Search Results: Titles starting with E from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: The Grolier Club & The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973. A near-fine copy. 8vo (9 x 6 inches). 655 pages. Original blue cloth. First edition, one of 510 copies, inscribed by the author.

New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. A very good copy of this fragile book, the spine a bit browned, the covers with light toning and a few smudges; this copy lacks the glassine and slipcase. 8vo. 68, [3] pages. Original printed French-fold wrappers. First edition, number 95 of 135 copies on Strathmore Permanent All-Rag Paper signed by Williams on the colophon from an edition of 165. "[Ronald Lane] Latimer published for me An Early Martyr, superbly, lavishly printed on rag paper, dedicated to John Coffee, who had been arrested and sent to Matteawan Hospital for the criminally insane ... The poem 'An early martyr' tells about it, the factual details. The title poem is, in effect, a dedication" (WCW's Autobiography and I Wanted to Write a Poem, quoted in Wallace). "Williams knew the incongruity of having his American poems published in such a format—he had lectured and written on the importance of getting poems out to as many people as cheaply as possible-but he also knew that there was really no… Read More

New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1909. A fragile set with the maps printed on delicate, thin paper that, despite the condition issues outlined separately, has remained fresh and bright, with strong coloring and a lack of offsetting; the portfolio a bit faded and soiled and with some light wear at the extremities. Portfolio containing five loose folding color maps printed by L. L. Poates Engineering Co., NY: 1. 1609. The Island of Manhattan (Mannahtin) at the Time of Its Discovery. 410 x 132 cm. Based on the early colonial surveys of Ratzer, Montresor, Knypthausen, Bradford, Duyckinck and the 1867 survey by E. L. Viele. (A few small holes and separations along folds.) - 2. 1609 The Hudson River (Cahohatatea) at the Time of Its Discovery by Henry Hudson. 22 x 85 cm. (Upper and lower sections separated along folds.) - 3. 1653-1664 Amsterdam in New Netherland. The City of the Dutch West India Company. 61 x 43 cm. (A few small separations along folds). - 4. 1730 New York. The English Colonial City. 60.5 x… Read More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. Some light wear at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. 8vo. xxvi + 300 pages. Plates and folding map. Near-contemporary citron half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.

np, 1982. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. Mounted black-and-white illustrations. Wrappers. Inscribed by Bryant.

London: Faber and Faber, 1963. A near-fine copy with slightest wear at ends of spine and light toning. 8vo. 46 pages. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes' third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7.

New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1971. Near fine with a pale discoloration in upper left blank corner. 13.5 x 8.5 inches. The Doctor Generosity Press was run out of a tavern in New York City at 73rd and 2nd on the East Side.

[Paris]: [Contact Editions], 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small repair at top of spine, wear at heal. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the first book by the future art critic of the 'New Yorker', "an ignored minor masterpiece of anti-realist fiction, a novel that deserves the attention of all students of fantasy literature" ('Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature' I, pp. 460-63). 'The Eater of Darkness', printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière (the printer of 'Ulysses'), has 20 dedicatees, including Gertrude Stein, Nick Carter, Robert McAlmon, Harold Loeb, 'The New York Herald Tribune' and Fantomas. The Jonathan Goodwin copy. In very good condition. Ford, 'Published in Paris', pp. 74-76; Bleiler, p. 45. (BA).

New York: Aperture, 2008. First edition, signed by the photographer on the front flyleaf. A near-fine copy. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 127 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards; pictorial dust jacket. "With artful composition and controlled framing--but no digital manipulation--Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often unbeautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by fires and Iceland's stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. He also explores the unexpected impact of Modernism on the landscape, including startlingly graphic airport runways and colorful highway barriers that, at first glance, read like abstract murals. Certain themes recur throughout Martins' work. A sense of place and alienation from it. A sense of mystery-vividly embodied in scenes such as a woman with a bouquet of balloons on a deserted shore. And a sense that something unsettling has just happened or is about to happen--a fire, an… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. First edition. A fine, well-preserved copy. 10 x 9 inches. 128 pages. Original red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. "The Edge of Time presents a retrospective of Yampolsky's photographic work since 1960. Reflecting her lifelong concerns, the images capture rural Mexico and its people with respect and infinite care" (The Publisher).

New York and Tuscon, AZ: Robert Mann Gallery / Nazraeli Press, 1998. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with minor shelfwear. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. 91 pages. 87 duotone images. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with an essay by Pratt from 1970.

Tucson, AZ: Thumbprint Press by Todd Walker, 1977. Small 4to (165 x 134 mm; 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). 16 leaves, including 13 plates. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Privately printed artist's book, signed in pencil by Walker on the title. Stated on the colophon: "This pamphlet is an experiment in making the visual visible."

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with some light rubbing. 8vo. Original red, blue and patterned cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of The New Yorker author's first full-length book. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication "For Maeve" (his wife Maeve Brennan): "with love from Mac." Beneath his inscription, McKelway has drawn a small sketch of his face. An Irish short story writer and journalist, Maeve Brennan was one of McKelway's five wives. (BA).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. A fine, well-preserved copy. 8vo. Illustrated by Pauline Bynes. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy, inscribed "Love Abigail Homans" on the half-title beneath the ownership inscription of George Casper Homans dated August 1966. The printed dedication reads "To my son / George Caspar Homans." The author's uncles were Henry and Brooks Adams and "she grew up in the Victorian monstrosity built by her father, not far from the Old House in Quincy in which her great-great-grandfather John Adams had lived, as well as his son, the sixth President, John Quincy Adams; Mrs. Homan's grandfather, Charles Francis Adams, Lincoln's minister to England; her father, John Quincy Adams and his famous brothers, Henry and Brooks" (jacket). George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 - May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the… Read More

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1960. 8vo. 80 pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding map, folding facsimiles of six early Boulder newspapers. Original cloth-backed boards; glassine wrapper. A fine copy in the original box. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies signed by Mumey. With five rare keepsakes: rare mining laws of Gold Hill (two copies); Sketch of Boulder, 1873; Views of Boulder & Vicinity, 1880; Rocky Mountain Joe; and "Fort Trotten" view. Together in box with printed labels.

Damiani, 2019. New. Oblong folio. 180 pages. Pictorial boards. In original publisher's box with matted signed photograph and signed certificate from the publisher. One of 20 copies with an original signed photograph. The hardback edition of Main Street, by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating (born 1956), sold out immediately. "Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 comprises 84 photographs taken by Keating along Route 66 from 2000 to 2011. Also known as the Mother Road, Route 66 was the only direct road to California until the 1950s--when the interstate highway system created a bypass that shut off its lifeblood, forcing thousands of shops and motels into bankruptcy over the next 50 years. Between the twin pressures of harmful trade treaties and lower wages abroad, the national economy had changed as well, and entire industries began to dry up, sending countless jobs to Asia and south of the border. Western-bound job seekers now bumped shoulders with Mexican… Read More

Damiani, 2019. New. Oblong folio. 180 pages. Pictorial boards. In original publisher's box with matted signed photograph and signed certificate from the publisher. One of 20 copies with an original signed photograph. The hardback edition of Main Street, by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating (born 1956), sold out immediately. "Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 comprises 84 photographs taken by Keating along Route 66 from 2000 to 2011. Also known as the Mother Road, Route 66 was the only direct road to California until the 1950s--when the interstate highway system created a bypass that shut off its lifeblood, forcing thousands of shops and motels into bankruptcy over the next 50 years. Between the twin pressures of harmful trade treaties and lower wages abroad, the national economy had changed as well, and entire industries began to dry up, sending countless jobs to Asia and south of the border. Western-bound job seekers now bumped shoulders with Mexican… Read More

Damiani, 2019. New. Oblong folio. 180 pages. Pictorial boards. In original publisher's box with matted signed photograph and signed certificate from the publisher. One of 20 copies with an original signed photograph. The hardback edition of Main Street, by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating (born 1956), sold out immediately. "Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 comprises 84 photographs taken by Keating along Route 66 from 2000 to 2011. Also known as the Mother Road, Route 66 was the only direct road to California until the 1950s--when the interstate highway system created a bypass that shut off its lifeblood, forcing thousands of shops and motels into bankruptcy over the next 50 years. Between the twin pressures of harmful trade treaties and lower wages abroad, the national economy had changed as well, and entire industries began to dry up, sending countless jobs to Asia and south of the border. Western-bound job seekers now bumped shoulders with Mexican… Read More

Damiani, 2019. New. Oblong folio. 180 pages. Pictorial boards. In original publisher's box with matted signed photograph and signed certificate from the publisher. One of 20 copies with an original signed photograph. The hardback edition of Main Street, by Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating (born 1956), sold out immediately. "Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 comprises 84 photographs taken by Keating along Route 66 from 2000 to 2011. Also known as the Mother Road, Route 66 was the only direct road to California until the 1950s--when the interstate highway system created a bypass that shut off its lifeblood, forcing thousands of shops and motels into bankruptcy over the next 50 years. Between the twin pressures of harmful trade treaties and lower wages abroad, the national economy had changed as well, and entire industries began to dry up, sending countless jobs to Asia and south of the border. Western-bound job seekers now bumped shoulders with Mexican… Read More

New York: Bird & Bull Press for Targ Editions, 1980. 8vo. [24] pp. Original tan cloth-backed decorated-paper boards; plain paper dust wrapper. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Updike. Designed and printed by Henry Morris and the Bird & Bull Press. This is Number Ten of the Targ Editions.