Search Results: Titles starting with E from West of Eden Books

Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, 1982, hardcover, 154 pp, First Edition stated, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, slight spine lean, apparent printed signature and inscription to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight corner and spine-end nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A factualized novelization of the life of Eskiminzin, chief of the Aravaipa Apache, who sought peaceful coexistence with the white settlers and established a model community of trust and self-determination on the San Carlos reservation. Illustrated with period photographs from the Arizona Historical Society. Introduction by Morris K. Udall. Selected Bibliography appended.

New York NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972, hardcover, 184 pp, first edition, first printing stated, Very Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge nicks, rubs, short closed edge tear to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. This anecdotal account of the beginning of the modern consumer movement shows how 'a new awareness of the need to safeguard the public interest has been steadily growing'. Appended, suggestions for further reading.

Bloomington Ind, Indiana University Press, 1963, hardcover, first edition, Near Fine in original glassine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket rubbed and split in places. Nine letters written to Louis Untermeyer by Ezra Pound between 1914 and 1931. Three are partially reproduced to show Pound's unique hand-writing and typing styles. Edited by J.A. Robbins with appended notes and a list of cited works.

New York, Macmillan, 1967, hardcover, xii-275 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few light spots to red topstain, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, slight edge nicks, one short closed edge tear, in new Brodart sleeve. The educator and co-editor of the Journal of Parapsychology presents a follow up to her 1961 book Hidden Channels of the Mind with this clear and readable account of all aspects of extrasensory perception both in a laboratory setting and through dramatic case histories described in letters and interviews with private individuals. Index appended.

New York NY, St. Martin's Press, 1984, hardcover, 161 pp, first editon stated, first printing by numberline, Signed and dated by the Author on the title page, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, very slight spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge nicks, rubs, small scuffs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of 5 stories by the early feminist, science-fiction author. Includes "Souls" winner of the Hugo Award for best novella of 1983.

Auckland NZ, New Zealand Wing of the Confederate Air Force in association with Raymond Enterprises Ltd., 1983, hardcover, 199 pp, Limited Edition or 5000 copies of which this is #895, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper, inscription reads 'To Allan, Happy Landings, J.G. Allan, 8-23-84', Very Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end bump. Dustjacket has rubbing, edge nicks, closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of stories mostly related to the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea and the joint celebration of it's 40th anniversary by American and New Zealand airmen. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.

New York, Carlton Press, 1971, first edition, Signed and Inscribed by the author, Very Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, corners lightly bumped. Dustjacket unclipped with original $3.50 price, nicks and tiny edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. A pillar of the Saskatchewan educational system for many years, Mr. Mcleod "tells in novelistic form the story of an educational experiment in a small Saskatchewan community almost half a century ago."

New York NY, Atheneum, 1966, hardcover, 243 pp, first edition stated, first printing, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge nicks, spine a bit darkened, in new Brodart sleeve. A fictional reminiscence, set in France between the wars, which pays tribute to the reckless abandon, generosity of spirit and unconventionality of the author's father.

New York NY, Columbia University Press, 1962, hardcover, vii-304 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good in Poor dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, old price stamp on front endpaper, light spine end bumps. Dustjacket, price-clipped, rubs, edge chips and tears, scuffs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An account of Chinese writing in the fields of history, philosophy, and poetry from the Chou dynasty to the middle of the Latter Han dynasty, about 1100 B.C. to A.D. 110. Foreword by Wm. Theodore De Bary.

London UK, Macmillan, 1966, hardcover, 284pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name on front endpaper, light corner bumps. Dustjacket price-clipped, rubs, light edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. In charting the progress of a young man from a low social level to the point where his social and financial future seems assured Storm Jameson presents a brilliant microcosm of the affluent society of the 1960's.

New York NY, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1893, small hardcover (6x4"), xviii-311 pp, one of Crowell's "Handy Volume Classics" of which 36 volumes were in print at the time, Very Good condition in highly decorated gilt boards and backstrip, top edge gilt. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a couple of incidental holes and short tears to a few page edges of introduction, rear cloth slightly bubbled, front and rear hinges starting so little as to be incidental. About 80 of the earlier poems of James Russell Lowell with a 12 page biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated with an unidentified frontispiece, laid in is a small catalogue of Crowell's "Handy Volume Classics" to date.

London UK, Angus & Robertson, 1963, hardcover, 208 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few page corners ruffled. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. Accounts of some of the more memorable earthquakes in recent history, occuring worldwide along the well-mapped earthquake belts. Illustrated with 12 pages of black-&-white plates from maps, drawings and photographs.

New York, Total Sports, 1998, large format hardcover (9" x 11"), xiii-210 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould with a bookplate to the front pastedown identifying the book as 'From the Library of...', Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightest spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine sleeve. The sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written', presents a cultural history of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century with sports, those who participated in them, and the many legendary venues that housed them at the center. Profusely illustrated throughout with both black-&-white and color photographs, many from the author's personal collection. Appended:… Read more

New York NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 hardcover, 304 pp, first edition, first printing, Fair condition lacking dustjacket. Straight and firmly bound with no markings, some soiling to boards. darkening to text block edges, light spine end and corner wear. A collection of eight short stories by this close friend and biographer of Joseph Conrad.

London, Chatto and Windus, 1954, hardcover, 188 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, gift inscription to front endpaper, light spine-end and corner wear, fading to board edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, large chip to top edge of front panel, edge nicks, rubs, fading to spine, a few small spots at rear, in new Brodart sleeve. The much-loved broadcaster and author of nearly 100 previous books presents a collection of twenty-eight of his favorite talks including memories of Sir Edward Elgar, Ellen Terry, Henry James, Going to the Pantomime, The Nineties, and The Vanished Colour and Scent of London.

Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1977, hardcover, xxi-209 pp, first edition in English translation by Grete Heinz, first printing, Near fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket, light edge nicks, one corner tape-repaired, spine faded, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of ten essays which originally appeared in journals between 1927 and 1932 and are now accepted by a new generation of historians as models upon which to base analyses of other institutions and periods. Editor's notes appended.

Greybull WY, Pronghorn Press, 2020, trade paperback, 292 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Signed by the author on the title page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. The award-winning author of Unbroken and The Widow Smalls and Other Stories returns with a novel of North Carolina in the 1950s as a pampered son and heir begins to question everything he thought he knew when suddenly thrust into the role of head of his extended family.

Calgary AB, Detselig Enterprises, 1988, hardcover, viii-149 pp, first edition, first printing, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the dedication page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket, slightest of edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. Jack Donoghue's own story of his WWII experiences as part of No. 3 PR Unit in Europe, the credible link between the men at the front and the people at home. Illustrated throughout from black-&-white photographs.

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1994, hardcover, lvi-202 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no wear or markings in like dustjacket. From the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature, English Translations: Volume VI. Translated by William R. Veder with Introductions by William R. Veder and Anatolij A Turilov. Two of the oldest texts of the Kievan Rus: the Izbornik of 1076, and Grigorij the Philospher's Homilies on all the Days of the Week which is translated here for the first time into any modern language.

Lexington KY, University of Kentucky Press, 1967, hardcover, xii-203 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight tight and clean, inscription on front pastedown, tape marks on front and rear pastedowns. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light nicks, creases to flaps, in new Brodart sleeve. Dr. Benne explores the role of education in resolving some of the major conflicts of modern life. Appended notes and acknowledgments.