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

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight./DJ VG- : chipping and mild age wear, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo 298pp. stated first printing. from front cover: "Being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics." from front flap: "You will be bored, mathematicians, by these stories. Clifton Fadiman, who collected and edited them, says so himself in his Introduction. You couldn't have better authority than that. The mathematics here is too naive for you. But everyone else--and that means practically all of us--come gather round and be vastly entertained, entranced, and--who knows? --maybe even slightly instructed." #01400.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. Revised Edition, first thus. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers, mild shelf wear to boards and spine./DJ G: chipping and corner wear, age toning, clipped. 8vo 684pp. from front flap: "...Now, brought up to date and thoroughly revised, this renowned book takes into account the happenings of the momentous decade since the death of Stalin, assigning to small events as well as great ones a proper weight and meaning in the history of the development of Soviet institutions. It also includes a discussion of the sweeping reorganization of the Communist Party effected at the Central Committee meeting in November 1962." #01467.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked. publisher's note laid in./DJ VG+: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped. 8vo nonpaginated. no. 537 of 750. from front flap: "To honor Alfred Fairbank on his eightieth birthday in 1975, David R. Godine in the United States and The Merrion Press in England have collaborated in publishing this facsimile of the rare and superb writing manual of Augustino da Siena. This is the last of the great writing manuals to be cut in wood, and to examine its place in the continuum of calligraphic manuals and to elucidate its text, Alfred Fairbank, the grand master of calligraphers, has written a scholarly introduction. This first modern critical edition has been prepared from the British Museum copy of the 1568 edition, of which the only other knwon copy is in Florence." #01854.

New York: E.P. Dutton. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. 12mo 144pp. #01678.

New York: David McKay, 1965. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: tape repair, age toning/soil, edge and corner wear, not clipped. 8vo 471pp. from front cover: A novel about the rise of an American dynasty and the problems of power. #02134.

WW Norton & Company, 1988. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, tight, square./very good+ : touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped ($14.95). 8vo 176pp. from front flap: "Thomas Farber's special gift as a writer is his ability to convey with deceptive simplicity and economy whole ranges of emotional experience. Here, in this luminous mosaic of linked nonfiction stories and meditations, he presents us with a startlingly original, interior view of the writer's life: the intricacies of its methods, of the impulse to story, of the writer's place in society--all that informs and haunts this odd vocation." #00964.

Signet, 1952. mass market paperback. good: text clean and unmarked, binding tight, spine chipped. Signet 810. sixth printing September 1952. #00417.

Henry Holt and Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped corners, shelf wear/soil to boards, sunned spine, toning/offset to FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 334pp. Biography of the famous and controversial 19th century explorer who found the Livingstone Expedition ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), searched for the sources of the Nile and Congo river, worked for Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo. #00973.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1940. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear/bumps to corners, light foxing to endpapers, sticker on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 382pp. from Preface: "The aim of this book is to make possible the identification of aquatic plants in sterile as well as in flowering or fruiting condition. An effort has been made to render such identification as simply as possible, but it must be remembered that the aquatics include many of the plants in groups that are most difficult for the taxonomist." #01112.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Book Club Edition. hardcover. near fine: slightest signs of shelf wear. else clean, bright, square, tight./very good: corner wear including small closed tear on front lower corner edge. age wear. not clipped.. 8vo 340pp. from front flap: "The Immigrants is also a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the reader in the lives of the characters, so that after the book is closed, one continues to live with those characters. And, fortunately, the reader will not have to say farewell to them once the book is done. The Immigrants is complete in itself, an absorbing novel of high adventure, romance, joy, and tragedy. But it is also the first in a trilogy that will tell the story of three California families over the course of the twentieth century." #00761.

Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: crease along spine, toning to edges of boards, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 337pp. novel about 19th century Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld, for which Fast was accused of copyright infringement for borrowing liberally from a biography of the politician by Harry Barnard. The case was settled and Barnard's book was re-published by Fast's publisher. #00248.

Chicago: Playboy Press, 1966. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG-: crease to spine, mild wear to wraps, mild toning to text block, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 315pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02871.

New York: Dell. mass market paperback. Book VG-: crease in front wrap, mild crease in spine, mild shelf wear to wraps, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 288pp. Dell Book 708. See pictures for synopsis. #02814.

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

Modern Library, 1946. Modern Library. hardcover. near fine: gift inscription "Bill from Gloria Xmas 1953" on verso free endpaper before title page, otherwise unmarked, tight binding, minimal if any signs of shelfwear/very good, not price clipped ($1.25) with pencil annotation "V481" below price, very small closed tears, minimal chipping, minor toning. two complete novels by William Faulkner in one volume of the Modern Library, first published 1946. This is a Fall 1949 reprint based on the 344 titles listed for sale on the inside of the dust jacket.  an overall near fine early copy complete with unclipped dust jacket of this collectible ML 187. #00043.

New York: Signet Books, 1960. mass market paperback. Book VG-: mild wear/crease to wraps, slight lean, text clean, binding intact, solid reading copy.. 16mo 158pp. Signet D1848. see pictures for synopsis. #02807.

Vintage Books, 1966. trade paperback. good: spine creased, cover wear, clean text, binding intact. Duodecimo 316pp. Vintage V-149. #00504.

New York: Signet Books, 1969. mass market paperback. Book VG-: pen marks on wraps, mild crease to spine, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight, solid reading copy.. 16mo 223pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02776.

New York: Signet, 1958. mass market paperback. Book VG-: mild shelf wear to wraps, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight, excellent reading copy.. 16mo 317pp. Signet D1614. Second printing September 1958. See pictures for synopsis. #02777.

New York: Signet Books, 1951. first thus. mass market paperback. Book G: age toning/soil to wraps, crease to front wrap, damp stain edge of text block, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight. solid reading copy.. 16mo 189pp. Signet 863.  First printing April, 1951. see pictures for synopsis. #02796.