Search Results: Authors starting with E from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Perkins, Oklahoma: Evans Pubns, 2005. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Third Printing of the popular social history of an Oklahoma oil boomtown, published first in 1987. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely produced in a light gray cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing edge-wear to bottom, a couple of short, closed tears, else not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii, 1-231 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Perkins, Oklahoma: Evans Pubns, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at verso of first free endpaper, and embossed stamp of previous owner at title page. The sequel to the popular social history of an Oklahoma oil boomtown. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Pasted onto first free endpaper are three hand-written notes by the previous owner. Handsomely produced in a light gray cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering to cover and spine. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs of this oil boomtown. Dust jacket present, illustrated, still bright but showing considerable edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv, 1-275 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in gray cloth and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Replete with many score illustrations in black-and-white and full color. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [9], 10-168 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond the slight creasing to spine. Stunning black-and-white reproductions of engravings designed by Blake himself to illustrate works by Thomas Commins, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edward Young, William Hayley, Robert John Thornton and many others. Virtually pristine of interior, stiff illustrated wraps. xv + 55 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author, a noted Sinologist for several decades, looks particularly at shan-su literature to reveal emotions and conflicts in traditional Chinese personality. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear but sunning to spine, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii + 141 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Chatto & Windus , 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published "more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total . . . He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976" (Wikipedia). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned of interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, 1954. Brick-red cloth over boards, Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and soiled, sunned at spine and along edges, protected by a plastic coat. 86 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 80 pp. and with lots of black-and-white and full-color illustrations and photographs.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Praha: Vydal Dr. Eduard Gregr a Syn, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated blue and orange wraps, protected by a stiff Mylar jacket. Moderate wear to wraps, clean, tightly bound, clean, unmarked interior. Many black-and-white photographic plates of Eckener and the Graf Zeppelin, in its hangar and out, on the ground and in the air. [8], 9-111 pp. Polish language text. According to a Wikipedia entry about him, Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) "was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history." He was also a prominent anti-Nazi and was persecuted for it.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards.… Read More

St. Louis, Missouri: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Handsomely bound in black cloth over boards, white lettering stamped to front board and spine. Fine exhibit catalogue to augment the show held from September 9, 2011 to January 9, 2012, Introduction by Sabine Eckmann, catalogue by Svea Braunart and Foreword by Carmon Colangelo. 69 pp. and with brilliant, full-color, full-page reproductions of contemporary German art. Special focus on the works of Franz Ackermann, Thomas Demand, Sergey Jensen, and Corinne Wasmuhta, plus a major installation by Michel Majerus, Manfred Pernice, and Wolfgang Tillmans, and Hans-Peter Feldmann.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995. First English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First U.S. Edition, the true edition having been published the year prior in Italy. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 515 pp., including Translator's Note from William Weaver, noting translation from the original Italian. Bound in two-tone, blue paper over boards, blue cloth-backed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Editions de L'Echoppe, 1986. First French Edition. Softcover. As New. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Umberto Eco's lecture from March 10, 1981 upon the 25th anniversary of the founding of Bibliotheque Communal de Milan. dans le Palaise Sormani. Translated from the original Italian by Eliane Deschamps-Pria, bound simply printed on Arches paper, simple printed wraps, and unexploded top edges. One of 1200 copies printed thus. M.H. Vieira da Silva contributed a black-and-white illustration at frontis. 31 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First U.S. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Signed by Author. An enthralling mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and aberrations, an adventure into the modern mind," says the publisher's blurb. SIGNED by the author at title page, compared to the true First English Edition, published in limited fashion by the Franklin Library, the signature here being compared favorably to that signature. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was an Italian medievalist, bibliopole, philosopher, essayist, semiotician, novelist and cultural ambassador and a critic on a range of issues. Best known for 1980's The Name of the Rose, an execrable film but a fine historical mystery that combined formal semiotics in fiction and biblical analysis, poison applied ingeniously and medieval studies, literary theory and Sean Connery's Scottish brogue. Translated from the original Italian… Read More

New York: Harcourt, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Name of the Rose." A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Stated First English Edition, with "A" in number line present. 521 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt, 2004. First English Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Translated from the original Italian by Geoffrey Brock. 468 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. After a violent storm in the South Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked." Thus opens a bracing novel, a stated First American Edition, with the tell-tale "a" present in "number" line, a fine exemplar of a fine novel, translated from the original Italian by William Weaver. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond just a touch of smudging to bottom fore-tip; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 513 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Rizzoli, 2007. First English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Companion volume to Eco's The History of Beauty. Translated from the original Italian by Alastair McEwan, thus a First U.S. Edition Thus exemplar. Chapters devoted to ugliness in the Classical World; Passion, Death, Martyrdom; The Apocalypse, Hell, and the Devil; Monsters and Portents; The Ugly, the Comic, and the Obscene; The Ugliness of Woman from Antiquity to the Baroque Period; the Devil in the Modern World; Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism; Physica curiosa; Romanticism and the Redemption of Ugliness; and many more. Clean inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright, blank white cloth over boards, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, clean, tightly bound interior but for final endpaper showing ink-stamp and remains perhaps of a bookplate, ink-stamp along top edge denoting ex-library status, but unobtrusive. Hundreds of illustrations augment the learned text. Volume contains scholarly… Read More

New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt Brace, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in blue cloth over boards. Clean with bright gilt lettering to the spine, corners sharp. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Stated First U.S. Edition, with "A" in "number" line present. 515 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, having been translated from the original Italian by William Weaver. A little tank-like exemplar, bound handsomely in aquamarine cloth over boards. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 521 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First U.S. Edition, First Printing, with "A" in number line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for black remainder mark along bottom edge, unobtrusive. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderate worn, single short closed tear to front panel. Massively heavy, oversized novel by the author of The Name of the Rose. 466 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for some slight edge-wear, protected by a plastic coat. Translated from the original Italian by William Weaver thus a First American Edition, stated. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "a" in "number" line present as is standard for this publisher. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii, 307 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.