Search Results: Titles starting with F from Matthew's Books LLC

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 372pp. from Foreword: "This book is a cornucopia of facts--facts about prehistoric painting, facts about prehistoric emotions, facts about the transition of both sort of facts throughout human history. At the turn of a millennium, it is right that we human beings should be preoccupied with our past, and this book takes us on an Odyssey of all of this, including some aspects that we repress--human sacrifice, for example. [. . .] This is hardly news, but the author of this book presents us with a particular set of facts which leads him to a particular theory for why this should be so. This, in a nutshell, is that the human brain, and the right hemisphere in particular, has evolved over this period, and led to the changes he describes." #02415.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. hardcover. Book VG-: shelf wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning to endpapers, light foxing outer edge text block, text clean, binding intact.. 8vo 430pp. third printing. from Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene. #02290.

Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 1955. hardcover. very good: tiny tear at base of spine at FFEP, text clean, binding tight./very good: small closed tear, mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 280pp. from front flap: "How Faith and Science Working Together Offer More Satisfying Answers To Everyday Situations" #01068.

New York: Farrar Straus and Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear, mild toning. text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: small closed tears, edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 212pp. from front flap: "It is seldom that a tyrant lives to tell, or wants to tell, of the fall of the empire he has created. Yet that is what Mussolini does in this unique account of the last days of fascist Italy and of the last period of his own life. This book is not unbiased historical fact. It is Mussolini's apologia, his attempt to prolong the Duce myth, his last desperate bid to the Italian people for reinstatement." #01508.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ fair: heavy edge wear/holes to edge and corner, chipping, NOT clipped.. 8vo 421pp. from front flap: "In the ages before the first global war, four dynasties--the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov--dominated much of civilization. [. . .] This volume in the MAINSTREAM OF THE MODERN WORLD SERIES covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay, and their splintered, baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war." #01468.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1967. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild toning to endpapers, clean, square, tight/DJ VG: mild age toning/chipping. NOT clipped ($7.95). 8vo 552pp. stated first printing. from front cover: "An anthology of the world's most distinguished fiction and nonfiction about family relationships, with sources ranging from the Bible to The New Yorker." contributions from: Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoevsky, Lewis Carroll, Dickens, Steinbeck, Proust, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Langston Hughes, Twain, Yeats, many more. #01396.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG: age/handling to wraps, spine sunned, text clean, binding tight. 16mo 235pp. #02155.

Little Brown and Company, 1965. 11th edition. hardcover. near fine: slight signs of shelf wear, text clean and unmarked, binding tight/fair: some rubbing and chipping, closed tear at top of back cover, missing strip from bottom of rear cover, price clipped.. Alison Mason Kingsbery. Octavo, 624pp. Third printing of Eleventh Edition of classic American cookbook. #00129.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight./DJ VG- : chipping and mild age wear, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo 298pp. stated first printing. from front cover: "Being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics." from front flap: "You will be bored, mathematicians, by these stories. Clifton Fadiman, who collected and edited them, says so himself in his Introduction. You couldn't have better authority than that. The mathematics here is too naive for you. But everyone else--and that means practically all of us--come gather round and be vastly entertained, entranced, and--who knows? --maybe even slightly instructed." #01400.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1978. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Both volumes VG, foxing to edges of text block, mild toning, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./Both volumes VG, age toning, NOT clipped,. 8vo  1139pp. (567 + 572pp.) BCE. from front flap: "From the foothills of the towering Himalays, through the palaces of old India, across the bone strewn passes of the Khyber, to the final cataclysmic scene in the ancient "Land of Cain," M.M. Kaye weaves a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the great panoramic sagas of modern fiction." #01366.

1906. first thus. hardcover. Book G: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned, gift inscription FFEP, hinge cracked at back of frontispiece, toning to endpapers, text clean./no DJ. 8vo 332pp. + photographs illustrations from productions of the plays. published October 1906. collection of three plays The Dictator / The Galloper / Miss Civilization from American journalist, novelist, and playwright. #01488.

Harper and Brothers, 1897. first edition. hardcover. Vol I, G: endpapers loose but laid in, bumped corners, age wear to boards and spine, ex library with writing/bookplate on front paste down, binding intact but loose, maps missing from protective pockets. Vol II Poor: significant panel missing from rear board, spine frayed and loose, binding exposed. hinge cracked, endpapers loose but laid in, all present but binding loose. both volumes mild toning/foxing, text clean./no DJ. 8vo 587pp. + 729pp. from title page: With an Appendix  By Otto Sverdup Captain of the Fram. About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations16 Color Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches, Etched Portrait, and 4 Maps [N.B. maps not present] EXTRA SHIPPING FOR WEIGHT. #01845.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild toning to endpapers, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped ($11.95). 8vo 244pp. from front flap: "This monumental work first appeared in three issues of The New Yorker, and was quickly recognized throughout our country--indeed throughout the Western world--as the definitive statement on our plight. In defining the shape and the dimensions of the nuclear predicament, Schell describes, within the limits of what is dependably and unarguably known to science, a full-scaled nuclear holocaust." #01416.

Liturgical Press, 2012. softcover. very good: 308pp. minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages.

Philadelphia: A.L. Burt. hardcover. Book VG-: shelfwear/soil to boards and spine, spine sunned, some scuffing, hinge starting at FFEP, name FFEP, toning to endpapers and text block, text clean, binding intact.. 8vo 166pp. +16 full page half tone illustrations. with biographical sketch and explanatory introduction. #02396.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1955. mass market paperback. Book VG: Age wear to wraps and spine, some foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding intact.. 16mo 278pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02037.

New York: Dell, 1967. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG: age and one chip to wraps, else a clean and tight reading copy.. 16mo 255pp. first Dell printing October 1967. see pictures. #02397.

New York: John Day, 1936. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear to boards and spine, writing and stamp on FFEP, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, chipping with some loss, clipped.. 8vo 302pp. from front flap: "Companion volume to The Exile, which is a biography of the author's mother, Fighting Angel is a biography of her father. The extraordinary fact is that while these two lived together for forty years and had seven children, yet they lived utterly separate lives, so that the tale of what the man did and thought does not in the least duplicate the story of the woman." #01086.

New York: Noonday Press, 1961. softcover. Book VG: age toning, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate inside front cover, text clean, binding intact. 12mo 236pp. first printing. see pictures for synopsis. #02329.

Reseda, California: Bird Haven Publishing, 1955. Revised Edition. soft cover. very good: age wear to wraps, text clean, binding intact.. 12mo. 80pp. + 20 color illustrations. from Preface: "The object of the book is to aid those who are desirous of acquiring a pair or a collection of these popular birds, to offer suggestions as to their proper food and care and to help those who are interested in breeding them, particularly the amateur bird lover. If the veteran Aviculturist can glean a few helpful suggestions from these pages also, then the writer will feel more than justified in the undertaking." #01284.