Search Results: Titles starting with E from bookwitch

Harcourt, New York, 1966., 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Octavo, hardcover, gift note on endpaper else near fine in somewhat edgeworn price clipped pink dj. First printing of the 1966 copyright edition. Poems from 1923-1935. Cummings was unique among poets of his time; he was superb at satire and sentiment, merciless toward pretense and pomposity; he had a great gift in writing love poetry and used very little capitals and devised his own style.

Ungar, New York, 1983, 1983. Paperback. Fine. Octavo, softcover, fine in beige pictorial wraps. One of the finest novelists of the 20th Century ~ a champion of the liberal imagination, master of ironic vision, combines passion, intelligence, humanism and skepticism, fantasy and prophesy. 406 pp. including index.

New York: Scholastic, 1982 1st Printing, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. Square quarto, softcover, cover lightly scuffed, interior VG. based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison, photographs from Steven Spielberg's magical film, Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Picture of ET and a very young Michael Jackson, 8 x 10 framable, on first endpaper. Games and activity book by Frank Smith is 64 pp. full of E.T. activities such as mazes, drawing his spaceship, finding words, filling in areas to create computer picture and many more "to do's

Watsonville, CA, E. A. Hall School. Very Good/Unknown. Quarto, hardcover, blue boards. Cover lightly rubbed, interior VG. 64 pp. many photos. A few comments written next to pictures. Appears to be junior high school, grades 6, 7, and 8. Shows sports, faculty, office, campaign in collor, and individual pictures.

Scholastic (1985), 1985. Paperback. Good. Allan Ahlberg. Oblong octavo, softcover, cover lightly scuffed else good in blue decorative wraps. Invites children to play "I spy" and point out nursery rhyme and story characters semi-hidden within appealing watercolor pictures. Unpaginated. Blue Ribbon book.

Stanford University Museum of Art, 1972.. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong quarto softcover, VG in burgundy and white pictorial wraps. Interior fine. 136 pages. 19th Century Photography Photographs Exhibition. Introduction by Anita Mosley; photos by Muybridge, the study of movement in science and art, Francoise Forster-Hahn, documents and bibliography.

Boston: Little, Brown 1967,, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Small quarto, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn brown pictorial dj. 1st Edition. 300 pp. including index. full-page reproductions of paintings, index. This book is deeply moving, and boldly partisan, tribute to the American master, Thomas Eakins. demonstrates the extent to which Eakins' struggle for recognition and public acceptance was, of necessity, doomed to failure during his lifetime, and why, many years after his death, he has come to be recognized as a towering figure in the history of Western painting.

Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated, New York, NY, (1985), 1985. Paperback. Near Fine. Squarish folio, softcover, near fine in white and orange pictorial wraps. 87 pp. Reproductions of Eakin's unconventional watercolors are presented with commentary on their technical composition and historical background.

Grolier Book Club, New York (1968), 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. William O'Brien. Octavo, hardcover, near fine, clean and unmarked, in white pictorial boards. A bright and early book for beginning readers. Unpaginated, about 30 pp. All about ears and hearing with large colorful illustrations, easy text.

Charles Scribner's, NY, 1972,, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. Quatro, hardcover, VG in blue boards with copper colored embossed design on cover. Clean and unmarked. Specific instructions for making 65 pieces of furniture. Finishing. Illustrated with b/w photographs, line drawings. 162pp.

Walters Art Gallery, 1947, 1947. Soft cover. Very Good. Quarto, softcover, cover taped at spine else VG in reddish brown decorative wraps. 172 pp. and 121 plates in b & w at back. Organized By the Walters Art Gallery in Collaboration with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University and Dumbarton Oaks; 897 objects described; addenda and errata slip present. works, ranging from coins & seals, to stone sculpture, wood carvings, bronzes, arms & armor, ivories, pottery, paintings, etc. - Byzantine, Syrian, Coptic, German, Thuringian, Venetian, Carolingian, Egyptian, Early Christian, Roman, Greek, migratory peoples, and more. With a four-page introductory essay by Marvin Chauncey Ross and a 7-page essay by Sarah Freeman about Byzantine coins.

Oakland, CA, Biobooks, 1949, 1949. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED at back by foreword writer, Joseph Sullivan. Octavo, hardcover, fine in brown clothe spine, green boards, black titles. No dj. Limited edition of 500 copies. . 150 pps. Covers the period 1845-1850. One of the first hostellers in San Francisco, the author knew everyone and their doings in the city. "Brown operated the Portsmouth House in 1846 and the City Hotel at various times between 1847 and 1850. his text gives wonderful detail on people and events as well as the operation of a Gold Rush hotel" (Kurutz).

Barnes & Noble, NY, 1976. Very Good/Fair. Royal octavo, hardcover, VG in fair, somewhat edgeworn black pictorial dj. A history of Greece, starting with the Bronze and Iron Ages and coming up through the colonization of the Mediterranean basin. 257 pp. Indexed 16 pp of b/w photos.

Chicago, A. Flanagan, 1890, 1890. Hardcover. Fair/No Dj. 12 mo., vintage hardcover from 1800's, red boards with black lettering. A few white spots on cover, hinges broken else good reading copy. A rare book. Frontis is b & w woodcut of warrior in full metallic garb raising his sword over a river (presumably the Amazon). Begins with Leif Erickson, 986, then Columbus, 1492, northwest passage, Spaniards entering Mexico, conquest of Peru, New France, English explorers, Captain John Smith, Henry Hudson, the pilgrims, settling the Mississippi, the Quakers, Indians and colonists, and more. A very old and interesting history book.

Arno Press : distributed to the book trade by Crown Publishers, 1977. Quarto, hardcover, VG in red boards with gilt lettering. Architectural treasures of early America series. 223 pp. with b & w photos throughout. From material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs, edited by Russell F. Whitehead. Unmarked, 223pp,

Palestine Exploration Fund, London, 1938, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Collectible - Near Fine/No Jacket. Large quarto, hardcover, about fine, clean and unmarked, in blue boards with gilt lettering on spine, well preserved from 1938. Good quality paper, not too yellowed. 62 pages of text with colour frontispiece and many line drawings in the text plus 25 pages of photographic B/w plates

NY, Time-Life Books 1972, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Quarto, Hard Cover. near fine/No Jacket Issued. Revised ed. Green spine, pictorial boards. Bright irredescent gold and red picture of a Samurai on horseback. 190 pp. including index. Illustrated throughout, ManyPhotographs. Great Ages of Man series; A History of the World's Culture. Samurai, monks, a country of contradictions.

Harper & Row, Pub., New York, 1966, 1966. Hardcover. Octavo, hardcover, VG in good blue pictorial dj. BOMC Edition. 284 deckled pages. A young man scheming his way up through the world he wishes he'd been born into; an old man endlessly rewriting memoirs to be published fifty years after his death; the wives, mistresses (and the mother) who thwart or abet these two, often inadvertently: these are the people of an astute and lively novel which explores the universal human need to modify history. personal history.

London, British Museum 1960.,. Octavo, softcover, light wear to gray wraps, pages age toned, very light underlining else VG. Ernst Kitzinger (1912-2003) was a German-American historian of late antique, early medieval and Byantine art who worked briefly at the British Museum in the early forties but later became the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Published first in 1940, this is more than a guidebook. It is an attempt to describe the transformation of the classical style into the medieval, a favorite theme of the author's. 100 pp. plus 40 b & w plates on high quality paper.

Dover Publications (1998), 1998. Paperback. Fine. Folio, softcover, fine, as new, in pale green pictorial wraps. (History of Costume series). Clean, unmarked, as new. A charming collection of fashionable wearing apparel in a captivating, well-researched collection featuring the stylish wardrobe of a wealthy Victorian-era couple (1837 1860) features 16 costumes that include capes, cloaks and two-piece suits for the gentleman, and modest day dresses, elegant-off-the-shoulder evening wear, and a lovely long-sleeved wedding gown for the lady. Introduction and descriptive notes.s.