Search Results: Authors starting with E from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Chicago: The White House Publishers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. [1-6], 7-292. Bound in light blue cloth with black lettering stamped on front board and spine. Binding starting at title page. In the dust jacket that's notably fresh. A fine example of a romance from the era, with the dust jacket illustration depicting a working class girl transformed into a society woman. Scarce. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Abbeville Press / Cross River Press, 1981. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wraps. Very Good+. Oblong 4to. Pp. 287. Frontis. color plate. Illustrated with color photo reproductions, two folding out. Stiff coated paper wraps, photo illustrated. With notes, artist biographies and index. Covers lightly scuffed, spine creased. A critical selection from the 1970s color art photo movement. This copy presented in solid condition.

Norfolk, CT: New Directtions, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. A volume in the publisher's series, "The Poets of the Year." 8vo. Pp. 30 (1). With a roster of previous winners of The Poets of the Year, which began in 1941. Green mottled paper-covered boards with title and author printed on front cover, with design reprinted on dust jacket. Slight wear to extremities of dust jacket (spine tail and fore-corners -- see photos. Inscribed by Eberhart on title page: "To --- --- from Richard Eberhart in 1981." A handsome copy of the poet's fifth book. Among others, contains four war poems and his lauded "The Groundhog.

Mansfield Centre, CT: (Martino Publishing), 1999. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Pp. [16], 17-220. With a five-page introduction by Archibald Hanna. Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. A superb copy. Eberstadt's catalog 162, filled with stunning Texana described with Edward Eberstadt's deep scholarship and occasional wit. An indispensable reference work. This copy with no detracting qualities whatsoever: As New.

Cape Town: The District Six Museum, 2007. Reprint. Stiff printed wrappers. Near Fine. Noor Ebrahim. 8vo. Pp. 88. Frontis. Black & white photograph of the author and his family. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of black & white and color photography by Ebrahim. Bound in stiff printed wraps with a photography collage on cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page "To -- and -- with best wishes," dated 21-11-2008. A fascinating memoir of the Cape Town neighborhood before apartheid. In 1966 District Six was declared a whites-only area; by 1982 the neighborhood was leveled. Prior to its demise the area featured a rich tapestry of language, religion, and economic class, composed of freed slaves, small business owners, artists and crafts-people, laborers and professionals - in short, a living example of strength through diversity.Noor Ebrahim tells of Douts, the best curry house in the area, which was frequented by gangsters, what it was like to own a 1964 Hillman Husky, how he and his wife… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 255, [1]. Notes organized per chapter. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering stamped on spine. In the dust jacket. A handsome, bright copy of this early profile of Baldwin, based on the author's interviews.

New York: American Friends of the Middle East, Inc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 45. Includes a couple black & white photographs on glossy paper. One of five hundred of a special autographed edition; not numbered. Includes facsimile on glossy paper of letters received by the author from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Admiral William D. Leahy. Bound in dark green paper-covered boards with silver lettering stamped on cover & spine. Signed by the author on title page. Inscribed on endpaper by Mary G. Eddy to Dr & Mrs Philip Sauntry; Dr Sauntry served as Northwest Hospital's Chief of Surgery. The meeting between Saud and Roosevelt, on the U.S. Naval ship the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal, was the first time the King had left Saudi Arabia. William A. Eddy (1896-1962) acted as interpreter. Eddy's greatest contribution to WWII was his involvement in "Operation Torch," the Allies invasion of French North Africa. For more on Eddy, who served in the O.S.S., as well as the first US Minister… Read More

Philadelphia New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Robert Hallock (dust jacket design). 8vo. Pp. 350. Frontis. photo portrait. Index. Bound in brown cloth with blindstamp HJ monogram and silver lettering stamped on front cover, gilt and silver lettering stamped on spine. Light stains to front edge. Dust jacket spine a bit dulled and with a slight scuff. Closed one-inch tear at bottom of front panel. With the review slip laid-in, indicating publication date will be late April, 1953, and asking for remittance of two copies of the recipient's review. Dust jacket designed by Robert Hallock. A critic no less eminent than Edmund Wilson declared Edel "probably now the foremost authority on Henry James"; this, the first of five installments of his biographical set on James, affirms that assessment. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

London and Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo, Pp. xxiv, 312. Frontis. photograph with tissue guard. Illustrated with 40 black & white photographs on coated paper and a map, along with a large color folding map bound in at rear. Appendices, bibliography and index. Bound in blue-green cloth, borders blind stamped front and back, front gilt stamped with Colombia coat of arms, spine stamped with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. Buenos Aires bookseller tag on front pastedown ("Mitchell Book Stores"). Owner book-stamp on pastedowns, which are lightly foxed. Front cover color rubbed at upper left (see photo). South American Series Volume X. A businessman's candid assessment of conditions in Colombia in the early 20th century, sensitive to the native point of view, by a son of sugar industry pioneer James Martin Eder.

Boston: William C. Brown, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Pp. 142 + 142. Illustrated with engravings, tissue guards. Table of contents. Bound in embossed black cloth, gilt stamped device front and back in blind stamped rules and decoration. Blind stamped rules and gilt stamped title on the spine. Edges trimmed. Endpaper ink manuscript "Josephine Judson from Sarah K. Cushing." Annotations partially erased. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed. Moral education in prose, verse, music and engravings. Includes an eleven-stanza poem by Sarah T. Bolton "On the Death of Edgar A. Poe" reprinted from the N. Y. Home Journal in the January 1950 issue. Cover preserved in a removable clear archival jacket.

Walker Art Center, 1982. First Edition. Stiff wrappers. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Text by Lisa Lyons, Curator of the Walker Art Center. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photographs of artwork featured in the exhibition. Bound in stiff wraps. Old pricetag of $5.95 on rear cover. This volume accompanied a powerful exhibit of late-'70s/early-'80s artists held at the Walker Art Center, 1982, including David Salle, Jonathan Borofsky, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Charlesworth, Chris Burden, Hollis Sigler, Robert Longo, David Salle, and Italo Scanga. Includes chronologies of the artists' shows, along with bibliographies.

New York: Berkley Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxii, 279. Map. With a select bibliography. Index. Bound in black half-cloth over paper-covered boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Remainder mark on bottom edge. In the illustrated dust jacket. Ross became ice-bound at Fury Beach on Somerset Island, north of Hudson Bay, and due east of the north tip of Baffin Island. A handsome copy with the dust jacket now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good. Claudio Edinger. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 156. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Introduction by Pete Hamill. Text contributions by William Burroughs, Arthur C. Clark, Clifford Irving, Viva and Richard R. Lingeman. Photo illustrated stiff coated-paper wraps. Front cover with mellowed creases to corners, light scuffs and minimal toning. The Brazilian photographer's loving documentary of bohemian (and simply eccentric) residents at the legendary Manhattan hotel, with images shot during the rough, disjointed post-punk era. Now protected with a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Montevideo: El Día, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Narrow 4to. Pp. [30] each fascicle. Copiously illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. In Spanish. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover. Edges rubbed, leaves of newsprint moderately age toned. Founder of El Día and Colorado Party politician twice elected President of Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856-1929) is here given the national hero treatment on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Includes biographical articles, Batllism, collaborators, Uruguayan politics and history, etc. Published amidst the 1973-85 civic-military dictatorship. Scarce: OCLC locates only three institutional copies (Yale, University of Kansas, St. Andrews).

Munich: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt der F. G. Gotta'sche, 1860. Fünfter unveränderter abbruct. mit einem anhange. Hardcover. Good+. H. Sagert. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 282. Frontis. portrait engraving. Brown cloth, contrasting textured backstrip with titles stamped in gilt. Set in Fraktur. Board edges rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed through, spine chipped, light foxing, some leaves uncut/unopened. Memoirs of Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Hélène Luise Elisabeth, 24 January 1814 - 17 May 1858) compiled from her letters by her tutor who later became an eminent physician, naturalist and professor at the University of Munich. After her 1837 marriage to Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans at the Palace of Fontainebleau, she introduced the tradition of the Christmas tree to the French. Among other curious aspects related to her life were her two sons: The eldest, Philippe, was later the Count of Paris and was hailed as Louis Philippe II by Royalists; the younger son, Robert, fought for the Union in the… Read More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stout 8vo. Pp. xi; 445. Illustrated with 15 maps. Bibliography. Index. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's blindstamp on title page. A handsome, tight copy. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Seattle: Seattle Daily Times, 1935. First Edition. Newsprint Folio. Good+. Folio. Pp. 64 (pp. 16 each supplement.) Illustrated with halftone photo reproductions, display advertising. Minimal age toning, fore edges ruffled, folds chipped and weakened. Special sections promoting the city on the occasion of the 1935 Potlatch and Fleet Week summer festival. These were distributed with the Sunday paper and also available wrapped and mailed. The Seattle Potlatch Festival was first organized by civic clubs in 1911 as the Golden Potlatch Festival to lure visitors and boost the economy, then went on hiatus between 1914 and 1934. It was again revived post-WWII as Seafair. Preserved in a clear archival pouch with acid-free backing. .

London: The Adventurer's Club, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. A. H. Eisner. 8vo. Pp. 240. Frontis. black & white photographic portrait of the author on glossy paper. Bound in cream-colored cloth with red lettering stamped on spine. Small stain on front cover, spine faintly crimped. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows some rubbing. Cloak-and-dagger exploits in WWI from a British officer with a facility for German language. Eldmann was first deployed with the Artists Rifles, then the Lincolnshire Regiment. After being gassed he transferred to the Intelligence Corps. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.

8vo. Pp. 246. Fore-edge untrimmed. Paper covered boards with lettering stamped on spine. A modicum of fading on top edge of text block. Slight discoloration at top of front free endpaper due to erasure of penciled inscription. Dust jacket price-clipped, else Fine. An especially handsome copy of the first edition, 1963, preceding the 1964 British Longman's edition. Over the past 50-plus years Let's Kill Uncle has acquired a sub rosa aura that's culminating in cultish adulation. Fawning tributes have been published, mostly by those who read the book as adolescents and, years later, then explain, usually with erudition, why the novel has stuck in their psyche. The book's attributes are many, including the novel's depiction of two parent-less delinquents outwitting adults, the pitch-perfect depiction of mid-century life in the Gulf Islands (Salt Spring Island is the supposed locale on which the fictional island is based), the Edward Gorey dust jacket that so exquisitely befits the macabre storyline, the… Read More

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. E. F. Bridell. Tall 8vo. Ppl. viii, 286. Frontis. drawing by E. F. Bridell. Bound in the publisher's green beveled cloth, blindstamped with gilt decoration to front board and spine. Hinges cracked, bookplate, else a very good copy in a new removable, clear archival sleeve. With the bookplate of noted English stockbroker and politician Thomas Lynn Bristowe. Betham Edwards, an English novelist and francophile, is often cited in anthologies of Lesbian poetry. Under this charming title, Edwards provides sharp observations of the people and institutions of Algeria, channeling that country's sunny climate through her positive and beguiling descriptive writing.