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Mark Twain in Elmira


Jerome, Robert D. and Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr. (eds)

Hardcover. Elmira, NY, Mark Twain Society, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. Includes illustrations.

Record # 2230497


Price: $15.00 

 

Marshall Fields, The: The Evolution of an American Business Dynasty


Madsen, Axel

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456715


Price: $12.00 

 

Marshalls: Increasing the Tempo, The


Heinl, Jr., USMC, Lt. Col. Robert D./Lt. Col. John A. Crown, USMC

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., Marine Corps Monographs, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name and information at top of title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out maps in rear. Rubbing to cover corners. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612448


Price: $38.00 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Browning to book edges and edges of pages, doesn't affect text. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, still very bright, gilt title stamped on spine. Boards very good. Brings together McCarthy's lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930's to the mid 20th century.

Record # 31678


Price: $23.00 

 

Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Museums Celebrate the American Bicentennial


Boles (Ed), John B.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers in excellent condition with only a tiny bit of wear on the corners. Fully illustrated fly leaf and title page. Pages are in good condition, with clear photographs of art pieces throughout. Spine is in good condition and the binding is tight. Newspaper clipping laid-in. 249 pages.

Record # 806913


Price: $18.00 

 

Massachusetts In the Rebellion - A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth . . . in the Civil War of 1861-65


Headley, P. C.

Boston, Walker, Fuller, and Co., 1st , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 688 pages + ads in front of title-page. Black & white photos with tissue guards. Tissue guard on frontispiece removed. Heavy foxing to pages. Hinge separated from binding at front endpaper. Gold embossed decoration, lettering on front of cloth cover and spine. Spotting, fade to spine. Small hole to spine binding. Edgewear to bottom edges.

Record # 502901


Price: $80.00 

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. FullerBusch, Briton Cooper (ed.)
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Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller


Busch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. American Maritime Library; Vol. 9. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230918


Price: $19.00 

 

Master Prints 8: Printmaking in America, 1750 to 1980


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Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in b&w. Exhibition catalog: Oct 13 - Nov 7, 1980. Red pictorial wrappers with light red titles. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 605680


Price: $13.00 

Masterpieces of American Indian LiteratureRegier, Ed
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Masterpieces of American Indian Literature


Regier, Ed

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 3rd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages. Unfortunate foxing on top edge, else like new.

Record # 453879


Price: $15.00 

 

Masterpieces of American Silver


The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Softcover. Richmond, VA, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with gray covers and embossed silver mounted seal. Seal is peeling off of the cover a bit, and there is an old price sticker in the corner, in addition to some edge wear. Spiral binding is tight. Fly leaves have minor foxing, otherwise pages are clean. Catalog is divided by different regions of the U.S., with 102 b/w plates of silver work and 337 listings. 99 pages.

Record # 807590


Price: $13.00 

 

Masterworks of American Photography


Sandweiss, Martha A.

Hardcover. Birmingham, Oxmoor House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by American photographers covering: Early Photography in America, The Nineteenth-Century Landscape, Nineteenth-Century Portraits, The Pictorial Style, The Straight Photograph and the Documentary Style, The Twentieth-Century Landscape. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603626


Price: $26.00 

 

Mathers, The - Three Generations Of Puritan Intellectuals 1596-1728


Middlekauff, Robert

Paperback. Berkeley, CA, California University Press, 1st in Wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new.

Record # 202489


Price: $15.00 

 

May-Day - Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair


Beschloss, Michael R.

NY, Harper & Row, BC Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 494 pages.

Record # 68065


Price: $15.00 

 

Maya, The: Revised Edition


Coe, Michael D.

Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, Revised Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages, 141 b&w illustrations. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 405883


Price: $13.00 

 

Mayday - Eisenhower, Krushchev and the U-2 Affair


Beschloss, Michael R.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 52809


Price: $9.00 

 

Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture


Kammen, Michael

Hardcover. Austin, Tx, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xxv+192 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Dark blue pictorial dust jacket, white title to black spine. Edge wear. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 605512


Price: $22.00 

 

Meaning of Our Numbers, The


Anderson, Jervis

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A limited ed. excerpt from "A Philip Randolph - A Biographical Portrait" to be published in 1973. Glassine wraps. 25 pages.

Record # 58876


Price: $18.00 

Medium cool: the movies of the 1960sMordden, Ethan
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Medium cool: the movies of the 1960s


Mordden, Ethan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469545


Price: $13.00 

 

Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, from Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia


Kelly, Orr

Hardcover. New York, Wiley, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages, with b&w photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456827


Price: $12.00 

 

Meetinghouse Hill 1630-1783


Winslow, Ola Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing and foxing to price clipped dust jacket. Foxing to top edge.

Record # 856959


Price: $13.00 

 

Mellon: An American Life


Cannadine, David

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 2nd printing, 2006-10-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 779 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463812


Price: $19.00 

 

Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island


Potter, Elisha R.

Hardcover. Providence, Sidney S. Rider, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages plus additional pages of family information. Many unopened pages. Folio style fold out cover with book enveloped within. Sun fading to spine and along top edge of front cover - approx. 1/2".

Record # 604861


Price: $32.00 

 

Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont


Bigelow, John

Hardcover. New York, Derby & Jackson, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Corners bumped. Tears to spine. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard.

Record # 801678


Price: $36.00 

 

Memoirs of Charles Henry Veil


Viola, Herman J.

Hardcover. New York, Orion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, soldiers recollections of Civil War & Ariz territory, b&w photos

Record # 853


Price: $18.00