Search Results: Authors starting with E from Midnight Books

Khudozhestvennye Sokrovishcha Rossi, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Gorgeous compilation of Russian, West European and Eastern art displayed in the Siberian Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. Includes detailed textual descriptions in Russian and numerous color plates. Limited printing. 262 pp. 11 1/2" x 9 1/4". Tight, unmarked copy in dust jacket with minimal shelf wear. Photographs of this book or additional information available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Continental Heritage Press, Inc, 1980-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x9x0. Massive, detailed history of San Jose, California. Histories of businesses, churches, schools, families and much more. Densely illustrated with historical photographs. Dust jacket in archival Brodart sleeve. Includes bibliography, footnotes and index. 224 pp. 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Tight copy with minimal shelf wear and ca. 1980 inscription to front free endpaper. Light chipping to dust jacket. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Lucy Elliott Keeler's history of Spiegel Grove State Park, Fremont, Ohio, the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum, and the Hayes Homestead, along with a detailed catalogue of its contents. Densely illustrated with historical photos. Includes views of the grounds, interior rooms, the Rutherford B. Hayes' funeral procession, military portraits and more. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to front panel. Scarce in commerce. Minimal library holdings located. 104 pp. 8 1/2" x 6". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and light interior toning. A very presentable copy of an important Western title.

Privately Printed. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of Salem Ely's A Centennial History of the Villages of Iroquois and Montgomery and the Township of Concord, 1818 to 1918. Illustrated with photos. 141 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear. Photographs of this book or additional information available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Triangle Publications, Inc, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. June, 1971 issue of Seventeen magazine featuring the debut cover appearance of then fashion model Ann Simonton. Notably, Simonton, later founder of Media Watch, was gang raped at knifepoint in NYC's Morningside Park on June 24, 1971, shortly after this issue appeared. The event triggered a radical activist career focused on ending sexual assaults on women. She has been arrested and jailed 11 times for committing acts civil disobedience. In the 1980s, she and Nikki Craft led the "Myth California" protests, a series of counter-pageants which accused the Miss California pageant of contributing to "the objectification of women and the glorification of the beauty myth." Simonton wore various meat outfits during these protests: one of baloney in 1982, skirt steaks in 1985 and turkey slices in 1987. In 1987 she shaved off her bleached blond hair in front of the pageant venue in San Diego to protest "racist attitudes"… Read More

University of Evansville Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Philip C. Ensley's biography and cartoon compilation of legendary Evansville Courier editorial cartoonist Karl Kae Knecht. Knecht worked for the Courier from 1906 to 1960 and amassed thousands of cartoons, many of them now digitized at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. Bound in dark burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and likeness of Knecht to front panel. Scarce. 229 pp. 11" x 8 3/4". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal bumping to extremities.Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Privately Printed, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Detailed history of Floyd, New York, Oneida County. Includes ca. 1800's map of town. Illustrated with historical photographs. Rare. 74 unnumbered pages. 8 1/2" x 7". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

National Speleological Society, 1986-06-01. 5th. Softcover. New. 8x5x0. Pioneer cave diver Sheck Exley's classic, hard-to-find guide to cave diving - arguably the best of its kind ever written. Professional level instruction. Fifth (and final) Edition, revised and expanded, issued shortly before Exley's death while attempting to set a new cave diving depth record in Mexico. Illustrated. 45 pp. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Brand spanking new. Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Unmarked front to back. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

National Speleological Society, 1986-06-01. Softcover. New. 0x5x8. Pioneer cave diver Sheck Exley's hard-to-find, authoritative guide to cave diving. The final, Fifth Edition, issued shortly before his death while attempting to set a new depth record in Mexico. Illustrated. 45 pages. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Complete as issued. New. Flawless. Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Unmarked front to back. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

National Speleological Society, 1986. 5th. Softcover. New. 8x5x0. Pioneer cave diver Sheck Exley's hard-to-find, authoritative guide to cave diving. The final, revised and expanded Fifth Edition, issued shortly before his death while attempting to set a new depth record in Mexico. Illustrated. Softcover 45 pages. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Complete as issued. New from publisher. Flawless. Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Unmarked front to back. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

National Speleological Society, 1986-01-01. Paperback. New. 9x6x1. Pioneer cave diver Sheck Exley's hard-to-find, authoritative guide to cave diving. The final, revised and expanded Fifth Edition, issued shortly before his death while attempting to set a new depth record in Mexico. Illustrated. 45 pages. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Complete as issued. New from publisher. Flawless. Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Unmarked front to back. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.