Search Results: Titles starting with E from Thorn Books

Santa Fe: Santa Fe Village Art Museum, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. vii,(1),115,(1)pp. Brown textured cloth spine, gilt; tan buckram printed in brown on the upper board. A fine copy. One of 3000 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and designated "Artist's Copy". In is inscribed on the limitation page and signed by Woloshuk.

Portland: The Southworth Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. 354pp. Illustrated. Leather spine, gilt titles. Illustrated paper boards. Top edge gilt. One of 585 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and marked 'Review Copy'; signed by Rosenbach. Foreword by A. Edward Newton. Light trace of wear else a fine copy in a lightly worn publisher's slipcase. Still the standard bibliography for books from 1682 to 1835. Index of Authors and Titles; another of Places and Publishers.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. Apple green cloth blocked in black and deep red. "First published" statement on the copyright page, and date on the title page. Cloth sunned along the edges and spine but a very good copy. The first state dustwrapper has the price of $4.50 on the flap and Steinbeck's portrait on the rear panel. The top inch of the spine and the bottom edge have been professionally restored giving a near fine appearance with only light age toning, especially to the spine. The rear free endpaper and pastedown have penciled notes made by a former owner, apparently references to important passages in the book. . .

London: John Rodker for Subscribers, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Twelve volumes in Four. "The edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper was printed by Messrs. Molyneux . The copper plate engravings are by Hester Sainsbury and have been printed and hand coloured by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd." Vols. 2-12 printed by Richard Clay and Sons, Ltd. This set unnumbered. A delightful unsigned full leather vbinding of rust colored morocco. Spine titles in gilt. Spines and boards tooled in blind with triple rectangular frames on which a double oval frame is tooled, the margins outside the frams tastefully tooled in dots. The upper boards of each volume with black onlays in a simple art deco design. Top edges gilt. A fine set. With the engraved armorial bookplates of Frederick Walter Fell Clark. Contents are: v. 1. The lessons of a bawd, of Damodaragupta -- v. 2. The harlot's breviary, of Kshemendra -- v. 3. The book of women, of Fazil-Bey. The education of wives, from the Persian -- v. 4.… Read More

San Antonio: n.p., 1929. Wraps. Very good. Oblong folio. Printed stiff orange wraps. Printed introductory page followed by nineteen stiff pages with mounted original photographs. The photographs range in size form 6½ by 8 to 7½ by 9 inches. Some are of testimonial letters the rest are pictures of the Tobin shops and labs, aerial photographs of Texas, and one of the dirigible "Los Angeles" flying over San Antonio. Covers soiled and worn else this is in very good condition. Accompanied by a 1929 typed letter signed from Tobin to Col. Birdseye of the U. S. Geological Survey with a map of Texas showing areas photographed and ready for delivery Edgar Tobin was a WWI pilot, a member of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's "Hat in the Ring" squardon. In 1928 he founded the TObin Aerial Surveys firm in San Antonio. At the time of his deather in 1954, his firm had become the largest aerial mapping firm in the world. He was credited with being a major contributor of the war effort in the United States. A very… Read More

Yellow Springs, Ohio: Kahoe & Company, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 25 numbered copies. Thin 12mo. (5 by 8 inches.) Cream-colored cloth spine, printed lettering label, brown paper with flecks of dark and gold over boards. Title page in red and black. Unpaginated (32pp.) A fine copy with only a trace of rubbing. With the bookplate of the President of Antioch College. Likely printed at the Press at Antioch College for Kahoe, as were other imprints of this publisher. Not listed in Healy ('Italian Literature Before 1900 in English'), who notes only the other edition of this work in 1929, which had a limitation of 125 copies. THat work was issued in June, 1929; it is unknown when in 1929 the present title was issued nor have we been able to determine priority; only that it is a scarce title of this private press.

n.p. (London): n.p., 1649. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (4),260,pp. This edition is likely a variant of Madan #8, or a mixed 12 from Newcomb's printings for No 7(see Madan, p. 18). Without a frontispiece portrait nor any other illustration. Possibly defective, ending with leaf M10 and the word '"Finis" and thus probably not bound with the Letter from the Prince as described by Madan in No. 8. Originally attributed to Charles I, it is now acknowledged that the author is John Gauden. There were at least 40 different English editions printed in 1649, some hurriedly, as this copy must have been Contemporary full brown calf tooled in blind on the boards and on the spine. Joints cracked, but firm; head of spine and lettering labels nearly perished; old library stamp and bookplate; else a good copy.

Madrid: Manuel Minuesa de los Rios, 1878. First edition. Very good. Wraps. 8vo. (viii),244pp. Large folding map in rear: Mapa Interior del Maestrazgo y Provincias Limitrofes. Original printed wraps, cloth spine. Closed marginal tear to map (not affecting image) has been artfully repaired; wraps lightly soiled, occasional light foxing, and worn else a very good copy and mostly unopened. A fairly scarce discussion of the Ejército del Centro by the captain-general of Madrid. He was instrumental in defeating Emilio Castelar in 1874, basically effected a coup d'etat, and was instrumental in forming the Cortes of the Restoration. In Spanish. .

Guadalajara: Grafica de Comala, 2017. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Fine. 4½ by 7 inches. (18)pp. Card wraps covered with bright yellow paper nicely printed in black and red by letterpress. Printed letterpress on handmade paper. The fonts are Garamond and Intertype. Illustrated with full page and in text art by Gomez taken directly from the linocut blocks. A fine copy. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is copy No. 44. This is the story of the famed Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, constructed between 1553 and 1570 between the Tecajete volcano and Otumba. I covers some territory and ground level, and underground and over ravines and valleys. There are three arcades, 46, 13 and 67 arches. The height of the tallest of the arches is 127 feet (38.75 meters). A marvelous architectural accomplishment by the Franciscan friar, and not a Unesco Heritage Site. This title is a fine tribute to Tembleque's hydraulic system, finely printed and illustrated. .

Guadalajara: Taller Gráfica de Comala, 2017. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by the author. ALso 20839. 8vo. 17pp. Finely printed on handmade paper, with original engravings. Covers of yellow paper over boards, letterpress printed in black on the spine and upper board and with a vignette of a cat in red on the upper board. Ribbon marker. One of 35 copies signed by the author/illustrator/printer/papermaker. A fine copy of a nicely produced, tactile artist book by Nacho. This is the story, beautifully printed and illustrated, of the faithful cat who daily caught quail or rabbit for 17 years, bringing the catch to Father Tembleque while he finished the aqueduct in 16th century Mexico. In Spanish. .

Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1819. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo. 4 volumes, accompanied by the Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Miguel Navarrette for a total of 5 volumes. 175, xxiv, 359; [iv], 410; xxii, 406; vi, [blank], 403pp. and 643, [1] pp. The four volumes of Don Quijote are illustrated with copper plates and a folding copper-engraved map, handcolored; the Vida is illustrated with a copper portrait, one facsimile page of the manuscript, and two engraved family tree charts. Magnificently and uniformly bound by the Spanish master binder Antolin Palomino Alalla in full crimson morocco. The spines are in six compartments with raised bands, intricately tooled in gilt. The boards with gilt rolls on the borders and central designs of gilt arabesques. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. The binding is sumptuous and the tooling is razor sharp. Fine copies in a cloth slipcase. Palomino Olalla (1909-95) was one of the great Spanish binders of the 20th century. A… Read More

St. Petersburg: Nikodim Press, 2021. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. OBlong folio, 7 by 19 inches. Thick boards with an illustration of Marushka on the upper board; cloth spine; string ties. Finely printed by Ukrainian-born Dmitry Sayenko on paper he made for this title, and with his illustrations in color taken directly from the blocks. A fine copy, one of 16 numbered copies signed by the illustrator and translator; this is copy No. 3. In the publisher's slipcase The two poems are from Brodsky's early works. The first, from 1962, tells of a circus elephant who is frightened to death by a mouse and needs his friend, Marushka the cat, to capture the mouse and save him. The second poem, from 1857, tells of a poor old lonely cat, unloved. Brodsky's original Russian is printed along with a new translation by James J. Owens, made for this edition, and which captures the meter and rhyme of Brodsky's original. .

New York: Peter H. Beard / International Center for Photography, 1977. Hardcover. Very good. Square 4to. First printing of this special edition commemorating the exhibition at the I.C.P., New York City, November / December 1977. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photograph , drawings, and maps; 256 pp. 1 vols. Gray cloth blocked in blind on the boards. Pictorial endpapers. The fugitive cloth color is faded on the spine and unevenly sunned on the boards. Signed in orange crayon on the reverse of the front endpaper by Beard. The title states this is a pictorial documentation of the origins, history and prospects on the big game in Africa, with early histories in Kenya, Tanhanyika, Uganda, Ethopioa, et al., and the Patterson diary on the Man-Eaters of Tsavo. Illustrated with "upwards of 300 photoengravings and stonetone plates." This special edition is a revision and updating of the 1965 Viking Press edition. Laid-in is an auction announcement from the 1977 show. .

New York: Peter H. Beard / International Center for Photography, 1977. Hardcover. Very good. Square 4to. First printing of this special edition commemorating the exhibition at the I.C.P., New York City, November / December 1977. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photograph , drawings, and maps; 256 pp. 1 vols. Gray cloth blocked in blind on the boards. Pictorial endpapers. The cloth is lightly sunned on the spine and board edges, not nearly as a much as normal for this title. Signed in orange crayon on the reverse of the front endpaper by Beard. The title states this is a pictorial documentation of the origins, history and prospects on the big game in Africa, with early histories in Kenya, Tanhanyika, Uganda, Ethopioa, et al., and the Patterson diary on the Man-Eaters of Tsavo. Illustrated with "upwards of 300 photoengravings and stonetone plates." This special edition is a revision and updating of the 1965 Viking Press edition. Laid-in is an auction announcement from the… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,pp. Two works bound in one Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind with gilt lines; the upper board blocked in gilt with a prize notice with leaf borders: "Praemium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter Dediti in Academia Glasguensi". Marbled endpapers. Only a trace of wear else a very good copy.

London: Smith, Elder, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original marbled cloth, gilt. With erratum page and 3pp. of ads. Light corner wear; a very good copy in original binding. Boookplate of Vivian Henderson on front pastedown.

London: J. B. Brown, etc., 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,82pp. followed by 3pp Appendix. Later bound to style with tan paper spine, printed paper label, drab gray paper over boards. Half title soiled else a fine copy. The supposed voyage of Madoc, or Madog, was very popular in Elizabethan times as an assertion of prior discovery, and therefore legal possession, of America by England. .

Irongate, Derby: J. Drewry, 1790. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. 16pp. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Self wrappers. Likely the first edition. Uncut and unbound: A single sheet printed on both sides, folded for binding, but never cut or bound. Rare in this condition. Osborne ascribed a date of c. 1790, a similar book under the same title was printed in the United States by Isaiah Thomas, 1794 (Welch, #173). Osborne. p. 3. In fine condition with only a trace of aging. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.

Cork: George Purcell, 1844. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (vi),(2),122pp. Three woodcut plates. Half blue morocco, gilt spine title, blue cloth sides. T.e.g. Original pink printed wrappers bound in (a little soiled). An interesting expanded essay from the 40pp first edition of 1824, on how to steer a balloon (including perhaps tethered falcons!) There is also a discussion on the design and use of parachutes. Cloth on upper board is rubbed else this is a fine copy.