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

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1969. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear to front board, toning and offset to endpapers/pastedowns. light foxing to edge of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ very good: edge wear, age toning, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo 192pp. stated first edition. From front flap: "Abiogenesis is the formation of living organisms from lifeless matter and most particularly the formation of life on Earth between 3 and 4.5 billion years ago. Here is the series of discoveries biochemists have made about the chemical make-up of protoplasm and the processes of life, and how this knowledge relates to theories about the origins of life." #01262.

New York: Triangle Books, 1943. hardcover. book very good: name on FFEP, age toning edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: edge wear and mild chipping, rubbed corner with loss, NOT clipped.. 12mo 333pp. second Triangle Books printing. from front flap: "This is a tale told with wit, simplicity and chilling suspense; a tale of the real Nazi Germany. Most of all, it is a tale of two likable English babes-in-the-woods and of an unexpected American reporter whose ability to hunt as well as be hunted reduced the odds--a little." cover photographs from 1943 movie adaptation starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. #01361.

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.

London: Verso, 1994. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: clean, not clipped.. 8vo 211pp. from front flap: "'Surrealism', wrote Georges Bataille in 1945, 'has from the start given consistency to a "morality of revolt" and its most important contribution-- important perhaps even in the political realm-- is to have remained, in matters of morality, a revolution.' For Bataille, 'the absence of myth' had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had 'lost the secret of its cohesion', Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme--which he had hoped to assemble into a book and which are published here for the first time--mostly date from the immediate postwar period, and are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two." #02382.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1939. first edition. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, mild shelf wear to boards, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 314pp. biography of Italian political philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli by Romanian author and biographer (who knew Lenin and Trotsky and also wrote first biography of Lenin to be published). #01249.

Arbor House, 1982. first edition. hardcover. near fine/very good: some creasing in flaps, shelf wear. Octavo 303pp. from front flap: "From the grand master of the American novel, an eloquent story about the regenerative power of one man's confrontation with life and death." #00246.

New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1973. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG: mild wear, faint crease, text clean, binding tight. excellent copy.. 16mo 477pp. first printing January 1973. see pictures for synopsis. #02832.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1920. hardcover. very good: some scuffing to boards, bumped corners, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: small closed tears, some chipping, age wear.. Duodecimo 188pp. 1946 printing. From inside flap: "The Acquisitive Society is an analysis of the theory of individual rights. It shows how that theory, though appropriate to the simple economic civilization for which it was formulated, results under modern conditions in waste, inequality, and a struggle of classes. As an alternative, it suggests that rights of property and industrial organization should be based upon the principle of Function." #00306.

Simon and Schuster, 1949. first edition. hardcover. good: stained boards, sunned spine, toning to FEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 367pp. Collection of Lerner's syndicated newspaper columns from 1944-1948 from liberal leaning New York newspaper PM. Part I: Notes on Culture and Ethics, Part II: Notes on Economics and Politics, Part III: Notes on America among the Powers. #00199.

Rinehart and Company, 1948. trade paperback. good: spine creased and sunned, some edge wear, name on half title, one spot of underlining, else text clean, binding tight.. Duodecimo 551pp. Rinehart Editions 32. Introduction by Gordon S. Haight. #00527.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1984. first edition. hardcover. good: ex library with card sleeve rear endpapers, stamps, tape residue to endpapers, DJ taped down, slight lean. text clean, binding tight./good: in library protective cover, taped, NOT clipped ($14.95). 8vo 276pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "Cordelia fits space to men's needs. Julia gives form to their fantasies. The Kirkland sisters--one an architect, the other an actress, both beautiful, rich, and gifted--aspire to the triumphs of their parents: Cordelia to the mantle of Adam Kirkland, whose ideas shape cities; Julia to the theatrical heights of Judith St. John, whose tragic death holds a haunting secret." #01312.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. Book VG: spine sunned, shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of the eighteenth century, it has ever since maintained a preeminent position, due neither to great wealth nor to a hereditary title, but to character and sheer intellectual ability. It is this, in part, which gives it a unique interest, although the life of efach of its members here chronicled ahs an interest also of its own. The volume, however, is not intended to be merely a series of biographies. It is essentially a biography of a family, thrown against the changing background of its times for a hundred and fifty years." #01692.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1965. Revised Edition. hardcover. both volumes very good+: clean, square, tight bindings./slipcase: very good, corner and age wear, overall very solid.. Judith Epstein and Tom O'Sullivan. 8vo 58pp. + 20pp. two volumes, The Adopted Family (Book I: You and Your Child A Guide for Adoptive Parents) and The Adopted Family. First volume is a guide for parents of adopted children, second volume is an illustrated children's book explaining adoption. #01200.

Berkley Books, 1990. mass market paperback. good. 186pp. from back cover: "Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every trun the most lovable and unlikely master of detection." #00557.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. hardcover. very good: under protective plastic cover, mild shelf and age wear, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 285pp. selection of essays covering topics in religion, science, philosophy, art, and more, with contributions from Edith Sitwell, Herbert Read, Aaron Copland, Bertrand Russell, more. #01079.

M. A. Donohue, 1922. The Universal Film Company Special Movie Edition. hardcover. good: bumped and scuffed corners, age wear to boards and spine, all color illustrations in place, gift inscription recto FFEP, name in pencil recto frontispiece. spots of foxing, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. tall 8vo. 128pp. illus. color&b/w. Presumed 1st thus. Story of Robinson Crusoe "profusely illustrated" with black and white ink drawings, color frontispiece movie stills, plus color inserts. Movie illustrations are from 1922 film The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe starring Harry Myers as titular character. #00807.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: sunned spine, age wear to boards, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 285 pp. Stated first edition. from Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning Armenian-American novelist William Saroyan. #00166.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. George Cruikshank Edition. hardcover. Book G: spine sunned, chipping at ends of spine, bumped corners, bookplate on spine faded and chipped, toning and foxing to endpapers and frontispiece, hinge starting at FFEP, gift inscription half title page, liquid stain spot half title page, spots of light foxing around edges of text, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. George Cruikshank. 8vo 531pp. with fifteen etchings on steel. George Cruikshank edition, no. 318 of 400. #01935.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1950. first edition. hardcover. good: stain/wear to boards and spine, slight bump to corners, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: corner and edge wear, closed tear base of spine, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 377pp. from front flap: "The Adventurer is a novel on a tremendous scale, full of dramatic events against a rich historical background. The scene is all of Europe and the time the early sixteenth century. Michael, the hero who tells his own story, is perhaps an even more exciting figure than the Egyptian. His is a life of high adventure, of romance and intrigue, and Waltari recounts it with the art of a master storyteller. The Adventurer is another masterpiece by a great creative historian." #01236.

New York: Scholastic Inc, 1969. mass market paperback. Book Fair: shelf/age wear to wraps, name in marker on edges of text block, highlighting. binding intact. reading copy.. William Hunter. 16mo 179pp. #02686.