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

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941. first trade edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, bumped corners, mild toning/offset to endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Gontran de Poncins. 8vo 339pp. + photos. memoir of a white man's 15 month stay among the Inuit of the Arctic. #01947.

Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to wraps else clean, tight, unmarked.. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02822C.

Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to wraps else clean, tight, unmarked.. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02823D.

Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to wraps else clean, tight, unmarked.. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02820A.

Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1975. softcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to wraps else clean, tight, unmarked.. 16mo 171pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02821B.

Toronto: Bantam Books, 1982. first edition. hardcover. very good: stain on FFEP, else clean square and tight./very good: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($22.50). 8vo 622pp. from front flap: "Keeping Faith gives my impressions of life in the White House; the crises that confronted me, the people who worked intimately with or against me, the advice I received and accepted or rejected--the drama of the Oval Office from my own highly personal point of view." --Jimmy Carter. #01150.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. hardcover. good: fading to boards and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges, some foxing, binding separating at pastedown/no DJ. Duodecimo 259pp. #00289.

University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : dark blue/gray topstain, mild toning to paste down and endpaper, text clean, binding tight and square/very good: fading to spine, small chip at top of spine, age wear, NOT clipped ($3.75), pencil mark on front flap beneath price.. 8vo 223pp. from front flap: "Keys to Successful Interviewing is a collection of tested techniques and strategies used successfully by many of the country's best known writers, reporters, and newsmen," #00758.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961. first edition. hardcover. Book VG:mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: edge and corner wear, not clipped.. 8vo 271pp.  from front flap: "Here is the whole story of Nikita Khrushchev--a man born, amidst poverty, to obscure parents in Kalinovka, a small backward village in the province of Kursk. How was it possible for a man of such humble beginnings--a revolutionary who did not throw in his lot with the Communists until after the victory of the 1917 Revolution, a nonintellectual, a relatively unknwon, albeit faithful, satellite of the all-powerful Stalin--to grasp power and outmanoeuvre the skilled, battle scarred revolutionaries, intellectuals, and logical contenders for Stalin's position?" #02595.

New York: Zebra Books, 1988. first thus. mass market paperback. Book G: stamps on edges of text block, wraps starting at FFEP, age and shelf wear to wraps, text clean, binding intact. solid reading copy.. 16mo 509pp. first Zebra Books printing May 1988. see pictures for synopsis. #02727.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. first edition. hardcover. very good: stated first edition, offset on paste downs from DJ flaps, corners sharp, binding tight, text clean./poor: fragile DJ, tear on top rear, sticker residue, chipping, significant damage/missing strips of spine, will be shipped in Mylar cover. NOT price clipped ($2.00). Octavo, 32 pp. Aiken's poem about William Blackstone, an individualistic early New England settler Aiken used to represent the American spirit. #00096.

Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. first thus. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ NF: clean, unclipped. 12mo 149pp. from front flap: "The King of the Storeroom is presented as the journal of an unnamed narrator who has survived the complete collapse of the social and political infrastructure. He has found shelter and supplies in an abandoned cellar, and he begins writing in an effort to preserve language and reason, and with an idea of telling his stories to others in exchange for food. He fitfully recalls the events leading up to the final conflagration--the inevitable result of greed, the abuse of power, and the inherent dynamics of capitalism--and he describes the ensuing chaos and his own struggle to come to terms with his new environment." #02394.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1981. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, tight, square./very good: small closed tear, else near fine. NOT clipped ($8.95). Charles Barsotti. 12mo (7.25" x 9.25") unpaginated. from front flap: "For more than twelve years cartoonist Charles Barsotti's drawings of kings, clowns, struggling artists, and small dogs have been cheering readers of The New Yorker. His desk and bar turns are as familiar as George Booth's man-in-the-tub or the Addams family. Like Sabatini's Scaramouche, "Born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad," Barsotti's patrimony is infectious and its transmittal real." #01117.

Doubleday and Company, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: sunned spine, age wear, slight dampstain rear end papers. text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 371pp. #00249.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. hardcover. Book VG: mild offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked/DJ G: mild age toning, mild edge wear, clipped.. 12mo 157pp. from front cover: "Simple, challenging, real-life experiences showing how animals communicate with each other and with people who understand them" #01575.

Grosset and Dunlap. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, some age wear and spotting to boards, text clean, binding tight/very good: chipping and rubbing, small spots of loss on edge, age toning.. Octavo 241pp. No copyright date stated, presumed later printing, roughly late '40s-'50s. #00230.

Signet, 1953. first thus. mass market paperback. good: text clean, unmarked, binding tight, spine cocked. Signet 1000. first printing April 1953. #00419.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. first edition. hardcover. Book G: soil/rubbing/wear to boards and spine, spine sunned, ex libris bookplate and sticker front paste down, library sleeve remnant in rear paste down, stamps "New Century Club" in several places. text clean, binding intact. solid reading copy.. 8vo 297pp. from Preface: For nearly thirty years I have felt the need of an authentic portrait of Christopher Carson. Even as a small boy, I knew that something was wrong wtih the standard biographies, that something was surely missing. And as research mops up the corners and corrects the errors of the earlier accounts of his career, it is more and more clear that the legend needs rechecking." #02964.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. softcover. Book VG-: crease in rear cover, mild shelf wear/soil to wraps, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 311pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02312.

Franklin, Ohio: Eldridge Publishing Company. softcover. very good: mild shelf wear to wraps, else clean and tight./no DJ. 12mo. 50pp. stapled covers. circe 1930s/40s. from Introduction: "World peace, movie morals, and the international war debts are not the only major problems to be solved. There is always that old problem popping up, "what can we do to liven up the assembly program this week?" Everyone who can do anything has already done it, and there isn't time to work up a one-act play. It is a problem. But it can be solved. Why not give a five-minute blackout that is certain to wring an unexpected laugh from the audience?" #01283.