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

New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear else clean, tight, square, unmarked/DJ VG: mild shelf wear/rubbing, NOT clipped. 8vo 328pp. from front flap: "In No Applause--Just Throw Money, writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is the story of show business in America. In documenting the rich history and cultural legacy of our country's only purely indigenous theatrical form (including its influence on everything from the USO to Marilyn Manson), he demonstrates that vaudeville was a showcase for the best and worst America had to offer--a platform for diversity, tolerance, and democracy, darkly tempered by the cash-is-king ethos of market capitalism." #02474.

New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. hardcover. Book VG- : age wear/soil to boards and spine, chipping at base of spine, tiny holes in endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 410pp. fourth impression. from Preface: "This volume forms a sequel to the work which the author published in 1897, under the title, "Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based upon Psychology and History." Two systems of theology still confront one another: the theology of authority and the theology of experience. They are characterised by methods radically oppose in the scientific development of religious ideas and Christian dogmas. To the solution of the question of method the present work is consecrated." #01660.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. hardcover. Book VG: mild age/sun to boards and spine, toning/offset to paste downs and endpapers, name on front paste down, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 286pp. Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the year of the Rebellion. #02252.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, clean, tight, unmarked.. 8vo 258pp. #02250.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Revised Edition. hardcover. Book VG: clean, square, tight, unmarked. 8vo 466pp. Revised Edition with illustrations. #02249.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 480pp. The Life of Cesare Borgia of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino, and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain-General of Holy Church. #02248.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. hardcover. Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, stain to fore edge of text block, name FFEP, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 331pp. adventure/romance novel. #02251.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. hardcover. Book VG: name on front paste down, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 304pp. fourth impression, October 1923. #02254.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Revised Edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild age to boards and spine, name and sticker front paste down, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 442pp. Being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the State of Piacenza. #02253.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. first edition. hardcover. good: stain to boards, sunned spine, toning to endpapers, offset and mild foxing at title page/frontispiece, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight. good reading copy./no DJ. 8vo 432pp. literary biography of Anthony Trollope. #01256.

Signet, 1962. mass market paperback. fair: text clean, binding creased. Signet D1498 twelfth printing July 1962. #00405.

New York: Pace University Press, 1989. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild dust to text block, mild foxing to paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG: mild age toning, NOT clipped.. 8vo 231pp. from front flap: "The first chapter of Dante's Paradiso: The Flowering of the Self introduces the concept of the anagogy as presented by Dante, placed in the milieu of his life, and the political and spiritual movements of his time. Each subsequent chapter is taken up by the explication of the anagogy of one of Dante's heavens, beginning with the heaven of the moon and ending with the Empyrean, where he is granted the direct vision of God." #02345.

New York: Cornwall Books, 1992. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild foxing to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: mild edge wear, mild age toning, NOT clipped (£13.50). 8vo 127pp. from front flap: "This work covers the extensive and varied history of the island of Sicily from the prehistoric period to the present. Sicily is a microcosm of the whole of Western and Mediterranean history, a place where more than five thousand years of history can be seen in a concentrated  and accessible area. All the diverse cultures that eventually came to make up Sicily are here: the early tribes who gave the island its name, the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, French, Spaniards, and others." #01853.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. hardcover. near fine: mild toning to endpapers, else clean, square, tight./very good: mild age toning, clipped.. 8vo 202pp. from front flap: "This ingenious anthology brings together a kaleidoscope of opinions about every age of life from birth to a hundred. Anthony and Sally Sampson have collected the wit and wisdom of many remarkable figures of the past and present as they pause to reflect on their achievements or aspirations and on what it means to be a certain age." #01217.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: plate on spine missing, age wear/soil to boards and spine, toning/offset to frontispiece/endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 377pp. published February 1905. from Preface: "[. . .]In these circumstances, helped and encouraged by Dr. Emil Reich, whose extremely interesting lectures I had attended with much enjoyment, and who very kindly gave me lists of books, and assisted me wtih advice, I engaged in the task of writing this book. It is not intended to add to the mass of criticism of Balzac's novels, being merely an attempt to portray the man as he was, and to sketch correctly a career which has been said to be more thrilling than a large proportion of novels." #01773.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1954. One Volume Edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./good: tear with loss at top and bottom of spine. NOT clipped ($7.50). 8vo 762pp. from front flap: "After a lifetime of study of Lincoln and his times, Carl Sandburg has now distilled the essence of his monumental six-volume biography for this new definitive one-volume work. Taking advantage of all the new material that has become available in recent years, he has written the long promised one-volume Life of Lincoln which will become standard in its field." #01141.

Brentano's, 1922. first. flexible red cloth boards. good: previous owners name in pen on front free endpaper, text otherwise clean. bumped corners, mild toning on endpapers, gilt on spine and cover rubbed, slight soil from age and wear. First edition of Margaret Sanger's seminal book on contraception and its effects on civilization, including examinations of current problems for mothers and children, the relationship between birth control and philanthropy, Marxian socialism, eugenics, the Catholic church, and more. #00136.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. first edition. hardcover. very good: shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs and endpapers, some creasing and holes in half title page, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 602pp. Set largely in the fictional town of Great Falls, Connecticut, Boston, and England, in and around Oxford, it relates the life of Oliver Alden, the descendant of an old Boston family. Santayana wrote of the novel that "it gives the emotions of my experiences, and not my thoughts or experiences themselves.". #01031.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. hardcover. good: ex library copy, stamps, tape offset on endpapers, pencil markings on rear endpapers and paste down, neat underlining in text, binding tight/good: ex library copy, under mylar protective cover, taped to boards. Octavo 262pp. Sturdy reading copy of Spanish-American philosopher's autobiography. #00234.

Dell, 1968. mass market paperback. very good: text clean, binding tight. toning. Dell 5303 Laurel Edition 212pp. second printing October 1968. #00442.