Search Results: Titles starting with E from Monkey House Books

Unity, Maine: North Country Press, 2018. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. Signed by the author in blue pen on the title page. 293 pages. Memoir of growing up in the small town of Wayne, Maine, reflecting the experience of the seasons and the generations. Very light edgewear to cover.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Publishers, 755 Broadway, 1864. Red cloth boards, black decorative cover, gilt-decorated spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Sketches of Christian Life in England in the Olden Time. With an introduction by Prof. Henry B. Smith. Whole and complete but rather flawed. 429 pages, some discolored. Water damage, staining, wrinkling to covers. Front hinge cracked. Charles, 1828-1896, was an English writer of mainly religious characters.

New York: A Del Rey Trade Paperback, Ballantine Books, 2006. Softcover, trade paperback. Fine. 345 pages. A survivor's story of a virulent plague that nearly wipes out humanity. Introduction by Connie Willis. Futuristic & post-apocalyptic classic first published in 1949. Winner of the first International Fantasy Award.

Boston: South End Press, 1997. Softcover. Good. Analysis and critique of the grassroots and mainstream environmental movements, corporate greed and government collaboration. 269 pages. Underlining and marginalia in pencil and red pencil.

Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition very good. Chapters explore major earthquakes in Ancient Sparta, Lisbon in 1755, San Francisco in 1906, the Great Kanto Earthquake of the 1920s, Peru in 1970, and more. 278 pages. Light jacket wear.

East Hampton, 1898. No binding. Very Good. Subscription receipt for a Mr. Rushton Foster for one year of the local newspaper East Hampton Star, published by E. S. Boughton. Dated October 31, 1898, covering a one year�s subscription to the local weekly paper from the south fork at the east end of Long Island. The paper was published from 1885-1900, and Boughton took over as publisher in 1890. Rushton Foster, 1867-1935, was from a local family that had settled the area in the 1600s. Interesting tidbit of local/familial history. No major flaws, a few soft creases where folded.

Fawcett Gold Medal, 1968. Softcover, mass market paperback. Fine. Thriller about a plane crash in the icy Greenland desert. In the tradition of Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean. Light cover wear, else Fine. 192 pages.

1993: Corgi Books. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. 284 pages. Follows The Antipope and The Brentford Triangle. Light general wear. The Brentford Trilogy is a humorous eleven-book series chronicling the lives of drunken middle-aged friends in West London, with occult and science fiction twists. The series incorporates fantastical, ridiculous plots such as alien invasion, resurrected popes, and conspiracies to offset the comical lead characters.

Graphic Enterprises Inc., 1975. Stapled softcover booklet. Very Good/No Jacket. 50 pages, color and b/w photos, instructions. Includes a Chanel type suit, mohair scarf & beret, big cape coat, silver metallic halter, and many more great 1970s fashions.

Graphic Enterprises, Inc., 1971. Stapled softcover booklet. Good/No Jacket. Fashions for Mr. and Mrs., Masters and Misses and the houses they live in. Ideas and instructions for hairpin style crochet stitch, including clothing accents, hats & scarves, baby blankets, shawl, rosebud afghan, 4-block afghan, totebag, etc. 51 pages. Some warp and curl to spine.

London, New York: Ryland Peters & Small, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Photography by Diana Miller. Classics, chocolate, celebrations, savory. 64 pages, index & conversion chart.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition very good. Sandford's 11th mystery starring Private Investigator Lucas Davenport. In Minneapolis, Davenport investigates the death of a supermodel, but the case turns personal with the appearance of an old lover. 407 pages, light wear to jacket. Pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp.

Norcross, Georgia: Plaid Enterprises, 1989. Stapled softcover booklet. Very Good/No Jacket.. 24 pages. 17 Table Top Topiaries to Make from Silk and Dried Flowers. Color photos, basic supplies, general instructions, specific projects, seasonal & decorative ideas. Some general agewear.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2015. Softcover, trade paperback. As New/No Jacket. Special Broadway tie-in edition with poster-style Tony Award jacket. Starring Lupita Nyong'o and directed by Liesl Tommy in the 2015 production at The Public Theater in New York. World premiere in Washington, D.C. in 2009. 73 pages, second printing, May 2016. Play about 5 women (4 teens, 1 middle aged) in a Liberian rebel army camp.

Wayne, New Jersey: Associated Testing Laboratories, Inc., 1961. Card covers, comb binding. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. Model ELH-0.5-LC. Product information, diagrams, bulletins. Dated packing slip tucked in. Some soil and wear to covers.

Istanbul: Diyalog Publishing, 1987. Large format softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Tourism and business opportunities in Turkey, overview of foreign investment, banking, major infrastructure projects. Features on various areas of the economy related to tourism, including yachting, carpet buying, vacation homes, coffee, etc. 156 pages, edgewear.

Bernard Geis Associates, 1967. Black cloth boards, yellow-stamped spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Story of 1940s Detroit, postwar family conflict, the rivalry between 2 brothers, unions vs. industry, the workingman's struggles. 309 pages, clean and bright. Dust jacket edgewear, small tears, rubbed.

New York & London: Basic Books, Inc., 1967. Hardcover, brown cloth boards. Very Good. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper. Spine ends & corners bumped. Volume II of The Lakeville Studies, a research project of The American Jewish Committee. Companion to Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier. 272 pages, index.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Artist's Ltd. Ed., 1981. Large format softcover. Good. Medoenas Monographs Series. 18 pages. Color plates, fading and edgewear to covers, some internal spotting. Vuillard, 1868-1940, was a French artist and member of Les Nabis, a group of post-Impressionists considered key in the cultural shift toward abstract art. He painted landscapes and interiors depicting daily life such as children playing, seamstresses at work, etc. In his later years, his work focused more on realistic portraits.

Paris, 2002. Large format softcover booklet. Fine. Commentary by Kimberly Jones. Profiles of the French artist, 1869-1940, his work, personal photos, etc. 74 pages, special issue published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery, January 19-April 20, 2003 (also at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais Paris, and the Royal Academy London).