Search Results: Authors starting with E from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. With 24 colour plates and 66 black and white plates, this is the first major reconsideration of Johns's place, after a prodigious early career and slow decline. His unusual skills as a portrait painter and ability to tap the bohemian spirit of his circle shine on to his death in 1960, however.

A short series of 14 musings on and around the themes that propelled The Name of The Rose to become a massive best-seller.
"I felt like poisoning a Monk" says Eco, and the rest followed naturally. This small book has become rather sought after.
Perfect copy, apart from a previous owner blind stamp to half-title page.
Hardcover.

An old-fashioned guide to the myriad ways plants have been used in traditional British life.
450 different species of common plants are arranged by areas they can be found and the multiple ways country folk have found to eat, drink or just cultivate their flowers.
Published from an age when horses were still more common than tractors, this is still a fascinating compendium of folk custom.
Hardcover

Eggers has become something of a cult figure with his politically forthright subject matter and a hip publishing empire in San Francisco.
This account of a Syrian-American's efforts to help the victims of the Hurricane disaster in New Orleans and his subsequent arrest by racist officials, is a damning portrait of the many failures of the Bush regime, but ultimately holds out hope for the spirit of America.
With back half-sleeve in place of a conventional jacket.

Hardcover.

First American edition, with full number line.
375 pages. A very good copy of author's celebrated first book.
Gripping account of teenagers acting as parents to a younger brother, protecting him from the big, bad world.
Hardcover, with minor wear to book edges.

First UK edition, tenth printing
A lovely copy of a collection of 8 essays written to address aspects of poetry and its relation to society.
Hardcover

London: Bantam Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Elton's fifth novel, SIGNED on the title page, with no dedication. A London social worker's life is turned upsidedown by the re-appearance of an old American boyfriend, now a top Army General, as well as the unwelcome attentions of a deranged stalker from her work life.

Englander writes of the time of terror in Argentina's dirty war, when even children were not immune to sudden disappearance.
After the huge success of his first book, a collection of short fiction, this is Englander's eagerly-awaited, first proper novel, boldly SIGNED on the title page.
Hardcover.