Search Results: Authors starting with E from Alba's Books

Chicago: Trueblood Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a Chicago taxi driver who here tells stories of the streets and the town in the 1980s and after. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Stated first American edition with $15.95 on flap. Cummings' complete verse in a definitive, well-printed edition with index to all first lines. A pristine copy, uncommonly well preserved in a Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A rare 1940s Sci-Fi pulp featuring a Lensmen story by ""Skylark"" Smith. Moderate shelf wear, including a couple of small edge nicks and a light cover crease, but still an attractive, bright, clean copy in its Mylar magazine sleeve with stiff archival backing.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's light brown buckram with black titles and single 1922 date on copyright page. First state with 'SHIT!' on page 219 which a prior owner attempted to erase but with the S and other letter outlines still visible. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Scarce.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition of the first complete anthology of Cummings's poetry, some never previously collected into a book. Book is fine and unmarked. Save for a tiny 1/8x1x2"" horizontal chip to the spine tip and slight spine red fading, jacket is near fine, unclipped. and protected by an archival Mylar cover.

London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Original quarter brown leather and light brown boards. No date but in the style of the 1900s-10s. Of special interest is the 1900s-10's Deutscher Bremen designer bookplate with engraving of a German liner and Prussian knight in the style of the era. A tight, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. The American poet's firsthand account of his trip to Russia during the Depression, and what he found out of Stalin's dictatorship. A novelistic travelogue and an important record by renowned poet. With all first edition points in the original binding. Extremely well preserved, clean, bright and unmarked, and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Dover Publications, 1967. First American Edition. Paperback. Octavo. Charts and graphs. First American edition of this mathematical classic based on the rare London 1952 edition. A clean, unmarked copy free of creases.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition with $3.00 flap price. A collection of stories by the famed ghost story writer. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a tiny spine corner chip and rubbing to the spine chips, but is otherwise whole, clean and bright. Protected by a plastic jacket cover.

New York: Dover Publications, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Charts and diagrams. A Dover original in its first printing of this groundbreaking mathematical work. Clean, unmarked and tight.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. With the statement 'Published July, 1923' on the copyright page, in the original orange cloth with black bordered title and design across top of front cover and decorated endpapers. The author of A PASSAGE TO INDIA presents a collection of historical travel essays on Egypt which turns out to be one of the best books on the subject for travellers and Egyptophiles. A clean, bright, unmarked copy. Scarce.

Oslo: Foblagt Av Aschehough & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. The Norwegian and true first edition of this Scandinavian classic, in the original rust-colored cloth with gilt title, black botanical designs and borders, and marbled foreedges. A very well preserved copy, clean, unmarked and bright. Extremely scarce.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. John Swain & Son photogravures. Original brown gilt cloth with crossed scimitars in gilt on cover, photogravures, maps by The Chiswick Press and deckle edged heavy paper by John Dickinson & Co. The monumental work by Lawrence memorializing and recording the Arab Revolt and his part in it. An unusually well preserved copy of the first trade edition after the rare limited edition privately printed by the author. Unmarked, tight and clean.

New York: New York State Publishing Co., 1900. Fifth Edition, Revised and Augmented. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Engravings. Original red cloth. A scientific treatise on the uses and possibilities of hypnotism and allied phenomena by thirty prominent authorities. Rubbing to covers, which remain solid and reasonably clean; text very good, clean and crisp. Uncommon.

Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Co., Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Illustrated. Signed.

Crown Publishers, 1982. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Price clipped. Binding is cloth.

London: The Bodley Head, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. The author has gathered here some astonishing evidence that Amelia was on an espionage mission when she disappeared. In a Mylar dj cover. Out of print.

The Macmillan Co., 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Text and boards very good, spine covering gone. Needs rebacking. Binder estimates rebacking at $40-$50. Scarce title. Illustrated with plates. Binding is cloth.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Tony Fitzpatrick Dj Art. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. A pristine copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: The Noonday Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.