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

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.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. Revised Edition, first thus. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, mild shelf wear to boards and spine./DJ G: chipping and corner wear, age toning, clipped. 8vo 684pp. from front flap: "...Now, brought up to date and thoroughly revised, this renowned book takes into account the happenings of the momentous decade since the death of Stalin, assigning to small events as well as great ones a proper weight and meaning in the history of the development of Soviet institutions. It also includes a discussion of the sweeping reorganization of the Communist Party effected at the Central Committee meeting in November 1962." #01467.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked. publisher's note laid in./DJ VG+: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped. 8vo nonpaginated. no. 537 of 750. from front flap: "To honor Alfred Fairbank on his eightieth birthday in 1975, David R. Godine in the United States and The Merrion Press in England have collaborated in publishing this facsimile of the rare and superb writing manual of Augustino da Siena. This is the last of the great writing manuals to be cut in wood, and to examine its place in the continuum of calligraphic manuals and to elucidate its text, Alfred Fairbank, the grand master of calligraphers, has written a scholarly introduction. This first modern critical edition has been prepared from the British Museum copy of the 1568 edition, of which the only other knwon copy is in Florence." #01854.

New York: E.P. Dutton. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. 12mo 144pp. #01678.

New York: David McKay, 1965. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: tape repair, age toning/soil, edge and corner wear, not clipped. 8vo 471pp. from front cover: A novel about the rise of an American dynasty and the problems of power. #02134.

WW Norton & Company, 1988. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, tight, square./very good+ : touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped ($14.95). 8vo 176pp. from front flap: "Thomas Farber's special gift as a writer is his ability to convey with deceptive simplicity and economy whole ranges of emotional experience. Here, in this luminous mosaic of linked nonfiction stories and meditations, he presents us with a startlingly original, interior view of the writer's life: the intricacies of its methods, of the impulse to story, of the writer's place in society--all that informs and haunts this odd vocation." #00964.

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.

Signet, 1952. mass market paperback. good: text clean and unmarked, binding tight, spine chipped. Signet 810. sixth printing September 1952. #00417.

Henry Holt and Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped corners, shelf wear/soil to boards, sunned spine, toning/offset to FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 334pp. Biography of the famous and controversial 19th century explorer who found the Livingstone Expedition ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), searched for the sources of the Nile and Congo river, worked for Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo. #00973.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1940. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear/bumps to corners, light foxing to endpapers, sticker on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 382pp. from Preface: "The aim of this book is to make possible the identification of aquatic plants in sterile as well as in flowering or fruiting condition. An effort has been made to render such identification as simply as possible, but it must be remembered that the aquatics include many of the plants in groups that are most difficult for the taxonomist." #01112.

Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: crease along spine, toning to edges of boards, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 337pp. novel about 19th century Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld, for which Fast was accused of copyright infringement for borrowing liberally from a biography of the politician by Harry Barnard. The case was settled and Barnard's book was re-published by Fast's publisher. #00248.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Book Club Edition. hardcover. near fine: slightest signs of shelf wear. else clean, bright, square, tight./very good: corner wear including small closed tear on front lower corner edge. age wear. not clipped.. 8vo 340pp. from front flap: "The Immigrants is also a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the reader in the lives of the characters, so that after the book is closed, one continues to live with those characters. And, fortunately, the reader will not have to say farewell to them once the book is done. The Immigrants is complete in itself, an absorbing novel of high adventure, romance, joy, and tragedy. But it is also the first in a trilogy that will tell the story of three California families over the course of the twentieth century." #00761.

Vintage Books, 1966. trade paperback. good: spine creased, cover wear, clean text, binding intact. Duodecimo 316pp. Vintage V-149. #00504.

Signet, 1964. mass market paperback. good: text clean and unmarked, binding tight. Signet Classic CQ 395. eleventh printing. #00393.

Modern Library, 1946. Modern Library. hardcover. near fine: gift inscription "Bill from Gloria Xmas 1953" on verso free endpaper before title page, otherwise unmarked, tight binding, minimal if any signs of shelfwear/very good, not price clipped ($1.25) with pencil annotation "V481" below price, very small closed tears, minimal chipping, minor toning. two complete novels by William Faulkner in one volume of the Modern Library, first published 1946. This is a Fall 1949 reprint based on the 344 titles listed for sale on the inside of the dust jacket.  an overall near fine early copy complete with unclipped dust jacket of this collectible ML 187. #00043.

New York: Haskell House, 1969. first thus. hardcover. Books VG: mild shelf wear/soil, mild toning to endpapers, texts clean, bindings tight.. 8vo 819pp. (2 vol.) reprint from 1888 edition. from Preface: "Having occasion a few years ago to make some references to the Divina Commedia, I learned to my surprise that there was no concordance of the great poem. There was the Rimario contained in some editions; but no word could be found by its aid unless one happened to remember the verse-ending. There was Blanc's Vocabolario; but it gave merely each word without its context, omitted many references, and contained numerous typographical errors. It then occurred to me that I could render no greater service to students of the Divina Commedia and to men of letters generally than by making a concordance which should be at once complete, accurate, and convenient of reference." #02499 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1968. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, top front corner bumped, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 532pp. Stated 1968 printing. third in a series of physics textbooks 'written for the beginning specialist in physics' following Mass, Length and Time (1959) and Vibrations and Waves (1961). #01090.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: spot stain front cover, mild shelf wear, else clean, tight, unmarked./no DJ. 8vo 294pp. part of Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. from Introduction: "Scattered through the far western Pacific are a number of remote communities whose people are linguistically and culturally Polynesian. Because of their small size, isolation, and paucity of commercially exploitable resources, these so-called Polynesian outliers have been less susceptible to Western influence than many of their cousins to the east; and largely for this reason, they have received scholarly attention well in excess of their modest geographic, demographic, economic, and strategic prominence. One such community is Anuta, a tiny Polynesian outpost in the eastern Solomon Islands. This book presents Anuta's history as expressed and understood by people of that island." #01909.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, square, tight./very good: clipped, else near fine.. Kassie Schwan. 8vo 297pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?, the sixth collection of answers to life's most puzzling conundrums, is the richest and most entertaining volume in the series. Culled from the thousands of letters submitted by desperate fans, the questions in Wild Poodles would have overwhelmed a lesser authority than Mr. Feldman." #01181.

New York: WW Norton & Company, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning/soil on spine and edges, chipping top of spine, NOT clipped ($5.95). 8vo 295pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "This is the story of dirty campaigning and political chicanery in America, from the time of Washington, when politics was teh concern of an elite few and news traveled slowly, to the present day, when every citizen may vote and news travels at teh speed of light. It is a history of the declining importance of the personal slur and the new importance of innuendo and falsehood. It is an antidote to the men of guile and zeal who would steal the most priceless right of an unsuspecting public: the right to a vote based on facts." #01627.