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EDDY: Is Christianity a Failure ELIZABETH Introduction to Sally ELLIOTT, Emilia Joan's Jolly Vacation ELLSBERG: On the Bottom ELSON, Henry W. & Cornelia E. MacMullen The Story of Our Country EMERSON, Alice B. ~ Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures ENCYCLOPAEDIA: Encyclopaedia Britannica (24 copies) EVANS: The Second French Empire ~ Evans |
| Egyptian Manuscript |
| Excerpts from an Egyptian Manuscript - suede cover - small -
to Edgar Rice Burroughs from the Author received FEB 5 1923, K Efyer Chicago, Private From my friend Charles K Miller Chicago |
| Emilia Elliott (Caroline Emilia Jocobs) |
| Joan's Jolly Vacation
Other:
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| Commander Edward Ellsberg |
On the Bottom ~ The Literary Guild of America, Inc., NY, with
25 illustrations, and with diagrams Details the salvage and recovery
of the accidentally sunk S-51 submarine and her deceased crew. Cmdr. Ellsberg
was a deep sea diver who helped with the salvage of this WWI era submarine.
  
 
   Hell
on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette ~ 1938 ~ A fictional
account of the fateful 1879 Jeannette expedition to the North Pole, as
told through the eyes of George Wallace Melville, chief engineer on the
Jeannette. First published in 1938, the dramatic story was subsequently
adapted
by Orson Welles for the Mercury Theater. This new, limited edition
includes a CD of the original radio play. The outspoken Ellsberg, who attained
the rank of Rear Admiral, was a noted navy salvage expert, diver, and prolific
author. Commander Ellsberg discovered in the half-surpressed logs of the
hapless expedition a story of incredible excitement and variety -- a tale
of men locked two years in the Arctic pack, of sudden disaster, of desperate
flight across the cruel ice, of a wild small boat passage over the storm
swept Arctic seas to the barren frozen tundra of Siberia. But more than
that, he saw in those events human heroism and courage in the face of such
hardships as have never been recorded before nor since. He saw men who
had been ordinary sailors and officers transformed by extraordinary occurences
-- some into gallant leaders, a few into shirkers and mutineers, others
into lunatics, some into reckless martyrs, one at least into a hero whom
all men can be proud. No one could be more ideally equipped to make this
saga of the Arctic live than Commander Edward Ellsberg. Author of On the
Bottom, already recognized as a classic of the sea, himself a brilliant
engineer, he recounts of the story through the vivid personality of George
Wallace Melville, chief engineer on the Jeannette. A careful research through
diaries, journals, Naval Inquiries, and Congressional Investigations enables
him to use the actual dialogue and set down authentically the characters
of the whole ship's company. Above all, his rare knowledge of men in action
and his rare ability to depict them make the reader virtually a member
of the most extraordinary Arctic expedition in history.
Under the Red Sea ~ 1946 No Banners, No Bugles ~ 1949 |
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| Henry W. Elson & Cornelia E. MacMullen |
| The Story of Our Country ~ c1911 ~ NY,
Chicago & Boston: Thompson Brown Co ~ 237 pages
Other:
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| Alice B. Emerson |
Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures or Helping The Dormitory Fund.
1916 Cupples & Leon Co ~ author of "Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill,"
"Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island," etc. One in a series of 20. One
black & white illustration on page opposite title page.
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| Mildred A Wirt (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) (1905 - 2002)
aka Alice B Emerson, Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew), Frank Bell, Mildred Benson, Joan Clark, Julia K Duncan, Frances K Judd, Don Palmer, Helen Louise Thorndyke, Dorothy West, Ann Wirt The Stratemeyer Syndicate was created when Edward Stratemeyer had more ideas than he had time to write books. (He also figured he could make more money that way!) Various pseudonyms were used by different anonymous authors, some who have been identified |
| ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Encyclopaedia Britannica (24 copies) |
| This set turned up on eBay auction in March 2007 from "yhbooks" Great
Barrington, Massachusetts,
with the accompanying photos and description:   
 "This is a set of the Eleventh Edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica in 29 volumes (28 volumes and a volume of index) complete. The so-called Handy Volume Issue published in 1910-1911. The Eleventh Edition was the last of the "scholar editions," compiled by some of the best minds and the best writers of the generation. This copy was owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. His ownership signature appears in pencil on the endpaper of Volume 13 ("Edgar Rice Burroughs/Tarzana Ranch/Reseda, Calif."). An early Burroughs bookplate, probably executed in the 1920s, appears in 23 of the 29 volumes. In 5 volumes the bookplate has been neatly excised, and one volume apparently never had a bookplate (Vol. 25). The excised volumes are the last three (Vols. 27-29), Vol. 24, and Vol. 13, which is the signed volume. According to the source for this set, it was donated to the U.S. Navy at the beginning of World War II, quartered in a ship's library during the war, and then sold when the ship was decommissioned and the contents sold after the war. The 5 bookplates were presumably excised during that time in the set's history. The wonder is that whoever did it didn't take them all, but limited himself to the ones in the last volumes, along with the one volume that presumably didn't need a bookplate because it was already signed. The detail in the bookplate is truly remarkable. It encompasses a Tarzan-like figure holding a luminous sphere, presumably the planet Mars. On one side is a kneeling ape, clutching Tarzan by the ankles. On the other side is a cluster of eight faces, presumably fictional characters, among them a monk, a knight, a soldier, a sultan, and an attractive blonde. Below them is a garland with crossed sword and pen. In the foreground, next to the author's name, is a crest quartered with 4 illustrations: a spurred boot, a cattle skull, a wagon wheel and an open book. The bookplate is signed in the engraving "S.B.", identifying the artist as the author's nephew, Studley Burroughs. The set is in remarkably good condition, generally VG. This edition is notoriously prone to wear, and apart from the matter of ownership, this particular set is a cut above the copies we usually see. The leather is only mildly scuffed, and the wear along the spine edges is also not as bad as is usually the case. Eleven volumes have had professional repair to the top of the spines: 7 have been capped with leather, and 4 have been capped with matching headpieces from another copy of this edition. The bindings are generally sound, although in several of the volumes the inside hinges are either broken or starting. Only a dedicated Burroughs scholar would be up to doing a thorough collation, but by just paging through, I noted a few marks in the volumes that are presumably by Burroughs. Vol. 19 has 3 numbers written in the corner of the front endpaper, and paragraphs in each of those pages are marked off with slash lines. The entry for "Crusades" in Vol. 7 has a number of X marks in the margin alongside underlined words or passages in the text. Of course, a case could be made that these marks were made by sailors while the volumes were in the ship's library, but it seems more likely that they were made by the set's original owner, and that the encyclopedia was used as source material in the research of his books."
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