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

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1921. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, bookplate on front paste down, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 434pp. Biography of Queen Victoria by member of the Bloomsbury Group and innovator in the practice of writing biography, known for his Eminent Victorians. #01095.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. first edition. hardcover. very good: rubbing and fading to boards and spine, lettering on spine is faded, bookplate on front paste down, offset on FFEP red topstain of text block faded. Text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 207pp. Collection of shorter poems and the long poetic drama The Queen of China by English writer, poet, lecturer. #00175.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1928. first edition. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, writing on FFEP, toning to endpapers and paste downs. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 298pp. +illustrations. Book by librarian and early true crime writer humorously surveying literary fads of the late 1800s/early 1900s. #01126.

New York: Minton, Balch, and Company, 1929. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear/soil to boards and spine, writing on FFEP, mild foxing, writing on rear paste down, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 318pp. third printing, December 1929. the Gifford Lectures of 1929 delivered by American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. #01809.

Bantam Books, 1980. mass market paperback. good. 214pp. "What a most unwelcome surprise for the archaeologists--not the Saxon artifacts they had hoped for, but a shrouded male corpse buried in a recent grave! Who is it? And why is he buried here? Inspector Rudd has only one clue: the corroded cross around the corpse's neck." #00577.

Tokyo: Shufunotomo Co, 1973. spiral bound. Book VG: shelf wear to rear board, mild age toning, text clean, spiral comb intact and tight.. 16mo unpaginated. Pictorial guide to Chinese massage. #02218.

New York: Association Press, 1964. hardcover. Book VG: mild toning to endpapers, few spots of foxing to endpapers, spots on outside edge of text block. Text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age wear, toning, clipped.. 8vo 273pp. stated fourth printing. from front flap: "Now, for every man, every woman, this new Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking opens a modern speedway to skilled communication for everyday use. [. . .] Using notes her husband left and the wealth of materials from his files, Dorothy Carnegie has re-organized Dale's famous book into five easy steps--from the beginner's first attempts to the challenging skills of action-getting speeches." #01373.