Search Results: Authors starting with E from Tannery Books

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library/good. Richard E. Early, Apprentice: A historical novel, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, First Printing. Green cloth hc with gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (21 cm), [viii] 180 pp; glossy illustrated dustjacket ad on back. Good/good: ex-library with stamps and stickers, tape residue on covers and endpapers, pages crisp; DJ bumped and lightly scuffed, sticker on spine, unclipped (no price). Printed in Great Britain

London: Quaker Peace and Service, Friends House, 1984. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. East-West Committee of Quaker Peace & Services, Alun Davis, Colin Hunter; Bridging the East-West divide: Quakers share information, experience and perspectives; London, Quaker Peace and Service, Friends House, June 1984, First printing. Stapled paper covers with blue photograph of Kremlin, tall 8vo (25 cm), map of U.S. offensive scenario against U.S.S.R. inside front cover and map of Soviet regions inside rear cover, 48 pp including reading list and addresses, bw photos. Very Good: covers lightly scuffed, light pencil marks, pages crisp.

Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. H. J. Eckenrode, List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1912, First Edition; bound with Eighth Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library, 1910-1911, to which is appended the Eighth Annual Report of the State Librarian, 1912. Paper reports rebound in three-quarter black leather over gray cloth, 8vo (23 cm), 54 pp including front cover, blank leaf, second title page, [3]-488 pp; initial and final pages have preservative lamination on corners. Names of soldiers listed are alphabetically with sources. Very Good: binding near fine, contents have minor ex-library markings, some corners chipped with no text loss.

Greensboro: Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Good. ed. Irene H. Cohen, Linda E. Fleishman, One People, One Heart: The Greensboro Beltsy Connection, Greensboro, Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002, First Printing. Bilingual English-Russian eclectic memoirs, poems and essays from the Greensboro, N.C. community, including a man – whose father was the [German] emperor's chauffeur – who escaped 1938 Germany into a European and American life of adventures and hard work (p. 96). Blue illustrated hc, horizontal 4to (28 cm), [iv] 156 pp including 16 pages glossy color plates [4 pp index of authors], bw portrait photos and drawings throughout text. Good: lightly bumped with two dents on back cover, ffep clipped, no markings. Printed in USA

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Clyde Edgerton, In Memory Of Junior, Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1992, stated First Edition with full number line. Inscribed by author on title page, dated '92. Aqua boards and navy cloth spine with gold lettering, 12mo, peach eps, 216 pp. VG/VG: light bumping, very slightly skewed, no markings besides inscription, tight, pages bright, crisp; DJ light bumping/scuffing, crisp, unclipped.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. Ernest Townsend. Harry Stillwell Edwards, illustrated by Ernest Townsend, Eneas Africanus, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1940 [reprint], copyright 1920. Tan cloth with green spine, stamped block with title pastedown on front, 8vo (22 cm), green map of Eneas' wanderings through seven states on endpapers, xx, 38 pp [8], illustrated. Story told through letters and newspaper articles of a slave who took his master's valuables away for safekeeping, but not knowing any geography, wandered all over the South for years and adventures while trying to find his way home. [Note: may contain offensive language] Fair/no DJ: rear joint cracked with spine cloth loose and bottom of spine missing, corners worn, small ink stain on rear cover, pages intact, no internal markings. Printed in USA

American Book Company, 1930. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Edward H. Eldridge, Business Speller and Vocabulary, American Book Company, 1930 and 1913 copyright dates. Brown cloth with black lettering and design, sextodecimo (6 3/4 inches), plain endpapers, xiv, 206 pp including index/vocabulary. Interesting vocabulary includes machine parts and other occupations including medical and electricity, cities and other common terms (siesta, bologna), with a review at the end. Fair/no DJ: spine torn with one side loose, frayed at head and tail, corners bumped, covers spotted and worn, po name in ink on ffep, minor markings including ink on contents page, some corner creasing, light foxing.

Washington DC, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Mary Elinor Lazenby, Catawba Frontier 1775-1781 Memories of Pensioners, Washington, D.C., 1950, First printing. Brown paper covers rebound in green cloth hc, 8vo (21 cm), x, 110 pp with index. Short biographies, mostly of service in the American Revolution. Very Good: light corner wear, po bookplate on front pastedown, light scuff marks on pastedown and first pages, crisp, no other markings.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Hardcover. Good. George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot. Vol. V. Romola. With Illustrations. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, no date, Harper's Library Edition. Dark green cloth hc with copper facsimile signature on front, blind-stamped border and publisher's logo on back, 8vo (19 cm), dark brown endpapers, x, [11]-518 pp, 10 pp ads. Good/no DJ: worn covers espcially corners and spine, a few dark spots, cracked behind frontispiece with small tear on tissue paper covering, pages lightly tanned but crisp, no markings.

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Marc Eliot, Cary Grant: A Biography, New York, Three Rivers Press, 2004. Classy paper covers with bw portrait on white, 8vo (23 cm), [xii] 436 pp with index, bw photos, plus 16 glossy pp bw photos. Very Good: lightly bumped, no markings. printed in USA

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XII, Leyte, June 1944-January 1945, With Illustrations, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering and design on spine, 8vo, xxv with abbreviations, 446 uneven cut pp with index, approx. 53 bw photos including one with General MacArthur, President Rooselvelt, Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Leahy, about 30 bw maps, and a fold-out map of the Western Pacific. Ex-Lib(Fair)/No DJ: spine scuffed and worn with tear on back joint, covers scuffed and bumped, ex-lib stickers and stamps including stamp of Citadel Library, pocket damage to rear pastedown, light foxing on frontispiece, some pages dog-eared, light tanning.

Mountpleasant, Ohio: Enoch and Emily M. Harris, 1854. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Thomas Ellwood, Sacred History: or the Historical Part of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; Digested into Due Method with Respect to Order of Time and Place. With Observations, Tending to Illustrate Some Passages Therein. From the First American, compared with the last London edition. Complete in two volumes. Mountpleasant, Ohio, Enoch and Emily M. Harris, 1854. Half-leather over pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering, 8vo (22 cm), vol. 1: [i]-viii, 9-544; vol. 2: [iv] 5-456. Good/no DJ: covers bumped and worn with vol. 1 spine leather scraped, faded po name on ffep, vol. 1 1-inch tear in title page with no loss, vol. 2 top corners shaved with no text loss, no internal markings.

New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1901. Advance Copy. Hardcover. Good. Edwin Emerson, Jr.,A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year, New York, P. F. Collier and Son, dated 1901 (Volume 1 title page, copyright 1900), Salesman's Sample of all three volumes. Dark red cloth hc with no titling, 8vo (20 cm), plain endpapers. Contains all 16 color plates and 32 half-tone cuts (not in order), two maps (the World in 1801 and in 1901), lists of illustrations for all three volumes, a sampling of text (year 1900) pp 1877-1912, and the index pp 1913-1924. In addition to major battles and events (Gettysburg, the Monitor and the Merrimac, Mobile Bay), includes a painting of the first steam railway with carriages instead of cars, American inventors (including Colt), and reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Good/no DJ: bumped and scuffed with spine worn, cracked behind title page and in middle, sticker or ad residue on versos of plates Battle of Tugela and Battle of Manila, small sticking damage on… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. John Engstead, Star Shots: Fifty Years of Pictures and Stories by One of Hollywood's Greatest Photographers, New York, E. P. Dutton, 1978, first printing. White cloth over black paper boards, 4to (27 cm), [vi] 250 pp with index, bw photos throughout, 8 color pp; glossy color dustjacket. Very Good/Good: covers lightly bumped, crisp, no markings; DJ bumped and creased. printed in USA

Greensboro: Trans Verse Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Good. Edited by Evalyn P. Gill, Nancy Gates, Elizabeth Hunt, Alice Rice, Clare Rosen; Women of the Piedmont Triad: Poetry and Prose; Greensboro, N.C., Trans Verse Press, 1989, First Edition. Glossy pink trade pb with floral illustration on front, 320 pp. Good: corners bumped and creased, writing on title page.

New York: St. Martin's Press. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Janet Evanovich, Set of three First Printings: Eleven on Top, Twelve Sharp, Lean Mean Thirteen, New York, St. Martin's Press, each stated First Edition with number line 1 to 10. Eleven on Top, June 2005, ISBN 9780312306267, blue cloth 8vo with metallic blue text on spine, 320 pp; yellow and green DJ. VG/G+: spine ends bumped, corners very lightly bumped, no markings, clean, pages bright; DJ bumped on corners and edges, light scuffing and scratching, price unclipped. Twelve Sharp, June 2006, ISBN 9780312349486, dark blue cloth 8vo with gold lettering on spine, 318 pp; blue DJ. VG/G-: top and bottom of spine bumped, corners lightly bumped, bottom edge light wear, clean, no markings, pages bright, a few pages bumped on edge; DJ bumped on corners and edges, water stains on top edge, light scuffs on back, price unclipped. Lean Mean Thirteen, June 2007, ISBN 9780312349493, red cloth 8vo with metallic blue lettering, 320 pp;… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Janet Evanovich, Set of two First Printings: Finger Lickin' Fifteen and Sizzling Sixteen, New York, St. Martin's Press, each stated First Edition with number line 1 to 10. Finger Lickin' Fifteen, June 2009, ISBN 9780312383282, red cloth 8vo with yellow text on spine, 320 pp; red glossy DJ with "neon" text. VG/G+: corners and spine ends bumped, crease on back edge of spine, light red mark on rear pastedown, otherwise no markings, clean, tight; DJ bumped on corners and edges, light edge crease and scratching on back, price unclipped. Sizzling Sixteen, June 2010, ISBN 9780312383305, navy blue cloth 8vo with orange lettering on spine, 320 pp; blue glossy DJ. VG/VG: top and bottom of spine bumped and corners very lightly bumped, clean, no markings, pages bright, tight; DJ bumped on corners, very light scratch on front and edge crease on back, price unclipped. in #1017

Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1828. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Principally Selected from their Early Writings. Philadelphia, Kimber & Sharpless and Thomas Kite, 1828, Second Edition (Smith, p. 579). Full leather hc with red leather title block on spine, 12mo (18 cm), [i]-ix [ii, no apparent loss] xiv-xxxviii, [39]-[320] including index. Good: covers scratched and worn, minor markings, pages lightly dampstained and wavy. Small printed card laid in: "Evan Smith / Coal Creek / IOWA / Aged 65."

Philadelphia, 1849. Later printing. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, in Some of the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion: To Which Is Prefixed A Brief Account of the Rise of the Society. Philadelphia, for sale at Friends' Book Store, 1849, later printing. Full leather hc with black leather title block on spine, small 8vo (20 cm), 316 pp with indices. Good: covers worn with boards showing at corners, po name on ffep, light smudges and corner creasing, last page torn with no loss.

Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1828. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans, An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion; Principally Selected from their Early Writings. Philadelphia, Kimber & Sharpless and B. & T. Kite, 1828, First Edition. Full leather hc, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, 8vo, xxxvi, 324 pp with index and appendix. Good: covers rubbed with head of spine chipped, spine title block missing, heavily foxed and tanned, pages crisp, no markings. WorldCat claims an 1823 edition, but the writing endeavour was approved 10th month 1827.