Search Results: Authors starting with E from Peruse the Stacks

Parlin, NJ: E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc, 1923. Single sheet, 27x12cm, with embossed gilt borders and lettering, printed in blue and black. Small moisture stain to upper corner, few smudges, mounted to brown matting which shows toning. Vintage DuPont specimen page advertising the company's bronze powder used for illumination in modern printing.  The ad mentions the sending of these pages or samples of the powder to commercial printing factories.  We find mention of this ad in two magazines from 1923, The Printing Art, Volume 41, No. 1 and The Inland Printer, vol 71, No. 1.  A scarce and beautiful example of 1920's printing advertising from the chemical giant.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 383pp. Yellow cloth lettered and decorated in brown, top edge stained brown in illustrated jacket by William Gropper. Some smudging to boards else near fine in toned jacket with rubbing to folds and light chipping at spine ends and corners, else nicely preserved. Very good. Methodist minister and author from Texas, Charles W. Ferguson's (1901-1987) first novel, and second book following his The Confusion of Tongues, being a criticism and overview of religious sects.  This satirical novel is a picture of university life at the time, of course including football.  Interestingly, the book pokes fun at the idea of the Chancellor of the school secretly taking care of his athletes financially under pressure from his rich alumni donors.  A very prescient topic.  This book is quite uncommon in a presentable jacket.  .

N.p.: Industrial Credit Company, 1971. Oblong, illustrated paper folder, 21x28cm, housing 4 color prints, 20x27cm each. Prints nearly fine, folder very good with wear and soiling. Portfolio of four watercolors by Seth Eastman (1808-1875) from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Works include: Permanent Residence on the Sioux Indian Graves at the Mouth of the St Peters Fort Snelling Valley of the St Peters 1848.

London: Philip Allan, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, 1928. Good only. Spine is cocked, with some wear to corners and edges of boards and spine ends. Some spotting to back panel. Front pastedown is scuffed and it appears the front free endpaper is missing. Otherwise sound.

New York: Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1963. First edition. 8vo, [15], 220pp., illustrations, list of references sited. White wraps with green and black lettering and design. Very good with some toning and soiling and a few pencil marks throughout. Catalogue from the great Americana dealers, still a standard work on Texana. 950 items described in detail with many photographic illustrations.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing of this classic work from Eco, and signed by him on the half title page. Near fine with some concavity to spine and soiling to bottom edge of text block in like jacket with mild wear. Former owner's name blacked out on ffep, else clean internally.

Tokyo: Kokusuisha, 1917. Folio, 14.5x10.5" approximately 60 plates printed verso only with facing tissue printed with Japanese text and English caption titles. Two plates are in color with the rest black and white. Patterned silk over boards, printed label, a.e.g., original string ties present. Contents clean and nearly fine. Cloth worn away on spine and edges of boards which also show some toning. Fine collection, in folio format, of Ukiyo-e by many masters of the form.  The artists included represent those active from the 16th to the early 19th centuries: Kitao Masayoshi (1781-1824), Kondo Kiyoharu (1711-1747), Nishikawa Suketada (1706-1758), Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764), Matsuno Chikanobu (c. 1705), and many more. .

New York: Didier Publishing Company, 1944. Presumed first American edition. 8vo, 298pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated jacket and adaptation of a William Blake Drawing. Very good, boards slightly bowed and with some bruising to spine ends, clean internally. Jacket very good with toning to rear panel, some rubbing, and a few small chips to edges of front and rear panels and spine ends. Collection of supernatural stories passed down by family and friends and kept in manuscript by the Viscount Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (1881-1959). Originally published in London by Geoffrey Bles in 1936, with a second volume appearing in 1937. The American edition by Didier is uncommon in the jacket.

Los Angeles, CA: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 800 copies. Contributions from Ward Ritchie, Lawrence Clark Powell, and others. Fine condition, spine slightly cocked.

Knightstown, IN: JaaRE, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine softcover, with errata sheet laid in. Signed by the editor, Eder, on title page.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 249pp. Red cloth boards smudged and with dulling to gilt on upper cover and spine. Former owner's embossed monogram to endpapers, remnants of an old sticker to ffep else clean internally and very good. Presented with facsimile jacket wrapped in mylar. Edgar Pangborn's first novel published under the pseudonym of Bruce Harrison and some 20+ years before he began writing science fiction.  Scarce.

Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second edition, revised, 1968. Near fine in like jacket with some wear to head of spine. Signed by author on a bookplate affixed to title page.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First edition. 26x15cm, unpaginated. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Spiral bound in glossy, illustrated wrappers. Near fine with minimal edge wear.

[New York?]: [Edward Gorey], 1979. First edition. 14 postcards in printed envelope, 16x10cm, illustrations by Gorey. Cards in fine shape in envelope that shows light wear. Issued in an edition of 76 sets of hand-colored postcards, this set is uncolored and unnumbered.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Book club edition. 8vo, gray boards in illustrated jacket. Near fine copy with light rubbing at spine ends and corners. Very sharp copy of this collection with the iconic illustrations of Edward Gorey.  .

[New York]: Dogear Wryde, 1996. First edition of 500 copies. 12 postcards, 10x15cm in printed envelope. Signed by Gorey as Dogear Wryde. Envelope and cards with a few stray marks and smudges. Very good or better. Set of 12 notecards featuring Q.R.V. verses and illustrations by Gorey.  This set was originally issued in tandem with another set called Q.R.V. UNWMKD.IMPERF.  .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First edition. 18x19cm, 30pp. Printed in blue, illustrations by Edward Gorey. Publisher's illustrated, glossy wrappers, near fine with some light toning and wear. Nice copy of this limericks textbook for children, illustrated by Gorey.  Later printings had one or two of the poems/illustrations removed for content.  .

New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc, 1976. 2nd printing. 4to, 352pp. Photographs, illustrations. Signed by Edward Gorey below his cat diptych at front. Illustrated, glossy wrappers. Pages lightly toned, mild edge wear to wraps, few stray marks to rear cover. Very good.

Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed, "D. E., 9/12/00" on title page. Later printing. Very good in like jacket with a small dent on the back panel near the spine.

McSweeney's, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 3rd issue, paperback original. 1st printing. Very good in wraps with some wear and light curling to edges.