Search Results: Titles starting with E from James Arsenault & Company

Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co., J. H. Buffords Lith., [1860]. Lithograph on India paper, 9.5" x 16.25", mounted on larger sheet with title and credits. CONDITION: Good, two repaired tears in top and bottom margins, moderate soiling to margins. A scarce lithograph depicting Echo Lake in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, at the foot of Cannon Mountain, after a painting or drawing by Benjamin Stone. A wonderfully subtle image printed on India paper, this moody lithograph captures the wildness and majesty of the scene, with a dramatic burst of light breaking through the otherwise glowering sky and spilling across the mountainside. Landscape artist Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone (1829-1906) studied with White Mountains painter Benjamin Champney and Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey. His works were exhibited at the National Academy and Boston Athenaeum. After serving as an army officer in the Civil War, Stone lived in Catskill, New York, and focused on painting, journalism and politics. He is noted… Read More

Birmingham L. D., Clarke, Kingston Road, printed by W. G. Proverbs, Ledsam Street, 1868. 18 mo (16 cm), printed purple wrappers. 31 pp., song lyrics on back wrapper. A tale of spiritual redemption by a fiddler nicknamed "Fiddler Joss" (given name Joshua Poole), an ex-con who found the Lord in the Wakefield Jail (West Yorkshire, England) and toured giving inspirational speeches to organizations such as the Odd Fellows. The song printed on the back wrapper is entitled "The Prison Bell. Sung by Fiddler Joss." CONDITION: Soiled wrappers, bumping with 1 cm loss at corners, worn at extremities, creases on back wrapper, foxing throughout, spine and contents intact.

New York: R.H. Russell, 1899. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10" x 7.5"), half linen, gilt brown paper over boards. Supplementary frontis. port. of Whistler, 78 pp., occasional Whistler butterfly and other ornaments in text. Untrimmed. Colophon signed by Whistler with his butterfly signature. Original albumen print photo of Whistler affixed to front pastedown, with stamp of London Stereoscopic Company in the lower right corner. Newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Whistler laid in. CONDITION: Good, moderate wear to extremities, spine toned, covers rubbed, light offsetting and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, light offsetting from laid in clippings to colophon page, page opposite, and one other page, terminal endpaper discolored, otherwise clean throughout. First edition, limited to two hundred and fifty signed copies, "one hundred and twenty five for France - one hundred and twenty five for America." This copy is number 13 from the American run. From the library of etcher, poster-artist and friend of… Read More

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. 12mo, three quarter green calf with marbled paper over boards. Frontis., 128 pp., 5 etchings, Limited edition, signed by the author and the publishers. This copy is letter M of 26 lettered copies. Further inscribed by publisher Dana Estes to Mary Ingraham Davies on the half-title. Etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell are from drawings by Frank T. Merrill. CONDITION: Very good, some wear at extremities.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. Hardcover. No jacket. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), green cloth, paper title label on spine. Frontis., xvi, [2], 19-40 pp., [2] blank leaves, b&w illus throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Author inscription in ink on front free endpaper, reading "To Ernest, with all my heart, Bob, 1918." CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at extremities, a few light spots to covers, a few light stains to preliminaries. First edition. An early depiction of cyborgs and technologically modified humans from the early years of the 20th century. Inscribed by Davis to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell. Includes a facsimile of a typed letter from T. Roosevelt expressing his hearty congratulations.

Washington D.C., 1878. Gedney, photo-lith., 466 Penn. Ave. Washington D.C.. Albumen print, 4.2" x 5", plus margins. CONDITION: Very good. A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett's noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key. The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden won 184 electoral votes of the 185 required to win, while Hayes won 165. However, twenty electoral votes from four states-three of which were the southern states of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana-were unresolved. After both parties claimed victory, the responsibility for resolving the competing claims rested with Congress. The Electoral Commission consisted of fifteen members: five from both the House and the Senate, and five from the Supreme Court; eight members were Republicans and seven were Democrats. The… Read More

Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas, 1795. 18mo (155 x 95 mm), full marbled calf, gilt-stamped spine in five compartments with four octagonal floral devices and gilt-stamped red lettering-piece. [i-iv], v-xii, [xiii-xv], xvi-xix, [2], 22-126 pp., 5 engraved plates including frontis. Plates signed "Seymour sc" (Joseph Seymour). CONDITION: Good, crack along upper back of spine, small scratches on front and back cover, lacking front free end-paper; contents good. The first Worcester edition and the first American book printed on wove paper, in a lovely early American binding. This is Smith's second volume of poetry, from the Sixth London edition. Dard Hunter describes it as the "first book to be issued in America on 'wove' paper in which the paper is mentioned" and quotes from Thomas's preface: "The making of the particular kind of paper on which these Sonnets are printed, is a new business in America; and but lately introduced into Great Britain; it is the first manufactured by the Editor." Only the text… Read More

Philadelphia: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1843. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.25" x 5.25"), later full calf, title gilt stamped at spine. vii, 9-297 pp., with 62 pp. of a "Table of Logarithmic Numbers." B&w charts and diagrams throughout. Early ownership inscription of one "Francis N. Blood" on ffep., followed by an inscription on flyleaf, "Francis N. Blood, Geometry & Trigonometry, Bost. $1.16, 1843." CONDITION: Very good, extremities lightly worn, slight loss at head and foot of spine, lightly foxed, binding sound.

Elkardt, Indiana: No. 25. February, 1888. Donohue & Henneberry Printers, Chicago. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. 64 pp., numerous b&w illus. An abundantly illustrated trade catalog for Elkhart carriages, buggies, carts, surreys, wagons, harnesses, saddles and more. Includes both English and western saddles. Among the latter are models with such names as the Indian Chief, the Arizona, the Nevada, the Texas, the Galveston Boys, the Rio Grande, etc. Includes 9 pp. of testimonials. CONDITION: Good, wrappers detached in one piece, chipping at edges, contents clean and attractive.

Mexico: en la Imprenta del Aguila, dirigida por José Ximeno, calle de Medinas núm. 6, 1826. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.5" x 5"), half blue leather, marbled paper. [4], 3-19 pp., in Spanish, notes in pencil at front pastedown. Pencil note in English on front pastedown reads as follows: "Fiery patriotic speech celebrating the events of the Revolution of 1810." CONDITION: Fair, detached upper cover, lower cover coming detached, rubbing with loss at extremities, light foxing at endpapers. First edition. A leader in the Mexican Independence movement, de Azcarate was imprisoned from 1808-1811. A decade later, in 1821, he signed the Declaration of Independence of Mexico. At the time of this "Patriotic Praise" speech, he was serving as Minister of the Supreme Court of War and Navy in the government of Guadalupe Victorian.

New York: Simon And Schuster, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo, blue paper over boards. 62 pp., illustrated endpapers, drawings by Hilary Knight. First edition. The second of Thompson's Eloise books, following her Eloise : a Book for Precocious Grown-Ups, published in 1955. Thompson cited her goddaughter and fellow Plaza Hotel resident Liza Minnelli as the inspiration for Eloise. CONDITION: A very good copy with only the slightest wear at corners, and a few light stains in margins; in a good price-clipped jacket with a touch of loss at corners and an old, relatively inoffensive tape repair at lower left of front panel.

New York: A Doubleday Book for Young Readers, 1992. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10.75" x 9.75"), quarter yellow cloth over blue paper, color dj. Unpaginated. CONDITION: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Joseph Delaplaine, 1812. Hardcover. 4to (8.5" x 5.5"), leather with gilt-ruled spine. [i-vi], 2-480 pp., i-iv of subscribers' names. frontis. wood-engravings throughout. CONDITION: Good, minor wear to extremities, front hinge cracked but cover holding firm, damp-stain on bottom-right of text-block throughout with no effect on text or illus. "A monthly 'repository of practical information in the various branches of scientific research'." Lomazow 100.

London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1962. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.75" x 5.75"), blue cloth. [7], 8-187 pp., numerous b&w illus. Ownership inscription of one "Anselm Fisher" in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Near-fine, clean interior, sound binding, lightly sunned spine; good dj with chipping and small tears at head and foot of spine and top edge of back wrapper. Stated third impression.

New York: American Tract Society, [ca. 1850]. 16mo (6" x 3.875"), decoratively printed tan wrappers. 144 pp. Early ownership inscription by "C. R. Daggett" at top right of upper wrapper and title p. CONDITION: Very good, 1" loss to top left corner of upper wrapper, slight soiling to lower wrapper. A collection of anti-slavery speeches and texts, including a plan for the education and emancipation of slaves held by Kentucky Presbyterians. The volume opens with William Wilberforce's famous 1789 Parliamentary motion for the abolition of the slave trade, and includes several other British speeches before "The Bill Passed, Abolishing the Trade" and several anti-slavery documents from the Presbyterian Kentucky Synod. The first of these-the 1818 "Unanimous Action of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States"-deems "the voluntary enslaving of one portion of the human race by another...utterly irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ," and the next… Read More

New Hampshire: William F. Rowland and Connecticut: Henry A. Rowland, 1806. Engraving on two sheets joined, 33 5/8"h x 24 7/8"w at neat line plus margins, uncolored. A remarkable-and mammoth-broadside chronological chart employing text and images to depict six millenia of ecclesiastical and secular history. The Epitome was designed by the Rev. David Sherman Rowland (1719-1794), who began his career as a minister in Providence, Rhode Island but was "forced to flee his pulpit there because of his inflammatory exhortations on freedom and taxation." (http://www.fcwucc.org/history) He spent the rest of his career a minister of the First (Congregational) Church in Windsor, Connecticut. He was succeeded in 1790 by his son the Rev. Henry Augustus Rowland (1764-1835), who, along with his elder brother William Frederic Rowland (1761-1843), pastor of the First (Congregational) Church in Exeter, New Hampshire, arranged for the chart's posthumous publication. The earliest announcement appeared in the… Read More

Washington D.C., 1912. 8vo (9" x 6"),self wrappers. 41, [7] pp. Original envelope (6.25" x 10.5"), with a facsimile of Edward Taylor's signature. CONDITION: Toned, minor chipping to final page, a few small tears to right margin with no losses; otherwise very good. Some soiling to envelope, chips and cracks to opening with no loss to text. A pamphlet printing of a speech by Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado making the political, social, and moral argument for women's suffrage based on nearly 20 years of experience with the women voters of his home state. He notes that "An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory, and one actual result of equal suffrage is worth more than all the theoretical antisuffrage speeches since the dawn of history." The speech begins with a litany of social improvement laws that have resulted from efforts by women, from fraud- and drug-prevention laws to child welfare and the creation of the bureau of labor statistics. Taylor addresses various questions and concerns… Read More

New York: Universe Books, 1982. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9.5" x 6.75"), turquoise cloth. 304 pp. Over 100 b&w illus. CONDITION: Fine with fine dj.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9.5" x 6.25"), black cloth. xiii, 338 pp., 129 b&w illus. CONDITION: Near fine, one faint spot to front-cover; dj fine, lightly worn at extremities, no tears.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 5.5"), gilt blue cloth. Gift inscription on ffep reads "To Mother, with Love, From Tom, Tom September 4-'41." Frontis., xvi, 300 pp., 27 b&w illus. CONDITION: Good, sunned spine, head and foot of spine bumped, worn cover, lightly worn at extremities. First American edition. Gill, Evan R. Bibliography of Eric Gill. 49.