Search Results: Titles starting with E from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Twayne's Publishers. G in G DJ ex-library. (1964). Usual library markings. Back ep missing. .

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. VG in VG dj. (1964). 1st ptg revisd.

Napeville, IL: Sourcebooks. VG in VG DJ. (2004). Inscribed by author. Cummings celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with . words, syntax & punctuation & wrote some of the most erotic & tender love poetry in the English language. For nearly 50 years, Cummings' journals & diaries were kept from public view. They reveal his inner life. .

NY: Liveright. VG in VG DJ. (1991). Centennial ed. Revised, corrected, and expanded edition containing all the publshed poetry. This centennial edition of E. E. Cummings' . Complete Poems published in celebration of h is birth on October 14, 1894, contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. At the time of his death in 1962 Cummings was next to Frost the most widely read poet in America. Born in Cambridge, MA, he lived most of his life in Greenwich Village and in Madison, NH, where he died. His imprisonment in a French detention center during WWI which inspired his novel The Enormous Room, and his visit to Soviet Russia in 1931, described in his EIMI, punctuated a career devoted entirely to his two passions of poetry and painting. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited… Read More

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic. VG in VG DJ. (1999). In 1914 Shackleton and a small band of explorers sailed for Antarctica aboard the Endurance and for 2 years they battled . the elements. Not a man was lost but their expedition was eclipsed by WWI. Owner inscription ft endpaper. .

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press. G PB. (1967). 2nd ptg. Owner notes & marks, ft cover browned on edges, owner name ft cover, back cover soiled. Crews details Forster's heredity, . heritage of Victorian liberalism, his Edwardian resistance to modernity, college years at Cambridge, the Bloomsbury circle of intellectual aristocrats into which he was drawn. Crews analyzes each of Forster's 5 novels to reveal his skeptical pessimistic humanism based on belief one can know only imperfectly & through continual reassessment of truth & reality. Eclecticism, individuality, agnosticism, romanticism, comic irony, symbolism & an inverted Calvinism convincing him neither he nor anyone else is bound to be saved. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. VG in VG DJ. (1971). 2nd ed. Owner inscription blacked out fep, DJ price clipped. .

NY: E. S. Lowe Co. G PB. (1955). Edge wear, binding rubbed. .

NY: Castle Books. VG in G DJ. (1966). DJ rubbed, some browning & foxing. DJ flap has price crossed out in red and new price written in. .

NJ: Hewitt House. G in G DJ ex-library. (1969). Last of the Williams Jennings Bryan types, old barrel-chested profundos whose voice could muss hair of ladies in the balcony . and coax tears our of men. Searching the record, Congressional and otherwise, Bauer has found Dirksen's funniest stories, most impassioned flashes of oratory, wit, penetrating insight & wisdom and some contradictions. Library markings, DJ price clipped, remainder mark. .

Minneapolis, MN: World Wide Publications. VG PB. (1977). Edges some wear & fading. Daily devotional book with a message, Scripture passage & Corrie's prayer for each day of the year. .

Middlebury, VT: Paul Eriksson. VG Hardback in VG DJ. (1990). 1st prntg. A lonely wounded man with dyslexia and an injured eagle shot in his wing meet and form a friendship. Story of a healing friendsh .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG LG SZ PB. 2007. 1st prntg. 14th poet Laureat of the United States author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose. First writing on Eagle Pond . for his ancestral home written wih a sure feeling for Jack's own prose" William Burroughs "An enormous labor of love hat stands like a monument to its martyred subject." John Clellon Holmes Joys and absurdities of life on the farm, pleasures and discomforts of a world in which the years has four seasons - mpale sugar, black fly, ed Sjox and winer. A landscape and culture that are disappearing under the assault of change. .

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. VG. (1952). 16 year old Bronc in his bedroll on the dirt floor heart pounding as he hears something crawl alongside his body and now . he knew what it was, a horned toad, a broad, flat, scaly lizard, with hornlike scales on his head. Despite its ferocious appearance not dangerous except to scare the wits out of somebody when they were in a sleeping bag. Tan tweed binding with scout picture on bottom corner. A couple of pages creased on the edges. .

Middlebury, VT: Paul S Eriksson. G PB. (1990). Adv Proof. Lifelong inerest in photography and conservation led Vasquezto to his work with Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge in Maine . Signed by author on fep. minor marginal marks .

Chicago: Rand McNally. VG PB. (1974). 1st PB ptg. Page edges sl browned. Owner's name fep. True story of adventures of one of the best-loved ships of all time. .

NY: Scribner. VG in VG DJ. (1991). 1st ed. Laid in news clipping 9/17/94 about Quayle and Bennett softening their tone on homosexuality at Christian Coalition. .

Washington, D.C.: Spartan Books. VG in VG DJ. (1966). Inscribed by author Smith 1972. Smith believes there is a profound over the role of military leadership and its proper . place in the administration of the U.S. Government. .

NY: Fireside. VG PB. (1994). 1st ptg. 100 healthful foods, prevent breast cancer, deactivate carcinogens, prevent blood clots, reduce cholesterol. .

NY: John W. Lovell Company. G ex-library. nd. Brown binding, gilt lettering on spine (faded), library markings, edge wear, foxing on fore edge, stain on spine. . Note by American publisher. Poems in this volume were first published in 1826 and 1833 but were not included by the Author in the collected edition of her works. They were published by subscription in England, and were printed for the first time in America. The title which appear in the book are copies of the originals as they first appeared. .