Search Results: Authors starting with E from Boston Book Company

1903. EARLE, Alice Morse. TWO CENTURIES OF COSTUME IN AMERICA MDCXX-MDCCCXX. Volume II. New York" Macmillan Company, (1903). First edition, vol. 2 only. 8vo., green cloth, t.e.g.. Very good.

19. [MAP - ANCIENT NEAR EAST]. BREASTED ANIENT HISTORY SERIES. B1, ANCIENT WORLD RACE DISTRIBUTION ABOUT 250 BC. L. Philip Donoyer, Geographer. Compiled and Drawn by R. Baxter Blair. Chicago: DeNoyer-Geppert & Co., 1930. Revised edition. 31 x 44 inches. B2, ANCIENT ORIENT AND PALESTINE. Drawn by R. Baxter Blair. Chicago: DeNoyer-Geppert, 1923. Fifth edition. 30 x 44 inches. Two maps mounted on linen and attached to a roller at the top edge and to a wooden rod at the bottom edge. Overall dimensions 71 x 44 inches. General light dust-soiling to both maps, but relatively bright overall. The map of the Ancient Orient and Palestine has a soft crease near one edge, as well as some silverfish damage in the bottom left corner and along its left margin. The black linen mount below the map is scratched and gouged. Nevertheless, very good overall.

1896. EASTLAKE, F. W. & N. KANDA. A NEW POCKET JAPANESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. [n.p.] Sanseido [1896]. 904 + [4] pp. 48mo., 3 3/4 inches tall, 1 1/4 inches thick. Red cloth stamped in gilt, blind and black. Light soil to cloth, corners gently bumped. Front and rear hinges have been crudely reglued; front flyleaf chipped, detached; rear flyleaf also detached. Alphabetical transliterated Japanese with Englisg definitions. Title and colophon in Japanese, with second title page in English. Internally fine with some age toning to page edges, as to be expected.

1937. EASTMAN, Max. THE END OF SOCIALISM IN RUSSIA. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1937. First edition. Small 8vo., pamphlet, wrappers. Fine.

1949. EATON, Allen H. HANDICRAFTS OF NEW ENGLAND. Illustrated. (Preface by Dorothy Canfield Fisher). New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First edition. 8vo., black cloth. Fine, in a slightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket.

1916. EATON, George F. THE COLLECTION OF OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM MACHU PICCHU (MEMOIRS OF THE CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, VOLUME V, MAY 1916). New Haven, CT: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1916. 96 pp. + 39 b/w plates, 3 folding charts. Ex-library with usual markings. 8vo., brown cloth, gilt leather spine label. Some rubbing to cloth and label. Original wrappers bound in. Interior in excellent condition. B/w photo reproductions and illustrations.

1866. EATON, Reverend S.J.M. PETROLEUM: A HISTORY OF THE OIL REGION OF VENANGO COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia: J. P. Kelly & Co., 1866. 299 pp. 12mo., brown cloth. Ex-library with usual markings. Spine chipped 1 inch at crown. Cloth split, rubbed, light soilto covers. Folding color map frontispiece has closed 2 inch tear, slightly affecting map compass. Title page continued: "Its Resources, Mode of Development, and Value: Embracing a Discussion of Ancient Oil Operations; with a Map, an Illustrations of Oil Scenes and Boring Instruments." B/w plates. Scarce; As is.

1817. EATON, Rebecca. AN ABRIDGMENT OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY for the Use of Schools and Private Families. Andover, Ma.: Flagg & Gould, 1817. First edition. xii, 324 pp. Small 8vo., brown leather printed in gilt to black lettering piece on spine. Pencil to text and end pages; ink ownership to flyleaf. Foxing to text and paste action to end pages. Boards are soiled, scuffed, bumped and edgeworn, with rubbing to spine, chipping at tail of spine and lower joint cracked 3" from tail. Serviceable.

FE. EBERHART, Richard. A BRAVERY OF EARTH. London: Jonathan Cape, (1930). First edition of author's first book, with errata slip tipped in. There is very faint offsetting to the front and rear flyleaves and the cloth at the spine is a bit sunned, else this is a fine copy in a dust jacket. The jacket has a tiny tear at the spine and some light soiling.

FEA. EBERHART, Richard. UNDERCLIFF. Poems 1946-1963. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. First edition. There are spots of foxing to the bottom edge, else this is a near fine copy in a dust jacket sunned at the spine, with several small chips and tears to the edges.

1975. EBERHART, Richard. POEMS TO POETS. Engravings by Michael McCurdy. Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, (1975). First thus, 1/300 hardcovere editions (publihsed simultaneously with a limited paperback edition of 700 copies), signe dby the author and illustrator. 8vo., black cloth, lettered in gilt. A touch of sun to spine, very edges; else, fine.

1936. EBERHART, Richard. READING THE SPIRIT. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. Inscribed by author in the year of publication. 79pp. 8vo., patterned paper boards backed in blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Minor edgewear, especially at corners; worn at crown; minor puckering along spine. Clean and crisp within. About very good to very good overall.

1947. EBERHART, Richard. BURR OAKS, poems. New York: Oxford, 1947. 8vo., orange cloth, 68 pp.. First U.S. edition, review copy with publisher's solicitation laid-in. Merest hint of bowing, faint spotting to boards, with a touch of sun to the spine. Moderate foxing/offsetting to endpapers. Still, a very good copy overall, in a spine-sunned, price-clipped dust jacket with just slight wear to edges.

FE. EBERHART, Richard. POEMS. New and Selected. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. First edition, in the scarce hardbound edition. This is a fine copy in a dust jacket.

1824. EBERLE, John. A TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. In two volumes. Second edition, with corrections. Baltimore: Published by S. &. W. Meeter, and Philadelphia: James Webster, 1824. Two octavo volumes. Contemporary bindings of calf, with red and black gilt-lettered labels at spines, all edges speckled brown. Intermittent foxing, light to moderate, in both volumes. The bottom fore-corner of Vol. 2 is lightly dampstained in the margin, gradually diminishing throughout the first 250 pp. The bindings are lightly soiled and rubbed, with wear and/or loss at crowns, darkened at spines, and joints starting. Just about very good. First published in 1823, Eberle's Treatise became a standard text-book and went through five editions. (D.A.B.).

1837. EBERT, Frederic Adolphus. A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, FROM THE GERMAN OF FREDERICK AUGUSTUS EBERT, Librarian to the King of Saxony, In Four Volumes. Oxford: University Press, 1837. First edition. 8vo., black cloth boards. Ex-library (Boston Athenaeum) with markings. Boards, or the remnants thereof, which appear to have been library bindings, are separated from all but Vol. III. Preliminary leaves of Vol. I are partially loose. As is, needs rebinding.

1974. EBERT, John & Katherine. OLD AMERICAN PRINTS FOR COLLECTORS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). First edition. Small 4to., blue cloth; illustrated. Slight skimming to rpd. Near fine, in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket.

1953. ECKSTEIN, Gustav. HOKUSAI. Play in 14 scenes. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First edition. 8vo., black cloth. Illustrated throughout by Hokusai.A very good copy that shows sunning at the spine, ink ownership at ffep. Uncommon.

1935. EDDY, Mary Baker. SEVEN MESSAGES TO THE MOTHER CHURCH. Boston: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy (1935). 118 pp. 12mo., brown cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, but for ink gift inscription on first blank recto. Cloth and gilt bright and clean, no shelfwear. Texts from 1898- 1906.

1864. EDDY, Richard. HISTORY OF THE SIXTIETH REGIMENT NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS. Philadelphia: [Privately printed], 1864. 8vo., green cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine. Rubbing to boards; fore-corners and spine tips are worn. Ffep missing; overopened and dusty within. Substantial portion of p. 255-256 missing. Good plus.