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

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: spine slightly sunned, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.. Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo 311pp. #02299.

William Morrow and Company, 1977. first edition. hardcover. near fine: pencil markings on rear pastedown, slightest signs of shelfwear, else fine./very good: fading, soiling, offset on flaps. NOT price clipped ($7.95). 8vo 227pp. Historical fiction. from back flap: "Parson's House is a marvelous tale of romance, richly wrought and delicately spun." #00709.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1979. first thus. softcover. Book G: stain to front wrap and endpapers, gift inscription inside front wrap, text clean, binding tight. Diane Devine. 8vo 162pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02193.

Rinehart and Company, 1950. trade paperback. good: spine crease, age wear, text clean, binding tight.. Duodecimo 495pp. Rinehart Editions 44. Collection of letters, essays, poems, historical sketches by important figures in the early history of America. Includes Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams, Noah Webster, more. #00523.

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1983. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear/sun to spine, else clean, square, tight unmarked. Slipcover VG: mild shelf wear else sound. 8vo 227pp. A translation by John Warrington with a preface by John Mason Brown and an introduction by the translator. Illustrated with engravings by Bruno Bramanti. #02583.

Signet, 1949. first thus. mass market paperback. poor: text unmarked but stained, binding deteriorating. Signet 720. first printing May 1949. #00416.

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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild bumps to corner, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG: mild shelf wear, not clipped.. 8vo 403pp. from front flap: "Already an international literary event, and translated into a dozen languages, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's Metamorphoses directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's reexploration of the fantastic fables we may think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pieces it back together as it once must have been, and presents it to us in a new, astonishing, and utterly contemporary way." #02500.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers and paste downs, hinge starting at half title page, text clean, binding intact. elements of DJ laid in./no DJ. 8vo 580pp. from front flap: "Franz Stoessel, young Bavarian immigrant working in a big Pennsylvania steel mill, decided early that America meant two things to him--money and power. If you had one you could get the other. He was willing to put everything and everybody behind him, to forget all that he had once believed, in his desire for limitless power." #01817.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1933. hardcover. Book VG-: shelf wear at base of spine, residue on front board, toning, text clean, binding tight./DJ Fair: chipping, age toning, small closed tears, chipping and tearing with loss at spine, NOT clipped. 8vo 303pp. + appendix. from front flap: "[. . .]story of a Georgia dirt farmer, his sons, and intensely attractive daughters. The critics called it "full-blooded," "gusty," "passionately honeset," "picturesque and original." But the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice called it something stronger and tried to suppress the book. The publishers, however, won the case--and here is this much discussed, widely publicized tale in its entire unexpurgated form--together with the complete court opinion." #01783.

San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009. softcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked. 12mo 206pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02647.

Doubleday Doran and Company, 1945. first edition. hardcover. very good: sunned and faded spine, toning to endpapers, clean text, tight binding./no DJ. 8vo 401pp. from endpaper: "Lou Jolly was the prettiest wife in the Ozark valley of Happy Holler. Yet her golden hair and dreamy, deep-thinking eyes were not enough to hold her husband, Vigo, when the spring gave him aching bones and drove him out onto Highway 62 to wander through foreign states and cities until he stumbled back drunk and dusty in the fall. [. . .] With a captivating Ozark-California background, this stimulating novel has a vein of salty humor, an original cast of characters, and in Lou a magnificently appealing heroine." #00746.

Covici Friede, 1931. first edition. hardcover. very good: spotting to boards, sunned spine, toning to endpapers/paste downs. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 351pp. Story of the life of Louis XV's mistress from her low birth and beginning in prostitution through her ascendancy to the highest spheres of French society as maitress en titre to King Louis XV through her subsequent exile and eventual beheading at the guillotine during the French Revolution. #00882.

Jackson, MI: Business English Publishing Company, 1935. hardcover. Book VG-: mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, hinge starting at copyright page, writing on front paste down, text clean, binding intact.. 12mo 134pp. + 140pp. from Preface: "In the preparation of this text, the authors have made no attempt at originality, except as to the manner of presenting the subject. They have kept uppermost in mind the object to be attained--the ability on the part of the student to use correct English. With this end in view, the material has been selected from various sources, and so modified and arranged as to produce this result with the least expenditure of time on the part of the student, and a minimum of work on the part of the teacher. No attempt has been made to produce an exhaustive treatise for the few, but rather a book of essentials for the many; nor has any effort been made to speculate upon the technical phrases of the subject." #02608.

New York: Heritage Press, 1971. first thus. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight. Slipcover VG+ with touch of age toning./no DJ. Daniel Maffia. 8vo 181pp. Camus' classic novella, with introduction by Wallace Fowlie, the author's introduction, and paintings by Daniel Maffia. #01962.

New York: Vintage Books, 1955. mass market paperback. Book G: age wear/soil to wraps, damp stain to text block, name on inside wrap, some underlining throughout. binding tight. solid reading copy.. 16mo 151pp. Vintage Book V-75. see pictures for synopsis. #02760.

David McKay, 1978. first edition. hardcover. near fine+ : appears unread, pristine, remainder mark on bottom of text block, else fine./fine, NOT price clipped ($9.95). Ingrid Allex. Octavo 211pp. from front flap: "If you are facing the confusing experience of decorating or redecorating your home, you owe it to yourself to read Good Taste: How to Have It, How to Buy It. It could save you money and time, and the agony of ending up with a home that neither pleases you nor expresses your personal style and taste." #00292.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1975. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG: foxing top edge of text block, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age soil/wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 259pp. from front flap: "This is the absorbing story of Margaret Tucker, the neglected wife of a high-ranking government security chief, and her strange liaison with an earthy, ambitious lover, Maximilian Dougall. Played out against a background of power politics and the struggles of labor unions against the state, their love affair--their personal, human predicament--contrasts sharply with the colorless anonymity of government bureaucracy." #02243.

William Morrow and Company, 1965. first thus. hardcover. very good: spine sunned/soiled, age and shelf wear to boards. text clean, binding tight and square/no DJ. 8vo 287pp. first edition thus. #00733.

New York: WW Norton & Company, 1945. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, writing in pencil on rear paste down and endpapers, pencil notes in index, otherwise text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, rubbing, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 229pp. first edition, later printing. scarce. from front flap: "The Way of an Investigator is at once something of an autobiographical account of Dr. Cannon's work and a description of how the scientific investigator goes about doing his job." autobiography of physiologist, professor, and Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. Popularized the term "fight or flight" and developed the theory of homeostasis. #01169.