Search Results: Authors starting with E from Crane's Bill Books

Norfolk, CT: New Directions Books, 1951. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good/Poor. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 482 pp. Ownership signature of poet Margaret Randall on front free endpaper. Good only, with spine stained, chipped and frayed at crown; very faint stains and spotting to covers, corners of front board bumped, top edge dusty; tanning and foxing to page edges, endpapers, and first and last few leaves, and endpapers stained. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Front panel and front and rear flaps only of dust jacket present, and worn, chipped, creased and torn.

New York: Grove Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 240 pp. Faint small stain on top edge and mark on bottom edge that is either a stain or remainder stripe; otherwise an attractive, clean copy. Jacket has some dustsoiling at spine and folds, otherwise bright and clean, with head and heel of spine lightly bumped, a couple of chips at lower edge.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 8vo. Warmly inscribed by the author and signed "Max." xv, 249 pp. Head and heel of spine and lower edge of front board lightly bumped, small faint stain on front board, page edges tanned, top edge very lightly foxed. Jacket present but worn, soiled, chipped and torn, with insect damage in several places. Later printing.

New York: New Directions, 1983. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Fair. viii, 231 pp. Small bit of glue residue, probably from binding, at top of rear joint, otherwise a Fine copy. Jacket is Fair only (sunned, lightly soiled, bumped and chipped at edges, with small piece missing at head of spine, short closed tear at rear top edge). Inscribed, signed and dated by the poet.

Winston-Salem, NC: Stuart Wright, 1980. Limited . Boards. Very Good. 8vo. [13] pp. No. 77 of an edition of 165 copies, 125 numbered, signed by the poet. Spine faded and lightly bumped at head and heel, small faint spot on front. No dust jacket as issued.

[Philadelphia]: Privately Printed, 1928. Limited . Boards. Good/Very Good. 12mo. 139 pp. Kenn Stuart, illus. Limitation not specified. Inscribed and signed in 1932 to book collector Richard Gimbel. A typed presentation letter from the author is mounted on front pastedown, with addressed envelope laid in; in it he apologizes for the less-than-perfect condition of this copy, and invites Gimbel to visit him to discuss Poe, whose work featured prominently in Gimbel's collection. A second empty envelope of unknown relevance is laid in. With Gimbel's tiny (post-)ownership label ("Once Richard Gimbel's") on front pastedown. Some wear including tears to paper backstrip at head, rear edge, and heel; backstrip is also creased, and partially loosened from binding; binding itself is mostly holding but cracked in a couple of places and tender; there are a few notes in pencil on rear pastedown. Jacket lightly handled, dusty, edgeworn.

Syracuse, NY: Light Work, 2017. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Pages unnumbered, color and b&w plates. Two provocative series, "Hoods" (2016) and "Du-Rags" (2017). Issued as Contact Sheet 194, concurrent with the Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery exhibition of the same name. Wrappers edgeworn, corners bumped. Size: Small 4to

Baku: Ishyg, 1976. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 190 pp., 193 color and b/w illus. Medieval (i.e. "middle-aged") pottery, rugs, stone carvings, metalwork, etc. In Russian and Azerbaijani with a two-page summary in English. Head and heel of spine lightly bumped, small area of erasure visible on front free endpaper, number inked out on colophon. Jacket edgeworn with a couple of small closed tears, crease at rear spine edge, some discoloration visible at interior only. Size: 4to

Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1983. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 224 pp. Slight lean to spine, otherwise Fine. Jacket a bit rubbed, edgeworn, lightly bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. Size: 8vo

Madrid: Fundacion Largo Caballero, 1988. Self-Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 175 pp., illustrated throughout including section of color plates. Photos, graphics and documents of the Union General de Trabajadores. Texts in Spanish. Wrappers and page edges a bit soiled, corners bumped, previous owner name. Size: Size: Wide 8vo

Quito, Ecuador: Abrapalabra Editores, 1991. Fourth Printing . Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 174 pp. Cuentos. With author's card stapled inside front cover. Wrappers worn and creased, corners lightly bumped, slight evidence of moisture to top corners of last few pages only. Size: 12mo

New York: Christie's, 1996. Wrappers. Good. 4to. Auction catalog. 123 pp., illus. throughout (some color).115 lots. Front cover and first few leaves heavily bumped at upper corner and top of fore-edge.

New York: Christie's, 1996. Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. Auction catalog. 37 pp., illus. Corners bumped.

Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, Gemeentemuseum Den Hag, 2002. Wrappers. Good. 4to. 163 pp., illustrated in color throughout (photos). In Dutch and English. Corners bumped, lower corners more noticeably.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). x, 140 pp. Treaties, proclamations, etc., many in Spanish. Spine, edges of boards, and page edges sunned; upper corners of boards bumped. Size: 8vo

Paris: Maeght editeur, 1991. Self-Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo. Pages unnumbered, color plates. Texts in French. Paintings from 1973-82. Wrappers lightly edgeworn with just a touch of dustsoiling at rear, otherwise Fine. Exhibition catalog, Cloitre des Cordeliers, Tarascon.

Arequipa, Peru: International Alpaca Association, 1998. Self-Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 92 pp., color photos throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers, corners lightly bumped. 4to Size: 4to

Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1933. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 209 pp., illus. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, corners somewhat heavily; page edges tanned and lightly soiled; book plate on front pastedown, gift inscription on free endpaper, and name (in Japanese) on title page. Lacks dust jacket.

Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1989. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 83 pp., color illus. Prologo de Arturo Azuela. In Spanish. Well-illustrated account of Escalona's film of the same title, a documentary which uses animations of Nahuatl pictographs. Slight lean to spine and minor wear at head of spine and upper corners of boards, otherwise Fine. Jacket lightly handled, edgeworn, with faint soiling to spine and folds, short tear at upper edge of front panel. Coleccion Biblioteca del Editor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Estudios Churubusco Azteca.

San Diego, CA: Rock J. Walker, 1991. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Approx. 70 pp. (unnumbered), mostly illustrations, including 3 pp. in color. Includes a selection of early drawings, a generous selection of woodcuts, wood engravings and lithographs, and several photographs. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn, corners very lightly bumped, a few pen-point indentations (but no marks) to front cover. Size: Horizontal Format (8.5x11")