Search Results: Titles starting with E from Irving Book Company

New York: Grossman Publishers / Orion Press, 1971. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket, lightly worn at extremities.. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8.25 in. 198 pp. Original black cloth, green top-stain, in white pictorial dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with black & white stills. Translated from the Italian by JUDITH GREEN.

1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A few dings to edges of boards; previous ownership signature to front pastedown and front free endpaper.. 12mo. 5 x 7.5 in. 284 pp. A Pirated Copy, lacking imprint & adverts. at rear but including stated 'First printing 1940' on copyright page. Bound in decorative paper, with silver titles to spine. Poorly printed text.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. Second Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Covers moderately edgeworn. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.75 in. 387, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 1 in chocolate brown 'limpcroft leather', with gothic Boni & Liveright device to upper cover; brown marbleized endpapers; publisher's 66-title catalogue advertised opposite title page. Translated from the German by STEVEN T. BYINGTON. Introduction by J.L. WALKER. A crisp copy. Very scarce. Toledano 49.1.

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1897. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good. Spine slightly cocked. Moderate edgewear, light soiling to covers. Title page worn and loose but not yet detached.. Small 8vo. 5.875 x 8 in. liii, 223 pp. + advert. Olive cloth, titles in gilt. Published as part of the 'College Series of Greek Authors', edited by JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE and THOMAS DAY SEYMOUR. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in red pencil to front flyleaf, and several pencil marginalia.

Barcelona: Crítica, 2000. First Thus. Paperback. Very good. Crown 8vo. 245 pp. + maps. Original illustrated wrappers. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Binding slightly cocked. Light edgewear; crown and foot of spine moderately rubbed. Edges of textblock lightly browned; some foxing to preliminary and end matter. Very occasional soiling to text, otherwise rather bright and even clean. Binding tight. Publisher's cloth remains surprisingly fresh.. 12mo. 5 x 7.625 in. vii, 152 pp. Original ribbed black cloth, decorated in blind with elaborate motif, titled in gilt on spine. Third Edition, Revised. Text in Greek, with English notes at rear. From the library of University of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with several marginalia in pencil. A serviceable copy.

London: Simpkin Marshall, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light shelfwear, with gilt spine-titling somewhat faded; corners rubbed & bumped. Light foxing to endpapers, text otherwise clean & bright. Binding tight.. 8vo. 5.625 x 8.625 in. 539 pp. + 8 pp. for 'Reader's Notes'. Full white cloth, titled & ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Contains a preface, Life of Propertius, the Elegies in Latin with page-facing translation into iambic tetrameter, and a commentary. Printed at Oxford University Press. An attractive edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good only. Previous owner's handsome bookplate ('ton biblion iakobo s konstantino') to front pastedowns.. Two volumes. 16mo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse pencil annotation.

New York: American Book Company, 1918. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good indeed. A touch of soiling with light edgewear to covers, spine gilt dull. Previous ownership signature in blue ink to front pastedown, else unmarked. Binding square & secure, text otherwise clean.. 6 x 7.75 in. 1029 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. With an Appendix of Names of Persons and Places etc. compiled by HUGH MACMASTER KINGERY. A serviceable copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. As new.. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 495 pp. + adverts. Full dark green cloth, with matching ribbon marker, in pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by MARILYN BUTLER.

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1944. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Covers moderately faded, lightly soiled. A few pages lightly soiled. Previous ownership signature to preliminary blank, text otherwise unmarked. Binding sound, text bright.. 32mo. 301 pp. 3.5 x 5.25 in. Full black cloth, ornamented with a simple cross stamped in blind on upper cover, with green ribbon marker. A classic, especially handy Lasance prayer-book in large type. Imprimatur, &c. Text in English. A serviceable copy of a less common Lasance title.

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1940. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good in good jacket. Moderate edgewear to covers. Dust jacket present but heavily chipped and tender and partly splitting along edges, with ink scribble on front panel. Binding square & tight, text clean.. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.5 in. 224 pp. Full yellow cloth in plain yellow typographic dust jacket. Essays collected from G.K.'s Weekly. 'I have sorted out and arranged these essays...as Chesterton's analysis of the whole problem of Germany in Europe.' -- Compiler's note.

New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light soiling to covers. Ex-library, with call numbers to spine & evidence of pocket removal at rear (no other markings). Contemp. bookseller ticket to front flyleaf. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright.. Large 8vo. 6.75 x 9.25 in. 324 pp. [+ 2 pp. adverts.]. Publisher's cream buckram, titled & decorated in gilt & green, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded photographic frontis. Illustrated with 'eleven plans drawn by ALLEN H. COX, and nearly three hundred reproductions of original photographs and drawings by the author. 'A large, handsome octavo, portly & imposing, enjoying the leisurely comforts of large type & a placid breadth of margin; a book which stands like a solid & substantial dowager among the lighter & more frivolous garden-sisterhood, -- charming but sometimes irresponsible' (Atlantic Monthly). Somewhat heavy -- may require additional postage.

London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Light edgewear; light foxing to endpapers. Gift inscription to verso of front flyleaf, '...In memory of an alpha | And in hopes that it will not be | an omega....' Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xx, 300 pp. Contemp. dark blue polished half-calf over blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. First published in 1913, this New Edition includes the Appendix 'In Praise of Ski-ing'. A nice copy of 'an elegant little anthology' (Neate L69). Uncommon in fine binding.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. Hardcover. Very good. Light edgewear, spine lightly toned. Light, occasional marginalia in pencil. Binding square & sound, text rather bright.. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 432 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Text in Greek & Latin, with critical apparatus, translation, and notes. A nice copy of the uncommon first edition, which belonged to Portland druggist & columnist J.A. Clemenson, whose contemporary notes and newspaper clippings, concerning current affairs & the atom, neatly occupy front & rear endpapers. A fascinating, attractive copy with relevant ephemeral Americana present.

Lipsiae: in Aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1963. First Thus. Hardcover. Good only. Heavy worming to foot of spine.. 12mo. 105 pp. + plates. Original blue cloth. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 10/13/86 ownership signature to front flyleaf.

(Madrid): Cátedra, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Good indeed. Moderate edgewear to wrappers, with light soiling at spine, and a bit of spotting at edges. Binding sound. Internally clean and bright.. Demy 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 938 pp. Original glossy wrappers. Libro I (1910-1926) al cuidado de Christopher Maurer; Libro II (1927-1936) al cuidado de Andrew A. Anderson. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer. This copy signed by editor CHRISTOPHER MAURER on preliminary blank.

Napoli (Naples): Edizioni Morra, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Light soiling to wrappers, else near fine.. Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 6.125 in. Unpaginated. Printed card wraps. Text in English & Italian. Illustrated with black & white reproductions from Higgins's rough sketches for the terra cotta. 'These epitaphs are meant to evoke the ancient Greek & Latin tradition of epitaphs & epigrams, specially those of Martial & Juvenal. They were composed in the winter & spring of 1977, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin & in New York. Most consist of purely original materials, but a few trope folk or literary sources. Epitaphs were originally intended for painted inscriptions on the outside of funerary urns, in keeping with this, the ultimate form of this work consists of these texts painted by myself on specially broken terra cotta jars, made for me by Alberto Sassone of Amalfi. The whole collection was the basis of a one artist show of my work at the studio morra in Naples in September, 1977.' A crisp copy. Uncommon.

New York: Schocken Books, 1946. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good indeed, in very good jacket. Light spotting to endpapers, very light spotting to edges; previous ownership signature to front free endpaper. Moderate edgewear to jacket. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. 12mo. 4.75 x 7.5 in. 320, [4] pp. Brown linen cloth titled & ornamented in gilt, in black & blue typographic dust jacket. Text in German.

Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1972. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate spotting to covers. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. San dust jacket (as issued).. 4to. 8.5 x 10.75 in. xiv; 134 pp. Dark green quarter-leatherette over green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt. Includes fold-out supplement with examples of lettering. Published as No. 354 of the 'English Linguistics, 1500-1800' series, a collection of facsimile reprints selected and edited by R.C. ALSTON.