Search Results: Authors starting with E from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

[Washington, D.C.] [Hialeah, Fla.]: War Dept. , [R.E. Lamme], 1975. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. A lovely reproduction; a colored folding map with an onion skin overlay of present-day highways and cities. color map 54 x 42 cm folded to 23 x 15 cm.; Scale 1:800,000; Folded title: 1856 military road map of South Florida as ordered by the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, U.S.A., with overlay of present day roads and cities./ Facsimile./ Includes historical text on the  verso.  Accompanied by transparent overlay of modern roads and cities. No flaws to the map, the onion-skin has some age-toning; the unused mailing envelope has age-darkening on one end. Appears to have only been unfolded when photographed.. The map, first issued alongside the Memoir accompanying a Military Map of The Peninsula Of Florida in 1856, was compiled by Joseph Christmas Ives (1829-1868) under the orders of then-Secretary of War of the United States, Jefferson Davis. Ives, a significant figure in American… Read More

Boston: A. Wilde Company, Publishers, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good, plus. Photography by Fred H. Kiser.. Uncommon dust in jacket; bound in brown cloth, bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with sepia-toned photographic pastedown of a waterfall on the center of front cover. Books shows very light external. Binding is firm. Previous owner's name appears on front-free-endpage. Pages are clean and without markings. The work is illustrated with photographic plates. Photographic portrait of the author attached to the first blank page. Illustrated with 18 photographic plates by Fred H. Kiser. 8vo; 8 inches tall; 245 pages. First Edition - First Printing.   The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The uncommon dust jacket has modest wear with mild edge wear and a toned spine. Jacket is preserved in new Mylar cover.. A handsome and collectible account of early National Park… Read More

New York: Berham House / Random House, 1968. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good price-clipped dust jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Fully illustrated with 120 pages of photographs. 4to; 10 inches tall; 534 with index.Gift inscription and bookplate. Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs narrates the story of the Jews from Abraham's migration to The Six Day War from a secular perspective.

Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality.. The author describes the joys and vicissitudes of traveling to unique places.

New York: Bantam, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 9.5 inches tall; 810 pages with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. Map endpages and intext maps.. The Ohio River, a principal route for pioneers pushing westward along its 981-mile course from Pennsylvania through Kentucky and Indiana to Illinois, was the scene of fierce battles among warring Indian tribes the Shawnee, Miami, Cherokee, Iroquois..... and between Native Americans and white settlers. Tapping journals, letters, diaries and government memoranda from 1768 to 1799, and fleshing out his panoramic chronicle with reconstructed dialogue adapted from primary sources, historian-novelist Eckert has fashioned an epic narrative history of the struggle for dominance of the Ohio River Valley that makes compelling reading.  [Pub Weekly]

Ashland, Kentucky: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; extensive chapter notes and index, map endpages. First Edition, First Printing. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.. Eckert's historical narrative is written as a great human drama. Diary and journal entries of real people who lived the hardships, war, deprivation, and success of this era salt the pages of this edition, giving faces and feelings to one of our country s grandest historical adventures the opening of the American west.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Green cloth with gold spine titles and front emblem; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with even ageing of the cloth.  Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 9.5 inches tall; 207 pages.. Compilation interesting & helpful material, including stories which emphasize the intelligence of cats & their affection for people as well as their devotion to their young, and accounts of individual cats and what their owners have said about them, including Edward E. Whiting, Philip G. Hamerton, Agnes Repplier, William Lyon Phelps, et al.

[Stillwater, Okla.?]: Oklahoma State University, 1960. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Stapled wraps with illustrated card-stock. 6 by 9 inches; 56 pages. Words and music with notes explaining the importance. 1960.  Berlin B Chapman (Introduction), Charles Evans (Foreword) No Flaws or Blemishes but a long inscription by one of the editors to a professor.. Sponsored by the Oklahoma Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Edited by students in Oklahoma History, Oklahoma State University ; foreword by Charles Evans.

Los Angles: The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Giftable Book.. Illustrations by Holling C. Holling. An important reference concerning California history. Signed by William F. Kimes at beginning of his article. Dust Jacket was designed by western artist Holling C. Holling, No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Limited Edition of 500. 25+ historical illustrations; Article headpieces and decorative pieces throughout the book by Andrew S. Dagosta. 4to; 10.25 inches tall; 252 pages. Contents: Western History in 1776: Garces and Escalante in Arizona - Raymund F. Wood / The Jesuit Mission to the Flathead Indians - Gloria Ricci Lothrop / The Golden History of the Overland Emigrations - John D. Unruh, Jr. / The Roots of Russell: Early Frontier Sketches of Charles Marion Russell - Carl S. Dentzel / Johnathon D. Stevenson and the New York Volunteers - Paul W. Gates / Big John… Read More

Philadelphia: The Magee Press, 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Robert R. Murray. A record of European travels in the years 1855 - 56. First Edition. Limited edition #296 of 517. Author/ Editor Signed. Quarter black to brown boards. Paste-on spine label with paste-on silhouette on front. Fore-edge rough-cut. Map endpages. 18 illustrations by Robert R. Murray. Bindings square and tight, text clean and bright. No flaws but a bump to upper rear corner.

Jacksonville, Florida: Ambrose the Printer, Inc., 1972. Second Edition. Very Good Spiral Comb with Stiff Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm.  Moderate shelf handling wear. 9 inches tall; 338 pages with an index. . Complied and published by the  University Club of Jacksonville, FL. This is more than a cook's book, it also tells Jacksonville Florida's history in a unique and creative way.

Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1927. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good. Maud & Miska Petersham. Second Printing. 11 1/8 inches tall. 191 pages. Light blue cloth covered boards, titles stamped in gilt. Front full color paste-on. Older tape repair on left edge of Paste-on. Decorated map end-pages. Fully illustrated in color.

USA: Meredith Press, 1963. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Modest shelf handling wear.. 150 tested superb snacks, dips, nibbles, sandwiches, desserts, and teatime tidbits from the Creative Cooking Library.

Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing, 1955. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Light green cloth with titles and decoration in two-colors;  8.25 inches tall; 102 pages with an index. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Modest shelf handling wear. Church stamp on the front paste-down. Color frontispiece and some drawing before or after a hymn

USA: Amer Meteorological Society, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcovers in a Fine Dust Jackets. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Consisting of Diagrams, analysis, articles, scientific oceanography. 683. Henry Melson Stommel was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today. Volume I has essays written to shape oceanographic policy or to "set the seeds for future field programs." It also contains autobiographical material where the author describes his process of creative thinking and problem solving. He loved the challenge of unraveling the mysteries of the ocean. Volume II and III contain his purely scientific works.

USA: Automobile Quarterly, 1984. Hardcover. A Near Fine Hardcover./No Dust Jacket As Issued. Dark brown cloth, stamped gilt titles, full-color paste-on illustration. Minimal handling wear. . Contents include: Station Wagons. Sunbeam Tiger. Minerva and more. Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow Automobile Quarterly, described by its founder, L. Scott Bailey, as "a cross between The New Yorker and Encyclopedia Britannica in the world of auto mania," celebrates the automobile in every hard-bound, advertisement-free issue. Automobile Quarterly features articles on significant automobile marques and interesting individual cars, biographies of famous people in automotive history and the automotive industry, competitive vehicles and races, as well as automotive art and collectibles. The magazine is noted for quality writing and the use of both original full-color photography and rare black-and-white photos in its articles about automobiles,… Read More

Salisbury, NC: Salisbury Printing Company, 1988. Hardcover. As New Hardcover,/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Bindings square and tight. Unopened unused. Minimal shelf handling. Illustrated. [do not believe there is a volume 2].

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1953. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Green cloth covered boards. Light shelf wear, bindings tight, light toning to text. Dust jacket darkened to inside with light shelf wear, protected in Mylar sleeve.. The Boyds of The Black River Is a Story of a Family of Horse Breeding Farmers in The Black River Area of Upstate New York in The Early 1900s.

Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1961. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The price-clipped dust hacket has age-toned with modest shelkf handling, now in a new protective Mylar sleeve.  8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 922 pages. Complete, unabdriged Novels. . Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds was an American writer best known for historical novels. One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk, was adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good Hardcover/No Jacket. Bound in Buckram with black spine title boxes; Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Top edge stained. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 340 pages Illustrated with b/w plates. First American Edition.. David Edstrom (a.k.a. Pehr David Emanuel Edström and David Edstrom) was an American sculptor and this is his autobiography. Edstrom spent time in Paris, early in the 19th century and became a member of the Gertrude Stein circle, he appeared in some of Stein's word portraits. [wiki]