Search Results: Authors starting with E from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

quarto, 3 pages, plus stampless address leaf, tear in blank margin of second leaf of letter sheet, due to careless opening, not affecting any text, otherwise in very good, clean, legible condition.
1834 Baltimore Quaker hails the "glorious victory" of the new Whig Party over the city's Jacksonians
A well-written letter by a Baltimore Quaker, written "one day after the glorious victory" in municipal elections of the newly organized Whigs.
"…It will no doubt surprise a lady to be addressed with what I intend a description of our great & glorious Whig victory, but, as it is necessary for a voter to have a mother, among his other qualifications, and as the mother generally exercises an important control over the minds of her children — both male and female, it is necessary that she should be imbued with a little of the zeal of a Whig, so as to encourage her rising sons to pursue that path which alone will continue to keep our glorious constitution on its original bases, and the laws emanating from… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12"" tall. xxx, [2], 149 pages, bound in cloth, no dustjacket, ex-library copy, library markings inside front and rear flyleaves and boards, title page & verso, minor wear to tips of spine, and edges of boards, otherwise good. Table of Contents include: Preface by Ezra Pound; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Editorial Policy; T.S.E. on the Waste Land; Facsimile Transcript; Editorial Notes; The Waste Land (1922) Text of the First Edition; Notes.

Quarto, 3 pages, plus original mailing "envelope", formerly folded, in very good, clean, and legible condition.

Ellis writes:

"Gentlemen,

I have resumed my duties at this place as Minister of the United States and will thank you to forward me the following named wines – that is
20 Boxes of Champagne
10 " Chateaux Margaux
5 " Verde Baune
5 " Johannesberg Hock
5 " Burgundy
5 " Sauterne

I should also be glad of some good Bordeaux for common table wine – but it is doubtful whether it will come thro' a tropical climate unless it is in bottles. If you have any other wines not here mentioned that you can recommend I shall be pleased if you will send me a box of each as a sample, provided you do not intend the number of boxes beyond 5. – You must recollect that our wines have to be transported three hundred miles on the backs of mules over a mountainous country to this capital, and consequently great care must be observed in packing the bottles in boxes. The wine… Read More

Folio, two and a half pages, in very good clean and legible condition.
William Evens, "music teacher," and an English immigrant, writes discussing various aspects of music and music publishing, along with other topics, including the preponderance of Irish, both "old" and "raw" in Pittsburgh:
John Rowe Parker (1777-1844) the recipient of this letter, made his mark in history by his contribution to early American music. From 1820 until April 1823, he was editor and publisher of the "Euterpeiad, or Musical Intelligencer and Ladies Gazette" – the first American musical periodical. Working out of a Music Warehouse near Fanueil Hall, he published the periodical sold pianos, organs and other musical instruments by catalog, and became the first large distributor of "fashionable" (secular) American music.
"Respected Sir,
I recd your favour & package of music the 12 inst. In good order through the care of Carey & son Phila – I have took some time with Anxiety to see it come along… Read More