Search Results: Titles starting with S from EGR books

First edition, second printing. BAL 10644. lacking the nail-head in gutter. Fly-title present. 8vo., original tan cloth. Spine very slightly faded and a few small areas of discoloration/fading to cloth. Small black dot to front board. Owner's inscription on half title and a couple of spots to front endpaper. Otherwise a fresh copy. VG Condition in acetate cover.

Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with the with light edge wear to slipcase. Hardcover spine has darkened some. Bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #418 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly letter laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+ in mylar cover. No dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Bound In red paper-covered boards with a Gray cloth spine, black topstain. First published In 1931, it was a commercial and critical breakthrough for Faulkner. The book has light soiling to the spine and edgewear to the tips. Internally clean boards and pages throughout. Slight spine lean

Hardcover First US Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Baumer, Lewis (illustrator). 300 12 pages of ads. Pictorial green cloth with pictorial sea wave, shell and lobster design. First edition, first printing with code"(1)" on page 300. Tight binding, internally clean and bright. Old ownership signature to the front pastedown, along with a few other pencil markings.. Some edge wear to spine, boards, and tips. The front and rear boards have white spots. Textblock edges have tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, first printing. Clean interior. Some crinkling to dust jacket spine head. Unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the Booker Prize.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition and presumed second issue with the words "Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page. Publishing date 1904 on title page and copyright notices 1903 and 1904 on copyright page. Pictorial blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; 8vo; pp. [6], 366, [3] (ads), plus frontispiece and 5 plates. Light spotting to spine. Light wear to tips; Small, contemporary ownership signature on FFEP. Half-inch closed tear near gutter on page vii (List of Illustrations)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 241 pp. + 12 pp. ads. at rear. Translated by Frank Millet. Introduction by W.D. Howells. Wear to extremities. Soiling to front and rear boards. Spotting to bottom text block edges. Interior is clean. Binding is tight and sound.

Hardcover Condition: VG+/Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. First Edition. Macmillan, New York, 1922. 8vo. First printing May, 1922. Some fading to spine. Some crinkling to head and foot of spine. Clean interior. Some dust soiling to top of text block Square and sound binding. Clean interior.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+/Near Fine. Two volumes. 8vo. Full calf. Gilt dentelles to spine and perimeter of boards Bound by Hering (1794-1844). Marbled text block edges. Beautiful marbled endpapers. Binding is tight and square. Calf is lightly rubbed in a few places. Missing some of the spine labels. The missing title label is inserted in the book. It can be used as a template to replace the missing "Vol. I" and "Vol II" labels. Interior pages are clean with some light spotting to endpapers. Includes Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole House of Women, The Defence of Women, The Proude Wyues Pater Noster, The Wife Lapped in Morels Skin, and a Glossary. A beautiful set. In 1794 Charles Ernst Christian Hering, a German immigrant set up a business as a master bookbinder in St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square and soon built up a reputation for fine craftsmanship through the accuracy and elegance of his work. By the time of his death in… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Bound by Whitman Bennett (NY) in 3/4 extra tooled red turkey morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Printed on hand-made paper. Raised bands and gilt design on spine. Some rubbing to hinges, edges, and tips. Light, foxing to endpapers, fly leafs, copyright page. Paper clip rust stain on flyleaf. Paper clip had been holding a 3 X 5 card with a book description from the Stewart Kidd Department of Old and Rare Books in Cincinnati, OH. Interior pages are clean. 10 full page black and white engraved plates by Harry Clarke.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 229 pp. Bound in 3/4 calf with gilt tooled spine and raised band. Marbled textblock edges, matching the boards and endpapers. Two front flyleaves have a very light water stain line at the bottom. Light rubbing/wear to extremities. . Clean interior. Binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing stated. A Fine book in a Near Fine/Fine. The third novel by the author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. Hardcover has light dust soiling to front cover. Binding is square and sound. Clean interior. Dust jacket has slight edgewear The green front panel is a bit faded. Unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 price. Mylar covered dust jacket.

Copy of the the original playbill of the first performance of "Seven Keys to Baldpate." The play premiered on Broadway on September 22, 1913 at the Astor Theatre and ran for 320 performances. This 1913-14 play by George Cohan is based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, and later for TV and radio. Bound in full leather. NF condition. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine/As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st Edition. Complete numberline starting with "1." Unclipped dust jacket. No remainder mark. A collector's copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition state, First Printing. (Number line 24689753 indicates first printing of Random House at this time). Signed and inscribed Maya Angelou. Near Fine/Fine hardcover has some light rubbing and wear, light tanning/offsetting to front and rear pastedown, and owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Fine Dust jacket is unclipped, vibrant, and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Two volumes: One of 300 copies (325 printed) made available for sale : Printed at The Alcuin Press in 1929. Private press books. This copy is No. 91. Published by The Richards Press Limited; The Last Poems volume states that it was printed by H.P.R. Finberg at the Alcuin Press, 1929. A Shropshire Lad, 91 pp. and Last Poems, 67 pp. Both have original paper title labels and spare title labels laid in at the rear of each volume. Each volume has some soiling to the boards. Top edge and area of near cloth spine are faded on front board of A Shropshire Lad. Clean interior for each. Printed in red and black. Binding of each is tight and square. Carl J. Weber in the Colby College "Jubilee Edition wrote, "This is certainly the most beautiful piece of press work among all Shropshire editions." Rare when found together in original plain boards with cloth spine.

Hardcover. Very Good+. The Author's Revised Edition. Complete in One Volume. 427 pages. Blue boards with blind stamp design. Gilt decor to spine. a.e.g. Light wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Owner's signature to front pastedown as well as small Lockwood's Book Store sticker. Binding is tight and square.

Stated first printing. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean; binding sound and square; some wear & edge-chipping to DJ, fading to spine's DJ, and a 3/4" closed tear to bottom rear of DJ. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. John Lennon (illustrator). First Edition. First printing with complete number line. Hardcover has light rubbing to spine tips. Dust jacket is not price clipped. T

Scarce. Likely one of just a few published copies of the British edition in existence. Hardcover Near Fine. No DJ. First edition of author's first book. Banned very shortly after publication. Suppressed in England on March 4, 1929. As a result, there is likely only a handful of copies remaining. In fact, the copy in the British Library is one of the 'French' copies published subsequent to the English copies. Sleeveless Errand was ruled obscene at the Bow Street Police Court. All but a few representative copies were ordered to be destroyed. The police had been tipped off about the content by the editor of the Morning Post after they had received a review copy. It was subsequently printed in Paris the same year by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. According to one publication, "Sleeveless Errand was probably the most suppressed novel ever published in England; every store containing copies was raided; and a guard stood for a week-end at the window of one store containing one copy, until the owner could be… Read More