Search Results: Titles starting with E from BiblioStax

1947. Original & Authentic Ernest Hemingway Signed WWI German War Theater Map measuring 28" x 34 1/2". Ernest Hemingway signed and dated 12th of December, 1947 at back panel w/reference to Berlin, Luxemburg, etc. Frameable, restored twenty-fold map w/hand written notes and original signature. Titled: "Flemmings Kriegskarte No. 24 Spezialkarte Der Südlichen Westfront". A 1918 World War I German 'Special Map of the Southern Westfront' by Julius Iwan Kettler and produced by the Carl Flemming company of Berlin and Glogau. Acquired from collector of Cuban related and Hemingway rarities in Miami, Florida whose grandfather collected these while in Cuba decades prior. An item from Hemingway's personal effects. It is estimated Hemingway had a collection of 4,000-6,000 books and other similar effects. Generally clean, very good w/adhesive to folds at back. Suitable for framing; posted folded as shown. A topographic map mounted on linen w/relief shown by… Read More

1956. Signed & Inscribed Original Photo by Ernest Hemingway to front of photograph: "Congratulations and best wishes, Ernest Hemingway (56)". Additional inscription below this; likely by one of the Cumbancheros who performed at celebration in honor of the Nobel Prize winning author for 'The Old Man and The Sea'. Hemingway resided at Finca Vigia or "Lookout Farm", his estate in Cuba which is now a museum, from 1939-1960. An original photograph from Cuban journalist Fernando G. Campoamor's library with his personal stamp at back: "BIBLIOTECA DE FERNANDO G. CAMPOAMOR. Presented n fine wood frame. Translation from description at back of photo, apparently from Fernando Campoamor: "Surrounded by friends at a reception presented (offered) by Barcardi for the Nobel Prize medal offered to "la Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre". Original Spanish appears as: "Rodeado amigos recepcion ofrecida por Bacardi por entrega Medalla Premio Nobel (paro) la… Read More

Wilmette, Illinois: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1975. Moderate corner, edge wear. Pages good, high light throughout. Saddle-stitch design. Scarce.. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Signet Books, 1986. Seventh printing. Lt. corner, edge wear. Pages fine. Spine crease. Intriguing cover art by Nick Gaetano of a young unclothed woman engulfed in flames. Includes Business Reply card for Rand's Objectivist society. This collection of short fiction and plays by Ayn Rand charts her artistic and intellectual growth. It shows her development, in a critical decade, from a 21-year-old Russian emigrant struggling with English to a sophisticated writer of complex philosophical themes and prose. 434 pages.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Ogden, Utah: The Vanessa-Ann Collection, 1982. Lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Color plates. 25 pages. (Brown, blue pictorial wraps). Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Harper & Row, 1974. Blue cloth boards, dk. blue cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles, fine. Pages fine. Dj fine, unclipped 5.95. "This book sounds a clarion call to women to abandon such a fatalistic and passive attitude. The evidence presented in its pages shows concllusively that the long stale-mate in reducing mortality due to breast cancer has been broken by new and painless techniques of detection." 105 pages. Bookstore mark.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967. Dk. red and black wraps, some corner, edge wear, rub. Pages very good. 231 pages.. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Collier Books, 1972. Stated First Collier Books Edition, 1972 at copyright. Rare volume from author, doctor, radio host Michael Savage [Weiner]. Oversize design. Some corner, edge wear. Pages very good; little discoloration at back few pages. A guide to the wild plants the Indians used for soups and salads, poultices and decoctions, tonics and sedatives. Over 140 illustrations of plant varieties. 214 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Leiceister, England : H. Banbury & Co., Steam Printers, 1893. Presented here, bound in a single volume, are all the issues of 'The Earth Not a Globe Review.' Extremely rare original set of the Victorian-era zetetic journal, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1893 to Volume 4, No. 2, April-June 1897. Blue buckram (coated cloth) boards, bright gilt spine titles: "The Earth Not A Globe Review, 1893 - 97". Library file code printed in white: "QB283 .E2" - a call number consisting of geology, study of, or speaking of, earth, and, geodesy, the art of land surveying, or structure. Pages generally very good; few w/more toning and rather brittle. Pages numbered separately for each issue; entire collection more than four hundred pages of fine text with illustrations and diagrams throughout. Each journal retains its original cover. Pictorial bookplate with coat of arms inside cover: "University of Western Ontario Science Library" of London, Ontario, Canada; clean card… Read More

New York: TOR Tom Doherty Associates, 2012. White wraps w/bold black cover and spine titles w/proof details, fine. Pages fine. Bind fine. Rare proof title in fine condtion. Before Ender Wiggin was born, before the Battle School was built, the aliens brought chaos to Earth. A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone. The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth and other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are sparse this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it's hard to know what to make of it. It's massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light. But the ship has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting big. There are claim-jumping corporates bringing piracy. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems... not important. They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Publisher, 1955. Early printing; unstated. 1955 date at copyright. Black full cloth boards, gilt spine titles on maroon field, moderate wear, residue from adhered jacket. Deckled pages very good, clean. Front endpaper removed. Original dj, moderate edge wear, discoloration, spine fade; unclipped 7.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket w/red and black titles on white b.g.; back image in profile of bronze bust sculpture of Immnauel by Elisheva Velikovsky. In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, places the complete history of Earth and humanity in a new pedestal. Contains material that revolutionizes the history of the earth. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the formation of mountains and oceans, the origin of coal or fossils, the question of the ice ages and the history of animal and plant species, this is a must-read. 314 pages. Insured post..… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Publisher, 1955. Stated at copyright: "First Edition." 1955 at title page and copyright. Black full cloth boards, gilt spine titles on maroon field, light shelf wear, bump. Deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Moderate toniing at endpapers. Bind fine; hinges intact. Original elemental dust wrapper with red and black titles on cream color, light edge wear; unclipped 3.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Back panel features bronze bust sculpture in profile of Immnauel by Elisheva Velikovsky. In Books by Velikovsky: "Ages in Chaos, Vol. II (Planned for 1956)." Scarce sharp first edition in same wrapper. In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, places the complete history of Earth and humanity in a new pedestal. Contains material that revolutionizes the history of the earth. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the formation of… Read More

Fireside Books, 1990. Rare Fireside edition. Moderate corner, edge wear. Pages very good. In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. Middleton is the outdoors columnist for Southern Living magazine. 269 pages. Few bookstore marks.. First Fireside Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Vancouver, Canada: Pan Pacific Promotions Company, 1994. 40 pages.. Soft cover. Very Good. Illus. by Millot, Anne (Illustrations). Book.

14 Paternoster Row, London - Bothwell St., Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1925. Stated Fourteenth Edition at title page. No date; circa 1925. Part of Students Library from Pickering & Inglish. Includes prefaces to the first, third and fifth editions, and a detailed eleven-page index. Rare early printing of this monumental classic in original pictorial wrapper. Black cloth boards, bright gilt spine titles with several gilt bands, moderate wear, some lower edge wear. Pages generally near very good; fox at endpapers, exterior text block, little bleed at back endpaper. Adjacent title page is full page of reviews for this title. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Features pictorial dust wrapper in olive, moderate shelf wear, fox; protected in new clear sleeve. Cover and spine titles with illustration in green over olive of smart suited student at library table in study with books in background. Near very good early original printing in scarce wrapper. From front panel: "An able,… Read More

Glasgow - 14 Paternoster Row, London: Pickering & Inglis - Alfred Holness, 1922. Stated Thirteenth Edition at title page. No date; circa 1922. Rare original early edition of this monumental classic. Black buckram (cloth) boards, gilt spine titles with several gilt bands, moderate shelf, spine wear. Pages very good; nicely toned. Vintage name, address inside cover. Bind good; hinges intact. Near very good example of this early edition. Includes prefaces to the third and fifth editions, and a detailed eleven-page index. Pp. xxviii. 494 pages. Insured post. Pember presents the relevance of Biblical events and spirit-appearances to modern séances, mediums, and encounters with elements of the spiritual world and underworld. A beautifully written, smoothly digestible piece of literature and the best study and explanation of the supernatural world and the age of the earth ever written. Pember writes in the preface to the first edition that his objectives are to remove some of the… Read More

New York - Chicago - Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1913. No date; circa 1913. Early printing; unstated. Rare early edition of this monumental classic from Revell, Publishers of Evangelical Literature. Dark green full-cloth boards, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Pages good. Antiquarian signature inside cover: "E. P. Bledine, 1913". Intelligent, calculating notation at lower margins of numerous pages, inside back cover. Bind good, moderate cant; hinges intact. Eight pages of appendices. Four pages of adverts for other vintage Fleming H. Revell titles with summary descriptions at back. 481 pages. Insured post. Pember presents the relevance of Biblical events and spirit-appearances to modern séances, mediums, and encounters with elements of the spiritual world and underworld. A beautifully written, smoothly digestible piece of literature and the best study and explanation of the supernatural world and the age of the earth ever written. Pember writes… Read More

New York - Chicago - Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1913. No date; circa 1913. Early printing; unstated. Rare early edition of this monumental classic from Revell, Publishers of Evangelical Literature. Dark green full-cloth boards, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages very good. Few w/neat underscore. Antiquarian bookplate inside cover printed in red w/sashed bookshelves opening to window of country scene: "From the Library of Harold G. Mackay"; printed stamped in cursive adjacent: "J. T. McLaughlin, Lynchburg, Va. Nov. 14, 1913". Summary sentences of important points indented into original text. Bind good; hinges intact. Eight pages of appendices. Four pages of adverts for other vintage Fleming H. Revell titles with summary descriptions at back. Near very good early printing. 481 pages. Insured post. Pember presents the relevance of Biblical events and spirit-appearances to modern séances, mediums, and encounters with elements of the… Read More

Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1992. Wire spiral-bound design. Yellow cover moderate shelf wear. Pages very good. Full-page color maps. 60 pages. Insured post.. Spiral-bound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

New York: Tempo Books - Grosset & Dunlap, 1979. A Tempo Books Original - rare first and only printing. Classic cover design features bold spooky titles over dark violet b.g. above image of hairied mountain giant silhouette against mountain peak scene and sky w/strange unclothed angel figures in flight. Moderate cover, edge wear. Pages very good. Bind fine. Does the earth house often seen yet unexplainable beings? A spine-tingling collection of what might be science fiction, but could be science fact! Read this book, if you dare! Includes rare Mothman material. Illustrated. Rare, out of print. 218 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.