Search Results: Titles starting with I from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Los Angeles: Savage and Savage, [1951]. 64 pages. Original black cloth stamped in silver. [22.2 cm.] Good plus in very good dust jacket. Light edge wear to boards. Top edge soiled, a little soiling to endpapers, tape mark on front free endpaper, but text is clean. Jacket is slightly wrinkled and bumped at the head of the spine panel, and shows some sun. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. No. 39 of 999 copies numbered and signed by the author. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR (unsigned), on the dedication page. Also present are a TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, and an AUTOGRAPH POEM (unsigned), all laid-in. The presentation inscription reads: "For Eleanor Jeffrey Schoberlin, whose conversation deserves a Boswell." Mrs. Schoberlin, of Phoenix, had some aspirations as an author and corresponded with a number of contemporary writers. Her husband was Melvin Harold Schoberlin (1912-1977), a noted Stephen Crane scholar and… Read More

London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. vii, [1], 595 pages, plus 24-page publisher's catalog at rear. Illustrated in the text throughout. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and black rules on the covers and spine ends. [18.7 cm.] Shallow chip and short (1 cm) tear to head of spine, wear and minor tear to base of spine, some light spotting and soiling to cloth. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown. Front hinge starting, but holding well. Light foxing to title and prelims only. Short closed tear to one leaf (pp. 17-18) with inconspicuous archival repair. A good copy. From the library of British historian and numismatist, Arthur Rutter Bayley (1868-1948), with his signature on the title page and his name stamp on the half-title and on the top edge. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. Same pagination as the first edition in English, which was issued in 1870 with the title starting, "Weapons of War, Being a History of Arms and Armour . . . " The work was… Read More

[Pawtucket, R.I.: Fales & Jenks Machine Co., printed by E.L. Freeman Co.], 1909 [i.e. 1919]. Frontispiece dated 1919; front cover dated 1914. 139 pages, including frontispiece, plus several leaves of blank graph paper at rear. Original dark green cloth lettered in gilt. 19 x 12.5 cm. Corner of frontispiece clipped, not affecting image, else very good. Minor spotting to cloth, one word note on each of two tables (pp. 98-99), some very faint foxing. Signed by North Carolina cotton mill owner and executive, Haddon S. Mackie of Gastonia, on the front flyleaf. [Mackie was part owner of the Osceola Mill near Gastonia. He later became an executive at Textiles-Incorporated, which purchased the Osecola Mill in 1931.] Apparent second edition, later issue. The first edition was published in 1907. The present edition bears the same pagination and the contents appear to be identical, excepting a revised date on the title page and a new frontispiece. Fales & Jenks Machine Company was… Read More

New York: United Nations, 1953. iii, [1], 56 pages. Original printed wraps. [22.9 cm.] Very good. Moderate soiling of wraps. Evidence of a handful of pencil erasures, but interior otherwise clean. Revised edition, so stated, being the second edition, following the first of 1951.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. vi, 182 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Victor A. Searles. [36] pages publisher's illustrated ads at rear. Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in red, silver, and gold. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Good. Cloth is faded, especially on the spine, a bit soiled with a few stains to rear cover, and lightly worn. Name on front endpapers. Tiny bit of old marginal damping near front of book, otherwise clean internally. FIRST EDITION. Juvenile fiction describing the adventures of two boys who get lost in the Okefenokee swamp and are taken prisoner by a band of Confederate deserters. Louis Beauregard Pendleton (1861-1939), a native of Tebeauville, Georgia, was a novelist who often wrote for children, the author of a biography of Alexander Stephens, and an editorialist at the Macon "Daily Telegraph" (1899-1914). Not in Wright.

Cleveland: For private distribution, [printed by Horace Carr], 1930. [4], 59 pages. Original quarter green morocco over marbled paper cover boards with gilt spine title. [25.7 cm.] Near fine in like jacket and slipcase. A hint of sun to the spine, slight tanning to pastedowns, dime-sized chip to lower corner of one leaf, still a nice copy. Tiny chip to head of spine panel of jacket. Small bump and tear to top of slipcase. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies printed. Holmes was the librarian of the William Gwinn Mather Library in Cleveland. His highly respected bibliography of Increase Mather's works was issued in two volumes the following year by Harvard University Press.

Washington, [D.C.]: Government Printing Office (GPO), 1914. 217 pages. Maps and diagrams printed with the text. Contemporary half red morocco over beveled boards with gilt spine lettering, raised bands, and marbled endpapers. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Ex-library with modest signs: faint impression of tiny removed call number at the base of the spine, small discard stamp on the front endpaper, and stamp of Franklin Public Library at base of the title and one other page. Else good plus. Moderate wear to the extremities, front joint started at ends, still quite sound. Several small stains on the rear cover. A little marginal damping to endpapers, barely evident on the inner margin of the title page. FIRST EDITION. A report on the second of two special censuses of mental institutions in the United States, the first having been conducted in 1904. Previously, the Census Bureau had tracked rates of insanity among the general population only as part of the regular decennial censuses. The 1910 special census surveyed… Read More

Tokyo: Kairyu-Do Press, 1929. [4], 152, [1] pages. Original boards with coated dark blue paper on spine and patterned gray paper on covers; gilt spine lettering and blue cover lettering. 19 x 13 cm. A very good copy in poor dust jacket. Spine ends a little rubbed, faint stains to covers. The jacket is chipped with the loss of most of the spine panel, a penny size portion of the front panel, and the top 2 cm of the rear panel. The header on the rear panel is affected, however, the publisher's priced list of books is intact. The extant portion of the spine panel is repaired on the verso. Apparent FIRST OF THIS EDITION. An early publication of the Kairyu-Do Press (sometimes styled Kairyudo), which began operating circa 1924. Previous offerings of the press included Stevenson's Kidnapped in both English and Japanese; works by Hawthorne, Hardy, and Irving; and several titles by Lafcadio Hearn. The editor, Kentaro Omiya, was a professor at Nihon University who studied comparative languages. This… Read More