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

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild age wear/soil to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning, edge and corner wear, not clipped.. 8vo 207pp. from front flap: "This book is at once a thorough study of the Christian Cooperatives in all their aspects and a clarion call to social action. It presents a challenge to remake our economic order within the capitalistic system by the application of Christian ethical principles, which find their expression in the Christian Cooperatives. [. . .] In its original form the subject matter of this book comprised the Rauschenbusch Lectures for 1936, delivered under the title "Christian Brotherhood and Economic Reconstruction." #02297.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: foxing/offset to endpapers, touch of shelf wear, else clean, tight, square, unmarked./DJ VG+: touch of age toning.. 8vo 184pp. Del Rey book club edition (first, with N31 gutter code p.183). Novelization based on screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. includes color photographs of production stills from movie. #01978.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Book VG: toning/offset to endpapers, mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning, corner and edge wear, closed tear along edge of rear flap, not clipped. 8vo 301pp. from front flap: "No woman in America ever lived a life like that of vivid Varina Howell Davis, the First Lady of the Confederacy, "Queen of the Lost Cause." Born an aristocrat in cotton-rich Natchez on the Mississippi, she left her home at eighteen to face an uncertain future as the wife of an enigmatic country man, Jefferson Davis--and to embark on a swift, kaleidoscopic career such as she had never dreamed of." #02132.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1971. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, gift inscription half title page, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: closed tear, flaking of plastic cover in spots, shelf wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 127pp. single side illustrations in color. +Index. from Preface: "What we have before us is a faithful facsimile of a diary of drawings made by the then twenty-two-year-old "Fredy" Kantor in 1945, right after his liberation from three Nazi detention camps. Even the photos, postcards, and mementos he pasted in his book are included." #02375.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1961. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: dust/soil to boards and spine, mild shelf wear edges of text block, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: mild edge wear, age toning, clipped.. 8vo 957pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "Vast in scope, breath-taking in intensity, forged in prose both muscular and lyrical, Spirit Lake is the truly great novel of the American frontier." #02264 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

Signet, 1959. first thus. mass market paperback. very good: clean text, tight binding. Signet Key KD 368, first printing May 1959. #00400.

New York: Atheneum, 1985. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelf wear at edges of boards and spine, rear board stained and soiled (pictured). text clean and unmarked, binding tight./DJ G: small closed tears, edge wear, crease in front flap, NOT clipped.. 8vo 456pp. from front flap: "In wide-ranging discussions of art, literature, music, science, dance, architecture, psychoanalysis and much else, Frederick R. Karl traces the provenance and myriad paths of Modernism, throwing light on what has often seemed a murky and confusing subject and circling closer and closer to its very heart." #02498.

WW Norton & Company, 1971. first edition. hardcover. very good: bumped corner, mild soiling to outside of text block, gilt lettering on spine bright, clean text, tight binding./no DJ. Large 8vo 666pp. In the early 1970's, Dr. Arno Karlen was an Associate Professor in the English Department Writing Program at Penn State University. He then returned to New York to serve as Executive Editor of Penthouse and Physicians World magazines. Beginning in the mid 1960s, up to 2000, Dr. Karlen wrote non fiction books on history, sexuality, and biomedical subjects. These books included Sexuality and Homosexuality, a sweeping historical, multicultural, multidisciplinary view of human sexual behavior. extra handling for shipping due to weight. #00658.

Random House, 1970. first edition. hardcover. near fine+: slightest signs of shelf wear on outside of text block, text clean, binding tight./near fine+: clean and bright. 204pp. Collection of short stories from avant-garde/post modern writer Steve Katz. "Steve Katz is a witty fantasist who can homogenize pop detritus, campy slang and hallucination to achieve inspired chaos." --New York Times.. #00640.

Garden City, New York: Heyday House, 1935. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Gerald Lynton Kaufman. 12mo 168pp. stated first edition. book of puzzles and brain teasers related to time. #01374.

New York: Literary Guild, 1935. first thus. hardcover. Book VG: age/dust soil to boards and spine, edges of text block. name and ex libris bookplate front pastedown, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 384pp. #01522.

London: Peter Owen, 1958. first edition. hardcover. Book NF: hint of toning to endpapers, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: mild rubbing, edge wear, shadow on rear cover (pictured), NOT clipped.. 12mo 192pp. from front flap: "Anna Kavan's earlier short stories are already regarded by prominent critics as classics. Her volumes of stories, Asylum Piece and I am Lazarus established her in the front rank of English writers, and admirers of her work will not be disappointed with this new collection." #02304.

Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1970. hardcover. Book NF: clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: cup ring stain, mild edge wear, NOT clipped.. Hollis Williford. 16mo unpaginated. Collection of poems by former priest and psychologist. #01455.

Washington D.C.: ICS Publications, 1973. first thus. softcover. Book VG: age toning, spine sunned, stain FFEP, text clean, binding intact.. 8vo 740pp. first paperback printing. contains The Ascent of Mount Carmel; The Dark Night; The Spiritual Canticle; The Living Flame of Love; minor works, poetry. #02335.

Pocket Books, 1994. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, square, tight/near fine: touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped ($20.00). 12mo. 387pp. from front flap: "Amid the breathtaking beauty of the Catskill Mountains, Avrum Feldman listened to the haunting voice of Amelita Gall-Curci ringing over the Shandaken Valley--a voice no one else could hear. When he died at age one hundred six, his obsession for the famous opera diva had lasted three-quarters of a century. Most people considered Avrum crazy, someone preoccupied with romantic nonsense. But Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was not among them, for he, too, had a love that changed his life, or almost did Amy Lourie. . . " #00854.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1978. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Both volumes VG, foxing to edges of text block, mild toning, writing on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./Both volumes VG, age toning, NOT clipped,. 8vo  1139pp. (567 + 572pp.) BCE. from front flap: "From the foothills of the towering Himalays, through the palaces of old India, across the bone strewn passes of the Khyber, to the final cataclysmic scene in the ancient "Land of Cain," M.M. Kaye weaves a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the great panoramic sagas of modern fiction." #01366.

Doubleday and Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: clean, tight, square, mild shelfwear/very good: age wear, NOT clipped. 8vo 397pp. Book Club Edition. from front flap: "I am Singer. And I am alone." His parents came from two very different worlds. And Singer was an outcast, a misfit who belonged to neither world . . . a master of solitude." #00838.

Boston: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1973. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelfwear, some neat underlining, binding tight/DJ G: edge and corner wear, mild age toning, not clipped. 8vo 334pp. from front flap: "In his critical masterpiece, an examination of American fiction and its makers since 1940, Alfred Kazin has now done for American fiction since World War II what, a generation ago, his On Native Grounds did for American writing of the previous fifty years. Alfred Kazin loves novels, lives them as he reads them. In his vigorously personal style, by turns joyous, indignant, analytical, and reverent, he communicates an infectious delight. You feel with him the creator's ardor, his vital urge to transmit exactly his own experience. The effect is to clarify and redouble your own." #02135.

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. mass market paperback. good. 189pp. "Inspector Ganesh Ghote (pronounced Go-tay) of the Bombay CID finds himself sent to a small provincial town, a setting that comes delightfully alive. Ghote's mandate is to investigate a death fifteen years earlier, but he has not simply to find a murderer. He is told to pin the crime squarely on the town boss, a figure of almost despotic power. Nor is this all. The local holy man has embarked on a fast-to-death against any investigation. So as this Swami sinks nearer his end, Ghote, in face of obstruction of every kind, attempts swiftly to find his answer." #00573.

New York: Penguin Books, 2000. softcover. Book VG: slight lean to spine, shelf wear, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 492pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02027.