Search Results: Authors starting with E from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

Eco, Umberto. On Literature. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. Orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. 334 pp. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, protected in a mylar sleeve. A gift quality book.
Signed on a special publisher's book plate on the half title page. The First American edition is the first edition in English, preceding the British edition. A collection of essays by the famed novelist and semanticist, author of The Name of the Rose. In these essays Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his passion" for the word.

Texas] Houston Post Almanac. 1896. [Houston, Texas?]: [Houston Print. Co.] 1895. Pictorial wraps. 19 cm. 432 pp. Front cover and first page detached; chips to both covers; interior very good.
OCLC shows 6 holdings (Angelo St. Univ.; Hou. Pub. Lib.; SMU; UT-Austin; TAMU-Commerce; & Texas St.-San Marcos). Rare today. Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog listings. Morrison, Nineteenth Century Texana shows one listing. The first copy I have handled

Edwards, Philip Leget. California in 1837. The Dairy of Col. Philip L. Edwards Containing an Account of a Trip to the Pacific Coast.... Sacramento: A. J. Johnson and Co. 1890. First edition. Tan printed wraps. 47 pp. Near fine.
Adams Herd 747: "Rare." Six Score 36. Graff 1216. Howes E66. Wagner-Camp 48n. Soliday IV 212. Holiday 339. Cowan p. 192. Streeter Sale 3308. "Narrative of the first recorded cattle drive in California.... Aside from its cattle interest, which recounts bringing some 630 head of cattle from California to Oregon, the book also is a California and fur trade item." -- Reese. "This rare little booklet is written in the form of a diary and contains details of the earliest cattle drive." -- Adams. "Apparently one of a small number printed." -- Holiday 339. "Among the most important early descriptions of pastoral California." - Howell Catalog 50 # 447. Bankroft (California IV, p.85) states that this diary was one of his chief authorities. Cowan, p. 76: "Apparently limited to a small… Read More

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D. Proclamation. Printed broadside in French. Approx. 42 x 47 cm. N.p. [London?]: [1944]. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines otherwise very good.
Rare. Three copies of the poster recorded and two of the leaflet version. OCLC lists 3 holdings. (U. Mich. 42 x 43 cm.; UNC-Chapel Hill 42 x 48 cm. & Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 25 x 21 cm. – apparently a leaflet as the National Archives.) There is also one copy at the George C. Marshall Foundation Library. (37 x 42 cm.) The National Archives has a leaflet variant with the text printed half on front and back.
"These broadsides were posted in the liberated areas around the Normandy beachheads in June 1944 by the American, British, Canadian, and Free French forces that finally breeched Adolf Hitler's 'Fortress Europe'. Very few of these broadsides survived due to their fragile nature and the intervening years." – Heritage Auctions
The backstory on this Proclamation is itself interesting. "By early… Read More

[Wild West Show] Coming! Texas Ella Tent Show. Texas Kid. Cowboys! Cowgirls! See Them Rope and Ride Them Horses! Wild West Show. [caption title] Continental, Ohio: Curtiss Shoprint. [Circa 1930s] One sheet 27 x 72 cm. Illustrated. Has been folded. Edge chips, stains, age toning. Good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item. There is one holding of a similar item from this show (Autry Museum). Tent shows were popular in the rural areas of the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in the Southwest, South, and Midwest. Typically, these shows featured a three-act comedy or drama interspersed with "polite" vaudeville. Great emphasis was placed upon presenting inoffensive family entertainment; the master of ceremonies frequently boasted that nothing would be seen or heard that might offend the taste of the most fastidious. Unlike such suspect traveling attractions as the carnival and circus, tent shows found acceptance in these farming and ranching communities. - Handbook… Read More

[Civil War] William Elliott Finley. The Private's History of The Eighty-Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Pittsburgh: Bakewell & Marthens. 1868. Green printed wraps. 57 pp. Front wrap present but detached and extensively chipped; back wrap missing. Interior clean and legible. Good.
OCLC shows no holdings of this item. Not in Dornbusch, Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War. Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog sales. A history of the Eighty-Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, from the time of its organization and muster, until the expiration of its term of service and return home, embracing graphic descriptions of all the great battles in which the Eighty-Fifth took part. William Elliott Finley, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1843. He enlisted in August. 1861, in Company I, Eighty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving three years and four months, when he received his honorable, discharge. He was severely wounded at the battle of… Read More

[Texas] [Slavery] [Hale, Edward Everett]. A Tract for the Day. How to Conquer Texas, before Texas Conquers Us [at head of title]: Price Three Cents. Boston: Redding & Co., 8 State St., March 17, 1845. [1-3] 4-16 pp., title within typographical border. 22.9 x 14 cm. later protective wrappers. First edition. Other than occasional mild foxing, near fine.
OCLC shows 15 holdings, 6 in Texas (Rice; Texas St. Univ.; Incarnate Word; TCU; Trinity U. & UT-Austin). American Imprints (1845) 2939. Eberstadt, Texas
162:373. Sabin 29626. Streeter 1583: Hale, later to become a famous and beloved American, and at this time not quite twenty-three years old, wrote this tract when news came to New England that President Tyler had signed on March 1, 1845, the joint resolution for the annexation of Texas. The tract begins, "What shall we do? Massachusetts and New England have resolved, in this emergency, not to withdraw from the Union. They have resolved rightly." Hale then advanced the novel and highly original idea that… Read More

[Nantucket] [Cape Cod] Ferdinand C. Ewer. Historical map of Nantucket, 1869. [Boston]: [publisher not identified] [Circa 1886-1900] Map 22 x 35 cm. Has been folded. Splits at folds, else very good. OCLC shows ten holdings (Harvard; Salem St.; Univ. Chicago; Boston Public. Lib.; RB Hayes Ctr; Brown Univ.; Dartmouth; Bryn Mawr Col.; Wisc. Hist. Soc. [2]) Surveyed and drawn by the Rev. F.C. Ewer, D.D., 1869. Reduced copy issued by the Old Colony Railroad as an advertisement of its Old Colony Line of steamboats to the Island. Includes historical text. Will frame and display well.

[Nebraska] City of Omaha. Population 160,000 1891. Omaha, NE.: Gibson, Miller & Richardson for the Omaha Real Estate Exchange. [Circa 1892.] First edition. Printed self-wraps. Tables. 15 cm. The cover has an engraved picture of the city. One sheet folded into a 16 page brochure. Rubber stamp of Agent on front and rear cover, else very good.
OCLC shows one holding (Yale.) Not in Adams, Herd. Rare and ephemeral promotional item. Contains a section on "Live-Stock."