The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator," Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854... from the Logs and Journals of Capt. Robert Le M. M'Clure
by M'Clure, Sir Robert John LeMesurier
London: Longman, Brown, Green Longmans, & Roberts, 1857 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Second and best edition due to the addition of the frontis portrait of M'Clure and much added material. Edited by Commander Sherard Osborn. xxxii, 463pp. + 24pp. of ads. Large folding map, steel-engraved frontis portrait, four tinted lithograph plates after Commander S. Gurney Cresswell. Blindstamped dark blue cloth, gilt, brown coated endpapers with ads on pastedowns. Inner hinges starting, minimal wear to spine ends. A fine copy.... Read More
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The Wandering Hill
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 302pp. Two-tone beige and tan boards, spine lettered in metallic blue. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The second volume of the Berrybender narratives. The continuing story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830's..
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By Sorrow's River
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 347pp. Green and beige boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The third volume in the Berrybender series..
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Loop Group
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 242pp. Gray cloth-backed light gray boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's review copy with review slip and announcement laid in. Story of two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure - with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results..
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Texasville
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 542pp. Dark blue cloth-backed rose boards, spine lettered in white. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket price intact). A novel of Texas in the mid-1980's, "in the trough of the oil glut," where instant millionaires are in the process of becoming dazed instant debtors. A sequel to The Last Picture Show..
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Desert Rose
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 254pp. Violet cloth-backed gray boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The story of a Las Vegas showgirl whose beauty is fading and of her daughter whose star is rising--set amid the artificial world of Vegas..
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The Late Child
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 461pp. Red boards, black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Lightly worn dust jacket. Rubbing to foot of spine of book and dust jacket. Remaindered copy (pen marking to bottom edge). Near fine. The sequel to The Desert Rose..
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Folly and Glory
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 236pp. Tan cloth-backed beige boards, spine lettered in metallic silver. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The fourth and final volume of the Berrybender narratives, being the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830's..
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Somebody's Darling
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy in dust jacket..
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Boone's Lick
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 287pp. Two-tone boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A good western novel which follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming..
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The Evening Star
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 637pp. Red cloth-backed black boards. Slight dent to head of spine, else a very fine copy with dust jacket. "The stunning sequel to one of the most beloved novels of our time - Terms of Endearment.".
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Pretty Boy Floyd
by McMurtry, Larry and Diana Ossana
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 444pp. Red cloth-backed black boards. Slight bumping to foot of spine, but a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to foot of jacket spine. Another fine novel by McMurtry and his screen-writing partner. Relates the circumstances which took Pretty Boy from small-time robbery to national notoriety in a spree of bank heists..
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Duane's Depressed
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 431pp. Red and blue boards. A very fine copy with dust jacket. The final volume of The Last Picture Show / Texasville story. Follows those of the characters of The Last Picture Show who have survived into their twilight years..
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Oklahoma. A History of the Sooner State
by McReynolds, Edwin C.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. xii, 461. Illustrated with 32 photographs from old prints and portraits, 12 maps. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Brick cloth lettered in black and white. Slightest of rubbing to spine ends, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (slight rubbing to jacket spine ends). First edition. Quite scarce thus, especially with the dust jacket! Provides coverage of the entire historical... Read More
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Kate Mulhall: A Romance of the Oregon Trail
by Meeker, Ezra
New York: Ezra Meeker, 1926 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. Signed by the author on endpaper. Foreword by Robert Bruce. Small octavo. 287pp. Frontis portrait, 18 plates and illustrations, map. Drawings by Margaret Landers Sanford, et al. Pictorial red cloth stamped in dark green and white. Original owners name and date on endpaper. Slight rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy. A historical novel based on actual characters the author met and real experiences. The author, of... Read More
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Historical and Descriptive Sketch Book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino...
by Menefee, Campbell A.
Napa City: Reporter Publishing House, 1873 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 356pp. 13 engraved plates (views and portraits), 1 lithographed plate (portrait), and 29 quite detailed text engravings. Dark green cloth with title blind stamped on spine and front cover. Upper corners of covers with light spotting, endpapers with light foxing, else a fine and clean copy, collated complete. "Still the best contemporary history of these agricultural counties" (Howell). The first 220 pages constitute the history... Read More
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My Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. The Newly Discovered Autobiography
by Meriwether, David
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Griffen. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. xxi, 301. Photographs and drawings. Notes, bibliography and index. Brown cloth, extensive gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Lower corner slightly jammed, but a fine, crisp copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket price-clipped, top edge with 2 short closed tears). Presentation inscription, signed by the Editor, Robert A Griffen. Meriwether first... Read More
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Du Pont, the Making of an Admiral: A Biography of Samuel Francis Du Pont
by Merrill, James M
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. White paper boards over black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Very fine with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket (jacket spine faded, slightly chipped, and with tape-repair to head of spine).
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The Life of Josiah Wedgwood from his Private Correspondence and Family Papers. With an Introductory Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England [2 volumes]
by Meteyard, Eliza
London: Hurst and Blackette, 1865 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 2 volumes. Pp. xxxv, [1], 504 + xxiv, 643. Two steel engraved frontispieces, 2 chromolithographs, and woodcuts throughout. Index. Three-quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Some light general scuffing to extremities, owner's name to endpapers, but a fine set. A comprehensive work on the life and art of Wedgwood. Includes an introductory sketch of the art of pottery in England; earliest varieties of pottery; the... Read More
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Nach dem Sacramento. Resiebilder Eines Heimgekehrten von Carl Meyer.
by Meyer, Carl
Aarau: Druck und Verlag von H. R. Sauerländer, 1855 Book. Very fine. Soft cover. First edition. Small octavo. [4], 364, [1]pp. Publisher's original yellow pictorial wrappers, printed in black. Just a hint of occasional foxing, slight soiling to wrappers, but a very fine, uncut and unread copy. Very rare in this original condition. This is perhaps the finest copy extant. "A series of 'word pictures' of lasting import" (Wheat). This rare work was later translated into English as Bound for... Read More
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Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco, 1915
by Meyer, George Homer; D. Wooster Taylor; and Arthur M. Johnson. [Compiled and edited by]
San Francisco, 1915 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Compiled and Edited by George Homer Meyer, D. Wooster Taylor, and Arthur M. Johnson. 253pp. plus index. Numerous plates and illustrations (1 folding, many in color showing P.P.I.E.), map, advertisements, numerous photographic portraits. Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on front cover. Minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, very slight wear to foot of spine, damp-stain to rear cover. Internally fine and clean. Overall a near fine copy. San Francisco,... Read More
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Sketches of California and Hawaii by William H. Meyers, Gunner, U.S.N., Aboard the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane, 1842- 1843
by Meyers, William H.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1970 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Introduction and Notes by John Haskell Kemble. Folio. 104pp. Printed on all-rag paper with hand-set type. Illustrated with 22 reproductions (in color) of Meyers' original watercolors. Original loose-weave cloth over rust boards, printed paper spine label. A very fine copy. A beautiful production with fine reproductions of these early sketches. The illustrations, reproduced full size, were taken from the... Read More
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Recessional
by Michener, James A.
New York: Random House, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. First trade edition. Purple cloth backed boards, lettered in gilt. One tiny blemish to lower edge of cover, else a very fine copy in dust jacket. A novel based around a Florida retirement center..
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The Great Rebellion, the Emergence of the American Conscience
by Miers, Earl Schenck
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Two-toned cloth, gilt. Slight dent to top edge, corners lightly bumped. A fine copy with slightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket. A study of the firing on Fort Sumter..
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The Murder of Lidice
by Millay, Edna St. Vincent
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Thin octavo. Light wear and some minor fading to the extremities, half-inch tear at head of spine, else a fine copy in gray wrappers. Publisher's review slip laid in. A poem comissioned by the Writers' War Board about the destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in World War II..
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