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

Macmillan Company, 1970. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : touch of shelfwear, toning to endpapers. else clean, square, tight./very good: corner wear, NOT clipped ($9.95), under protective mylar cover.. 8vo 435pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "They were black and white, men and women, all pledged to nonviolence in the pursuit of their cause. For thiry years they fought tenaciously for Black Freedom, only to be rewarded by a Civil War of "emancipation"--a tragic failure that ultimately created more problems than it solved. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Carleton Mabee brilliantly illuminates a hitherto little-known corner of our nation's evolution --the issues, personalities, and dramatic actions of the great nonviolent abolitionists from the early 1830's to the Civil War. #00814.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: owner's blindstamp on title page, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: mild edge wear, sticker residue, mild age toning, NOT clipped ($12.95). 8vo 284pp. from front flap: "The managerial world of the 80s will belong to "The Leader" and to those who understand his aims and can work with him. This new breed of manager will not only know how to deal with changing technology but will be able to set the kind of people-oriented goals that a modern work force can respond to." #01570.

University of Massachusetts Press, 1972. first edition. hardcover. Book VG:slight shelf wear, sparse foxing to endpapers, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ G: age toning/soil, clipped.. 8vo 197pp. from front flap: "That Paul Claudel, French ambassador to the United States, solid pillar of the Republic, and devout Catholic felt a strong affinity with the infamous poet-seer Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, has been for years an acknowledged, though often puzzling, fact. In The Prince and the Genie, John MacCombie demonstrates that, rather than Rimbaud the voyou, the homosexual, the sordid, sadistic, iconoclastic enfant terrible, it was Rimbaud the mystic, the spiritual seeker, the subtle poetic technician who influenced the deeply religious Claudel and who was the younger poet's poetic model as well as spiritual mentor." #02313.

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1983. first edition. softcover. Book VG-: neat writing, underlining. mild age wear/soil to wraps. binding tight.. 8vo 144pp. stated first edition. see pictures for synopsis. #02162.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1955. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book VG+: mild wear, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: mild edge wear, age toning, not clipped.. 8vo 256pp. from front flap: "The island of Vashon is in Puget Sound off Seattle, and is famous for its gooseberries, goat's milk, butter clams and orchids, and most of all for the MacDonald family--Betty with husband Don and her bevy of teen-age daughters (only two, but they sometimes seem like ten). [. . .] Onions in the Stew is the story of their life on Vashon, told wtih the same airborne wit and temerity of her previous best-seller The Egg and I." #02291.

Physical Culture Corporation, 1924. hardcover. near fine: clean, sharp, tight, square./very good: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped. 12mo. 183pp. from back cover DJ: "If you feel that someone in whom you are interested is injuring himself with tobacco, simply place this book where it will come to his attention and the probabilities are that it will have the desired effect. It is certainly worth the trial. Heavily bound in cloth, this invaluable book is priced at only $1.00." #00832.

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1955. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild age toning to boards and spine, else clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcase VG: age toning/rubbing. 8vo 185pp. includes Sandglass pamphlet. The translation from the Italian by Hill Thompson, with an Introduction by Irwin Edman. #02066.

Modern Library, 1950. Modern Library College Editions. softcover. very good: some wrinkling in spine, but text clean and binding tight.. Duodecimo 540pp. Modern Library College Edition T25. #00484.

New York: Triangle Books, 1943. hardcover. book very good: name on FFEP, age toning edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: edge wear and mild chipping, rubbed corner with loss, NOT clipped.. 12mo 333pp. second Triangle Books printing. from front flap: "This is a tale told with wit, simplicity and chilling suspense; a tale of the real Nazi Germany. Most of all, it is a tale of two likable English babes-in-the-woods and of an unexpected American reporter whose ability to hunt as well as be hunted reduced the odds--a little." cover photographs from 1943 movie adaptation starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. #01361.

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 1983. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. oversized 8vo, 456pp. from "About This Book" : Back to Basics is a book about ther simple life. It is about old-fashioned ways of doing things, and old-fashioned craftsmanship, and old-fashioned food, and old-fashioned fun. It is also about independence--the kind of down-home self-reliance that our grandparents and great grandparents took for granted, but that we moderns often think has vanished forever, along with supermarket tomatoes that taste good, packaged bread that does not have additives, and holidays that are not commercialized.. At its heart Back to Basics is a how-to book packed with hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, charts, tables, diagrams, and illustrations to help you and your family reestablish control over your day-to-day lives. The book is organized into six main sections. The first deals with shelter, the second with… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1914. first edition. hardcover. acceptable: few spots of highlighting, mild toning/foxing. binding of spine stripped below title plate, top of spine binding is loose. bumped corners, age wear to boards./no DJ. 12mo. 130pp. with an introduction by Clayton Hamilton. Four act play by American dramatist and poet. from facsimile of original staging program: "(The play is an original comeddy, suggested by the Persian romance in "The Thousand and One Tales," wherein is recited the adventures of Calaf, Prince of Astrakhan, and the beautiful Princess of China.)" #01220.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1911. hardcover. good: soil/age wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, name on FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo. 163pp. fourth printing January 1911. dramatization by American poet and playwright of the life of the famous French saint and warrior Joan of Arc. #01316.

Gretna Green: Hugh Mackie. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 12mo. 132pp. a history of marriages taking place at Gretna Green, Scotland, after passage of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1754 in England made it difficult to get married over the objection of parents or without publication of Banns. #01662.

Avon, 1987. mass market paperback. good. 212pp. seventeen mystery short stories. #00558.

Avon Books, 1987. mass market paperback. good. 183pp. "Wildflowers, molasses cookies...and homemade murder." #00559.

George W. Jacobs, 1908. first edition. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, ex libris plate on front paste down, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 16mo. 229pp. from introduction: "This little book is intended as a handy reference volume either in the home library or on the study table. It should prove particularly useful to school children and older students, to teachers, lawyers and clergymen, and to the busy man or woman who occasionally may wish to use an appropriate quotation or may desire to locate one that he or she has heard." #00835.

Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1906. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, else clean, unmarked, tight binding.. H. Putnam Hall. 8vo 232pp. from Preface: "The limitation imposed in this little collection is that of Constancy in relation to the poetry of love; the idea of Constancy is still further qualified by limitation to the loves of men and women for one another. Even within these narrow bounds this collection is not exhaustive; but it is believed to be the only collection of its kind, and it is hoped that it will meet with the approval of all who seek a fitting expression of the sentiments to which this collection is dedicated." #02411.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. first thus. hardcover. Book G: wear to boards and spine, scuffing. Name and gift inscription on FFEP, hinge starting at FFEP, spots on endpapers, mild foxing. text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 348pp. first edition thus. collection of 16 essays by Belgian poet, essayist and playwright, whose work was important in the symbolist movement. Awarded Nobel Prize in 1911. #01425.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. first thus. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, spine faded, foxing throughout, gift inscription on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 222pp. A Fairy Play in Eleven Acts and Five Scenes. Originally titled The Betrothal, Or, the Bluebird Chooses. Sequel to playwright's popular work The Blue Bird. #01749.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers. sticker on front paste down. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 143pp. play in three acts by Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist. Set in 15th century Italy. #01663.