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

Playboy Press, 1973. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./very good: some rubbing and shelf wear, NOT clipped ($8.95). 8vo 390pp. from front flap: "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a show-off. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. That's Howard Cosell telling it like it is. . . .He might have put it in other ways: that he is the best sports commentator of his or any other time; that he probes and blasts where others turn tail; that his relationships (whether love or hate) with athletes, managers, coaches and owners have produced a new kind of sports journalism; that he injects so much of his own knowledge, as well as anger or humor, into an interview that it becomes an event." #00955.

Henry Holt and Company, 1920. first edition. hardcover. very good: blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, spine faded and rubbed, corners bumped, heavy offsetting on FFEP, half title, title, copyright page and between pp. 126-127 from newspaper clippings. text block clean and unmarked, binding tight/no DJ. second collection of poems by the reclusive Irish mystic poet Francis Carlin (a pseudonym for James MacDonell). inscribed by the author to the writer Carroll Frey: "to Carroll Frey, in memory of a droll day, from the author Francis Carlin Nov 10, 1923" unique item. #00072.

Cincinnati: Proctor and Gamble, 1921. twentieth edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear/soil to boards and spine, slightly bumped corners, text clean, binding tight.. 12mo 231pp. the history of Crisco along with recipes and strategies for assembling dishes into meals. #02231.

Bantam Books, 1974. first thus. paperback. very good. slight crease along spine front cover, otherwise tight binding, clean pages, some shelf wear.. #00010.

Milady Publishing, 1966. first edition. hardcover. very good: agewear/soiling to boards, bumped corners, toning on endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 4to 383pp. Comprehensive etiquette guide for young men: personal health and hygiene, personal, romantic, and business etiquette, care and choosing of wardrobe, public speaking, interviewing and working in the business world, more. . #00670.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. good: mild shelf wear, toning to endpapers, name on FFEP, neat underlining throughout. binding tight./good: small tears with loss, age soiled, edge wear, clipped.. 12mo.  143pp. Religious Book Club Edition. from front flap: "Rufus Jones has written this new book in the firm belief that the times are ripe for a signal advance in religious life. While he is troubled by the fact that religion is apparently losing ground among young people today, due to the expansion of definite scientific knowledge, he still believes that religion and science are not opponents but that true religion and true science may be harmonized for the greater good of the human race." #01074.

Del Ray Books, 1981. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, mild shelfwear, else clean, square, tight./very good: age wear/rubbing, NOT clipped. 8vo 491pp. third volume of series, Book Club Edition. #00839.

Harper and Brothers, 1958. first edition. hardcover. very good: toning to endpapers, shelfwear to corners and spine, text clean, binding tight and square/good: mild edge and corner wear and rubbing, clipped.. 12mo. 143pp. B-H Harper's code, stated first. from front flap: "Here is a bold, challenging demand for new habits of education and thinking to meet the world-wide dangers of the present day. Dr. Brock Chisholm, recently Director General of the World Health Organization, makes a convincing argument agains the local, national, religious and parental taboos which cloud so many minds. Discussing a number of Eastern and Western countries, he illustrates the barriers created by language, cultures and political institutions." . #00928.

New York: Carlton House, 1932. World's Greatest Thinkers. hardcover. Book VG: mild age wear to boards and spine, toning/dust to outside of text block, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 429pp. from World's Great Thinkers series. Excerpts from Marx' collected writings organized into three parts: I. Outlines of a Future Society II. Analysis of the Materials. III The Method and the Call to Action, featuring excerpts from German Ideology, Communist Manifesto (in toto), Poverty of Philosophy, Capital, and more. #01641.

New York: Grove Press, 1957. softcover. Book VG: mild wear to wraps, text clean, binding tight. writing on rear endpapers. 12mo 274pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02007.

Crown Publishers, Inc, 1951. first edition. hardcover. very good: torn FFEP, mild wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 255pp. no edition or additional printing stated, so assumed first. #00751.

Doubleday and Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: scuffing to corners of boards, offset, some toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: edge and corner wear/scuffing, NOT clipped.. 8vo 462pp. Index, Source of Quotations, Appendices, Biographical Guide, +pictures. Stated first edition, but blind stamp at base of spine rear board and gutter code HB2H indicates BCE. From front flap: "She is "Lara"--Boris Pasternak's model for the unforgettable heroine of Doctor Zhivago. She shared the last fourteen years of Pasternak's life, and he immortalized her in the crowning work of his brilliant, turbulent career. Now Olga Ivinskaya tells the remarkable story of their time and their love together." #01045.

New York: Random House, 1989. first edition. hardcover. very good: some creasing at corners of a few pages, age wear at bottom of boards, text clean, binding tight./very good: age wear, NOT clipped ($22.95). 8vo 672pp. Stated first edition, number line to 2, as usual for Random House. from front flap: "The lush islands of the Caribbean have always possessed a special allure--as colonial treasures in days gone by, as vacation retreats today. Told in James A. Michener's incomparable fashion, here is a magnificent story of the struggle for empire, and of political, economic and racial currents in one of the most beautiful and hotly contested regions of the globe." #01097.

Doubleday and Company, 1967. first edition. hardcover. good: former library copy with usual markings and materials present. text clean, lean in spine/good: covered in library plastic cover, taped to boards, NOT price clipped. 8vo 191pp. from front flap: "It was a voice, obviously female and obviously frantic, coming through the wall of the doctor's office that first intrigued Detective Inspector Septimus Finch. He couldn't hear everything, but now and then he could pick out a phrase, a sentence. "Those three late husbands had become friends," the Voice was saying. "That's not as unlikely as it might seem..." "All of them were..." "But when I got down, there was no one. He'd gone, like a ghost..." "I called out, but no one answered." To Finch, the conversation suggested a number of things--illegal entry; bigamy, perhaps; possibly blackmail. Later he met the owner of the Voice, and learned something about the three late husbands. What finally drew him into the case was not any of the possibilities he… Read More

New York: Random House, 1971. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: mild age wear, small closed tear at top of spine, clipped. 8vo 187pp. first American edition with number line to 2 as standard for Random House. from front flap: "On September 23, 1926, an Austrian experimental biologist named Dr. Paul Kammerer blew his brains out on a footpath in the Austrian mountains. His suicide was the climax of a great evolutionary controversy which his experiments had aroused. The battle was between the followers of Lamarck, who maintained that acquired characteristics could be inherited, and the neo-Darwinists, who upheld the theory of chance mutations preserved by natural selection. Dr. Kammerer's experiments with various amphibians, including salamanders and the midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans), lent much weight to the Lamarckian argument and drew upon him the full fury of the orthodox… Read More

Triangle Books, 1945. first thus. hardcover. very good: staining to front board, age wear, toning to text block/very good: toning/age wear, chipping, small closed tear at base of spine.. 12mo. 281pp. Perry Mason took the bait--a $10,000 note--and became involved in one of his most baffling cases. First thus, unusual in DJ. #00716.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. first edition. hardcover. Book G: wear to boards and spine, spine mildly sunned, ex libris bookplate on front paste down, mild toning, text clean, binding tight, last pages of text block uncut./no DJ. 12mo 263pp. 14 essays by novelist and poet, including two on Joseph Conrad. #01423.

American Library Association, 1908. American Edition. hardcover. good: damp stain to board edges, bumped corners, writing on front pastedowns, marginalia in light pencil throughout, tight binding/no DJ. Octavo 88pp. Bibliographic guide giving detailed explanations for creating a card catalog entry, including considerations of individual, group, corporate authors, how to treat noble and ecclesiastical titles, appendices on Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Slavic transliteration, and much more. #00128.

Paraclete Press, 2014. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages.

London: Neville Spearman, 1970. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, spine sunned, neat ink underlining in first part of text, binding tight.. 8vo 207pp. an account by a psychiatrist of his treatment of a patient with past life recall of a life spent among the medieval Cathars in 13th century France. #02453.