Search Results: Authors starting with E from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1902 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth with dark green & white decorations and gilt titles on front board and spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, pink silk ribbon bookmark, [2], xxiii, 461 pp, 44 ff plates not in pagination, numerous other illustrations, index. Front board faintly water-spotted, white roses on spine faded, spine ends rubbed, ends of ribbon faded & detached from spine, gilt titles & top edge still bright and attractive. Most of the book is about sundials, with a few chapters on the lore of roses, especially as they both appear in and around English and American gardens. Contents: the charm & sentiment of sundials; noon-marks, spot-dials, window-dials; classification of sun-dials; construction of sun-dials; ingeniose diallers; portable dials; the sun-dial as an emblem; symbolic designs for sun-dials; pedestals & gnomons; the setting of sun-dials; sun-dial… Read More

Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, aluminum foil titles & gilt decoration, dark blue endpapers, xiii, 1016 pp, index. DJ has a few tiny blemishes, mostly on rear panel, else fine in Brodart archival cover. Contains the complete text of the 1996 edition of the National Electrical Code, plus intermingled commentary and added illustrations. Shipping weight 7 lbs.. First Printing. . Fine/Near Fine. 28 X 22½ cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, gilt titles on spine, grey endpapers, 671 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, index. Top corner of front board lightly bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Memoir written by Israeli politician Abba Eban in his retirement. During his long career, Eban was a military officer, special representative to the United Nations, ambassador to the United States, member of the Knesset, and held various ministries, most notably Foreign Minister. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Horizon Press, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on half-title. Dark blue boards with foil facsimile signature, foil titles on burnt-orange cloth spine, endpaper maps, 304 pp. Faint soil to top edge, boards slightly faded near edges. DJ has a tear extending most of the length of the spine, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Collection of speeches by Abba Eban, who was at the time the ambassador of Israel to the United States, and also its representative at the United Nations. He later served as Foreign Minister. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 4th ptg. . Near Fine/Good. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly black laminated pictorial boards, white titles, periodic & other tables on endpapers, xxviii, 1035, A-45, G-18, I-40, [2] pp, glossary, index. Ugly blue highlighting on about one-fifth of the pages, otherwise very good. Introductory level text; math used is limited to simple algebra. Contents: basics of chemistry; atomic & molecular structure; states of matter & solutions; chemical reactions & equilibrium; nuclear chemistry & chemistry of elements. Shipping weight 6 lbs.. 3rd Ed, 1st Ptg. . 26 X 21 cm.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by E. W. Dickes. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xvi, 374 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 6 maps, notes, index. Extensive (mostly pencil) underlining in chapters VIII through XI, else near fine. First appearance in English of what has become a standard history of China. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . G/VG. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: The Book League of America, 1940 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty cloth, red titles & decoration, top edge dyed red, [vii], 275 pp. Extremities bumped & fraying, some foxing to boards and soil to a few pages, owner's name recto ffep. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 20½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, foil & green titles on spine, [ix], 241, [1] pp. Bottom (blank) corner of unnumbered preliminary leaf torn off, some marginal spotting, spine cocked. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Good/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps, [vii], 114 pp. Ownership stamp on half-title, else fine. Anthropology contents: introduction, by May Ebihara; forensic anthropology, by Harry L. Shapiro; ethnicity and stratification in the urban United States, by Leith Mullings; religious coexistence in northern Zambia: intellectualism and materialism in Yombe, by Mario Bick. Linguistics contents: introduction, by Rosamond Gianutsos; are LASSes better than LADs? by Sheila J. White; situational variability in the speech of preschool children, by M. Cole, J. Dore, W. S. Hall, and Gillian Dowley; testing morphological productivity, by Mark Aronoff and Roger Schvaneveldt. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly white pictorial covers, dark blue spine with white titles, xv, 398, [2] pp. Lacks CD. Samba is a file & print server that allows Unix or Linux computers to communicate with Microsoft Windows networks. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 23½ X 18 cm.

New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt, Inc., 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Teal boards, copper titles on spine, [v], 522 pp. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by William Weaver. Black boards, black cloth spine with foil titles, [v], 641, [1] pp. Top corners bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Novel. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. . VG+/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by William Weaver. Navy blue boards, blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [xi], 513, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Novel. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Paperbacks (The University of Michigan Press), 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in stiff beige paper wraps with mauve, black & blue titles, xix, 361, [1] pp, index. Spine sunned, light shelf wear. As Eddington says in his preface, his aim is to show that developments in modern physics "provide new material for the philosopher." Contents: the downfall of classical physics; relativity; time; the running-down of the Universe; becoming (entropy); gravitation; man's place in the Universe; quantum theory; world building; pointer readings; reality; causation; science & mysticism. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. Wraps. VG+/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Proof. Plain green wraps with black titles, xv, 408 pp. Compiled mostly from interviews with centenarians, although some previously published books are quoted. This uncorrected proof copy lacks the illustrations, as issued. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Wraps. Fine/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Alternate ISBN: 0-387-13722-X. Vol. 10 of EACTS Monographs on Theoretical Computer Science. Silver boards, black, white & red titles & decorations, xv, 423 pp, bibliography, index. Contents: combinatorial geometry (fundamental concepts; permutation tables; semispaces of configurations; dissections of point sets; zones in arrangements; complexity of families of cells); fundamental geometric algorithms (constructing arrangements & convex hulls; skeletons in arrangements; linear programming; planar point location search); geometric & algorithmic applications (problems for configurations & arrangements; Voronoi diagrams; separation & intersection in the plane; paradigmatic design of algorithms). Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Fine/No dj. 24½ X 17 cm.

Minneapolis: Privately Printed, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan pictorial cloth, 151 pp including 11 pp photographs, a few other illustrations and facsimile documents. Spine ends bumped, boards very lightly soiled, a few light smudges inside. Edgar wrote the history of the Club from 1883 to 1920, originally published in 1920 and reprinted here, while Staples brings the history up to date through 1974. This volume also contains Edgar's short story, 'The Flag at Half Mast,' which first appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune on Feb. 4, 1929. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 22 X 14 cm.

New York: The John Day Company, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gold titles & decorations on spine, vi, 266 pp. Corners & spine ends rubbed, else fine. DJ rubbed at extremities, 1 cm tear to top front fore-edge; in Brodart archival cover. Lin Yutang is the only author on the cover, but he has actually translated Widow Chuan, by Lao Hsiang (pseudonym of Wan Hsiang-ch'en), and A Nun of Taishan, by Liu O. Miss Tu is a a traditional Chinese legend rewritten as a novelette by Lin Yutang. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First US Edition. . VG+/VG. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York, Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, xii, 333 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Edling's history and interpretation of the U. S. constitution draws heavily on The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, of which 16 volumes had been published by 2003. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

London, New York & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1940 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow-orange cloth, black titles on spine, top edge dyed black, pictorial endpapers, 254 pp, 20 b & w illustrations. Tide marks on cloth near spine, with bleeding of dye from cloth to reverse of DJ. Owner's name in ink on recto of ffep and blank side of frontispiece, a few smudges, surface chip to p. 242 with minor loss of text. DJ rather worn, torn, & soiled, with a diagram drawn in pencil on otherwise blank rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Fourteen-year-old Jorley O'Hagen wants to escape from his family's life as Newfoundland cod fishermen, but instead is thrown more deeply into it when his father is injured. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G/G. Illus. by Dorothy Bayley. 21 X 15 cm.