Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bygone Books

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955. Soft cover. VG+. Wraps, unpaginated pamphlet, 28 illustrations. VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear.

NY: Robert M. McBride, 1926. Hardcover. G+. 1st edition? [same date], 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, illustrated endpapers, 365 pages, b/w photographs, text illustrations. GOOD+ / no jacket: edgewear to spine extremities and corners with small tears, gilt on spine and front cover is rubbed and dulled, internally clean and tight with only a bookstore notation on first blank page.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1950. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Reprint edition [BOMC, originally published 1950, copyright renewed 1978], 427 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliiography. VERY GOOD+ book in a VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has faint spotting to top page edge; jacket has a small open tear on rear panel - appears unread, just this minor shelfwear. Eleanor of Aquitaine [1122? - 1204] "was the very center of of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century - she was the Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and later married Henry Plantagenet who became Henry II of England." [from the jacket]

London: George G. Harrap. Soft cover. VG-. Frederick Hollyer.. No publication date but circa early 1900s, 48mo, full red suede limp covers with gilt titles on cover and spine, decorative paper endpapers, decorative page headings, top edge gilt, 64 pages, frontispiece is a photograph by Frederick Hollyer titled "Hope". Condition: VERY GOOD- : light edgewear to suede covers, a small chip out of bottom corner, faint soiling, front endpapers are separating at the hinge but book is tight, pages are clean. One of the Sesame Booklets, this is number 37 [stated at end of text]; there is a page of the front matter listing numbers 49 - 50. Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933) was a noted celebrity photographer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; he also made photographic reproductions of paintings. The frontispiece in this miniature book is a photograph of George Frederic Watts' most famous and influential painting "Hope.

NY: Coward-McCann, 1959. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st American edition [stated] [but has "Book of the Month Club Selection" on the jacket - price is present and no publisher slug], 8vo, green cloth, 336 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear. A very nice copy.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0-394-54418-8. 1st edition [stated], 8vo, gray boards, 638 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: faint spotting to top page edge, jacket is price-clipped.

Norhthampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1930. Limited . Soft cover. VG. Limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo, green paper wraps stapled pamphlet with silver paper label, 36 pages. VERY GOOD: light edgewear and light soiling to paper covers; back cover has pulled away from the 2 staples only. Includes the essay by Elizabeth McCausland: "Emily Dickinson born one hundred years ago.

Cincinnati: Truman & Spofford. Soft cover. Collectible; VG. 16mo, stitched pamphlet, 24 pages, illustrated cover, title page and full-page engravings. Condition: VERY GOOD with some light soiling to paper covers and edges, a tiny blue ink stain in lower margin that stains through several pages - does not affect the text which is clean throughout. The illustrations are charming. This title was first published by William Truman in 1844; after his death his wife merged the firm to become Truman & Spofford; these Truman & Spofford Toy Books were published between 1849 and 1858, so this title, having no date nor William Truman's name would have been published sometime in that time frame. [Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints 5493].

NY: Dover Publications, 1972. Soft cover. VG+. 2 volumes, the Dover reprint edition, first published in 1972, an unabridged republication of the second edition (1887) of the work originally published by A.W. Cowan, London in 1882 under the title "The Dictionary of Needlwork: An Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlwork." 4to, stiff wraps, 697 pages (in 2 volumes), b/w illustrations throughout with color illustrated endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : light edgewear to covers, a crease to top corner of vol. II, owner label inside front cover of vol. II. A nice copy of this set.

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1972. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. VG+. Reprint edition, first published in The Anchor Books edition in 1963. 8vo, salmon cloth, 339 pages. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to corners, spine lightly sunned, otherwise appears unread. These stories, selected by Randall Jarrell with an introduction, include 14 of the short works that Kipling, most noted for his works set in India, wrote about the English in England. Included is his famous story "The Janeites" about a group of war-weary men who come to admire the works of Jane Austen... indeed it is this story that gave the real Janeites their name (though it was George Sainstbury who first coined the term, though he spelled it "Janites").

NY: W W Norton, 1988. Soft cover. VG+. 0393955478 7th paperback printing, 8vo, 447 pages, bibliographical notes, index. VERY GOOD+: the slightest of edgewear, nearly new.

Jane Austen Society of North America, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Published by the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) for their Annual General Meeting held in Winchester, England, October 2003. 8vo, illustrated paper wraps, 18 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE, with no visible wear, appears unread. A terrific guide to the sites in Chawton and Steventon where Jane Austen lived, worshiped, and wrote.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1906. Hardcover. VG. ...Good manners for all people, especially for those 'who dwell within the broad range of the average'." A later printing (originally published in 1892), 24mo, green cloth with white lettering and black decoration, 203 pages. VERY GOOD condition with light rubbing to spine head and tail, spine lettering is lightly faded, internally clean and tight...a very nice copy.

NY: Macmillan, 1902. Hardcover. VG. 2nd printing, 12mo, navy cloth, 235 pages, [2] pages pub adverts. VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, a few faint cover spots.

NY: Old Print Shop/ Harry Shaw Newman, [1957]., 1957. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo, [8p.]. Stapled pamphlet wraps. Includes listing of items with one illus only on title page. VERY GOOD+: lite soiling at edge.