Search Results: Authors starting with S from Alba's Books

London: Collins/ Fount Paperpacks, 1977. First PB Edition. Paperback. Fine. Sextodecimo. Early printing of the first paperbound edition from London in fine. clean condition. Paperback sleeve included.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Octavo. Publisher's blue gilt cloth with date on title page and 'First Printing' on copyright page. One of Lewis's most popular books on apologetics, in his unique style. A fine copy, clean and unmarked in bright spine gilt. A facsimile dust jacket will be provided at nominal cost,

New York: Harper One, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Octavo. Stated first edition with the '1' in a full number line. First book publication of these essays by Lewis previously available only in scarce periodicals. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition with original $3.00 flap price. A modern coming of age story by the author of the Hornblower books. Book is fine and unmarked except for minor scraping to bottom edges. Jacket has tiny chips along 2"" of bottom middle front edge and a 1/4"" chip at the edge of the spine, and is otherwise fine. An attractive copy in its Mylar cover.

Birmingham, MI: The Classics of Medicine Library, 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. As New. Tables and diagrams. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES for members of the Classics of Medicine Library, bound in full brown gilt Morocco with gilt decorations, all edges gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and silk ribbon marked. With the C. of M. Notes laid in. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked in bright cover gilt.

Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Dino C. Crisanti. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page and extra-illustrated by her, with no other name present. A pristine copy, clean, unclipped and unmarked.

New York: Mrs. O.S. Fowler, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Diagrams and illustrations. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Subtitled 'A Compendium of phreno-Organic Science, this was one of Fowler's early books on phrenology, with one of his earliest head charts. Publisher's original brown gilt decorated cloth with design of a human head with brain map. This copy belonged to Commander Ralph E. Duncan of the marine corps, USNR, and bears his stamp on the endsheet. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Very scarce.

New York: Mrs. O.S. Fowler, 1883. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Woodcut illustrations. Original embossed brown cloth with black titles and ornate, music sheet-style title page, with numerous woodcuts. A prime example of the discredited phrenologist's racist quakery, now a historical curiosity and main example of the misplaced eugenic beliefs of the period. Very good, clean and unmarked.

New York: O.S. Fowler, 1844. Third Edition, Enlarged and Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original brown gilt cloth. The bible of Phrenology by its founder, a disproved and now absurd pseudo-science that helped lay the basis for Eugenics and racist doctrines of a Master Race, especially with the Nazis. A historical document and curiosity nevertheless, important as such. Minor chipping to back edge of spine, else a very good, tight, clean and unmarked copy. Very scarce.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Robert Josephy. Original tan cloth with black title, single 1939 date on copyright page, and original thin orange card stock dust jacket. A book of humorous poems concerning cats, and one of Eliot's most popular works, written for his godchildren and an inspiration for the musical Cats! Book is fine, clean and unmarked. The iconic dust jacket is whole, clean and bright save for slight fading at edges, retaining its color. Price-clipped with a thin 1/2"" horizontal chip to the rear top edge. Jacket has been internally reinforced at folds with archival tissue not visible on front, the whole protected and enhanced by the archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Farrrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Enrico Arno. Stated first edition in the original decorated boards with gilt angel and yellow title. Design and decorations by noted Italian artist Enrico Arno for this short, moving essay by the great poet. A fine copy but for rubbing to spine edges.

New York: The Modern Library, 2001. First ML Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Duodecimo. With the '1' in a full number line. Introduction by Mary Karr for this compact, scholarly edition of Eliot's groundbreaking poem. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Has the 'A' on the copyright page. Features previously unpublished works. Edited by Christopher Ricks. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is clean and unclipped, and protected by a Brodart plastic cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Theresa Garrett Eliot frontispiece. With the 'A' on the copyright page. First publication of these famous lectures by Eliot, accompanied by his wife's sketch of the poet delivering his lectures at Cambridge. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Manchester: Carcanet, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Vittorio Bolafo Dj Art. Has all the first edition points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected by the Mylar plastic dust jacket cover.

Manchester: Carcanet, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Embossed seal on flyleaf corner, else a clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

E.P. Dutton & Company, 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Translated by Patsy Southgate and Joan Wright Smith. Tiny v chip to edge of rear jacket panel, protected by the Brodart cover. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

Boston: House of Greystoke, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. A clean, tight, unmarked copy in u nfaded cloth.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece. A superb copy, with ARC review slip laid in. Out of print.