Search Results: Titles starting with M from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Lewes: Tartarus Press, 1990 68pp. Essays on Machen. Condition: Almost Fine, with one corner lightly bumped.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1933 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine. (x) 248 pp. Condition Near Fine. Lacking dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the Author. A look at the socio-economic effects of the coal mining industry to the traditionally agrarian Appalachian region. Author Malcolm Ross ( 1895-1965) writes soon after the Great Depression, and argues that technological changes which displace labor have unforeseen societal consequences, shining a spotlight on the "near-slavery conditions of the coal mining industry." Originally a journalist, Ross would work as the Public Relations Director of the National Labor Relations Board the year after this publication of his first book. He was appointed Chairman of the Fair Employment Practices Committee by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998 238pp. The author was a two-term Massachusetts Governor, federal prosecutor, and a current Presidential candidate. This foray into the fiction of politics brings us a fast-paced and entertaining romp of our protagonist Terry Mullally from life as a cop in Brooklyn, NY to a potential seat in the United States Senate. Condition: Very Good in a Near Fine dustjacket. Edges of text block and endpapers very lightly foxed. Two pages with dog-ear creases.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books for St. Martin's Press, 1996 Hard cover with dust jacket in mylar cover, 183 pp. Signed by Author on Title page. "Spring in Vermont," says the blurb," a season for mud and murder." Mysterious barn burnings, and the theft of an elderly couple's savings from the rafters of the same, set alight a tale of murder and mayhem in a small Vermont town. Condition: Fine, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. (D/j has two quarter-inch tears.). First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Plus.

New York: Interim Books, 1972 Boxed set of ten booklets and single "title page". Number 388 of 500 copies. A collection of poetry, photographs and essays. Condition: Light shelfwear and dust soiling to box, otherwise about Near Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

365 Washington Street, Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., c.1890 First Edition, with added annotation by Author. (Originally published under a different Tile in 1888, "The Doom of Mamelons.") Hard cover, 8vo., in pale gray cloth with titles blocked in gold to top board and on spine, top edge gilt, "two novels in one." Dedicated to Dr. George Stewart Jr., D.Litt. of Quebec, "Canadian Man of Letters." The two novellas of this book take place in the hitherto relatively inaccessible Labrador region of eastern Canada. Written in his mature years, the work has been called Author William Henry Harrison Murray's ( 1840-1904) "most literary, and perhaps most abstract work" (R. Beach p. 128.) The writing is a bit reminiscent of James Fenimoore Cooper, to this reader. In the introduction to a different version of this work, the Author describes his fascination with the environs of the enormous Labrador Peninsula: "It is a land of lakes, of rivers, of forests, of tangled swamps, of wild wastes, of rocky desolation,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 Hard cover, 8vo, in navy blue cloth with titles blocked in gold and red, Oxford insignia in blind, xvii, 402pp. Condition: Near Fine. Prior owner's remarks in pencil to front pastedown. Small line of occasional discoloration at photograph section appears to fore edge. Otherwise clean, bright and tight. Dr. Happold, was Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia, and formerly Reader in Zoology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The work details the Author's encounters with a great variety of mammals found in the varied ecological areas of Nigeria, including mangrove swamps, rainforest, woodlands, grasslands and the Sahara desert, which he explored extensively in the 1960's and 1970's. Complete with line illustrations, charts, maps and black and white photos.. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Meridith Happold.

New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1968 Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 9 ¼" x 6"). In publisher's olive cloth binding with black lettering and decoration,210pp. CONDITION: About Good Plus, in like dust jacket, which is now protected in mylar. Corners bumped. *** A scarce anthology by Donald Hall (1928-2018), Poet Laureate of the United States, and author of children's books including the Caldecott Medal winner, "Ox-Cart Man" (1979). This book contains poetry and prose concerning grandfathers, fathers and sons - from reminiscences to advice - including authors such as James Joyce, Ovid, D.H.Lawrence, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Baldwin, William Shakespeare, et al. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good doPlus/Good.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930 Hard cover, in original red publisher's cloth with title and vignette to front board in gilt, 314pp. No d/j. Mystery/adventure novel set on the southwest coast of Scotland and Saskatchewan, Canada. The British author, Harold Edward Bindloss (1866-1945), was a prolific writer of adventure novels, many of which were set in Canada, and based on his life experiences as a sailor, a farmer in Canada, a dockworker and a planter. *** Condition: About Very Good, but lacking front free endpaper.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919 292pp. In publishers blue boards with black lettering. A novel of an aviator in an observation balloon "dropping from the clouds" after his balloon's cable tethered to a cruiser broke, leaving him and his companion adrift above the North Sea during the First World War. *** The author, Joseph Storer Clouston OBE (1870-1944), was from the Orkney Islands to the north of Scotland, and wrote many successful novels, some of which were made into films. Condition: Scattered foxing throughout. Covers dust-soiled at the spine and with some light wear/marks. Small bump to one corner.. Hard Cover. Good+.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924 Hard cover, 8vo. in quarter brown cloth with decorated, paper-covered boards, 119 pp. A satirical fable about a man who becomes a zoo exhibit after breaking up with his fiancé. Author David Garnett (1892-1981) was a Bloomsbury Group affiliated novelist, and co-founder of the Nonesuch Press. His first wife, Rachel Marshall, was the artist for this volume. Engraved bookplate of Frederick Whiley Hilles, and his signature, to ffep , dated 1 June, 1924. Hilles was Bodmin Professor of English Literature at Yale, and a former intelligence officer based at Bletchley Park during World War II. He was a noted scholar on the writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He and his wife gave a library to Radcliffe College at Harvard. Condition: Very Good. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London and Manchester: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and Kent & Co.;J. Heywood, [1858] Hard cover, 12mo, in red cloth, stamped in blind original publisher's cloth, and gilt design to front board, title in gold to the spine. All edges gilt, 133 pp., First Edition. Frontispiece plus a further five black and white woodblock illustrations by Letherbow and Morton, with tissue-guards. Inscribed by Author. ** CONDITION: Good Plus: Boards have some soiling and there is some edge-wear. Moderate foxing, especially to plates and tissue guards.Bookplate of an Oxford educated scholar to front pastedown.**This satiric poem tells the tale of a lawsuit of one Sir Pie-Crust, a pastry-cook of Manchester, against his aggrieved yet otherwise excellent feline, Tam. The drama of the cat stealing the baker's wares is jauntily written. The extensive "Notes" provide a plethora of classical allusions and bibliographical precedent to further confound or illuminate the reader's imagination. There are tones of Jonathan Swift here,… Read More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 697pp. Stimulus package from the Nixon era aimed at providing centralized state oversight of the economy in the United States, including training programs, wage controls etc. Condition: ALmost Very Good, but with ghosts of paper clip to the last few pages, owner's name on the front cover, and creasing, dust-soiling to the covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

Hartford and Utica: O.D. Case & Company and John W. Fuller & Co., 1857 Reprint. Copyright stated as 1853. Hard cover, 16mo, (measuring 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), in quarter calf over brown, paper-covered boards, the front with titles printed, advertising on the rear cover, the spine with gilt banding, title worn away. Advertising for Strong's System of Penmanship, dated September 1854, with testimonials from various Swampscott, Mass. individuals.) Stereotyped by Richard H. Hobbs, Hartford, Connecticut. Printed by Case Tiffany and Co., Hartford, Connecticut (verso title pg.) **Bound in are eight maps (complete) printed in black, red, green and yellow: Map I The World or Hemispheres (double page), Map II North America, Map III U.S. and Mexico (double page), Map IV South America, Map V Europe, Map VI Asia and Map VII Africa and Map VIII Oceana. This was meant to supplement the classroom instruction of geography, as a manual to larger classroom wall maps. Includes hints for teachers, identified places of… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982 Hard cover, with dust jacket in mylar, 1982. Real-life antiquarian bookseller and author, Roy Harley Lewis, brings us another fine mystery set in the exciting world of high-stakes manuscripts at auction. Is the sixteenth-century diary, purportedly written by a hitherto-unknown paramour of Shakespeare, authentic? How many will die attempting to acquire the priceless artifact? Fictional secret agent-turned book dealer Matthew McColl is the man to solve the crime. Condition: Very Good Plus with a Fine dust jacket. Top edge of text block has splatter (coffee maybe?) and the pastedowns and endpapers have a few spots and offset marks. Otherwise, the book and jacket are of excellent appearance.. First American edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Fine.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976 First edition. Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), in blue trade cloth with black lettering to spine, the pictorial dust jacket by Charles Attebury, 238 pp. With 17 pages of black and white illustrations and photo reproductions. Condition: Very Good Plus: no writing, not price-clipped, firm binding, bright. D/j with some soiling to rear panel, enclosed in mylar protector. Stories include: Boston's 1919 Molasses Disaster; the 1950 Brinks Holdup; Sir Edmund Andros' 1687 reception in Massachusetts; the prophetic powers of Moll Pitcher and the story of a female pirate, Fanny Campbell, both of Lynn; Nicholas Jamieson the "Good Pirate" of Hingham; Longfellow and the wreck of the Hesperus, the haunted schoolhouse of Newburyport, and more misadventures with hauntings, sharks and the like. Includes index. Massachusetts author, high school teacher, journalist and historian, Edward Rowe Snow, (1902-1982) wrote more than 40 books on New England coastal… Read More

Oxford: Bodliean Library Publishing, 2014 Soft Cover, quarto, 360pp. Lavishly illustrated folio of the collections of the world famous Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Fort Wayne, IN: IPFW, Dept. of English and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2012 Soft cover, 144 pp. 8vo. Condition: Fine. Nine articles of modern scholarship on the Elizabethan poet, dramatist and translator, Christopher Marlowe.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little Brown, 1979 Hard cover 8vo, in tan linen with blue paper-covered boards, in a pictorial dust jacket with author photo, now in mylar, stated First Edition, (xv), 537pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Owner name in ballpoint to ffep.**Literary biography of John P. Marquand (1893 -1960), journalist, Newburyport-resident, and novelist whose work has been compared to that of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Lewis, in the category of "great twentieth-century American authors." Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he was named "the most successful novelist" by Life Magazine in 1944. The Biographer, Millicent Bell, gleans her observations on the author's need for recognition and success from the stratified society he generally satirized. Using Marquand's own writings, correspondence and interviews with his contemporaries, she also manages to paint a nuanced portrait of the places--Harvard, Curzun's Mill at Newburyport, Boston, which shaped the man and his career.… Read More

Toronto: William Briggs, 1899 Hard cover, 8vo, 99pp., Second Edition. Book of poetry by John Frederick Berbin (1860 - 1923), a Canadian author whose 1898 "History of Grand Pre" was one of the earliest histories of the Acadian people of Nova Scotia, and of their expulsion. Inscribed on blank page before title page: "The Marshlands and ___ remember you to-day and always. John Frederick Herbin. July 9, 1899". Enclosed with the book is a newspaper clipping of a review of the book. Condition: Good. Covers show wear at edges and have bumped corners. Browning from news clipping to inscription page as shown in photos.. Signed by author. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good.