Search Results: Titles starting with E from Neil Pearson Rare Books

New York: Henry Holt, 1927. 8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine. Spine darkened and a little worn and bumped at ends. A very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Dicky, for not having been absent or tardy once during 1930, Bob Benchley. Oct 21 1930.' With a very shaky ?ownership signature, possibly of the recipient, whose forename was Richard but whose surname is illegible. A collection of essays from the humorist, columnist, actor, and pre-eminent New Yorker contributor of his day. Very scarce inscribed.

Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1940. 8vo, pp. 284. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Small owner's label to front pastedown. Lacking the dustwrapper. Sunning to spine and spine edge of front panel, offsetting to endpapers, but a very good, tight copy. First Canadian edition, published in the same year as its UK counterpart.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940. 8vo, pp. 312. Original light green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, small ownership name to ffep., otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with some wear to spine ends, closed tear to rear panel near head of spine, and some light edgewear. First US edition. A different collection of stories from those in the UK edition, many of which had previously appeared in Lord Emsworth And Others [Herbert Jenkins, 1937]. McIlvaine A62b

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. 8vo, pp. 284, 4 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just the lightest of wear to corners and head of spine. First edition. A wonderful collection of short stories featuring Ukridge, Mr. Mulliner, and Bingo Little -- a different roster of stories featured in the US edition of this title, published a month later -- and here presented in a beautifully preserved copy. McIlvaine A62a

London: Transgravity, 1972. 8vo, pp. 4. Original white stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels. Wrappers a little dulled and edgeworn, but a well preserved copy. First edition. An early collection from the Greek-born, British-based novelist, poet and translator.

New York: Grove Press, 1979. 8vo, pp. 62. Original tan boards, lettered in red on spine. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little fading to spine and with just a couple of scuffs to lower edge. First edition of the Tony award-winning play. (David Lynch's film, starring John Hurt, was based not on this play, but on Frederick Treves' writings about John Merrick). A very nice copy.

Paris: Edition de L'Etoile, 1954. Octavo, pp. 137. Original grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in blue on front panel and spine. Some edgewear to (outsize) wrappers, mild sunning to porion of rear panel, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. First edition. A second edition of this title, published later in the 1950s and with the author given as 'Suzette Aldo', was prosecuted by the French authorities. A lovely copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. 8vo, pp. 255. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Endpapers patterned with Inner Sanctum device. Top edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little age-toning. First edition. A collection of three short 87th Precinct titles -- The Empty Hours, 'J' and Storm -- and a very well preserved example. HUBIN, p. 265

New York: Vanguard Press, 1947. 8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Slightly cocked, a little foxing to edges of text bloc, a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little foxing and browning to rear panel, and with wear to spine ends. First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford. Slide 49 Slide 49

London: T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1806. 8vo, pp. 448. Contemporary gilt tooled polished calf, title and decoration in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Spine rebacked and dulled, contemporary bookplate to front pastedown. A very well preserved copy. Seventh edition. Gisborne's book was first published in 1797 -- the year Mary Wollstonecroft died, and five years after the publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. An Enquiry Into the Duties of the Female Sex went through eight corrected editions in the ten years following its publication, and was a significant contribution to the public conversation of the time. Gisborne [1758-1846] was an Anglican priest, and his advice to women was coloured accordingly -- their subordination to men was innate and God-given, for example. But he was no hypocrite. His An Enquiry Into the Duties of Men had appeared three years earlier and, as a central member of the abolitionist Clapham Sect, he knew and preached that slavery was incompatible with biblical… Read More

N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1976. 34 mimeographed pp., secured with pin to top left. Small, unobtrusive closed tear to title page, which bears the words 'Recording Engineer' written in pencil to top right. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners, but a better than very good copy. First edition of the script for Series Two, Episode Five of The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show, first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 3 October 1976. Morecambe and Wise made thirty series for television over twenty-two years, and many are still rerun today. Less well known is their radio work. They made three different shows for radio, among them four series of The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1975 and 1978. This episode featured guest stars Nicola Pagett and Elaine Delmar, and was written by the boys' lead writer, Eddie Braben. This copy, though unmarked inside, seem to have been issued to the show's recording engineer by production staff, who have so marked the script at the… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. 8vo. pp. 243. Original russet boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners very slightly bumped, but a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little sunned at spine. 27 illustrations accompanying text. First edition. MALCOLM BRADBURY'S REVIEW COPY, WITH HIS SIGNED BOOKPLATE TO FFEP. With the original review slip laid in, dated 19.4.72. Bradbury's bookplate is dated '1971', which suggests he must have placed it in the book some time after his receipt of it. This US edition of the book, the true first, was sent to him on 19 April 1972, in time for his review to appear in time for the publication of the UK edition on 27 April that year. A very nice copy.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. 8vo, pp. 315, 5pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some scuffing to front panel and a little wear to spine ends. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition of the same year. One of four novels Oppenheim dictated to his secretary in 1939 -- and one of one hundred and fifty he produced across his career. This one, set squarely in his preferred milieu of international intrigue, concerns an attempt by one man to overthrow the Russian government. HUBIN, p.313

Philadelphia: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1921. 8vo, pp. 355. Original dark blue boards, lettered in light blie to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. 1921 gift inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a little loss to head of spine. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition of the same year. The author's second novel (of only three), in the scarce dust jacket. HUBIN, p. 255