Search Results: Authors starting with E from Ironwood Hills Books

First edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. Dust jacket with some shelf wear to raised lettering on front, not price clipped. Volume inscribed from one Marine to another, no other interior markings or condition issues. Please see scans of the book you will receive.

First edition, London, 1719. xviii, 196, [2]. Rebound (about 150 years ago) in red half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Bookplate of Library of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Massachusetts. No other library indicia. Quality of the paper is just amazing - very supple, minimal foxing. One ancient marginal spelling correction. Binding is sound. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Notes: An accounting by the parishes of how the Queen's money is being spent.

1899, second edition, hardcover. Volume is fair to good condition. Original boards show wear especially to corners. Complete with all pages and plates. Book has been used but has no interior writing or markings. Binding has cracks at gutters but still holding together well and does not require repair. Foxing mostly seen on pages at front and back. Book was written for non-medical readers and as such is not overly technical and contains numerous clarifying illustrations. Preceded by the 1897 edition. Please see scans of the book you will receive.

First American edition of this book. Published by T. Allen, New York, 1792. Binding is fine. Modern half leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. Interior is very good. Has a few stamps from New York Mercantile Library. Edges show foxing, interior is toned, occasional old creases, no vandalism, writing or other issues. Pages remain supple. Lacking old blanks, otherwise complete as issued. Lee was a British born career military officer who sought to lead the Continental Army in place of Washington. Lee is most famous now for his various hasty and leisurely retreats including being captured in his night gown by the British in 1776. After a prisoner exchange in 1778 Lee resumed command only to be court-martialled a few months later for insubordination. He must have had something going for him because he survived 30 years of military encounters where strategic withdrawal was not always an option. One of those characters that would be hard to imagine if he did not actually exist. See Howes L85. A… Read More

Modern Library hardcover, lacking dust jacket. Binding style #8; Modern Library #98; Rockwell Kent endpapers, red cloth. Overall condition is Very Good: only condition issue is that endpapers in the back gutter are cracked but nothing is loose or wobbly. No interior writing or problems of any kind. Spine is lightly faded, top and bottom of spine show some wear. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: book was published in this format from 1945-1962. This is from my father's library which means it was most likely purchased in the late 1940's.

Volume 6, number 4, 1984. Spine has a few creases at head and tail. Rear cover with half inch closed tear at base of spine. Modest dent to front bottom corner affecting about half of pages. No interior markings, folds or other flaws. Please see images of the magazine you will receive. Issue #24.

Scarce 19th century reprint of Hakluyt's very rare 16th century work. 1889-1890 four volume set, published in Edinburgh by Edmund Goldsmid is complete with quarter leather spines and with original matching marbled boards. Volumes have two title pages and a half title. The first title page is dated 1891 and notes this set is a portion of a larger work "Hakluyt's Complete Collection of Voyages" published by Goldsmid in 1891. On inspection one can see that these are the 1889-1890 volumes with the 1891 promotional title page added later. This set began life at the Public Library of New London with the only evidence being the bookplate. Later this set arrived at Ambassador College Library of Pasadena, California with only evidence being stamps on the title pages and paper edges. No pockets ever. When I acquired this set the spines of volumes 1 & 2 were perished and were replaced with black leather with gilt titles. Original matching psychedelic cobalt marbled boards remain. Pagination: Volume 1: [2], 383,… Read More

Second UK edition of Parry's 1819-20 Northwest passage expedition. Issued 1821 from same plates as first edition except for typographical corrections (see Arctic Bibliography #13145). Condition is good or better. 19th century full leather binding, marbled endpapers. The primary condition issue is that the front hinge is starting. Front corners of boards are rubbed; stain on back board. The interior is excellent, the only markings are pencil notes on the list of plates, complete with all plates, some foxing on early pages. Pagination: [8], xxix, half title, 310, half title appendix, clxxix, blanks. All 20 plates and maps present and accounted for. Hill 1311. This is Parry's first book but not his first voyage to the arctic which was 1818. Wonderful plates and maps. Please feel free to inquire. See images of the book you will receive.

January, 1849 magazine published in New York. Volume is good. Front page is nearly off, with a large closed tear now with Brodart conservation tape holding tear. Interior is very good: pencil marks in table of contents, minor water stain affecting last page but not text, some old creases in early pages, no other writing or vandalism, most interior pages are supple, bright and white. Contains a book review of H. E. Strickland's "The Dodo and Its Kindred." Please see scans of the item you will receive. Trivia note: I have done a little research and as best I can tell this is the first time the Dodo was ever mentioned in a US publication. If someone knows different please let me know.

First printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. Jacket shows wear to spine ends and folds. Volume has no internal writing, markings, folds or vandalism. Dedication reads "For those who want to take their yachts farther than they have before." Please see scans of the book you will receive. Highly recommended to those who believe in belts AND suspenders. Some advice never becomes obsolete.

First printing, softcover, inscribed by authors. 2004. 378 pages. Published by Minim Books. Very good condition. Some shelf wear to covers and edges. Interior is without markings, creases or problems. Binding is sound. Inscribed "Best Wishes - Patrick & June Ellam." This volume does not have an ISBN. An ISBN was assigned when reprints appeared. Minim is the name of vehicle they drove on this trip. A very scarce item. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Arizona authors.

Washington, DC; Excerpta Medica; International Medical Abstracting Service. International Congress Series No. 256. 1972. Two volumes. First edition, first printing. Softcover. Scarce. Please see images of the books you will receive.

First US edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. Volume is Near Fine: only defect is remainder mark on bottom edge, no other markings or problems. Jacket is Fine. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Book is about the Elgin Marbles; their creation in ancient Greece, and their removal to England in early 19th century by Lord Elgin. Seen through the eyes of Mary, wife of Lord Elgin and Aspasia, mistress of Perikles who commissioned the work.