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

New York: Dorset Press, 1985. hardcover. Book VG: light signs of foxing to endpapers, writing on front paste down (chronological list of 16th c. popes), text clean and unmarked, binding tight./DJ VG: mild age toning/soil, spine slightly sunned, NOT clipped.. 8vo 218pp. from front flap: "Here is E.R. Chamberlin's account of one of the great tragedies of history. It was a tragedy that nobody intended, but it cost the lives of thousands and brought a way of life to an end. [. . .] This popular account, based largely on contemporary Italian printed sources, recounts the collection of the mercenaries and their great march south to Rome, the assault on Rome itself and the events and people involved in the looting, vandalism, and rape that followed. Against the glittering background of the Renaissance, E.R. Chamberlin describes the disintegration of a society at the hands of its remorseless enemies." #02501.

Liguori, 1996. softcover. good: writing title page, otherwise clean, no other signs of wear, tight binding and pages.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949. first edition. hardcover. VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: chipping with loss, age toning, edge and corner wear, NOT clipped ($2.50). 8vo 217pp. from front flap: "These two sagas from 13th century Iceland are here linked together as an interesting contrast in biographic sagas. One is a saga of love, the other of revenge; both are rich in the lore and practice of olden times, yet strangely modern in their insights and in their concern with character study." #01929.

Canada Steamship Lines. sixth edition. softcover. very good: age toning to wraps, writing on front cover, else clean text, map insert clean and crisp. 12mo. 96pp. + XIIpp. appendix, illust., map insert. Historical account of exploration of the Saguenay fjord in Canada, interspersed with modern commentary and tourist information. #00871.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1954. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: mild edge wear and chipping at spine, not clipped. 8vo 251pp. from front flap: "Since all the monastic orders trace their origins ultimately to him, Saint Anthony of the Desert has often been called the Father of Monks. Yet Henri Queffelec's truly brilliant book is the first modern life of this simple Egyptian peasant who became one of the most famous ascetics of all time. Delightfully and movingly written, it draws upon all dependable sources of information to recreate the wise and gentle personality of Saint Anthony against the setting of his dramatic era." #02111.

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.

St. Martins Press, 1984. first US edition. hardcover. good: ex library copy with stamps on edges of text block, remnants of library material evident in endpapers. text clean, binding tight./very good: spot of rubbing on spine, edge wear, NOT price clipped ($12.95). 8vo. 181pp. from front flap: "Ruth Dudley Edwards' acclaimed first novel, Corridors of Death, was selected as one of the Best MYstery and Suspense Novels of 1982 by Walker. Now she continues the adventures of her unusual hero--Robert Amiss, a young British civil servant--in a witty and elegant whodunit." #00850.

New York: Abingdon Cokesbury Press, 1951. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning/offset to endpapers, name on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: corner wear, not clipped. 12mo 176pp. from front flap: "Here the rank and file of the early Church come alive--vividly, colorfully, with all the reality of men and women today. More than two hundred of them are specifically identified in the New Testament--and they are presented as they lived, with no attempt to gloss over or excuse their human frailties." #02102.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild toning to endpapers, spot of discoloration on spine, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ G: edge and corner wear, chipping with some loss, not clipped, preserved under brodart mylar cover.. 8vo 513pp. from front flap: "With this book George Willison has brought back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. He has destroyed a myth that too long engendered the impression that the Pilgrims, while commendably pious and much to be admired, were withal a drab, stern folk--dedicated to prudery. For that injustice SAINTS AND STRANGERS makes generous reparation." #01829.

Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945. first edition. hardcover. good- damaged front lower corner of board, heavy discoloration at top of boards front and back, including stains to top of paste down maps of England and Massachusetts. text unmarked, binding tight/good: chipping and rubbing, discoloration along back of DJ.. Octavo 513pp. From jacket inside flap: "With this book George Willison has brought back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. He has destroyed a myth that too long engendered the impression that the Pilgrims, while commendably pious and much to be admired, were withal a drab, stern folk--dedicated to prudery. For that injustice SAINTS AND STRANGERS makes generous reparation." #00132.

Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2001. Paperback reprint edition, first thus. softcover. Book VG+: clean, tight, unmarked. 8vo 212pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02121.

Coward McCann Geoghegan, 1977. Book Club Edition. hardcover. near fine: mild toning to endpapers/shelfwear, else fine./near fine: shelfwear. 8vo 249pp. Book Club Edition, romance. #00762.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. hardcover. book very good: mild shelf wear/scuffing to boards and spine, bumped, toning and offset to endpapers and frontispiece, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 206pp. stated sixth printing, July 1929. The Almost Incredible Autobiography of Capt. Ezra Triplett's Seafaring Daughter. a spoof of the 1929 autobiography Cradle of the Deep of silent film actress Joan Lowell, in which she recounts a childhood spent adventuring on the South Seas as the daughter of a sea captain, harpooning whales, surviving shipwreck, and much more. It was almost immediately proven to be false, and humorist and screenwriter Corey Ford published this parody months later.  . #01347.

Signet, 1966. first thus. mass market paperback. good: writing on front cover, inside front cover, half title, rear inside cover. text clean, binding tight. first printing July 1966. #00361.

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1981. Book Club Edition (first thus). hardcover. Book VG+: hint of dust to edge of text block. text clean, binding tight/DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear. 8vo 600pp. from front flap: "What happens when such outstanding authors as Poul Anderson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Brunner, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Hlademan, Vonda McINtryre, Andrew Offutt, A.E. van Vogt and others combine their talents to create a new world of heroic fantasy? They invent Sanctuary, a dangerous, degenerate, and altogether engrossing city that serves as the background for some of their most exciting stories." #02054.

London: Quartet Books, 1987. softcover. Books VG: foxing to endpapers and outside edge of text block, mild age wear to wraps. text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 631 + 425pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02002.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. first. hardcover. good: spine faded and bumped, age toning on both paste downs, corners sharp, text un marked, binding tight, faint signs of damp stain on first few pages/no dj. First edition of Willa Cather's final novel, about an embittered slave owning white woman in Virginia in 1856, and the slave girl she mistreats out of paranoid rage. no dust jacket. #00011.

Rockland, ME: Courier-Gazette, Inc, 1975. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild signs of shelf wear else clean, tight, square, unmarked. gift inscription by author on title page: "To Gloria and Bill, Abby Sargent Neese/DJ G: age toning and offset, clipped.. 12mo 50pp. from front flap: "Those who chance upon the charming little village of Sargentville today enjoy its peace and its scenic location, on the edge of Eggemoggin Reach between Blue Hill Bay and Penobscot Bay. But as late as teh middle of the last century, Sargentville was a bustling town, [. . .] This is the story of those old homes and the people who built them, and of their descendants who lived with Sargentville's change of pace over the years. It is the result of a decade of painstaking research, gathered while memories were still green and recorded before the genealogies of Sargentville homes and people are forgotten." #02078.

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

Dell, 1977. mass market paperback. very good: slight creasing in spine, binding tight, text clean. Dell 18293 378pp. second printing July 1977. #00455.