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

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning, offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG-: age toning/writing/marking on front cover. Eric Carle. 12mo 62pp. collection of quotes, aphorisms, poems on the subject of friendship. #01889.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1907. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards, writing on front paste down, mild toning. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 358pp. from Preface: "The following account of the Educative Process is intended to present a systematic and comprehensive view of the task taht is to be accomplished by the school. It covers the field commonly included under the terms, "General Method," "Method of the Recitation," "Theory and Practice," etc.; but it deals with principles rather than with the details of device and "method." #01458.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company, 1937. hardcover. Book G: wear to boards and spine, stains, stamp on FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 336pp. +illustrations. collection of children's stories and poetry, organized around the home, the seasons, nature, fables, more. #01402.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company, 1924. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, ex libris sticker on FFEP/no DJ. G. William Breck. 8vo 336pp. collection of short stories for young children, centered around the home, nature, the seasons, holidays, fairy tales and fables, etc. #01101.

New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1950. Fourth Edition. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, fading to spine,. 8vo 986pp.  from Preface: "This book is designed as a general introduction to American diplomatic history. I have therefore eliminated or subordinated much unessential detail so as to emphasize the main currents. I have also striven for simplicity and directness, and have introduced a considerable amount of interpretation." #02265 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. first edition. hardcover. good: mild shelf wear/toning to boards and spine, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown, toning to endpapers, neat underlining throughout text, binding tight and square./good: age toning, mild chipping, clipped.. 8vo 134pp. from front flap: "Doctor Baillie here presents the grounds of Christian belief. He traces in their proper sequence the earlier stages in the Christian pilgrim's progress beginning with what might be called "the fork in the road," that is, the point of divergence between belief and unbelief. He presents the grounds of his own belief in such a way as to make clear the nature of the constraint that they exercise over him. His argument is unanswerable." #00986.

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966. softcover. Book VG-: edge wear/rubbing to wraps and spine, age toning, text clean, binding tight.. 12mo 215pp. from The Cloiser Library TB 132. Vol II From the Reformation to the Present Day. see pictures. #02182.

New York: Abingdon Press, 1963. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: shelf wear, not clipped, mild age toning. 12mo 100pp. from front flap: "Many people separate their religion from their moral obligations. Others conscientiously try to live by the Golden Rule, but profess no religious beliefs. Dr. Baker contends that although religion and morality must be distinguished, the Christian religion cannot be separated from the good life--that faith and morals are "but two sides of a coin." Believing that this relationship between faith and morals needs clarification, he uses a characteristic examples of Jesus' teaching--the Beatitudes--to show that truth and goodness, religion and morality, are inseparable parts of the gospel." #02091.

John Day Company, 1947. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear, wear and fading to boards and spine, name in ink on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. 8vo 432pp. + illustrations. Autobiography of journalist and illustrator, from his work illustrating the front lines of WWI to his travels (often on foot) across Africa, Europe, and Asia with his wife. Profusely and beautifully illustrated. #00919.

New York: Dell, 1970. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG: clean, unmarked, binding tight.. 16mo 141pp. Dell 2542 New Dell edition first printing March 1970. #02149.

Farrar and Rinehart, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: marker on front board, soiling on boards, sunned spine, some toning to endpapers, tight binding, clean text./no DJ. Duodecimo 245pp. Romance novel by prolific early/mid 20th century novelist. from New York Times: "never a pretense of literary significance, [ . . .  ] enabled lonely working people, young and old, to identify with her glamorous and wealthy characters." #00263.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: foxing/toning to endpapers, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG+: clean, not clipped. 8vo 287pp. from front flap: "Why do similar patterns and forms appear in nature in settings that seem to bear no relation to one another? The windblown ripples of desert sand follow a sinuous course that resembles the stripes of a zebra or a marine fish. In the trellis-like shells of microscopic sea creatures we see the same angles and intersections as for bubble walls in a foam. The forks of lightning mirror the branches of a river or a tree. This book explains why these are not coincidences. Nature commonly weaves its tapestry by self-organization, employing no master plan or blueprint but instead simple, local interactions between its component parts--be they grains of sand, diffusing molecules or living cells. And the products of self-organization are typically universal patterns: spirals, spots, and stripes, branches, honeycombs.… Read More

Linden Press, 1988. first edition. hardcover. very good: remainder mark top of text block, mild shelfwear, else fine./near fine: shelf wear, else fine. NOT price clipped ($16.95). 8vo 174pp. from front flap: "In the ten stories (including the O. Henry Prize-winning "Perpetual Care") gathered in Life on Earth, her first collection, Ballantyne explores with characteristic poignancy and grace many of the same themes of family, contemporary life, loss, recovery, and compromised expectations that have haunted her earlier work." #00710.

Lippincott, 1962. first. hardcover. near fine: light toning on endpapers binding clean and tight, unmarked text/near fine: a little fading, one faint spot of discoloration on front cover, minimal signs of shelfwear on edges and corners, else fine. stated first edition of The New Yorker's jazz critic Whitney Balliett's second collection of pieces on jazz, covering the years 1957-1962. #00012.

New York: Viking Press, 1950. hardcover. very good: name on FFEP, mild shelfwear, text clean, binding tight./good: mild shelf wear, clipped. 16mo. 605pp. from rear flap: "The purpose of this volume is to present as concisely as possible, and in the most authoritative translations, the fundamental tenets of the eight basic source religions of the world." #01056.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1981. first thus. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear/soil to boards and spine, foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. Remnant of DJ laid in (front panel and front flap). 8vo 160pp. first thus. with 255 photographs and illustrations. from front flap: "Respect for books is the foundation of hand bookbinding as a craft. If you have books (even paperbacks or periodicals) that are precious to you and if you want to extend their life and usefulness, you will be able to repair and/or rebind them by following the step-by-step instructions in this book." #02223.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear, mild offset and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./fair: large closed tear along front edge, shelf/age toning, NOT clipped ($5.95). 8vo 351pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Harry Bannister's gossipy, funny, nostalgic memoir re-creates the palmy days when Amos 'n' Andy, Rudy Vallee and the A & P Gypsies held millions of Americans glued to their radio sets--and continues right into the thick of present-day television." #01108.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1923. hardcover. Book Fair: heavy age wear to boards and spine, corners bumped and scuffed, spine frayed, blotted out inscription on half title page, name on copyright page, front board and spine separated from text block. text unmarked.. 12mo 128pp. collection of fairy stories. #02048.

The Century Company, 1906. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped corners, age worn boards, sunned spine, one illustration loose but still laid in, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. C.M. Relyea. 8vo 367pp. from American novelist known for his sports stories for boys. #00899.

E.P. Dutton, 1917. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards, spine moderately sunned, sticker on inside pastedown, name on FFEP, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Duodecimo 358pp. Fifth printing October 1917. One of the first WWI novels to be published, based on Barbusse's experiences on the Western Front, it follows a single squad of French infantrymen on the Western Front after the German invasion. Credited as one of the earliest examples of "Lost Generation" literature, significant influence on later authors like Hemingway and Remarque. #00177.