Search Results: Titles starting with E from Boston Book Company

1709. G., H. (Horat. Gram.) THE EAGLE AND THE ROBIN. An Apologue. Translated from the Original of Aesop, written Two Thousand Years since, and now rendered in familiar Verse... Together with TAFFEY'S TRIUMPH: Or, A New Translation of the Cambro-muo-maxia: In Imitation of Milton. By a Gentleman of Oxford. London: Printed and Sold by Henry Hills... 1709. 16 pp. Octavo, 7 x 4 3/8 in., disbound: The first and final (conjugate) leaves are detached and separated at the fold, else clean and very good. "Preface signed 'Horat. Gram.' presumably for Horace the schoolmaster. There is no evidence that it was translated from Aesop. Printed in Nichols, Collection III. 1-13 as by William King (1663-1712)... the attribution should be treated with suspicion. ... 'Taffey's triumph' is Daniel Bellamy's translation of Edward Holdsworth's Muscipula." (Foxon E5).

1933. JEFFREY, William. THE EAGLE OF CORUISK, Poems. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933. Small 8vo., decorated paper wrappers, 43 pp., some unopened. Review copy with publisher's solicitation laid-in. Very good plus with light sun to spine, light creasing to wrappers and a touch of edgewear.

1968. BROWN, Leslie & Dean Amadon. EAGLES, HAWKS AND FALCONS OF THE WORLD. Volume 2 [only]. Sponsored by the National Audobon Society. (New York): McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1968). 4to., red cloth; illustrated in color & black & white. Ink ownership to ffep. Fine.

1948. GOULD, Mary Earle. EARLY AMERICAN WOODEN WARE & other kitchen utensils. Fully illustrated by the author. Springfield, Pond-Ekberg Co., (1948). Illustrated with photographs throughout. 8vo., grey cloth, spine in gilt. A very good copy that shows some sunning at the spine and light dampstaining at the board perimeters.

1937. ALLEN, Frederick Lewis, et al... EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS. A consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch. With articles by Allen, Elliot Bisbee, Joseph E. Chandler, Kenneth Conant, et al...Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, (1937). Second printing. 4to., black cloth, lettered in gilt; color and black & white illustrations; untrimmed. Touch of soil, hint of sun to boards; just an occasional spot of thumbing internally, but overall, contents are fine and fresh; very good plus binding.

1952. CHAPMAN, Suzanne. EARLY AMERICAN DESIGN MOTIFS. 8 color plates, 353 illustrations. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1952). 4to., blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription of ffep, else a fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper.

1952. KAUFFMAN, Henry J. EARLY AMERICAN GUNSMITHS 1650-1850. Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1952. 94 pp. 4to., green cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Spine slightly fade, board slightly bowed. pencil notes on front flyleaf; interior clean, tight. B/w photo illustrations.

1936. GHENT, W.J. THE EARLY FAR WEST. A Narrative outline 1540-1850. New York: Tudor publishing Co., 1936. 8vo., green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine in gilt, illustrated throughout. Ex-lib. A very good copy with perforated library stamp at the title page, bookplate on verso and pastedown, minor soiling to the boards.

1905. KLEIN, Hon. Theodore B. & Hon. Isaac B. BROWN. EXTRACTS FROM PART ONE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR 1904: EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH OF CARLISLE...EARLY FOOTPRINTS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. [n.p.] Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1905. 75 pp. + numerous folding maps and plates, including color frontispiece map. 8vo., dark brown cloth with gilt cover lettering. Near fine, minor shelfwear. Maps and surveys in b/w.

1958. [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. From the Ledding J. Rosenwald Collection. An exhibition at the Library of COngress, April 2, 1958-August 31,1959. Washington: [L.O.C.], 1958. 8vo., wrappers; 37 pp. Mild soil., wear to wraps; clean internally. A very good copy.

1932. TREAT, Payson J. EARLY SINO-JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. Offprint, inscribed by the author, from the Pacific Historical review, March 1932. 19 pp., in plain wrappers with light wear and soil. Very good.

1959. (BECKER). EARLY TOWN ROADS OF CLIFTON PARK, Saratoga County, New York. Privately printed in 1959. Includes foldout map. Small 4to., brown wrappers, gilt. Text printed on recto only. Very good.

1983. VERGEZ, Robert. EARLY UKIYO-E MASTER OKAMURA MASANOBU. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd. (1983) First edition. Great Japanese Art series. 48 pp. Folio, apple green cloth stamped in dark red. Fine in near fine black/color pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped.

1914. CARMAN, Bliss and Mary Perry King. EARTH DEITIES and Other Rhythmic Masques. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1914. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., photo frontispiece. Just lightly bumped at the bottom opening corners, with a touch of shelfwear to cloth at the edges. Slight offsetting to endpapers. A near fine copy overall, in a dust jacket with moderate overall soil, light scuffing, a few nicks and small chips, including one which just barely affects the title type at the front panel. Scarce in the dust jacket. (BAL 2712).

1971. EVERSON, William. EARTH POETRY. [n.p.]; Graham Mackintosh, July 1971. Folio, White paper wraps illustrated with a photograph of Everson containing 1 four page signature, unbound, as issued. Signed by the author. A near fine copy with only light soiling at the wraps.

1914. AIKEN, Conrad. EARTH TRIUMPHANT. And Other Tales in Verse. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, review copy, of Aiken's first book. Cloth is worn a little wear at crown and heel, but still a pleasing copy, very good in all. (Bonnell A1).

FEFB. AIKEN, Conrad. EARTH TRIUMPHANT and Other Tales In Verse. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition of the author's first book; complimentary copy from publisher; Dorothy Lathrop's copy with her signature on the front flyleaf. The spine is slightly darkened with shelfwear to the heel and crown, else a near fine copy, clean and tight.

COOKE, Edna. DASENT, G. W. EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1921. 289 pp. 12mo., green cloth with color/gilt illustration on paper pastedown, front cover. Owner's ink presentation signature on verso of frontispiece, not affecting illustration. Golden Books series. A near fine bright copy, foxing to endpapers, title page, and edges of a few of the eight color plates. Dust jacket very good, with only light soil/foxing and several 1/8 inch or smaller chips at edges. Quite scarce in dust jacket.

1936. LENSKI, Lois. THE EASTER RABBIT'S PARADE. New York: Oxford University Press (1936). unpaginated. 8vo., color illustrated paper covered boards. Small (1/4 inch) chip to top of spine. Minior shelfwear to edges. In a good dust jacket with 2 inch chip to top of spine, small scrape to front cover, closed 3 inch tears to top of front panel, affecting rabbit's ear. Price on front flap is $1.00. Color lithographs in blue and brown and orange.

1930. (WARNER, Langdon, and JAYNE, Horace, Eds.). EASTERN ART. An Annual. Volume II, 1930. Philadelphia: College Art Assoc., 1930. 4to, 246 pp., with 136 plates, of which 8 are color, tipped-in. Cloth-backed black paper boards, rubbed at edges. One color ill. is creased. Overall very good.