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

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1923. hardcover. good: bumped, crack on inside board along gutter, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. Octavo 403pp. Anthology of modern American poets (up to c. 1920 including Dickenson, Lowell, Frost, Crane, Pound, St. Vincent Millay, Aiken, more) and modern British poets (Hardy, Bridges, Housman, Yeats, Kipling, Sassoon, Brooke, Graves, more) with brief biographical sketches. #00312.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1931. Junior Edition. hardcover. Book G: age wear/soil to boards and spine, corners bumped and scuffed, stamps on front paste down and FFEP, writing on FFEP, writing on rear endpaper, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 375pp. anthology of poetry selected for young readers, includes works by Browning, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frost, Longfellow, Yeats, more. #01782.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1920. first edition. hardcover. very good: small spot stain on front board, spine sunned, corners bumped, toning on endpapers, name stamped on FFEP, small stickers on front and rear pastedowns. Text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Duodecimo 234pp. Anthology of British poems from about about 1885-1920, which includes Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Ford Madox Hueffer (Ford Madox Ford), Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, Kipling, and WWI poets including Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, and many more. Includes a critical introduction and brief biographical/critical sketches of the poets anthologized. #00311.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1952. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/good: chipping and rubbing, corner wear, age toning, NOT clipped ($3.75). 8vo 334pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "Thanks to the encouragement of generous critics [...] and the still more gratifying response of enthusiastic readers, this is the third of the increasingly popular BEST HUMOR ANNUAL series. As in the previous editions, there is a mingling of famous writers and (as yet) less well-known humorists." #01320.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear to boards, mild toning/offset to paste downs/endpapers, slight bow in text block, some fading to topstain./good: edge and corner wear, age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo. 407pp. Book Club Edition. Second novel in what would become a five part Rabbit series from Updike. #00822.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 197pp. from front flap: "Will the Middle East go Communist? It happened in China, and it can happen in the Middle East too, says this expert on world affairs, just returned from a world tour of the Far East, South East Asia, India, and the Arab States. FREDA UTLEY, a lifelong student of politics, economics and history, draws a deadly parallel between the events that brought the Chinese Reds to power and recent happenings in the Middle East." #01603.