The Lethal Sex, The 1959 Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (with TLS by MacDonald to Miriam Allen DeFord)
by MacDonald, John D. (Editor); DeFord, Miriam Allen (Contributing Author)
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1959. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 256 pp., with letter signed by John D. MacDonald. A three-paragraph letter from John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) to Miriam Allen DeFord (1888-1975), signed by MacDonald, accompanied by the first edition of the book discussed in the letter. The letter was sent by MacDonald to deFord to thank her for her note to him about this volume (a collection of mystery stories by 14 female mystery... Read More
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German Travelers in California
by Madden, Henry Miller
Fairfax, California: The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco (printed by Mallette Dean), 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 125 copies, octavo size, 40 pp. Henry Miller Madden (1912-1982?) served as the University librarian at CSU-Fresno for thirty years, and was, in addition, an author, scholar, and translator in his own right. A collector of works in German that describe early travel experiences of Germans in California, Mr. Madden bequethed his collection to Fresno State. This... Read More
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Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956; With a Check-List, 1916-1940
by Magee, Dorothy and David; Adler, Elmer (Introduction)
San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 225 copies, folio size, 119 pp., inscribed "from Bob and Jane Grabhorn" and dated May, 1957. A limited, fine letterpress edition of the second volume of the Grabhorn bibliography, printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, Jane & Mary Grabhorn and Sherwood Grover, inscribed to the prior owner "For ----- / with deep affection, as always / from Bob and Jane Grabhorn / May,... Read More
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Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956; With a Check-List, 1916-1940
by Magee, Dorothy and David; Adler, Elmer (Introduction)
San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 225 copies, folio size, 119 pp. A limited, fine letterpress edition of the second volume of the Grabhorn bibliography, printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, Jane & Mary Grabhorn and Sherwood Grover, from the library of esteemed book collector Roger K. Larson, and the Richard A. Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco (with lovely bookplates from both). Beautifully printed... Read More
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![[The Wicked Years] Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West [with] Son of a Witch [and with] A Lion Among Men [and also with] Out of Oz](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/586/155/1742155586.0.l.jpg)
[The Wicked Years] Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West [with] Son of a Witch [and with] A Lion Among Men [and also with] Out of Oz
by Maguire, Gregory; Smith, Douglas (llustrations)
New York: HarperCollins, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Smith, Douglas. All four volumes first editions, first printings, small quarto size, see paginations below. "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" is a work of revisionist fiction by Gregory Maguire (b. 1954), retelling the story of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of Elpheba Thropp, who becomes The Wicked Witch of the West. The novel re-examines the characters of... Read More
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Journey Round My Room
by Maistre, de, Xavier; Anderson, Ross (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Hardcover. New. Ross Anderson. The Arion Press edition, edited and designed by Andrew Hoyem, is both historically allusive and keenly contemporary. The type is Suburban French, a face cut about 1911 and adapted for Monotype composition. It may have been based on a Didot type from around 1804 and bears resemblances to the elegant Romain du Roi of Grandjean for the Imprimerie Royale in 1702. The initial letters and display type on... Read More
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The Voices of Silence
by Malraux, André; Gilbert, Stuart (Translator)
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [printed by the Imprimerie Georges Lang, Paris], 1953. First and Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. First edition in English, one of 160 copies, octavo size, 663 pp., signed by André Malraux, in slipcase. Georges André Malraux (1901-1976) lived a life of exploration, social activism, and danger, at one point being a Marxist only, later, to turn back to the hope of Western culture and ideals. He had a deep and abiding... Read More
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The Black Swan
by Mann, Thomas; Hejduk, John (Lithographs); Shapiro, David (Afterword)
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.), 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk, John. No. 122 of 375 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by John Hejduk, with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles, most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and... Read More
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
by Mansfield, Katherine; Laurencin, Marie (Illustrator)
London: The Verona Press [Printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1939], 1939. Limited Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus. Laurencin, Marie. No. 10 of 30 de luxe copies, quarto size, 328 pp., signed by Marie Laurencin (twice). Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), born and raised in New Zealand, moved to the UK at the age of 19 where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf; she died at the age of 34 from... Read More
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The Making and Unmaking of Empires; Britain, India, and America, c. 1750-1783
by Marshall, P.J.
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing, large octavo size, 398 pp. From the jacket flap: [this book] "provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. [Marshall] brings together into a common focus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India, and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history..." ___DESCRIPTION:... Read More
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![Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Life In Letters, Memoirs, and criticism; In the Beginning, 1821-1845 [with] The Gathering Storm, 1846-1847](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/060/412/1737412060.0.l.jpg)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Life In Letters, Memoirs, and criticism; In the Beginning, 1821-1845 [with] The Gathering Storm, 1846-1847
by Marullo, Thomas Gaiton
DeKalb / Ithica and London: NIU Press / Northern Illinois University Press, An Imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two volumes (the third volume only recently published), both volumes the first printings, octavo size, approx. 540 pp. together. Professor Thomas Marullo has provided, in this trilogy, a "clear and comprehensive portrait of one of the world's greatest writers [providing] a window into his younger yearsin a way no other biography has to date" (n.b., from... Read More
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Ruminations
by Maryatt, Kitty [Professor, Scripps College Typography and Book Arts Class]; Rumi, Jalaud'din (Original Poetry); Barks, Coleman (Poetical Interpretation)
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2011. Limited Edition. Stitched Binding. Fine. One of 103 copies, folio size, [28] pp., signed by the students and Kitty Marryatt. The publications by the students of the Book Arts and Typography Class at Scripps College are some of the most imaginative we have ever seen, and this publication is no exception. The work was inspired by the the 13th-century poet Jalaud'din Rumil, now known by most simply as "Rumi". Although... Read More
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Of Human Bondage
by Maugham, W. Somerset; Schwabe, Randolph (Illustrations)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Schwabe, Randolph. The first illustrated edition, one of 751 copies, quarto size, 698 pp., signed by both Maugham and Schwabe, with publisher's slipcase. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) became a renowned author and playwright; this work, "Of Human Bondage", is now regarded as his masterpiece. The novel was made into a film on three separate occasions: in 1934 starring Bette Davis; in... Read More
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Infra Nubem, The Lights Outside, La Bocana; Philopolis Series
by McAdie, Alexander; Mathews, Lucia K. (Decorations); Mathews, Arthur F. (Frontispiece)
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (Philopolis Press), 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Mathews, Lucia K.; Mathews, Arthur F.. One of 500 copies, duodecimo size, 47 pp., inscribed by Alexander McAdie. Written by American meteorologist Alexander McAdie (1863-1943), who made many advances in the field of meteorology and was also in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco from 1903 to 1913, this volume contains three essays reprinted from "Philopolis" magazine, a publication printed by... Read More
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The Clouds and Fogs of San Francisco
by McAdie, Alexander; Mathews, Arthur F.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (printed at The Philopolis Press), 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Mathews, Arthur F.. Octavo size, 118 pp., inscribed by Alexander McAdie. This volume is a thorough examination of weather patterns in the city of San Francisco, famous for its year-round fog, written by American meteorologist Alexander McAdie (1863-1943). McAdie made many advances in the field of meteorology and was also in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco from... Read More
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A Period of Exploration, San Francisco 1945-1950
by McChesney, Mary Fuller
[Oakland, California]: The Oakland Museum Art Department, 1973. Soft cover. Near Fine. Oblong octavo, 105 pp. A documentation, through interviews taken with leading Bay Area artists, of the pioneering era of San Francisco Abstract Expressionism. Artists interviewed for the book include Adolph ("Ad") Reinhardt (1913-1967), abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s; he lived in the Bay Area while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts during the summer... Read More
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The Boobus and the Bunnyduck
by McClure, Michael; Collins, Jess (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Hardcover. New. Collins, Jess. The Boobus and the Bunnyduck is a full-scale, full-color facsimile of the original and unique artist book made by Jess in 1957. The only difference is in the format. Whereas the original was spiral-bound, the facsimile is bound as an accordion-fold. This enables viewers to open the cover and turn pages as in a conventionally bound book, but it also allows the book to be displayed on a... Read More
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Dark Is Dark
by McCullough, John G.; Shaw, Charles G. (Illustrations)
New York: William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher of Young Scott Books, 1947. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Shaw, Charles G. Quarto, [36] pp., in dust jacket. An endearing children's book discussing the wonderful things to be found in the dark...such as the moon, the stars, and Santa Claus. It is also about the people of the night, such as policemen and firemen, but "mostly it is about how different people feel about the night" (n.b, from dust jacket flap).... Read More
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Amongst Women
by McGahern, John
Viking, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First American edition, first printing, octavo size, 184 pp., this a review copy with associated ephemera. John McGahern (1934-2006) "was hailed by 'The Observer' as 'the greatest living Irish novelist' and in its obituary 'The Guardian' described him as 'arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett' (n.b., from Wiki). This work is considered his best known - and greatest - work. It "was shortlisted for the 1990... Read More
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The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712, A Bibliographical Study, Volumes I and II
by McKenzie, D. F.
Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 842 pp., with (unsigned) note by the author. The Cambridge University Press began in 1534 when it was granted letters patent by King Henry VIII, and since then the publishing house, part of Cambridge University, has printed titles from numerous authors ranging from John Milton and Isaac Newton to Noam Chomsky and Stephen Hawking. This bibliography of the Press includes... Read More
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Beauty; A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast
by McKinley, Robin
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing, octavo size, 253 pp. The debut book from noted fantasy writer Robin McKinley (b. 1952), a prolific author and the winner of multiple awards. Per Wiki, "In 2022, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 39th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy." McKinley began writing after she graduated from college and was... Read More
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Not Solely Mourning
by McMahon, Lynne
[Columbia, Missouri]: Sutton Hoo Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of "between 65 and 80 copies", unnumbered, folio size, [32] pp. A collection of twenty-one poems by Lynne McMahon, Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri; her work has appeared in multiple highly regarded periodicals, including "The New Yorker", "Rolling Stone", and "The Atlantic Monthly", among numerous others. This work explores the wide arena of human experience; as the publisher of one of her works stated, she... Read More
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Onnalinda, A Romance
by McNaughton, J[ohn] H[ugh] (1829-1891); Smedley, William T. (Artist); French, Frank (Engraver)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1886. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Number 46 of 111 copies, spine stamped "Artists' Proof Edition", folio size, 234 pp. Originally published in 1884 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, "Onnalinda" created a sensation when first released. A contemporary review states "An anonymous romance -- [which] sustains its interest from first to last. Strange to say, the tale is the pleasanter to read for being in metre, and the reader is beguiled past... Read More
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by [Medieval Legend]; Browning, Robert (Poem form); Rackham, Arthur (Illustrations)
London: George C. Harrap, 1934. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine/very good +. Rackham, Arthur. The first trade edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations, octavo size, 45 pp., in dust jacket. A well-known legend from the Middle Ages, related in poetic form by Robert Browning (1812-1889). This version the first trade publication with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), an eminent illustrator of many books which often depict fantasy and fairy tale subjects. Rackham contributed the artwork for many popular... Read More
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Out of Their League
by Meggyesy, Dave
Berkeley: Ramparts Press, Inc, 1970. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Octavo size, 263 pp., inscribed by Dave Meggyesy. Dave Meggyesy (b. 1941), a former American football player and coach, was deeply involved in the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), a union for football players; he authored the memoir "Out of Their League", a scathing denunciation of professional football and the treatment of sports in society. As Meggyesy recounts his experiences playing professional football for the St. Louis Cardinals,... Read More
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