Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Harry Turtledove. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Barclay Shaw. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in brown leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

University of Tennessee Press, 1993-08. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover, 1993, ISBN 0870497987, 141 pages with appendices, chapter notes, bibliography and index. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket; a Like New copy with no flaws. A study in vernacular architecture, focusing on the cantilever barns of eastern Tennessee and based on 316 surviving examples: their sociocultural history, construction techniques, agricultural context, and the individuals who built them. Chapters include: Cantilever Barns Described; Origins of the Cantilever Barn; The Builders; Regional Factors; The Barns of Middle Creek; The Barns as Vernacular Expression; plus two appendices: Agricultural Graphs, and Barn Locations and Dimensions. Features 62 Figures (photos, sketches, plans, etc) and 16 maps.

Chivers Audio Books, 2001-06. Audiobook. Good. Unabridged audiobook, read by Bill Wallis. Approximately 8 hours, on 8 cassettes. Ex-lib with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. From the Publishers Weekly review: "Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work.... [E]very scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music.

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Carol Pub Group, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Condition: Fine/Fine. Inscribed and boldly signed "Ed Koch" to ffep. A beautiful copy.

New York: World Publishing Co, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First American Edition stated, 1969. In Fine/Near Fine condition - This copy is NOT exlib, and it has the hard to find dustjacket. An exceptional copy. DJ is price clipped, with hint of edge wear at head of spine, and tiny nick on fore edge of rear panel. Very difficult to find without library markings, and most of the few ex-library copies are missing the dustjacket.

RecordedBooks, 2008. Audio Cassette. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 12 cassettes, approximately 16.5 hours. Narrated by Andy Paris. A retired library copy, with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. Part of the Recorded Books Inspirational series. From the Christy Award winning author, landscape architect Tessa Young gets the opportunity of a lifetime, to work on the reconstruction of a Colonial-era labyrinth.The catch is she must work with Simon Chandler, the man who broke her heart years before in a traumatic romantic breakup. And locked away in the labyrinth of her mind are buried memories that Tessa must uncover if she is to save herself. "[T]hings aren't always as they seem in this tale of haunting terror, nagging doubt, and redeeming grace.

University Of Chicago Press, 1992-04-15. Paperback. Very Good. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture". Corner bumps and minor edgewear. Underlining to two pages in chapter 2. An examination of what the authors describe as a "pervasive 'culture of romance' on [college] campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most." 273 pages with index, glossary, chapter notes, and bibliography.

Mondadori Education, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, ISBN 9788861840331, 2009. 167 pages. Very Good hardback, in Good dustjacket. No highlighting or underlining; binding solid and square. Checkmarks next to five entries in the table of contents. DJ worn at top and bottom edges. Collects 22 speeches from the 2008 Meeting in Rimini, Italy. "The Meeting For Friendship Among Peoples, which takes place at the end of August in Rimini (Italy) is a week of events, testimonies, exhibitions, shows, debates, sport manifestations and a place of meeting for hundreds of thousands of persons. It was initiated thirty years ago by a group of friends belonging to Communion and Liberation, a Catholic movement founded by fr. Luigi Giussani (1922 - 2005).

Underwood-Miller, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. Hardcover, 1982. Signed, limited edition. Signed by Wendy and Richard Pini to the limitation page. Near Fine, full bound in dark blue faux leather (Skivertex), with lettering and designs in silver, gold and red. Clean inside and out, with no markings; binding is solid and square. Narrow vertical dull streak on front cover, to the right of the silver elf figure - only really visible when the book is held at an angle to the light.

Centennial Committee Ellicott City Firemen's Assoc. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Hardcover in As New condition, no dust jacket as issued. Full bound red boards, with gilt lettering to front and spine. No markings of any kind inside or out; binding is solid and square. 104 pages. A centennial history of the Ellicott City (Maryland) Volunteer Fireman's Association, beginning in 1888 with the establishment of the Volunteer Fire Company of Ellicott City No 1, initially in the form of an organized bucket brigade, and later that same year supplemented by the purchase of a hand-drawn ladder wagon. Numerous reproductions and transcriptions of original documents, and profusely illustrated with photos.

Blue Star Publishers, 1977. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Bob Gould. Signed. Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock, published by Blue Star, 1977. Bob Gould, illustrator. Deluxe hardcover in slip case, limited to 2200 unnumbered copies, no dust jacket as issued. In collector grade As New condition. Book and slip case in textured red leather, with gilt design to book front board and gilt lettering to spine. Eight full page black and white illustrations, a full color frontispiece with tissue guard, and seven partial page chapter head/end piece illustrations.

John Benjamins Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, exlib with typical markings including stickers to lower spine and rear cover, library name stamped to top edge of page block, and "Withdrawn From Library" stamped to rear free endpaper. Otherwise clean, with no underlining or highlighting, etc. Binding is solid and square. A solid working copy, with price adjusted to reflect the condition. Volume 8 in the Creole Language Library. 352 pages, with appendix, bibliography and list of contributors. Book is divided into two sections - Part 1 Texts: that presents transcripts "in dialect" of eleven oral interviews with former slaves; and Part 2 Commentary that gathers nine essays on the linguistic analysis of the texts from Part 1.

Easton Press, 1989. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Illustrated By Bob Eggleton. Signed. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Gene Wolfe. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Bob Eggleton. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in dark grey leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Jack McDevitt. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Jeff Fisher. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in maroon leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Leadenhall Press, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1894 hardcover, Leadenhall Press. The author's first book. In Very Good condition. Binding is solid and square, with no cracking or splitting as is commonly found. Some toning to the spine, and along the board edges. two "bubbles" under the cover of the front board. A humorous account of the Bramah's experiment in running a traditional English farm, to which he concludes "Yes, I can once more agree with the man in the train that farming is the most agreeable of all pursuits, to all except the farmer!" Ernest Bramah was a very popular English author of occult and mystery stories, including those of the the blind detective Max Carrados and the Chinese storyteller Kai Lung. Bramah's writing has been favorably compared to those of Jerome K Jerome, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, and H G Wells.

The Teaching Company, 1998. Audiobook. Very Good. 12 lectures on 6 audio cassettes. with course book. Part of the Great Courses series; course #823. Lectures include the International System (1871 to 1890), the slide towards war (WWI), Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, the War to End All Wars and trench warfare, Treaty of Versailles, the Bolshevik Revolution, establishment of the Soviet State, Stalin, Mussollini and Dascism, and Hitler and the rise of Nazism.

The Teaching Company, 1998. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 12 lectures on 6 audio cassettes. with course book. Part of the Great Courses series; course #821. Lectures range from society and politics in the "ancien regime", the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Terror, the rise of Napoleon, Napoleonic Europe, the Restoration, Reactionary and Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.

Phoenician Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, no DJ, 98 pages with index. VG to Near Fine in orange boards, with gilt design and lettering to front and spine. Personalized and inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Edgar - with deep appreciation of his fine impact on the life of a community he served ably & well - Holt McPherson, Christmas 1963". Compilation of articles written by McPherson on his 1963 European travels to the Scandinavian Design Festival. These originally appeared in the Good Afternnon column of The High Point Enterprise (of High Point, NC), and were broadcast over radio stations WOHS and WOHS-FM. The last book designed by Harold Cadmus, "longtime production genius of Charles Scribners' Sons".

Underwood-Miller, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Stephen Fabian. Signed. Scarce in this signed and numbered edition. Very Good+ hardcover, signed and limited edition from Underwood-Miller, 1977. On the title page: handwritten limitation "96/111" and signed by Jack Vance (author) and Steve Fabian (illustrator). Illustrated map endpapers. Fifteen full page B&W illustrations by Fabian, one of which ("Retreat of the rat-folk") is repeated as the frontispiece. Some smudges to the top edge of the page block, and a pinhead sized dark spot to the lower fore edge. No other writing or marks inside or out; binding is solid and square. Unclipped dust jacket is in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition, with only fault some sunning of the spine. Colors are bright and sharp. Collects seven stories set in Vance's Dying Earth, and featuring the exploits of Cugel the Clever.