$('#table tbody td:nth-child(2-10)').editable(...)

$('#table tbody td:gt(0),#table tbody td:lt(8)').editable(...)

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">

      $(document).ready (function ()
        {
        var offset = 2;
        var count  = $('li').size ();

        // Variante 1
        var arr = $('li');
        arr = jQuery.grep (arr, function(n, i){
          return (i >= offset && count - offset  > i);
        });
        $(arr).addClass ('test1');

        // Variante 1 kurz
        $($.grep ($('li') , function (n, i) {
            return (i >= offset && count - offset  > i);
        })).addClass ('test1a');


        // Variante 2
        $('li:eq(' + (count - offset - 1)+ ')').addClass ('test2');
        $('li:eq(' + (offset - 1) + ')').nextUntil ('.test2').addClass ('test2');


        // Variante 3
        $('li').addClass ('test3');
        $('li:lt(' + offset + ')').removeClass ('test3');
        $('li:gt(' + (count - offset - 1)+ ')').removeClass ('test3');

        });


    </script>

<pre>
<ul>
  <li>a</li>
  <li>b</li>
  <li>c</li>
  <li>d</li>
  <li>e</li>
  <li>f</li>
  <li>g</li>
  <li>h</li>
</ul> 

$(function () {
    var c, myElems;
    myElems = $('#table td').not(":first");
    c = myElems.size();
    myElems.slice(0,c-3);
});