Search Results: Authors starting with E from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.00). Quarter red buckram with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An exploration of the different methods of problem solving by comparing the detection techniques of Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Maigret, Sam Spade, Philip Marlow, and Nick and Nora Charles.

London: Aurum Press, 2002. First Edition. Foreword by P.D. James. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A thoroughly illustrated work representing "the first comprehensive guide to the locations and landmarks that have inspired the very best of British detective fiction.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel, a bit of loss at the head and foot of the spine. Black buckram, bumped at the corners, with orange panels on the spine and front board. Bound with an orange top stain, reading wear, and a forward lean, clean internally. A Nurse Keate mystery, adapted into the 1936 Frank McDonald film starring Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, and Claire Dodd.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and rubbed, faded at the spine, loss at the corners and edges. Black buckram with red ink lettering and design on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. The second Sarah Keate novel, adapted into the 1935 Ray Enright film starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee.

New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by William Weaver. Signed by Eco on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.00). Green paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work of historical fiction about Baudolino and his band's search for Prester John.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated by Thomas Fogerty. Near Fine, lacking the jacket. Black buckram, faded at the spine. Square and firmly bound, contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.50), lightly toned. Grey buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised on the jacket as the "first book-length analysis of the development of Creeley's style and themes.

Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co, 1865. Hardcover. Good. Good. Brown cloth, mottled on the spine and with a chip to the foot, unevenly toned on the front board, soiled at the bottom edge of the back board, dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square, front hinge a bit weak but firmly bound otherwise, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve other full-page illustrations, Edmonds' work recalls her time working in the field and penetrating the enemy lines as a spy during the first and second Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Richmond, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Introduction by Ian Fleming. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (16s. net), lightly rubbed and toned. Dark grey buckram with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a faded and dusty red top stain. A novel brought back into print by Fleming's request, "it is a tale within a tale" involving a group of friends who are joined at dinner by a sailor who tells a tale of "secret cargo from the Indies, a wreck, adventures and misfortune in Africa.

New Haven: J.B. Ford & Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Green buckram with black ink and gilt lettering and designs, generally rubbed and bumped at the corners and edges, a few spots worn to the boards. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, hinges weak but not cracked, gift inscription on the endpaper.

Barre: Imprint Society, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introduction by Alan Fern. Limited to 500 copies with an original signed wood engraving by Eichenberg. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some rubbing and fading. Quarter red leather with grey cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A near career-spanning account of Eichenberg's work written by the man himself, profusely illustrated with his woodcuts.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00), lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter brown paper with tan paper on the boards, bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A strictly military history of the American Civil War, covering "hundreds of engagements on land and sea, and along rivers.

New York: New American Library, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. About Fine. Orange wraps with a bit of toning. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This anthology collects stories from the likes of Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Budd Schulberg, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, R.K. Narayan, John O'Hara, Muriel Spark, among others.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. About Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50 on the back flap), lightly rubbed at the edges, deep creases through the spine and middle of the entire length. Blue buckram, bumped at the corners, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. A layman's explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity, "an easily understood but authoritative account of the growth of ideas in physical science from the earliest concepts to the more abstruse theories of modern times.

New York: Wings Books. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Sonja Bargmann. Later Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised as "the definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings.

New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.95). Quarter brown cloth with orange paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some dog-earred pages, clean otherwise. Eliot's critical biography that discusses Disney's connection to Hoover's FBI as well as his phobic behaviors and psychosexual conflicts.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Third Printing with [c-6-43] on the copyright page. Very Good in an about Good jacket with nine titles on the back, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, partially split down the spine, chips at the edges. Black buckram, bumped at the edges and corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, former owner's name inside the front board, clean otherwise. A collection of Eliot's long poems Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.75), generally rubbed and lightly soiled, chips at the top edge. Black cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the top-right corner. Square, bound with some reading wear, yellow top stain, some light marginalia. Eliot's own selection of what he deems his best prose since 1917. This new edition features four new essays: "In Memoriam," Religion and Literature," "Modern Education and the Classics," and "The Pensees of Pascal.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), chipped at the top edge, with the original glassine cover over the jacket. Purple cloth, faded at the head and foot to match the chips in the jacket, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faded top stain, clean internally. Eliot's literary criticism that "discusses broadly such controversial figures as Andrewes, Machiavelli, Baudelaire, Thomas Middleton, and Richard Crashaw.

London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, toned at the edges, lightly soiled. Tan cloth, foxed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a backward lean, foxed at the endpapers. A collection of four of Eliot's poems written during World War II, "Burnt Notice," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding.