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

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 1983. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. oversized 8vo, 456pp. from "About This Book" : Back to Basics is a book about ther simple life. It is about old-fashioned ways of doing things, and old-fashioned craftsmanship, and old-fashioned food, and old-fashioned fun. It is also about independence--the kind of down-home self-reliance that our grandparents and great grandparents took for granted, but that we moderns often think has vanished forever, along with supermarket tomatoes that taste good, packaged bread that does not have additives, and holidays that are not commercialized.. At its heart Back to Basics is a how-to book packed with hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, charts, tables, diagrams, and illustrations to help you and your family reestablish control over your day-to-day lives. The book is organized into six main sections. The first deals with shelter, the second with… Read More

Ginn and Company, 1926. first edition. hardcover. very good: wear to boards and spine, spine slightly sunned, name on FFEP, toning, a few pencil marks in margins, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 329pp. from Preface: "This volume is not written to prove a theory. I have merely tried to provide a helpful guidebook for the better understanding of the writers of modern France and of the civilization to which they belong. Histories of French literature, to the number of which I have myself contributed, are not entirely sufficient for the foreigner, who is often at sea as to political, religious, and social conditions. I have therefore endeavored to sketch the background of French literature during the period from 1789 to 1914, and to show both how it explains that literature and how literary works throw light upon it." . #00921.

New Brunswick, NJ: Institute of Microbiology, 1964. hardcover. good: dampstain to bottom right corner of text block, name on FFEP, age wear to boards and spine./no DJ. 8vo 691pp. from Preface: "The meeting which formed the basis for this volume took place at the Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, on September 4,5, and 6, 1963. It was patterned after the format used so successfully by our British colleagues: the principal papers were submitted well before the meeting, reproduced, and copies were distributed to the 212 participants. At the meeting these contributions were summarized in 10-minute statements by the authors and the major time of the meeting was then devoted to discussion. This volume contains the original papers and an edited version of the discussion." #01237.

New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1993. hardcover. Book VG+: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: clean, mild corner wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 310pp. from front flap: "Here is the colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation. It was an age of grandeur and corruption, of magnificent architecture and petty human foibles, of ecclesiastical heresy and moral degradation. Popes led armies, made love and war, conspired for power, and armed themselves wtih the techniques of assassination and seduction while clothed with the authority of the Church." #02525.

Ballantine, 1984. mass market paperback. good. 293pp. Mrs. Eugenia Potter mystery. #00548.

Viking Press, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: red topstain, age wear/toning to boards, name on FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 404pp. #00250.

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

Signet, 1963. first thus. very good: clean unmarked text, tight binding. Signet Classic CP 178. First printing July 1963. #00384.

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.

New American Library, 1965. first edition. hardcover. near fine: sharp, bright, text clean, top stain text block, binding tight/very good: very slight chipping and age wear, NOT price clipped ($5.95). Octavo 366pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "In August 1962, Earle and Rhoda Brooks--a young sales engineer and his schoolteacher wife--left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador. This book is an account of their life in the Peace Corps. The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers, it is a revealing chronicle of personal involvement, of people from alien cultures learning to known one another on the level of their common humanity." #00271.

Caldwell, Idaho: Clark Publishing Company, 1977. Third Edition. softcover. Book VG: tear on cover at top and bottom of spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 4to 284pp. Fifth printing, third edition. from Preface to the Third Edition: "...So, if you are a drama instructor who believes that your students learn best by getting on their feet and performing, you will enjoy teaching from this text. Each chapter consists of a complete activity project worked out in detail and aimed at giving your students practical experiences in drama." #01461.

New York: Random House, 1941. Lifetime Library. hardcover. Book VG+: remainder mark top edge of text block else clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcase VG: age toning.. 8vo 1487pp. modern reprinting. Edited and with an Introduction by Richard McKeon. Includes complete Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On the Soul, Politics, Poetics, other complete works, and significant excerpts from other works. #02063.

MacMillan Company, 1962. first printing. hardcover. very good: fading/age wear on boards and spine, red topstain, toning/offset on FFEP, some foxing on endpapers/no DJ. Robert Osborn. Octavo 85pp. Satirical look at American "grownups" in the style of a learn to read children's book, with b/w illustrations. #00275.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1962. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, boards slightly bowed, staining to paste downs, text clean, binding tight./DJ G+: rubbing, chipping, age toning, NOT clipped ($2.50). Osborn, Robert. 8vo 85pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Basics--prosy little poems that cut their way through the rain forests of convention down to the bedrock of fact. Children have to be taught the meaning of common words and phrases, and adults can do with a refresher course too." satirical take on a learn to read book, for adults. #01492.

Old Tappan, NJ: Flaming H. Revell, 1980. softcover. Book VG: age wear to wraps, small crease, gift inscription on half title page, text clean, binding tight. 8vo 247pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02200.

John Day Company, 1971. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear, stain to boards, toning along edges of endpapers, else clean, tight./good: small chips, age toning, NOT clipped ($8.95). 8vo 365pp. from front flap: "Richard Atcheson went on the commune trip--through a variety of communes across the country--and reports in The Bearded Lady on how all kinds of people, from fragile neurotics to super-controlled lawyers, are trying something we've forgotten how to do: LiveTogether (and not just next to each other)." #00861.

New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1925. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG- : age wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, offset and name on FFEP, hinge starting at title page, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 12mo 412pp. first American edition, published 1925 no additional printings listed. Adventure novel by British author detailing the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. #01578.

New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1926. first US. hardcover. very good: stain and wear to boards, spine sunned, dust wear to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 370pp. The first sequel to Wren's wildly popular Beau Geste. It focuses on the adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais from adolescence to maturity as a well-connected cavalry officer in the French Army.. #01100.

New York: New Directions, 1967. softcover. Book VG: age wear to wraps, edge scuffs. text clean, binding tight. 12mo 234pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02033.

Collins, 1956. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : toning and offset to pastedown/endpapers, inscription on FFEP, some mild wear to boards and spine, slight bump to corners./very good: age wear/toning, clipped. Low. 8vo 256pp. from front flap: "It may sound something of a paradox that a newspaper which is eminently serious and responsible should be the vehicle for some of the most amusing and entertaining articles to be found anywhere. But so it is with the Manchester Guardian. This anthology reflects the many facets of a great newspaper that grows in prestige from year to year." foreword by Ivor Brown, cartoons by Low. #00720.