unclipped dust jacket with several 1/2" deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area and front panel. 134 pages of text followed by a fold-out map of the greater Boston area. Illustrated with a number of photographic reproductions of earlier works of art. The book was first published in 1923 as a limited edition of 575 copies. The first issue of the book contained the following subtitle: "Exhibiting a fair and impartial account of the engagement fought on that day, chiefly in the Towns of Concord, Lexington, the Menotomy, between a Detachment of His Brittanick Majesty's Regular Troops and the Militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; with candid remarks upon certain relations of that sanguinary event as set forth by other hands."
    TB22227  $75.00



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    Murphy, Claire Rudolf and Jane G. Haigh:  Gold Rush Women.  Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, (1997). Third Printing of 1998. Near fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 9 by 7 inches with "jSmithsonian and the date 2/16/99 at the upper fore corner of the first free end page. Without a dust jacket as issued. 126 pages of text and illustrated throughout from black and white photographs.
    TB30465  $5.00




  • Murray, Earl:  The River of Sundown.  New York: Tom Doherty Assoc., 1996. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. A review copy with the publisher's materials laid-in. The Montana native's book of historical fiction which takes place in the Montana Territory.
    TB05950  $30.00




  • Murray, Earl:  Spirit of the Moon.  New York: Tom Doherty Assoc., 1996. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. This Montana author's book of historical fiction which takes place in the early 1840's in what is now Arizona, Utah and Wyoming.
    TB05939  $25.00




  • Murray, John A.:  A Republic of Rivers.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine, Fine, A collection of writings over the past 300 years from nature writers from Alaska and the Yukon.
    TB01644  $17.50




  • Murray, John A.:  American Nature Writing 1995.  San Franci: Sierra Club, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine Without a dust jacket. A selection of writings by Rick Bass, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Doug Peacock, David Rains Wallace, Terry Tempest Williams and others.
    TB04103  $10.00




  • Muscatine, Doris:  Old San Francisco The Biography of a City From Early Days to the Earthquake.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated pink cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and only light rubbing at the ends of the spine area. 480 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, text and a section of photographs.
    TB11999  $22.50




  • Myers, John Myers:  The Deaths of the Bravos.  Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1962. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a near fine dust jacket with the verso of the spine area spotted but this defect does not show through. A comprehensive examination of the men who lead in the settlement of the west.
    TB02287  $17.50



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