Authors starting with E from Nan's Book Shop

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2001. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Brutal Imagination is made up of two cycles of poems, each confronting the same subject: The black man in white America. The first cycle deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper invented by Susan Smith to cover up the killing of her two small sons, it displays Eady's stunning range: His deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger.... more information

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New York: Harcourt, brace, Javonovich and Company, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A varied, interesting text book. It includes poems, stories, information articles, study pieces, and lots of great illustrations and photographs. The book is worn on all corners, but the heaving binding is very good everywhere else. 328 pages, no marks or tears found (I went through it pretty carefully). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1988. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Eastman, P. D.. Binding is fine, no worn spots, glossy pictoral cover. An "I can read by myself Beginner Books." 64 pages are fine, illustrated by author. Letters are large for young readers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2000. First Publishers Edition. Soft Cover. New. No Intermissions is the first comprehensive biography of Anges de Mille, an American cultural giant: Dancer, choreographer, director, labor union leader, bestselling author, and passionate advocate of the arts. During a life that spanned most of the 20th century, de Mille worked and played with a fabulous cast of characters, from her uncle (Cecil B. de Mille), to Charlie Chaplin, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, and many oth... more information

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Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A.: Breckling Press, 2004. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. Fuller, Nina . After Dark is a singularly sensous collection of high-style knits in glorious yarns and eye-popping colors. Sensation photography. . . a learn-to-knit refresher. . .detailed schematics. . .color charts. . .yarn notes. Included are 20 cool knits for hot nights, such as: Sexy beaded halter, knock-out belt, sizzling sleeveless tee, wraparound pashamini shawl, and party togs for stylish tots. Hard cover wi... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books for Children, 1998. 3rd Printing. Hard Bound, Pictorial. Fine/Near Fine. Yorinks, Adrienne. On June 1, 1996, Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund, held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial to encourage people everywhere to Stand for Children. The anniversary of that day is now celebrated every year as a day for Americans to reconfirm their commitment to children. A version of Mrs. Edelman's speech, with its message of hope, fai... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Photographs. Ed Edelson brings the world of the child star alive for readers of this book. He tells the story of some of the most famous child stars of the twenties through the seventies. Judy Garland winning the hearts of young and old, Micky Rooney as Andy Hardy. Elizabeth Taylor certainly made it big; but she was one of the child stars who became even more famous as an adult. Edelson takes you through the glitter an... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. The Copeland family, of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. A Copeland bride planted wisteria by her back porch 20 years before the Civil War. Now her vine has just about taken over the woods around the family graveyard. Meredith's father, Albert Copeland, keeps a sort of written family record. He keeps it in some notebooks he bought to log the flight of his home-built floatplane, a project Albe... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Readers Digest, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Various Artists. This book offers in-depth portraits of more than 500 biblical characters, from Moses' brother Aaron to Job's friend Zophar. All the major figures are there: Jacob, scheming to win his brother's birthright and his father's blessing; Moses, leading his people through the parter waters of the Red Sea; David, whose adultery lead to murder; Peter, wose brief show of bravado was followed... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Readers Digest, 1994. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This volume provides 23 simple and more complex woodworking projects for the patio, deck, garden and yard. It is written by home improvement experts with captioned color demonstration photos and clear, detailed lay-outs that help guide each project to completion. Projects include a garden bench, adirondack chair, porch glider and swing, gazebo, playground, window box, BBQ grill table, sandbox, patios, decks, and more. This ... more information

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New York: St Martins Press, 2001. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. Maria Callas, born in America to Greek parents who had been in the U.S. a scant four months, was expected to be a boy. When born, her mother insisted she be "taken away" and wanted nothing to do with her ten pound baby girl. Despite these initial trials, Callas grew up into a beautiful young lady with a beautiful voice to match. This is her biography, from birth to death, and includes the many twis... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Photographs. For twelve years, from behind a desktop microphone in his study in Tallahasee, Florida, Red Barber charmed, delighted, surprised, taught and entertained millions of listeners of National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Barber's commentaries wove together tales from sports events past, his views of the current athletic scene, biblical allegories, historical references, and the lastest goings-on amon... more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Including an authentic behind-the-scenes account of how religious cults operate financially, emotionally, and sexually, this is a story of a young man who is drawn into a religious cult. When his parents try to talk to him he ignores their pleas. They eventually have him kidnapped and reprogrammed, sparking a major court case that explosively explores every facet of religious freedom, parental rights and the legal claims of you... more information

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New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Binding is good, wear on all edges and a dent on the top near the corner. 221 pages, slightly yellowed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Public Affairs, 2004. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. A tale of monstrous corruption, titanic egos, and delicate diplomacy." - The Washington Post. Elie Wiesel has provided the foreword to this intriguing book. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's personal account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labor, confiscated property, looted art, ... more information

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Hauppauge, New York, U.S.A.: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1992. No Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. This book is a manual of the heavens that teaches you astronomy. It includes charts of the heavens for each month of the year for the northern and southern hemispheres. These are handy to take outdoors (with a small flashlight) to learn the different constellations. It also includes an A-to-Z dictionary of astronomical terms, lots of tips, including which planets can be seen without aid,... more information

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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Back Bay, 1999. First Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. In the soaring, three-story space that is the Tower of Life at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., sixteen hundred photographs collected by the historian Yaffa Eliach give face to a murdered people. In this book, Eliach brilliantly and movingly records the history of that people. Nineteen years of scholarship, a poet's ear, and a storyteller's voice have yie... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Nw/New. This is the author's debut novel in which the lives of an obese Englishman, a Slovakian shoemaker, an ice-cream man, and a young girl converge in the Arizona desert. Theobald Moon lives in a lonely corner of the Arizona desert, tending his spectacular cactus garden, his tiny mobile home, and his astounding appetite. A refugee from the life of south London, Theo has moved to this unfamiliar country and is raising ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. No Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Unknown. This is a work of startling sadness and a story of family loss, tragedy and the sheer meanness of fate. The story is of Maggie Tulliver, daughter of a miller in the English midlands. Like many 19th century literary girls, her intelligence and emotional capacity outflank those of her family and cause problems. She is devoted to her brother Tom but he is very limited in his understanding. Maggie turns to Phili... more information

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Troll Associates, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Binding has glossy pictorial cover. Cover is fine. Spine is slightly cocked. 124 pages. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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