Authors starting with M from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

Paris: G.L.M., April 1937.. Whole number five. Octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Illustrated. Ordinary issue on regular paper. Contributions to this number include work by Prassinos, Crevel, Neruda, Seligmann (4 plates), Kafka in translation, et al. Upper wrapper lightly soiled, with several stray marks, else very good. or better. ... more information

Philadelphia: William S. Young, 1842.. xii,[13]-421,2,vi,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter calf and blindstamped cloth. Portrait. First U.S. edition of the standard early biography of the Scottish Seceder theologian, by his son. Foretips a bit worn, rather foxed (as usual), otherwise a good, sound copy. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1925.. Blue cloth, lettered in black. First edition of the author's first collection of poetry, in the second binding. Signed and dated by the author in Edinburgh in 1951. Fine in lightly worn dust jacket with creased tear at top edge of front panel, and another ink name and date on the front flap. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1926.. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition of the author's second collection of poetry, in the primary binding. Light foxing at edges, corners a bit worn, else very good, without dust jacket. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1925.. Blue cloth, lettered in black. First edition of the author's first collection of poetry, in the second binding. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1930.. Light blue cloth, lettered in black. First edition, second binding. Spine and edges a bit sunned, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1926.. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition of the author's second collection of poetry, in the primary binding. Light foxing at edges, 1926 ownership inscription on free endsheet, otherwise a very good, bright copy, without dust jacket. ... more information

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1930.. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition, first binding. Light foxing at edges, small, neat ink name, else fine and bright in slightly tanned, bit nicked and frayed dust jacket with a few small smudges. ... more information

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., [1938].. Cloth. Fine in lightly used dust jacket. First edition, limited issue, of the poet's first commercially published book. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author, issued as a selection of "The Discoverers." ... more information

New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935.. Large octavo. Printed wrappers over stiff wrapper. First edition of the poet's first book. One of 135 numbered copies, signed by the author, from a total edition of 165. Front inner wrapper flap torn away, a few smudges, else good copy in chipped glassine. ... more information

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., [1938].. Cloth. First edition, trade issue. of the author's first commercially published book. Fine in lightly used dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908.. Cloth and decorated boards (after a design by Hapgood), t.e.g.. First edition, set up in type at the Merrymount Press. Inscribed and signed by the author at Christmas in 1908. Recipient's ownership inscription on pastedown, front inner hinge cracking slightly, tips rubbed, but a good copy. ... more information

New York: Grove Press, [1988].. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Paris: Henri Jonquières & Cie., 1926.. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Eight color plates. Crown and toe of spine have shallow surface losses, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated with eight colored heliogravures by the author, printed by Dujardin and colored by Rondeau. One of 275 numbered copies on vélin de Rives, from a total edition of 301. TALVART & PLACE (MAC ORLAN) 36. MONOD 7582. ... more information

[Lausanne, etc]: Revue de Belles-Lettres, 1965.. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Portrait and plates. Upper wrapper faintly dusty, otherwise near fine, unopened. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies on vélin à la cuve, in addition to fifty copies on Arches. Contributors include Simenon, Bofa, Dignimont, Daragnès, et al. With the laid in color facsimile of a drawing/inscription by Mac Orlan. ... more information

Oxford: Burning Water, [1966].. Small quarto. Decorated wrappers. First edition. Introduction by Ted Berrigan. Inscribed and signed by the author. Wrappers lightly rubbed and soiled, else a good copy. ... more information

New York: Appleton, 1941.. Cloth. Small rubbed spot on lower edge, else a fine copy in lovely dust jacket by New Orleans artist, C.W. Durieux. First edition of the New Orleans-born author's first novel, a fantasy published while he was associated with the Federal Writers Project for the state of Louisiana. BLEILER, p.128. ... more information

Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 22 November 1930.. ca. 100 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in mimeographed wrappers with studio label. Stamped "File Copy." Some chips and tears at extremities of the over-size wrappers, otherwise very good. A cutting continuity script for this adaptation of Bayard Veiller's play, WITHIN THE LAW, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Armstrong. This was MacArthur's fourth screen-writing credi... more information

Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1955.. Large octavo. printed stiff wrappers. Fine. First separate edition, being one of 750 copies printed in three colors in Caslon Old Face on Linweave Early American paper. However, of the 750 copies, over five hundred copies were never bound, and almost one hundred never distributed. CAHOON, p.75. ... more information

New York & London: Appleton-Century, 1941.. Cloth. Generic bookplate on free endsheet, otherwise a very good copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket by New Orleans artist, C.W. Durieux. First edition of the New Orleans-born author's first novel, a fantasy published while he was associated with the Federal Writers Project for the state of Louisiana. BLEILER, p.128. ... more information