Authors starting with M from Dawson's Book Shop

BBaine and Burgess, New York, 1846. 9 x 5 3/5 inches, Two Volumes bound in One, viii, 340 pages and vi, 136 pages respectively, First Edition (distinguished by the collation of Volume I), original blind-stamped cloth with decorative gilt titling to spine, all edges gilt, wear and exposure to spine head and tail, tips lightly bumped and exposed, Has a total of 15 plates which includes a frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1, and one colored frontispiece portrait of Pocahontas in Volume 2, a facsim... more information

by the author, (1989). Very good. 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, 72 pages, boards. ... more information

Sundance Ltd., Denver, (1975). First Edition, Limited edition: No. 2 of 250, with Jackson print No. 13. Fine. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 406 pages, boards, Signed by author, With original silver gelatin photograph from Jackson negative mounted on board and bound in book. Image is the Central Presbytarian Church in Denver. ... more information

Trubner and Co., London, 1863. Good. 7 x 5 inches, xvi, 251, 24 pages, original black blind-stamped cloth, titling to spine, corners bumped, joints partially cracked but strong, chipping to head and tail of spine, The first edition to be edited with notes by Richard F. Burton, Includes engraved frontispiece, folding map, advertisements, "Describes the various routes to California, modes of traveling, outfitting, etc. This for many years remained the standard authority upon the overland routes"(C... more information

Lustrum Press, n.p., (1974). Very good, light foxing along edges. 12 x 9 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers, Some wear and bending to wrappers, light creasing at top right back cover. ... more information

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1904. Good. 9 x 6 inches, 377 pages, cloth, Complete with 248 full page plates, part of the 1902 Annual Report. ... more information

Nolie Mumey, Denver, 1961. Very good. 19 x 13 1/4 inches, cloth, Signed, 1961 reprint of this 1866 publication. 23 full page color illustrations printed on rectos only, seperated by blank leaves, with 13 pages of text. ... more information

The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis/New York, (1978). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (lightly worn). ... more information

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1995. Fine. 12 x 9 inches, 247 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket. ... more information

S. J. Clarke, Chicago, 1916. Very good. 10 1/2 x 7 inches, half leather, Adams: Herd 1355, Sixguns 1390. Volume 3 lacks original endpapers; wear to spine extremities (some chipping) and exterior hinges (spines may have been detached and reglued). Front interior hinge of volume 3 split; frontspiece, which may have been added during repairs as another copy of volume 3 lacks it, is torn and repaired with tape. ... more information

California State Printing Office, Sacramento, 1925. Very good, soiling to page 33. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches, 101 pages, wrappers with very light sunning to edges and minor soiling to rear cover, Following the opening of the Alabama Hills Waste Gates of the Aqueduct by the valley people on November 16, 1924. ... more information

Macmillan London Ltd, London, 1979. Very good, light general wear. 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 190 pages, cloth with very minor soiling. ... more information

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1926. Very good. 9 1/4 x 6 inches, 387 pages, wrappers. ... more information

Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., Los Angeles, 1931. First Edition. Very good: bookplate, pages 10-11 browned. 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches, [ii], 77, [3, ads] pages, black-stamped orange cloth. ... more information

H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., New York, 1936. First Edition. Very good: moderate sunning to spine, spot on lower cover; a few pencil marks and marginalia on 18 pages between 6 and 55. 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches, [viii], 310 pages, blue cloth lettered in silver on upper cover and spine, Frontispiece portrait not included in pagination. Review copy, with publisher's review sticker giving publication date of September 17, 1936 on front endpaper. The pencil notations in places comment on word choices, sugg... more information

Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927. First Edition. Very good: small spot and scuff to lower cover, bottom tips slightly bumped. 7 1/2 x 5 inches, 316 pages, black cloth stamped in gold, red ornaments, Dust Jacket (edgeworn; tape repairs on inside of rear panel), Frontispiece portrait not included in pagination. ... more information

National Bible Press, Philadelphia, (1941). Very good. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches, 512, 123 pages, gold-stamped blue fabricoid, edges stained blue, faded area on lower cover, Inscribed on the presentation page: [Presented to] "Pvt. W.A. Douge/(1943)/[From]/A.S.McPherson". Though Ms. McPherson was one of the most famous persons of twentieth-century Los Angeles, her signature is quite scarce. This signature dates to the year prior to her death. ... more information

Arthur Whipple, Los Angeles, 1935. First Edition. Very good: slight wear at spine extremites; front hinge just starting, rear hinge split but spine is secure. 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 100 pages, boards , Dust Jacket (very good: worn at corners, 1 1/4" narrow chip at top of spine, a few closed tears), Signed by McWilliams and Adamic on flyleaf. These prominent radicals and men of letters became friends in Los Angeles in the 1920's, where "despite the fact that [they] were both busy, [they] yet f... more information

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1847. Good: binding cocked; moderate foxing throughout, spotting to I4-6. 7 5/16 x 4 7/8 inches, 389, [1 blank], [26, advertising] pages, publisher's slate cloth, stamped in gold in spine and with ship vignette in gold on upper cover, blindstamped borders on both covers, yellow marbled endpapers, cloth spotted with partial loss of gilding, First American edition. BAL 13656. 2 parts in one volume. Title printed in red and black, half title printed in red, frontispiece... more information

Harper & Brothers , New York, 1849. Good: some light stain to Volume I, becoming more pronounced toward rear of volume, substantial foxing to Volume II, stain to rear endpaper of Volume II. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches, xii, [13]-365; [v]-xii, [9]-387 pages, publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, moderate spotting to covers of Volume I, light wear to tips of Volume I, moderate wear to tips, spine ends and joints of Volume II, front free endpaper torn from Volume II, First American edition. BAL 13658. Two ... more information