Search Results: Titles starting with E from RC Books

New York: Frederick Unger/Continuum, 1984. First Edition . Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography and scholarly criticism. Light foxing to edges of textblock. Dust-jacket, now protected in a Brodart cover, has rubbing, especially to the still-readable spine. 226 pp.

Oxfrord University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Twenty-three of Poe's best tales with a interesting introduction by Julian Symons. Simulated navy leather or leatherette covered boards. One of the "Oxford Classics." 316 pages. A handsome and scholarly book.

New York: Prometheus Press, 1927. First Edition . Paper Covered Boards. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An unnumbered copy of a numbered, Limited Edition of 1,000 copies printed on Georgian laid paper. Designed and printed for the Prometheus Press by Robert S. Josephy. A brief and unique literary tribute to Poe. 28 pp. Decorative, paper-covered boards. Corners bumped with edgewear. Gilt spine title still bright and readable. Offsetting to rear eps. where something was laid in long ago. Tight, clean copy. No original dj, if it was issued with one. Mylar-type dj cover now protecting the book.

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1966. Paper Wraps. Very Good -. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Good reference for Poe scholars. xii, 159 pp. Cover creased with soiling and old dampstain mark. Scattered underlining & notations throughout - none interfere with reading of the text. A previous owner's name on title page. Tightly bound stapled wraps.

New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. John Bessler. This beautiful book combines Wharton's personal history with her design style. 208 pages, well illustrated with historical photographs and special photography by John Bessler. No names or marks.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1989. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An intimate look at President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his military career to the Presidency, and to retirement. Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" included. 445 indexed pages. Also includes xvii pages of introduction. Genuine leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Some illustrations. Some light wear to gilt page edges. Quite interesting.

Virginia: Virginia: Hollins College, 1965, 1965. First Edition . Paper Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paper Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Literary magazine of Hollins College in Virginia. This issue features Moore's original, in-depth review of James Baldwin's new collection of stories "Going To Meet the Man." Includes two poems from other authors. Nice portrait of Baldwin by Lewis Thompson. This issue also contains a short biography of Baldwin and a quite useful bibliography of his first nine books. 12 pages in all. Uncommon, and a nice addition to any Baldwin collection.

New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc. , 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Highly readable and scholarly narrative of the real First World War. Light shelf wear to book and jacket. 332 pages

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of a daring escape by three men from Japanese-occupied Java in 1942. 166 pages with eight pages of black and white photographs. A few page edges affected by rough opening but not having any effects on information. Unclipped dust jacket, now protected in archival plastic cover, has edge wear, a half-inch chip, and fading and sticker removal mark on spine. Age-toning and some soiling to book and dust jacket, but no names or marks.

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Insightful and scholarly essays by Steven G. Reinhardt, Clarke Garrett, Roderick Phillips, Nancy Fitch, and Donald Sutherland. Introduction by Robert Forster. 130 pages. An immaculate unused copy.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1972. Limited Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition of only 300 copies bound in hard covers of the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XXXIII Spring 1972 No. 3), devoted to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and especially the Library's Rossetti Collection of Janet Camp Troxell. Contributions from Troxell, E. Dudley H. Johnson, Robert N. Keane, Robert S. Fraser, R.W. Crump, Rosalie Glynn Grylls, and Virginia Surtees. 117 pp.(numbered 139-256). Five pp. of illustrations, plus several line cuts from pages in D. G. Rossetti's proofs and trial books. Rich blue cloth with title in silver on spine. Includes a very good glassine dust-jacket and is stored in an archival plastic storage bag.

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1965. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ray Abruzzi. Published as a Christmas greeting by and from Samuel A. Dalton. #444 of a Limited Edition of 1300 copies. Small presentation card from Dalton laid-in. 44 pages. A very handsome book, housed in a Fine slipcase.

Westlake Village, CA: Studio Fine Art, 2005. 1st Edition . Pictorial Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hessam Abrishami. The works of Hessam Abrishami capturing in full color the brilliance of Hessam. 110 numbered pages plus index of paintings, sculptures, and sketches. Frontispiece photo Signed by Hessam.