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

Harper and Brothers, 1897. first edition. hardcover. Vol I, G: endpapers loose but laid in, bumped corners, age wear to boards and spine, ex library with writing/bookplate on front paste down, binding intact but loose, maps missing from protective pockets. Vol II Poor: significant panel missing from rear board, spine frayed and loose, binding exposed. hinge cracked, endpapers loose but laid in, all present but binding loose. both volumes mild toning/foxing, text clean./no DJ. 8vo 587pp. + 729pp. from title page: With an Appendix  By Otto Sverdup Captain of the Fram. About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations16 Color Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches, Etched Portrait, and 4 Maps [N.B. maps not present] EXTRA SHIPPING FOR WEIGHT. #01845.

New York: Viking Press, 1972. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: foxing to endpapers, mild shelf wear, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: age toning/soil, NOT clipped ($8.95). 8vo from front flap: "...Claudio Naranjo here makes a broadly reasoned examination fot he practices of religion, education, and psychotherapy all over the world and through many epochs. His concerns are salvation, deliverance, enlightenment, healing, authenticity, self-actualization, and full-humanness as sought in both ancient and modern systems of meditation, mysticism, sensory awareness, and the raising of consciousness." #01914.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. hardcover. Book VG: mild soiling to boards, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean binding tight./DJ G: edge wear and chipping, age toning, clipped.. 8vo 254pp. from front flap: "The Mahabharata is admittedly the longest, and perhaps the greatest, epic poem in any language. According to its reputed author, it was intended to be a treatise on life itself, embracing religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. The shortest recension of the Sanskrit version consists of some 88,000 verses. The main narrative, however, is the story of the rivalry between the cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which culminates in the great battle of Kuruksetra. Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan here presents a prose translation of the verses dealing with this teme." #02017.

Little Brown and Company, 1962. hardcover. very good: toning to pastedowns and endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: age wear, small tear at bottom of front cover w/loss, closed tear bottom back cover. NOT price clipped ($6.95). John Alcorn. 16mo. 171pp. 8th printing. from front flap: "Ogden Nash is someone who feels just the way you always have, now that he mentions it. His perfectly imperfect verses with their inimitable sendings have fractured millions over the years. The eighty-eight verses in Everyone but Thee and Me will soon become vintage Nash, but right now they are fresh, new Nash, unpublished before in book form. They have been beautifully and amusingly illustrated by John Alcorn." #00666.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. hardcover. Book VG: spotting, shelf wear to boards and spine, spine sunned. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 292pp. third printing April 1926. collection of personal aphorisms and critical apercus organized in sections "Attitude Toward [X]" by noted drama and theater critic. #01669.

New York: Grune and Stratton, 1950. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild bowing, mild wear to boards and spine, few spots of underlining at very end of text block, otherwise clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 247pp. from Preface: "For many years Miss Naumburg has been quietly working under medical guidance in a pioneer field of psychotherapy. In most individual fashion she has employed artistic expression both in diagnosis and treatment of various kinds of psychiatric disorders. Unlike most of the workers who preceded her, she has not attempted merely to interpret the symbolic meaning in the art productions of patients, but she has used artistic expression in purposeful fashion to explore the conscious and unconscious causes of illness toward the aim of therapeutic release and recover." #01382.

Rockland, ME: Courier-Gazette, Inc, 1975. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild signs of shelf wear else clean, tight, square, unmarked. gift inscription by author on title page: "To Gloria and Bill, Abby Sargent Neese/DJ G: age toning and offset, clipped.. 12mo 50pp. from front flap: "Those who chance upon the charming little village of Sargentville today enjoy its peace and its scenic location, on the edge of Eggemoggin Reach between Blue Hill Bay and Penobscot Bay. But as late as teh middle of the last century, Sargentville was a bustling town, [. . .] This is the story of those old homes and the people who built them, and of their descendants who lived with Sargentville's change of pace over the years. It is the result of a decade of painstaking research, gathered while memories were still green and recorded before the genealogies of Sargentville homes and people are forgotten." #02078.

Philadelphia: Neff College Publishing, 1911. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo 120pp. from Preface: ". . .Among the different needs which brought them to school, expressed in their own language, were Self-Confidence, Repose, Observation, Memory, Originality; Expression in Conversation, in Extempore Speech, in Elocution, [. . .] It would perhaps occasion little surprise if the discover of scientific remedies for such a heterogeneous list of needs should appear a difficult if not impossible task. The difficulty was much lessened, however, by the fact that the same fundamental remedy applies in a more or less direct way to all conditions." #01646.

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.

The Prospect Press, 1940. first. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, minor shelf wear to boards, clean text, tight binding/no DJ. small Octavo 134pp. Series of addresses by Smith College president William Allen Neilson to the university students at chapel. #00141.

Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson Company, 1920. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, square, tight. mild toning to endpapers./no DJ. 12mo. 103pp. part of The Music Students Library. from Preface: "In preparing this Primer of Organ Registration for the use of teachers and pupils, the author has been led in his work by the realization of two important facts: first, that the potential organist is greatly in need of help in grasping the principles of registration; second, that it is an utter physical impossibility to formulate rules which will be operative in enough cases to justify their own existence!" #01153.

New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1967. first American edition. hardcover. Book NF: clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG+: mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($4.95). 16mo.184pp. from front flap: "A LITTLE PRETTY POCKET-BOOK is famous as John Newbery's first publication for children. It appeared in 1744 and is an important representative of those books which broke new ground in seeking to amuse children as well as instruct them. The present facsimile is of the earliest known complete edition--the British Museum copy dated 1767. It is introduced with an essay by Mrs. M.F. Thwaite to which she has added a bibliography of Newbery's children's books which is the most comprehensive yet published." #01821.

Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1966. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: foxing to endpapers and fore edge text block, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: age soil, tear in rear cover, clipped. 8vo 331pp. from front flap: "What relationship, if any, do the New Testament books have to the social, economic, and intellectual conditions of the time in which they were written? How can an understanding of this relationship add to our present-day understanding and appreciation of the New Testament? This illuminating survey of the New Testament provides sound and satisfying answers to these and other questions." #02125.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: spotting/wear to boards and spine, mild offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: chewed/rubbed, corner wear, age toning, NOT clipped ($6.95). 8vo 653pp. foreword by Mark Van Doren. first printing September 1964. collection of interviews. from front cover: "Penetrating comments on life and living, writers and writing by 63 leading authors, critics, and playwrights. Fascinating, amusing, often startling self-revelations..." #01806.

D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939. The Century Historical Series. hardcover. good: aging and scuffing to boards, spine mildly sunned, writing on spine, separation along gutter at frontispiece/title page, text clean, binding otherwise intact./no DJ. 8vo 819pp. #00827.

Macmillan, 1948. first edition. hardcover. good: age wear to boards and corners, separation in binding along gutter at FFEP, text clean, binding otherwise intact./poor: heavy loss, clipped, will ship under brodart cover.. 8vo 612pp. from front flap: "This book records and interprets the history of the most dangerous crisis the Democratic party and the nation ever faced, in the period from 1856 to 1861. Charles A. Beard says of it, "This is a masterful job, a realistic description of men, issues, negotiations and events which constitute a fundamental contribution to American history. At one stroke it renders obsolete our previous works on the same period, such as Rhodes and McMaster. The narrative carries one along, as on a stream of campaign excitement." " #00820.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1969. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: stamped "FILE COPY NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE" on FFEP, else clean, tight, unmarked/DJ VG- : edge wear, rubbing, NOT clipped ($6.95). 4to 128pp. from front flap: "CELEBRATE THE SUN is about festivals, the expression of man's joy. Young people around the world contributed the fifty-one illustrations--glimpses of a world in celebration--recording moments of delight from their experience." #01737.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: spine sunned, age/shelf wear to board and spine, stamp and sticker on front paste down, writing on FFEP, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 416pp. biography of British statesman and conservative politician during the years he served as foreign secretary under Lloyd George. #02185.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear/soil to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: mild shelf wear, clipped. 8vo 191pp. from front flap: "[...] But what if a language has never been put into writetn form? And what if another language has 120 ways to describe walking? How does the translator do his job? With many anecdotes and illustrations, Dr. Nida here tells how it is done--with heartaches and laughter and the final joy of accomplishment." #02261.

Dell, 1966. mass market paperback. very good: name on front edge text block, age wear, text clean, binding tight.. Dell 4271 192pp. third printing March 1966. Poems by Pope, Tennyson, Frost, Byron, Auden, Updike, more. #00440.