Search Results: Authors starting with E from Glenn Books

New York: Empire State Book Company, 1924. Hinges starting. Reprinted from the 1892 edition. Chapters on china hunting, English porcelains, Treen ware, Presidential china, many others. 429pp.. Later Edition. Blue Cloth. Moderate Cover Wear./No. Square Octavo.

New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Gilt sun-dial front cover. Top edge gilt. Silk book-mark. "Garden delights which are here displayed in a very truth and are moreover regarded as emblems". This large paper edition was limited to 100 copies, this being #66. Replete with text illustrations. Twenty full-page photogravures with captioned tissue-guards. Quite a fine edition. The vellum is a bit soiled, slight wrinkle at head of spine. Small pleasant armorial book-plate front pastedown. 461pp. . Limited Edition. 1/4 Vellum. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

London: Halton and Truscott, Ltd, 1924. A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN VOLUMES. This series of books was published from 1923 to 1938, a total of sixteen volumes. Our collection is missing: 1924, 1928, 1933, 1937, and 1938. Each volume is replete with full-page illustrations, essays. The series ended just before the onset of the Second World War, a time of significant paper rationing in Europe. PLEASE NOTE: We will sell individual issues for $50.00 each if one or two are needed to complete the entire run. Postage will be extra if multiple issues are ordered. See photos.. First Edition. Various Cloth Colors. Mild to Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.

Kansas City: Historic Kansas City Corporation, 1979. Nearly 200 photos, maps, and illustrations trace the city's evolution from fur trading post to urban center. 185pp.. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Quarto.

New York, London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill, 1947. First issue endpapers. First book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Introduction by Harold C. Urey. Drawings in black and white throughout the text material. 281pp. . First Edition, First Issue.. Blue Cloth. Minor Edge Wear Only./No Jacket. Octavo.

London, New York: J. M. Dent, E.P. Dutton, 1905. All edges gilt. Covers with doublew fillet gilt borders and corner rondelles.Spine with elaborate gilt designs, two leather spine labels. The spine is sunned to tan. Inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Owner's name in small, neat hand on a front preliminary page. Twenty-four full-page color illustrations, including frontispiece and title-page, by C.E. Brock. George Eliot, the pen-name for Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) was an English novelist, poet, journalist, one of the leading writers of the Victorian Age. "Silas Marner" was first published in 1861. Housed in a custom slipcase. . Later Edition. Full Blue Smooth Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by C.E. Brock. Octavo.

New York: John W. Lovell EIGHT VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Gilt panelled spine with two leather spine labels. A pleasing set, probably printed in 1880-1890. Titles include: "The Spanish Gypsy" and other poems; "Daniel Deronda"; Middlemarch"; "The Mill on the Floss"; Felix Holt" and "Theophrastus Such"; "Romola"; "Clerical Life", "Silas Marner", "Lifted Veil", and "Brother Jacob"; and "Adam Bede". George Eliot (1819-1880) , the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, was a leading author, poet, novelist of the Victorian era. . Later Edition. 3/4 Tan Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. Illustrated with paintings by Wray Manning. From the Easton series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". First published in three volumes in 1860. George Eliot (1819-1880) was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, poet, journalist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian Age. 472pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Purple Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

London Smith,Elder & Co 1888. Bound in full vellum, gilt. AEG. Light soiling, else a fine copy with tipped-in photographs..

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. SIGNED by the author. All edges are gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. A copy of Collector's Noted laid-in. Color frontispiece and text illustrations by Kent Bash. Published in 1988 as a collection of short stories. One of them, :Eidolons" won the Locus award; another "Paladin of the Lost Hour" won the Hugo for best novelette; and "Soft Monkey" won the Edgar Award. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Won the World Fantasy Award for best collection of short stories thatyear. 326pp.. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition. Full dark Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Mainz: Joseph Grenz, Buchhandler, 1825. A rare study of Roman and German artifacts found in the Rheinhessen region of Germany. Eighty-four pages of text in German followed by 34 full-page plates and a total of 493 illustrations. The plates show a variety of decorated bowls, oil lamps, pottery, tools, jewelry, ornaments, weaponry, sculpture, inscriptions found at the archaeological sites. Minor foxing noted, never heavy. Title-page is lightly soiled at the fore-edge. The binding has been professionally rebacked, paper repaired on rear cover. We have not found this book for sale in the past 25 years. OCLC lists two libraries worldwide who own the item. . First Edition. Blue Paper-covered Boards. General Moderate Wear. Oblong Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. From the Easton series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Contains both the First series and Second series in one volume. Previous owner really read this one. Underlining and marginal notes throughout. Emerson lived from 1803-1882). 262pp. A beautiful binding, priced with listed flaws. . Collector's Edition. Full Butterscotch Leather. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.

New York: Tudor Press, 1928. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Adolph O. Knoll on front free endpaper snd dated "New York, Aug. 25, 1933". together with an autograph note from the author to Adolph Knoll in envelope with 1 1/2 cent Harding US postal stamp.Mr Knoll (1894-1972) was the former editor of the "Police Journal" and a well-known rare book dealer in Chicago. Some chipping of free edges, spine extremities. Frontispiece portrait of Gutenberg with 10 additional illustrations. Quite clean through the text material. 55pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cream Printed Wrappers. Edge Worn and Spotted./No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1934. Dust jacket shows slight darkeneing of the spine with small closed tears at top without any paper loss. Covers are essentially without wear. Quite a clean and crisp copy. Map endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and 20 additional illustrations. Three maps including the route of the Pony Express. This is "the life story" of Broncho Charlie Miller, the last of the Pony Express riders. 316pp.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Almost No Wear/Minor Wear Only. . Octavo.

Norman and London: University of Oklahoma, 1994. A comprehensive bibliography with sections on regional and state histories, social history, political history, economic and environmental history, science and medicine, legal and cultural history. 456pp.. First Edition. Deep Purple Cloth.. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: E.P Dutton and Company, 1929. Spine sunned. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper with date of September '34. Clean and crisp copy throughout. Introduction by Grantland Rice and illustrations by"McDuffer". 302pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth`. Minor Corner Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Chicago: Wilcox and Follett, 1945. Dust jacket chipped at corners, 1/2" piece missing top of front panel. The book is quite fresh and clean throughout. Some light peripheral browing of the paper. Each page has a full-color illustration with story line at bottom. Please see photos. Unpaginated. . First Edition. Red Color-illustrated Boards. Mild Corner Wear Only/Chipped, L;ightly Soiled. Square Octavo.

(New York) Delacorte Press (1998). Near fine in like dust jacket. A novel of wolves and those who destroy them, with a little mystery and romance thrown in. By the author of "The Horse Whisperer". First edition..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. From Hodder and Stoughton's 2 shiiling series. First published in 1919. Jacket just lightly worn and chipped at corners. Fine cover art. Paper toned throughout as is usual with these volumes. From the front panel of the jacket, "Amazingly virile wild-life story". The term "cross-pull" is used to show opposite longings of the part dog-part wolk character Flash in the story. One spirit is gentle and loving, one is ruthless and savage. See p.164 of the text. 316pp.. Reprint Edition. Red Cloth. Essentially No Wear/Lightly Chipped. Small Octavo.

Oxford: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Spine lettered in gilt. #462/1250 copies printed on Auvergne hand-made paper, using Oxford University Press Fell types. Preliminary pages a bit foxed. Bookplate of Robert Mowbray on front paste down. Free edges of cover warped as is usual. Provided in original slipcase which has been tape-reinforced, corners rubbed. See Dreyfus 37. 104pp.. First Edition. White Limp Parchment. Light Soiling to Covers.. Small Octavo.