Authors starting with M from Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

Glasgow: British Association For The Advancement Of Science, 1901. Bound in original light tan pictorial cloth, octavo, 567 pages. The cover of the book displays the Coat of Arms of Glasgow, interpreted by Ann MacBeth. Her design was originally worked as an embroidered panel, presented to Professor Rucker of the British Association For The Advancement Of Science, in honor of the association's participation in an International Exhibition. The opposite side of the panel was worked by Jessie Newberry, Ann... more information

London: Duckworth & Co., 1898. A slim octavo, bound in original turquoise and tan cloth with decorative cover design in gilt. Top edge gilt. This edition of Rossetti's classic poem has an introduction by the author's brother, William Michael and superb Art Nouveau designs accompanying the text by W. B. MacDougall. Lovely engraved frontispiece by D. G. Rossetti of Jane Morris sitting for the title character. Some foxing and a small tear in the frontispiece tissue guard, as well as other scat... more information

London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, (circa 1915). A small octavo, 221 pages, bound in original light tan cloth. Overall geometric pattern of stylized birds in forest green on front cover and spine, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and offsetting from dust wrapper flaps on endleaves. Else, a pristine copy of the book retaining the original pictorial dust wrapper. The dust wrapper has a white background, printed in full color with minor edgwear a... more information

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1911. First edition Quarto. Bound in turquoise cloth with elaborate pictorial cover border in gilt and soft pastels. llustrated with 25 lovely tipped-in color plates by F. Cayley Robinson. This copy is priced with all faults, which includes several detached plates and some general wear, including some erasure marks. It remains, however, a handsome copy of a the deluxe format. ... more information

New York Farrar Straus Giroux 1971 First printing Original orange cloth with gilt lettering in a virtually as new unclipped dust wrapper. Dust jacket protected with mylar cover. Ink signature on front end paper. Hardcover Fine as new ... more information

Grand Rapids: Heartwood, ( 1999 ). First Edition. 4to, 143 pp, bound in coarse linen, as issued, without dj (in shrink wrap). 118 color plates + 110 duotone text illustrations. Beautifully printed & well researched study of arts & crafts decorative arts in metal from Michigan. Scarce. ... more information

London: Wells, Gardner Darton & Co., (1910). An octavo, 354 pp., plus 10pp. of publisher's ads. Bound in very pale yellow cloth with pictorial covers and spine printed in green and brown. Illustrated by Godon Browne, this is a perfect copy of a delightful book..retaining the pictorial slipcase which repeats the cover illustration on both front and back panels. The slipcase exhibits some wear, particularly at the extremities and along the spine..but is complete and quite rare in any condition. Laid-... more information

Munchen R. Piper & Co. (Piper-Bucherci) 1957 First printing Original color paper covered boards with German text. Boards with some wear and chips to extremities. Laid in is the original 12 page booklet which is the English translation of the text explaining the idea of "drawing with scissors". Front endpaper with charming, lengthy ink inscription which some people might find annoying but overall a nice copy. Scarce with English translation pamphlet intact Hardcover Good ... more information

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First edition 8vo. The author's first book. Bound in burnt orange wrappers with publication information from Atlantic Monthly taped to inside cover. Wrappers are clean, bright and unworn. A scarce title. ... more information

Kansas City: Frank Glenn Publishing Co., (1950). Octavo, cloth. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Signed by the author. ... more information

London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and New York: Walter Scott, (ca.1890). A square 12mo., 304 pp., bound in half-vellum over green cloth. Top edge gilt, leather spine label with gilt title and Art Nouveau ornaments in gilt on spine. One of The Canterbury Poets series, edited by William Sharp. These little books constitute one of the most attractive collections of poetry published during the Arts and Crafts period of design. More often than not these volumes are not signed by the binder but this one has the stamp ... more information

London: George Bell & Sons, 1899. An octavo, 123 pages, including index plus 8 page publisher's catalogue bound in at the back. Bound in terra cotta colored cloth with Art Nouveau ornaments on both cover and spine. Gilt titles and top edge gilt. Nicely illustrated in black and white, this volume comprises a handsome and useful reference on the work of one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. A fine copy of the second printing of the First Edition ... more information

Blue cloth octavo, 310 pages, with a captivating cover illustration in silver of elves mining the surface of the moon as a witch flies past on her broom. Gilt titles and silver diamonds on the spine. All edges silver. This collection of fairy tales is enhanced with 84 enchanting black and white illustrations by H. R. Millar...both full-page and textual. Contemporary inscription on half title page, dated "Xmas 1896" Patterned endleaves in an Aesthetic Movement motif.  Small bookseller's ticket in lower ... more information

Philadelphia: David McKay, (1925). A quarto, bound in original light blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover. Cover and spine titles in gilt. Beautifully illustrated in full color by H. Willebeek LeMair. Aside from a creased front endpaper and other minor wear, this is a very good copy of the First American Edition. ... more information

Irvington-On-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. This is the September 1961 reprint of the 1947 classic work on chaos. Bound in the original peach colored cloth it is a near fine copy in a glassine wrapper. Original purchase receipt from publisher laid in. Offsetting from glue on pastedowns, slight darkening along cover joint in a few places. Text clean and unmarked, cloth unworn. A very nice copy. ... more information

London: Gresham Publishing Co., ca. 1900. Cover and spine design in dark green and gilt. An octavobound in original sage green pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white with reproductions of paintings by some of the noted artists of the Arts and Crafts period including Edward Burne-Jones. A near fine copy. ... more information

London: Gresham Publishing Co., ca. 1910. An octavo bound in original sage green pictorial cloth, 440 pages, including index A near fine copy Cover and spine design in dark green and gilt. Top edge gilt. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white with reproductions of paintings by some of the noted artists of the Arts and Crafts period including Burne-Jones, Waterhouse, Alma-Tadema and Rossetti. ... more information

Kansas City, Missouri: Westport Historical Society, 1964. First edition A fine bright copy of this now classic work. Clothbound octavo of 190 pages in a colorful dust wrapper. The book is fine with no wear, The wrapper has two short closed tears at the top of the back panel and the price has been clipped but is clean, unworn and bright. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. Square octavo, (iv) 5 - 122 (viii), bound in original pictorial paper over boards. Aside from some browning to the endleaves, this is a fine copy in pictorial dust wrapper with some soiling and light wear. This volume of the highly esteemed publication contains the work of Paul Nash, Leonard Woolf, Liam O' Flaherty and Conrad Aiken..amongst other artistic and literary luminaries of the day. ... more information

Concord N.H.: Ramsbottom, 1855. 16mo, stitched pamphlet of 30 pages. A clever poem to ridicule George Gilman Fogg and his newspaper the Independent Democrat. Moore was a reporter for the New Hampshire Patriot. Scattered light foxing, final advert leaf chipped at bottom with loss of a few letters otherwise a good plus copy. ... more information