Search Results: Titles starting with E from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

A novel about growing up in the Solomon Islands

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888. First American edition, 2nd State. Hardcover. Very Good. Henry Sandham. A lesser-known tale from the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy Previous owner's name cut from endpaper, gilt and type on cover still bright, pages very lightly yellowed

New Yok: Huntington and Savage, 1848. New Edition. Hardcover with paper rather than cloth. Very Good. The Sun, Moon, planets, and "fixed stars" as known in the early 19th century, explained in about 200 pages, one of several textbooks published by Huntington and Savage. A separate publication of 16 colored maps was sold separately and is not part of this offering. Aside from an owners name and school written in ink on an otherwise black half-title, hte book is unmarked and barely foxed. The front cover is scratched and slichtly soiled but still entirely readable. Pages are all there and tight. There is a long section of ads for other Huntington and Savage textbooks in the final pages and also a bdly faded list of the textbooks on the back cover

A book that tells about the lives of a specific herd of elephants. Wonderful reading for anyone interested in animal behavior

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/fine. de Angeli, Marguerite. Signed on dedicatin page "To Daniel Potter Best Wishes A. C. de Angeli

New York: Scribners, 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Some wear at top and bottom of spine, small penciled notation on front endcover, New York Times review from 1936 tucked into book

More than a guide, this is a revised and extended version of Mack's 1950 book.

ENTANGLED is a memoir of a life in publishing, writing, fishing, traveling, and drinking--they tend to go together. Bryan Bunch is from an American family that first came ashore in Virginia in the 17th Century and gradually migrated to Missouri before many of the current generation scattered throughout the Northeast. The book deals with the problems of publishing, the way of writing, and the joys of fishing, traveling, and family. This is a new copy.

Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. R. M. Ballantyne. A tale founded on the CHronicales of the Kings of Norway and Norse sagas, Cover is rather faded abd a bit scratched but all else in fine condition. The cover features embossed "Norse" designs. There are interesting advertisements for other Lippincotte reference book and popular juveniles used as endcovers and on a back page.

New York: 194, 1948. First edition thus. hardcover cloth. Very Good/Very good (box). Gordon Ross. Londoner Charles Lamb decided to use the pseudnym "Elia" for has regular essays in every issue of the "London Magazine, published from 1820 through 1825. The first batch was published in 1822 (dated 1823), while another batch--the last essays--appeared ten years later. Like the essays of Montaigne or E.B Whiite, these reflect life and times and universal ideas. Although techincally ex-library, this volume was in a library at a retirment home and circulated very little. Aside from the stamps on the enpapers and title page, the book is like new.

Chicago and London: Open Court, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Euclid Freed from Every Fleck, or a geometric endeavor in which are established the foundation principles of universal geometry" (published in Milan in 1733) was Saccheri's re-do of Euclid that was intended to demonstrate that the Fifth or Parallel Postulate of Euclid is valid, but which modern scholars recognize as the first (albeit unwitting) exposition of a non-Euclidean geometry. This volume features the original Latin on the versos and the translation on the rectos. Only flaw is that the label on the spine has chipped and is unreadable as a result

The voyages of the early explorers from Leif Ericsson and John Cabot to the explorations of Sir Walter Raleigh, including the legends as well as the true histories. Written with warmth and humor as well as great stortelling