Search Results: Titles starting with E from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1943] Octavo. Cloth. A little fading at head of spine. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

New York: Scribners, [1978] First U.S. ed. Boards. Small quarto. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Random House, [2006] First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Dust jacket has Dutton's Beverly Hills bookshop sticker. Copyright page states "FIRST U.S. EDITION" and has "1" on the number sequence. SIGNED by Carlos Fuentes on the title page at Dutton's in Beverly Hills.

Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, October 1904 First editions. Bound with: Gibson, Strickland. Early Oxford Bindings. Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, January 1903. Quarto. [6], 69 pp. Numerous collotype binding plates. Also bound with: Steele, Robert. The Earliest English Music Printing: A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, 1903. Quarto. xi, [1], 102 pp. Numerous facsimiles of music printing. Quarto. Numerous collotype plates of bindings. The three works bound together in full linen buckram, gilt spine. Rubberstamp on front pastedown. A very good copy.

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, December 1903 Quarter linen over light brown paper boards, spine stamped in black, top edge gilt. Quarto. Numerous facsimiles. A very good copy. With the bookplate of William P. Wreden, the Palo Alto bookseller.

Cleveland: World Publishing, [1952] First edition. Clooth. Octavo. Color frontispiece, black and white text illustrations Bookplate removed. Very good in very good d.j. Spine of d.j. a little browned.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Offsetting to front endpapers from an old insert. A very good copy.

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1964 First edition. Decorated paper boards over linen spine with paper label. Octavo. Fine condition.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1877 Cloth. Small octavo. Joints lightly cracked, but cords very sound. A very good, bright copy.

London: Grafton & Co., Coptic House, 1926 First edition. One of 500 copies. Rust-colored cloth boards with ecru cloth backstrip, gilt spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Attractive bookplate of calligrapher, illustrator and author Fridolf Johnson (1905-1988). Quarto. Colored frontispiece, 247 facsimiles, index. A very good copy.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1897 First edition. One of 350 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. Quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Large octavo. Light foxing to edges and first and last few leaves. Top corners bumped, but a very good, attractive copy. Bookplate of Arnold Yates.

New York: Charles Reznikoff, [1936] First edition, printed in a few hundred copies. Slate blue cloth with printed paper spine label. Octavo. Slight fading at top of spine, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. Completely unopened.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [1974] First edition. Wrappers. Quarto. An illustrated catalogue of fifty items. Fine. Printed at the Stinehour Press.

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939 (for 1936) Quarter natural linen over light brown paper boards. Front cover and spine stamped in black, top edge gilt. . Quarto. Corners lightly worn., former owner's ink signature and attractive bookplate. A very good, clean copy.

London: Faber and Faber, [1963] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Philadelphia: Published by Kimber & Conrad, 1811 Second American edition. A scientific work for young people that explores central forces and the center of gravity, mechanical powers, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, astronomy, electricity, etc. It also contains a question-and-answer section and a glossary. The first London edition was published in 1807 and the first American edition was published in Philadelphia (1809); both editions are scarce. Contemporary tree calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, spine ruled in gilt. . Twelvemo. Engraved frontispiece and nine engravings depicting the book's experiments, including a folding plate that illustrates the phases of the moon. Leaves slightly browned, light foxing, a bit of offsetting from engravings. Small tears to upper corner and outer margin of frontispiece and 2" closed tear, touching frontispiece image, but with no loss. Contemporary ink inscription on recto of preliminary blank. A good copy of a fragile work. Sir Richard… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson.. 1800 The seventh edition, "with considerable additions and improvements; particularly an abridgment of natural history, with upwards of twenty new cuts…" (p. iii). The first edition was published in 1783. The "additions and improvements" mentioned on the title-page of this work first appeared in the third edition (1791), followed by minor adjustments in subsequent editions. Per OCLC, the claim that the work is illustrated with "upwards of twenty new cuts" began with the fourth edition of 1792 (ESTC does not note this). An advertisement that appears after the Preface in this edition claims that revisions and improvements have been made to the following sections: "The Articles of Physics, (particularly on Volcanoes) Cosmography, Geography, and History," which might be proven via "very slight comparison." The fifth and sixth editions also contain an identical advertisement. All editions are scarce. Original sprinkled sheep, gilt-ruled spine, edges sprinkled blue.… Read More

[Oakland, California:] Jane Eayre Fryer, 1913.] First edition. This edition, with no publisher named on the title-page, is scarce, with only five copies recorded on OCLC (only four in the United States). Later published by the John C. Winston Co. under the title The Mary Frances Sewing Book; or, Adventures Among the Thimble People. Publisher's pictorial mustard cloth with color-printed paper onlay of a girl sewing. Quarto. With color frontispiece and ten folding color plates, each preserving a paper pattern for an item of doll's clothing. Also, illustrated in color on every page with hundreds of text figures and many full-page illustrations. With ten additional patterns printed on glossy paper laid in. Slight soiling to cloth. Clean throughout aside from some minor toning. A very good copy. Jane Eayre Fryer (1876 - ?) was a prolific children's book author. Her Mary Frances series of books comprised over a dozen titles, including The Mary Frances Cook Book, or, Adventures Among the Kitchen People… Read More

Norwood Park, Ill.: Published by the Author, [n.d., 1910] First edition of this collection of five stories depicting working class and rural life ("An Easy Wheel," "The Juggernaut's Prey," "Blind Tekla's Story," "Nero, a Tale of a Dog," and "An Eviction"). The story "An Easy Wheel" was first published in Wayland's Monthly in 1900. Publisher's brown paper wrappers with portrait of the author. . 5 x 8 in. . Some creasing and dustsoiling to wrappers. Two faint contemporary pencil ownership signatures (Bessie Dashnia?) to back cover. Clean throughout. A very good copy of a scarce work. Gertrude Breslau Hunt (1869 – 1952) was a suffragist, socialist organizer, and one of the leading writers for the Socialist Party of America. She was writing for socialist publications by 1902 and rose to prominence as a national leader in the Socialist Party by 1907, even serving as a delegate from Pennsylvania at the 1912 Convention of the Socialist Party of America. Hunt was also instrumental in freeing Fred Merrick,… Read More

[ Berlin:] Ernst & Sohn, [1992] Cloth. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has 1" tear.