Search Results: Titles starting with E from Mac Donnell Rare Books

Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES `ALICE.' [Oxford: for the Author, 1876] Single leaf, folded to four pages, as issued. First edition, first printing, and rare in the correct first printing. Fine copy. Williams & Madan once described the first printing of this little leaflet as "the rarest of the Carroll items excepting the first issue ALICE." When a few more copies came to light, he revised his earlier statement. When examples are found they are usually MacMillan's post-1880 reprints or later printings done for Dodgson. This copy has all the measurements and… Read More

Wharton, Edith. ETHAN FROME. New York: Scribners, 1911. First edition, second printing with broken type at page 135, second binding with top edge not gilt. Original red cloth, gilt. One small smudge to cloth, else a fine copy. The classic story of a love triangle, set in New England.

[Twain, Mark] [Clemens, S. L.] Billings, Josh [Shaw, Henry Wheeler]. EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1874. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Nast. Spine ends and corners frayed, else a very good copy. Includes the first book printing of Twain's letter to Billings making fun of his spelling, at pages 573-75. Billings had published this letter in his `Spice-Box' newspaper column in `The New York Weekly' in July, 1873. Early in his career Twain was influenced by the comic writers known as the "Phunny Phellows" (Billings, Ward, etc.) but soon moved beyond their… Read More

Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY BOOKMARK. [New York: Harper, 1904]. Promotional bookmark issued by Harper to advertise the first edition of the book, with portrait (Sarony, 1884) of Twain, blurb, etc. On verso is an ad for Josephine Daskam's THE MEMOIRS OF A BABY, also published by Harper in 1904. Unrecorded, but we locate three other examples. This is the earliest known advertising bookmark for any of Twain's works. Cf. BAL 3480.