Search Results: Titles starting with E from Voewood Rare Books

New York: Alfred A Knopf 1977, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 200. Original white cloth-backed green-papered boards, spine lettered in gold, title blocked blind to upper board, top edge dyed blue. Original colour pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fred Mardellino. Both boards very lightly sunned to top and bottom edges. Dust jacket evenly soiled, price sticker attached, one very small close tear. First Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first-person account of the journey of a woman held hostage by a bank robber on the run. Winner of the 1977 American Academy award. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.

[Vienna]: [widow of Alberti for T.Mollo] [1799], 1799. Broadsheet (65 x 48 cm). Contemporary, probably original, pink cloth backing marbled boards. With fifty numbered woodcuts on forty three sheets, the first five sheets comprising the legend by Stabius, the last sheet also containing three woodcut inscriptions numbered fifty one to fifty three, the entire design made up from 174 original blocks and eighteen etchings by Bartsch on three sheets. Some splitting of cloth at joints but holding firm, front free endpaper renewed and helping reinforce front inner hinge, a few trivial marks at corners, but an excellent copy, clean, and fresh, with clear impressions printed on strong laid paper. Fourth impression of Dürer's Ehrenpforte, one of the great giant woodcuts of the Renaissance, printed from the original sixteenth-century blocks under the supervision of Adam Bartsch. The blocks are now preserved at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. The work was intended for assembly as a gigantic wall print… Read More

Chicago: St Luke Society 1902, 1902. First edition. 12mo (185x120mm). pp. 75. Two facsimile letters and five photographs. Original green boards, sympathetically rebacked, upper board printed in gold, lettering fading. Corners worn but overall a very good copy. The earliest known full length confession by a female addict. Annie Meyers, describes her descent from "well balanced Christian woman" to "a haggard and wretched physical and mental wreck". Her problems began with Birney's Catarrh Remedy and the book traces her numerous arrests, her progressive physical decline illustrated by photographs and her eventual recovery. "I believe that I am the only living person in the world to-day who ever took 200 grains (over 12 grams) in twenty-four hours and survived". While Meyers focuses her invective primarily on cold and headache remedies, 99% of which, she claims contain cocaine, it is likely that she would have used other medicines such as asthma and hay fever snuffs,… Read More

Norimbergae [Nuremberg]: Michaelis Endteri 1662, 1662. Quarto, 190x152mm. pp. [26], 832, 68. Red morocco, gilt with the arms of Jean-Baptiste Colbert at the centre of the upper and lower covers, spine with five raised bands, compartments with crowned monogram "JBC". Colbert was Louis XIV's Minister of Finance and the creator of one the finest private libraries of the seventeenth century, containing about 23,000 books and over 5,000 manuscripts. Title page has inscription "Bibliotheca Colbertina". Front pastdown has armorial book-label of Harriman, Lecomte du Nouy. This is Mary Harriman, the widow of the scientist Pierre Lecomte du Nouy. Edges sprinkled red. Some rubbing to joints and to the foot of the spine, corners and edge of lower board bumped but otherwise a nice copy. Internally excellent with some browning and foxing and a worm track to leaf N2. George Richter (1592-1651) was a lawyer from Nuremberg and later the Vice-Chancellor of Altdorf University. He corresponded with many of the leading… Read More

Croton-on-Hudson Menses Inc 1984, 1984. 1st ltd ed of 100 copies thus. Square 4to concertina-folded leaves, pp 101, illustrated throughout. A Near-fine copy with some marks to the first leaf - else crisp and clean. Housed as issued in a red brocade sleeve with a laid-on paper title label. In a Very Good grey slipcase with some very light wear to the corners. SIGNED by the artist to the second leaf.

London: Victor Gollancz 1984, 1984. First edition, advance proof copy. 8vo. pp. 278. Soft blue cover, black lettering to upper cover. Small stain on upper cover. A very good+ copy.

Paris: Collection Eclectique 1911, 1911. Limited edition. No. 4 of 20 copies (from a total edition of 250 copies) with an original watercolour by Paul Guignebault dated Juillet 1910. The nineteen etchings by Guignebault are in three states, the final one in each set being coloured. With woodcut head- and tail-pieces and chapter headings, a suite of which is bound in at the end. 395x205mm. pp. [4 bl], [4], 206, [2], [37 leaves of woodcuts]. Stunning binding by René Kieffer (signed to foot of upper turn-in). Green morocco decorated in gilt, blind, with brown and red morocco inlays forming leaves and berries. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt. Pictorial silk doublures, patterned silk front and rear free endpapers and two marbled preliminary and rear blank pages. Original wrappers bound in. Some very slight rubbing to spine. With marble paper covered and morocco-edged slipcase. Internally very good, this is an excellent copy in a lavish binding.

London Grant Richards 1901, 1901. First edition. 1901. Excellent copy of this rare work on English Church Needlework. "There is a great deal of technical knowledge in this book, and Miss Hall's advice as to materials and stitches is excellent". The book is in its original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contents are fine. Well illustrated in black and white throughout.

London: Offices of "The Studio" 1902, 1902. Eight parts in original grey wrappers 430x308mm lettered in white. With introductory essay by Frederick Wedmore, a commentary on the painters illustrated and a list of water-colour painters. Sixty six water-colour reproductions tipped in on large white heavy paper (measures 418x295 and the prints vary but are around 240x160mm) and each one protected by tissue paper on which is printed the details of the artist and the painting. All housed in a blue paper covered card folder with a label to upper cover. Some marking to folder and fading to grey wrappers but overall in very good condition and the prints are particularly fine.

London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd 1899, 1899. First edition. pp. [xxxi], 113. 52 plates, six in colour. Original publisher's green cloth with title, author's name and publisher stamped in gold on spine, "The English Bookman's Library" stamped in gold on upper cover. Contents are in excellent condition. A lovely, clean, tight copy of this definitive study. Fine "The term 'embroidered bookbinding' usually describes a book bound in textile, decorated with a design made for the book and worked in coloured and metallic threads on both covers. The cloth was embroidered separately before it was glued or stitched to the boards of a ready bound book; embroidered covers do not form part of the binding structure. The majority of embroidered bindings were produced by professional needleworkers". (British Library). Cyril Davenport's book is a "full account of the history of embroidered book-covers in England, and of the different methods of… Read More

Leigh-on-Sea, Essex: F.Lewis (Publishers) Limited 1937, 1937. First edition. 325x265mm. pp. viii, 102 pages of text interspersed with 139 plates, some photographs on glossy papers, others drawings. Each plate has several examples of metalwork so this book is profusely illustrated and is a valuable reference tool. Original cream cloth letter in gilt with publisher's device stamped in gilt to upper cover. Original dust jacket with staining to spine and small chipping to head and foot of spine. Rare in the dustjacket particularly in this very good condition. Internally in excellent condition. A nice book on a curiously fascinating subject.

London: Printed for J. Johnson 1803, 1803. Second edition, known as the Great Quarto edition and, with its altered title and expanded and amended text, "regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work" (ODNB). Quarto, 265x205mm. pp. viii, [4], 610. Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, black morocco label lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to extremities, bottom corners strengthened. Front pastedown has book label of Christopher Clark Geest. Some slight foxing but overall a handsome copy of an important, influential and controversial book. PMM (reference to the first edition) states that "the central idea of the essay - and the hub of Malthusian theory - was a simple one. The population of a community increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically". When the food supply becomes insufficient, the population is reduced by what Malthus calls "vice" (contraception, homosexuality,… Read More

[London]: Printed for C. Henderson 1765, 1765. First edition. 8vo. 203x120mm. pp. [4], iii, [1], 213, [11]. One engraved plate: "A Specimen of a Chart of Biography". Nineteenth century half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Front pastedown has book plate of The Queens' College, Cambridge and the stamp "Withdrawn from Queens' College Library, Cambridge and disposed of". Joint with upper board split but holding. Corners a little worn and some slight scuffing to spine and repair to head of spine. Internally very good and overall a nice copy of an early work in which Priestley argued that education should provide the useful, practical skills required for the young to become engaged members of society. So, classical languages, literature and history should disappear in favour of modern languages, mathematics, law and constitutional history. Thus a new class of aspiring bourgeois capitalists would be created and then entrenched given that the poor were to be excluded from this… Read More

London: John Thomas Smith 1815, 1815. Second edition. Folio. Title page and forty etchings (of forty eight) sold as a collection of plates. Brown full morocco, raised bands with simple double fillet and fleur de lys design in blind, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers with Van Gelder watermark. One very small mark on the upper cover and slight rubbing to corners and two small areas of rubbing to the front turn-ins but overall in excellent condition. Internally fine with the plates in superb condition and only slight foxing to the margins. The first edition of John Thomas Smith's Etchings of Remarkable Beggars was published in early 1816 (although the engraved hand-coloured title page is dated 1815) with twenty three plates. It was later reissued with forty eight plates (of which forty are present in this copy). Remarkable Beggars is an important work not just because it is a fine example of Smith's skill as a draughtsman but also due to its highlighting of the serious poverty and vagrancy… Read More

Leipzig: Parthenon-Verlag 1927, 1927. First edition. 239x154mm. pp. 64. Original paper wrappers illustrated with a drawing of a Greek temple and a photograph of a naked woman. Slight creasing to the edges of the upper cover but otherwise in very good condition. Internally near fine with the photographs in superb condition. Ten pages of text (in German) and 48 black and white photographs by many of the leading photographers of the nude in 1920s German including Lotte and Rolf Herrlich and Dr Ernst Schertel. The text explores some of the moral and ethical questions raised by public nudity. �

Mediolani: Ex Typographia Pauli Antonii Montani 1733, 1733. First edition. 4to. 227x175mm. pp. [XVI], 142 [2bl], 6 folding plates with 55 diagrams. Contemporary vellum, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt flower motif. Covers a little marked and soiled. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. An excellent copy of a scarce book of which Worldcat locates only sixteen copies worldwide. We have traced no copies at auction. Girolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) was a Jesuit priest and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time although the significance of his revolutionary ideas was not fully appreciated until 150 years after his death. As a young man, he taught at a Jesuit college in Milan where he encountered the mathematical work of the Ceva brothers. He spent most of his life teaching philosophy, theology and mathematics at the University of Pavia. Euclides ab omni nævo vindicatus is Saccheri's third work on mathematics and the work for… Read More

Paris: Éditions de La Martinière 2000, 2000. First edition. Large 4to. pp. 431. Original black cloth with title and author printed in black on the spine. Photographic dust jacket with title and author printed in grey to upper cover and spine. There is some very minor bumping to the bottom right of the upper cover but otherwise this is in fine condition throughout. Text in French. Eight page introductory essay by Lélia Wanick Salgado setting out the aim of the book: "This book tells the story of humanity on the move". The four hundred pages of Salgado's stark black and white images tell that story in the most elemental photographic form. The book is divided into four sections. Part one is about migrants and refugees generally - "the instinct for survival". Part two covers "the African tragedy", the third part, Latin America; and part four is about Asia and migration into the cities. This in a moving and fascinating record of one of the most… Read More

Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell 1814, 1814. First edition. 8vo. pp. [6], 180. Original grey-brown paper covered boards, rebacked, original paper label to spine (torn and missing left and right edges), lettered in black. Edges of boards slightly worn. Internally very good with some foxing in places, leaves uncut. Front free endpaper has ownership inscription of A.M. Perkins. Upper cover has a gift inscription (only partially legible) "To. Perkins Esqr, 7 Hereford [?] Street, Red Lion Square, London or [...] Regents Park. W.J [...ins] Compliments [.....] Dublin". Rare in commerce, the last copy appearing at auction in 1980. � William Higgins (1763-1825) was born in Ireland but moved to London in 1784 where his uncle Bryan Higgins was a doctor and chemist. Higgins then attended Oxford and although he left without a degree he worked as an assistant to the Professor of Chemistry and carried out his own experiments in the basement laboratory of the old Ashmolean Museum. In 1789,… Read More

London: John Murray, 1935. First edition. Signed by Wren and with his bookplate. 8vo. 187x120mm. pp. 464, [4pp publisher's list]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Lacking the scarce dust jacket but the striking front cover of this has been pasted onto the front free endpaper. Fading and soiling to spine and some slight foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Wren which is signed by the author. The title page is stamped with the name "F.N.Ablewhite". Wren's purpose in this colonial adventure novel can perhaps be best summed up by reference to its dedication to the "Friends of India, the real India of three hundred million unrepresented peasants, whose sole "political aspirations" are that the peace, the security, the justice, and the protection provided by the British Raj may for ever remain to them undisturbed, unweakened and unchanged".

London [actually New York]: Max Harzof 1888 [actually c1924], 1924. Pirated edition. pp 87. 245 by 182mm. Rust marks in inner margin throughout, otherwise a clean and fresh copy. Grey/green paper boards and cloth spine, lightly rubbed, trace of label removed from upper board. Good According to Thomas Seccombe in his DNB article, only twelve copies were published of this selection of passages from English literary classics intended to show that even the greatest works have "dirty bits". In fact, nineteen have been located. In 1924, a facsimile was published by Max Harzof in New York. It is thought that there are fewer copies of this than of the original. The publisher Henry Vizetelly began issuing English translations of Zola's novels and by 1888 had published thirteen titles. That of "The Soil" ("La Terre") proved too much for the authorities and in November 1888 he was brought to trial for "publishing an obscene libel". At the beginning of the trial… Read More