Search Results: Titles starting with M from Nostalgic Books & Elements

Rare Vintage 1st ed 1928 - "This book is dedicated to that great number of intelligent americans who are constnt readers of Cosmopolitan Magazine..."
Intro by Ray Long, Editor of Cosmopolitan
HUMORESQUE; Hurst
LIEUTENANT MARBLE VENUS; Gibbs
I CAN'T BREATH; Lardner
RED; WELL, Maugham
WHY NOT?; Glass
CHARMER SNAKES; Hichens

1970 - 1st printing - book: very good- tight, sound, and square - the only markings are an owner stamp inside the front cover and on the title page otherwise clean and unmarked

1983 FIRST EDITON "Susan Griffin has taken her place as one of the leading thinkers in the women's movement. But even her most devoted readers will be surprised by the range and richness of work in Made from this Earth, the first anthology of her writing." Book: clean and unmarked - pages have toned due to age - sticker removed FFEP DJ: NPC ($14.95) - subtle shelfwear

Cool flip corner of a person diving to show a bit about how movies are made

1946
An officer of The Salvation Army, Major Barbara Undershaft, becomes disillusioned when her Christian denomination accepts money from an armaments manufacturer (her father) and a whisky distiller. She eventually decides that bringing a message of salvation to people who have plenty will be more fulfilling and genuine than converting the starving in return for bread.
Although Barbara initially regards the Salvation Army's acceptance of Undershaft's money as hypocrisy, Shaw did not intend that it should be thought so by the audience. Shaw wrote a preface for the play's publication, in which he derided the idea that charities should only take money from "morally pure" sources, arguing that using money to benefit the poor will have more practical benefit than ethical niceties. He points out that donations can always be used for good whatever their provenance, and he quotes a Salvation Army officer, "they would take money from the devil himself and be only too glad to get it out of his hands and into… Read More

"A frank look at the act of making love describes one man's personal experience of sex and physical love, attempting to understand how those experiences shaped his life." Book: like new DJ: like new

SIGNED When I talk to you, you are talking to yourself three-times faster. When I stop talking, you talk to yourself six times faster. Research has discovered that your brain accepts what you are telling yourself, without question! No Arguments! So when you say, "No way, I can't do that!" your mind simply says, "Okay, you can't!" and then blocks out ways for you to do it. If however, you say, "Absolutely, Of course I can do that!" the brain accepts that as truth, also without question. Not only that, your brain then endeavors to help you find a way to do it, and then gives you the energy to do so. So when people ask what I have been doing for the last twenty years, I tell them that through the cutting-edge research that fills this book, I have been teaching college students, individuals and groups how make their minds their greatest champion for learning and growing and changing. This is turn has significantly increased both their quality of life and their success.

"The story of the first trip afoot through the depths of the Grand Canyon by the author of The Thousand-Mile Summer" front cover
Sixth printing

1952 - Sears Readers Club - Book Club Edition - book: very good - pages have toned slightly from age - all pages are clean and unmarked - dj: very good - small tears and lifting on bottom front - dj in protective sleeve

1951 FIRST EDITION
"I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. His originality, his absolutely individual way of seeing and feeling, permeates Man and Boy, giving it its humor and wisdom."--Granville Hicks. "For a long time I have not read a novel that gave me so much pleasure in original talent. [Morris] speaks completely in his own voice, a fascinating voice. He conveys the quality of the American gothic as no other writer I know has done."--Mark Schorer. "Mother, Mr. Morris seems to say [in Man and Boy], is unbeatable. Well, so in a way, is Mr. Morris. He writes with the skill of a master satirist; his eye is sharp and his vision is clairvoyant."--New York Herald Tribune Books. One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books.
Book: clean and unmarked - just slight toning to pages
DJ: tears repaired internally with archival tape - NPC ($3.00)

1936 "The real purpose of this work is to try to prove that man did not descend from the ape nor from any other branch of the lower animal kingdom, but has been "man in the making", from the beginning of time, because the proportion of chemical elements in his make-up has always been different from any other animal of his time." - book cover

"A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa! Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her -- and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: '17-122 Kilmorden Castle'?" - Bookfinder

2001 - INSCRIBED - 1st ed, 1st printing - book: very good

INSCRIBED (RARE SIGNATURE) FIRST EDITION

1964 FIRST EDITION "It is a book about the mind's mysteries - Mr. Nixon's and mine - and about methods of perception: how to look, how to see, how to see what we're looking at." Book: clean and unmarked DJ: NPC ($3.95) - shelfwear - white background has discolored from age

First in a new series
"He's rich, sucessful - and has been faithfully married to his longtime girlfriend for hearly one grueling year." back cover

1987 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED to include shark-faced rocket cartoon - "Exclusive Preview of the U.S. - Soviet Manned Mission - book: very good - pages show toning from age - dj: very good - some toning from age - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2020 SIGNED (not remainder) FIRST EDITION - Cover is of the first edition
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub
Author's first novel
A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.
But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in… Read More

VINTAGE 1957
DJ is price clipped

1979 - FIRST EDITION ("1" present) - "This book is unique for never before has virtually the whole crew of a ship shared experiences with an author, as the men of the Gambier Bay have done with Edwin P. Hoyt." - ELEMENT: includes a 1981 U.S.S. Gambier Bay (CVE-73) & VC-10 program - book: very good - dj: very good - dj in protective sleeveThe owner inscription in this book is particularly moving..."This moment in my life I share with you, I share it proudly, lovingly and prayerfully. Perhaps it will help you understand my pride in the U. S. A. I hope it gives you a feeling for one of the greatest navel battles in our history. Love Dad"'79