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

New York: McGraw Hill, 1936. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, name FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 433pp. stated second impression. from Preface: "This book, it is hoped, will make more readily available the important facts and theories in this field as known and interpreted today, and will emphasize the fact that notable progress in morphology is being overlooked or neglected. It has been prepared as a textbook and is not to be considered a reference book for detailed or complete information concerning the plants discussed." #01659 EXTRA S/H FOR WEIGHT.

MacMillan, 1901. hardcover. good: faded spine and boards, red script of title somewhat faded, some toning on endpapers, discoloration and scuffing on front board, especially top corner. binding tight, text block clean and unmarked, top edge gilt./no DJ. a history of taverns and stage coaches in colonial New England. Earle was an important historian of early life in New England because of her focus on smaller sociological details, as evidenced by this and other books she wrote including Home Life in Colonial Days, Child Life in Colonial Days, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. first printed October 1900, reprinted January 1901. scarce in this condition. #00082.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1965. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 280pp. +illustrations. collection of historical documents surrounding the practice of surgery in America, from early 18th century newspaper accounts of elective surgery for bladder stone and breast amputation for cancer, to first hand accounts of surgeons in the Civil War, through 20th century advances in technique and material, along with reflections on training for surgery, and more. #01272.

Boston: Walter H. Baker Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning to spine and edges of covers, mild edge wear.. 8vo 196pp. from front flap: "...All the plays are related to this central problem of how to survive in the Atomic Age. While they were written before the atomic bombs first demonstrated their power, these plays all deal with those qualities of individual and social life that have survival value. They point the way to the reconciliation of mankind and to the building of a world of brotherhood and peace." #01477.

Warner Books, 1985. mass market paperback. good. 248pp. #00553.

Warner Books, 1987. mass market paperback. good. 192pp. #00550.

Warner Books, 1983. mass market paperback. good. 176pp. #00552.

Warner Books, 1985. mass market paperback. good. 189pp. #00551.

New York: Orion Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./good: mild edge wear, clipped.. 8vo 385pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and ravings, experiments and excesses--voyages "out of this world" charted by Hashish, Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Mescaline, Peyote, LSD and many other drugs. Almost forty accounts in the first person--some as classical as Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Havelock Ellis; others as contemporary as Alexander King, Mezz Mezzrow and Jean Cocteau---record the transfiguring or shattering experiences of those who dared to alter their consciousness, to reorder their perceptions through drugs." #01152.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. first. hardcover. near fine: some spotting on top and edge of text block, tight binding/near fine. #00020.

New York: Rizzoli, 2009. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear, remainder mark bottom of text block. clean, tight, text unmarked./DJ VG: scuff/stain to rear cover, not clipped.. 8vo 408pp. color illustrations throughout. from front flap: "In this beautifully illustrated edition, Umberto Eco reflects on how the idea of catalogues has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. His essay is accompanied by a literary anthology and a wide selection of works of art illustrating and analyzing the texts presented." #02378 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped. 12mo. 248pp. from front flap: "How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo--minimal diaries--after the magazine column in whuch he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, 33-function watches, fax machines and cellular phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and--last but definitely not least--the author's own self." #02392.

Andrew Melrose, 1955. first edition. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, some shelfwear to boards, toning and offset on pastedowns and endpapers, sticker on half title page, text clean, binding tight/good: fading and rubbing, especially to spine, chipping, price clipped.. 8vo 212pp. With 37 photographs and 2 maps. From front flap: "The author was a member of an official Expedition which spent some time in the grim islands fringing the Antarctic. He writes clearly and movingly of the trials and disasters which have befallen seamen in those faraway lands, and of the treachery of dangerous coasts, hidden reefs and unsuspected currents. There are many stories of animal behaviour and many grim histories of shipwrecks and their consequences. Above and beyond the work of the Expedition, the stories of animals and their fascinating behaviour, and the old tales of terrible disasters, looms the ever-hostile land and climate of the Southern Pole." #00704.

Coward McCann Geoghegan, 1974. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped, shelf and age wear to boards, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: unclipped, shelf wear, some mild rubbing and corner wear.. 8vo 309pp. from front flap: "In this unforgettable love story of a young New York beauty caught up in the crosscurrents of ambition and desire the best-selling author of Speak to Me of Love and The Vines of Yarrabee, creates her first American heroine." #00699.

Coward McCann Geoghegan, 1977. Book Club Edition. hardcover. near fine: mild toning to endpapers/shelfwear, else fine./near fine: shelfwear. 8vo 249pp. Book Club Edition, romance. #00762.

New York: Green Tiger Press, 1992. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+ :signed by author on FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age toning, sticker residue, NOT clipped. Cooper Edens. 4to. unpaginated. no. 1503 of 2000 signed edition. from front flap: 'In this fusion of poetry and image, Cooper Edens once again invites the reader on a journey into wonder. This book was germinated from his memoires of the imaginary friends of his childhood, the secret freinds who call on each of us to remember "the face you had before the world began."'. #01585.

Viking Press, 1938. first edition. hardcover. very good: minor age wear to boards and spine, name on front paste down, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 270pp. Memoir and work of philosophy by American professor of philosopher, poet, and critic. #01008.

St. Martins Press, 1984. first US edition. hardcover. good: ex library copy with stamps on edges of text block, remnants of library material evident in endpapers. text clean, binding tight./very good: spot of rubbing on spine, edge wear, NOT price clipped ($12.95). 8vo. 181pp. from front flap: "Ruth Dudley Edwards' acclaimed first novel, Corridors of Death, was selected as one of the Best MYstery and Suspense Novels of 1982 by Walker. Now she continues the adventures of her unusual hero--Robert Amiss, a young British civil servant--in a witty and elegant whodunit." #00850.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930. hardcover. very good: mild wear to boards and spine, slightly bumped. gift inscription on FFEP, name on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Bert Salg. 8vo 228pp. + end of book advertisements. Fourth in the popular four book series of Andy Blake stories by Leo Edwards (pen name of Edward Edson Lee) with illustrations of Bert Salg. #01102.

New York: Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. hardcover. Book VG-: residue on boards and spine, mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight/DJ Fair: dampstain, offset, age toning, chipping with loss, clipped. 8vo 409pp. second printing 1959. from front flap: "The outstanding scholarship of Professor Einarsson coupled with the cooperation of The American-Scandinavian Foundation has made possible this unique work: the first and only history in English of Icelandic literature, covering the subject from the Norse settlement of Iceland in 874 to the present day." #02486.