Search Results: Authors starting with E from Keel Row Books

Oxford; Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1991., 1991. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xciii, 338. Four plates. Publisher's russet cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and gilt Early English Text Society crest to upper board. Very minor shelf wear, otherwise a clean copy. Near Fine. Early English Text Society No. 298. Text in Middle-English, Anglo-Norman and Latin. Includes an extensive introduction, commentary and glossary.

Freiburg; EK Verlag, 2000., 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. German text. Quarto, pp 207, [1] advertisements. Illustrated throughout with colour section to rear (17 images, mainly 2 to a page). Laminated pictorial boards; illustrated endpapers in colour. Very minor bruising to corners only. A Near Fine copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Scarce sequel to Sachsische Scnellzuglokomotiven Band 1, the well illustrated history of the locomotives from Saxony.

London; The Crime Club, Collins, 1984., 1984. Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 230. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. In an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine is lightly sunned with a miniscule nick to edge. A Near fine book in a very good dust-jacket. Murder mystery set in an Alpine village by M. G. Eberhart, frequently referred to as America's Agatha Christie and one of the first writers to introduce a female lead to her detective fiction novels.

London; The Crime Club, Collins, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 262. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the unclipped publisher's illustrated dust-jacket. Dust-jacket lightly toned to back panel else a Fine copy in a Fine dust-jacket. Historical murder mystery set against the backdrop of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. By M. G. Eberhart, frequently referred to as America's Agatha Christie and one of the first writers to introduce a female lead to her detective fiction novels.

London; Collins Crime Club, 1963., 1963. Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. [7], 4-216. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Light foxing to endpapers only otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket rubbed and creased with several small closed and open tears to edge. Tiny patches of loss to spine tips and corners, with a small strip loss to bottom of lightly soiled rear panel. A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Historical crime novel set during the American War of Independence. Scarce.

London; 1758., 1758. Hard Cover. THIRD EDITION. No publisher stated. Quarto. [4], xxxii, 292 pp. Engraved frontispiece with vignette of naval motifs and tailpiece engraving. Contemporary full calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to red label to spine and decoration in blind to boards. Wear to corners; repair at head of spine with associated small loss to calf at top edge of lower board. Front joint cracked approx 2-inches at top but firm. Edge of front pastedown chipped; foredge dampstained at edge up to [4]; small triangular loss to margin p xxxi (less than 1" and text unaffected)and lower corners creased p 277 onwards, otherwise contents clean and tight. Overall condition Very Good. A useful reference work for the navy, with details of the major treaties and their agreements and regulations relating to trade, rights,duties, punishments including that of pirates, and passports. Scarce.

New Haven; London; Yale University Press, 2003., 2003. Hard Cover. First Yale edition. Tall octavo, pp. 520, [1]. Double-page county map plus plans, maps and illustrations in text; 125 monochrome photographs in central plate section. Bound in red leatherette cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial laminated dustjacket. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket. Small water mark to the verso of dustjacket, very fine wrinkling to surface laminate. Invaluable classic guide to the county's architecture, illustrated by numerous maps, plans and photographs complete with glossaries and indexes. A comprehensive and illuminating survey of the buildings of Clwyd.

London; Fortune Press, [1946]., 1946. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 125, [1]. Frontispiece, decorative title page and numerous illustrations throughout text; full-page drawings pp. [92]-125. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover cloth a touch rippled to boards, witha pale stain at head of spine/upper board. Contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Collected verse and prose by satirist and artist Beresford Egan (1905-1984), completed towards the end of the Second World War.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Side Real Press, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION. Number 18 in a limited edition of to 300 copies only. Octavo, pp. xxi, [7], 327, [1] With black and white illustrations by Egan. Publishers' Burnt orange cloth with gilt tooled stylised titles to upper board and spine. Peppermint green endpapers. With illustrated Egan advertisement facsimile stamped and signed by publisher laid in. A Fine copy. Gift inscribed by the publisher to the half title,"#18 is the loveliest number you can attain so you are first out of the [?...]" First novel by Beresford Egan, agent provocateur artist of 1920s London. Egan gravitated towards the scandalous and taboo, illustrating deluxe editions for works of Crowley, De Sade, and Baudillaire. This semi-autobiographical first novel is frequently hailed as a key work of 'deco-decadence' and is punctuated with erotic illustrations in his unmistakable iconic style. Another excellent edition of the decadent and macabre by Side Real Press.

London; Printed for T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832., 1832. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. iv, 414. Vignette to title page and numerous engravings throughout, mainly large head-piece engravings to chapters. Emerald green half-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to red label to spine, gilt floral decoration to compartments and marbled paper-covered boards. Spine slightly sunned and rubbed; edges and corners scuffed. Scattered light foxing, heavier to title page, with minor stains. Small grouse shotting newspaper clipping pasted to margin p. 376; no annotation or inscriptions. Comprehensive compendium of sporting lore, originally published in parts. Subject matter includes racing, boxing, theatre and a wide variety of other pastimes including cricket and fencing.

Stanhope; Privately printed, [1882]., 1882. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover octavo, pp. [7], 4-114. Frontispiece of Lime Tree Walk and plate of the Church, from photographs by Wilson. Original printed blue card wraps. Covers slightly toned to spine with very minor loss to lower front corner tip. No annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy. "An Historical and Descriptive Sketch" of Stanhope in Weardale, County Durham. Scarce.

London; Jonathan Cape, 1992, 1992. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Landscape quarto, pp. 167, [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publishers' mustard yellow cloth with maroon titles to spine, and author's name blind stamped to upper board, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Clean and bright, with ownership inscription of North East Labour MP Roland Boyes to front free endpaper, dated in year of publication. Dust-jacket a little creased to edges, with 2 cm closed tear to lower rear edge. Published to coincide with an Eggleston exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Well illustrated with examples of the work by an American pioneer of colour photography. Heavyweight, so an additional contribution towards postage costs may be requested for overseas delivery.

Bethlehem; London and Toronto; Lehigh University Press; Associated University Presses, [1989]., 1989. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 170. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Bound in black cloth with gilt spine titles. With the original black pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, bright, tight copy. Dust-jacket slightly creased and rubbed to spine tips and corners. Overall Near Fine book in a Very Good dustjacket. Eisler's dramatic autobiography detailing his pioneering invention of the printed circuit and its importance in defeating the Luftwaffe.

Amman, Jordan; The Publishing Committee, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. xxxii, 788. 67 monochrome photographic illustrations to plates and 38 numbered maps, many double-sided, with details marked in colour. Publishers' chocolate brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, title stamped in blind to upper board. Pale brown unclipped dust-jacket with gilt and black titles. Scattered light foxing, almost exclusively to textblock edge, otherwise a clean bright copy. Jacket a little creased to top edge with a tiny nick to spine. Near Fine book in like jacket. Detailed history of the Hashemites and the challenges they faced over the course of four reigns in the twentieth century. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Folio Society, 1999., 1999. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Large octavo, pp. Box I: xi, [1], 483, [1]; xv, [3], 484; xvi, 527, [1]; xiv, 506; Box II: xii, [2], 415, [1]; xii, 758, [2], xiv, [2], 724, [2]. Illustrated by various engravers including Simon Brett and Harry Brockway. Publishers' harlequin set in various colours of cloth, with black titles to gilt panels to spines. Portrait roundels in black and gilt to upper boards. Housed in two matching green paper-covered card slipcases with gilt cartouche and black titles to panels. All volumes clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions, and appear unread. Slipcases lightly surface scuffed, and 4-volume slipcase marked with small surface loss, and bumped top rear edge with associated 6-cm closed split, which still holds firm. A Fine set in Very Good slipcases overall. All of Eliot's much-loved full-length fiction. Scarce as a complete matching set. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas… Read More

London & New York; J.M. Dent & Co. & E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905., 1905. Hard Cover. Series of English Idylls edition. Octavo, pp. xviii, 262. 24 full-page colour illustrations by C. E. Brock, including frontispiece and title page. Publishers' light sage green cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration to spine and upper board. In the original rare 1905 unclipped cream and green dust-jacket. Top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers. An exceptionally clean, crisp and bright copy. Jacket toned, particularly to spine, with light creasing top edge and small chip to upper joint towards tail of spine; stamp to jacket front flap cancelling printed prices. A fine copy in the original 1905 dust-jacket. Eliot's classic novel; scarce in jacket.

London; Faber and Faber, 2009., 2009. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION thus, with full numberline. Small quarto, pp. [8], 64. Illustrated throughout. Bound in cornflower blue publisher's cloth with gilt vignette to upper board and gilt titles to spine, with pictorial cat endpapers. With the unclipped original pale blue illustrated dust-jacket. A Near Fine copy in an unclipped Near Fine dust-jacket. Eliot's much loved cat poems newly imagined with super colour illustrations by the acclaimed children's illustrator, Axel Scheffler, best known for illustrating the Gruffalo and Zog series. With Scheffler's signature and his original humorous cat sketch dated "Edinburgh 27/8/2016" to foot of title-page.

London; Ovid Press, 1919., 1919. Hard Cover. First Edition, one of only 264 copes of which this is number "51". Large quarto, pp. [4], 54, [4]. Illustrated woodcut initials. In the first state binding of quarter mustard cloth and black paper covered boards. Lacking the paper spine label. Boards a little scuffed, coal black endpapers sometime replaced. With an enigmatic gift inscription to the ffep in an elegant hand "Nou, from her own lover. 1920". A Rare and elegantly crafted first edition of Eliot's third book of poetry. This edition of 264 copies is the first book printed by John Rodker, completed December 10, 1919. Printed on heavy wove paper watermarked by J. Whatman. With superb woodcut initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth, a key figure in the Vorticist movement. Gallup; T. S. Elliot: A Bibliography A4a.

London; Profile Books, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION, Number 135 of 250 hand-numbered copies (of which only 200 were for sale). SIGNED by many of the contributors. Octavo, pp. 432. Numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine and upper board; pictorial endpapers and gold silk place-marker; housed in plain red cloth-covered slipcase. Clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Near Fine in like slipcase. A choice selection of 50 pieces by travel writers, all based loosely around a meeting and all true, with an introduction by Michael Palin. This copy SIGNED by Ruth Padel, Colin Thubron, Dan Shukman, Tiffany Murray and John Gimlette among others. Authors include Paul Theroux, Dervla Murphy and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Originally published to benefit Oxfam and its work.

Edinburgh; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845., 1845. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Two volume matching set comprising "A Complete Treatise..." (pp. 281) plus "Key to the Complete Treatise..." (pp. 219). Diagrams and formulae in text. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles. Unobtrusive damp-staining to boards and loss to spine cover cloth (approx 1 inch by 1/2 an inch) of "Key" volume. Presentation inscription from the Author to ffep of each volume and 'Tables' pasted to both paste-downs of "Treatise". Some pages unopened. Scarce.