Search Results: Authors starting with E from Brillig Books

NY: Viking Press, (1980). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth spine over light brown paper covered boards. Map endpapers. 274pp. including index and notes. Illustrated with black and white reproductions. Fine in fine dust jacket. A very tight fresh and unread copy in a crisp dust jacket..

NY: Bramhall House, (1965). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. Later printing. Quarto, yellow cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 208pp. including references and list of illustrations. Very generously illustrated throughout with 192 black and white photographs and 8 pages of color photographs. 40 line drawings. A very tight, fresh and unread volume in a crisp, sharp dust price-clipped dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

London: McGraw-Hill, (1994). Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, purple cloth covered boards. 258pp. including index and bibliography. A fresh, tight and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, brilliant dust jacket. Pristine. Fine. AS NEW..

New York: Bulfinch Press, 1990. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, white cloth covered boards with blindstamp title and gilt spine titles. 199pp.plus colophon. Very generously iillustrated throughout with black and white photographs of cats and their photographers and photographers and their cats! 103 black and white photographs. Pictures by Weegee, Halsman, Kertesz, Eakins, Steichen, Weston, Friedlander and many more masters of photography. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

Boston: A.Williams, 1895. Magazine. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. 10 bound volumes in octavo, 1/2 cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt spine titles. All ten semi-annual volumes of this Transcendentalist magazine, 1866 t0 1872. Includes articles and poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Matthew Arnold and Amos Bronson Alcott, inter alia. A very well preserved complete run of this short-lived religious and philosophical magazine. Very gently ex-library, with almost no interior markings and no exterior markings at all. All volumes, tight, complete, unmarked and unblemished with clean bright interiors and exteriors marred only by some abrasions to some of the gilt title labels on spine and occasional very minimal edge rubbing. (Short closed tear on title page of first volume near middle of hinge). Very good plus. A very attractive set and SCARCE COMPLETE RUN..

Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1979., 1979. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Small quarto, illustrated stiff wraps. 288pp. Exhibition catalogue of international competition for new glass art sponsored by Corning Glass Museum. Text accompanying full color photographs of objects by the top 100 international glass artists selected. Includes a substantial bibliography on art glass publications for the year. A very clean, tight, uncreased volume. Very minor rubbing along spine edge, else fine. Near fine..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with red title decoration and spine titles. Map endpapers. 592pp. Top edge stained red. FIRST ISSUE with "Published May 1936" on copyright page. An excellent copy with clear red solid titles and only nominal dulling to covers and a couple of tiny spots of soil. Top edge rather faded. Printed book plate on front pastedown. A very attractive copy with very minor faults and scarce in the first issue. Very good plus to near fine..

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Company, 1870. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, original pebbled brown cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 549 pp. plus 3 page appendix and notes. Frontispiece engraving of the author with tissue guard in place. A very tight, clean, fresh, volume with bright title gilt and clean bright white predominantly unmarked pages. Gently ex-library with bookplate on pastedown and a few marks only on first few pages. Thereafter NO further library marks. NO external library marks. NO card pocket or circulation stickers. Small 1/8" closed tear at top of spine, else fine. All pages white bright an unmarked besides the first few. Very good. A very attractive volume. Uncommon..

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1916. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, green cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt and color decoration and gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt. 212pp. including index. Illustrated with color plates of paintings and drawings by author. A beautiful copy with bright gilt decoration and fresh, clean, pristine interior. Spine gilt just a bit less bright and some light inconspicuous soil on spine else fine. A really crisp near fine copy and uncommon thus..

New York: Harper and Row, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Octavo, red cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 208 pp. The Science Fiction author's third book and first book of short stories. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked, unread and unblemished volume in a very tight, crisp, sharp, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fined dust jacket. Virtually as new..

Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1983. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, taupe illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 224 pp. including index of first lines and index of titles. Illlustrated with a full page photograph of the author and black and white drawings and photographs heading each section. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. 3/8" very closed split at base of spine otherwise solid and fine. Very near fine..

New York: Grove Press, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, yellow cloth spine over off-white paper covered boards. 410pp. A great picaresque novel of a young man's "outcast" experience of the underbelly of American life. A beautiful, very tight, very clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread vollume in a crisp, sharp, tight, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Munchen (Munich): C. H. Beck, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Complete in Four volumes. Quarto, red cloth covered boards. Approx. 1900 pp. TEXT IN GERMAN. All volumes, clean and unmarked. with a shallow corner clip tio free front endpaper on each volume, else fine. Dust jackets all show scattered light dust soiling and a few short closed edge tears. A near fine set in very good plus dust jackets. Uncommon complete in four volumes..

New York: George Braziller, 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Small quarto, illustrated stiff wraps. 192pp. including index and short biographies on each artist. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Including the work of (inter alia) Picasso, Brancusi, Calder, Maillol, Schwitters, Nicholson, Moholy-Nagy, Lipschitz, Giacometti etc. A very tight, bright, fresh, clean, unmarked and uncreased copy. Fine..

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1978. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Small square quarto, orange printed stiff wraps. 112 pp. plus 4 page ad. Illustrated throughout with black and white photograph, plans, elevations, diagrams, sketches and reproductions. OPPOSITIONS was a classic late 20th century quarterly journal of contemporary architecture produced by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in the years 1973 to 1984. Many of its articles were profoundly influential on architectural theory and many of its contributors became distinguished members within the architectural field. Over it's history some a list of its distinguished contributors included: Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Giorgio Ciucci, Stuart Cohen, Alan Colquhoun, Francesco Dal Co, Peter Eisenman, William Ellis, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Giorgio Grassi, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Mary McLeod, Rafael Moneo, Joan Ockman, Martin Pawley,… Read More

NY: Viking Press, (1976). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Tall quarto, red cloth covered boards. No pagination. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs by the "Father of Photojournalism". Just about any mainstream and not so mainstream celebrity you can imagine from Marilyn to Harry Truman and Richard Nixon. A personal photo album. A fine, tight and brilliant volume in a crisp, sharp dust jacket with two very closed 2" edge tears (one at top of spine and one at forecorner, else fine. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1967). Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Square octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt titles, top edge stained siena. 157pp. Illustrated with thirteen paintings by Eugene Berman. An artful retelling of the major western myths from ancient Greece and Rome and a lovely small book production. Fine in fine dust jacket. Very crisp fresh and unmarred. AS NEW..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small quarto, pale turquoise cloth spine over grey paper covered boards. 323pp. including index, bibliography and extensive appendices. Illustrated with color photographs, black and white diagrams, charts and maps. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

NY: Random House, (1970). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First edition. Octavo, sand colored cloth spine over cream paper covered boards. 312pp. plus biographical note on author. Fine in dust jacket which is neatly price-clipped, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

NY: Crown Publishers, (1976). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, black textured paper covered boards. 255pp. plus acknowledgements page. Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, reproductions, diagrams and charts. A complete guide to star charting and astrology in the lives of the rich and famous. A very tight, clean copy in a crisp, bright dust jacket with one tiny nick inside the top corner of foldover, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..