Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Book Closet

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1864 Red pictorial boards and spine; shows shelf wear on the edges; some loose pages. Comprising the poems: Mogg Megone, The Bridal of Pennacock, Legendary Powms, Voices of Freedom, Miscellaneous Poems, and Songs of Labor.

Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1993 "A complete wardrobe that's easy to wear and fun to sew! From the basic patterns in this book beginners can make dozens of garments by using the patterns just as they are, and experts can use them as a starting point for hundreds of original designs." From the back cover. No spine creases; very minor shelf wear.

New York: Del Rey, 2006 No spine creases; minor crease to upper right front corner; number line 1 through 9. "Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications. Imagine what it will do tomorrow. In the near future, war is unknown, conflict has vanished and life is picture-perfect. Or so it seems. once merely a surveillance net, Echelon has severed its ties with the United States to become the covert power shaping world affiars. It manipulates the data flow at will, snuffs out dissent, and controls information -- and thus the world -- with an iron fist. But after years of silent dominance, Echelon stands on the brink of collapse." -- from the back cover.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006 Green boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. "In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. LAPD detective Harry Bosch caught the case, but the young woman never turned up, dead or alive, and it was an investigation Bosch couldn't close. Now Bosch works in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about several others in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of these is the murder of Marie Gesto." -- from the dj

New York: St Martins Press, 1994 White boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped;. "At the height of the Vietnam War, Lt. Brian Holcomb begins a seven-month assignment on the USS 'John Bell Hood,' an 8,000-ton guided-missile ship off the coast of Vietnam. Brian is the weapons department head, in charge of the 'Hood's' array of computer-controlled attack and defense systems. His wife, Maddy, waits nervously back in San Diego, a career woman uneasy about being a "Navy wife,' frustrated by Brian's absence and worried about his safety in an active war zone. An ambitious young officer, Brian is up for promotion, his next step toward his goal of commanding his own ship. But he soon discovers that the 'Hood' is riddled with problmes that make it vulnerable to a potentially deadly air assault by the North Vietnamese..." from the dj

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903 Blue boards with dark blue lettering; boards show signs of wear and water spotting; spine is tight and pages are clean; 122 ppgs.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917 Blue cover with glued on title plate on cover and spine; edge wear and soiling to top; what appears to be a water spot on back cover; tight spine, yellow aged pages; two pages of ad in back of book; writing on inside cover; illustrated frontspiece

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1986 Grey boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; some yellowing edges and a few dings on the dj. "Vintage suspense spiked with the master's touch. Llust and luxury clash with a vengeance in a tale of murder and venality among the New York rich." -- from the dj

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903 Dark green boards with gold embossed lettering and flowers; some fraying to spine ends; pages are yellowing and spotted with age; previous owner's name on fep; 322 pp. "In writing the story of elanor Lee, I have shown a woman true in the stress of trying circumstances to an old-fashioned ideal, a women whom adversity did not embitter, and whose fidelity did not waver under any temptation. When womanhood is at once sweet and steadfast, it attains a high nobility, and this I have tried to illustrate in the evry-day life of an every-day heroine." from the Foreward.

New York: Tor, 2004 Blue boards with some grease staining; blue foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "The dragon Anwyn - who lay for three years in a deathlike sleep in a grave of rock and black coal - was freed by the cataclysm that concluded 'Requiem for the Sun.' Disoriented and confused, she remembers only two things: the person who trapped her in dragon form and locked her in the grave - Rhapsody - and an all-encompassing desire to wreak vengeance. Meanwhile, Achmed, the Firbolg king, resumes rebuilding his shattered home, while a guild of merciless assassins sets about taking revenge on him for the killing of their leader" -- from the dj

Boston: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1913 Green boards with black lettering and scrollwork; spine is loose at back cover; chips out of some pages, but does not affect content; shelf wear and bumping to spine; writing on front and back endpapers. Copyright, 1905, 1913. From the Preface: "This book has been written in response to a demand for a somewhat shorter and more elementary work than the "Introduction to the Study of Economics," which the author brought out in 1897. In order to meet this demand, it was necessary to make a substantially new book, in which the substance of doctrine and the general groundwork remain the same, but the method of treating most subjects has been more or less radically altered." Pictures available upon request.

New York: F.M. Lupton Publishing Company Floral cloth cover with orange, green and brown on ivory; inscription on front cover; spine bumps, small water mark on front cover

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1983 Blue boards with white tape binding; gold lettering on spine; stated First Edition; previous owner's name on ffep; dj is not price clipped, slightly yellowed and protected with a Brodart cover. "The fans of Fred Mustard Stewart will be enthralled by the exciting story of five young immigrants who fled their homelands for America at the turn of the century.. Jacob Rubenstein, who escaped a pogrom by killing a Cossack, stealing his horse and riding hell-bent for the border, embarks for the New World. Aboard ship he meets his fellow passengers: Marco Santorelli, a penniless, good-looking Italian who is lured to America by the blandishments of a famous actress ... Tom Banicek, who has left the grinding poverty of Bohemia for the promise of a job in the Pennsylvania coal mines ... Bridget and Georgianna O'Donnell, Irsh lasses who are to make their new home with their prosperous aunt and uncle in Brooklyn." -- from the dj

New York: Collier Books, 1976 No author given. "Starting with the fundamentals -- basic embroidery stitches, the use of an embroidery hoop, the main needlepoint stitches, smocking and other techniques -- 'Embroidery' provides many handsome and useful projects for the beginner as well as for the more ambitious and experienced needlewoman." -- from the back cover. Pictures available upon request.

New York: Random House, 1972 First American edition; pink pictorial boards; dj in like new condition; illustrated; 128 pp.

Illinois: Sewing Information Resources, 2000 Tight, clean pages and spine. Great projects from world-wide designers. "No matter the brand of machine you own, the ideas for embroidery embellishment projects are endless. More than 30 interesting, unique projects have been collected here from talented designers around the world for your enjoyment." -- from the endflap.

New York: EOS, 2006 Book Two of The Percheron Saga. Trade paperback; no spine creases; minor shelf wear to edges. "Without Lazar's guiding hand and presence, the Stone Palace of percheron has become a different place. Young Zar Boaz, mistrusting of his mother, Herezah, but too inexperienced to stand on his own, seekscounsel from the suddenly changed and secretive Vizier, who has a sinister agenda of his own." -- from the back cover

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990 White boards with blue tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover, slightly yellowed with age; not price clipped. "In this incisive anduproarious satire on American polities, the author of 'Prizzi's Honor' and 'The Manchurian Candidate' turns his wicked eye on the "Impreial Presidency" -- with a 'real' emperor ruing America in the not too distant future (which may already be upon us). When a nuclear accident (or was it an accident?) destroys Washington, D.C., it's up to an army colonel named Caesare Appleton to asume command of the nation -- or at least he 'thinks' he's in command. While battling the Evil Empire of Nicaragua and plotting to convert Nantucket into a landing filed for CIA plnes carrying Colombian cocaine, he becomes both the master and the pawn of the omnipresent media." -- from the dj

Warner Books, 1988 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Del Rey, 2007 No spine creases; minor rubbing to edges. "For decades, Echelon forced peace on the world. Freedom was a sham: Echelon wielded total, if secret, control. In the end, two bioengineered Echelon agents, Ryan Laing and Sarah peters, brought the consipirary down. But there is no happily ever after for the liberators, or for humanity. With Echelon's fall, a power vacuum is opened -- and all hell breaks loose." -- from the back cover