Search Results: Titles starting with E from Elk River Books

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 446. Red boards with black quarter cloth and red titling, pictorial jacket. Association copy: signed and inscribed by author on half-title page to acclaimed Western author Richard S. Wheeler (from his estate). Part of the Literature of the American West series edited by William Kittredge. Shelf-cocked. minor bumping to spine and rubbing to jacket.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Presentation copy with a somewhat unintelligible inscription by author to actor Margot Kidder. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 446. Red boards with black quarter cloth and red titling, pictorial jacket. Spine and jacket slightly bumped. Part of the Literature of the American West series edited by William Kittredge.

New York: Tom Doherty, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 285. Association copy: Signed by author on title page and inscribed to Wheeler's good friend, actress Margot Kidder, for whom this book was dedicated. Blue-green boards with gilt spine text. Illustrated jacket. Author's business card laid-in. Slight bumping to spine ends, else fine."March [McPhee] is alone and despairing. Here's where Wheeler, author of more than 50 western novels and a six-time Spur Award winner, shows his chops. A typical western author would trot out a fast gun with a murky past (Shane! Hondo!). But clichés are not in Wheeler's repertoire. ... March launches into a one-woman guerrilla campaign against the Roach-Laidlaw crime family and engineers a very satisfying conclusion" (Booklist).

New York: Pantheon, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (24.5cm), pp. 338. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Light crease from paperclip on front head dust jacket.

Columbia Falls, MT: Skyline Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (21.5cm), pp. 243. Signed by author on inside cover.

Hermann, 1978. Paperback. Good. Wear to cover, otherwise in very good condition. 365 pgs.

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (28 cm). Catalog unpaginated, appendix pp. 94. Burgundy cloth, gilt titling. Catalog of Weston's material from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography. No jacket, bottom edge of lower board has 1/2-inch gash. "It is said that [Weston] developed a 'quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography' because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years." [Wikipedia]

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. xxii, 504. Olive green cloth with blue titling. Top edge speckled, olive green endpapers. Olive green jacket with purple, white and olive green design. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, minor bumping to spine ends. Jacket shows minor chipping and edge wear.

Murcia, Spain: Eurocolor, 1995. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 797. Green wrappers with photo, illustrated with color photos and black and white drawings. Wrappers have very slight wear.

Bogotá: Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1989. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (25 cm), pp. [10], 284, [8]. Limited, signed edition in slipcase (#79/250 issued for distribution in Mexico). Maroon cloth boards with matching slipcase, which has paper labels including black and white author photo. Endpapers are maps of Simón Bolívar's final trip in 1830. Deckle edge, unread, with uncut pages. An immaculate volume.

Washington DC: Department of the Air Force, 1961. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 160. Blue printed wraps. Illustrations throughout. Supercedes 1952 manual. Wraps are slightly discolored around the edges and have light edge wear.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 336. Black boards, gilt titling. Jacket has slight edge wear. Includes index, black and white photos.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Dedman on title page. Octavo (24.2 cm), pp. 460. White boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photographic jacket with $28 price. Slight bumping to head of spine, else fine. A fascinating exploration of the reclusive life and fortune of the duaghter of W.A. Clark, a "copper king" of Butte, Montana.

Mexico : Fondo de cultura economica, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Sextodecimo (17cm), pp. 224. Some minor bumping around the edges and at corners.

Philadelphia: Peterson's Magazine, 1881. Very good. 9" x 5 3/4" (23 x 14.5 cm). Single plate of highly detailed engraving depicting a group of Christmas carolers singing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Drawn by A. Hunt, engraved by Illman Brothers. Printed on lightweight paper. Small stain at edge of art, edge wear and chipping to paper. "Peterson's Magazine was published by Saturday Evening Post partners, Charles Jacobs Peterson and George Rex Graham. With a focus on the domestic and consumer lives of middle-class white women, the pages of Peterson’s featured fashion, embroidery patterns, sheet music, engravings, poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, recipes, remedies, housekeeping advice, puzzles, and more. While the content of the women’s magazine emphasized the woman’s role as centered on her family, as a wife, mother, and keeper of the household, the publication of Peterson’s, and other women’s magazines, created professional opportunities outside the home for women writers and… Read More

North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 8/1/2014. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 122. First paperback edition. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "For ---, in Livingston, MT." Light reading wear, else fine. "Carol Frost's poems possess a classical elegance, but something molten flows beneath these surfaces. The sequences in Entwined offer three enthralling perspectives on human awarness: searching for new sources of light among the bays and shoals of Florida's teeming gulf coast; crafting a lexicon of the imagination inside what the poet calls "moral dreaming"; and meditating upon fatality and memory, as a parent succumbs to dementia." (Jacket copy)

North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 8/1/2014. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 122. First paperback edition. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "For ---, in Livingston, MT." Light reading wear, else fine. "Carol Frost's poems possess a classical elegance, but something molten flows beneath these surfaces. The sequences in Entwined offer three enthralling perspectives on human awarness: searching for new sources of light among the bays and shoals of Florida's teeming gulf coast; crafting a lexicon of the imagination inside what the poet calls "moral dreaming"; and meditating upon fatality and memory, as a parent succumbs to dementia." (Jacket copy)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 178. Signed by author on title page. Pages slightly discolored with age, cover has light edge wear.

Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard, 2011. Uncorrected Proof/Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (21 x 15.5cm), pp. 819.

Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 238. Second printing. Signed by both authors on title page. Quarter brown paper over cream-colored boards. With index, color photos. Winner of the Foreword Magazine 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the Year.