Search Results: Authors starting with E from Evening Star Books

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1911. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. [2], 3-324, [4] pp. Green cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine, black and orange decorations on the front board. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in orange and black. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and with six black and white plates. Rubbing to the boards, front hinge cracked and missing some of the front pastedown, several ownership markings and two spots of discoloration on the first blank leaf.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press [1960], 1960. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], ix-xlviii, 1-496, [2] pp. Brown cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several plate of black and white photographs. Edited with an introduction by Frank E. Vandiver. Part of the Civil War Centennial Series. Early's memoir was first published shortly after the Civil War, this is Indiana University Press' first edition of their reissue. Jacket with minor edge wear and sunning to its spine panel.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], ix-xiv, [4], 1-252, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over black paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. With eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs from the musician's life. A small sticker ghost on the free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped with toning.

Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press [1961], 1961. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 287, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several in-text drawings by Mac Schweitzer. Includes a bibliography, notes and an index. Foreword by Jack Schaefer. The story of Charles Jesse Jones. A Very Good+ book with a few flecks of foxing to the textblock and a few owner's markings; dust jacket is Very Good with traces of edge wear and a faint dampstain to the bottom of the front panel.

Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co, 1900. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Unpaginated. Quarter brown cloth over grey paper boards with a paper label printed in red and black on the front board, decorations in red and black on the front board. With grey ties, two on each board. Each part with a dark grey title page with a paper label printed in black, red, and white. Illustrated with a total of 75 plates, color and black and white. Edited by Seymour Eaton. Published for private circulation. A nice collection of prints related to Charles Dickens' life, his family, his novels, and his fame. The spine is peeling away from the boards, some of the section titles are chipped at their edges.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [11], xii-xiii, [6], 4-720 pp. Green cloth with gold decorations on the front board and decoration and lettering in gold on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.00 on the front jacket flap. Illustrated with seventeen full-page maps. A nice copy of the third volume in The Winning of America series. Very Good book with an area of discoloration to the front board and light wear to the extremities in a Very Good dust jacket with two tiny closed tears to the top of the front panel and a few hints of edge wear.

New York: Warner Books (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [6], 410 pp. Black paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $26.99 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a map and pictorial endpapers and pastedowns. The fourth book in the Dreamers series. Tiny bump to the spine, else Fine in a Fine jacket.

New York: Warner Books [2005], 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. [6], 487, [3] pp. Black paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a map and pictorial endpapers and pastedowns. The third book in the Dreamers series. A Very Good book with a remainder mark on the bottom textblock and a sharp crease to the free rear endpaper in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Ballantine Books (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 406, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by three maps. Book Four of The Malloreon. A small concavity to the spine; jacket is close to Fine.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [6], 1-216, [2] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on the front flap of the jacket. The author's second novel. The boards bowed, else sharp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [6], 216, [2] pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The author's second novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [4], 4-548 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; green topstain. Near Fine book with name written on free front endpaper in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some light edge wear.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-146, [6] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Part of the Investigations in Physics series. This volume was developed from a series of lectures delivered to the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Signed "R. Askey" on the front pastedown, Richard Askey's copy, the mathematician who did work in special functions and taught at U.W. Madison. Jacket is price-clipped with mostly minor edge wear.

[Lafayette, Louisiana]: The Acadiana Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 2 vol. 8vo. [10], xi-xix, [1], 1-271, [5]; [11], xii-xiii, [4], 2-455, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Maps printed on the endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with several black and white photographs and a few maps. A history of the siege of the Louisiana port. A bookplate in each volume, light wear to the boards' edges; jackets with a few traces of wear and rubbing.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1993], 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [9], x-xix, [4], 4-282, [2] pp. White cloth with a copper decoration on the front board, a copper decoration and copper lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few full-page maps and black and white photographs. Volume 211 in The Civilization of the American Indian series. Inscribed on the half-title page with personalization by R. David Edmunds, inscription dated July 2006. A history of the Fox and the Sac nations as they were impacted by early French colonialism.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [3], 3-433, [3] pp. Red paper-coverd boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photograph plates. A sharp copy of this Bowie biography.

[London]: Macmillan and Co, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], x-lvi, [1], 2-723, [3]; [6], x-lxxxv, [4], 2-530, [2] pp. Contemporary smooth calf with twin gilt rules on the boards, spines in six compartments, with a red and green morocco label lettered in gilt on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece and with two folding plates; volume two illustrated with a folding frontispiece, (a facsimile of Ralegh's handwriting printed in red) and with a double-page plate, a facsimile of a letter written by Raleigh. Based on contemporary documents preserved in the Rolls House, the Privy Council Office, Hatfield House, the British Museum, and other manuscript repositories, British and foreign, together with his letters, now first collected. A detailed history of Sir Walter Raleigh's relationship to the Crown, and a history of his travels and exploits on the high… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 11-349, [3] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering and silver rules on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $9.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Illustrated with sixteen double-sided plates of black and white photographs. A remainder mark on the bottom textblock.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. [4], v-x, [1], 2-449, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a folding map in color, a frontispiece, and several plates done in black and white. Each hinge gently split, one of the plates detached but laid in, light green pencil marginalia.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], xi-xvi, 313, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; dark purple topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Edited by A.B. Guthrie Jr. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.