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

Harper and Row, 1967. trade paperback. good: spine creased, some neat pencil underlining, age wear, binding tight.. Octavo 394pp. Harper Colophon Books CN 106. from rear cover: "This is the best survey we have of contemporary urban problems. Mr. Abrams has a clear and sophisticated understanding of the difficulties the United States now faces. And he writes convincingly." #00490.

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. softcover. very good: mild shelf and handling wear to wraps, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 184pp. from introduction by commission president Raymond Shafer: "This report [. . .] is an all-inclusive effort to present the facts as they are known today, to demythologize the controversy surrounding marihuana, and to place in proper perspective one of the most emotional and explosive issues of our time." #01186.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG-: price clipped, mild age toning. 8vo 186pp. from front flap: "One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe commands widespread critical acclaim. His novels, including the recently published Anthills of the Savannah, are considered modern classics. Hopes and Impediments draws on the best critical writings of this powerful writer over the past twenty-five years, offering a new perspective on the human condition." #02419.

Philadelphia: Copernicus Society of America. hardcover. Book VG-: slight bow, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped. 4to 160pp + color and B/W photographs. Biography of the astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system, as well as a history of the late 15th and early 16th century world of the Renaissance in which he lived. #02373.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1958. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, bumping to spine ends and corners, text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, small closed tears, NOT clipped ($6.50). 8vo 373pp. + pictures/illustrations. From front flap: "Here is a stimulating and informative account of space travel--its past, its present, and its future. From man's earliest skyward thoughts to today's actual plans for flight in space, the men, the discoveries, and the technological advances of astronautics are presented to you in a highly readable and soundly scientific manner." . #01089.

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1947. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 314pp. stated second printing. part of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 74 Number 1. #01527.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. first edition. hardcover. very good: wear to boards and spine, faded gilt lettering, remnants of bookplate evident on front paste down, some mild toning/spots of foxing on endpapers, corner tear on title page, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 552pp. collection of the letters of Henry Adams, author of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and The Education of Henry Adams among many other works of history and several novels. Covers the period of his life from age 20-53, his period of diplomacy as private secretary to his father, the US ambassador to England during the Civil War, his experience as a professor at Harvard and then journalist, with lacunae surrounding the suicide of his wife, but does include some letters to his longtime unconsummated lover Elizabeth Cameron. #01014.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. Book VG: spine sunned, shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of the eighteenth century, it has ever since maintained a preeminent position, due neither to great wealth nor to a hereditary title, but to character and sheer intellectual ability. It is this, in part, which gives it a unique interest, although the life of efach of its members here chronicled ahs an interest also of its own. The volume, however, is not intended to be merely a series of biographies. It is essentially a biography of a family, thrown against the changing background of its times for a hundred and fifty years." #01692.

New York: Triangle Books, 1941. first thus. hardcover. Book very good: wear to spine, mild shelf wear to boards, toning/foxing to endpapers, toned edges to text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ: good: age worn, rubbed, NOT clipped.. M.J. Gallagher. 12mo 431pp. first Triangle Books edition February 1941. 17 woodcuts by M.J. Gallagher. from front flap: "The extraordinary critical reception and the exceptionally large sales with which this book was welcomed are sufficient proof of the great success James Truslow Adams has had in his aim to give a graphic, comprehensive narrative interpreting the American people, the influences which have shaped their character, the contaminations to which they were exposed, and the spirit which has brought them through crises in the past and must be trusted to preserve them in the troubled future." #01334.

London: J M Dent and Sons, 1947. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: chipping and edge wear, clipped, age toning.. 8vo 245pp. from front flap: "This kindly, witty, human, and most entertaining book might be fairly entitled a 'Mirror' of the Church of England--at least as regards that human and personal side which is one of the special glories of Ecclesia Anglicana. The English Church is not without saints of the parsonage, but she is probably unrivalled in the production of 'characters,' especially in her country vicarages and rectories. Mr. Addison's book is built up on the life-stories of such parsons, the telling of which could not easily be bettered, and a feast is provided for those who love human nature in its oddities and its more vigorous failings as well as in its nobilities." #02139.

Grosset and Dunlap, 1902. hardcover. Book G: shelf wear to boards and spine, top third of FFEP torn out, toning to endpapers, spots of neat underlining, binding intact. 12mo 303pp. Reprint edition. humorous short stories. #02432.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1927. Star Books. hardcover. Book VG: stains/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers and text block, text unmarked, binding tight.. 8vo 238pp. from Author's Preface: "This book is an attempt to acquaint the general public with the fundamentals of Individual Psychology. At the same time it is a demonstration of the practical application of these principles to the conduct of one's everyday relationships, not only to the world, and to one's fellow men, but also to the organization of one's personal life." #02451.

George Braziller, 1967. first edition. hardcover. good: ex library copy, library stamp on FFEP, discoloration from tape residue on rear endpaper, stamp on top and bottom of text block, text otherwise clean and unmarked, sharp corners, DJ glued to pastedowns./very good: small closed tear at top of spine, toning from tape residue near bottom of front cover. Leonard Baskin. Octavo, pages unnumbered. From DJ flap: "Thee is a metaphysical work--a spare, cryptic, inspired, religious statement of the mystery of existence, of man's relation to God, or to the unknowable." #00098.

Meridian Books, 1961. trade paperback. very good: spot stain front cover, sticker, toning, text clean and bright, binding tight. Duodecimo 274pp. Meridian Books M177. #00509.

George Braziller, 1967. first edition. hardcover. near fine: corners sharp, binding tight, text unmarked/good: closed tear at base of spine, creasing bottom rear, some rubbing. sticker on front cover, two other spots where stickers have been removed and taken material from cover. NOT price clipped ($5.00). Leonard Baskin. Octavo, pages unnumbered. From DJ flap: "Thee is a metaphysical work--a spare, cryptic, inspired, religious statement of the mystery of existence, of man's relation to God, or to the unknowable." #00095.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. first edition. hardcover. very good: fading and foxing on spine, fading on boards especially at top, some foxing on a few pages. text clean, binding tight./no DJ, but rear flap is tipped in. Octavo, 99 pp. stated first edition. collection of poems by modernist American poet Conrad Aiken. #00097.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. first edition. hardcover. very good: stated first edition, offset on paste downs from DJ flaps, corners sharp, binding tight, text clean./poor: fragile DJ, tear on top rear, sticker residue, chipping, significant damage/missing strips of spine, will be shipped in Mylar cover. NOT price clipped ($2.00). Octavo, 32 pp. Aiken's poem about William Blackstone, an individualistic early New England settler Aiken used to represent the American spirit. #00096.

Doubleday and Company, 1978. first edition. hardcover. very good: soiling to edges of boards, boards slightly bowed, evidence of dampstain at bottom of text block. text clean, binding tight./very good: fading, some edge and corner wear. NOT price clipped ($8.95). 8vo 264pp. from front flap: "Delphie Carteret's life had not been an easy one. As she struggled to support herself and her mother--the disinherited daughter of a wealthy viscount--she also had to contend with her mother's illusions that the luxury and grandeur of the past were still within their grasp." #00708.

New York: Arno Press, 1978. first edition. hardcover. Book near fine: clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ very good: mild rubbing, age toning, NOT clipped ($9.50). 8vo130pp. from front flap: "When Louisa May Alcott's papers were collected and stored in cartons after her death, eighty sheets of pale blue stationery were tossed into a cardboard box and were soon forgotten It was only through a clue in her sister's diary, "Louisa is at the Bellevue writing her Art story," that Diana and Persis was discovered and is published now for the first time. As in Little Women, Alcott draws on her own experiences with her sister, May. The author is especially concerned here with the role of intelligent women who confront the still-open debate of career versus marriage. Playing the painter Persis against the sculptor Diana in shared experiences and letters, Alcott shows the straining for fulfillment that was her own life story." #01363.

London: George G. Harrap and Co, 1938. hardcover. Book VG-: shelf wear and rubbing/bumping to boards and spine, toning/wear to endpapers, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. Percy Tarrant. 8vo 271+295pp. two complete novels: Little Women and Good Wives. #01755.