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

Harmony Books, 1988. first edition. hardcover. fine: appears unread, crisp, tight, unmarked/near fine: trace of shelf wear, else fine.. 8vo. 214pp. from front flap: "Stephen Wright's second novel is a powerful and deeply memorable work that overwhelmingly confirms the vast promise of Meditations in Green. Set inside the secret America where new ideas take root and flourish--where belief in flying saucers is commonplace and a crossroads 7-Eleven can shine at night like an alien colony--M31: A Family Romance is a funny, bizarre, and compelling story about family and religion in modern guise." #00656.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1958. first edition. hardcover. very good: age toning to edges of boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: age toning, edge and corner wear, chipping, NOT clipped ($3.75). 8vo 260pp. from front flap: "A man wants to take a second wife while the town is still busily commemorating his departed first--that is Andrew Mackerel's predicament in a nutshell." #01268.

New York: Gramercy Publishing, 1963. hardcover. near fine: clean tight and square, mild shelf wear./very good: mild shelfwear, NOT clipped.. Shizu Matsuda. 8vo. 124pp. second printing. from front flap: "In this era of mass-production the hand-made object is highly prized. Especially is this true when what you've made yourself is fun to do and results in something unusual, such as a puppet, knitted, but--"without needles"! Using the easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions in this book together with a little of your own ingenuity you can learn to knot, twist, tie and turn hanks of yarn, or odds and ends of string into unique items for home decoration, for wearing, for playing or for the personal touch in your gift-giving." #01127.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1980. hardcover. Book G: ex library with stickers/sticker residue, stamps, card sleeve in rear paste down, age wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 88pp. from rear cover: "People have always been intrigued by the deeds of mad scientists real and fictional. Certainly the attraction lies partly in our need to believe in the impossible--the miracle cure, the machine that will run on no fuel, the turning of lead into gold or old age into youth. But it also lies partly in our fascination with evil, madness, and the bizarre." #01855.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, glue bleed on endpapers, mild toning, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 305pp. facsimile reprint of original published version of 1865. Geography and history of the island with detailed accounts of French commercial and political dealings. #02416.

New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1939. hardcover. good: age wear, sticker residue to front board, spine faded, writing on FFEP, toning and foxing to endpapers, edge of text block. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 412pp. biography of the great Polish and French physicist and chemist, first woman to win the Nobel Prize and first to win the Nobel in two separate disciplines, by her daughter, Eve Curie. #01265.

Pelican Publising, 1990. hardcover. near fine: clean, square, tight/near fine: clean, NOT clipped. 8vo 191pp. from copyright page-- "Summary: A high school basketball player's smoking may disqualify her from the big game" #00930.

Henry Holt and Company, 1952. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. very good+ : tight sharp and square, touch of toning to endpapers./good: edge wear, toning, chipping and rubbing, not clipped. 8vo 504pp. #00700.

Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993. third edition. softcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, clean, square, tight, unmarked.. 8vo 471pp. see pictures for contents. #02310.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. softcover. Book VG: edge and corner wear to wraps, binding tight, neat and light pencil underlining/marginalia. 8vo 218pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02129.

Dell, 1966. mass market paperback. very good: cover crease near spine, some edge and corner wear, text clean, binding tight.. Dell 5156 220pp. first printing November 1966. #00434.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. hardcover. Book VG: mild soiling to boards, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean binding tight./DJ G: edge wear and chipping, age toning, clipped.. 8vo 254pp. from front flap: "The Mahabharata is admittedly the longest, and perhaps the greatest, epic poem in any language. According to its reputed author, it was intended to be a treatise on life itself, embracing religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. The shortest recension of the Sanskrit version consists of some 88,000 verses. The main narrative, however, is the story of the rivalry between the cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which culminates in the great battle of Kuruksetra. Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan here presents a prose translation of the verses dealing with this teme." #02017.

Signet, 1961. mass market paperback. fair: ex library copy, text clean, binding tight. Signet Classic CT 93, sixth printing. #00381.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. first edition. hardcover. very good: spot of discoloration on front board, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight, text block deckled edges./good: closed tear along spine, chipped and rubbed, toning on flaps, faded.. Octavo 347pp. from front flap: "...He climbs into your car with you and tells you about the Majestic Land. He has a thousand stories, about the early explorers, the Indians, the miners, the highwaymen, prospectors, ranchers and mountain men of the past, about the cattle growers, ranchers, sheepherders, miners, forest rangers, dude ranchers and tourists of the present, about geysers, caves, storms, forest fires elk and bear..." #00280.

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eedrmans Publishing, 1994. softcover. Book VG+: mild sun to spine, age toning and sticker residue. text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 453pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02130.

Hanover House, 1955. first edition. hardcover. near fine: minor shelf wear, clean text, tight binding, flat signed by author on FFEP/good: age toning, corner and edge wear, price clipped. Duodecimo 366pp. from inside flap: "In a busy modern world with its multitude of distractions and tensions, it is more important than ever for each individual to set aside at least a few minutes every day for contemplation on the why and wherefore of life." #00646.

London: Readers Union, 1955. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, bumped corners, text clean, binding tight.. Leonard Rosoman / James Boswell. 12mo 190pp. two complete novels. #02428.

Chicago: Albert Whitman and Co, 1972. hardcover. Book VG-: ex library with writing on boards, title page. card sleeve rear paste down, age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 39pp. color and B/W photo illustrated guide to making collages. #02222.

Woodland Pattern Book Center, 1994. softcover. near fine: mild shelf wear.. 16mo. (6" x 8.75") 24pp. free verse poetry. scarce. #01119.

New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1927. first edition. hardcover. Book G: age wear to boards, slight bump to corners, ex library with marking on spine, bookplate front paste down, card rear endpaper, toning/foxing to endpapers and frontispiece. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 518pp. from Preface: "Written by President Masaryk as an authoritative record of the efforts by which the freedom of Czechoslovakia had been won, this book was originally published at Prague in 1925 under the title "The World Revolution." It is a discerning historical interpretation both of the process of Czechoslovak redemption from Hapsburg servitude, and of the war as a whole." #01497.