Search Results: Authors starting with E from Fine Editions Ltd

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Printing of the second installment in Eco's trilogy of children's books, also including The Bomb and the General and The Gnomes of Gnu Bompiani, all illustrated by Eugenio Carmi. Translated by William Weaver. Tall, slim 8vo: unpaginated, with 17 stunning full-page illustrations (watercolor and collage) by Carmi. Publisher's laminated full-color illustrated boards, spine stamped in black, French blue end papers, matching dust jacket priced $12,95. Virtually pristine (and apparently unread). Eco offers a lesson in tolerance, while introducing concepts of basic semiotics. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine. First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly-leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in and fascinating marginal corrections and comments, presumably in Blanck's hand. 8vo: 411,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait and 10 photographs and facsimiles. Publisher's deep pink cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge stained matching pink, unclipped typographic dust jacket printed in maroon and black. About Fine (topstain a bit faded); Near Fine jacket with bright front and back panels, tide mark to lower third of spine panel, few nicks and tiny chips to tips and corners, short closed tear to front panel's top edge). An important copy of this limited edition, essential to any James collector, uniquely inscribed. Besterman II 3242. ¶ The inscription, in Laurence's hand, reads:… Read More

London: Remington & Co, 1885. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine+. First Impression of this rare shilling crime novelette. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 112mm): [2],164pp, with historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers printed in red and black, priced one shilling. Bookseller's embossed stamp to rear wrapper. A collectible copy of this scarce survival (base of spine neatly repaired, covers lightly spotted), securely bound and clean throughout. Hubin, p. 130. Not in Barzun & Taylor. British Journalist Henry Sutherland Edwards was correspondent for The Times (London), reporting from the coronation of Alexander II of Russia; the January Uprising in Poland, in 1863-1864, and German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga., showing locations where photographs were taken, and brief biography and bibliography. Oblong 8vo (202 x 280mm): [16]pp, including three tipped-in color plates. Stapled stiff French blue wrappers printed in black. In 1976, Rolling Stone magazine commissioned Eggleston to photograph Plains, Georgia, birthplace and hometown of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. The project became the first of Eggleston's books of photographs and the subject of this exhibition of 100 type-c photographs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C., from December 10, 1977 to January 22, 1978. The photobook, published by Caldecot Chubb, in New York, in an edition of just five numbered copies and two lettered artist's proofs… Read More

Paris: Editions Le Terrain Vague, 1964. Card Covers. Fine. First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. Demy 8vo (220 x 163mm): 253,[1]pp, with appendices, index of films, and filmography, and with numerous photographic illustrations on 28 double-sided inserted plates. Publisher's pictorial stiff paper wrappers with French flaps (featuring the original poster from the legendary "Nosfératu"), edges untrimmed. Inscribed by Eisner on front fly-leaf to actor, director, and critic Jean Kress. A superb copy, with an important association, tightly bound and clean throughout, virtually pristine (mostly unopened). Awarded the prix littéraire du Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma. Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined Fox Studio and made three films, including, in 1927, Sunrise,… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1929. First Impression. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover printed in black, top edge stained blue (some copies were stained green); matching dust jacket with marvelous design by Rex Whistler, priced 3s / 6d. A superlative example, virtually pristine inside and out (jacket's spine panel almost imperceptibly toned), one of only 2,000 copies. Gallup A13a. Second in the short-lived Faber series The Poets on the Poets, preceded by Vita Sackville-West's appreciation of Andrew Marvel and followed by Lascelles Abercrombie's Wordsworth. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. -/Fine. First Printing ("First American Edition" on copyright page) of the first single-volume edition of Eliot's wartime masterpiece (preceding the British edition by more than a year), in the first-issue dust jacket (with nine titles to back panel). Tall, slim 8vo: [8],39,[1]pp. Original black cloth, spine titled in gold; jacket printed in gray and black, priced $2. About Fine (lettering to spine occasionally rubbed); slight toning to jacket's spine panel, crown of spine nicked, else exceptionally well-preserved. Gallup A43. A total of 4,165 copies were printed, but 3,777 destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set, because of unskilled wartime labor. The remaining 788 copies, of which this is one, were issued as review copies and to preserve copyright. Collects four interrelated poems published separately over the previous three years. East Coker is the village in Somerset from which Eliot's ancestors departed for the New World, in… Read More

Spur, Texas / Austin: The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turquoise stock, three further plates, map, and vignettes in text. Publisher's lime-green cloth, beige end papers, title page printed in green and black; issued without dust jacket. A virtually pristine, apparently unread copy. The second work, originally published in 1934, is offered in the revised and augmented edition of 1970, with five new chapters on the geography and history of the Spur country prior to founding of the ranch, as well as revisions and additions to the original work, which is devoted to aspects of life on the ranch from its founding in the early 1880's. Demy 8vo (228 x 143mm): xv,[7],268pp, with 12 inserted plates from photographs and full-page map. Publisher's sand linen printed in… Read More

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, Great Britain: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Quarter cloth. Fine. Limited Edition, no. 17 of 500 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Demy 8vo (221 x 147mm): xiv,[2],81,[3]pp, with wood-engraved vignette to title page and press device to colophon in gilt. Original oatmeal-colored quarter linen over pale grey paper-covered boards, paper spine label printed in black, edges uncut. Fine and opened. Chanticleer 24. Poems written when Ellis was a teacher in the Australian Bush and, later, a medical student. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. First Printing, with "(1)" on half-title, "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry" on title page verso, battered type at the bottom of page 230, and type of last line on p. 304 not battered. 8vo: 312pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed T cloth, covers paneled in blind with florets in each boxed corner, spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with rules and boxes with florets within, pale yellow end papers.Toe of spine bumped, else a superlative example, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. BAL 5226. Cooke, p. 111. Myerson A24.1.a. During a second trip to England, in 1847-1848, Emerson lectured in the industrial cities, which yielded material for this popular book (including a chapter on a visit to Stonehenge with Thomas Carlyle) and afforded him renewed contact with Europe's intellectual elite (among them, Dickens, Tennyson, and de Tocqueville). On an earlier trip, in 1832, he visited John Stuart Mill, Coleridge,… Read More

London: Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, 1763. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good +. First Edition. 8vo: viii,183, [1]; iv,32 pp, with 296 geometrical figures and perspective designs on 14 folding engraved plates. Prefaces to both titles signed: W. Emerson. Contemporary full leather, spine ribbed and divided into six compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt to second. A Very Good or better copy, front hinge skillfully (almost invisibly) reinforced, pages and plates free of stains and foxing, save for first 10 leaves, which have been professionally restored on the top inner edge (with no loss of text). Both first editions of elementary works on geometry and perspective, the first divided into eight books; both start with definitions, axioms, and postulates, followed by numerous problems (keyed into the 296 figures, in the case of the first book) and their solutions. ESTC Citation Nos. T77181 and T77180. Like his fellow County Durham savant John Bird, the… Read More

Antverpiae [Antwerp]: apud viduam & haeredes Joannis Cnobbari, sub signo S. Petri, 1658. Vellum. Fine. Rare Antwerp impression of Engelgrave's best known work, two parts (with separate title pages) in one volume. 4to (228 x 176mm): [4],352[334 misprinted 234],[44, indices]; [4],492[but 494: pp. 153-160 misprinted as 1-8], p. 295 as 195, pp. 340-341 as 342-343, p. 348 as 349, pp. 377-378 repeated in number only],[40, indices]pp, with title-page vignettes, 55 emblems within ornamental scroll borders engraved by Jacob van Meurs (1619-1680), and numerous woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with yapped edges, later green silk ties. Exceptionally clean and bright throughout, the engravings in rich, deep impressions. Provenance: van de Catholijke Kerk te Zierikzee (book label on rear paste-down). De Backer & Sommervogel III, p. 395. Not in Landwehr or Praz, but see Landwehr (Dutch) 65 and (Low Countries) 222 and Praz, p. 327, for other Antwerp editions. First printed in Cologne, in 1657. Engelgrave was… Read More

1954. First Edition thus. Stiff Wrappers. Near Fine+. Uncommon edition of the world's most famous modern animal fable and political allegory. Oblong 8vo (164 x 240mm): [28]pp, with 52 cartoon strips. Grey illustrated wrappers printed in black, staple-bound. Light stain to top left corner of upper wrapper, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Fenwick (A.10.M1) mentions, in passing, the strip cartoon version serialized by British and American newspapers but not this publication. Shortly after Orwell's death, his widow Sonia was visited in London by representatives of the American producer Louis de Rochemont, seeking movie rights to Orwell's novel. A conventional live-action adaptation was out of the question, of course, given that the book's main characters were farmyard animals, so De Rochemont hired the British husband-and-wife animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor, who had produced propaganda films during the Second World War. Their adaptation of Animal Farm was… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. Uncommonly well-preserved First American Edition (so stated) of the world's most famous modern animal fable and political allegory. Slim crown 8vo (186 x 121mm): [4],118pp. Publisher's black calico textured cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream end papers; original first issue black dust jacket printed in red and white (designed by Art Brenner) and priced $1.75 and without "Printed in the USA" statement to rear flap. Green ink Christmas gift stamp to blank following front fly-leaf, else an excellent example, with crisp gilt lettering and unfaded jacket spine panel. Fenwick A.10d. Grolier (Orwell) 19.b (noting Christopher Morley's assessment of the book as "one of the great political satires" and Edmond Wilson likening Orwell to Voltaire and Swift). First published the previous year, in London, by Secker & Warburg. The author's most successful book at the time of publication, selling some 25,000 copies within a year; it has been… Read More

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Fine-. An exemplary example of "Pain's best general short story collection." (Wilson) 8vo: [8],320,[10, advertisements]pp. Publisher's sea green textured cloth, front and back covers stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, title page (with vignette) printed in blue and black. Light spotting to preliminary pages and fore- and bottom edges, dust-soiled top edge, else a tight, bright, fresh copy, about Fine. Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 317. Bleiler Checklist, p. 153. Bleiler (Guide to Supernatural Fiction) 1282. Wilson (Shadows in the Attic), p. 401. Clute and Grant, p. 742. First Edition of the collection of ghost stories widely considered Pain's best. Included are: "'Smeath,' which combines physical horror with the supernatural, tells of a clairvoyant murderer. . . . 'Rose Rose' is based on artistic Bohemia. Rose is so conscientious as a model that after she dies, leaving the picture for which she was posing… Read More

York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; T. Cadell, in the Strand; J. Robson, New-Bond-Street; and T. Durham, Charing-Cross, London. W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1776. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine+. First Hunter Edition (sixth overall, first published in 1664), virtually doubling the original text. 4to (298 x 230mm): [56],649,[11]pp, with engraved portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by F. Bartolozzi, 40 full-page copper-engraved plates of foliage, flowers, and fruits by Johann Sebastian Muller (including one folding, "A Winter View of the Canthorpe Oak," drawn by William Burgh and engraved by Muller), and folding table. ("The Chestnut Tree," meant to face p. 153, bound facing p. 159.) With list of subscribers and index. Period full tree calf, skillfully recornered and rebacked retaining original spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, black leather lettering piece gilt, covers framed with gilt role, marbled end papers. Occasional light spotting, slight browning… Read More