Search Results: Authors starting with E from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Large 156 page issue. Lacks rear cover. ;9.75 x 13.25; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Stapled pictorial paper wraps. Very nice book with many black and white pictures of homes in Coral Gables along with text describing the area and some architectural history of the area. Some wear to paper on top corners. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce. 11 x 8 inches.

Presentation copy. Full burgundy morocco Kauffmann binding. Gilt ruled boards; elaborate gilt dentelles; gilt ruled hubs & foliated compartments. Misspelling to spine title: "Refration ... of the Eye." Marbled endpapers. Gilt ruled edges. One hundred and forty-seven illustrations. Very nice, clean Kauffmann binding without previous owners' markings.

Gilt decorated cloth. Bright blue, gilt-stamped boards, all edges gilt. Scattered foxing. 26 steel engravings. A handsome copy.; Engraving; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 84 pages.

Nice clean copy in circa 1920 red cloth. Large folding map; 8vo 225 x 150 mm; [x], 418 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Brown pebbled cloth rebacked over red cloth. Large foldout "Plano de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela" to front of book, which bears some tissue-repaired tears along fold lines, and a small tear to margin not affecting image. A nice clean copy without previosu owners' names or other markings. xi, 418 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Nice later binding of quarter gilt ruled blue morocco over marbled paper. Gilt decorations and particulars to spine. Previous owner's name blindstamped to foot of spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. "Royal Asiatic Society" stamped in purple to half title page. Some foxing throughout, otherwise, an attractive, clean copy. ; Large; xvii, 650, 10 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Brown/red cloth with gilt particulars to the front cover, along with the remnants of a scarce dustjacket wrapped in mylar. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
5.25 x 7.5 in

Akron, Ohio: [Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation]. Very Good. 1929. Limited/Numbered Edition. Blue Felt-Covered Boards. Number 363 of an unspecified limitation. This copy belonging to Martin Davey of the Davey Tree Co. In original felt lined box and exotic-motif glassine jacket; bevelled boards inlaid with a 3 inch (7cm) "duralumin" (the modified aluminum from which the American Dirigibles were skeletonized) medal commemorating the book's etiology, i.e., the laying of the initial "ring" of the U.S. Navy's ZRS-4 (USS Akron) Zeppelin on November 7th, 1929. Housed in a modern quarter morocco silvered-lettered slipcase.; Quarto; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

6 issues total. All in original paper wraps. Color illustrations, photography, and fabric samples throughout each issue. Contents include topics such as: Fabric in the Strato-Age, Women in Industry: Stephanie Cartwright, The Main Points About Wash and Wear, The Story of Kanebo, Where Certain Fabrics Got Their Names, Evan-Picone: Skirtmaker to Millions, David Evins... Philosopher of Footwear, Cross-Linked Cellulosics, Weaving: 10,000 Years Ago and Today, How to Set-up a Piece-Goods Department, Textiles in Israel, Chemistry Finds a New Acrylic, and many more. No. 42, Spring 1958: Creasing to top exterior corner of paper wraps. No. 43, Summer 1958: light soiling to paper wraps. No. 44, Fall 1958: light abrasions to back cover. No. 45, Winter 1958-59: light abrasions and soiling to paper wraps, and crease to exterior corner of back cover. No. 46, Spring 1959: crease to bottom exterior corners and light soiling of paper wraps. No. 47, Fall 1959: crease to bottom edge of back wrap, and large crease to right… Read More

5 issues total. All in original paper wraps. Color illustrations, photography, and fabric samples throughout each issue. Contents include topics such as: African Textile Design, Behind the Scenes at the House of Ricci, Man Made Furs, The Weavings of Sheila Hicks, Inspiration from India's Handlooms, Jacqueline Kennedy and the American Image, Walter Hoving on Aesthetics in Business,Fashion Fabrics from the Altiplano, Andrew Sokol: "Where Do We Go From Here," Zefkrome--Dow's "Producer Colored" Acrylic, and many more. No. 52, Spring 1961: creases to exterior corners of front wrap and light abrasions and soiling to wraps. No. 53, Summer 1961: crease to right edge of front wrap and light abrasions and soiling to wraps. No. 54, Fall 1961: paper wrap disconnected from issue, and denting and creases to bottom exterior corner. Light soiling to wraps. No. 55, Winter 1961-62: paper wrap disconnected from issue, and light abrasions to wraps. No. 56, Spring-Summer 1962: creases at bottom edge of front wrap, and 1/2… Read More

More than 30 essays in this volume examine the Enlightenment's use of esoteric traditions of the Early Modern Era and the transformational paths in which Hermeticism, magic, Kabbalah, and alchemy influenced Spiritualism, Occultism, and Theosophy. Contributors include: Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Kocku von Stuckrad, Helmut Zander, Diethard Sawicki, Martin Hense, Martin Mulsow, Gregory R. Johnson, Glenn Alexander Magee, Esteban Law, Franz Winter, Shlomo S. Gleibman, Werner Nell, Klaus Vondung, Annette Graczyk, Friedemann Stengel, Hans-Peter Neumann, Karl Baier, Renko Geffarth, Robert Matthias Erdbeer, Kristine Hannak, Manfred Beetz, Jürgen Stolzenberg, Raphael Rosenberg, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Linda Simonis, Katrin Moeller, Tatiana Artemyeva, Theodor Harmsen, Frank Hatje and Frank Eisermann, Meret Fehlmann. Volume 50 of the Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung series by de Gruyter.Paper binding with text to front and back boards as well as spine. Book is in German and English (primarily German).… Read More

Green cloth boards with decorative gilt plant motif to front cover. Particulars blind-stamped to spine. Wear to head and tail of spine. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge worn. Gilt embellished colored half title. Fold out map of "Chinese Empire" to front. A clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Cordier 97.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 334 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Limited to 300 copies, in which this is number 202. Carefully selected, representative masterpieces of great art of Japan including: Imperial Majesty, Emperor of Japan treasures from the Imperial Palace Collection as well as from the Imperial Household Museum.Included in the Exhibition: screens, paintings, sculptures

Brown cloth with publisher's stamp to front cover. Gilt particulars to spine. Spine wrinkled. Foxing to fore edge. Fore edge corners bumped. Folding map of Zululand to front of book. C gathering loose. Foxing to preliminary and penultimate pages. Binder's stamp to rear pastedown. ; 8vo; xv, 408, 32 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

A total of approximately 163 photographs from the late 1930s and early 1940s ranging in size from 3 x 5 in to 10 x 13 (though most tend toward the larger format) mounted on paper. Scarce.

Text entirely in Sanskrit. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Foxing to page edges with some foxing throughout, particularly to title pages. The personal copies of Columbia and University of Pennsylvania Sanskrit Professor Royal W. Weiler whose name is neatly inscribed to the title pages. Light scholia of Dr. Weiler. Very nice, serviceable copies. ; Large, thick octavos ; xxxviii, 763; xxiv, vi, xv, 765-1529 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Oversize volume (13.75 x 12.75 inches). Unpaginated. String-bound pictorial wraps. Accordion fold textblock. Bump to lower right corner.Housed in tri-fold chemise. Quarter cloth over pictorial boards with cut out, please see image. Some wear to corners.Otherwise, a very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings.

All six issues bound as one. Hebrew text. Blue cloth with faded spine and original decorative wrappers bound in. Numerous colored and black/white plates. Occasional "Printed in Germany" stamp to botton. Wear to cloth on corners of binding. No. 1 missing prefatory pages. Occasional tape remnants. Issues are not bound chronologically, with the book beginning with No. 6, jumping to No. 2-No. 5, and then ending with No. 1. Page 1 of No. 1 loose. Table of contents in English. Overall a nice copy regarding the study of Jewish art.
No. 6 [viii] 48 [iv]
No. 5 [iv] 40 [iv]
No. 4 [iv] 48 [iv]
No. 3 [iv] 48 [iv]
No. 2 [viii] 48
No. 1 40

Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front cover and spine, and wrapped in a mylar jacket. Handwritten poem by Amy Lowell to rear fly named "The Letter". Edited by Pound, it was published in the literary magazine The Glebe initially, with Pound only chosing to incorporate writers he felt exemplified the Imagist style. Occational pencil notations. Previous owner's name neatly to front fly dated 1923. English text. A clean copy with no further defacements. Scarce.
5.25 x 7.75 in