Search Results: Titles starting with E from Joseph Valles - Books

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1971, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xix, 499 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0395121019; 9780395121016 LCCN: 77-144076 ; LC: DA965.D4; Dewey: 941.5/9/0924; B ; OCLC: 132296 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; Contents : The call to serve -- The early years 1882-1903 -- Youth 1903-1913 -- The Irish Volunteers 1913-1916 -- The crest and the trough -- The Rising Easter 1916 -- Felons of our land April, 1916 - June 1917 -- National Resurgence June 1917 - May 1918 -- Lincoln Jail May 1918 - February 1920 -- The mission under strain January 1920 - December 1920 -- A president in hiding December 1920 - June 1921 -- Fencing with the Welsh Wizard June - September 1921 -- The best laid plans October - November 1921 -- The thumbscrew December 1st -6th 1921 -- Peace v. Principle : The Treaty Debate December 1921 - January 1922 -- The drift to disaster January-June 1922 -- The War of Brothers July-October 1922 -- The Emergency Government… Read More

Northboro, Mass. The author, 1946., 1946. Good. Enlarged and revised edition ; 190 (i.e. 197) plates on 99 leaves, [10] pp. ; includes frontispiece ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 46-3839 ; OCLC: 4120495 ; LC: NK5112; Dewey: 748.2 ; On cover: Ruth Webb Lee's Handbook of early American pressed glass patterns. A handy pocket volume containing all of the photographs and line drawings used in Early American pressed glass. A comprehensive check list showing examples of approximately 2,000 pieces of early pressed glass. ; blue paper wrappers ; foxing ; spine sunned ; cellophane-held articles on front endpaper ; 188 black and white plates ; worn ; G

Dublin : [National Museum of Ireland], 1985, 1985. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 24 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. ; booklet ; ISBN: 0901777161 (pbk); 9780901777164 (pbk) ; LC: NA5484; Dewey: 739.2 ; OCLC: 16832485 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "We are fortunate that we can reconstruct an almost complete Irish altar service of the 8th-9th century AD. The vessels which we have just described however tell us a great deal more about the society which produced them. They indicate the existence in ancient Ireland of established traditions of craftsmanship. ; FINE.

Toronto ; New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, 1981., 1981. Very Good. 64 pp. : illustrated with period drawings and photographs ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0865050066 (pbk.); 9780865050068 (pbk.) ; OCLC: 7958469 ; LC: SD538; Dewey: 634.9/82 ; "Bobbie Kalman's Early Settler Life Series is an institution. This popular collection of books is used in schools and public libraries across the country. The hardships and the joys of the people who built this land are portrayed on every page of The Early Settler Life Series. Their experiences can enrich students' lives. By knowing who built this country, students can come to know and understand themselves and their heritage." ; stiff color pictorial paper wrappers ; foxing ; bump to back cover, else VG

London : Octopus Books, 1972., 1972. Fine. 97 pp. ; multicolor cloth, photographic covers in matching dustjacket ; 132 reproductions of advertising, drawings, paintings and photographs of early trains and railroads up to 1914 ; FINE/FINE

New York : W.W. Norton & Co, [Vail-Ballou Press], 1938, 1938. Very Good. 1st edition ; 7 p. l., 11-204 p. 23 cm. ; LCCN: 38-27447 ; OCLC: 1815611 ; LC: PR6031.O87; Dewey: 824.91 ; "Some of the essays in this volume have previously been published in England in a volume entitled Dorset essays."; Contents: A struggle for life; The partridge; On the other side of the Quantocks; A pond; The Shambles fog-horn; The yellow iris; Natural happiness; Unicorn legends; A grave in Dorset; God; A moon circus; When the unicorn 'cons' the waters; A locust message; The genius of Peter Breughel; Natural worship; A butterfly secret; The blind cow; An owl and a swallow; Merton Wood's luncheon; An ancient French house; A house of correction; Of egoism; Shakespeare's fairies; Bats Head; The grave of William Barnes; Gypsies; Jordan Hill; The sea! the sea! the sea!; Cerne Abbas; Poxwell stone-circle; St. Aldhelm's Head; Dorset cliff foxes; Easter in Dorset; West Bottom; Heroes out of the past; A rector of Durweston;… Read More

New York, NY : New York Academy of Sciences, 1989., 1989. Fine. xiv, 455 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0897664949 (alk. paper); 9780897664943 (alk. paper) ; LCCN: 89-9363 ; OCLC: 19623688 ; stiff paper wrappers ; authors include P W Basham, Robert V Witman, Leonardo Seeber, John G Armbruster, John Adams, Mark & Ma ry Lou Zoback, Edward Woodhouse, Davied Boore, Paul Somerville, Gail Atkinson, Robin McGuire, Gabriel Toro, Daniele Venezano, Luc Chouinard, Ricardo Dobry, R E Weems, S F Obermeier, R B Jacobson, G S Gohn, Martitia P Tuttle, Leonardo Seeber, Steven G Wesnousky, Eugene S Schweig, Silvio K Pezzopane, W j Hall, S L McCabe, M Shinozuka, K Moriyama, Frank E McClure, Guy J P Nordenson, Jack P Moehle, V C Fenton, Glenn R Hill, Thomas A Schwartz, James H Gates, T D O'Rourke, Christopher Rojahn, Chris D Poland, M Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Rene W Luft, Warner Howe, Charles Scawthorn, and Stephen K Harris ; FINE

New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; Tokyo ; Singapore : Simon & Schuster, c1994., 1994. Fine. 1st edition ; 1st printing ; second Jake Sands novel ; "In Santa Barbara, where he is spending his time avoiding past friends and future decision, PI Jake Sands investigates the death of Julie Price, a beach bunny. She was killed soon after she won $40 million dollars in a lottery and one of the suspects is her Australian boyfriend. To get close to him, Jake has to join the beach crowd in playing volleyball. By the author of Night Shadows." ; ISBN: 0671872818 :; 9780671872816 LCCN: 94-32388 ; OCLC: 31045807 ; an impression of a key is visible on the front endpaper and flyleaf, else FINE/FINE

San Diego, CA : Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1997, 1997. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 24 copies ; SATB ; Ed.8859 ; "First Presbyterian Church Choir, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sheldon Kalberg, director".

New York : The H. W. Gray Company, agents for Novello & Co., London, 1943, 1943. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 17 copies ; SATB ; 1848 .

New York : H. W. Gray, agents for Novello & Co., Limited, London, 1917, 1945, 1945. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 27 copies ; SATB ; No.65.

Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1867, 1867. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 363 p. 18 cm. ; LC: BT201; Dewey: 232.9 ; OCLC: 2434145 ; green cloth with embossed design and gold lettering ; Bookplate of Louis Bacon Warren, an active member of the Atlanta Georgia Baptist Home Mission Board during the 1920's and 30's ; "Dr. Parker is a very striking thinker. He thinks in imagery, and that imagery is of a very bold and picturesque quality. He never fails to arrest and retain attention."--The Dundee Advertiser ; "A careful consideration of the various points raised in 'Ecce Homo' induced the present writer to undertake a re-survey of the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ. He found, however, that he could not occupy the standpoint from which 'Ecce Homo' had been written, without, as it appeared to him, ignoring the mystery of the Incarnation, and thus putting himself into a false relation to all subsequent facts in Christian history. The following pages will show… Read More

White Plains, N.Y. : Longman, 1995., 1995. Very Good. 2nd ed. ; xiv, 434 pp. : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0801312027 ; OCLC: 33979167 ; Originally prepared by the Scottish Classics Group ; color pictorial boards ; numerous illustrations and drawings ; a few marks, else VG

San Diego, California : Point Loma Publications, Inc., 1980, 1980. Very Good. xiv, 517 pp. ; green cloth with pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Tributes to W. Q. Judge -- Meditation, concentration will -- The closing circle -- Three great ideas -- An astrological question -- Yours till death and after, H. P.B -- H.P.B. at Enghien -- On the future: A few reflections -- Concerning Mr. Foulke's claims -- Mesmerism -- The sheaths of the soul -- Convention of the European Section -- An interesting letter -- India : Trumpet call at a crisis -- The praying letter -- Blavatskianism, in and out of season -- Theosophical correspondence class -- New York Theosophical Society -- The moral law of compensation -- Astrology verified -- Adepts in America in 1776 -- Theosophy and destiny of India -- The west and what India can give it -- Lecture at Secunderabad -- Mr. Judge at Hyderabad -- Are the Arabina Nights all fiction? -- Thought transference or mind reading -- Chirognomy and palmistry -- Nadigranthams --… Read More

Lancaster, Pa. : Economic Geology Pub. Co., 1955, 1955. Very Good. ISSN: 0361-0128 ; LCCN: 87-658053 ; yellow paper wrappers ; "Jubilee volume" ; Contents: Te outlook for the future: nonrenewable resources -- Geologic structure surrounding the Santa Rita intrusive -- Vacuum differential thermal analysis of coal -- A review of the Falconbridge Ore Deposit -- The Geochemistry and origin of the Gold bearing Quartz veins and lenses of the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt -- The genesis of asbestos in ultrabasic rocks -- Origin of the Roan Antelope Copper Deposit of Northern Rhodesia -- Reviews: Geology of Australian ore deposits (A B Edwards) -- Geoogie der Schweizeralpen (Cadisch and Niggli) -- Second Conference on the Origin and Constitution of Coal -- Coal (Wilfrid Francis) -- The use of stereographic projection in structural geology ( F C Phillips) -- La geologie et les problems de l'eau en Algerie (Geol. Cong. Algiers) -- Books received -- Abstracts of papers to be presented at the Chicago Meeting,… Read More

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1931., 1931. Good. 3rd printing ; green and black decorative cloth ;remnants of original dustjacket laid in mylar wrapper, with the Bertrand Zadig woodcut ; heavily foxed ; slightly knocked ; ex-libris of H. E. (Harry) Howard (1908-1998) on ep ; scarce dustjacket, so G/FAIR

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana Universtiy Press, 1988., 1988. Fine. xii, 343 pp. ; plates ; biography of the groundbreaking journalist whose firsthand reporting on the Communist movement in China ; FINE in FINE dj.

London, B. T. Batsford, 1947, 1947. Very Good. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; viii, 112 p. plates (part in color) map (on lining paper) 22 cm. ; LCCN: 47-8157 ; OCLC: 2021904 ; LC: DA890.E3; Dewey: 941.445 ; light blue cloth with black lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The Castle -- Holyrood -- The mediaeval city -- Old Town -- Old Town and Canongate -- New Town and Augustan Age -- Modern times. ; clipped corner, front endpaper ; name on flyleaf ; remainds of label on front cover dustjacket ;

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1992., 1992. Fine. 180 pp. ; illustrations ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0898703875; 9780898703870 LCCN: 91-76073 ; OCLC: 28628979 ; LC: BX4700.C19; Dewey: 272.2092 ; illustrated by Rose Goudket. ; Originally published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc., 1957. ; color pictorial paper wrappers ; "life and death of the martyr, St. Edmund Campion, hero of God's underground during the persecutions of the Catholics in England in the 1500s. Campion, the most celebrated young scholar of his day, was on his way to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury until a crisis of conscience turned him back to his Catholic faith. He fled England, became a Jesuit priest, and was sent back to be the leader of the underground ministry to the persecuted Catholics until, after a long and frustrated search, the government finally captured him and brutally executed him." ; FINE

Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1974., 1974. Very Good. ISBN:0520027817 ; LCCN:74-79771 ; xii, 479 pp. ; illustrated ; yellow cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The road to the throne -- Te heir of York -- THe Yorkist triumph -- The first reign, 1461-1471 -- The second reign, 1471-1483 -- The governance of England ; VG/VG