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.

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.

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.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1965. hardcover. Book VG: clean, square, tight./DJ VG-: chip at top of spine, creasing to front flap. NOT clipped ($4.50). 8vo 216pp. from front flap: "Five minutes after the wacky widow Bernice Baby and her not-quite-pure German shepherd Albert bound into the life of Oliver Bloom, he is cowering seven-eighths below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. He is scarcely dried off before he's neck-deep again: in a romp with two full-time jobs and two full-time mistresses--one of them the funniest, most delightful heroine since Madam Bovary." #01371.

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.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. hardcover. very good+: mild wear to boards, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.95). 8vo 90pp. from front flap: "R.D. Laing's new book marks a fascinating departure--in form and in content--from his previous works. Knots is unlike any other book, consisting of a series of powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or as brief plays, each complete in itself." #01228.

New York: Permabooks, 1950. first thus. hardcover. Book VG-: some rippling/flaking to plastic cover, toning around text block, text clean, binding intact.. 16mo 245pp. Permabooks P65. from front cover: "For what kind of work or career are you best suited? Here is a fascinating, scientific way to understand your natural aptitudes and develop them." #02151.

Harper and Row, 1965. trade paperback. good: underlining in text, creased corner, name on half title, binding tight, age wear to cover.. Octavo 184pp. Harper Torchbooks TB 135. from introduction by Maurice Friedman: "With this volume Martin Buber completes the last and one of the most significant stages in the development of his philosophical thought, and in particular of his philosophical anthropology: his study of what is peculiar to man as man.  [...] These essays represent an important and exciting new development in Buber's philosophy of dialogue; they stand as the culmination and crown of his epistemology, his philosophical anthropology, and his ontology." #00492.

Rand McNally, 1950. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. very good: shelf wear, mild toning, else clean, tight, square. BOMC blind stamp rear board bottom near spine./good: chipping along top edge, corner wear, some loss, NOT clipped, BOMC stated on front flap. 8vo 304pp. + illustrations. from front flap: "...On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named Kon-Tiki in honor of a legendary sun king, Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on similar craft." #00956.