Search Results: Authors starting with D from Matthew's Books LLC

London: Folio Society, 2009. Folio Society. hardcover. Books all NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcase VG: seam starting at bottom otherwise intact, mild shelf wear.. 3 vol. 8vo 376pp. + 519pp. + 458pp. Second printing. This commemorative edition of the 1938 Edward MacCurdy compilation includes writing on almost every subject imaginable: anatomy, medicine, engineering, optics, architecture, hydraulics, botany and natural history. His personal notes offer insights into his passions, preoccupations and eccentricities, while a detailed index allows for easy navigation. Almost 100 of his exquisite drawings have been reproduced to exceptionally high standard: preparatory drawings for The Last Supper, anatomical diagrams such as The Vitruvian Man, and sketches of inventions - including his designs for a flying machine, created hundreds of years before others dared dream of flying. Finally, two insightful essays tell us more about da Vinci and his writings: one by da Vinci biographer Charles… Read More

Avon Books, 1995. mass market paperback. good. 261pp. "Gossip columnist Dagmar Delacroix Chatsworth and her yappy lapdog Rover's recent stay at the Hillside Manor left hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's nerves, and best bed linens, in tatters. So Judith joins cousin Renie for some well-earned off-season R&R at Canada's famous Bugler Ski Resort--only to discover with horror that the swanky getaway is the next stop on detestable Dagmar's itinerary. But it seems the cousins aren't the only guests with serious grudges against the dirt-disher and her malicious mutt. And when one of the despised lady's entourage is murdered on the snowless slopes, Judith sets out to corner a killer--before more hapless hangers-on discover that Dagmar's company can be even more poisonous than her pen." #00575.

Avon Twilight, 1998. mass market paperback. good. 297pp. "B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's ready to hang up her oven mitts, but irrepressible Cousin Renie needs help catering the telephone company's annual winter retreat at secluded Mountain Goat Lodge. The pay's good, the scenery's to die for--but they never figured there'd be a killer cooking up mischief among this innocuous stew of corporate-climbing phone company ding-a-lings." #00587.

Dell, 1961. mass market paperback. good: minor corner and edge wear, clean text, binding tight. Dell F139 320pp. first printing August 1961. short stories. #00457.

New York: New Directions, 1967. softcover. Book VG: age wear to wraps, edge scuffs. text clean, binding tight. 12mo 234pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02033.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Popular Edition, first thus. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, scuffing, name and bookplate on front paste down, pamphlet tipped in at FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 563pp. first Popular Edition printing February 1930. critical biography of the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, published shortly after her death and contested by the Christian Science Church upon publication. includes tipped in pamphlet by Scribners about attempts to suppress its initial publication in 1929.. #01725c3.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1930. hardcover. Book VG- : stain to front board, name on FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 563pp. sixth printing, November 1930. critical biography of the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, published shortly after her death and contested by the Christian Science Church upon publication. #01539.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1930. hardcover. Book VG: spine rubbed, wear to spine, boards. toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 563pp. sixth printing, November 1930. critical biography of the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, published shortly after her death and contested by the Christian Science Church upon publication. #01538.

New York: Gallery Books, 1990. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: edge wear, chipping, NOT clipped.. 8vo 292pp. from front flap: "Ghosts, murders, bizarre disappearances and journeys back through time, every conceivable type of mystery can be found within the pages of Mystery for Christmas, but with one thing in common: they all take place during the short days and dark nights, the festivities and tensions of Christmas time." #02269.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908. first edition. hardcover. good: wear and scuffing to boards, tear along spine, spine sunned, picture of author and several other figures tipped in to front paste down, gift inscription on FFEP, toning and offset on endpapers, evidence of dampstain at bottom edge corner of text block, some marginalia in pencil,/no DJ. 8vo 284pp. +16pp. advertisements. #01172.

Chicago: American Technical Society, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ Fair: chipping with loss, age toning, not clipped. 8vo 367pp. from front flap: "In addition to presenting a complete discussion of the tools, materials, and practices of masonry, this book also provides the "know-how" of the trade--information previously available only by word-of-mouth from top-notch workmen--information they have taken years to acquire. Every step in unit masonry is clearly explained. Quantities of carefully drawn, pictorial illustrations show construction processes in great detail and aid the reader in visualizing the modern practices under discussion." #02020.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. hardcover. Book VG- : offset/shadow to front board, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning to endpapers, name on endpaper./no DJ. 8vo 514pp. from Preface: "The vast and imposing structure of modern science is perhaps the greatest triumph of the human mind. But the story of its origin, its development and its achievements is one of the least known parts of history, and has hardly yet found its way into general literature. Historians treat of war, of politics, of economics; but of the growth of those activities which have revealed the individual atom and opened to our vision the depths of space, which have revolutionized philosophic thought and given us the means of advancing our material welfare to a level beyond the dreams of former ages, most of them tell us little or nothing." #01654.

University of Chicago Press, 1927. first edition. hardcover. good: stain/age wear to boards, spine faded. gilt lettering front board still clear, gift inscription on FFEP verso, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Duodecimo 240pp. first edition (Sept. 1927) Sanskrit prose romance attributed to Dandin (7th/8th c. BC), filled with adventures, fighting, seductive women, ghosts, robbery, etc. etc. #00142.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Company, 1930. first U.S. edition. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ Poor: rear flap missing, half of spine missing, heavy age wear, chipping with loss, spine sunned, not clipped ($2.00). portions present are under protective mylar cover.. 12mo 321pp. first US edition. mystery by author of "Enter Sir John." From front flap: "As with "Enter Sir John," mystery is the choice condiment of this Clemence Dane-Helen Simpson novel, but it's not allowed to be the whole dish." very scarce copy of collectible vintage mystery novel, especially in DJ. #02075.

Bantam Books, 1990. mass market paperback. good. 200pp. "Bella Whitaker was quite sure her night on the town would be a night to remember. Her black velvet gown was all the rage, her diamond earrings opulent without being ostentatious, and the mink a perfect foil for her auburn hair. But before Bella could stage an entrance, someone committed a serious fashion blunder, and dear wealthy Bella ended up wearing a noose for a necklace. The long and short of it is, Bella failed to keep her date with the young and erudite idler, Snooky Randolph, and all because she had a previous engagement...with death." #00576.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942. first edition. hardcover. Book G: ex library copy--writing on spine, stamps on endpapers and paste downs, wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 441pp. published March 1942. Collection of essays on Balzac. #01479.

American Research Council, 1960. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : toning and offset to endpapers,/very good+ : slight signs of corner/shelf wear, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo. 178pp. from front flap: "This extraordinary book makes available for the first time one of the most unusual success stories in the history of the stock market, along with a full explanation of the amazingly successful investment methods which brought an actual profit of over $2,000,000 in an 18-month period." Darvas' first book and the one for which he is most well known. Classic in investment/stock trading literature, original is scarce in any condition. #00808.

Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. very good: slight bumped corner, toning to endpapers, one spot of offeset in text block from inserted receipt bookmark,/good: rubbing and scuffing, age wear, NOT clipped ($3.50). Polly Bolian. Tall 8vo. 185pp. from front flap: "[THE] [T]here has never been a book on the problems and pleasures facing the really tall young woman. Here it is, at last! [A]dvice--sensible and lighthearted--on all the wonderful ways in which a girl can delight in being tall. [L]ively anecdotes which show how the number of long-stemmed American Beauties is increasing every year. [L]ong-needed admonitions to parents and friends whose humorous (and envious) remarks can be devastating. . . . " #00802.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: writing on FFEP, toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG- : mild edge and corner wear, NOT clipped ($4.00). 8vo 277pp. from front flap: "There is scarcely an object in the world which, rightly regarded, cannot be used as a murder instrument. But once the murder is accomplished, the killer's difficulties are only beginning. What is he to do with the body? To the everlasting credit of human ingenuity there are a number of things he can do. And although disposing of the body is considerably more difficult than killing a man, the rewards are correspondingly greater. What those difficulties are Basil Davenport has revealed in teh stories in this collection--fresh, ingenious and occasionally grisly stories--by Stanley Ellin, John Collier, Robert Graves, Dorothy Sayers, Philip MacDonald, Lord Dunsany, G.K. Chesterton and others." #01718.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. hardcover. good: wear to boards and spine, toning, bumped corners. writing/drawing throughout. Reading copy./no DJ. 8vo 544pp., Index. Economics textbook, first published 1913. #01104.