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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club. hardcover. Book VG: mild age /shelf wear, slightly bumped corners, name on FFEP, text clean, binding intact.. 4to 48pp. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition. Mr. and Mrs. Primm adopt a crocodile. #02041.

New York: Longmans Green and Company, 1956. first edition. hardcover. Book G: mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, damp stain/discoloration to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. reading copy./no DJ. 8vo 255pp. stated first edition. from Introduction: "Born in Boston in 1817, Fanny Appleton was married to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843, and died in 1861. This volume contains selections from her extensive journals and correspondence." includes references and written portraits of her husband Longfellow, Carlyle, Whittier, Emerson, Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, and more. scarce copy. #01901.

New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1964. Second Edition. hardcover. very good: toning to endpapers, mild handling wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, some wear to edge of text block./DJ good: edge and corner wear, age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo 673pp. from front flap: "The disciplines of genetics, developmental biology, and biochemistry have an important common denominator--molecular biology. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the physical basis of heredity as interpreted through molecular studies. It is almost totally concerned with how genes act, and the effects of their actions within the individual cells. This edition of Genetics and Metabolism has been fully revised and expanded to include the many new outlooks and concepts which have recently redirected thinking in this field. Yet the authors have been careful to retain the fundamentals necessary to an understanding of the original literature." #01199.

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild foxing/offset to endpapers and paste downs, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: clean, unclipped.. 8vo 242pp. from front flap: "'I walked the lanes of the little souk, sniffing hungrily of the smells that. . . I have longed for: a peculiar, uniquely Arabian essence compounded of sandalwood, sewage, cumin, rosewater and dust.' With Charles Doughty's classic Travels in Arabia Deserta in hand, Dale Walker sets out in search of the 'happy Arabia' of the Romans. Vestiges of this pre-Islamic world are rumoured to exist in Sheba, the country's northernmost corner, an area once ruled by spirited matriarchs who engaged in pagan rituals. [. . .] In this gritty, opinionated and often hilarious narrative, Dale Walker conjures up a fresh and evocative picture of a complex society known to most Westerners only as a land of billionaire sheikhs and black-veiled women." #02410.

Lyons Press, 2011. hardcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages/very good: minimal signs of wear.

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.

Signet, 1961. first thus. mass market paperback. very good: text clean, binding tight. first printing May 1961. #00402.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1901. hardcover. Book G: both books worn boards and spine, sunned spines, name on FFEPs, both hinges cracked vol. I, rear hinge cracked vol II. text clean, bindings intact but loose./no DJ. William Martin Johnson. 8vo 854pp. (over 2 vol.) deemed most influential Christian novel of the 19th century, surpassing sales of Uncle Tom's Cabin upon its release in 1880, used as the basis for adaptations on stage and film, including the famous 1959 movie. All time best selling novel in American history until the publication of Gone With The Wind in 1936. #01434.

George H Doran, 1925. first American edition. hardcover. good: wear to boards, slightly sunned spine, corners slightly bumped, foxing on endpapers, hinge separating at title page, binding otherwise tight and intact, marking on verso half title page, text clean./no DJ. 8vo 323pp. #00902.

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

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1950. first edition. hardcover. good: stain/wear to boards and spine, slight bump to corners, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ good: corner and edge wear, closed tear base of spine, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 377pp. from front flap: "The Adventurer is a novel on a tremendous scale, full of dramatic events against a rich historical background. The scene is all of Europe and the time the early sixteenth century. Michael, the hero who tells his own story, is perhaps an even more exciting figure than the Egyptian. His is a life of high adventure, of romance and intrigue, and Waltari recounts it with the art of a master storyteller. The Adventurer is another masterpiece by a great creative historian." #01236.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. first American edition. hardcover. fine: binding tight and square, text clean/near fine: shelf wear. 8vo. 252pp. from front flap: "Christmas 1907 is the background for Elizabeth Walter's compelling new novel. Reminiscent of the works of Edith Wharton and, more recently, of Isabel Colegate, A Season of Goodwill probes beneath the glossy exteriors of its polished and privileged characters to reveal the raw passions of some very volatile men and women." #00682.

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. hardcover. Book VG: toning to endpapers, mild corner wear, text clean, binding tight. Slipcase G: age toning/rubbing, edge and corner scuffing. Boyd Hanna. 8vo 219pp. Izaak Walton's classic treatise on angling, in the form of a dialogue and story between a fisherman, a hunter, and a falconer. With second part by Charles Cotton. #01861.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1940. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 188pp. from Preface: "This book is intended for students who have completed at least a year's course of study in Botany at a British or American College or University. I hope that those who use it will be encouraged to examine actual specimens and sections of fossil plants, [. . .] To appreciate the value of the evidence provided by fossils it is essential that the student should handle examples and know something about their nature, origin, and the methods used in their investigation." #01708.

Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild toning/offset to paste downs and endpapers, else clean, tight, square./very good: edge wear, mildly age toned, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 192pp. from cover: "An experienced public servant and writer on political and international affairs takes a look at the precarious state of Western civilization."  an interesting mid century take on America and the West's responses to communism, crises in the Middle and Far East and Central Europe, disarmament, and more. #00938.

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.

WW Norton & Company, 1962. first edition. hardcover. very good+ : slightest sign of shelfwear, marking on FFEP, mild toning, else clean, square, tight./very good: lower corner front flap clipped, but price visible top right ($3.75), shelf wear.. 8vo 159pp. stated first. from front flap: "Barbara Ward has here written the most penetrating and the most important of her several books. With arresting clarity, coupled with a deep knowledge of history and of current affairs, she explains how the rich nations become richer, while the poor nations, in spite of desperate and heroic efforts, actually become poorer." #00911.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. first edition. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped corners, writing on FFEP, some fade to red top stain of text block. text clean, binding tight and square./very good: edge wear, rubbing, some creasing in flaps, NOT clipped ($8.95). Hollett Smith. 8vo. 385pp. from front flap: "One of the most exciting developments in science today--the discovery of the "biological clocks" that govern the behavior of all life from barnacle to man, and link each of us with the "beat" of our spinning planet--is here for the first time comprehensively opened up for the layman. In his pioneering and fascinating book, Ritchie Ward unfolds the dramatic researches that have made the living clocks a central concern of today's biologists seeking to understand our total environment..." #00772.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. hardcover. Book G: scuffing and shelf wear to boards and spine, hinge started at FFEP and rear endpapers, gift inscription by author on FFEP, text clean, binding intact.. 8vo 318pp.  Yankee City Series Volume III. from Preface: "The "Yankee City Series" of which the present work is the third volume, will be complete in six volumes. Each deals with a significant aspect of the life of a modern community as it has been recorded and analyzed by the combined and cooperative labors of a group of social anthropologists. [. . .] The present volume, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups, by W. Lloyd Warner and Leo Srole, is a detailed study of the social life of a number of ethnic groups, including the Irish, French Canadians, Jews, Armenians, and Poles; it explains how they maintain their old cultural traditions but at the same time undergo social changes which make them more and more like the larger American community." #02317.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: spotting to boards, toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG-: age/shelf wear, closed tear taped on front cover, front flap creased, NOT clipped ($15.00). 8vo from front flap: The Virgin Mary's importance is universal, almost incalculable; her cult, one of the richest and most enduring our world has ever produced. Yet in the deepest sense, she herself has remained unknown, remote, and exalted--concealed from our understanding behind the beautiful masks of legend, doctrine, and iconography--her true nature an enigma. Now in this extraordinary book, at once a feat of scholarship and a literary achievement of great beauty, Marina Warner penetrates the many layers of Mariology to bring us something remarkable: a "biography" of the Virgin that reveals her in all her guises from antiquity to the present day, from human woman to Queen of Heaven." #01863.