Search Results: Authors starting with E from Knickerbocker Books

Boston, New York, London: Little Brown & Company, 2000 2000 Little, Brown. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in Near Fine, unclipped, dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages crisp and fine. Hardcover of cream boards with black spine, gilt titling. Cover is fresh and unworn. Dust jacket is clean, price intact on front flap; light scuffs/scratches to back panel, otherwise fine. Binding tight, book straight. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2"; xi + 227 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Boise, Idaho: Peregrine Images, 2003. 2003, printing unstated. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Foreword titled "The Photographer, the Dancer and the Landscape" by Janice Ross. Beautiful color photographs by Hal Eastman of dancers in movement within natural settings. 2 small white spots at bottom edge of handsome gray cloth hardcover but otherwise cover is fine. Dust jacket has bit of creasing to spine ends, corner tips but is otherwise unworn and near fine. 12 x 11-7/8"; 107 page section of color plates plus 22 text pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

Albany, New York: University of the State of New York, 1910. Second Edition, 1910 + 1914. VERY GOOD 2-volume set. Volume 1 (Part 1. Water Birds and Game Birds) is dated 1910 and includes a summary of New York State avifauna and life zones, information on migrations, detailed descriptions of genera and species (illustrated with some black & white photos) followed by 42 beautifully rendered color plates, artwork by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and a detailed Index. Volume 1 is NEAR FINE - pages and plates clean, unmarked and firmly bound in green cloth hardcover, gilt titled on spine. Small bumps to cover corners and a few light rub marks, cover very good. Volume 2 (Part 2. Land Birds) is dated 1914 and includes economic value of birds, bird refuges and preserves as well as status of bird laws, descriptions of genera and species (with black & white photos) as well as another 64 beautiful color plates by Fuertes, and an Index. It is GOOD+ - internally very good, pages clean and unmarked. Title page… Read More

New York: Summit Books, 1984. SIGNED 1984 First Printing with full number line. Neatly signed by Eban (his name only) in blue pen, on first page with publisher logo. No other markings. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD price-intact dust jacket. A clean, sturdily bound hardcover. Pages fine. Cover of bright blue paper over boards and navy blue cloth spine is gilt lettered on spine with facsimile of Eban's signature gilt-stamped on front. Cover is bright and clean, edge lightly shelf-rubbed. Unclipped jacket clean, light toning along edges and a shallow dampstain at foot of spine with some of blue dye from cover showing. No tears or chips. The jacket is in a removable clear archival protector. Binding and hinges firm and straight. Generously illustrated with color and black & white reproductions, photos and maps. Eban, scholar and accomplished politician, served as ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations and was the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister under Levi Eshkol. He was also Vice… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Author Signed 1951 British Edition. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE price-intact, dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Eberhart on front free endpaper, "This is Babs Mann's book at Wheaton College. November 1954. With sincerest good wishes from Richard Eberhart." Babbs Mann neatly penned her name to front pasted endpaper, under the jacket flap. A clean, otherwise unmarked and firmly bound copy. Pages fine. Red-orange cloth hardcover, gilt lettered on spine, has slight shelf-rub along edges but is near fine. Dust jacket, British price intact on bottom of front flap, is clean with light edgewear (short closed tears). Jacket is moderately sunned along spine and edges. Sports delightful illustration of a woodchuck - the illustration repeated on title page. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding tight, hinges intact, book nice and square. 5-1/2 x 8-7/8"; 86 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. 1994 First Edition. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD+ price intact dust jacket. This historic book, published by Houghton Mifflin and The Rene Dubos Center for Human Environments, is the first one-volume reference for the general reader defining scores of scientific terms and problems while integrating the concepts with historical, economic and cultural issues. A fresh clean copy - no writing, bookplates or stampings, in strong hardcover binding. Cover is green leatherette with gilt stamping on spine. It is clean and fresh, only wear is light bumping to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is clean and complete, price intact on front flap. Jacket has light creasing at edges, a small tear at front top corner and a small nick in the spine; slight surface rubbing. Jacket is in a clear protector. Binding tight, hinges strong and intact. 8-1/4 x 10"; xvii + 846 pages. A heavy book, requiring additional postage for Priority or International mailing.. First… Read More

New York: Pageant Press, Inc., 1957. 1957, printing unstated, presumed 1st. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD, unclipped, dust jacket. A crisp, clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages fresh and fine. Green cloth hardcover has slight rubbing to extremities and bump to thumb edge of top board but is otherwise fine. Dust jacket, 3.00 price intact, is clean, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners with small tear and bit of creasing at top of spine. Binding firm, hinges intact. A biographical novel of the WWII Hospital Corpsmen of the Navy. Edelmann was born in Germany and impressed into Hitler's Nazi Youth Movement. He fled Germany in 1931 and entered the U.S. Navy in 1939 where he served a distinguished career. 8 x 5-1/2"; 230 text pages plus 10 page section titled Citations.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Munchen: Im Selbstverlage Des Verfassers, 1913. 1913. NEAR FINE. A 141-page Mathematical Treatise in lovely decorative hardcover binding with batik marbled paper over boards, cloth spine strip and corners, and pasted paper label with title on front cover. (Likely handbound.) Pages clean, the only marking is previous owner's name Dr. Paul Stauber) neatly penned to top corner of title page, and a few scattered light pencilings. Soft crease to top outside page corners. Cover is clean, lightly edge rubbed, slight toning along top margin and a short scuff to the title label. Binding secure and solid. A few sheets of meticulously penned notes are laid into the back of the book (in German). 7-1/4 x 10-1/2". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Large 8vo.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971. 1971 First Edition. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Text in fine condition. Hardcover of mustard colored cloth over boards is fresh and clean with minimal wear. Dust jacket is clean but price-clipped with some light scuffing, a short tear and light creasing along top edge. "To what extent does ecological change in human society carry with it changes in a people's values, attitudes, and personalities?"- An early study on a topic of ever-increasing importance. 6-1/8 x 9-1/8". xv +351 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977 1976 Copyright. This is the Third Printing, September 1977. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. An exceptionally well-preserved, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy of this early printing of the original edition combines the original photos made in the 1920s with spectacular color photography along with lucid text by I.E.S. Edwards, former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum. Pages are near fine - faint marginal toning but otherwise pristine. Bound in handsome black cloth hardcover with large gilt design on front cover, gilt spine lettering - fresh and unworn. Jacket is clean and complete, a bit of light surface rubbing but no tears or chips. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4"; 256 pp. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Hartford, Connecticut: Immanuel Congregational Church, 1979. 1979. VERY GOOD softcover, INSCRIBED by the Editor, in blue ink on the title page, "For Gilbert Hart, Who grew up at Immanuel, with high regard. Robert L. Edwards Hartford October 1979." A clean, otherwise unmarked and firmly bound copy. Paper cover is clean, moderately shelf rubbed, primarily at edges and corners, no tears or chips. Page corners lightly rubbed, pages otherwise fine. Binding firm and intact, no creasing to cover spine. An anthology of "old-time preachers" from Congregational churches of Hartford, Connecticut: North Church, Pearl Street - Farmington Avenue Churches, Park Church and Immanuel Church. 13 black and white illustrations plus 1-page map of Hartford in 1899. Robert L. Edwards (1915-2006) was minister of Immanuel Congregational Church from the 1950s until 1980. 6 x 9". [xii] + 228 pages, including index. Signed By Editor. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Not Issued.

Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1982 August 1982 printing. Very Good in Very Good price-intact dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and firmly bound hardcover. Area of light toning to front endpapers. Pages clean and near fine. Hardcover of gray paper over boards is clean though toned along edges. Dust jacket is clean, lightly rubbed but no tears or chips. Binding and hinges firm. "The Complete Story of Federal and Confederate Small Arms: design, manufacture, identification, procurement, issue, employment, effectiveness, and postwar disposal." Generously illustrated with B&W photos. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4"; 444 pages . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Whitney Museum of Art/Yale Universtiy Press, 2008. 2008 First Edition, First Printing (with full number line). The hardcover catalog that accompanied the 2008-2009 exhibition shown in New York and Munich. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Fresh, totally unmarked and tightly bound in yellow-orange colored cloth hardcover, title stamped in black on spine. Jacket is colorful and complete - no scuffs, tears or chips. Tiny bend to top outside corner tips with crimping to jacket at those corners. All else pristine and fine. A gorgeous copy of this lavishly illustrated retrospective. Includes five essays, by Elizabeth Sussman, Thomas Weski, Donna De Salvo, Tina Kukielski and Stanley Booth, and an illustrated Chronology by Adam Welch. Also selected exhibition history and bibliography as well as an index. 10 x 11-1/2"; 304 pages. The book weighs over 5 lbs and will require additional postage for Priority or international mailing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. 1983 Edition; no statement of later printing on copyright page. FINE in FINE dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages pristine. Hardcover, salmon-colored cloth over boards, title gilt stamped on spine. blind stamped on front, is fresh and unworn. Illustrated jacket is bright and complete - no tears, chips or creases. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Eichenberg's traces Death as a subject in art, including more 70 black and white reproductions of artwork from the 15th to late 20th century, artists including Durer, Holbein, Goya, Rowlandson, Daumier, Kollwitz, Grosz, Picasso, Rauschenberg and Zielezinski. There are also 17 Eichenberg woodcuts, all full page plates with short verses on facing pages. Pieces include The Ship of Fools, The Angels Are Coming, Saturday Night Special and Death Row. 8-3/4 x 11-1/2"; 136 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1985. 1965 softcover bound in gray paper wrapper, titled in black on front. INSCRIBED by Eichenberg, in blank ink on center of front panel of wrapper "Fritz Eichenberg to Sandy with good wishes *". No other markings - a FINE, otherwise unmarked, firmly bound copy. Pages crisp and fine. Wrapper is clean and sharp, faintest of rubbing to edges; no chips, tears or creases. No creasing to wrapper spine and binding is firm, no splits, 3-page Introduction by Alexander Eliot is followed by notes on the plates - of which there are 146 (full-page black& white). Included are illustrations from "In Praise of Folly"; "The Adventures of Simplicissimus"; "A Child's Christmas in Wales"; "Fables with a Twist"' "The Jungle Book"; "Anna Karenina"Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and "The Possessed" as well as over 50 miscellaneous pieces. 8-1/2 x 11". Signed By Artist. Wrapper. Fine. 4to.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977. 1977 Stated First Edition (trade edition). NEAR FINE in GOOD price intact dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EICHENBERG, on the half-title page, in black ink, "Fritz Eichenberg to Sandy with good wishes * Peace Dale R.I. May 9, 1986." A crisp, clean, otherwise unmarked copy. Top and bottom page edges slightly foxed, otherwise pages are fresh and fine; firmly bound in a gray cloth hardcover gilt titled on spine. The cover is lightly edge worn; tiny corner bumps, slight color fade along edges. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Red endpapers. Unclipped jacket is clean, moderately edgeworn with small chips and tears. Toning is visible to along flap edges and to reverse (unprinted) side. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Beautiful reproductions of Eichenberg woodcuts, from his early student days in Leipzig to his 1977 pieces for 'The Adventures of Simplicissimus.' Includes his Eulogy to the Woodblock, Index of Prints, Bibliography and… Read More

New York: R.H. Russell , 1903. 1903 First Edition. INSCRIBED BY EICKEMEYER on front free endpaper, in black ink, "To my friend Mr. Chas. E Gorton, / these records of my favorite season / with best wishes for a Merry Christmas / from Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. / The Ranch Room / Yonkers, NY / Dec. 25th, 1903." (Charles E. Gorton was an eminent educator and Yonkers' second Schools Superintendent. Gorton High School is named after him.) A clean, otherwise unmarked copy, hardcover bound in green-gray paper over boards with gray cloth spine. Printed photographic pastedown centered on front board, between stamped white titles. Internally near fine - pages clean and unmarked. Small stains to front endpapers (not affecting the inscription). Cover is good - clean with moderate edge wear including bumps and scuffs to edges. Pastedown is clean with only a few light rubs, white titles are clear and strong. Top corners on thumb edge are bumped and heavily worn with fray to board. Spine cloth is frayed… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1996. 1996 Stated First Edition. FINE hardcover in FINE slipcase. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy in new condition. Slipcase also in new condition. Book is bound in blue cloth hardcover, no jacket, as issued. Slipcase with matching cloth plus printed paper overwrap. A highly detailed and accurate facsimile of the earliest surviving autograph manuscript, published by George Braziller, in association with the Jacob E. Safra Philanthropic Foundation and the Israel Museum. An English translation if provided for each page. Introduction by Hanoch Gutfreund. Also includes photographs, reminiscences by associates, a chronology of Einstein's life, a chapter on provenance and a description of the 1912 ms. 10 x 15-1/2"; 192pp. A heavy book that may require additional postage for Priority or International mailing.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. Stated Second Printing, 1930. VERY GOOD+. A beautifully preserved copy - clean and firmly bound. Hardcover of color illustrated paper over boards with gray cloth spine. Pale yellow endpapers. The only markings is a lightly penciled owner name on front pasted endpaper; one page has short black streak (outside of image area) but otherwise pages are crisp and fine. Cover is lightly toned along edges with some rubs and scuffs to edges and corner tips, one small dark spot near bottom of front cover. Cloth spine has a couple of short tears and some fray to spine ends. Interior front hinge has short tear at the bottom edge but is otherwise intact; rear hinge fine and binding firm. Delightful color illustrations, immaculately styled and delicately rendered; outer page margins printed in light yellow tint. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4". 32 pages. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1950. 1950, Harcourt, Brace and Co. Third printing (code C-3-50). A NEAR FINE copy in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Text is near fine : faint marginal toning but no writing, bookplates, stampings; no soiling, stains or tears. Cover of black cloth with gilt spine lettering is fresh with minimal rubbing at spine ends. Dust Jacket is clean though spine is moderately sunned. No tears, tin chip from head of spine. All flap corners shallow clipped but price remains intact on front flap. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding tight. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2"; 192 pages.. Third Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.