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

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1929. hardcover. Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 90pp. from Foreword: "The course in General Zoology at the University of Pittsburgh has been built around the local needs, conditions and training of its staff with the recognition that in the great majority of cases this will be the student's only contact with the subject. [. . .]In viewing the results of either method as to its permanent contributions to the student's personal philosophy or art of living it would seem that the repeated stressing of the few fundamental principles of living material in connection with as few as possible characteristic examples of animals will be more apt to fix a definite minimum of information and to start the hoped-for chain of biological thought than any other method." #01807.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. hardcover. very good: wear and scuff to boards, toning and writing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 4to 380pp. Twenty first impression, August 1940. Influential and widely adopted textbook by American zoologist Libbie Henrietta Hyman. One of the final printings of the first edition before her revised and updated edition of 1942. #01084.

New York: New Directions, 1964. softcover. Book VG+: clean, square, unmarked, tight. 12mo 256pp. NDP 186. see pictures for synopsis. #02535.

Clingstone, 1979. first edition, association copy. hardcover. near fine: mildest sign of shelfwear, else clean, square, tight./very good: edge wear/rubbing, NOT clipped.. 8vo 251pp. Biography and collection of letters of Mary Mapes Dodge, who wrote childrens books, known especially for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, and for being the long time editor and contributor to St Nicholas Magazine for 30 years, publishing children's stories written by  Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and others.  Gift inscription from subject's granddaughter: "To B[-] and Dick Ste[]us from Josephine Dodge Wilkinson grand daughter of Mary Mapes Dodge". #00804.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977. hardcover. very good+ : mild shelfwear to boards, else clean, tight, square./good: chipping, edge and corner wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 257pp. from front flap: "In this extraordinary novel we hear, in his own words, the story of Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, scion of a distinguished Southern family, famous college halfback, Rhodes scholar, disenchanted liberal lawyer, and master of Belle Isle, a New Orleans showplace and tourist attraction. Lance's world begins to fall apart on the day he accidentally learns that his younger daughter, Siobhan, is not his. . . ." #00817.

New York: Harper and Row, 1972. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild age soil to boards and spine, along edges, ex libris bookplate on front paste down, text clean, binding tight. Author inscription on half title page: "April 22 1974 To Marie Boyle In memory of the wonderful North Cascades trip and the alpine we shared Cordially Bettie E Willard/DJ VG: age toning, small closed tear top of spine, NOT clipped ($15.00). Ann Zwinger, Herman Zwinger, Beatrice Willard. 8vo 489pp. from front flap: "This beautifully illustrated volume--including twenty-four pages of color plates--is the first comprehensive book on the ecology of the alpine tundra of the United States, the area above tree limit which occurs on many western ranges and on the Presidential peaks of New Hampshire's White Mountains." signed and inscribed by co-author Beatrice Willard to original owner on half title page. #01496.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1953. Third Edition, Revised. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, spine sunned and scuffed, name on title page, neat underlining at beginning of text, binding intact.. 8vo 264pp. from Introduction: "There are only two good reasons for going abroad. The first is for the satisfaction, during the journey, of pointing out the deficiencies of foreign countries as compared with one's own. The second is for the satisfaction, after returning home, of describing to less travelled acquaintances the unique attractions of the places one has seen. For such purposes few countries are better qualified than Italy. The almost total absence of warm beer, bar-parlours and drug-stores, the often dubious quality of the local spirits, and the universal ignorance of the laws of baseball and cricket would suffice, apart from any other shortcomings, to put the country outside the pale of Anglo-Saxon civilization. On the other hand, its orange trees, its volcanoes and its Greek… Read More

Henry Holt and Company, 1912. Home University Library. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, soiling to boards and spine, toning and offset endpapers, writing on FFEP,/no DJ. 16mo. 256pp. later printing, Home University Library No. 31. Survey of French literature by member of the Bloomsbury Group and later author of Eminent Victorians and other influential biographies. #01009.

very good: mild shelf wear to boards, toning to endpapers, stamp on FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ good: chipping and rubbing, corner wear, NOT clipped ($2.00). 8vo 345pp. from front flap: "How to tell the truth when you see it or hear it--and how to tell a lie when you read it or hear it--is of vital importance in this day of propaganda and censorship. If you want to speak accurately, read intelligently, and understand the world of words in which you live, you will find this an indispensable book. #01215.

New York: G. Schirmer Inc, 1915. fifth issue. hardcover. Book VG: mild age wear to boards and spine, mild foxing/toning to endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 231pp. fifth issue. from subtitle: "An exhaustive explanation of the variations, rondos and sonata designs, for the general student of musical analysis, and for the special student of structural composition." #01549.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, toning/offset to endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 301pp. stated first edition. by Pulitzer winning novelist. After a typhoid epidemic breaks out in New Winton, Connecticut, the reputation of the town doctor and health officer, Dr. Bull, is brought into question under suspicions of incompetence and negligence.. #01699.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: ex library stamps on front and rear endpapers, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 376pp. from Introduction: "This book is about the way our metropolitan areas look and the way they might look. Its thesis is that they are going to look much better, that they are going to be much better places to live in, and that one of the reasons they are is that a lot more people are going to be living in them." #02268.

Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1987. softcover. very good: toning to wraps, sticker residue back cover, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 53pp. with facsimile inscription from George Bernard Shaw. from rear cover: "True poetry, as the old rhyme says, is born of the heart and nourished by art. Michelina Buonocore's Muse exemplifies the rule. her responses to her world, its beauties, its sorrows, and its mysteries, are honest, uncomplicated, and authentic. . ." --Thomas G. Bergin (prof. of languages at Yale University). #01285.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. first edition. hardcover. very good: shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to paste downs and endpapers, some creasing and holes in half title page, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 602pp. Set largely in the fictional town of Great Falls, Connecticut, Boston, and England, in and around Oxford, it relates the life of Oliver Alden, the descendant of an old Boston family. Santayana wrote of the novel that "it gives the emotions of my experiences, and not my thoughts or experiences themselves.". #01031.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1956. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset/toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 250pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "In 1898 the author of this book was called upon to performa. major tumor operation at a Texas ranch a hundred miles from the nearest hospital. The patient was old Aunt Bess Railton, matriarch of a large and unruly clan, whose members stood around outside while the doctor went to work. Dr. Crosthwait remembers one of these, fingering a lariat and remarking without a smile: "If anything happens to Aunt Bess, Doc done took his last stitch." Now, almost six decades later, that last stitch has not been taken, and Dr. Crosthwait can look back on one of the fullest, most humanly rewarding medical careers ever to be put between the covers of a book." #01694.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. first American edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age toning/soil, NOT clipped ($23.00). 8vo 257pp. from front flap: "This riveting book gives an account of an intrepid young woman's eccentric quest, as Samantha Weinberg pursues one of the last of a dying breed: an elusive French mercenary who plied his trade, ruthlessly, throughout the African continent. [. . .] Last of the Pirates is a thrilling story of beauty, intrigue, cruelty, and murder: a book about an exotic place few of us have ever imagined, and about a murderous, machista culture that aimed to transform it." #01918.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: Clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: mild shelf wear/soil, NOT clipped. 4to 780pp. from front flap: "The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with sheer reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory." #02437 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. first thus. hardcover. Book VG+: mild toning to endpapers, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front paste down, neat underlining at beginning of text, clean after. binding tight.. 8vo 428pp. first Greenwood reprinting. Reprint of original J.M. Dent edition of 1904. contains translations of: De Vulgari Eloquentia, De Monarchia, Epistles, Eclogues, and Quaestio De Aqua Et Terra. #02321.

Donald I Fine, 1986. first edition. hardcover. Near fine: sharp, clean, tight./very good: age wear, sticker residue on front cover, NOT price clipped ($18.95). 8vo 331pp. from front flap: "Laura Z. Hobson, author of the landmark Gentleman's Agreement, never did anything by half. Here, now, is a relentlessly honest chronicle of this fascinating and talented woman, born with the century, deeply involved with the social, cultural and political issues of her day and, more often than not, far ahead of her time. Years of Fulfillment captures us in the whirlwind of her tremendous success with Gentleman's Agreement--the book and the academy-award winning movie. With both modesty and a still-fresh sense of joy, she evokes the unique aura around a world-wide sensation." #00765.

Rinehart and Company, 1955. first edition. hardcover. good: wear and scuffing to boards, spine sunned, hinge cracking at title page, toning, text clean, binding intact/no DJ. 8vo 433pp. biography of actress Laurette Taylor. from Introduction: "Whether or not Laurette Taylor was the greatest actress of her day is not within the present writer's competency to determine. That she was perhaps its most shining personality, he can testify from long acquaintanceship. Her rise from the tawdriest purlieus of the theater to its summit had in it a touch of the miraculous." #00958.