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

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/very good: corner/edge wear, spot of chipping, NOT clipped ($5.00). 8vo 298pp. from front flap: "This interpretation of Roger W. Babson's extraordinarily varied career in business, church work, politics, education, and in science presents the life and philosophical views of a persevering and inventive man as well as the success story of a pioneering venture into the investment advisory business." #01140.

Little Brown and Company, 1944. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, slight lean to spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 475pp. Biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. #00318.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1943. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped (. 8vo 524pp. from front flap: "This book," writes Mr. DeVoto in his first chapter, "tells the story of some people who went west in 1846. Upon this unassuming statement is based this monumental narrative of a decisive year in the history of the United States--a year which saw the outbreak of the war with Mexico, Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt, a great Oregon and California emigration, the conquest of New Mexico, the migration of the Mormons, the conquest of California, Zachary Taylor's campaigns in Mexico, Doniphan's expedition, and the tragedy of the Donner party of emigrants, half adults, half children." #01847.

Little Brown and Company, 1943. first edition. hardcover. very good: soiling around edges of boards, dulled red topstain, owners name on half title page, text clean, binding tight./good: under (older) protective mylar cover. 8vo 524 pp. from front flap: "This book," writes Mr. DeVoto in his first chapter, "tells the story of some people who went west in 1846." Upon this unassuming statement is based this monumental narrative of a decisive year in the history of the United States--a year which saw the outbreak of the war with Mexico, Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt, a great Oregon and California emigration, the conquest of New Mexico, the migration of the Mormons, the conquest of California, Zachary Taylor's campaigns in Mexico, Doniphan's expedition, and the tragedy of the Donner party of emigrants, half adults, half children. These narratives are told as stories in themselves, as related parts of the great national spectacle, and as the culmination of the whole movement of American westward… Read More

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1943. hardcover. Book VG: ex libris bookplate front paste down, mild shelf wear/discoloration to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped. 8vo 524pp. from front flap: "This book," writes Mr. DeVoto in his first chapter, "tells the story of some people who went west in 1846. Upon this unassuming statement is based this monumental narrative of a decisive year in the history of the United States--a year which saw the outbreak of the war with Mexico, Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt, a great Oregon and California emigration, the conquest of New Mexico, the migration of the Mormons, the conquest of California, Zachary Taylor's campaigns in Mexico, Doniphan's expedition, and the tragedy of the Donner party of emigrants, half adults, half children." #02548.

Dell, 1961. mass market paperback. fair: spine/binding crease, edge and corner wear, some pages loose but all present. Dell F118 320pp. second printing May 1961. reading copy. collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by John W. Campbell Jr., Ray Bradbury, Mark Clifton, Jack Finney, many more. #00435.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning to endpapers, hinge starting at title page, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($2.50). 8vo 141pp. from front flap: "The world is full of lonely ladies--recently widowed or divorced--who have suddenly found themselves odd numbers, and very forlorn indeed. This book takes up their problems with sympathy and understanding. It makes no claim that even grim determination can make everything all right overnight. But it does tell how to face a major crisis in life, and what to do about it." scarce copy, especially with DJ. #01404.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. first edition. hardcover. Book VG- : mild age wear to boards and spine, boards slightly bowed, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 256pp. #01733.

New York: Signet, 1965. first edition. mass market paperback. Book VG-: age wear to wraps and spine, toning, text clean, binding tight. 16mo 160pp. Signet P2712 first printing July 1965. #02150.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good+: toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./good: mild corner wear, clipped. 8vo 247pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "By publishing his autobiographical works, Confessions of a European Intellectual and The Inside Story of an Outsider, Franz Schoenberner believed he had communicated the most memorable and dramatic events of his life. And then, a few weeks after his fifty-ninth birthday, he was the victim of a violent accident which deprived him for more than a year not only of the ability to write but even to move. [. . .] For eighteen weeks, Mr. Schoenberner lay in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down. This book is devoted to his fascinating thoughts during that period. With modesty, independence, epigrammatic wit and humor, he reflects on fate and character, speaks of American kindness and American violence. He has some amusing things to say about his nurses, a subject that leads him into an… Read More

Lucas Brothers, 1940. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, bright, tight, square, hint of shelfwear./good: mildly chipped, one tear at top of spine, tear along front edge, age toned, NOT price clipped ($2.13). L. Frederic Stephens. 8vo 249pp. from front flap: "Here a college professor follows the foibles of mankind down through the ages in a subject that is older than civilization, but ever new. Devils, ghosts, witches, omens and other interesting things like that peep out in print to tell you what it means to laugh before breakfast, what happens when you drop a dish rag, and how to make a barren tree bear fruit." #00726.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1943. hardcover. good: pencil marking, marking on front cover, shelf wear, corners bumped, marking on front paste down, erased writing on half title page, binding tight./no DJ. Will Forrest. 12mo. 198pp. first edition from Bobbs Merrill Childhood of Young Americans series. scarce copy. #01295.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1953. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, ex library markings to front paste down and FFEP, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Anne Marie Fauss. 8vo 201pp. from Introduction: This book tells of twelve youths who, though they lived many centuries ago, are remembered today with even greater love and admiration than during their own times. They were not great warriors in epic battles; nor kings famous for their conquests. These twelve were heroes who started out to find a new and better way of life for men to follow." #01448.

Signet, 1952. mass market paperback. good: text clean and unmarked, binding tight, spine chipped. Signet 810. sixth printing September 1952. #00417.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1939. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG- : age wear/toning, mild edge and corner wear, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 276pp. stated first edition. biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), Whig politician, Home Secretary, and twice UK Prime Minister, and his marriage to Caroline Lamb (who famously conducted an affair with Lord Byron and wrote a thinly veiled Gothic novel about her marriage and the affair). #01717.

George H Doran, 1919. hardcover. good: scuffed and rubbed boards with age soiling, some foxing throughout text/no DJ. 12mo. 105pp. presumed later printing from first year of publication. novel written by English writer when she was 9 years old, prized for its innocence, mispellings, and unusual grammar, with a preface by J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and many other children's classics. #00757.

New York: George H Doran, 1919. hardcover. Book VG-: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, gift inscription FFEP, hinge starting at half title page, text clean, binding tight.. 12mo. 105pp. presumed later printing from first year of publication. novel written by English writer when she was 9 years old, prized for its innocence, mispellings, and unusual grammar, with a preface by J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and many other children's classics. . #02197.

New York: George H Doran, 1919. hardcover. Book VG-: stain to front board, age/shelf wear to boards and spine, bumped corners, dampstain to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. 12mo. 105pp. presumed later printing from first year of publication. novel written by English writer when she was 9 years old, prized for its innocence, mispellings, and unusual grammar, with a preface by J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and many other children's classics. . #02198.

HarperCollins, 2000. first edition. hardcover. near fine: slight shelf wear, otherwise clean, tight, square./near fine: mild edge wear, slight signs of chipping at base of spine, NOT clipped. 8vo 448pp. from front flap: "Unflinchingly honest and powerfully insightful, Olivia Goldsmith captures the true essence of today's woman as few writers can. And she's funny while doing it. "Olivia Goldsmith's forte has always been the writing of revenge novels with great, good humor," Washington Post Book World wrote, praising her talents, and Newsweek proclaimed she is "like Jane Austen dealing blackjack . . . you keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip." Now the acclaimed author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The First Wives Club returns with her most powerful and moving novel yet, the contemporary story of three young women's initial illusions, desperate reality, and clever responses to their dirty rotten husbands." #00737.

Macmillan, 1944. first edition. hardcover. very good: shelf wear to boards and spine, gift inscription on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Octavo 271pp. #00262.