Search Results: Titles starting with E from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

0 McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC, NEW YORK 1917, 1917. McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC, NEW YORK (1917). Black cloth over boards, gold lettering. No DJ as issued. . Very Good ++/No DJ asv issued. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TEXTS A series of textbooks outlined by a committee of well-known electrical engineers of which Harry E. Clifford , Gordon MckAY Professorof Electrial engineering , HarvardUniversity , is chairman and Consulting Editor. McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC, NEW YORK 1917. STATED FIRST EDITION, NINTH IMPRESSION. Very Good ++ solid no pulling of spine, no bumped corners. no writing, few tiny white spot on front cover. Black cloth over boards, gold lettering. No DJ as issued.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1929, 1929. Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1929. Copyright,1927 ,by Harccourt, Brace and Company, inc. Navy Blue cloth over boards orange design on spine, blue lettering. VERY GOOD++/GOOD. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church--a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence--is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire. (good read) On publication in 1927, Elmer Gantry created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities and denounced… Read More

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Later Printig Houghton, Miffling and Company, 1881. A Beautiful copy. Very little shelf wear. Later Printig Houghton, Miffling and Company, 1881/No DJ as issued. Parnassus, edited by Emerson (Boston: Osgood, 1875)Parnassus An Anthology of Poetry Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson Some 700 complete poems, excerpts and verse quotations show a unique insight into the mind of America's first Philosopher CONTENTS Bibliographic Record Preface BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1880 NEW YORK: BARTLEBYCOM, 2013 I Nature: Land ?Çö Sea ?Çö Sky II Human Life: Home ?Çö Woman ?Çö Love ?Çö Friendship ?Çö Manners ?Çö Beauty III Intellectual: Memory ?Çö Inspiration ?Çö Imagination ?Çö Fancy ?Çö Music ?Çö Art ?Çö Moods IV Contemplative ?Çö Moral ?Çö Religious: Man ?Çö Virtue… Read More

Parnassus, edited by Emerson (Boston: Osgood, 1875).Parnassus An Anthology of Poetry Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson Some 700 complete poems, excerpts and verse quotations show a unique insight into the mind of America's first Philosopher. CONTENTS Bibliographic Record Preface BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1880 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013 I. Nature: Land — Sea — Sky II. Human Life: Home — Woman — Love — Friendship — Manners — Beauty III. Intellectual: Memory — Inspiration — Imagination — Fancy — Music — Art — Moods IV. Contemplative — Moral — Religious: Man — Virtue — Honor — Time — Change — Fate — Death — Immortality — Hymns — Holydays V. Heroic: Patriotic — Historic — Political VI. Portraits — Personal — Pictures VII. Narrative Poems and Ballads VIII. Songs IX. Dirges and Pathetic Poems X. Comic and Humorous: Satirical XI. Poetry of Terror XII. Oracles and Counsels: Good Counsel — Supreme Hours

Evoked with rare sensuality, the minutiae of everyday life – a card game in "Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist", the ritual of saying "Grace Before Meat", the perils of lending books in "The Two Races of Men" – are all grist to his mill. Essays of Elia certainly lends itself to repeated reading, and when Lamb's popularity was at its height, his Victorian and Edwardian readers could recite entire passages. Thanks to this elegant new Hesperus edition, Charles Lamb's forgotten masterpiece is ripe for rediscovery.Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his unforgettable, entertaining Elia essays in the London Magazine in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823. Inventing the persona of Elia allowed Lamb to be shockingly honest and to gain a playful distance for self-examination.

Henry Altemus, Philadelphia (1895), 1895. Henry Altemus, Philadelphia (1895). Green cloth, Silver design on front cover and silver lettering. Very Good/NO DJ. Evoked with rare sensuality, the minutiae of everyday life - a card game in "Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist", the ritual of saying "Grace Before Meat", the perils of lending books in "The Two Races of Men" - are all grist to his mill. Essays of Elia certainly lends itself to repeated reading, and when Lamb's popularity was at its height, his Victorian and Edwardian readers could recite entire passages. Thanks to this elegant new Hesperus edition, Charles Lamb's forgotten masterpiece is ripe for rediscovery. Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing. Publisher Henry Altimus1895,Very Good, tight, clean. ownership label front end paper. small stain on front cover. Green cloth, Silver design on front cover and silver lettering.

A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, Frst Edition, First Printing, 1895. A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago (1895). Dark blue cloth over boards, gold designs and lettering. Very Good ++, spine good and tight, text clean and vibrant/No DJ. Europe in Africa in The Nineenth Century is novel of "short yarns." They will probably be found to have their ends somewhere in the coming century. European imperialism and the history of colonization on the African. France since 1876 has increased her Africa lands eight time -fold, Great Britain seven-fold; Congo Free State a million square mlliles, is a perfect new creation; both Germany and Italy have for the first time in their history taken up African responsbilities, and even Russia , not content with owning half-uninhabited Asia, has made some attempt to gain a foothole in Alyssinia. A. C. McClurg and Company, Frst Edition, First Printing, September, 1895. Very Good ++, spine good and tight, text clean and vibrant. Dark blue cloth over boards, gold designs… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Brown cloth over boards, spine is slightly faded, gold lettering. VERY GOOD --/No DJ. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. A Source Book for Mediaeval History Dedication: To: The Memory of HENRY HARRISON BROWN 1840-1917 "From all Life's grapes he pressed sweet wine" 23 Illustrations 21 Maps. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Copyright, 1896, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1924, by Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar Holmes McNeal. Printed in the United States (with letter H) Very Good, spine is intact, but hinges are compromised. Some writing and foxing on front and back end papers, but text is clean and vibrant with no soiling and writing. Brown cloth over boards, spine is slightly faded, gold lettering.

FirstFree Press, New York 2000 Edition, 2000. Free Press, New York 2000 Edition. Purple paper over boards, Dark purple cloth at spine. DJ Near Mint, embossed title at front cover. not clipped $US 37.50. NEAR MINT/NEAR MINT. A Civil War odyssey One of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs: the fully illustrated, eyewitness account of the war by a long forgotten Union private & mapmaker named Robert K. Sneden. Free Press, New York 2000. Stated First Edition, First Printing, copyright by the Virginia Historical Society Full #no,s line 1 to 10. Near Mint, clean, vibrant, small owner's info at front end paper. Purple paper over boards, Dark purple cloth at spine. DJ Near Mint, embossed title at front cover. not clipped $US 37.50.

Oxford University Press, 1973. Oxford University Press, First Edition, First Printing,1973. Orange paper over boards, red designs on front cover, black and red lettering. Near Mint, tight and bright, no writing or soiling./DJ Near Mint, vibrant, no tear in mylar cover. price on flap $8.95.. Traces the development of man from the earliest food-gatherers through the origins of civilization to the consolidation of the Persian Empire. Very well laid out with numerous pictures and draw‌gs of objests, maps, people and places. Oxford University Press, First Edition, First Printing,1973. Near Mint, tight and bright, no writing or soiling. Orange paper over boards, red designs on front cover, black and red lettering. DJ Near Mint, vibrant, no tear in mylar cover. price on flap $8.95. Great copy.

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885. Houghton Mifflin and Company (1885). Blue Cloth over boards, gold and black designs and lettering. Copyright , 1884, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. the Riverside Press Cambridge:electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Co./NO DJ. 65 poems , starting with VOICES OF THE NIGHT 1839, to THE SPANISH STUDENT 1843, which appears to be a PLAY. Copyright , 1884, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. the Riverside Press Cambridge: electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Co. Title page slightly loose from body. Top and bottom of spine show wear, Corners a bit worn. It is otherwise a solid and impressive copy. Gold gilt all sides, gold as well as front and spine designs, front and spine are embossed. impressive front cover and design, Spine a bit discolored and spotting to the back cover. Inscription on second leaf end paper: 'Mattie Hay Dec 25, 1884.' Picture of Longfellow in Cameo with this hand written inscription :Yours very truly Henry W. Longfellow.

Copyright , 1884, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. the Riverside Press Cambridge:electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Co.
Top and bottom of spine show wear, Corners a bit worn. It is otherwise a solid and impressive copy. Gold gilt,gold as well as front and spine designs, front and spine are embossed. impressive front cover and design, Spine a bit discolored and wear to the back cover.Inscription on second leaf end papear: 'Mattie Hay Dec 25, 1884.Picture of Longfellow in Cameo with this hand written inscription :Yours very trulyHenry W. Longfellow.

Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979 (1979), 1979. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979 Oxford University Press. Green Leatherette, 22 kt. gold designs and lettering, gold gilded page edges to further protect the pages. Near Fine/NO DJ as issued.. The illustrations of Harry Clark originally appeared in the rare collector's edition of Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imaginations , published in London by George C. Harrap and Company copyright 1919.. The illustrations of Harry Clark originally appeared in the rare collector's Edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, published in London by George C. Harap Company Ltd. Copyright 1919. Locked doors, sealed cavities, bricked-up alcoves and premature burial close in on Poe's narrators as they , like their victims, are cut off from light, air and human society. Partly, Poe's stories resonate as the disordered chambers' of the narrators' minds but also they suggest archetypal, if extreme… Read More

HarperCollins, 1987. Harper Collins, First Edition , First Printing 08/1987. SIGNED by autror,/Fair. The author, editor-in-chief of Yankee magazine, recounts his Boston childhood, education, experiences in the Army, and involvement with the family-owned magazine Also editor and did most of the research for the Yankees favorite information sources "The Farmers Almanac" is very well done, very funny, many, many Yankee quotes and sayings,as in 'To cure the hiccup run around the church three times without thinking of a fox" " The best time to castrate a bull is when he is sleeping", 'Why is there an interstate in Hawaii? A must read book for every Yankee and friends, and relatives and others. Harper Collins, SIGNED by author, "To Andrew and Woody-neighbor's at the lake. all the best always" Stated First Edition , First Printing July, 1987. Full #'s line. book in very good condition, boards and text very clean, many pictures. DJ not so great a lot of… Read More

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice.
Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Leatherette binding. book in good condition, solid no soiling,writing. Gold gilt, on front scratched in many places. Not collector's quality unless you know how to fix the gold gilt. A good reading copy. . .

The author, editor-in-chief of Yankee magazine, recounts his Boston childhood, education, experiences in the Army, and involvement with the family-owned magazine. Also editor and did most of the research for the Yankees favorite information sources "The Farmers Almanac"It is very well done, very funny, many, many Yankee quotes and sayings,as in 'To cure the hiccup run around the church three times without thinking of a fox" " The best time to castrate a bull is when he is sleeping", 'Why is there an interstate in Hawaii? A must read book for every Yankee and friends, and relatives and others.

Franklin Library Edition, 1983. Franklin Library Edition,1983. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges/no dj as issued. Autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838.-918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth It is a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. Accented in 2 karat gold. Archival gilded edges Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding Leatherette binding book in good condition, solid no soiling,writing Gold gilt, on front scratched in many places Not collector's quality unless you know how to fix the gold gilt A good reading copy. Franklin Library Edition,1983. Very Good, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. High quality paper. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give… Read More

Viking Adult (1999) #881 0 Viking, 1999. Viking Adult, Viking, First Edition , First Printing, 07/01/1999, Volume II. Very Good, clean and bright, solid./DJ Very Good, closed tear at top, back, left. otherwise bright and clean, not clipped.. Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere. Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century.The second volume plunges into the White House years and the Great Depression, the time when Eleanor exerted enormous influence over the course of the country. In the thirties, Eleanor becomes even more surprising and multifaceted. A loyal wife, a devoted mother, a woman who courted romance and adventure, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most compelling, charismatic, and visionary First Lady. Item#881 Notes Viking Adult, Viking, First Edition , First Printing, 07/01/1999, Volume II. Very Good, clean and bright, solid. DJ Very Good, closed tear at top,… Read More

Double Day, Stated First Edition, First Printing, 1991. Double Day (Jan 01, 1991) Stated First Edition, First Printing, 01/01/1991. Blue third-cloth boards with silver foil-stamped spine. NEAR MINT/NEAR MINT. Double Day, Stated First Edition, First Printing, 01/01/1991, full no line 1-10. Blue third-cloth boards with silver foil-stamped spine.

William Morrow & Company (1983), 1983. William Morrow William Morrow & Company First Edition, 01/1983. Blue cloth paper over boards, crea, white cloth spine, gold lettering. Very Good/Very Good. In the early 1900s, five young men and women make their ways to America from their respective homelands and enter the distinct, but interconnected, segments of American life. Ellis Island is the port where millions of immigrants were process for entering in the United States. They came from every corner of the world, many time with just the clothes on their backs. Their stories are as varied as the countries they came from. Many were not accepted and died in transit back to their countries. Many stories are heart breaking many are joyful, many are horrific and many are successful. This is a book one should read if you have visited Ellis Island or if you plan on visiting. I visited the Island in the mid 70s' and plan on going again soon. It is the most touching experience on the historic growth of our… Read More