Resultados da Pesquisa: Títulos que começam com W de Matthew's Books LLC

New York: Stein and Day, 1977. first edition. hardcover. good: ex library--mild wear to boards and spine, scotch tape shadows, tape residue on endpapers, stamps on copyright page, sleeve on rear endpaper, stamp on text block, slight lean./good: library stamp on spine, age toning, NOT clipped ($8.95). 8vo 214pp. from front flap: "Once upon a time not too long ago, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants believed that if the rest of the world was littered with ethnics who lacked the social graces, were inadequately educated, and were darker-complected than was desirable, at least in America WASPS and their standards governed. [. . .] Today WASPS have come to think of themselves as becoming a minority group in a sea of aliens, and Florence King has set out on a journey with her readers to find out what WASPS really were and are and how and why they think." Scarce copy. #01275.

Boston: B.J. Brimmer, 1922. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, scuffing to corners/slight bump, name on FFEP, author's inscription on half title page: "Fanny Runnells Poole with the compliments of Mary Sinton Leitch Through time and change--though truth be fugitive--Beauty abides, and that suffices me./no DJ. 12mo 103pp. first collection of poetry from one of the founders and later president of Poetry Society of Virginia. #01389.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG- : age toning, mild edge wear/offset. 12mo 197pp. 11th printing. from front flap: "This book, published February 28 of this year, has already proved itself one of those publications that is destined to affect the lives of thousands of people. Its central theme: ACT AS IF IT WERE IMPOSSIBLE TO FAIL, affected its readers even when this book was in manuscript form. At that time the young lady who type it up for the printer, did what she had always wanted to do: give up her job and work for herself. And two months later had her own typewriting agency, employing three girls to help her." #01734.

Little Brown and Company, 1946. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear and fading to spine, else clean, tight, square./very good: mild fading, chipping at top of spine. not clipped.. 8vo 434pp. from front flap: "This is a ruthless story of a ship with three lives, sailed by men determined to win revenge, money, and power from the sea. It is a story of intense, tropical passion, expressed both in the desire of man for woman and in the conflict of men with each other. More, it is the story of the power which hate can attain when it drives coldly toward revenge, and of how, once achieved, that power sucks in all, even those who are themselves possessed of the devil." #00743.

Sigma Publishing, 1892. New Edition: two parts in one. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, age wear to boards, bumped corners, name on FFEP, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 16mo. 525pp. First edition thus. This travelogue offers a fascinating glimpse into Greece at the turn of the 20th century. The author describes his travels to various parts of the country, including Athens, Delphi, and the islands of the Aegean. Along the way, he provides insightful commentary on the history, culture, and mythology of Greece, as well as his own impressions of the people and places he encounters. A must-read for anyone interested in travel writing and Greek history.. #00664.

New York: Bantam Books, 1968. mass market paperback. Book VG-: publisher sticker on front cover, crease to spine, age toning/shelf wear to wraps and spine, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 312pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02930.

New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1916. first thus. hardcover. very good: age wear and toning to boards and spine, a few marks. toning and light foxing to endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 189pp. with an Introduction by Irving S. Cobb. From copyright page: "This book is compiled from a careful selection of the best prose poems of Walt Mason." #01211.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1967. hardcover. Book VG: name and stamp on FFEP, toning and offset to endpapers,/DJ G: edge and corner wear, age toning, holes in spine. 8vo 1156pp. seventh impression. from front flap: "The Nonesuch WHITMAN in the Compendious Series. The aim in this series is to give, by clever editing and appropriate critical apparatus, a true conspectus of certain great writers in one volume, and, by proper planning of the physical elements of the book, to give it in a form both handsome and handy." #02507.

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1971. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 184pp. a memoir and history of public education and public summer camps for children by the co-founder of Blue Mountain Camps in Pennsylvania, and a plea for more funding for camping and education instead of military spending. #01715.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: age toning/spotting to rear cover, NOT clipped ($5.95). 8vo 192pp. Introductions by Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver. from front flap: "Their ages range from eighteen to eighty-six. Their skills vary from the law to plumbing to literature. Many work eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, for a monthly stipend of $50. Their homes for one year or more are the slums of Boston, an Apache reservation, the hollows of Appalachia--wherever the poor reside. All have one thing in common: they are VISTA Volunteers. Warriors for the Poor is a graphic, vital, and, at times, moving report on VISTA, America's first federally sponsored, domestic people-to-people program." #01605.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. North Star Books. hardcover. very good: clean, square, tight. mild shelfwear/no DJ. Harve Stein. 8vo 184pp. biography of American writer Washington Irving for younger readers, part of North Star Books series. #01072.

New York: Heritage Press, 1961. hardcover. Book VG+: clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcover VG: mild shelf wear else sound. 4to 446pp. with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang, Illustrations by Robert Ball. #02626 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Modern Library, 1950. Modern Library College Editions. softcover. very good: text clean, binding tight. Duodecimo 562pp. Modern Library College Editions T5. #00486.

Paul B Hoeber Inc, 1937. hardcover. very good: evidence of writing erased from rear paste down, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight/fair: glassine jacket largely intact, tears/chipping especially along bottom.. Sextodecimo 41pp. #00110.

New York: WW Norton & Company, 1945. hardcover. very good: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, writing in pencil on rear paste down and endpapers, pencil notes in index, otherwise text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, rubbing, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 229pp. first edition, later printing. scarce. from front flap: "The Way of an Investigator is at once something of an autobiographical account of Dr. Cannon's work and a description of how the scientific investigator goes about doing his job." autobiography of physiologist, professor, and Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. Popularized the term "fight or flight" and developed the theory of homeostasis. #01169.

New York: Bantam Books, 1975. mass market paperback. Book VG+: toning around text block else clean, tight, unmarked. excellent reading copy.. 16mo 212pp. 19th printing. see pictures for synopsis. #02540.

New York: Bantam Books, 1950. first thus. mass market paperback. Book G: age and shelf wear to wraps and spine, spine creased, text clean, binding intact. solid reading copy. 16mo 246pp. January 1950. Bantam Books 752. see pictures for synopsis. #02685.

Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1944. fourth edition. hardcover. very good: age wear/toning to boards and spine, name on FFEP, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding loose at hinge but intact./no DJ. 12mo. 72pp. part of Sugar Creek Gang series, a series of Christian themed children's books. #01164.

Signet, 1962. mass market paperback. good: text clean, binding tight. Signet T1791 fourth printing 1962. #00403.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1976. hardcover. Book VG+: text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: mild age toning/rubbing, NOT clipped ($12.95). William C. Sherb. 8vo 180pp. from front flap: "...It's all spelled out for you here in this handy almanac: all the natural indicators of the weather--from the cows lying in the field, to the shapes of the clouds, to the pain in Grandpa's game leg--and why they are so accurate." #01620.