Search Results: Titles starting with E from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Tall Octavo. Original green cloth; illustrated with black and white photos; light wear at extremities; internally fine; a near fine copy.

New York: John Day Company, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in bue cloth with gilt lettering spine, gilt design lower corner front cover. Very good copy with fading to gilt on spine, mild wear to spine tips, short closed tear top of first few pages. 277 pp.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. 109pp. Illustrated by Alicia Austin, bound in red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dust jacket with minimal edge wear. The third collection of the authors's works. The present volume contains all known previously published verse not included in the preceding verse collections.

Boston: De Wolf, Fisk & Co, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. Illustrated with 10 beautiful hand colored plates showing various North American bird eggs. Bound in green cloth lettered in gilt; a very good copy, internally clean and bright. Ghost of number on spine, no other markings of any kind. Frontispiece tissue guard missing.

New York: Objectivist. Original Wrappers. Octavo. Offered are eight very good to near fine pamphlets bound in original staple bound printed wrappers as follows: "Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise" (1946); "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World" (1960); "Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand" (1964); "Art and Cognition" (1971); "The Age of Envy" (1971); "The Moral Factor" (1976); "Cultural Update" (1978); "Textbook of Americanism" (n.d.).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First edition, Second Impression, Bound in maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine copy with minmal fading spine. Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923. His "oil Drop Experiment" (published 1913) was the first measurement of the fundamental physical constant of the charge on a single electron. xii, 268, [2] pp. 5 photographic plates, figs., tables, index. Nice copy with text clean and binding tight.

New York; (1950): D. Van Nostrand Co. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. First printing of the 'First Book on Semiconductors'. by the co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel Prize winner, 1956) 558pp. Bound in light blue cloth, spine lettering gilt over black, rear end sheets are appendixes B-D to the periodic table of elements and energy conversion chart i.e. energy in electron volts. Previous owner and inventor's name Haskell Ginns to front fly leaf; long extracted book review of this title laid in.

London: John Weale, 1852. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. 2 vols. in one, 312pp., 12p. publisher's catalog at rear, frontispiece woodcut depicting "Lord of the Isle" steam locomotive, illustrated throughout with many diagrams, charts, tables and illustrations of various other engines. Bound in green embossed cloth over stiff paper stock, pale yellow endpapers, speckled edges, paper labels to upper cover and spine indicate Virtue as the publisher because they purchased all of Weale's publications. A bit of sunning to spine. A very good copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. First issue with the spine lettered "Cantry" rather than "Gantry" 432pp Bound in blue cloth lettered, ruled and blocked in orange. In lightly worn dust jacket with a tiny circular piece cut away from front flap (price). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

[Lyon; Freres Perisse: L'Academie Francoise. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo. Discours qui a remporte le Prix de L'Academie Francoise en 1763. 132pp. Bound in original gray paper wraps, uncut with wide margins. Edge wear to wrappers, small loss at spine ends; a trace of occasional foxing.

Philadelphia: Intrigue Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "THANKS SO MUCH! READ ON!" TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY STEVE BREWER ON TITLE PAGE. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 314pp.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSONS ON TITLE PAGE. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 393 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS ON TITLE PAGE. A very good+ copy with foxing and edge wear covers. In a very good+ dust jacket with mild edge wear and light foxing verso of dust jacket. 280 pp.

Philadelphia; 1845-46: Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. With marginal readings together with a copious and original selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages, exhibited in a manner hitherto unattempted. Engraved half-title, 2 title pages, 2 frontispieces, illustrated with 6 maps(some folding) 7 engravings, and 1 folding chart, all bound in original green morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, raised bands with compartments gilt decorated, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. A lovely little copy showing on very minor spots of rubbing to joints and edges, and a few ocassional spots of foxing, contemporary owner's name.

Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1841. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 24 Mo. A near fine copy bound in contemporary full black leather with gilt lettering and decoration spine, gilt illustration covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page. A beautiful little bible. viii, 587 pp. 190 pp.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 139pp. Bound in red cloth, paper spine label lettered in black. Very light occasional foxing to the first few leaves. In printed dust jacket with small stain rear panel.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1985. Original Wraps. Very Good+. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author and with TLS on Space Industries letterhead and envelope laid in. Revised and enlarged edition to include Joe Allen's first-hand account of the triumphant satellite rescue mission. Illustrated with excellent color photos. 239(1)pp., bound in pictorial wraps; a very good+ clean bright copy.

New York: E P Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover With Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A near fine copy with minimal scuffs ffep, slight staining top edge in a near fine dust jacket with fading spine of dust jacket. 335 pp.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. PRESENTATION TO VIVIAN DE SOLA PINTO, AND SIGNED S.T.W., but the inscription may be secretarial, with De Sola Pinto's bookplate front pastedown. Vivian de Sola Pinto was a British poet, literary critic and historian, and a leading D. H. Lawrence scholar who appeared in defence of Penguin Books in the 1960 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" trial. Author's first book, 103 pp. Bound in blue and black marbled boards, paper spine label. A very good copy with fading spine, light scattered foxing.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. FIRST EDITION, Author's First Book, 103pp., bound in blue and black marbled boards, paper spine label, mostly unopened, a handsome copy, fine in fine dust jacket with minor toning to edges of jacket.