Search Results: Authors starting with E from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CLYDE EDGERTON ON TITLE PAGE. A Fine copy in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. $12.95 price on front flap of Dust Jacket. 227 pp. Author's First Book.

New York: Redfield, 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Small Octavo. Color frontispiece, 239pp., (12)pp. ads at rear.textual illustrations. Bound in publisher's light maroon cloth, spine gilt and evenly sunned to tan extending a bit to rear board; contemporary owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper, and small owner's stamp to next endpaper; internally clean and bright, binding clean with sharp corners. A very good+ copy. Interesting history of the ring, its symbolic uses.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo, 320 pages, original green cloth, spine printed in gilt; dust jacket with $3.00 price on front flap, map end papers. SIGNED by the author on half-title. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; bookplate.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Small Octavo. Author's Edition, from Advanced Sheets. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering spine, front cover. Light wear at extremities and lower spine. 287 pp.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. First Edition. Very Good. Eight volumes in four. A complete set. Publisher's variant red cloth; first issue, without inserted "contents" leaves, volume I, page 83, line 2 with misprint "reponsive" and errata tipped-in after title page of volume II (part III). Yellow coated end papers, with several replaced with matching paper; corner repair to FFEP in volume I and three news articles tipped-in at rear. Armorial bookplate in each volume; small date stamp on rear pastedowns. Light wear at extremities, soiling to rear board of volume I. Internally clean and bright; overall, very good. Housed in four 19th century quarter-leather slipcases with cloth dust jackets.

London: Faber & Faber, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. First issue, with "Ihad" on page 7, and in first issue dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo. 149pp., bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt, previous owner's name, slight damp staining to last few leaves on very edge of out margins, a very good copy in unclipped dust jacket showing heavy damp staining with chipping along the top edge of rear panel.

New York; 1917 [but Pub. 1918]: Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 31pp. Bound in rose colored paper covered boards with gilt lettering front cover. Minimal sun and soil covers. Small bookstore stamp to front endsheets. A very good copy written anonymously by T.S. Eliot, but Ezra Pound went over the manuscript, making corrections, and changes before sending it on to John Quinn for publication by Knopf. (Gallup B17).

Burton MI: Subterranean Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Stated First U.S. Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A beautiul tight, clean copy. 176 pp.

Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974. First Edition. Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND DATED ON TITLE PAGE BY FRANCIS M. NEVINS, JR. without personaization. No dust jacket as issued. Very good copy bound in yellow cloth with black lettering spine and front cover. Mild soil and stains covers. Previous owners inscription ffep. 288 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "TO ARTHUR H. PARSON - THIS BOOK EATS SOULS!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON HALF TITLE PAGE. $17.95 price on dust jacket front flap. A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. 406 pp.

New York: Knopf, 1992. Original Wraps. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY JAMES ELLROY ON TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE without personalization. Avance Excerpts. Fine in original wrappers. 26 pp.

New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "BLOOD CRUD!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil. A fine First Edition First Printing in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. A novel based on Hollywood's most notorious murder case.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 263 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on FFEP to mystery collector Arthur Parson; pictorial dust jacket, with $14.95 on front flap. First edition stated. A beautiful copy of the author's first U.S. hardcover book.

New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "To / Arthur H. Parson - / Fear / This / Book!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON FFEP. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil. A fine First Edition First Printing in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Remainder mark, top edges. A novel based on Hollywood's most notorious murder case.

Cincinnati: AuthorHouse, 1857. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. 215pp. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. A fine copy. Emerson presents news articles, court hearings and various other subects pertaining to the life of the 19th century American woman.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original Wraps. Quarto. Part one-Geology: 263pp., black and white photographic plates 1-64, bound in original gray printed wraps. Part two: Circulation Systems of Bikini and Rongelap Lagoons by William S. Von Arx, Adjustment of Bikini Atoll to Ocean Waves by W. Munk and M. Sargent, Sea Temperature in the Marshall Islands Area By M. Robinson, Biologic Economy of Coral Reefs by M. Sergeant and T. Austin, Plankton of Northern Marshal Islands by M. Johnson, and Recent Foraminifera of the Marshal Islands by J. Cushman, R. Todd and R. Post. [Part 2] Pages 265-486 containing black and white photographic plates 80-186 and 8 plans in rear pocket. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt. Plates 65-73 and color charts 1-11 housed within a gray paper covered slipcase with ribbon ties, title on spine in black. Complete. Very good to fine.

Cairo: L'Institut Francais D'Archeologie Orientale, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good++. Octavo. Bound in green cloth spine over beige printed boards. Inscribed by the author's wife. Folding map and 2 folding plates. A very good++ copy with minimal soil and edge wear covers. Issued without dust jacket.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1930. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN ERSKINE ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. Autographed edition with one page of original typed manuscript corrected and initialed by the author. LIMITED EDITION OF 356 COPIES. THIS IS No. 238. 351pp. Bound in rust colored cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering spine. Nearly fine, in near fine cloth covered slipcase with paper spine label.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH A BIBLICAL VERSE ON FEP BY JOHN ERSKINE. 338 pp. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with mild chips.