MacManus, Francis.

Statue for a Square.

First Edition. Dublin, The Talkot Press Limited, 1945. 16.7cm x 12.7cm. 286 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with external wear on the cover.

MacNamara, Brinsley.

The Clanking of Chains. A Story of Sinn Fein.

[First Edition]. New York, Brentano’s, 1919. 18.5 x 12.5 viii, 262 pages plus two pages publishers list. Original green cloth with black title on front board and spine Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Front hinge cracked. Internally bright and clean.

Macray, William Dunn.

A Manual of British Historians to A.D. 1600. Containing a chronological Account of the early Chroniclers and Monkish Writers their printed Works and unpublished MSS.

First Edition. London, William Pickering, 1845. 21 x 13 cm. xxiii, 109 pages. Decorated Initials. Half calf over marbled boards. Speckled edges. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Sound binding. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

Madam Belloc (Bessie Rayner Parkes).

The Flowing Tide.

First Edition. London, Sands & Co., 1900. 13 x 18 cm, xi, 298 pages. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Spine faded and parts of boards are discoloured (see images). Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Edges age darkened. Text block bright and clean. Some tanning, mainly to endpapers.

M’Adam, John Loudon.

Remarks on the Present System of Road Making. With Observations, deduced from Practice and Experience, with a View to a Revision of the existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Roads from Misapplication.

Third Edition. Carefully revised, with considerable Additions and an Appendix. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 22 x 14 cm. 196 pages. Paper covered boards and spine. Spinal label. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Well worn boards with some small material losses to rear board (see images). Internally age darkened and with a few stains. Some small tears and minor paper losses . Mild foxing. Name of previous owner in ink on title page. Internally clean.

Madame C—(Calderon) de la B—(Barca) – Frances Erskine / Prescott, W.H. (Foreword).

Life in Mexico. During a Residence of two Years in that Country.

First British Edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1843. 22 x 14 cm. xii, 436 pages plus 16 pages publishers list. Dark brown cloth. Hard cover with gilt title on spine. Elaborate blind decorations on boards and spine. Good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened and foxed throughout. Some fraying to spine ends. Name of previous owner on title page. Internally clean.

Madame Guyon [Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon] / Allen, Thomas Taylor (translator).

Autobiography of Madame Guyon. Translated in Ful by Thomas Taylor Allen, Bengal Civil Service (Retired).

First English Edition. Two Volumes – complete. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. 1898. 22 x 15 cm. Vol.1: xxx, 338 pages / Vol.2: xiii, 336 pages. With a losely inserted handwritten letter by Dr. E.M. Hummel to ‘Miss Allen, Bray, Ireland’, the daughter of the translator Thomas Taylor Allen. Original dark blue cloth. Gilt titles on spines and front boards. Top edges gilt. Fore edges deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Volume 1 with some inscriptions, possibly by the Author?

Madame Michelet.

Nature; or, the Poetry of Earth and Sea. With Two Hundred Designs by Giacomelli.

First Edition. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1880. 24 x 16 cm. xxxi, 431 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth. Hard cover. Illustrated binding. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Dark end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Occasional very mild foxing. Internally clean.

Maeterlinck, Maurice.

The Life of the White Ant. Translated by Alfred Sutro.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1927. 18 x 12 cm. 213 pages plus publishers list. With a frontispiece. Original green cloth with black title. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Very good inside good dust jacket. Some shelfwear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. A few neat line annotations. Dust jacket with minor paper losses at spine ends.

Maeterlinck, Maurice.

The Treasure of the Humble.

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 16 x 12 cm. 218 pages. Paperback in glassine Wrapper. Printed on quality white paper. All edges deckle. Very good condition. Paperboards darkened and foxed. Glassine wrapper worn with a few tears. Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner: ‘Thomas SK Lees’ on first blank page. Internally bright and clean.