Search Results: Authors starting with E from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition, First Printing. Personal account of the 'Putumayo Affair' and international scandal. Personal account by Hardenburg who, on his way from Panama to visit the Amazon, stumbled upon the atrocities being committed under the auspices of Julio Arana, a local rubber baron living in Iguitos, Peru. This occurred in the early 1900s when rubber was in demand world-wide and fortunes were made but labor was exploited. Hardenburg saw first-hand the maltreatment of the Huitoto Indians who were forced to tap rubber trees. Arana was the local representative of a British rubber concern and Hardenburg took it upon himself to travel to London to expose what was going on the British having no idea of the situation. After years of rejection, the British press finally published his story and the entire 'Putumayo Affair' became an international scandal. Includes extracts from the famous report of Sir Roger Casement confirming the occurrences. (Casement was knighted in 1911 for his investigations into the… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket. In publisher's original beige-and-brown cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued, and fine thus. The definitive book on the photographs of renowned early 20th century photographer, Edward Weston. Includes biography of Weston by Ben Maddow. Afterword by Cole Weston, his son. 'My brothers Chan, Neil, Brett, and I believe this book does honor to our father's work. It is the greatest collection of photographs by Edward Weston ever published. The reproductions most closely resemble in quality and tone his original print.' Dust jacket with small closed tears along the edges, and wear along head and tail of spine and corners.; otherwise richly colored and presented. Oversize-volume format in panoramic dimension. 299pp. A beautiful book.

First Edition, First Printing. Finely rebound in modern, navy leather, with gilt letter on cover and spine. Original cover and endpapers, including adverts, part of rebound. Taped closed tears on frontispiece, end paper and title page (see photos). Very good internally with light foxing in places, and with closed tears repaired on pages 95-100. Overall, a very good copy of this scare first edition with historical notes of the exploration and islands of St Thomas and St. John. Illustrated with numerous places throughout. A great copy.

First Edition thus. (1900). The lives of nearly 100 women instrumental in the American Revolution. Very good-plus in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Modest wear, with small stain on the lower corner of rear cover Vol.1, and tiny scuff on the rear cover of volume two. Content clean and bright, with slight adhesion to cover page of Vol. one. Otherwise, near fine and in excellent condition. Quite rare so. Bindings are square and tight. Small Octavos. Overall, a lovely set of this seminal work by Ellet."When Elizabeth F. Ellet compiled her history of 'The Women of the Revolution,' she could not have foreseen the deep interest in Colonial and Revolutionary history, that was destined to mark the last decade of the Nineteenth Century, nor could she have realized that the various patriotic societies that were to be organized among women, would lead to as great an interest in the lives of the mothers as in those of the fathers of the Republic. Yet the writer of these sketches of noted women has… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. In publisher's original blue cloth. In this oversized volume, Nancy Ellison captures stunning opera performances in hundreds of photographs by such legends as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Renée Fleming. Beginning with Pavarotti's emotional farewell performance in Tosca, In Grand Style is filled with amazing images from the Met's greatest operas. Ellison's photographs exemplify why The Met is considered the penultimate for not just opera singers but for fans as well. Award-winning photographer Nancy Ellison is the author of ten books, including The American Ballet Theatre's The Ballet Book. For more than thirty years, she has photographed distinguished personalities. Joseph Volpe is the long time general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Joseph Clark is the technical director of The Metropolitan Opera. Large folio. Unpaginated. A stunning book.

First Edition in English, First Printing. Fully illustrated in color. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Small crease to corner of front free endpaper, otherwise fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.5 x 12 in. Unpaginated. A lovely copy.

First Thus. Translated from the German edition of 1580 by Anneliese Grnhaldt Sisco and Cyril Stanley Smith. Very good in original red buckram and very good dust jacket. Rare in this condition. Some soiling to endpapers, very light spotting to fore-edge; dust jacket spine-faded and lightly soiled and chipped. Binding square and tight, text unmarked and bright. Published by the University of Chicago Committee on Publication in the Physical Sciences, edited by Walter Bartky, Joseph E. Mayer, Warren C. Johnson, Cyril S. Smith, and William H. Zachariasen.

First Edition thus (1913). Quite rare. Printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, and sold at the museum. Includes photos and commentary on the Rosetta Stone. Better than good in original paper cover, a bit damp stained on edges, but not affecting the content, which is in very good condition, with clean text and unmarred. Cover with creases and closed tears along edges. The Rosetta Stone is a stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. There are only minor differences between the three versions, which made the Rosetta Stone key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts. Folio. Overall, a very nice copy of this famous academic work.