Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Parnassus BookShop

Avenel, New Jersey: WIng Books/Random House, 1994. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Remainder First Printing of this volume of three of E. L. Doctorow's novels, with the complete and unabridged texts of the original editions. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Binding of black half cloth with silver titles, purple paper-wrapped boards; pale whitish area about an inch long along the top edge, otherwise very clean, tight, solid, square with sharp edges. Rem Mk on top edge of page block. Page block edges quite clean and white (except rem mk). Internals also quite clean, free from any markings. Purple jacket with early 20th century American town illustration on front is clean and with slight wear to extremities. In these three novels, E. L. Doctorow conjures up the lost world of America before World War II, the innocence and the violence. the dreams of the poor, and the swaggering pride of the rich. 658 pages. 6.5 x 9.5… Read More

New York: Fireside Book/Simon & Schuster, 1995. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Bright, clean red and yellow wraps, solid and tight glued binding, internals as new. The author discusses how adding soy foods to your diet may protect you against several diseases. Includes 70 tasty recipes. 256 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1995, Fireside Book/Simon & Schuster, New York.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Co, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE In Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Photographic illustrations. Clean and unmarked gray cloth with black titles on spine, blindstamped 'EINSTEIN' on front. The binding of this 2" thick book is tight and solid. Top front corner gently bumped. Jacket is clean, rubbed, with edgewear, corners, spine head and heel chipped. Now with mylar protective jacket cover. The life of an amazing man and one of the greatest scientists of all time--and the German who hated Germans; the pacificist who changed his mind; the ambivalent Zionist who was asked to be head of the Israeli state; and the physicist who believed in God. b. 1879 d. 1955. 718 pages with Sources and Bibliography, Chapter Notes, Index. 2 x 6.5 x 9.25 inches. The World Publishing Co., New York and Cleveland, 1971.

USA: The World Publishing Co, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE In Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Photographic illustrations. Clean and unmarked gray cloth with black titles on spine, blindstamped 'EINSTEIN' on front. The binding of this 2" thick book is tight and solid. Top front corner gently bumped. Jacket is clean, rubbed, with edgewear, corners, spine head and heel chipped. Now with mylar protective jacket cover. The life of an amazing man and one of the greatest scientists of all time--and the German who hated Germans; the pacificist who changed his mind; the ambivalent Zionist who was asked to be head of the Israeli state; and the physicist who believed in God. b. 1879 d. 1955. 718 pages with Sources and Bibliography, Chapter Notes, Index. 2 x 6.5 x 9.25 inches. The World Publishing Co., New York and Cleveland, 1971.

New York: Newsweek Books, 1971. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Newsweek Books, 1971. Hardcover Quarto Ex-Library Book in Good Condition. Internals in Near Fine Condition. Lavishly illustrated. 'Wonders of Man" Newsweek Series book. La Escorial--"an expression in stone of Catholicism in Spain; an answer, solid and unified, to the disintegration of the Christian universe. Erected by Philip II in the 16th century, this sprawling granite edifice set in the Guadarrama Mountains was physical proof of Spain's unwavering orthodoxy. This is its, and Spain's, story. Frontispiece: full page, full color--Saint Lawrence, the third-century martyr to whom Philip II dedicated El Escorial. Book is clean, solid, unmarked other than usual library markings. Library rebound in orange patterned cloth, rounded corners. Interior is in Near Fine Condition--pages glossy, clean, unmarked; page 13/14 have a crease down the page like a fold. 'Wonders of Man" Newsweek Series book. 11.5 x… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Ex School Library Book. Bound in blue-green cloth, board edges rubbed, corners gently bumped, residue from previously taped jacket on boards. New mylar jacket cover replaces library cover. Sewn binding tight and solid. Blue/yellow headbands. Interior clean and unmarked except for lib mks. Previous owner name on endpaper. Jacket clean and bright, wear along edges, not price-clipped. A story of Ellen, a young girl becoming an exceptional woman, who, at the age of fifteen, began a two-year fight against cancer, a valiant and poignant struggle. It is the story of the complex relationships found in every family, with a strong affirmation of life. 156 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1974

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE Book in Near Fine Condition. No dust jacket. Blue-Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front. Red decoration on spine. A trace of wear to corners. Green endpapers. Four sections of plates with photographs of Hemingway's life, family, friends, places, events. Tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. The first author to separate Hemingway the man and the artist from the myths about him. Baker drew upon sources unavailable until that time--Hemingway's own diaries, letters, and unpublished works, and the personal testimony of artists and writers, sportsmen and soldiers--all the men and women who played a part in his career. A nice BCE edition. 697 pages with Sources and Notes, Debts and Credits, and Index. 1.6 x 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Priority and… Read More

San Francisco & Los Angeles: BUTTERFIELD & BUTTERFIELD, 1996. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE NOVEMBER 1996 AUCTION CATALOG, BUTTERFIELD & BUTTERFIELD, FINE ART AUCTIONEERS AND APPRAISERS SINCE 1865. Sale 6498. Nov. 20, 1996. Lots 2600-2784. 68 pages of colour and b/w paintings. In NEAR FINE condition. Clean glossy, bright card cover, illustrated, with light crease to upper corner, a touch of wear to lower corner. Internals pristine--painting reproductions are bright, crisp, clear, no markings of any kind, no toning. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. 1996, Butterfield & Butterfield

U.S.A: Coward-McCann, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Coward-McCann. 1939. A Novel in Verse-First Printing. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Bound in blue cloth, silver titled on spine, clean and unmarked, spine lightly sunned with one small very pale reddish spot on spine, lightly rubbed on edges; tight and solid sewn binding. Pages clean, completely free from any markings, lightly toned. Bookplate on endpaper; date in pencil on rear endpaper. Back side has a few whitish spots. Christopher La Farge, 1897-1956, was a novelist and poet who was best known for writing verse novels about life in Rhode Island. "Each to the Other", his second verse novel, is considered at least partly based on his own life growing up in Rhode Island, centers around the difficulties between father and son. 422 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Coward-McCann, New Yorl, 1939.

USA: J.B.Lippincott, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. J.B.Lippincott, 1948. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt panel on spine, red titles within. Blind stamp on front of title and author within a ship's steering wheel. Clean and unmarked with light wear to extremities. Rough cut. Residue of a bookplate that has been removed on paste-down. Small red line on ffep. Text pages clean, unmarked, no tears, lightly toned. A sea adventure set in the aftermath of the American Revolution. 500 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. J.B.Lippincott, Philadelphia and New York, 1948.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Fine binding in black half-cloth w/silver titles, gray boards; tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Unclipped fine dust jacket. Mark Hertsgaard had just completed a trip around the world when America woke up on the morning of Sept 11th to the unthinkable. On that day America began to learn that what foreigners think matters. Mark Hertsgaard visited fifteen countries, gathering perceptions about America from people of all walks of life. He found they felt admiring but uneasy about America; enchanted but bewildered; appalled yet envious. He posed questions following these conversations: how can the world's most open society be so proud of its founding ideals yet so inconsistent in applying them? so loved for pop culture but so resented for its high-handedness? He esposes uplifting and uncomfortable truths that force… Read More

Seattle, Washington, USA: Cune, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Writings from 75 Emerging Writers plus Arun Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, and Horton Foote. Black& white illustrations. Clean, illustrated wraps, no marks, trace wear to corners, crease to rear lower corner. Internals as new. True stories about work, love, and life from little-known local writers. 488 pages. 1.25 x 6 x 8.6 inches. Cune Publishing, Seattle, WA 1997.

Seattle, Washington, USA: Cune, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Writings from 75 Emerging Writers plus Arun Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, and Horton Foote. Black& white illustrations. Clean, illustrated wraps, no marks, trace wear to corners, crease to rear lower corner. Internals as new. True stories about work, love, and life from little-known local writers. 488 pages. 1.25 x 6 x 8.6 inches. Cune Publishing, Seattle, WA 1997.

Cranbury, New Jersey, USA: A.S.Barnes and Co, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition, Second Printing Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Good Vintage Dust Jacket. . There are over 300 graphic illustrations, most of which are reproduced from magazines and books published prior to the turn of the twentieth century. There are also some original photographs taken by the author. These illustrations portray many persons in detail , undertaking many different jobs such as they were in the 1800s and early 1900s - a peripatetic phrenologist, a loblolly boy, a mudlark, a flimflammer (swindler), a scrutator (election judge), a snipjack (a worthless person), draggletales (womemn of easy virtur), oxtrain master, tobacco roller, working children, household servants, ice cutters, etc. . Bound in navy cloth with red titles on spine, clean and unmarked, no edge wear; sound sewn binding. Pages in Fine condition--clean, unmarked, no creasing. Red and gray… Read More

Hampshire, England and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Second Edition. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright, clean, unmarked illustrated wraps, tight & solid, square binding, internals quiter clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. 533 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1999, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, England and New York

United KIngdom: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Small Octavo Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. 276 p. 5.25"w x 7.75" tall. (12.5 cm x 19 cm). Green cloth with gilt titles on front and spine, gilt decoration on front. Small square dark area on upper corner where a sticker was removed and small erasure on upper corner area on ffep--otherwise in Fine Condition. Bright, square, sharp corners, tight sewn binding. Leaves spotless, with facsimile writings. Very nice tight and solid volume.

Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2012. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. "A vitally necessary--account of what's already happening in those places the rest of us still think of as wild and untouched." - Bill McKibben. Stories of northern people who are right now struggling to bear their grief and reinvent their lives as forests die and burn, school building wash away, and the once frozen ground gives way beneath their feet. My Salmon Home: Kenai Peninsula; Boreal Forest: At the Arctic Circle; Sea Ice and Sea Bears: Barter Island; When a Villlage Has To Move: Shishamaref; The Oceanic Realm: The Bering Sea. 233 pages. Endnotes and Bibliogrraphy. 9" x 6". 2012, Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA

Emmaus PA, USA: National Wildlife Federation/Rodale Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Publisher: National Wildlife Federation/Rodale Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. In-text b/w illustrations. Two-column format. Each section presents a problem and offers creative, innovative, workable solutions--this 1991 annual deals with garbage, greenhouse effect, oceans, ozone, pesticides, polar regions, toxic waste, tropical forests, waterways, and wildlife. Each year the annual is updated to present new topics and new articles. The book is very clean and unmarked, tight and solid. The lower front corner is gently bumped-only defect. 236 pages with Index. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. 1991, National Wildlife Federation/Rodale Press, Emmaus PA, USA

U.S.A: J B Lippincott, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Early Reprint Hardcover in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked deep red cloth binding with gilt outlined panel on front and spine, gilt lettering. Slight edgewear, some corners very gently bumped. Sewn binding tight and solid. Rough cut. Internals very clean and unmarked, no creases. Produced under wartime regulations. Set in Canada, a story of the difficulties of love between a Jew and a Gentile, wartime background issues. Very nice volume. 288 pages. 8.2 x 5,75 inches. J B Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA 1944.

U.S.A: Plume Book/New American Library, Inc. Publishers, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback Very Good + Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked, tightly bound book. Pages moderately toned. Gore's recommendations for the environment are far-reaching and specific-a message of hope. This is an urgent call to action to save our seriously threatened climate, our water, our soil, our diversity of plant and animal life--our entire living space. 407 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 5.25 x 8 inches. Plume Book, NY 1993.