6881. Russell, Arthur.

The Machine Gunner.

Kineton, The Roundwood Press, 1977. 16 cm x 24 cm. XI, 172 pages.With 10 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear including slight tear to dustjacket at spine edge. Rare. Scarely found with dustjacket.

6882. Wakoski, Diane / [Clayton Eshleman].

The Magellanic Clouds. [Association Copy] –

First Edition. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 16 x 24 cm. 150 pages. Original Hardcover with cloth spine. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Association copy with the author’s signed dedication to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman on the title page: “For Clayton & Caryl – friends in this galaxy”. Signed and numbered by the author on the edition page. This is number 238 of 250. Minor discolorations on the cover.

6883. Benítez Rojo, Antonio.

The Magic Dog and Other Stories. Selection, edition and introduction by Frank Janney.

First edition. Hanover, N.H., Ediciones del Norte, 1990. 12.5 x 20cm. (13), 261 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition.

6884. Mann, Thomas / Lowe-Porter, H.T. (Translator)

The Magic Mountain.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1946. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. IX, 716 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spotting on first and last few pages, endpapers and pastedowns only. Two small notes made in pencil on endpaper.

6885. Buchan, John / Olcott, Frances Jenkins[editor].

The Magic Walking-Stick and Stories from the Arabian Nights .

London, Associated Newspapers, no year (c.1900). 15 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 314 pages. Numerous colour illustrations Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shows fading. Light tanning and occasional foxing throughout. Binding good and firm and bookblock tight and square. Unmarked interior. Name of previous owner on rear pastedown.

6886. Singer, Isaac Bashevis.

The Magician of Lublin. With Lithographs by Larry Rivers.

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1984. 31.2cm x 23.7cm. X, 220 pages. With beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This Edition has been quarter bound in Nigerian Goatskin & Irish Linen. Signed by author and illustrator.

6887. Lambert, Richard.

The Magnolia.

First Edition. Norwich, The Rialto, 2008. Octavo. 40 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6888. [Brook, Peter] O’Connor, Gary.

The Mahabharata – Peter Brook’s Epic in the Making. Photography by Gilles Abegg.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. 19 cm x 25 cm. 159 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6889. Beuamont, Francis / Fletcher, John / Craik, T.W. (Editor).

The Maid’s Tragedy.

Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 1988. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Title-page of the 1619 quarto (courtesy of Bodleian Library)), XII, 212 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6890. Dickens, Charles.

The Major Works – Unabridged Cambridge Scholars Classic Texts Edition [The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 Volumes].

29 Volumes. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Octavo. c.5000 pages in 29 Volumes. Original Softcover / Paperback Edition. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition.

6891. Haskell, Arnold L.

The Making of a Dancer and other papers on the Background to Ballet. With Twelve Photographs and a frontispiece.

First Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1946. 14cm x 22cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription: “To my “Ballerina” with all my love & best wishes for the future career – from Joan”. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.

6892. Burke, Gerald L.

The Making of Dutch Towns – A Study in Urban Development from the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries. [with interesting chapters and maps e.g. “Trade Routes circa 1450”]. Foreword by Sir William Holford.

First Edition. London, Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd. 1956. 19cm x 25cm. 176 pages, with 99 illustrations. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6893. Green, Alice Stopford.

The Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600.

Second Edition. Dublin / London, Maunsel and Company, 1920. Large Octavo. XXIV, 573 pages including a map of Ireland specially drawn to illustrate chapter I of the book. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine (Original blue publisher’s coth). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the private library of Seosamh Laoide (English: Joseph H. Lloyd, 1865–1939), known as “Mac Tíre na Páirce” (″Wolf of the Park”). With his name in gaeilge on the endpaper. Seosamh Laoide was an Irish language scholar was an Irish language scholar.

6894. [Muir, Richard / Hobhouse, Penelope and others / The Sunday Times].

The Making of the English Garden.

London, Macmillan, 1988. 23.5 cm x 29 cm. 224 pages. Hundreds of colour illustrations, drawings and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6895. Willes, Margaret.

The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011. 16 cm x 24 cm. IX, 299 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6896. Yeates, Padraig.

The Making of the Great 1913 Lockout Tapestry.

Dublin, SIPTU Communications Department, 2013. 29.8cm x 21cm. 98 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6897. [English History Collection] – Wilson, Ben.

The Making of Victorian Values – Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789 – 1837.

New York, The Penguin Press, 2007. 16 cm x 24 cm. XV, 445 pages. A few black and white plates in the centre pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and date of preowner inscribed on endpaper. Otherwise as new.

6898. [Russell, Thomas] Carroll, Denis.

The Man from God knows where – Thomas Russell 1767 – 1803.

Dublin, Tartan, 1995. 14 x 22 cm. 256 pages including an index. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6899. Hollo, Anselm.

The Man in the Treetop Hat. Illustrations by Barry Hall.

One of only 100 copies signed by Hollo and Hall. London, Turret Books, 1968. 26 cm. 40 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in original glassine wrapper. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6900. Galsworthy, John.

The Man of Property. With an Introduction by Ivor Brown.

London / Glasgow, Collins, 1958. Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of John Galsworthy, 352 pages. Original Hardcover with the stunning, original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and some minor frawying to the protected jacket only. Rare in this excellent condition.