Search Results: Titles starting with E from Uncommon Works

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A fine first American edition in a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Brown embossed cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Half-title shows a binder's error where page was left partially uncut and folded in. Binding is strong and square on this large and heavy volume. Full page sepia plates of the artists' work throughout. Dust jacket shows a small stain to back cover and mildest of shelf wear. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 363 pp. plus index, i-viii. Quarto, 10 x 11 inches tall. Shipping may be extra on this large and heavy volume. In 1843 painter David Octavius Hill joined engineer Robert Adamson to form Scotland's first photographic studio. During their brief partnership that ended with Adamson's untimely death, Hill & Adamson produced "the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography."… Read More

New York: The Torch Press, 1910. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus signed edition, warmly inscribed on laid in sheet pasted to front hinge. Also laid in is a typed letter from the author dated December 25th, 1910. Red cloth boards, deckled fore edge. One rubbed corner, lower rear. 177 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps. Octavo. Kentucky History To 1792 (Johnson County)

New York: American Tract Society, 1867. Twentieth. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus, hardcover twentieth edition. Burgundy cloth, embossed boards with some shelf wear. Gilt spine titling. Pencilled location on first free endpaper. Duodecimo 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. A fine Book of the Month Club hardcover edition of a classic work. Missing dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold spine lettering. Bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket's rear flap laid in on rear pastedown. 224 pp. Octavo. Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention apart from the great men it produced," writes Hamilton, "for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things, but a blueprint of what may happen again." With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great...

Portland: Geneva Hale Quigley, ca. 1971. First edition. Leatherette. Near Fine/good +. Near fine first edition. Signed by Quigley with the words "1st Edition," along with gift inscription on first free endpaper. Near fine copy showing minor edge toning. Publisher's morocco-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows 1971 sale advertisement. DJ has two closed tears on front (2-3") and minor tear on the back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Numerous illustrations of the artist's work, many in color. 168 pp. Large quarto.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, with Rinehart colophon present, in a very good dust jacket. Navy blue boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy and square. pages and pastedown show mild toning, otherwise fine. Loss at crown of dust jacket and edgewear. 343 pp., including index. Octavo. Wells Drury, pioneer newspaperman and member of the Nevada House of Representatives, was born September 16, 1851 in New Boston, Illinois. Orphaned while crossing the Oregon Trail in 1852, he was adopted and brought up in Oregon on a Indian reservation on Puget Sound. Drury arrived in San Francisco in 1873. Successful investments in mining concerns in the Comstock in Nevada convinced him to move to Virginia City, where he became one of the editors of the Virginia City Chronicle, the Territorial Enterprise, the Gold Hill News, and the Bodie Daily Miner. As a reporter in the Comstock, Drury knew Mark… Read More

Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A very good first edition in its original, very good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with silver title stamping. Front cover shows a very light, nearly imperceptible dampstain. Binding is sturdy and square. Toning to page edges, with toning and spotting on endpapers. Previous owner's named stamped on first free endpaper. Dust jacket has a moderate amount of creases and chips at top and bottom edges, and heavy spotting on rear flap. 226 pp. including index. Royal octavo, 7 x 10 1/4 inches tall. After establishing himself as an academic historian, Arthur Eugene Bestor Jr. achieved national renown during the 1950s as a critic of Progressive education. Bestor won notoriety, however, not for his serious scholarship, but for his popular criticism of Progressive education. The teacher shortage that followed World War II resulted in an increase of enrollments in education courses and a corresponding decrease… Read More

New York: Chartwell Books, 2013. Later printing. Pictorial boards. Near fine/near fine. Edward S. Curtis. A near fine later printing. Top right corner bumped. 256 pp. including index. Folio, 14 x 10 inches tall.

Chicago: Markus-Campbell, 1939. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Later printing (1939). Complete in six volumes. Embossed red cloth hardcover. Heavy wear to edges and head/tail of spines. Vol. 5 has pencil markings on top edge. Pp. 33-34 of volume 5 is torn away and facsimiles of pages have been loosely laid in. Toning throughout. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Duodecimo. 142 pp. Absolutely everything one would need to know about public speaking, right down to how to point properly with the hand.

New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/poor. A very good plus first edition with a remnant of the rear flap of the dust jacket included. Several unopened pages at back of book Brown embossed cloth with cameo. Paper label on spine. Beige endpapers with previous owner's name and the year 1927 on first free endpaper. 1926 on title page and copyright page. Beautiful capital decorations and orange and black printing throughout. Deckled page edges with grey topstain and some dust soiling on edges. Black and orange title page with pasted frontis portrait of Hubbard as originally issued. Binding is a bit soft, but square and well-sewn. 553 pp. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

New York: Appleton and Company, 1885, 1888. Later printings. Hardcover. Very good/none as issued. Mixed set with continuous pagination in publishers original brown cloth. In 2 volumes. Vol. I: xii, [5] -602, [i]-iii, [3] pages. Vol. 2: viii, [603] -1120, [9-tables] , [I-blank], [i]-ii pages . 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth with uniform spine designs but different decorations in blind. With several old institutional stamps on the title page and the Dibner Institute stamp on the front pastedown endpapers (properly withdrawn). Wear and bumping to the corners. Wear to head and tail of both spines. Binding sound with one signature a bit proud in volume 1. Both volumes are copyrighted 1884, but Vol. l (a gift of Bern Dibner) is the 7th edition dated 1888 and Vol. 2 (a gift of IBM) is the sixth edition dated 1885. Ad for Prescott’s latest works in back matter, including “Bell’s Electric Speaking Telephone.” Very Good. See Sterling and Shiers History of… Read More

Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1921. Hardcover. Very good. A very good 1921 edition. Green cloth boards with some spotting or fading, especially to back cover. Map end papers. Previous owner's information in pencil on front pastedown. School stamp on first free endpaper. Card pocket and pencilled marginalia on rear pastedown and last free endpaper. Illustrated with b/w plates of French landmarks. Binding is sturdy and square. Ex-library with no other markings. 342 pp. including index and appendix. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall. All proceeds from this sale go to The Shalom Free Clinic, providing healthcare services to the uninsured and underinsured in Chico, California.

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Very scarce, very near fine first American edition of a classic medical work still in print in revised editions. Bookplate & previous owner's 1884 inscription on first free endpaper. Red boards and red painted edges. 4 & 1/4 x 6 & 1/2 inches tall. 584 pp. incl. index. Elements of Surgical Diagnosis. By A. PEARCE Gould, M. S., M. B. Lond., F. R. C. S. Eng., Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, etc. Pp. 584. London: Cassell & Company. 1884. A work on surgical diagnosis is of the same use to the clinical student as demonstrations of anat omy are to the anatomical. Systematic text-books are excellent in their way, but for the beginner they are too descriptive and not sufficiently di rective. Mr. Gould has supplied a guide to diagnosis which is sure to be immensely popular with students, for in addition to the careful arrange ment and skilful comparison of facts,… Read More

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Very good first edition. Dumbarton Oaks: "Trustees for Harvard University." Green cloth boards with foil titling on spine. Cream endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages and covers clean and bright. Book is very mildly cocked. Illustrated with black and white photos, graphs, maps, and drawings. 203 pp. Octavo, 8 x 10 1/2 inches tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition. Brown paper over burgundy quarter cloth boards with black title on cover and title on paper label on spine. Previoous owner's name on front pastedow is only flaw. xvi, [1], 111, [1] pages, 1 leaf The verses here collected "need no bush" They evidence what they are the reflections, now playful, now serious, of typical American youth upon the surroundings of life on the French Front. They were written by two members of one of the many volunteer ambulance sections of the American Field Service, who came to this organization from Leland Stanford University and who served in and with the French Army long before American troops were operating in France. Subsequently the sections of the American Field Service were adopted by the American Army, though left to serve with the French divisions, and the authors of these verses, along with many hundred other former volunteers, were… Read More

New York: Academic Press, 1967. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near fine/missing. A near fine second printing. Black cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Previous owner's bookstamp on first free endpaper. 108 pp., Octavo. A science classic still in print."Energy Changes in Biochemical Reactions considers the basic principles and techniques of energetic in biochemical reactions. This book is composed of eight chapters that emphasize the statistical thermodynamics of these reactions. The first two chapters discuss the concept of energy and entropy using the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics, respectively. These topics are followed by a discussion on the fundamentals, calculation, and dependence on concentration of chemical potential. A chapter presents the experimental determination of group transfer potential. Another chapter focuses on the power of thermodynamic methods in the analysis of physicochemical behavior. The final chapter looks into the fundamentals of statistical… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1885. First Thus. Pictorial boards. Good +/missing. Kate Greenaway. A good plus first thus, wil lovely sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Buff paper covered boards illustrated in red and black on upper and lower cover, lettered black and red, Spine peeled. Bumps and rubbing to lower corners.Top edge speckled red. Red endpapers. Peniclled initials on front pastedown. Text clean and bright. 108 pages, Frontispiece, 41 pp.26 decorative initials printed sepia, sepia drawings,, text printed black. Some separation of binding at page 24. A very good copy. Schuster 71,1a. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.

Paris: Chez Vincent, 1790. First Revised Edition. Full leather. Very good/none as issued. A very good 1790 revised edition. In full calfskin, with a crack in front gutter, one rubbed and one broken corner. Brown marbled papers. Ribbon marker. Library stamp on title page. Title page badly wrinkled. Fold out world map, badly creased. 384 pp. 16mo.

New York: Scribner, 2002. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Mark Stutzman. A fine book club edition in a fine dust jacket. Black paper boards. White endpapers. "0302" appears below the barcode on the back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 459 pp. Octavo. This volume is a collection of 14 short stories written by Stephen King. These tales that include the much-touted Internet-download phenomenon, "Riding the Bullet"; "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a Dark Tower prequel; the novella-length title story; and "L.T's Theory of Pets," King's personal favorite within the group, which was previously available only in audio. Not only do the action-based plots and engaging narratives hold up well within the realm of King's work, but tales like the 1996 O. Henry Award-winning Nathaniel Hawthorne homage, "The Man in the Black Suit," show us King at his literary best. An added bonus for fans is King's… Read More

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound wraps. Near fine. Near fine original papers from the University of Utah Department of Anthropology. Stapled cream wraps with black quarter cloth tape over binding. Tape pulled away at base edge of spine about 1/4 inch. Minor penciled marginalia on last page. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Heavily illustrated with photos, maps, charts, graphs and drawings. 224 pp. Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall. A report of archaeological excavations at Mancos Canyon, Colorado, a Pueblo Indian site.