Search Results: Titles starting with E from small volume

Denver, CO: Tribune-Republican Press, 1886. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 214 pp. Burgundy cloth with decorative gilt titling to spine and front board, gilt-stamped ship to front. Sunning to cloth, mainly to spine and board edges. Large scuff to rear board, some rubbing to joints. Light chipping to spine ends and bumping to corners. Inscribed by the author in brown ink to front flyleaf, "To Mrs. Mary Friend / From her affectionate / counsin ..." Green floral endpapers. Text clean, binding sturdy and sound. An account of the author's trip West during the California Gold Rush.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Smith, E. Boyd. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated [47 pp]. Green pictorial paper boards backed in brown cloth, with cover illustration of two cavemen- one shooting a bow and arrow, the other wearing fur and holding a club. Slight bowing and cocking, with moderate soiling and rubbing to boards and spine. Pale yellow endpapers, illustrated with green line drawing of a jungle scene, browned at edges with previous owner's name in pencil to top edge of ffep and flyleaf. Interior toned with some light soiling scattered to edges, several corners creased. 23 colored plates, illustrating ancient civilization.

New York: Avon Books, 1979. Wraps. Near Fine. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 305 pp. Glossy pictorial wraps w/ white titling. Fainting rubbing along wrapper edges. Otherwise clean and sound. 8 pp. of b&w photographs.

Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. 135 pp. Red and black textured paper-covered boards, black titling in protective mylar jacket. Faint rubbing to spine ends. Clean and sound interior. English translations of two of the most popular texts from the original Edition 69 series. Nezval's "Sexual Nocturne" and Štyrský's "Emilie Come to Me in a Dream,

Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co, 1890. Hardcover. 8vo. 159 pp. Brown cloth w/ gilt titling and black stamped embellishment. Cloth scuffed with soiling and fraying to boards and spine ends. Po's inscription to ffep signed "Ex Libris, R. Ruhl. 11-22-52 'Ramble'". Lightly foxed throughout. Treatise on North American birds accompanied by ten hand-colored plates.

Chicago: C. H. Jones & Co, 1880. Cloth. Good. 12mo. 162 [4] pp. Green cloth w/ gilt stamped pyramid and titling. Pencil graffiti and POs inscription "Presented to Miss Leona Anderson by Her Sabbath School Tears, J. H. Madden" to endpapers. 3 cm closed tear to verso of final page of ads. Illustrated throughout with black and white diagrams and engravings. Posits the conspiracy theory that the Pyramids were not, in fact, built by the Egyptians.

England: Finbarr International, 1986. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 31 pp. Bright yellow paper wraps w/ black titling. Small spots of discoloration to cover. POs name "Rajni Amodia" and underlining throughout. Amodia was an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1960s, also had the distinction of being declared a Suppressive Person by the Church of Scientology in the 1990s.

New York: Avon Books, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 208 pp. Illustrated wraps. Scuffing along edges of front and rear wrappers, photo to 64p. roughly removed. Candid autobiography w/ photographs by Roddy McDowall plus a collection from Taylor's family album.

Providence: Privately Printed, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.. 8vo. 32 pp. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped title. Deckled fore edge. Tipped in photo frontispiece. Near fine, with just some foxing to photo leaves, rest clean. A short biographical sketch composed to memorialize the brief life of Elodie Farnum (1902-1914), composed by her neighbor and "schoolmaster," and privately printed for her mother by the Livermore & Knight company. With black and white photographs, excerpts from her letters, and several original poems. Scarce, with only 2 found in OCLC.

New London, CT: The Brainerd & Armstrong Co, 1904. Wraps. Very Good. Latest and Most Complete Book on the Subject of Silk Embroidery and Popular Fancy Work. 20.5 cm x 15 cm. 108 pp + 12 pp ads. Stapled booklet in illustrated red paper wraps. Chipping to edges, spine, and corners. Small erasure mark to front wrapper. Interior lightly toned but clean. With numerous black and white images and 6 color plates, showing examples of embroidery designs and patterns.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company Inc, 1935. Special Edition. Hardcover. Lawson, Marie A.. 4to. 63 pp. Cream-colored paper-covered boards, with decorative green, blue, and peach floral design, backed in green cloth. Center image of castle with titling printed in black on peach square, matching dust jacket. DJ lightly soiled, with some chipping to edges and corners, appx. 2 inch closed tear to rear panel. Spine cloth faded and sunned, light foxing to text block fore edge. Exterior otherwise sound, interior mostly clean, with monochromatic teal blue illustrations throughout. Special edition printed for R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. upon the occasion of the world premiere of Colleen Moore's Doll House in which the scene of this story is set.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1860. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 320 pp. Marbled maroon boards backed in beige cloth with paper spine label. Heavy wear to boards, especially at edges and corners. Lacking most of spine label, partial title text remains. Hinges cracked, endpapers chipped. Small loss to half title page and closed tears to table on pp 319-320. Few spots and stains throughout, otherwise clean. Text in French.

Steidl, Gottingen: Steidl Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo. [42 pp.] Beige cloth, off-white paste-down, black titling. Bump to boards at bottom edge, faintly bowed. Interior clean and sound. Black and white photographs taken in Biarritz on the grounds of Elhorria with short form essay by Lagerfeld.

Keene, NH: John Prentiss, 1817. Wraps. Good. 32mo. 5 x 3.5 in. [1-5] 6-46 [2]. String-bound, blue-grey paper wraps printed in black. Lacking spine strip but binding remains tight. Darkened water stain to front wrapper, affecting upper fore corner of first few leaves and fore edge of several leaves at rear. Pencil ownership markings to ffep, few leaves have light soiling, otherwise very clean.

Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1821. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 300 pp. Original brown boards backed in tan cloth with paper spine label. Heavy soiling to boards, chipping to spine strip and appx. 1 inch split to lower front joint. Spine head chipped, corners pushed. Untrimmed bottom and fore edges. Bookseller's small ink stamp to lower inner corner of fpd, pencil names of 2 previous owners to ffep. Foxing and soiling throughout, but binding remains sturdy and sound.

London: Henry and Co, 1891. Numbered edition. Cloth. Good. 4to. Cream colored cloth w/ gilt stamped titling. Soiling and chipping to cloth, with small [.5 cm x 1cm] loss at head of spine. Light foxing to end leaves. Inscribed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on verso of rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book at Antiquarian Book Co., Birmingham, Eng. on 11/30/1915. Large paper edition of 150 numbered copies, of which this is numbered 94. Literary essays discussing the work of Dumas, Stevenson, Homer, Thackeray, Bunyan, Kipling among others.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1920. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 31 pp + 24 pp illustrations. White paper wraps, printed in black and red. Large (13 cm) split at front hinge. Text in Swedish. Illustrated with watercolor paintings by artist Carl Larsson showing scenes of Swedish country life.

Deerfield, IL: Eva-tone, Evatype Inc, 1970. Ephemera. Very Good. 21 cm x 22 cm mailing envelope with Eva-tone branding, roughly opened at top seam. Addressed to Harry L. Case of Creamer, Trowbridge, Case & Basford Inc., an advertising agency in Providence, RI, with recipient's name and address crossed out in black permanent marker. Envelope contains 2 pp TLS from Ralph Klinke, sales manager of Eva-Tone Soundsheets, on business letterhead, with single horizontal crease; small (9 x 15 cm) order form postcard; and 8 thin, vinyl, flexi disc samples (2 each of 4 sample designs). Playable on a standard turntable at 33 1/3 RPM, the flexi discs vary in size (15-19 square cm), color, and design to show a range of advertising options. Enclosed samples include: Buster Brown children's clothing, National Geographic's 'Sounds of the Space Age,' "Brainstorming: 6 Ways to Win In a Tough Year," and Toyota 1974 Introductory Recorded Radio.

New York: Stage Magic Company, 1928. Wraps. Fair. 8vo. 47 pp. Stapled paper wraps. Part I. Including An Accurate and Comprehensive Technical Treatise on the Expert Manipulation of Miniature Billiard Balls. For Manipulative Artists and Advanced Students of the Art of Magic. Well-loved copy showing overall signs of handling and wear. Front flyleaf has been excised by previous owner, yellowed tape to inner margin of 26p. The complete course of instruction as given at Burling Hull Studios of Magical Instruction. Illustrated with black and white photos.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. Wraps. Very Good. 36 pp. Stapled binding, gray wraps. Faint edgewear. POs name in ink to ffep. Otherwise clean and bright. 150 stepwise exercises in staff notation designed for beginners.