Search Results: Authors starting with E from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Fremont, CA: Toucan Valley , 1999. Ring Binder. In exceptionally good condition. 31 separate fact sheets on heavy card stock, all within a standard ring binder. Ex-library, with one small sticker and two library stamps, all on the title page (card). Otherwise perfect: clean and crisp, with no marks, tears, or bent cards. The ring binder is also in primo condition, with no marks or stickers.

Washinton D. C. : Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Mountaineering Section, 1985. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [16.25cm/6.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 104, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt,, 1897. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo, [20 cm/8 Zoll], komplett ausgefallener, goldgeprägter olivfarbener Stoff ohne Schutzumschlag, S. x, 572, indexiert. Illustriert mit Schwarz-Weiß-Halbtönen usw. Bitte fragen Sie nach Einzelheiten und/oder weiteren Fotos. ... Georg Moritz Ebers (1837–1898) war ein deutscher Ägyptologe und Schriftsteller. Er ist vor allem für seinen Kauf des Ebers-Papyrus bekannt, eines der ältesten ägyptischen medizinischen Dokumente der Welt. ... Ebers hatte schon früh die Idee, ägyptische Ãœberlieferungen durch historische Liebesromane bekannt zu machen. „Eine ägyptische Königstochter“ erschien 1864 und hatte großen Erfolg.Demy octavo, [20cm/8inches], full fancy gilt-embossed olive-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. x, 572, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Georg Moritz Ebers… Read More

Madrid: Gran Biblioteca Sarpe, 1982. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 16. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please Feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

Norwalk, Connecticutt: Easton Press, 1988. Library of the Presidents. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [24cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed doe-coloured calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xii, 363, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. President Rutherford Birchard Hayes, (1822-1893), oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Hayes, an attorney in Ohio, became city solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861. When the Civil War began, he left a fledgling political career to join the Union Army as an officer. Hayes was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain; he earned a reputation for bravery in combat and was promoted to the rank of major general. After the war, he served in the U.S. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a Republican.… Read More

Germany: Europ Media Verlag, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Wie Neu. Demy-Folio, [32,5 cm / 13 Zoll], voller Bildtuch ohne Schutzumschlag, S. 221. Illustriert mit b-w-Halbtönen, & tc. Bitte fragen Sie nach Einzelheiten und / oder zusätzlichen Fotos. ... Demy folio, [32.5cm/13inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 221. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: University of California, San Diego, 1999. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 175. Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Motorbook, 2010. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [28cm/11inches], full embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 144, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid manufactured by General Motors, also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe. Sales of the 2011 Volt began in the US in mid-December 2010 followed by various European countries and other international markets in 2011. Global combined Volt/Ampera family sales passed the 100,000 unit milestone in October 2015, with the US as the leading market with over 84,600 Volts delivered. As of September 2015, over 9,900 Opel/Vauxhall Ampera cars had been sold in Europe. The Netherlands is the world's second largest… Read More

Santa Ana, California: Friis Pioneer Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 99, Fully Illustrated with pen & ink sketches by Richard Beaumar. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. First Stokes Edition. Hardcover. Lightly scuffed and faded/No dust jacket. Octavo, [24cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed ebony cloth w/ lightly scuffed colour plate on front cover and sans dust jacket, pp. 324, Illustrated with frontis and 10 colour plates by Florence Choate and Elisadeth Curtis. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

London: Victoria and Albert Museum , 1931. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed slate-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. viii, 95, indexed. Illustrated with 58 b-w halftone plates &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Ewing, New Jersey,: Princeton Univ Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed conifer-green cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 242, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... One reviewer noted: "There is something disconcerting about reviewing a sumptuously produced coffee table book on Orientalism. The risk is that in documenting the legacy of Orientalism in America, the book's representation of naked odalisques, mysterious bazaars, and harems perpetuates the very spectacularization of Asia its essays often decry. Perhaps this paradox accompanies all Orientalist discourse, whether celebratory or critical: in marking the Asian as exotic other, such discourse reinforces western difference and uniqueness. To be sure, the coordinator of the Clark Institute exhibition, Holly Edwards, and her coauthors, are well aware of Orientalism's… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading Copy/no. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full blue-embossed ice-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 325, indexed. Illustrated with a plethoria of drawings and photogravures . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Edwards, accompanied by Lucy Renshaw, toured Egypt in the winter of 1873–1874, experiencing a fascination with the land and its cultures, ancient and modern. Journeying southwards from Cairo in a hired dahabiyeh (manned houseboat), the two women visited Philae and ultimately reached Abu Simbel, where they remained for six weeks. Another party member was the English painter Andrew McCallum, who discovered a sanctuary that came to bear his name for some time afterwards. Their boat joined a flotilla with another female English traveller, Marianne Brocklehurst, also travelling with a female companion. Brocklehurst and Edwards remained friends and Brocklehurst later supported her Egypt… Read More

Bennington, Vermont: Hemmings Motor News, 2002. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.120. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

London: The Tate Gallery, 1987. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed beige-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 254. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... One critic noted: "Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, London, 15 October 1987 - 3 January 1988. ... William Hogarth was the first native-born British artist to achieve international fame. His wider reputation rested largely on his engraved work, but it was as a painter that he dominated the formative years of the British school in the 1730s and 1740s, bringing to it a great individual talent that was as prickly as it was diverse.This fresh and fascinating book accompanies a special display at the Tate Gallery in honor of the tercentenary of Hogarth's birth and celebrates his achievement as a painter rather than a graphic… Read More

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. 7th Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 304. Illustrated with pen & ink vignettes by Peggy Bacon. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1996. First Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. Jumbo demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed imperial-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.xv, 685, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Publishers Weekly noted: "This edition truly unites the rich collections still dispersed among the Prussian capital's many museums. Eisler, the Robert Lehman professor of Fine Arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, loves these works and brings to his discussion of over 700 paintings an extraordinary knowledge of their history and place in the larger history of art. His breezy style entwines historical context with observations on artistic development, and an occasional provocative glibness: Bottielli is called "painter to the parvenu"; d'Oggiono's Christ "suggests an aspiring bearded lady"; Biedermeier is described as "more a state of mind than a style";… Read More

New Haven: Yale, 2006. First Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. Table book[30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed mauve-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. ix, 303, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1503 – 1540), also known as Parmigianino ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition (light penciling)/No Dust Jacket. Demy octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], full gilt-embossed cloudy-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp.154, indexed. Illustrated with 2 b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... GoogleBooks otes: "Lieut. Col. Percival George Elgood (July 30, 1863 - December 20, 1941) was an English-born writer who resided in Egypt. He was educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst, and was then commissioned in the Devonshire Regiment in 1883. He went on to hold important posts in the Ministries of Finance and Interior of the Egyptian Government, before he was recalled to the British Army in Egypt during World War I. For his services he gained four mentions in despatches, receiving the C.M.G., Officier le Grand Honneur, Coronia dÂ’Italia, White Eagle of Serbia, and Savour of Greece. He also received third class of the Orders of Osmania, Medjidia and Nile.… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [26.5cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed nut-brown calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xv, 246. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of Victorian England. SChief among her oeuvre are Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"