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

Writer's Digest Books, 1979. first edition. hardcover. near fine: marking on FFEP, remainder dot on bottom of text block, else unread: clean, tight, square/very good+: slightest signs of shelfwear. NOT clipped ($11.95). 8vo 203pp. from front flap: "Writing for Regional Publications will tell you how you can sell to every type of regional--from newspapers to book publishers to magazines--no matter where you live. You'll learn how regionals differ, and how an understanding of them can help you succeed in this easiest of all markets to break into." #00788.

London: Curzon Press, 1986. first edition. softcover. Book VG: age toning, mild foxing to wraps and endpapers. text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 326pp. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series. see pictures for synopsis. #02349.

Vanguard Press, 1963. hardcover. near fine: some offset/toning to dark blue endpapers and paste downs, else sharp, tight, clean./very good: toning at top of front cover, small closed tear at top of spine, NOT clipped. James L. Mackey. 8vo 126pp. from front flap: "Everybody knows the Old Fool. But do they know whence he sprang? Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer said: "Old fools is the biggest fools there is." but La Rochefoucauld had made the same remark two hundred years before. And the English playwright John Lyly, in 1594, had taken pains to honor the antiquity of this cliche in his own day, saying: "In faith I perceive an olde sawe and a rustic, no foole to the old foole." So it goes in Joseph Valentine's BOOK OF CLICHES, which, in deft line, intriguing inversion, and careful scholarship, sharpens the wit in a new kind of guessing game while tracing the history of myriad worn but beloved phrases that survive like so many living fossils in our daily speech and writings." #00770.

Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped corners, mild shelfwear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 749pp. from BOMC insert: "This is a book full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy. It is also a gallery of portraits of the leaders of the fanatical men and women who carried on the Communist struggle in Europe through the twenties and thirties, and of the equally fanatical and even more unscrupulous instruments of Hitler and the Gestapo. But it is, first of all, an autobiography of a German youth--his history as a professional revolutionist--from the time when, as a youth, he was involved in the insurrections that flared up in Germany at the close of the last war, to a very recent date, when, disgusted with dogmatisms, fanaticisms, and tyrannies, pursued by the Gestapo, betrayed by his own party, his wife tricked to her death, his… Read More

Random House, 1930. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, mild offset/toning to endpapers. Text clean, binding tight./very good: corner and edge wear, NOT clipped ($7.50). 8vo 323pp. + color plates. from front flap: "This is the ONE book on sexual life that has received the unqualified approval of the medical profession and the lay public alike. 1. IT IS AUTHORITATIVE [...] 2. IT IS EXPLICIT [...] 3. IT IS COMPLETE" #01109.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. hardcover. good: wear/fading to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning, foxing, offset to endpapers, writing on rear paste down, sticker on front paste down. Text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 234pp. meditation on philosophy and religion from noted Dutch theosophist. #01071.

New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book very good: age wear to top of boards, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: age toning, chipping, NOT clipped. 8vo 336pp. BOMC edition. from front flap: "The great story of how the United States became a nation, known at first hand only to Washington and Madison, to Franklin and Hamilton, and to the others who shared their conclaves, has reposed only in a bare official record and in the scattered notes and diaries kept by a few of the conferees. These came out piecemeal over the following dozen decades and have never been made freely available except in scholarly publications. Carl Van Doren has made from these shreds of fact a full tapestry of history." #01351.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 186pp. December 1943. from Preface: "The immediate occasion of this book is the war, which in the United States has almost completely suspended liberal education. Whether it should have done so is among other things a military question, and as such it is not argued here. The war itself is seldom explicit in the discussion, which is more concerned with the kind of liberal education that must someday be restored, and which assumes that this can be better than the kind now suspended. The need at the moment is for a definition of liberal education whenever and however it manages to exist. I take its necessity for granted, and believe that at any time, but particularly after the war, it should be as good as possible." #01714.

New York: Viking Press, 1948. first edition. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards, spine sunned, mild corner wear to boards, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 336pp., Index. #01066.

William Morrow and Company, 1935. first thus. hardcover. very good: spine faded, minimal shelfwear, dark topstain text block (as normal), text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Duodecimo 128pp. from the preface: "What is American Literature? is a definition, not a debate. Having concluded what writers are the American essence, it tries to define each of them as precisely as possible. It tries, moreover, to exhibit them in action, moving to the life in space and time. No one of them is like any other, and there is no effort to make them so..." #00152.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. hardcover. good: wear to boards, gilt still bright on boards and spine, offset on front paste down from ex-libris bookplate on FFEP, toning, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo. 262pp. from review in Nature (1906): "PROF. VAN DYKE provides in these pages a readable account of many branches of modern oceanography expressed in a literary form too seldom found in works dealing, with scientific subjects. As one would expect, the romance and poetry of science are given great prominence, and the attractive word-pictures reveal the fascinating nature of the work of the man of science. Many readers of these essays will be encouraged to undertake a more precise study of the physical geography of the sea from formal treatises.". #00903.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. hardcover. Book VG- : mild wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 903pp. Star Books. history of the world written and illustrated for children. #01481.

Simon and Schuster, 1932. first edition. hardcover. good: boards and spine age worn, slightly bumped corners. name inscribed on front paste down, one color plate loose/tipped in, tear along binding at title page but intact, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo. 525pp. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #00657.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Star Books. hardcover. Book VG- : mild wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 903pp. history of the world written and illustrated for children. #01437.

New York: Book Manufacturers Institute, 1937. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, else clean, tight, square./very good: age toning, spine sunned, NOT clipped.. 12mo. 45pp. a brief history of printing, prepared specially for the Book Manufacturing Exhibit by the Book Manufacturers' Institute. #01166.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book very good: mild shelf wear, name on FFEP, spots of foxing to endpapers, text clean, hinge starting at half title page, binding intact./no DJ.. 8vo. 525pp. stated fourth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. includes bookmark which appears to be illustrated by van Loon, no date/publishing information/attribution. #01344.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book good: age soil to boards and spine, evidence of staining, toning to endpapers, foxing outer edge text block, text clean, binding intact../no DJ. Hendrik Willem van Loon. 8vo. 525pp. stated second printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01343.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book very good: age wear to boards, spine faded. name on FFEP, mild foxing spots to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo. 525pp. stated sixth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01345.

Hillman Curl, 1939. first edition. hardcover. good: age wear/toning to boards, spine sunned, stamp on front paste down, hinge cracking at title page, text clean, binding still intact./no DJ. 8vo 520pp. autobiography of Dutch-Canadian-American journalist, writer, and Unitarian minister, covering the first part of his life from his youth in Holland through his years as a journalist and foreign correspondent. He gained fame reporting on the conflicts among Arabs, British, Jews and French in the Middle East, as well as on the ongoing African slave trade and colonial problems in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. He reported on Benito Mussolini's Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War and other European and colonial conflicts.. #00889.

Little Brown and Company, 1939. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped corners, soiled boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and spots of foxing./no DJ. 8vo 428pp. published September 1939. Ethel Vance was a pseudonym for Grace Zaring Stone, used to protect the author's daughter who was living in occupied Europe during this time. This anti-Nazi thriller was adapted into a 1940 film about an American living in pre-war Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and sets out to free her. #00892.