Search Results: Authors starting with E from Collectible Books

1. 1st ed., 1912 Geneva, NY., Press of W.F. Humphrey, Illustrated by H. Def. Patterson. 148 pages. Rust colored cloth with black letters and illustraions to spine and front cover. 1""; vertical tear to paper at top of front hinge. Front endpaper shows vertical 1/2""; closed paper tear to top edge near center, and small penciled bookseller note at top corner, "";-1st edition Rader #3775 -Six guns 2465 Scarce""; Else clean, bright and tight.

1. SIGNED by Maurice Sendak on the front endpaper. Not inscribed. First edition thus. 1973. Farrar, Straus, & Co.; Giroux, New York. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Translated from the German by Edgar Taylor. Unpaginated. 6 x 9 inches tall. VG condition. No dj as issued. Pictorial green hardcover with color illustration and white letters on front cover; white letters on spine. Glossy covers lightly rubbed. Pages clean, bright and tight.

1. 1865. ""Nurse and Spy in the Union Army Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-fields. By S. Emma E. Edmonds."" 13 listed illustrations, ""PORTRAIT Engraved on Steel by Geo. E. Pertne, NY. Disguises and other Scenes, Drawn and Engraved on Wood by R. O'Brien, New York""; "";Published by subscription only by W.S. WILLIAMS & CO., HARTFORD, CONN...1865. ""Entered...1864, by W.S. Williams...Printed by Wiley, Waterman, & Eaton, Hartford, Conn.""; Fine contemporary signature, "";David A. Cassatt December 19th, 1865""; written on 1st blank page. Tightly bound. Faded, rubbed, reddish-brown, embossed cloth covers. Spine with gilt letters and design, light brown-spotting on the first few pages, else occasional. Minor fraying to corners and spine ends carefully conserved with archival glue.

1. !! NOT 1886, 271pp!! 1884 printing with 202 pages. Great condition for this scarce early American edition published by White Stokes and Allen. Green cloth with pressed gilt floral design on front cover. Spine letters and top edge gilt. Side and bottom edges rough cut. 6.6 x 4.5 inches. Cloth lightly soiled. Red print and design in on title page. Floral endpapers. NO cracking, tears or writing. Clean, tight and bright.

1. 1893. Fleming H. Revell Co. 264 + 8pp(ads). Maroon cloth with gilt to spine; blindstamped bordered on boards. Slight fray to spine ends and corner tips. Faded spot on spine from neatly removed personal library label. Small faint stamp of Samuel L. McAfee on bottom of textblock edge. Purple endpapers. Front hinge cracked but holding well. Rear hinge loose needing tape repair. Pages clean and tight but for penciled name of G. S. McCune on front pastedown and occasional penciled margin line and underline. Illustrated with frontis portrait of the author and two full-page plates showing photo of George S Park and an illustration of Park College.

1. Mexico: Picturesque, Political and Progressive by Mary Elizabeth Blake and Margaret F. Sullivan. 1st ed. 1888. Published by Lee and Shepard. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 x 8 inches. 228pp + 6 ad pages. Some rubbing to cloth cloth, mostly to spine ends and corner tips. Front endpaper faintly & finely inscribed - Presented to Miss Ada W. Mead by Helen A. Dodge, July 1889. Pages clean and tight. Travel guide containing observations by two newspaper correspondents who visited Mexico.

1. SIGNED. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York. 1987. Hard Cover. Stated first edition, first printing. 195pp. Pictorial dust jacket Near Fine, only very lightly rubbed. Tan boards with gold letters on red/brown cloth spine. Dated, inscribed and signed by author Scott Ely on the title page. "";?comes closer than any other novel to catching the hallucinatory reality of combat soldiers in the Vietnam war.""; Includes a laid-in invitation to celebrate publication and signing at Hays & Sanders Bookshop in Fayetteville. . Insured with traceable provided in the USA. .

1. First edition 1927. NOT the reprint. Published by Marine Research Society., Salem, Ma. By George Francis Dow. xxxv,349pp.+1p.(ad) Includes index. 7.5 x 10 inches. Howes D-438. No dj. Original black cloth with gold spine lettering. 50 listed and described illustrations including frontis. Cloth lightly rubbed and intact. Text tight and bright with NO foxing and NO tears and NO handwriting. One faint thumb-sized stain at the extreme top edge of one page only.

1. Complete 3 volume set 1905-1914! Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 27. Washington D.C. Dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on spines. Light wear to extremities. 9.5""; x 11.75"";. Ex-lib with spine numbers removed, no edge stamps, small stamps within. Bindings are tight with hinge paper cracking on volume 3 only. Important agriculture treatise with an enormous amount of information. 1905 VOL 1: i-xii, 1-285pp. Preface, Contents (Outline of Methods of Work, Bibliography, General Literature), Illustrations list (31 plates, 146 text figures), Index. 1911 VOL 2: i-viii, 1-368pp. Contents (History, General Considerations, Vascular Diseases), Illustrations list (20 plates, 148 text figures), Index. 1914 VOL 3: i-xiii, i-309pp. Contents (Vascular Diseases), Illustrations: (47 plates, 155 text figures), Addendum, Index, Errata. A few of the full-page plates are in color.