Search Results: Authors starting with E from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Modern Age Books, Inc. 1937 Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bottom front corners very slightly bent, pages browned. 280 pages. Red Seal Edition #20. Nice vintage paperback..

New York: George Braziller, 1969. Analysis of Russell's thought over his career; the author notes that most later critics dealt only with Russell's early work, and even that they often misinterpreted. Hardcover in jacket, as printed. Review slip laid in. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor wear, small stains by lower spine, minor silverfishing to spine title. Text clean; 240 pages; index, bibliography, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York / London: Macmillan Company, 1905. Account of horse-drawn long-distance travel and stopping places, mostly in colonial & early America. Small hardcover, ribbed blue-grey cloth, black & red titling & decoration. Fifth printing. Worn, with a stain on the front cover. Text clean; xvi, [2], 449 pages + 2 pages publisher's adsfor two more of the author's books; many b/w illustrations of old inns, carriages, & sign boards.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

Philadelphia: Esther M. Kleine Art Gallery, 1997. Exhibition catalog of photographs of the battlefield and monuments of Gettysburg, with Lincoln's address & essay by Dr. Alan Trachtenberg. Thin paperback, white covers, black titling. Light wear & rubbing. Text & plates clean; [40] pages, 24 b/w plates, artist CV.. First Trade. Paperback. Very Good. 8½" by 11".

Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1976. Philosophical essays on various aspects of political thought (public), and introspective & aesthetic concerns (private). One of the publisher's Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; review slip laid in. Light wear to book; jacket shows some tanning, stains, insect nibbling. Text clean; xiii, [3], 175 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Collection of essays discussing the effect on art of its being identified with a political movement and use as propaganda, the scarcer of two collections by Eastman on the same theme published that year by Knopf. Eastman was a sympathizer with Socialist causes who traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, where, witnessing the power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, he became critical of Stalin's tactics, here decrying the effects of Stalin's policies on writers and artists. Also included are two essays describing how proletarian art became party propaganda, and several essays criticising Hegel's dialectical materialism and its role in this conversion process. Writers commented on include Yessenin, Maiakowsky, Zamyatin, Romanov, Babyel, Pilnyak, Voronsky, Polonsky. Small hardcover in the scarce jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing), with a terse note on the jacket saying (I paraphrase) there will be no cheap reprint until 1936, and… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. Account of Metropolitan Opera touring seasons, INSCRIBED by the author. Includes locations & casts of performances from 1883-1956, listed chronologically. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book; jacket lightly rubbed with a few short tears, creases, badly faded spine. Text clean; xv, blank, 400 pages; index, b/w photo plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1941. Inspirational gift book about a city cynic discovering the true meaning of Christmas, out in the country. Slim red hardcover. Light wear tobook, ink name & date scrawled opposite title page; jacket shows some rubbing, couple of short tears & creases. Text clean; [2], 62 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Collection of poems on various themes in various styles. First edition. Thin hardcover, full yellow cloth, black titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows some chipping, small hole to spine, light rubbing. Text clean; 72 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941 Buckram. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Octavo. Previous owner's name & address, notes, in ink on front fly leaf, initials on title page, page 1, & end fly leaf; text clean; jacket chipped, with tape on head of spine and bottom edge. 296 pages, 10 maps, index..

New York: [Author], 1980. Documentation of seven performance pieces and three workshops by Edelson, many involving fire, intended in part to invoke the Great Goddess. Edelson is considered one of the first generation of feminist artists, rising to prominence in the 1970s. Thin paperback, as pictured. One of 2000 printed. Shows general wear & rubbing, name (or something) whited out on first page, binding glue delicate. Text clean; 66 pages; b/w photos & drawings.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 9" by 8¾".

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988 Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Octavo. Bound in plain blue wrappers, with separate printed labels pasted on front and back. Covers slightly cockled; back corner bent; slight chipping at head of spine. 265 pages..

Wilmette, IL: Callaghan & Company, 1985. Digest of court decisions. Volume 125 only. Hardcover, full tan cloth blocked in red & Black, gilt titling. Light wear, smudges opposite title page; no jacket as issued. Text clean; xliv, 599 pages; index.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Wilmette, IL: Callaghan & Company, 1977. Digest of court decisions. Volume 79 only. Hardcover, full tan cloth blocked in red & Black, gilt titling. Light wear, smudges opposite title page; no jacket as issued. Text clean; xxiv, 540 pages; index.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1954. Advice on pursuing the wily deer, including terrain, observation, stalking, driving, weather, tracking the wounded; dressing & processing,; equipment & gun safety; facts about whitetails; history of whitetail hunting from Indian times. Green hardcover, white titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows some edgewear, light creasing, minor chipping, old price blocked out with new $3.75 printed price; light tanning to endsheets. Text clean; 192 pages, brief bibliography, tables, figures, b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983. Advanced mathematics tract, in raw form. Number 1002 of the publisher's Lecture Notes in Mathematics series, intended to bring new breakthroughs to a larger audience quickly. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, pages tanned. Text clean; viii, 115 pages; index, references, many equations, couple of figures. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6½" by 9½".

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Seventh of the Poppy Ott books, involving an ancient pirate's turtle which may hold the secret to finding a treasure, the turtle's elderly keeper, and a pancake duel. Later printing, around 1938. Small hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear, jacket shows light edgewear small chips, price label on front flap, minor stains or foxing to rear panel; dent/stab to top edge, affecting about 40 pages. Text clean; [xxii], 298 pages, glossy b/w frontispiece, illustrated endsheets.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bert Salg. 5½" by 7½".

New York: Redfield, 1855. History & folk-lore of rings, from ancient times; mostly English, but touching on ancient Rome and other places & cultures. Hardcover, full rose cloth, gilt titling. Shows some wear; corners bumped, spine faded, some fraying at spine ends; spotting to outer hinges; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; vii, [blank], 239 pages + 12 pages publisher's ads; color frontispiece, figures here & there in the text, index.. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 5¼" by 7½".

La Salle, IL: Hegeler Institute, 1979. An "ideal hatchet job" (Anthony Flew) on Heidegger's ideas on Death as found in Being and Time. Edwards notes that philosophers who reject Heidegger's ideas usually just ignore them, which the author finds unfortunate; here he uses humor & logic to dismantle the arguments of Heidegger & his followers. Edwards, born in Vienna, was a professor of philosophy at NYU, Brooklyn College, and the New School; he was a friend of Bertrand Russell & known for his anti-Heideggerian views. Publisher's Monist Monograph Number 1. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket rubbed with some edgewear. Text clean; [6], 71 pages; notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Aldershot: Gale & Polden Limited, 1968. Hardcover, fifth edition. Light wear to book, corners lightly bumped; jacket rubbed & smudged with minor chipping, couple of short tears.. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" by 7½".