Search Results: Authors starting with M from Rulon-Miller Books

Cambridge: published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 393, [1]; frontispiece portrait, large folding map in rear cover pocket, 5 full-page maps, 5 full-page illustrations; previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper, first leaf with bottom margin cropped, else near fine in original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Dust jacket not present. Ma Huan's descriptions are based on personal observation of twenty countries from Champa (Central Vietnam) in the East to Mecca in the West. Ma Huan was the Muslim interpreter of the famous Cheng Ho, commander of the Chinese Fleet. Of the sources for the history of southern Asia during the 15th century, the Chinese authorities are the most rewarding, and of these the most informative and interesting is Ma Huan.

[Beijing]: Hong Qi Chu Ban She, 1980. Folio, being a reprint of the full run of Jiu wang qing bao, issues 1-30, each issue 4-6 pages, plus 4 special issues, including a commemorative issue for Lu Xun Bound with, as issued: 学生報道 / Xyosheng Baodao; 3 issues, first issue folded. Bound with, as issued: 國難教育 / Quonan Giaoyu / Kognan-kiaojoq; 2 issues. Both issues include a poem printed in hanzi, Romanized Mandarin, and Romanized Shanghainese Bound with, as issued: 上海文化界救国會會刊 / Shanghai wen hua jie jiu guo hui hui kan; 5 issues. Bound with, as issued: 上海職業界救国會會刊 / Shanghai zhi ye jie jiu guo hui hui kan; 3 issues and one special issue. Each issue of the latter titles 4 pages each, all bound in blue paper covered boards backed in burgundy cloth; lower edge toned and brittle, very good. This is a reprint edition of a collection of Anti-Japanese newspapers originally published during the 1930s. The foremost of them, Jiu wang qing bao, lasted for 30… Read More

[Solon, Iowa]: Maecenas Press, 1981. Edition limited to 150 copies, 8vo, pp. 35; origianl orange wrappers, printed in red; yapp edges show a bit of shelf wear, long narrow water stain on front cover, else fine. Compliments of the Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries laid in.

New York: Macmillan, 1896. First edition, 8vo, pp. 185; elaborate pictorial dedication, title, and copyright pages, photographic portrait of Mabie tipped in, 26 plates after Edwards printed in brown, and head- and tail-pieces throughout; original dark green cloth-covered boards, pictorial front cover stamped and lettered in red and gilt, the spine lettered in gilt, and t. e. g.; light wear to extremities with spine ends beginning to fray and several small areas of red chipped away; externally handsome and bright, but textblock and plates waterstained throughout to bottom half/quarter of pages, some red tidemarks on plates. This copy enhanced by presentation inscription from Mabie to book and bookplate collector Charles Dexter Allen, and with Allen's bookplate mounted to front pastedown.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1909. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 279, [3]; t.e.g.; green cloth with gilt title and border on cover and spine; head and tail of spine rubbed, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very good.

Amsterdam & Paris: Hardouin, 1784. Second edition, 12mo, 180pp., full contemporary mottled calf, double gilt-ruled border, gilt-paneled spine, red morocco label; spine extremities chipped, upper joint cracked, spine darkened and with old library sticker at the base; internally quite clean; a good copy. The texts of four letters addressed to John Adams on observations made in the United States, primarily on its government and laws. Sabin 42923 noting a handful of editions in both French and English; JCB 1772-1800, 2978.

Oxford: Burning Water, 1966. Staplebound chapbook, 9.25 x 7 inches, pp. [3] 33; stiff paper warppers; very good with light wear to spine and back cover. Inscribed by MacAdams on title page to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York.

[Santa Barbara: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions], 1981. Staplebound chapbook, 11" x 8½", 22 leaves printed on rectos only; pictorial card paper wrappers with illustration by Tom Clark, black endleaves; near fine. Advertising leaf from the publisher laid in. Portions of this story were originally published in WET Magazine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Fourth printing, folio, pp. 80; fine copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket.

[London], 1954. One-page typed letter, signed "Yours sincerely, Rose Macaulay," approximately 5 1/2 x 7 inches; previous fold, else about fine. Author address pressure-stamped at top right-hand corner. A friendly note addressed to "Mrs Hay," who had evidently written Macaulay a fan letter after reading her book "Fabled Shore: from the Pyrenees to Portugal" (1949), an account of journeying through Spain and Portugal: "I liked so much to get your nice letter telling me of your time in Spain, and feel delighted that my 'Fabled Shore' was useful to you. I am glad you liked Vinaroz, and of course Tarragona is magnificent. I am sorry you could not get on to Sagunto too; you would find it fascinating. I am glad the little girls of Peniscola are being taught a little flatery [sic]; I hope the little boys too; when I was there, in '47, when there were very few tourists, the boys threw tomatos [sic]! Next time you should go in a car; one can see much more in that way...Yes, you should certainly go south, to… Read More

Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1977. Reprint of the 1884 edition, thin 8vo, pp. [8], ii, 105; pictorial endpapers, map and 22 illus. from photographs on plates, all after the original edition; a very good copy in a worn jacket with a piece missing at the lower outer corner of the front panel. Issued as vol. 16 in the publisher's Bibliotheca Himalayica series.

Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co, 1875. Butler's edition, 5 volumes in 1, thick 8vo; engraved author portrait frontispiece, text in double columns; contemporary dark brown honey-combe grained cloth, gilt lettering and blind-tooled decorative vignette on spine, yellow endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historial Society with usual markings, edges and corners rather shelf worn, front joint weak; interior fine. See NCBEL III, 1464.

London: Longman, Green & Co, 1873. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; rebacked, old spines laid down, hinges strengthened; good and sound.

London: Priory Press, 1910. First edition, 12mo, pp. 62, [4] ads; fine in orig. cream wrappers printed in red and green.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 338; many illustrations; fine in an unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. While Merker rarely marked his books, this one bears his ownership signature on the front free endpaper: "Kim Merker / 16 April 1989 / Finished 13 May 89."

Montreal: The Alumnae Association, 1961. 8vo, pp. [8], 152; frontispiece and 12 plates; fine copy in original brocade cloth, paper label on spine. A reissue of the 1940 text with a new preface.

London: Longmans, Green [et al.], 1862. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 524, [1] ads, [1]; large folding map with two short, insignificant tears; original blue cloth, spine soiled and a little sunned, extremities rubbed, front hinge starting; good and sound. Ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with 2 small rubberstamps on the flyleaf and a small accession label at the base of the spine, but no other markings. Includes a section on "Chinook jargon and English equivalent terms" on pp. 394-398. Not in Field; TPL 4161; Lowther, Bibliography of British Columbia, 177: "Written to expound the author's view that opportunities for settlers in the two colonies had been exaggerated and that it was highly unjust to promote emigration to them."

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd, 1930. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 129, [1]; 16 color plates, illustrations in the text; very good in original blue cloth, spine gilt; light rubbing at spine ends, bookplate on front pastedown, a few light ink notations on the list of illustrations. Includes Windsor, Alnwick, Arundel, Dover, Durham, Warwick, and other castles.

Melbourne: Mason, Firth & M. Cutcheon, printers, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 34; near fine in original terracotta wrappers, side-stapled. A paper read at the Royal Society of Australia 11 March, 1886. It includes sections on personal pronouns, and numerals, with an appendix on Australian and Tasmanian numerals. Macdonald was erroneous in his assumption that the Pacific languages were Semitic, but he did compile in the year following this publication, Three New Hebrides Languages (Efatese, Eromangan, Santo). He went to New Hebrides in 1872 after his ordination at the Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, where he studied and translated the local languages of Oceania. He became Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1896, and retired to Melbourne in 1905, though continuing ministerial work. Wrote articles for the Journal of the Polynesian Society, and several books on Oceanic languages, including The Oceanic Languages: their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin, in 1907, for which… Read More

London: Bibliographical Society, 1952. First edition, small 4to, pp. xvii, [1], 83, [1]; frontispiece portrait , 6 plates, and numerous full-page facsimiles; original linen-backed gray paper-covered boards, smudged and soiled with the front cover bowing; text pages fine and partially unopened.