Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Sensible Magpie

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Adastra Press, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 200. One tiny nick to front bottom cover. Black lettering on spine and front of recycled, hand-sewn papers to sunflower-yellow cover. Clean, bright, solidly bound. Fourteen poems, unpaginated. A sequence of poems which centers on a 90-year old man, who was a neighbor. Written as the author imagined this man's life. "I hope "Each Day" captures the character of an old man, his feelings and thoughts that are personal as well as universal," (the author).

London: D. Appleton, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. SECOND EDITION. Moderately soiled and worn boards. Sunning to spine. Text age-tanned and acid-transfer. Maps. Orange cloth-covered boards. 205 pp with appendix and index. Tight. A study of Poland and Germany as equal nations among equals.

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. TEG. Privately owned. Embossed stamp to 3 preliminary endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine of deep red, cloth-covered boards. Gilt debossed publisher's Indian head "pressmark" to front board. Photograph of J. W. Spencer to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Woodblock prints of J. M. D. Burrows and R. M. Prettyman. Clean, tight, bright. 315 pp with index. Lakeside Classics present first-person narratives of American history and narratives by Americans with experiences beyond our borders. The first narrative is by J. W. Spencer entitled Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in the Mississippi Valley, first published in 1872. The second narrative, Fifty Years in Iowa : Being the Personal Reminiscences of J. M D. Burrows, concerning the Men and Events, Social Life, Industrial Interests, Physical Development, and Commercial Progress of Davenport and Scott County, During the Period from 1838 to 1888.

London: Routledge, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Small volume, 5.25 x 3.75". Sunning to spine, spine lean. Edges moderately worn. Corners nudged or bumped. Scuffed surfaces. Acid transfer to endpapers. FFEP clipped. Hinges starting but still solid. Gilt lettering to black box on red cloth spine of deep red mottled boards. Clean. 319 pp. Contents include : Early Poems, Fragments, and Translations.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Very mild shelfwear. Front cover has a 1" thin brown line near upper edge. Lower corner just a bit soiled with tiny crease. Numerous illustrations, tables and cases. Black lettering to two-toned brown wraps. 317 pp with references, bibliography and indes. Clean, bright and solid. This book of guidelines offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economic approach to underground housing based on modern construction techniques.

London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. THIRD EDITION REVISED. Orange number written on front preliminary page, echoed on front pastedown. Front free endpaper appears to have been torn out. Front hinges started. Lightly age-tanned. Moderate scuffing and wear to edges and surfaces of boards. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of dark burgundy, cloth-covered boards. Soft deckle edges. Clean, solidly bound. 205 pp Small travel book written by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 -- 1923), an English historical novelist, poet and essayist.

Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good Plus. REPRINT. Rear panel sunned, as if through a bookend, otherwise a very nice copy. Black lettering to spine, blue and black lettering to front of ocean-blue covers. Black and white illustrations. Clean, bright and solidly bound. 129 pp with index. "The heart of Ebb Tide is the diary of Josephine Clay Habersham which she kept in 1863. The story is particularly one of life and death in wartime as it affected the Habersham family, but it has broader implications than can be found in Savannah, the home of this eminent Georgia family," (preface).

Minneapolis: ECKANKAR, 1988. Paperback. Fine. Connie Kassal. Very slight wear to extremities. Black lettering to spine and front cover, yellow card covers. Very clean, tight, bright. No markings. Nice Illustrations. 264 pp. Discusses the spiritual experience of youth, peer pressure, boy-girl relationships, religions, and living the Life of ECK. See related listing: "THE ECK JR 3 DISCOURSES" (pictured)

Minneapolis: ECKANKAR, 1989. Paperback. Fine. Julie Johnson. Very slight wear to extremities. Black lettering to spine and front cover, blue card covers. Very clean, tight, bright. No markings. Nice Illustrations. 172 pp. Discusses illusion, change, relationships, the Law of Economy, self-discipline, meeting a special ECK Master, and how to heal a broken heart. See related listing: "THE ECK HI 2 DISCOURSES" (pictured)

BOSTON, MASS: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. A further compilation of unpublished articles collected mainly from the New Orleans newspapers of the 1880's.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. Occasional underlining and marginalia, both in pencil and pen. Light soiling to text block edges. Top of page 405 crimped. Minor shelfwear to cover surfaces. Appears to be fingerprints on lower part of half-title page. Brown lettering to tan covers. 452 pp. with checklist of sources, bibliography and index. Bright, solid binding. "This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context, revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation," (rear cover).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD PLUS in VERY GOOD Dustjacket. Early 20th-century travelogue detailing the "mystery, romance, and culture" of Egypt, "along with its beauty and squalor" (from dustjacket). Focus on ancient monuments. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations. Minor shelfwear to extremities with slight corner bumps on upper right front and upper right back corners. Some slight foxing to front and rear pastedowns/endpapers. Dustjacket archivally protected; price clipped with sunning, some black smudges, five 1 cm chips on top of smile, medium chip along bottom edge of spine.

New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faint pipe aroma. Board and text block edges darkened from smoke. Spinecaps gently folded under. Dustjacket very good. Jacket spine and extremities darkened from smoke. Light scuffing to surfaces. 250 pp with glossary, selected bibliography, and chronology. Introduction and Notes by George Ivask. Translated from the Russian by George Reavey. The story takes place in the Balkan peninsula where the blend of East and West provides a lavish setting of exotic textures, colors and shadings. It is the intensely personal product of a fascinating mind.

LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. , 1884 . Hardcover. GOOD . FIRST EDITION. Representative selection from English essayists of the 1700s. Includes "Mr. Bickerstaff Visits a Friend," "The Political Upholsterer," "Recollections of Childhood," "Adventures of a Shilling," "Meditations in Westminster Abbey," several on Sir Roger de Coverley, several on Beau Tibbs, others. 284 pp. Red beveled cloth boards. Gilt top edge, gilt lettering to spine and front board with small design to front board (two trees with text on ribbon : "Arbor Scientiae / Arbor Vitae". Frontis illustration of the "Tory Foxhunter". Edges uncut. Significant rubbing to bottom edge, top spinecap, tips of corners rubbed through to cardboard; light rubbing elsewhere to extremities. Some light fraying to spinecaps, corners. Moderate sunning to spine. Light rubbing to front board, rear board, with moderate rubbing to 0.5 inch by 5 inch rectangle. Light spotting to… Read More

Paperback. Good Plus. Staple-bound. Card cover soiled, with inked writing. Text clean and unmarked. MISSING the last three leaves (6 pages 9-55 through 9-59) -- covering Tube Testers. The first chapter deals with the fundamentals of electron emission, upon which the operation of most vacuum tubes is dependent. In succeeding chapters, various types of vacuum tubes have been classified and presented in the order of their complexity. Additional chapters include: The Diode Tube; Power Supplies Using Diode Tubes; The Triode Tube; Multigrid Tubes; Vacuum Tube Amplifiers; Multipurpose and Special-Purpose Tubes; Microphones-Headsets-Loudspeakers; and Representative Vacuum Tube Applications.

Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & W. Creech, 1774. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Previous owners' names to FFEP and title page. Front board detached. Some age-tanning and foxing. A bit of flaking, scuffing, rubbing and chipping to soft brown suaded leather boards and spine. A bit musty. Once gilt lettering to spine rubbed away, faint traces of gilt left on raised bars to spine. Dark topstain. No markings in text. 518 pp. "That nothing external is perceived till first it make an impression upon the oran of sense, is an observation that holds equally in every one of the external senses. But there is a difference as to our knowledge of the impression: in touching, tasting, and smelling... That difference in the manner of perceiving external objects, distinguisheth remarkably hearing and seeing from the other senses, and I am ready to show [that] every feeling, pleasant or painful, must be in the mind..." And so begins his discussion on how to fully appreciate and critique literature and theatre.

Washington DC: Federal Board for Vocational Education, 1927. Paperback. Very Good. 188 pp., As Yet Untrimmed. Intended for those entrepeneurs who would start larger commercial laundries. Front cover bears the round-stamp of the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Small corner chip to cover page missing, and creasing to bottom corners of next two pages. Developed by a Committee of the Laundryowners National Association in Cooperation with the Federal Board for Vocational Education, this is the second bulletin in the commercial field issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The technical information in it was supplied by a committee of laundry managers representing the Laundryowners National Association.

London: Octagon Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FOURTH IMPRESSION. FINE. Dustjacket FINE. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Book measures 7 x 5 x .25". Clean, tight, bright. 76 pp with glossary followed by list of books by author. Christianity, Islam and the Suftis. Geneva University Lectures 1972 / 3. "This book deals with the interplay of Christianity and Islam and the Sufi conception of surrender to God. The materials originate in Idries Shah's work as a Visiting Professor at Geneva University in Switzerland," (rear cover).

Eugene: Silver Water Press, 2003. Paperback. Fine. Applegate, Susan. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE to title page. Black lettering on spine and front of illustrated ice-blue covers. 458 pp with Epilogue and Notes. Clean, bright, tight. This true story takes the family back three generations to Civil War Times.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Very nice volume. A few, very light spots to front board. Pencilled notes in margins by noted Medieval scholar, Stanley Greenfield. Green lettering on spine and front of maroon, cloth-covered boards. Tight and bright. Book measures 7.5 x 5". 106 pp followed by 28 pp Notes of Conversations with Ben Jonson. Reproduction from the series Bodley Head Quartos published in London by John Lane, between 1922 and 1926.