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

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1922. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear/scuffs to boards and spine, spine sunned, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 312pp. 16 short stories chosen by Society of Arts and Sciences. See picture for table of contents. #01898.

New York: Book Manufacturers Institute, 1937. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, else clean, tight, square./very good: age toning, spine sunned, NOT clipped.. 12mo. 45pp. a brief history of printing, prepared specially for the Book Manufacturing Exhibit by the Book Manufacturers' Institute. #01166.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. first edition. hardcover. very good: name on front paste down/FFEP, text clean, binding tight, minimal handling wear, spine slightly cocked, soiling top of text block./good: age wear, chipping and scuffing, small closed tears at base of spine. Octavo 325pp. from inside flap: "The Ocean River is that tremendous current, the Gulf Stream, and here for the first time its complete scientific and historical story is told. This beautifully written book fully explains a phenomenon which has had, and is having, an incalculable influence on the history and civilizations of the Atlantic community and therefore on the whole world." #00541.

Macmillan Company, 1954. first edition. hardcover. very good: some age wear to edges of boards, slightly bumped, toning and offset to paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight./good: some corner wear, rubbing, clipped but price visible ($3.00). Arthur C. Collins. 8vo 175pp. from front flap: In the words of the author: "This book is a bit of a fraud. That is, it's a collection of pieces from a newspaper. Of course, the author doesn't, at heart, think it's a fraud: he just says that because he's the victim of a modern literary fallacy that anything that's been in a newspaper is just a block of words made up to go on the other side of the advertisements. Actually, the essay is as valid an art form as any other--even the humorous essay." #00910.

Grove Press, 1955. trade paperback. very good: age toning, shelf wear. clean text, tight binding. Octavo 370pp. Evergreen Books E-23. Lists the basic concepts and then theories of important figures in the history of psychoanalysis: Freud, Adler, Jung, Otto Rank, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, and Harry Stack Sullivan, follows up with a brief overview and appreciation. #00499.

New York: Rinehart and Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG: rubbing, age toning, mild edge wear, small closed tear top of front flap. not clipped.. 8vo 184pp. from front flap: "Through a series of dramatic, face-to-face encounters with desperate men and women, one of America's most articulate and thoughtful clergymen tells the story of his own struggle with faith--faith in the goodness of God, the worth of the individual, conventional morality and the processes of democracy. Using the resources of both psychology and religion, the counseling minister attempts to bring joy and meaning to the people who daily seek his counsel, but he is often haunted by a sense of despair and futility." #02092.

New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Co, 1956. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild foxing to endpapers, mild signs of shelf wear, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG-: chipping/edge wear, age toning, NOT clipped ($3.50). Donald McKay. 8vo 242pp. from front flap: "Of Whales and Women is at the same time a history of Nantucket from the whaling days of great derring-do and a warm personal memoir of many happy summers spent there by the Gilbreth (Cheaper by the Dozen) clan. It is an account, too, of Nantucket today, where the chief occupation is harpooning tourists rather than whales. Since Frank Gilbreth is teh author, the book abounds in untrammeled fun and wit, salty anecdotes, and the feeling of kinship of a large, lively, and loving family." #01543.

Little Brown and Company, 1970. first. hardcover. very good: spine slightly cocked, evidence of former owner's card (glue residue on FEP) otherwise unmarked text. Tape residue on cover/good: closed tear on top of spine, creased and wrinkled at top of back cover of DJ, slight scuffing.. first edition of Norman Mailer's account of NASA and the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, first serialized in Life magazine in 1969 and 1970. #00018.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear and toning to boards and spine, toning to text block, signed and inscribed by author on FFEP: "To My Dear dear friend Edith Rex who watched "Old Abe" Grow from a broadcast to a book with fondest love from Lorraine Sherwood and "Old Abe" August 19, 1946/no DJ. 12mo 61pp. the story of "Old Abe," the bald eagle who served with the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. #01751.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. hardcover. very good: mild fading boards and spine, mild toning, else clean, square, tight./good: age faded, mild rubbing, price clipped.. 8vo 166pp. stated third printing, November 1948. from front flap: "It was Miss Cather's intention to publish the three stories in this volume together with a much longer story, on which she was working during the last year of her life. At the time of her death, however, the first rough draft of this fourth story was still incomplete; and in accord with her wishes regarding her unfinished work, it will not be published. These three stories, then, are the final expression of Miss Cather's matchless art." #00727.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1947. first thus. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, else clean, unmarked, tight binding./no DJ. Nettie Weber. 8vo 319pp. with introduction by May Lamberton Becker. #01748.

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1993. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcase VG+: mild handling wear. Rene Ben Sussan. 8vo 316pp. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Introduction by Francois Mauriac, #02278.

Doubleday and Company, 1982. first American edition. hardcover. very good: crease in spine, some toning to text block edges. corners sharp, binding tight, text clean./very good: age and edge wear, NOT price clipped ($13.95). 8vo 234pp. from front flap: "Few men have had to consider such an arrangement; fewer still could have ignored such a reward. Thus--dangerously, secretly--a handsome young sailor with chestnut colored hair responds to the urgent appeals of an unlikely siren beckoning him to a room somewhere in Suffolk, in the England of 1590. There, in exchange for an enormous sum of gold, he obliges a beautiful, recently widowed lady in the begetting of an heir whose birth will ensure the retention of her title and high station in life." #00684.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1928. Companion Series. hardcover. good: wear to boards, scuffing and rubbing to edges and corners of boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers, gift inscription on FFEP, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. Frances Brundage. 8vo 401pp. with color frontispiece and b/w illustrations by Frances Brundage throughout. follows the adventures of Polly Milton, a young country girl, who is visiting her wealthy city friends, the Shaws. The novel shows how Polly remains true to herself despite the pressure the Shaws' world puts on her shoulders.. #01317.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1935. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, owner's sticker on FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ Poor: sticker patch on front cover, chipping with loss and edge wear, bottom front corner clipped but price still present. 8vo 326pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "This brilliantly executed book is, a competent critic assures us, the most delightful--possibly the best---of the popular biographies of Goldsmith. Real affection and kindly humor irradiate its pages. The contrasts between Goldsmith the writer and Goldsmith the man are fully set forth--"No man was wiser when he had a pen in his hand," said Dr. Johnson; yet the same Goldsmith, ugly , vain, ridiculously dressed, pathetically eager to shine in a brilliant company, was a constant butt for Johnson, Garrick, Burke, and Walpole, and his generosity and essential gentleness did very little to protect him." #02077.

Harcourt Brace and World, 1966. first edition. hardcover. very good: bookplate on front paste down, binding tight, text clean, minimal signs of shelf wear,/very good: some scuffing and rubbing, some fading and age wear.. Octavo 306pp. Study of aggressive behavior in animals and an application of those findings to humankind, with an argument that aggression is "hard-wired" into the human condition, and that war is therefore inevitable. Very controversial upon publication, sparking criticism from anthropologists, psychoanalysts, biologists, and more for applying observations of animals to the behavior of humans. #00137.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning, offset to endpapers, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ VG-: age toning/writing/marking on front cover. Eric Carle. 12mo 62pp. collection of quotes, aphorisms, poems on the subject of friendship. #01889.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. hardcover. Book VG+: writing on FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped. Stanley Clough. 12mo 61pp. two essays, one on love and one on friendship, by Ralph Waldo Emerson with color illustrations. #01888.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. first thus. softcover. Book VG: mild wear to cover, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 219pp. first Arcade Edition. see pics for synopsis. #02011.

New York: Harper and Row, 1981. second edition. hardcover. Near Fine: clean, square, tight, name on FFEP./good: mild shelfwear, clipped.. 8vo 187pp. from front flap: "On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has already become a classic in its field, praised for its sound advice, for its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. Cited by critics as a fit companion to Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, it is now a valued resource in America's homes, colleges, schools, newspaper offices and business offices." #01073.