Search Results: Authors starting with M from Books That Expand The Mind

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 5th Edition or Later Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279). Arthur Rackham. Later Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - This publication is for sale in Great Britain, its Colonies and Dependencies, but its sale and exhibition in France is prohibited Please see photos as part of condition report 1909 5th Edition or Later Reprint Later Printing, 6th Edition PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS By J.M.Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). Hugh Thomson. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1901 1st Edition , QUALITY STREET By J.M.Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Illustrated By: Hugh Thomson Format: Hardcover,… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254). Mabel Lucie Attwell. Please email for Photographs or further information. Fine - Book in fine unread condition Please see photos as part of condition report 1979 1st Edition (Thus) , PETER PAN AND WENDY By J.M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254). Arthur Rackham. Please email for Photographs or further information. Fine - Slipcase Very good, Book in fine unread condition Please see photos as part of condition report 1983 1st Edition (Thus) , Leather Bound, Slipcase, Gilt edged pages PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS By J.M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). Arthur Rackham. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Rebound by Bumpus, Oxford Street. Mild foxing on some prelims Please see photos as part of condition report 1912 1st Edition (Thus) , Rebound PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS By J.M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy… Read More

Religious Tract Society, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Lots of Engravings Please see photos as part of condition report 1882 1st Edition , LEISURE HOUR By James Macaulay Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Religious Tract Society, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 764 ISBN: The Leisure Hour was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era which ran weekly from 1852 to 1905. It was the most successful of several popular magazines published by the Religious Tract Society, which produced Christian literature for a wide audience. Each issue mixed multiple genres of fiction and factual stories, historical and topical. The magazine's title referred to campaigns that had decreased work hours, giving workers extra leisure time. Until 1876, it carried the… Read More

London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254). Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Maes, Netscher, Mengs, etc. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - 50 colour plates. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Pages Clean. Plates by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Maes, Netscher, Mengs, etc Please see photos as part of condition report 1909 1st Edition , BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN IMMORTALIZED BY THE MASTERS By Haldane Macfall Illustrated By: Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Maes, Netscher, Mengs, etc Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: T.C. & E.C. Jack, London Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254),Pages 209 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0001516 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

T.C & E.C. Jack, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Walter Crane. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1917 1st Edition , THE STORY OF GREECE By Mary MacGregor Illustrated By: Walter Crane Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: T.C & E.C. Jack, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 356 ISBN: Stories from the history of ancient Greece beginning with mythical and legendary stories of gods and heroes and ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great. Gives short accounts of battles and sieges, and of the men who made Greece a great nation. SKU: BTETM0000602 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Later Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1950 1st Edition Later Printing, EASTERN APPROACHES By Fitzroy Maclean Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Published By: Jonathan Cape Ltd, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 543 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0000698 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: Art-Union of London, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483). L. Gruner. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Good+, oblang folio, some rubbing and scuffing to boards and spine. 42 engraved plates by L. Gruner. Minor foxing. A couple of pages have small tears with no impact to text or images Please see photos as part of condition report 1866 1st Edition , THE STORY OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST By Daniel Maclise Daniel Maclise RA (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England. Illustrated By: L. Gruner Ludwig Gruner (1801 - 1882), Engraver, art expert and historian. Active in Germany and Britain (1841-56). Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Art-Union of London, London folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 46 ISBN: "Though the reputation… Read More

London: George Allen & Co, 1912. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). Edmund J. Detmold. 2nd Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Some bumping to spine (top & tail). Presentation plate on FEP Please see photos as part of condition report 1912 1st Edition (Thus) 2nd Printing, THE LIFE OF THE BEE By Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1996. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254). John Thomson. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Slipcase Very good, Book in fine unread condition Please see photos as part of condition report 1996 1st Edition (Thus) , Slipcase LONDON CHARACTERS AND CROOKS By Henry Mahew Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor (1851), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the city's poor. Illustrated By: John Thomson Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket,… Read More

Octopus Books, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1973 1st Edition , WITCHCRAFT THE STORY OF MANS SEARCH FOR SUPERNATURAL POWER By Eric Maple Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Octopus Books, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages ISBN: 9780706402827 This is a pretty cool coffee table book on witchcraft from the 70s. Most of it is the kind of stuff you expect from a 140 page overview of an overwhelmingly broad topic, but there were a few cool bits in here that I hadn’t come across before; some of the details on the torture techniques of the inquisitions made me feel rather uncomfortable. The section on Wicca is far too long, but otherwise the book is pretty good. SKU: BTETM0001290 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25… Read More

Dillingen, Germany: Sebald Mayer, 1567. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Crown octavo (8vo 5+3?8 × 8 137 × 203). Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Contemporary leather over wooden boards with rich floral, ornamental and figural blind embossing and two clasps. Spine partly restored and with later handwritten title. Some rubbing, corners bumped, wear to joints. -Rare. Title with contemporary ms. Ownership entry, shaved stamp and restored missing parts in the margin. Front flying attachment missing. Endpapers with contemporary ms. Annotations. Somewhat waterstained, slightly browned and stained. Somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, joints with signs of wear. Overall well preserved. Please see photos as part of condition report 1567 1st Edition , CATECHISMUS ROMANUS, EC DECRETO CONCILIIJ TRIDENTINI By CATHOLIC CHURCH Illustrated By: Format: Hardcover, Language: Latin Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Sebald Mayer,… Read More

London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Dust Jacket In original celophane covering. Dust Jacket not price clipped. Excellent condition copy. Please see photos as part of condition report 1970 1st Edition (Thus) , DJ COMPENDIUM MALEFICARUM By Francesco Maria Guazzo Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, aka Guaccius (1570–16??) was an Italian priest. He is most well known for authoring the Compendium Maleficarum. Guazzo had firsthand experience of the practice and profession of witchcraft and bewitchment and was widely travelled and highly regarded in the field of possessions and demonology and the cures thereof. During his life he is credited with performing several exorcisms including to members of several ducal and princely families, notably the bewitched Cardinal Charles of Lorraine and his relative, Eric, Bishop of Verdun. It was these… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1993. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1993 1st Edition (Thus) , Slipcase THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS By Christopher Marlowe Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Folio Society, London Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279),Pages 74 ISBN: 1993 THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS Christopher Marlowe Edited by A.H. Bullen Introduced by Charles Nicholl Wood Engravings by George Tute FOLIO SOCIETY 74 Pages SKU: BTETM0001769 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. 3rd Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 2000 1st Edition 3rd Printing, DJ SQ: SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE THE ULTIMATE INTELLIGENCE By Danah Zohar I N Marshall Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 324 ISBN: 9780747546764 SKU: BTETM0000437 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Paris: Maison Quantin, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Bumping and scuffing to boards. Tear in spine cloth but spine complete. Binding and text block firm and tight. Some aging to pages. Previous owner inscription on front blank page. Please see photos as part of condition report 1887 1st Edition , L'ARCHEOLOGIE EGYPTIENNE [Egyptian archeology] By Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: French Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Maison Quantin, Paris quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages ISBN: SKU: BTETM0002100 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Original blue boards with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Some bumping to top and tail of spine. Binding and text block firm. Please see photos as part of condition report 1910 1st Edition , ANCIENT SITES AND MODERN SCENES Translated by Elizabeth Lee With Seventeen Illustrations By Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: T. Fisher Unwin, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 330 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0002099 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Harper & Brothers, 1894. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Early Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Early Printing Please see photos as part of condition report 1894 1st Edition (Thus) Early Printing, TRILBY By DV Mavrier Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Harper & Brothers, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 464 ISBN: Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's Monthly from January to August 1894, it was published in book form on 8 September 1895 and sold 200,000 copies in the United States alone. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing read the "notorious" novel in May 1896 with "scant satisfaction". Though Trilby features the stories of two English artists and a… Read More