Search Results: Authors starting with E from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in coral cloth stamped in gilt. Offsetting to endsheets and pages tanned, else Fine in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with toning, light soiling, foxing and wear with a worm hole at the bottom of the front panel. One of 1,000 copies originally printed at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press.

New York: The Masses Publishing Company, 1917. Four issue run of the famous American revolutionary socialist magazine: April, May, June, and July issues of 1917. Vol. IX Nos. 6-9. Stapled wraps. Good+ condition overall, some issues better, light wear and a little chipping, toned with age. May and June issues faintly vertically creased. April and June issue wraps more heavily chipped and fragile, starting to detach. Faint pencil to front cover of May issue. Label "From the Collection of Carl Van Vechten," author and patron of the Harlem Renaissance movement, on rear wrap of April issue, overstamped "Duplicate." Beautifully and powerfully illustrated issues from the final year of the magazine, before it was censored and repressed by the US government under the Espionage Act. As with all periodicals from this time and earlier, the ads are fascinating reading in their own right. The July issue features essay "War and Individual Liberty" by Bertrand Russell. August (not included) would be seized by the… Read More

Haydenville, MA: Mirage Studios, 1988. First Edition. First edition. xii, 540, [xiii]-xviii pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good with slight creasing to front wrap, edge-rubbing, bumped corners, light wear. The uncommon first edition in book form of the TMNT comics, which inspired numerous cartoons, toys, games, and films.

Billings: Montana Indian Publication Fund, 1973. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Willis Eberman on the dedication page. 32 pp. Stapled wraps. About Very Good with crease along spine, light soiling. Part of the Indian Culture series, written by a Seaside, Oregon author.

Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1925. First edition. First edition. xiv, 377, [1], [4] pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards, tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Copy 566 of 998 numbered copies. xxx, (2), 350pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with foxing to fore edge in About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, a few stains near foot, slightly soiled, small tear near head with associated crease. The second novel in Eddison's Zimiamvian Trilogy; he's best known for his novel The Worm Ouroboros.

New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. Signed by Gerald Edelman, inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. xxii, 371 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good+ with slight bowing to boards, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, rubbed. Edelman was the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.

New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Signed by Gerald Edelman and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould. From Gould's personal library. First edition. xx, [2], 240 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.

New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould and signed. xv, 240 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 202 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with age-toned pages in a very attractive example of the dust jacket, flaps dust-soiled and a bit foxed, with a faint pencil checkmark to the spine panel, but with hardly any fading; really vivid colors. This debut novel inspired the 1961 film noir directed by Bernard Wiesen by the same name.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition, number M (A-Z were gifted to publishers) of only 385 copies signed by Edward. ix, 435 pp. with fold-out map at rear. Publisher's full morocco with gilt lettering, ruling, top edge, and dentelles, with silken moire endpapers; housed in original plain red cloth slipcase. Near Fine with light wear and darkening to spine and light rubbing to the front joint, slight rubbing to gilt top edges. Slipcase is lightly worn, lightly sunned at the the edges and with several tiny stains. An elegant signed memoir by the former British king, who stepped down less than a year into his reign to marry already twice-divorced commoner and archetypal "dreadful American" Wallis Simpson.

London: Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians, in Warwick-Lane, 1764. First edition. First edition, first issue. (Arthur Lisney's first issues throughout with Natural History with Part I having the frontispiece, Part II has pages 121-129 present and numbered correctly; Gleanings Part I has "f's" for "s"s in text, Part II has the front matter of pages i-viii on different leaves. The other parts have only a single issue.) Seven volumes in four, comprised of two works. With hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 362 hand-colored engraved plates, plain plate of a Samoyed in the first work (perhaps inserted but other copies have been observed with this feature as well); uncolored frontispiece portrait in the third bound volume, portrait of the author from another work mounted on the verso of the title page to Vol. I. Printed letterpress descriptions facing the plates. Quarto. Bound in late 18th/early 19th century full red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt. with monogram BG on the covers in… Read More

Boston: The Cornill Company, 1918. First Edition. First edition. xvii, [3], 143 pp. with frontis and seven pages of photos. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with bright gilt. Near Fine with subtle dust-soiling, very tiny gouge to top edge of a few pages, contents bright. An autobiography by the founder of the Snow Hill Normal School and Industrial Institute in Snow Hill, Alabama, which grew from a single log cabin to a campus of 27 buildings and over 400 students.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Eggleston on the title page. Publisher's faux leather with pictorial inset on front cover, titles in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to cover, lean to spine, corner clipped from title page and previous owner name to dedication page. The catalog published in conjunction with Eggleston's 1976 exhibition a the The Museum of Modern Art, featuring images of everyday life in the American South. Roth 101.

New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1977. First Edition. Fine. Signed by Larry Eigner in pencil and inscribed to John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, and his wife Barbara, who designed the press's books. Eigner had a severe palsy that made writing by hand difficult; typing wasn't much easier, he used only his right index finger and thumb to do so. A nice association. First edition, one of unnumbered 400 copies in the trade issue in wraps printed on rag paper. 38, [2] pp. Wraps. Fine. Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain and Language schools of poetry. A number of his books were published by Black Sparrow.

Leipzig, Germany: S. Hirzel, 1916. First separate edition. First separate edition. 4 pp. Illustrated with portrait of August Mach from photograph. Publisher's original printed wrappers. Very Good with some small chips to fragile wrappers, faint crease to top of front wrap, contents toned with age. This copy belonged to Hans Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein's oldest son, with his inkstamp at top of front wrapper; likely a presentation copy from his father. Neatly written at top of front wrapper is "43" and date "14.III.16." OCLC/WorldCat locates four copies, two at the University of Toronto, one at the Smithsonian Institution, and one at the American Philosophical Society. Weil 89. Very rare author's offprint (stating "Uberreicht vom Verfasser") of the eulogy by Albert Einstein for fellow physicist Ernst Mach, as first published in Physikalischen Zeitschrift. A noted scientist in his own right, Mach is best known for the concept of "Mach's principle," which asserts that an entity's inertial mass is… Read More

Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, trade issue. xvi, 781 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in a Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unworn. A very sharp copy of a collectible volume all about the famous theoretical physicist.

Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1915. First edition. First edition. [iv], viii, 762, 8 pp. Bound in publisher's three quarter maroon cloth with marbled paper sides, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with rubbing along edges; a few marks to prelims, text otherwise free of markings; hint of foxing to edges. Bookplate on paste down. A German-language physics review with the first book publication of two articles by Albert Einstein as well as work by a number of famous physicists of the early 20th century.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth boards lettered in gilt with upper board ruled in blind. Very Good with light edge wear, cloth lightly mottled in raking light, spine sunned and lettering there rubbed, pages lightly toned. The groundbreaking first appearance of Einstein's theories for a general American audience.

[Berlin]: [No Publisher], 1925. Revised edition. [783]-797 pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers. About Very Good with thin tear along front wrap fold near head, a little chipping to wraps at spine, front wrap hinge fragile, contents toned with age. This copy belonged to Hans Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein's oldest son, with his inkstamp at top of front wrapper; likely a presentation copy from his father. Neatly written at top of front wrapper are "41" and 163." Very rare author's offprint from Die Kulture der Gegenwart of an essay on relativity theory, which was first published in 1914, revised to incorporate Einstein's later research. OCLC/WorldCat locates no physical copies. Weil 71.