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

McKay, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good. 276pp. bright orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, underlining in text for first 70pp., clean thereafter./good. some scuffing and chipping at bottom of spine including small closed tear, slight fading on spine, not price clipped ($4.00). Vance Packard's classic book about media manipulation exploring advertisers' use of consumer motivational research, subliminal tactics and depth psychology to create desire for products. Rare first edition (1957, no further printing dates listed on copyright page) of this work that sold more than a million copies. #00050.

New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1993. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ NF: clean, unclipped. 8vo 171pp. from front flap: "First published in 1903, Pagan Christs shows that the alleged historical events on which Christianity is based never occurred and that the founder of Christianity never existed. J.M. Robertson was one of the leading exponents of what came to be known as the 'mythicist' theory of Christianity, which drew on a multitude of data from sources in anthropology and comparative religion, as well as innovative 19th-century explorations into Biblical origins." . #01920.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986. softcover. Book VG+: clean, square, tight, unmarked. 8vo 180pp. Midlands Book MB 385. see pictures for synopsis. #02524.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book VG: touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, touch of foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: age/soil, small chips, not clipped. 8vo 799pp. from front flap: "In the year A.D. 242, the young Roman Emperor Gordian III, preparing to march east to defend the imperial boundaries, paid public homage to the gods by ordering a new athletic festival in honor of Athena. It was a logical step--worship of Athena and the other pagan gods had been going on uninterruptedly for at least a thousand years. Yet, no more than a lifetime later, when another Roman Emperor set out on a similar expedition to the eastern frontier, he scorned Athena's protection. Constantine and his troops marched under the Sign of the Cross. With stunning suddenness, Christianity had emerged at the center of the Mediterranean world." #02158 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1958. first edition. hardcover. good: ex library copy--bookplate on front paste down, blind stamp on title page, some markings on endpapers and title pages. tape on boards from formerly attached DJ/good: library sticker on spine, edgewear, closed tear along top of spine, NOT clipped ($2.95). Joanna Foster. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "In this vivid and absorbing account the reader follows a manuscript on its intricate journey in becomeing a book: first to the editor in a publishing house, then through its revisions to final form, and on to the designers and production staff who plan its manufacture. The artist's studio where the illustrations are made, the printing plant, the bindery--all these, too, are visited..." #00786.

Ottowa Hills Press, 1980. first edition. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, slight shelf wear. Sister Jane Mary Sorosiak, O.S.F.. Quarto 40pp. Illustrated children's book about a boy growing up in Galilee who meets Jesus. Author noted for her children's books featuring disabled characters. True first edition from 1980 with original illustrator. Inscribed by the author to William and Gloria Delamar (Gloria Delamar also a writer). #00161.

Lippincott, 1960. first edition. hardcover. near fine: mild toning to endpapers, mild shelfwear, else clean, bright, tight, square./very good: corner wear and rubbing, clipped.. Frances Rogers. 8vo 175pp. b/w illus. from front flap: "[. . . ] Painted Rock to Printed Page traces this extraordinary and important history with accuracy and enthusiasm. Readers will share with the author the excitement of the subject matter. Her many drawings and diagrams illuminate the text and clarify some of its more technical sections." #00800.

Signet, 1964. first thus. mass market paperback. both good to VG, text clean, binding tight. Signet Classic CQ 236 and CT 237, both first printings November 1964, 2 volumes. #00396.

Heritage Press, 1940. first thus. hardcover. Book VG+: spots of foxing to boards, spine a touch sunned, else clean, square, tight unmarked. slipcover VG, mild shelf wear/no DJ. William Blake. 8vo 311pp includes Sandglass insert. Milton's epic poem of Satan, the fallen angels, and Adam and Eve, illustrated with lithographs of William Blake paintings. #01968.

New York: Random House, 1993. first U.S. edition. hardcover. Book VG-: hinge separating at p. 100 but binding intact throughout, else clean, unmarked./DJ VG-: clipped, mild shelf wear. 4to 223pp. 132 illustrations, 93 in color. from front flap: "The British Library's Yates-Thompson codex of Dante's Divine COmedy was created around 1445 for the library of the King of Naples. Its sixty-one miniatures of the Paradiso--the third and last book of the poem--are by the Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo. Not only are they outstanding works of art, but they also represent how the poem would have been read in the middle of the fifteenth century. This cycle of illustrations is now reproduced in color for the first time. Unlike earlier illuminated manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, the miniatures do not just portray Dante and Beatrice rising through the nine heavens of Paradise, but also illustrate the stories of the figures they encounter and many of the metaphors and classical allusions in the narrative. [. .… Read More

Doubleday and Company, 1950. first thus (US). hardcover. very good: slightly bumped, tight binding, clean text, some wear on boards, former owner's name on green FFEP/poor: front flap missing, large closed tear along spine, tears at corners and base of spine. Octavo 305pp. stated first edition. #00102.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: age toning, rubbing, corner and edge wear, NOT clipped ($2.50). 8vo 331pp. second printing. with foreword by Dr. William Healy. from front flap: "This is a book for parents who want to be successful parents, for those who feel there is more to bringing up children than washing tehir faces and feeding them three times a day. It is written with an understanding of the difficulties and the bewilderments that beset both parents and children. It is not full of complicated rules, of "dos" and "dont'ts"and "under no circumstances." Modestly, and in a friendly manner, Mrs. Wolf discusses a number of the points that she has found to be vital in her experience as a parent--and analyzes and advises about them with the wisdom that she has gained in her years as a professional student of children." #01894.

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: gift inscription FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG+: clean, unclipped. Maxfield Parrish. 8vo 95pp. from Preface: "Included in thsi volume are some of the most beloved and beset-remembered poems of all times, arranged in roughly chronological order and each accompanied by a painting by Maxfield Parrish--hence the title Parrish & Poetry. Despite the pitfalls of potential misunderstanding, this simple alliterative title aptly describes this unique combination of masterpieces of literature and masterworks of paining--truly a gift of words and art." #02481.

William Morrow and Company, 1977. first edition. hardcover. near fine: pencil markings on rear pastedown, slightest signs of shelfwear, else fine./very good: fading, soiling, offset on flaps. NOT price clipped ($7.95). 8vo 227pp. Historical fiction. from back flap: "Parson's House is a marvelous tale of romance, richly wrought and delicately spun." #00709.

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Company, 1994. first edition. hardcover. Book NF, writing on FFEP else clean, tight, unmarked. signed and inscribed by author on title page: "Especially for Lena and Glenn--Good and faithful friends of Southern Writers. All best wishes! Dannye Romine Powell/DJ NF. Jill Krementz (photography). 8vo 353pp. from front flap: "The twenty-three Southern writers perceptively interviewed here by Dannye Romine Powell are as varied in their approaches to writing, their habits, and their opinions as they are in the kinds of art they produce. But though they are as distant in years as Kaye Gibbons and Eudora Welty, and as different in background as Dori Sanders and Walker Percy, each "braves his or her way onto the blank page day after day, trusting the subconscious, believing in the power of language to lift us out of ourselves," as Powell says." #01789.

Dell, 1978. mass market paperback. very good: clean text, tight binding, shelfwear, sticker residue. Dell 16848 224pp. first New Dell printing February 1978. #00425.

Pocket Books, 1972. mass market paperbacks. fair. 207pp. #00545.

University of Iowa Press, 1986. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped corners, text clean, binding tight./very good: rubbing, evidence of dampstain on rear flap, NOT clipped. 8vo 181pp. from front flap: "This absorbing new study discusses theories of interpretation and construction of the self in six important contemporary novels. In semiotic analyses of John Barth's LETTERS, Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, John Hawkes' TRAVESTY, Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, Stanley Elkin's THE FRANCHISER, and Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD, Patrick O'Donnell argues that contemporary fiction takes interpretation as its subject and as the very impetus for its making." #01003.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1971. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. DJ affixed to boards/DJ VG: fixed by adhesive to boards, mild age toning, not clipped.. 8vo 856pp. from front flap: "In the 1880's, Vienna was the glamor capital of Europe, and it was in that gay and brilliant city that Sigmund Freud began his long struggle to free men everywhere from the blindfolds and chains of their unknown natures. THE PASSIONS OF THE MIND is the story of that extraordinary man--a story upon which Irving Stone has lavished his talents as a biographcial novelist and five years of tireless research and writing." #01826.

New York: Times Books, 1983. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, foxing edge of text block, endpapers. text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped ($20.75). 8vo 305pp. from front flap: "Lars-Eric Lindblad is the ebullient Swedish-American voyager, showman, and scholar who revolutionized travel, turning it into "travel-adventure" and opening up the world where tourists had never been before. Here, for the first time, he shares with us his incredible adventures aboard his cruise ship the Lindblad Explorer--in the Antarctic, the interior of New Guinea, the upper reaches of the Amazon, and Mongolia, on Easter Island, the Seychelles Islands, and the Galapagos, in Bhutan, Africa, and China." #01711.