Search Results: Titles starting with E from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

New York: W. W. Norton, ( 1984 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 400 pages, cloth; dj nicked

Henry Holt And Co., 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo, clothbacked boards. Kinsey Millhone becomes her own client.

Joliet: P. F. Volland Company, ( 1920). Hardcover. Poor. 6 color plates. 12mo, boards, lacks spine: reading copy only. The gold pochoir endpapers have an inked inscription at Christmas in 1931. A poem on Japanese-fold leaves with floral pochoir-type illustrations enhanced with gold. Six color plates. This poem reflects the author's Unitarian Universalist beliefs. Carruth was a professor of literature at Stanford, and taught writing to John Steinbeck and others.

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1975. First Separate Edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. Quarto, 18 pages, This relates the early development of this particular part of the transcontinental route then traersed for the first tim and to a few fur traders, American and Canadian, who were promiinent in the exploration and trade of the Columbia River Basin. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is no. 271.

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, ( 1952 ). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Octavo, 149 pages, cloth; glassine dust jacket chipped at spine, other tears; in very good publisher's slipcase with paper illustration on top panel Copy no. 88 of 1250 distributed to friends of the publisher. With 13 color plates, and 52 black-and-white illustrations. Covers from the Colonial Era to the late 19th century. Much on cigar store Indians, ships carvings, and mundane household items

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, ( 1988 ). Quarto, 172 pages, " This portion of time has been sought out and written down as close to the true happenings as could be found in old history books, newspapers and the recollections of some of the 'old timers' and some 'hand me downs' from the not so old. They are compiled so you, dear reader, may have a glipse of the pioneering in Columbia county. If it all does not coincide with your own viewpoint, please excuse it and enjoy the portions that do." - Introduction.

New York: Carlton & Porter, ( 1866 ). First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, 256 pages, embossed green cloth, edges stained red, foxing to title-page and frontispiece. Mary E. North was an exemplar of Christian living, but she died as a teenager.

St. Simon's Island, GA: Fort Frederica Association, ( 1955 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 235 pages, green cloth, errata slip on blank page, The map endpapers were drawn by Margaret Blanton. Inscribed on behalf of both authors - probably by Margaret Cate - Mar. 10, 1955. The photographs were made by Prof. Dr. Wightman. The photographer and the amateur historian started to preserve these historical landmarks and people, as they were disappearing, as early as 1936. Her work spanned "a study of Georgia’s colonial records in London to the study of oral traditions and native crafts of the region’s African-Americans. Her interviews with and photographs of ex-slaves and their crafts remain an invaluable historical resource." - GeorgiaInfo. She also founded the Fort Frederica Association.

Munich: F. Bruckmann, ( 1953 ). first, Limited English Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto; 284 pages + hundreds of color plates of figurines, front hinge cracked

Chicago: Fergus Printing, 1884. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 12mo, 174 pages. yellow wrappers, uncut, unopened Fergus Historical Series no.23. Also, an Appendix with the Breese-Douglas Correspondence on the Inception and Origin of the Illinois-Central Railroad, and the Origin of the Names of Stations on the Illinois-Central Railroad.

Chicago: Fergus Printing, 1879. First edition. Paperback. Good. engraved portrait. 12mo, 78, v pages, chipped wrappers Fergus Historical Series no.11. Hyde was a prominent dermatologist at Rush Medical College. Three steel-engraved portraits, "Of value for its account of the cholera outbreak and the methods of treatment employed at Chicago in 1832. Contains the only defense I have seen of Surgeon Van Voorhis against the charge of cowardice made in Kinzie's WAU BUN - Milo M. Quaife."

New York: Macmillan, 1925. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 528 pages, embossed green cloth, spine torn at top joint, untrimmed on two edges, embossed stamp on free endpaper With a two page Dedication by Yeats in May, 1925.

London & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co., ( 1930 ). Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 16mo, 302. 15 pages, blue-grey cloth; dj nicked at head of spine Introduction by Alfred Noyes. Vol. 261 in the Everyman's Library series. Here with publisher's ads for the first 934 volumes.

Chicago: Fergus Printing, 1882. First edition. printed wrappers. Very Good. 12mo, 53 pages; wrappers taped at spine. Fergus Historical Series no.19. An abridged version of this appeared in the Lakeside Classics volume of 1912. London-born Charles Cleaver founded a soap manufacturing business in the South Side of Chicago, and created a business locale that became Cleaverville. Before it was annexed into Chicago, it became the first commuter suburb. His additional dealings in real estate made him well-off. Cleaver had arrived in Chicago in 1833, making these among the earliest memories of pioneers at Chicago.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood And Company, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 249 pages, decorated green cloth, covers flecked The Collected Work of Mary Aplin Sprague. Okay, yes there were some magazine articles. This novel was published when she was 30 years of age. [ Wright III, 5139 ].

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8o, 381 pages, slight darkening of spine

New York: Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 219 pages + ads,green cl., spine darkened, head worn Author's first book

London: Longmans, Green, 1896. Tenth edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos, original black cloth, worn paper labels, name on title, vl. 1 torn at head of spine This is the Cheaper Issue of the Library Edition. Publisher's Complimentary Slip laid in. From the Poetical Works of William Morris series.

London: Macmillan, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xix, 711, [iv] adverts, publisher's cloth, a weighty book, spine and hinges repaired Illustrated with 224 sketches, and an outline map of the South Downs. "There is probably nothing at all in the book which has not been said before, and better said, but mostly in publications not accessible to the average reader." - Preface. Allcroft was inspired by the Committee on Ancient Earthworks and Fortified Enclosures. He also largely restricted himself to a discussion of earthworks with which he was personally familiar. Allcroft was a classicist, who wrote numerous books, including a Latin textbook. His interest in Roman ruins in Britain likely got him started on this volume.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. very good /poor. 12mo, black cloth, gray boards., paper labels; most of the top panel of the dj is laid in. Thirteen posthumous poems of New England life and character