Search Results: Authors starting with E from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. A bit of light wear to the dust jacket; otherwise a very good copy.

An 1852 autograph letter signed (ALS) by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, a British author, art critic, and historian, to her friend, the singer Charlotte Fletcher, to cancel her performance due to a scheduling conflict. Lady Eastlake wrote that her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake, Director of the National Gallery in London, received a summons to "preside at some examination for prizes at the School of Design." Born Elizabeth Rigby (1809-93), she assumed the title Lady Eastlake upon marrying Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865). Prior to her marriage at the age of 40, she lived in Edinburgh and was part of distinguished literary and social circles. She became a very popular sitter for early photographs, appearing in more than twenty calotypes; one of these is believed to have been the first photograph viewed by Prince Albert. In 1857, she published the groundbreaking article "Photography" in the Quarterly Review, in which she wrote: "It is now more than fifteen years ago that specimens of a new and mysterious art… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip taped to the front flyleaf. Includes "Money" by Karel Capek and "The Starling and the Angel One-Hundred-and-One" by Luigi Pirandello. Red cloth binding, with gilt lettering. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. In the scarce dust jacket, which is shelfworn and chipped, with browning along the spine and folds and some soiling and smudging.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 971 p. Numerous textual figures and tables. This seminal work brings together, for the first time, an immense body of information on Indian uses of plant foods and fibers in all the arid regions of North America, including Mexico. The period covered predates the appearance of humankind in the New World and extends through the period of the Paleo-Indian up to and inclusive of historical times. Also contains sections devoted to wild animals, which include discussions of many insect species and the ways in which they were used for food. This copy is inscribed and dated by Ebeling to the renowned entomologist Roy Snelling on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black lettering. A bit of mild soiling along the edges. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed, with a small tear to the front panel and a very faint stain to the bottom corner of the rear panel; otherwise very good. Signed by Author.

Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...presents both the fundamentals and the major research topics in statistical physics of systems out of equilibrium." Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics, Volume 8. Octavo: 329 p. with textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 250 illustrations. The colour plate and text illustrations from drawings by Abbot McClure. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914. Eleventh impression. Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with red and black stamping. Internally crisp and clean, and partially uncut. A remarkably fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Winnipeg: The University of Manitoba Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Edited by Gerald Bowler. Frontispiece portrait by Walter Gramatte, with numerous textual photographs and illustrations. [Winnipeg]: The University of Manitoba Press, 1985. First edition. "A warm, personal memoir of one of Canada's best-known composers." Inscribed by the author on the title page. Tall octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Some very light fading along the extremities of the dust jacket. Better than very good.

Tucson, Arizona: The Arizona Historical Society, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 102 p. Profusely illustrated. Arizona Historical Society Historical Monograph No. 3. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Oblong. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some very light spotting to the top edge, with just a hint of rubbing to the dust jacket; else near fine.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Special Presentation Edition. The author's first novel, a work about the Erie Canal. The novel was adapted for the 1934 play The Farmer Takes a Wife and the 1935 film of the same name. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with pink titles. Occasional light mottling to the boards. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a few unobtrusive scratches to the rear board and some minor edgewear; otherwise very good.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This delightful tale about a hunting dog seeking admision to heaven received the 1955 Boys' Clubs of America award. Pictures by William Gropper. Octavo. Original gray cloth-covered boards over a yellow cloth spine, with black titles. A crisp, unread copy. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Historical novel about settlers in the central Mohawk Valley of the New York frontier during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It served as the basis for the 1939 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Octavo: 592 p. with endpaper maps. Original blue cloth binding, with orange stamping. An especially crisp example. The dust jacket is moderately toned along the spine and folds, with some mild edgewear and a few neat tape reinforcements to the verso; otherwise very good.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 257 p. Ten portraits, with textual maps. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Arthur Doubleday & Co, 1908. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, with the errata is tipped in on the Contents leaf. Small octavo: 158 p. with illustrations by Charles Flower and Louise Glazier. Finely bound by the French binder Cuzin in full crushed dark brown morocco, with a different large tan morocco inlay of a historic buildings in Paris on each board, gilt titles, five raised bands, decorative dentelles, and brown silk endpapers. The original illustrated paper wrappers are bound in. Fine. Housed in a morocco-tipped, marbled paper-covered slipcase.

London and New York: Regency Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed by Edwards on the half-title. Fitzwalter's highly personalized account books "readily illuminate the life of a nobleman and his dependents in the second quarter of the 18th century: how he rebuilt his country house; how his town house was run; how he travelled; how he managed his financial affairs. Those interested in specific Georgian topics will find plenty on furniture, clothing, medical matters, pictures and books." Frontispiece, with four illustrations. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. The contents are sagging a bit. Some very light sun fading along the spine, with minor bumping to the lower corners; else about very good.

New York: Dutton, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An imaginative love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siecle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. Edwards began writing this, his debut novel, as a young English teacher in 1974, and continued to layer and refine the manuscript until its completion in 2007. Inscribed on the half-title by Edwards to Glenn Goldman (1950-2009), founder of Book Soup, the independent bookstore in Hollywood he built into a Sunset Boulevard landmark. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Tony Cragg on the title page. The catalogue of a 2013-14 exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole. Cragg (b.1949) is a British sculptor known for his exploration of unconventional materials, including plastic, fiberglass, bronze, and Kevlar. His sculptures embody a frozen moment of movement, resulting in swirling abstractions. Quarto: 152 p. with color photographs throughout. Original blue cloth binding, with light blue titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Press of J.J. Little, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed by Carl Eickemeyer on a prefatory blank leaf. An account of the author's travels across New Mexico and westward into Arizona and the Navajo Reservation. Includes material on cattle thieves and the Button gang of New Mexico. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Octavo: 270 p. Original green cloth binding, with silver and black stamping. Small bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Some very mild rubbing to the boards; otherwise very good. Six-Guns 666.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 300 p. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy.

Paris: Albin Michel, 1978. Wraps. Near fine. Inscribed by El Campesino on the title page. Memoirs of the Republican military commander during the Spanish Civil War, telling of his political journey from anarcho-syndicalism, through communism, to support for candidates of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) in the 1977 general elections. Octavo: [304] p. with textual photographs. Original glossy paper wrappers. Some light edgewear; else near fine.

New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated, largely in color. The internationally renowned photographer and filmmaker Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) demonstrates the means he used to produce the distinguished pictures that made him famous. A frequent contributor to Life magazine, he also created an enduring visual record of African life from 1947 to 1973. Faint hint of tobacco to the contents. Some very light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise an exceptional copy.