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

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1912. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, staining to spine, mild toning to endpapers, stamp on half title page, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 347pp. #01395.

Paraclete Press, 2014. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages.

Simon and Schuster, 1967. first edition. hardcover. very good+ spot on bottom of front board, minor shelf wear, text clean, binding tight, gray topstain text block./very good: age wear, price clipped. Octavo 160pp. #00210.

Delacorte Press, 1976. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good+ : owner sticker on FFEP, else clean, square, tight./very good: mild shelfwear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 340pp. from front flap: "This shocking novel takes the reader behind the scenes of the New Hollywood, the international crowd, the world of big business, politics, and the syndicate. It tells the tempestuous story of the beautiful Elena Brent, who started as a B-Girl and climbed to the top of the Beverly Hills--Bel Air social ladder to become the most celebrated hostess on the West Coast." #00949.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1929. first American edition. hardcover. Book G: spine sunned, mild shelf wear to boards, mild foxing to endpapers, hinge cracked at FFEP, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 452pp. +illustrations. First printing in America, April 1929. biography of Henry VIII, king of England. #01532.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900. hardcover. Book VG-: spine sunned, shelf wear/staining to boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers and frontispiece, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 12mo 391pp. later printing (Harper code K-Z indicates 1925). from Author's Preface: "The present study of the monistic philosophy is intended for thoughtful readrers of every condition who are united in an honest search for the truth. An intensification of this effort of man to attain a knowledge of the truth is one of the most salient features of the nineteenth century." #01704.

Blue Ribbon Books, 1929. hardcover. very good: crease in spine, worn boards, sunned spine, toning on endpapers, name on FFEP,/no DJ. 8vo 405pp. illustrations throughout. from Contents: Part one: THE CONQUEST OF DEATH AT BIRTH, Part two: THE STORY OF ANESTHESIA, Part three: THE PROGRESS OF SURGERY, Part four: THE PASSING OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE, Part five: THE HEALING ART, Part six: MEDICINE THROUGH THE AGES. #01006.

Ignatius Press, 2016. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages. with a foreword by Raymond Cardinal Burke.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1942. hardcover. good: handling wear to boards and spine, bumped corners, toning to endpapers, wrinkling on paste downs, possible damp stain./DJ good: age soiled, chipping and rubbing with some loss bottom edge. NOT clipped (15s. net). 8vo 287pp. stated third printing, July 1942. from front flap: "This is the revealing biography of the three sisters who together represent all the powerful factions in present-day China. In this intimate and fascinating study, we meet them first as Eling, Chingling and Mayling, the little daughters of Charlie Soong, secret revolutionary and friend of Sun Yat-sen; we see them at the Wesleyan College for Women in Georgia, U.S.A., where they so amused and delighted their colleagues; we trace the widely divergent careers which have led them to become the three greatest women in China today. . . .As the wife of the Generalissimo, Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the first lady of war-ridden China, a woman of great energy and influence; as the wife of… Read More

Ignatius Press, 1993. Lighthouse Catholic Media Edition. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages. includes CD: Seven Presentations on the Catholic Faith (pictured).

Cowles Book Company, 1970. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : scuff/marking on outside edge of text block, mild shelfwear, clean, tight, bright, square./very good: age wear/soiling. NOT clipped ($6.95). 8vo 253pp. from front flap: "As a spectacle of drama and death, the bullfight has for over two hundred years been a storm center of controversy. To many it is one of the glories of Spain; to others, a blot on its escutcheon. It inspires a polarity of passionate response from addiction to abhorrence, and few other spectator sports have evoked exhilaration, disgust, pride, and shame in such measure.The ritual of toreo has been an irresistible stimulus of powerful writing by a surprising diversity of authors, from D. H. Lawrence to Norman Mailer--both of whom are represented in this compendium of the magic and mystique of the corrida." #00811.

New York: Grove Press, 1957. softcover. Book VG: mild wear to wraps, text clean, binding tight. writing on rear endpapers. 12mo 274pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02007.

Looking Glass Library, 1959. hardcover. very good: mild corner and edge wear to boards, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight, gift inscription on FFEP/good: corner and edgewear, clipped, age toned.. 12mo. 248pp. + original illustrations. no. 6 in Looking Glass Library, a series of books for young readers. from front flap: "Everyone who has ever read these delightful stories (and they have been a classic of American literature for nearly seventy-five years) will agree that there has never been a family quite like the Peterkins. What happened when Mrs. Peterkin poured salt instead of sugar into the coffee? Why did Elizabeth Eliza decide that the only possible way to play her piano was from the outside, through the parlor window? How did Mr. Peterkin solve the dilemma of the over-sized Christmas tree?" #00976.

Harper and Brothers, 1950. hardcover. good: mild toning and foxing to endpapers and edge of text block, else clean, square, tight. marked down for tape offset and residue from DJ to boards./good: edge wear, rubbing, small closed tear, NOT clipped. 8vo 376pp. from front flap: "Here is the story of the expansive figure who towered over American journalism in the nineteenth century as the editor of the New York Tribune, and whose pithy sayings, exuberant innovations, and colorful eccentricities made him one of America's favorite folk characters." #01069.

Doubleday, 1976. first edition. hardcover. very good: spine slightly cocked, a little toning on endpapers, binding otherwise tight, text clean./very good: faded/tanned, aged, some signs of scuffing on corners and spine. first edition of Alex Haley's cultural phenomenon novel blending extensive archival research and fiction to describe the life of Kunta Kinte, an 18th century man captured in Africa as an adolescent, then sold into slavery and shipped to North America. Follows his life and the lives of his descendants down to Haley himself and was adapted into a hugely popular TV miniseries of the same name in 1977. #00016.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. Revised and Enlarged. hardcover. Book VG- : mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild bumped corners, name, scribble, and doodle on front endpaper, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 595pp. from Introduction: This book is intended as a text-book and laboratory manual for beginners in the systematic study of physics. The course of work herein is described is designed to correspond to the [. . .] definition of the requirement in elementary experimental physics for admission to Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School. . . ." #01629.

Columbian Book Company, 1893. hardcover. good: gilt lettering on cover and spine faded, fading and scuffing to boards and spine, separation on pastedowns, previous owners card on front past down, name on FFEP, text otherwise unmarked, corners bumped./no DJ. Evangelist George Hall lists a catalog of the vices men are prey to, including chapters on: alcohol, tobacco, bad books and pictures, gambling, fornication, adultery, masturbation, and two concluding chapters with words to young men and words to married men with Christian exhortation. #00071.

Doubleday and Company, 1960. second revised edition. trade paperback. very good: age wear and toning, chip at base of spine, text clean, binding tight. Duodecimo 265pp. Doubleday Anchor Book. From rear cover: "A new approach to language problems is the main theme of Robert A. Hall, Jr.'s revolutionary discussion in LINGUISTICS AND YOUR LANGUAGE. For the first time in a book intended for the general reader, the science of linguistics and its results are brought to bear on everyday problems of language: correctness, spelling, foreign language study, international languages, linguistic nationalism." #00518.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. first edition. hardcover. good: staining and discoloration to boards, sunned spine, ex libris bookplate and gift inscription on FFEP/no DJ. Octavo 417pp. Fifth and final book of adventurer and world traveler Richard Halliburton, including encounters with the assassin of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, meeting the emperor of Ethiopia, attempting to enter Mecca, and riding elephants over the Alps in the tracks of Hannibal. He died two years later attempting to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco. #00100.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925. first edition. hardcover. very good: edge and corner wear, boards and gilt lettering faded, spine sunned, spots on edge of text block./no DJ. Octavo 399pp. First published book of famous travel writer and adventurer, detailing his trips all over the world. #00184.