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

New York: Random House, 1934. hardcover. Book VG-: offset and age wear to boards and spine, corner scuffing. hinge starting at title page, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 768pp. Seventh printing, November 1934. Joyce's masterpiece about a single day in Dublin. First American edition, published after successfully challenging the charge of obscenity in the U.S. federal courts. #01994.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1947. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to corners and spine, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: edge and corner wear, rubbing and age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo 376pp. BCE from front flap: "UNCONQUERED is a big, sweeping story of the Ohio River region of America in the mid-eighteenth century, when the Pontiac Conspiracy made the vast Pennsylvania wilderness a battleground for hard-bit colonists defending their homes against a coalition of merciless Indian tribes." #01511.

Dell, 1978. first thus. mass market paperback. very good: cover crease, sticker residue, text clean, binding tight. 192 pp. Dell 19228. first New Dell printing July 1978. #00431.

E.P. Dutton, 1917. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards, spine moderately sunned, sticker on inside pastedown, name on FFEP, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Duodecimo 358pp. Fifth printing October 1917. One of the first WWI novels to be published, based on Barbusse's experiences on the Western Front, it follows a single squad of French infantrymen on the Western Front after the German invasion. Credited as one of the earliest examples of "Lost Generation" literature, significant influence on later authors like Hemingway and Remarque. #00177.

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1944. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear/bumps to corners, toning to endpapers, gift inscription on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 200pp. from Preface: "This is the personal account of a soul in transition from Catholicism to liberal Protestantism. Here the chief North American Catholic Modernist, the term used to designate some liberals within the Roman Catholic Church, confesses his spiritual debt to the nurture of Mother Church, describes the intellectual and moral tensions which tormented him and a few of his fellow-priests, and leads us to the threshold over which he took his departure from Catholicism." #01836.

Way and Williams, 1895. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped corners, age wear to boards, toning and foxing, some separation along gutter of binding. text clean. signed by author on half title page./no DJ. 16mo. 104pp. A collection of light verse by social leader, writer, and president of Chicago Women's Club. Signed by author on half title page. #00667.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, writing on rear endpaper, else clean square tight unmarked./DJ VG: spot stain on front, mild age toning, not clipped.. 8vo 372pp. from front flap: "...At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by a pair of Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, and unyielding faith. In the process, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion, analyzes the abduction of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart (and fher forced "marriage" to her polygamous kidnapper), and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief." #02118.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1927. Star Books. hardcover. Book VG: stains/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers and text block, text unmarked, binding tight.. 8vo 238pp. from Author's Preface: "This book is an attempt to acquaint the general public with the fundamentals of Individual Psychology. At the same time it is a demonstration of the practical application of these principles to the conduct of one's everyday relationships, not only to the world, and to one's fellow men, but also to the organization of one's personal life." #02451.

New York: New American Library, 1967. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good+: clean, square, tight. previous owner sticker on FFEP, mild toning to endpapers./very good: mild corner wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 230pp. Book Club Edition. from front flap: "ESP, faith healing, mediumship, prophecy, astrology--all come under Allen Spraggett's colorful and careful scrutiny. In THE UNEXPLAINED the reader is invited to deny, if he can, the powers of such figures as Kathryn Kuhlman, famed faith healer of Pittsburgh; Jeane Dixon, the Washington clairvoyante who has foreseen a good deal more than President Kennedy's assassination; Ted Serios, a man who can project, onto photographic film, images from his own mind; James Wilkie, who has spent as much time in the company of ghosts as he has in the company of the living; and Nandor Fodor, the well-known analyst who worked with Freud before going on to his own discoveries of extrasensory perception in his patients." #01241.

Oxford University Press, 1937. first American edition. hardcover. good: wear/stain to boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 303pp. with a preface by The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, former prime minister of the UK. autobiography of Welsh miner, playwright, Trade Union official, politician, and novelist. #00906.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild bumped corners, offset on endpapers from DJ, mild dust to edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./poor: edge and corner wear, separated along spine, will be shipped under mylar cover, NOT clipped ($2.50). 8vo 347pp. Novel of moral instruction by author, composer, educator who helped inspire the Great Books movement, served as first president of Juilliard School of Music, and taught at Columbia University for several decades. Most famous for his essay: "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent" #00908.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1939. hardcover. Book VG: spotting/fading to boards, mild shelf wear, spine sunned, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 295pp. autobiography of American-born British essayist and critic. #01664.

Crown Publishing, 1947. first edition. hardcover. good: soiled boards and spine, slightly bumped corners, slight toning, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 255pp. first novel featuring misadventures of Fursey, a monk in the Irish Dark Ages. Described as "a landmark book in the history of fantasy." #00893.

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

Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. hardcover. book very good+ : mild toning/offset to endpapers/paste downs, text clean, binding tight./DJ very good: mild age toning, small closed tear top rear cover, mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.95). Roger Martin. 8vo 124pp. stated second printing. from front flap: "Through dramatic pictures and text, this book depicts the historical panorama of the two liberal denominations now merged in the Unitarian Universalist Association. The author shows how their roots were nurtured in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and he traces the growth of liberal thought in Christian church history. The individual backgrounds of Unitarianism and Universalism in America are then discussed, including the colorful personalities and the important controversies which had a profound impact not only on the development of each denomination, but also on the shaping of American ideals." #01360.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1962. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, foxing to edge of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning/spots to cover, mild corner wear, NOT clipped ($3.25). 12mo 179pp. from front flap: "The Cuban Crisis symbolizes the general weakness and failure of American foreign policy in the 20th Century. The United States had two generations in which to transform the island into a showplace of economic prosperity, and of political and social democracy. Yet it did. not do so. Why? This book sets the record straight on who intervened first in the Cuban Revolution, and what the results of that intervention have been." #01445.

New York: Atheneum, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book very good+: mild foxing to outside edge of text block, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked./DJ good+: creasing right front corner, small closed tear, mild sunning to spine, NOT clipped ($6.50). 8vo 327pp. from front flap: "This bold and astringent volume reviews the origins of our postwar foreign policy, and examines its effects not only from within but also from without--by trying to see the United States as it appears to other peoples." #01349.

MacMillan Company, 1930. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear/spotting to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 341pp. from preface: "The present book contains a brief account, written in simple language, of the methods and results of modern astronomical research, both observational and theoretical. Special attention has been given to problems of cosmogony and evolution, and to the general structure of the universe. My ideal, perhaps never wholly attainable, has been that of making the entire book intelligible to readers with no special scientific knowledge." #01019.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good+: writing on FFEP, offset to paste downs from DJ flaps. else clean, tight, square./very good: age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo 185pp. BCE. first murder mystery novel by PD James to feature her female detective Cordelia Gray, also features her popular character Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh. #01248.

St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages.