Search Results: Authors starting with E from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket with only slight shelfwear.. Signed by Eco on the title page. First American edition. An essay in the book, "Dreaming in the Middle Ages" helped to popularize the neologism "neo-medievalism"

[n.p.], [n.d.]. Appears to be only the final portion of a longer letter, with chipping and loss.. Partial autograph letter signed by Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), the prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adult and children's literature. 6.75" x 4.25". [2].

New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, 1841. Very good with dampstaining throughout.. Pleasing moral chapbook intended for children, with eleven wood engravings in the contents and throughout the green pictorial wraps. Wrappers feature engravings of children engaged in leisurely activities, with one engraving appearing to depict baseball. 24mo. [5], 6-24pp.

Bridgeton [NJ]: James M. Newell, 1838. A good copy in contemporary leather, with substantial rubbing, hinges started, first few leaves loose, foxing throughout, many pages dog-eared, with contemporary and later inscriptions to endpapers, title page verso, ad page, and top edge.. First Edition. Felcone notes that this book compiled all of New Jersey's laws in force, but for the first time arranged them by topic, along with relevant court opinions. Large 8vo. xxiv, 728pp. Felcone 629.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1884. Overall very good, with rubbing to leather on all volumes, one volume with a leather panel separating from spine with loss, contents clean throughout and with both frontispiece portraits present.. The Riverside edition, new and revised. Complete in 11 volumes as issued (a twelfth volume was issued years later in 1893). Uniformly bound in pebbled half leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt. Cooke, pgs. 161-66.

London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. Very good in late 19th-century half russia, spines gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, some wear to joints beginning to separate, Dd3 in vol. II part II torn and repaired, prior owner bookplates including Berland's.. First edition, the Abel Berland copy (Christies, 10/9/2001). The second most celebrated English diarist, Evelyn's Diary remained unpublished until 1818, when editor William Bray obtained permission from Evelyn's family to publish a small portion thereof in the instant two volumes. The diary covers a tumultuous period of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague in London and England. 4to. 2vols. (3 parts in 2 vols.). ix, [2], x-xxiii, [1], 620pp.; [4], viii, 366pp., [2], 335pp., [1]; with half-titles, errata, three engraved portraits, six engraved plates (including three folding plates).