Search Results: Titles starting with E from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the arch bishop had come to see me." Who can resist the first sentence of this masterpiece, which weaves all of Burgess's previous genius and life experiences into one epic saga of good versus evil. Good stuff.

New York: Random House, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A perfect copy of Amis's rare, early farce about a fraudulent social club, conceived and written with his friend Robert Conquest, the poet and Russian specialist. Dirty goings-on lead to several types of cover-up.

3rd printing of re-print edition. Slight wear to corners.
First published in 1910, this was the most lavishly illustrated Oz adventure, in which Dorothy takes her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry on a tour of the kingdom of Oz.
Meanwhile, the wicked Nome King has plans to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy and her friends discover the danger and save the day?

First printing, a fine copy, in second state dust jacket with six reviews on the rear panel.
A monumental war story, highly effective in the bluntness with which man's brutality is so casually described, through the eyes of a child.
Made into a powerful film by Stephen Spielberg.
Hardcover, with slight age tanning to pages and small owner name.

The stories in this volume started as a series of radio broadcasts, in which Durrell tried to gain support for his zoo breeding program.
14 pieces, ranging around the world, with Ralph Thompson's irresistible drawings.
Hardcover has owner name. Jacket has slight corner damage.

All the writings that Auden wished to preserve from his first creative decade are recorded in this seminal volume, edited by Edward Mendelson.
Unpublished journal entries and a chapter from an early book are also included, laying the ground work for Auden's later status as one of the giants of 20th-century poetry.
Jacket fine, book edges have slight wear.

John Cheever's second collection of fourteen stories, after his youthful The Way Some People Live, which he later came to revile.
Published in the New Yorker magazine, Cheever achieved a kind of surrealistic breakthrough and his first fame with The Enormous Radio, about a device which transmits the thoughts of people living in an apartment building.
Repaired tear to front of jacket.

The second volume of Tim Card's history of England's most famous private school for boys.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Eton had been established for over 400 years and was highly prestigious.
However, the school has developed beyond telling since then, and this history recounts its constant evolution, over the last 150 years.

H. M. Bateman
The Evening Rise - Fifty Years of Fly Fishing
London: Duckworth, 1960.
First printing

A rare, late work by master cartoonist H. M. Bateman, who gently pokes fun at all fishermen, particularly himself.

Illustrated with a few of his drawings, and concerned with all aspects of social unease, which the English delight to apply to every situation.

Hardcover.

Cyril Connolly
The Evening Colonnade
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
First printing

A collection of 80 pieces by Connoly on travel and literature that reveal his eminence as a critic.

Ezra Pound, Venice, Baudelaire's Paris, Scott Fitzgerald, the Twenties, elephants, Pope, Voltaire, Norman Mailer, Orwell, Provence and English Country Homes are among the many subjects.

Hardcover. 470 pages.

This is a very good copy of Bemelmans' twelth novel, in which he returns to his native Tyrol and sets the simple folk of his childhood against the more sophisticated tourists who flock to the resort hotels on a mountain called the Eye of God.
A comic novel from the creator of the Madeline books.
Jacket has slight wear and fading to edges, otherwise clean. Hardcover.