Search Results: Authors starting with M from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Boosey & Co, 1921. Loose Sheet Music. Very Good-Collectible. 11"x14" 8 pgs counting cover (not joined). Piano & voice. Smalll nics and large tears along edges. Retail store stamp on front. Comes in clear plastic w/board back. Secure ship w/tracking #. A Mhairi Bhan ( A Clyde-Side Love Lilt). Appreciations by Granville Bantock. Adverstisement on back cover. Some lines of song written by Shakespeare. Other written by an old woman in Bumbafrtonshire over 150 years ago from "The Passionate Pilgrim

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. 5.63"x8.38"x1.75". 405 pages. Dk blue boards. Gold letters on spine. Contents; Prologue; Books One thru Four; Epilogue. Spine edges have severe rubs with cracks but not separated. No DJ. PON inside front cover with 1948 date in ink. No other markings seen. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Story about the Queen of Denmark.

NY: Citadel Press, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING with DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.61" H x 9.11" L x 6.11" W (1.51 lbs) 320 pages. Features: Price on Product. Secure ship w/track #. Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues includeSimone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis -- and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and… Read More

NY: Clarion Books (HCP), 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New/New. 5TH PRINTING. Physical Info: 0.52" H x 11.13" L x 8.92" W (1.29 lbs) 80 pages. Features: Dust Cover, Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product. Target Age Group: 10 and UP. Secure ship w/track #. Accelerated Reader® Info Quiz # (Quiz Name): 9545(Castle) Reading Level: 7.9 Interest Level: Middle Grade Point Value: 1.0. The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.

NY: American Book Company, 1905. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood. 4.5"x6.5"x.5". 157 page plus advertisements. Red cloth boards with gold letters to front and spine. Pencil writings inside front and back covers. Portrait of Johnson for frontispiece. Edited by J. S. Clark, A.M., Litt.D. Professor in Nowthwestern University. Mild foxing to Title page. W.P.10 Preface, Introduction, Prefatory Note, Contents, Intro, Notes. S87, S90 S91. Gateway Series emblem on back. No DJ. "Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson with a selection from his Essay on Johnson. This book, "Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson," by Thomas Babington Macaulay, is a replication of a book originally published before 1903. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible." Goodreads.

NY: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardcover_pictorial boards. VeryGood. Gilleece, David. 5"x7" 338 pgs. Pictorial boards. spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. X-library w/graphics. No DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The third book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series. Eight going on nine, Rose Wilder is beginning to settle into her new life in Missouri, the Land of the Big Red Apple. Her father is building their farmhouse and she dreams of the day they'll have their own bright crop to harvest. But before that can happen, she has a fierce ice storm to contend with and her first real Christmas in the Ozarks to enjoy. Source: Publisher.

New York: Atria Books, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First printing. 6.25"x9.25" 406 pages. X-library w/graphics. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages marked. Unclipped. Secure ship w/track #. Spanning the secrets of three generations of a Cornish family, Sea Music is an exquisitely composed family saga rich with love and riddled with dark secrets, in the tradition of The Shell Seekers. Source: Publisher Sharing a family home overlooking the sea in Cornwall, England, three generations of the Tremain family find their relationships and the fate of the house threatened by tragic and dangerous secrets that, once revealed, force them to question the price paid by violence, war, and prejudice. A first novel. Goodreads.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Fine/Near Fine. Don Brautigram. 5.75"x 8.5" 630 pgs. Burnt orange boards. Brown buckram with burnt orange letters on spine. DJ #1915 designed by the Don Bender. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Minimal edge & shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12): A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call Southern hospitality...? Bright Orange for the Shroud (Travis McGee #6): Travis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as possible. But… Read More

NY: Lippincott & Crowell, 1973. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Near Fine/Good. Don Brautigam. 5.75"x8.5" 505 pgs. Gray boards under red bucram spine w/black letters. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Faint edge and shelf wear to DJ w/soft toning & color transfer. Faint foxing. Mended edge. Secure ship w/track #. The Scarlet Ruse: Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart. Only it's not McGee's heart that's in danger. Because a syndicate killer has put a contract on McGee. A killer who knows something about stamps . . . and even more about McGee. The Deep Blue Good-by: He's a self-described beach bum who won his… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover textured. Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5" 626 pgs. Gold boards w/black embossed letters on spine. DJ design by S. A. Summit, Inc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Few small punctures to boards. Mild rubs, edge and shelf wear to DJ. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. The Galton Case: Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. The Chill: In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty… Read More

Garden City: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1980. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 647 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters. DJ design #1264399 by Elizabeth Middlebrook. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. The Ivory Grin: Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit,… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth. Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x 8.5" 346 pgs. Denim w/gold letters on spine. DJ #5661 designed by Hal Siegel. Photo of author by Hal Boucher. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Minimal edge & shelf wear to DJ. Residue on front of DJ from another DJ. Secure ship w/track #. In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald.… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine. 21.5cm 630 pgs. Tan boards w/soft red letters on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Great book for Travis McGee fans. Contains, "A Tan and Sandy Silence","The Long Lavender Look" and "Bright Orange For the Shroud". All under one cover. This book is available only in Book Club edition. 630 pages, Hardcover.

San Ramon, CA: Ortho Books, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Collectible - Fine/Fine. 9"x11.5". 352 indexed pages. 6th printing. DJ matches pictorial boards. Sky blue paste-downs with flock ascending. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. Will require extra shipping. A full-color guide to attracing, observing, identifying, and photographing birds with an introductory champter by Roger Tory Peterson. If you've ever wondered how an eagle flies, where to see migrating wood ducks, what a yellow-bellied sapsucker really looks like, or how to photograph a hummingbird in flight, then this is the book for you. In addition, you will learn background information about the anatomy, physiology, and behavior of different birds.

Sabbathday Lake, ME: The United Society of Shakers, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5" 146 pgs. Black cloth boards w/gilt letters on spine. Frontispiece: Aurelia G. Mace "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help." Many B&W photos of people, families, churches, lifestyle. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library. Two gift inscriptions on ffep. Exact reprint of the 1902 Second Edition. Introduction: With the object in view that the Shakers may become better known, this book is offered to the public. The first part comprises a series of letters that were published in the The Messnger, a Bangor paper, during the years 1883 and 1884. Then are inserted communcations and short articles that have been published from time to time in the Shaker Manifesto. It is presumed that by readin this book one can obtain a clear and correct idea of the Shakers' belief and manner of life, and of the rise and progress of the Societies. We… Read More

New York: Aladdin, 2003. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine-Collectible. 5.25"x7.75"x1"; 385 pages; 5th printing w/number line. Ages 10 and up; Cover design by Debra Sfetsios; Cover illustration by Victor Lee. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Secure shipping w/tracking number. AR Quiz No. 66731 EN Fiction IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17.0 AR Quiz Types: RP, VP FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride. Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing a disaster of huge… Read More

New York: Aladdin, 2003. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Near Fine-Collectible. 5.25"x7.75"x1"; 336 pages; 4th printing w/number line. Ages 10 and up; Cover design by Debra Sfetsios; Cover illustration by Victor Lee. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minor edge wear. Secure shipping w/tracking number. AR Quiz No. 70165 EN Fiction IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14.0 AR Quiz Types: RP, VP Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral, Spader, have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plan.

NY: Harcort, Brace & World, 1942. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 314 numbered pages. Blue vinyl board w/gold foil letters on front. Red buckram spine w/gold letters. Belonging to a set of various titles & authors printed by Orange Graphics of Orange, VA and stamped on last page. Q43 in gutter on next to last page specifically for BCE. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Faint foxing to top edge. Soft rubs to edge. Secure ship w/track #. Hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago he had joked with the red-haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate. Three hours ago he had stood on English earth. Three hours ago he had been Martin Hearne with 27 years of his life behind him.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x 8.5" 304 pgs. Dark blue boards. DJ #2564 designed by Paul Bacon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Some discoloration of dj spine w/faint water stain. Left over residue on dj from another dj. Short red line on back of dj. Secure ship w/track #. Chuck Kelso is an idealist. When he steals a top-secret NATO memorandum, he only intends to leak it to the press; but it is soon in the hands of a Russian agent, a man who has spent nine years quietly working himself into the fabric of Washington society. Within hours it has reached the KGB, and the CIA's top man in Moscow has had his cover blown. For British agent Tony Lawton, hunting down the Russian operative - the ‘agent in place' - is a welcome challenge. But for Chuck's brother, the journalist Tom Kelso, and his beautiful wife, Thea, the affair has unleashed a very special terror. Now the race is… Read More

NY: Harper One, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New. 0.9" H x 8.5" L x 7.7" W (1.6 lbs) 192 pages; First printing. Illustrated, Price on Product. Ships in box w/secure tracking #. Cover design: Colm Roche at Imagist. Secure ship w/track #. Inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected with readers of all ages. This beautifully hardcover edition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse celebrates the work of more than a 100 animators across two years of production-with Charlie Mackesy's distinctive illustrations brought to life in full color with hand-drawn traditional animation and accompanying… Read More