Search Results: Titles starting with E from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Mills College, Oakland: Unpublished, 1891. Richly varied photo album depicting student life at Mills College in Oakland shortly after it was chartered as the first women's college west of the Rockies. Large oblong album (15x11inches) 'Photographs' in gilt to upper, textured cloth covered board. Light wear to edges but the binding remains sound, though some weakening to the cloth covering over the inner hinges. Bookseller label of 'Hirsch, Kahn & Co.... Photo Supplies, 333 Kearny Street - San Francisco' to front pastedown, above a pressed plant laid diagonally across the leaf. 25 card leaves on which are mounted 39 large format photos (c8x5 inches) in rectangular, square and circular formats and 150 smaller format image (c4x3 inches) including one cyanotype on the first leaf, otherwise albumen prints, mostly annotated with places, dates and names. Much finger marking to the textured cloth covering the cardboard pages, a little insect damage to some leaves but images almost entirely unaffected. Almost… Read More

England?: N/A, 1800. Early manuscript copy - apparently English in origin - of a French novel of diabolic seduction that has inspired everyone from Jacques Lacan to Jonny Depp. Small quarto (16.5x20.5cm) bound in (likely) English full sheep, rubbed with some loss close to outer hinges but boards remain well attached. No decoration apart from a gilt roll to the edge of the boards. The paper stock has a Britannia watermark and horizontal chainlines; light green edges to the text block. The manuscript text appears to be copied from the anonymous Neapolitan edition of 1772, without Cazotte's name attached to the text, beginning with the editor's foreword, 'Avis de L'Editeur' [pp] 5 followed by 'Le Diable amoureux nouvelle espagnole, pp 1-90, including the characteristic song and musical notation which appear in this manuscript at pages 49-52. The text of the novel is written in an easily legible cursive hand, set out within a pencilled box and neatly paginated. The combination of an English sheep binding… Read More

Budapest: Robert, Susan and John Balazs, 1998. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp 102 Near fine in pictorial wrappers, small indentations to upper cover. Bilingual Hungarian/English. An attractive volume celebrating the life and work of Hungarian artist Marta Edinger-Balazs, who was best known as the cartoonist EDMA, but as this book shows, was also a sculptor and artist of great sensitivity and humour. Fully illustrated in colour. We have recently acquired the library of Harry Horlock Stringer who was a leading British potter at the old Fulham Pottery in the 1950's where he concentrated on earthenware. Later he moved to Taggs Yard in Barnes, south west London, where he built and ran his own school, welcoming pupils and making friends such as Ginger Rogers from across the world at a time when studio pottery was enjoying newfound popularity. Stringer experimented with his own glazes and firing techniques, and wrote a book on Raku, becoming a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, editing the association's… Read More

London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. In very good condition in grey cloth, spine darkened, slight spine lean and bruise edge of upper cover. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Very Good 1931

Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2010. A fascsimile library of the works of English writer Susanna Hopton (1627-1709). Susanna was born into a wealthy mercantile family, the daughter of Sir Simon Harvey, Clerk of Greencloth in the Royal Household. During the Civil War she collaborated with her husband Richard Hopton, of Canon Frome in Herefordshire, in his activities as a royalist agent. Much of her writing consists of the adaptation of Roman Catholic devotional sources for Anglican use. Two volumes in black cloth with gilt titles, fine, the books appear to be in unread condition. Extra shipping charges may apply to these substantial volumes. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. Fine 2010

London: Geological Society of London, 1953. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol cviii, pp 343-376, plates XIX-XXIV, 1953. In very good condition in lightly soiled printed paper wrappers, the pages are clean, some dog-earing to corners, and complete with large fold out plates. Library stamp of King's College, London on upper cover. Very Good 1953

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1940. 220 x 143 mm. Fair. East Coker [6] pp 7-15 A first edition, second impression from October 1940 of Eliot's wartime masterpiece, subsequently published together with the other three titles as the Four Quartets. In fair condition, the mustard coloured card wrappers are browned, chipped and split along the spine, the binding is secure, foxing throughout the text and occasional pencil marks in the margins but no ownership inscription. The first published of the four poems in this Faber edition, East Coker has become an increasingly hard title to locate in recent years: 'In my beginning is my end...' Please contact Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this book. Fair 1940

Hong Kong: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1970. Soft cover. Fine. A 24 page pamphlet, fine in illustrated card wrappers. Fine 1970

London: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp 332 A collection of 43 essays by playwright Arthur Miller in which he comments on many of the important events of the 20th century including the Nazi war crimes trials, Vietnam and Watergate, but also recounts personal memories such as his boyhood in Brooklyn. Signed by Arthur Miller to the title page. Near fine in blue cloth with silver spine lettering in a very good dust jacket, not price clipped, a little soiling to the lower cover. Near Fine 2000

South Africa: South African Association of Botanists, 1937. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from The Journal of South African Botany, April 1937, pp 51-92. In very good condition in soiled paper wrappers, stamp of Nature magazine to upper cover, a few short tears to edges; well illustrated, complete with fold-out maps and diagrams. Inscribed by the author, George Potts, to upper cover. Very Good 1937

London: Macmillan, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. The 1934 reprint of the first edition by British economist and academic Joan Robinson who contributed to the development and furtherance of Keynesian economic theory. Harold Wilson's Gladstone Prize Book, embossed in gilt with 'Oxoniensis Academia' crest to upper cover. The 'Gladstone Memorial Prize' bookplate appears on the front paste-down with Wilson's ownership signature: 'J H Wilson, Jesus College, 1936'. Bookseller's ticket from Blackwells, Oxford. Hardcovers, very good, clean blue cloth, rubbed to spine ends and corners, spotting and thumb marks to text block edges. Internally crisp and clean, no other marks or inscriptions. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson… Read More

London: University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1961. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. Offprint from Calvin Hoover (Ed.), Economic Systems of the Commonwealth (Duke University Press, 1961), pp 329-373, reprinted for private circulation. In near fine condition in red printed wrappers, unmarked and showing very little sign of use. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of… Read More

London: The Economist, 1989. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp 24 The Economist June 3 1989. In near fine condition. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Near Fine 1989

London: Vernor and Hood; Longman and Rees; J Harris; Darton and Harvey et al, 1803. Excellent. Very Good. [iv] pp 136 A collection of moral precepts by English publisher, poet and playwright Robert Dodsley. The volume is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts within the text by Austin and Hole from designs by Craig. Attractively bound in tooled decorative calf with gilt decoration to spine, marbled end papers, frontispiece portrait of the author. Very good, the leather is rubbed to edges and spine where a one inch piece is lacking; the binding is sound and the pages clean. Very Good 1803

Edinburgh: John Elder, T Brown and C Elliot, 1793. Hardcover. Very Good. Astronomy. A companion volume to the first 'Edinburgh musical miscellany' with engraved music throughout and a mostly manuscript title page where the original was somehow lost. Bound in nineteenth century textured khaki paper over boards with a red morocco spine label this stand alone volume followed on from the success of its predecessor. There is at least one further half page in pen facsimile which replaces a lost passage. There is no sign of a previous owner who might be responsible either for the mutilation or the subequent rather attractive restoration of this volume. Very Good 1793

Leeds: The Leeds University Adult Education Centre, 1979. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp17 [vi] The Raybould Memorial Lecture given by J M Cameron, professor of philosophy at the University of Leeds, with personal tribute to Professor Sidney G Raybould by Sir Henry Hardman. Near fine in blue card wrappers, very lightly marked to the lower cover. This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Near Fine 1979

London: Grant Richards, 1920. Hardcover. Good. Good in blue cloth, crease to rear cover, one corner and rear joint worn, spine tips nicked. Browning to paper stock. One of Mais' early novels by an interesting publisher. Good 1920

London: University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1959. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from Public Administration, Vol xxxvii, Autumn 1959, pp 267-273, reprinted for private circulation. In very good condition in red printed wrappers, a little rubbed and creased, the pages are fresh. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1959

Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp176 A high quality large folio art book showcasing the work of American artists Arthur B Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B Prendergast, Everett Shinn and John Sloan. Near fine in illustrated boards, lower panel scuffed and bumped to one edge. Fully illustrated in colour. Extra shipping charges may apply as this is a heavy volume. Near Fine 2009

Prague - Prag: H Dominicus, 1871. Soft cover. Good. vi, pp 1-346 - lacking rear paper wrapper. A First Edition of Karl Thomas Richter's Volkswirthschaft. The wrappers are worn and the text shows some pencilled underlining. This may be of some interest because the book comes from a large collection of German works recently acquired by Modernfirsteditions from the library of the Behr family, who fled persecution in Kiel to settle in Lancashire. Karl Thomas Richter's daughter Lalla Richter married Max Behr in 1911. Good 1871