Search Results: Titles starting with E from Type Punch Matrix

(New York): (Gotham Book Mart), 1983. First edition. Very good plus.. Inscribed first printing of paper doll cut-outs for the mercurial bear on the cover, featuring characteristically bizarre and baroque costumes and accessories, signed by Gorey as his pseudonym, Dogear Wryde. Outfits include an elaborate checkered suit with decorative fan, a large fur coat (of course), an eerie executioner's garb complete with multiple knives, and a kimono for ornamental lounging. 6.75'' x 4.75''. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Gorey in black and white, uncut and unused. Inscribed by Gorey on rear wrapper "For Robin" as "Dogear Wryde," crossing out the printed name as usual. Light marginal toning, some faint soil to wrappers.

Tokyo, Japan: Gakken, 1971. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First edition of this scarce and striking interpretation of the opera from the noted Japanese artist. This was Yoshitaro Isaka's first book in the US. 9.5'' x 10''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (no printed price) color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color. [14] leaves. Jacket with some edgewear, one tiny closed tear; small ballpoint pen star to front flap. Illustrations vibrant.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed later printing of this Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the detective is framed and must unravel the layers of fabricated evidence against her. In this installment, the mystery takes on a BIG SLEEP undertone while Millhone navigates the agendas of various people in a rich family, whose drama becomes hers when she is framed as part of the investigation. Readers also meet Millhone's second husband, and learn firsthand why he is husband no longer. As usual for this series, class elements play a role in the unfolding events, complicating Millhone's ability to exonerate herself. A typically great Alphabet Series entry. 8'' x 5.25''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($21.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 228 pages. Signed by Grafton to title page. Jacket and binding with a hint of edgewear. Clean and bright.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First edition (stated). Fine in about-fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the detective is framed and must unravel the layers of fabricated evidence against her. In this installment, the mystery takes on a BIG SLEEP undertone while Millhone navigates the agendas of various people in a rich family, whose drama becomes hers when she is framed as part of the investigation. Readers also meet Millhone's second husband, and learn firsthand why he is husband no longer. As usual for this series, class elements play a role in the unfolding events, complicating Millhone's ability to exonerate herself. A typically great Alphabet Series entry. 8'' x 5.25''. Original quarter black cloth, grey paper boards. In original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Abby Kagan. [10], 227, [1] pages. Signed by Grafton in black felt pen on title page. Very slight crinkling to front panel of jacket, with faint offsetting from cloth. Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First edition. Fine in about-fine jacket.. Signed first printing of the novelization of Melissa Mathison's original screenplay by the World Fantasy Award-winning Kotzwinkle. Tender tale of a "blossoming neurotic" who meets a ten-million-year-old telekinetic botanist at just the right time in a young boy's life for this important relationship to flower. Based on Melissa Mathison's screenplay for Steven Spielberg's staggeringly successful film, Kotzwinkle's novel follows the basic plot outline laid down for it but also adds a considerable and original emphasis on the perspective of young Elliott's mother, denied more than a peripheral role in the film, and on the inner experience of the alien itself: the Extra-Terrestrial's sensitivities, psychic powers, affinities, and self-image. "I see him as this scorned Chaplinesque figure who at the same time is some sort of redeemer," the author later explained. Already an acclaimed children's writer and fantasist before the… Read More

New York: Wise Parslow / Volland, 1920. Fine.. Lovely Volland gift book, in which each page of text faces a striking Art Deco illustration in the style of Janet Laura Scott. Square 12mo. Original pictorial boards. In original dust jacket. 12 pages.

Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1933. Fine in very good slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of the classic work in the field of children's book collecting, one of only 585 copies signed by the great 20th-century bookseller Rosenbach. A detailed bibliography of Rosenbach's personal collection that is now at the Free Library of Philadelphia, with several illustrations hand-colored after the originals. This is an essential reference book for collectors of earlier children's books in the US. 10.5'' x 7.5''. Original quarter red goatskin, illustrated paper boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. In original slipcase with printed paper label. Illustrated with many facsimile title pages. lxi, 354, [4] pages. Signed by Rosenbach on limitation page. Slipcase with a number of repairs around joints. Just a touch of wear to book spine.

New York: Walker & Company, 2005. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this beautiful story of the spirit who nurtures all of creation, and the people and animals who have endless opinions about her work. Leo and Diane Dillon were a pair of "the world's pre-eminent illustrators for young people, producing artwork [...] that was a seamless amalgam of both their hands" (NEW YORK TIMES). Their artistry twice earned them Caldecott Medals - Leo was the first Black US American to receive the award - and netted them numerous other honors through their long careers, including a Hugo Award and three Coretta Scott King Awards. 11'' x 10''. Original boards. Original unclipped ($16.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Leo and Diane Dillon to title page. Jacket with a hint of wear. Clean and bright.

Oxford: (Oxford University Press), 1938. Near fine.. First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Illustrated with two fold-out maps. 584 pages. Light edgewear and bumping to boards; spine lightly sunned. Minor chipping to top edges of a few pages where leaves have been opened.

London: n.p., 1998. Fine.. Limited edition artist's book that reflects on the colors, textures, and history of two ancient cities, incorporating a variety of illustration methods and materials. Susan Allix reflects on her creative philosophy, "I am concerned with visual things so I see books as full of colour and form in a pictorial sense as well as through the images created in my mind by the words, and through the sculptural qualities a book possesses" (artist statement). This richly-illustrated textural travelogue, with only two pages of text, is a beautiful example of Allix's artistry and skill at telling stories through visuals. Only nine copies of EAST FROM HERE were produced, one of her smallest limitations. 13.25'' x 10.5''. Original black goatskin-backed white linen boards. Original stiff paper dust jacket with color, embossed, suede, and metal clip elements, with cut-outs revealing the boards. Endpapers of hand-made blue paper. Illustrated with etchings, aquatints, collograph, drypoint,… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1985. First edition. Very good in very good jacket.. Signed first printing of the author's first book, a collection of his short stories set in the Caribbean that won the National Book Award in the category of First Work of Fiction. 9'' x 6''. Orange cloth spine over red boards. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. [10], 213 pages. Signed by Shacochis on half title page: "Bob Shacochis / June, 1987 / The Outer Banks." Light foxing to rear panel and jacket verso; moderate foxing to text block edges.

Boston: C. Bingham & Co. (H. Bowen, printer), 1820. Near fine.. Scarce Boston chapbook teaching chess to beginners, measuring only 4 inches high. Erroneously dated 1805 in Shaw & Shoemaker, Bowen printed this booklet in Boston 1817-1821, according to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND CHESS IN EARLY AMERICA by Ralph Hagedorn. The publisher Caleb Bingham was a Dartmouth graduate who opened a school for girls in Boston and later became a bookseller between 1794 - 1817 (see Rosenbach 284-5, not listing this title). 4'' x 2.5''. Early blue paper wrappers. 28 pages.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this tale of murder and deception, in which a young woman is set up to take the fall for a drowned CIA agent, and murdered drug runner in order to conceal an elicit operation during the Vietnam War. 9'' x 5.75''. Original black boards. Original unclipped ($24.00) color pictorial dust jacket. 262 pages. Signed by Siler to title page. Jacket and binding with mild edgewear. Interior bright.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Very good in very good plus jacket.. First edition in English of this early work by the political economist, originally published as EPOCHEN DER DOGMEN- UND METHODENGESCHICHTE in 1912. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Translated from the German by R. Aris. Original grey cloth. In original price-clipped yellow dust jacket. 207, [1] pages. Minor edgewear to boards. Neat underlining ink and touches of offsetting from paperclips (no longer present) to several pages. Jacket lightly chipped at extremities, with gently sunned spine.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing in book form of the landmark study that "transformed the study of slavery - and of economic history" (Jamelle Bouie). The extent of the atrocities brought about by the trans-Atlantic slave trade has always been difficult to quantify, with current estimates reaching 12.5 million people forcibly taken from their homelands and enslaved in the so-called New World. In 1958, Conrad and Meyer applied new tools to the field in their influential article, "The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South" (first published in book form here). Jamelle Bouie argued in THE NEW YORK TIMES that the article's "methods, which relied on statistical data and mathematical analysis, revolutionized the field." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter brown cloth, grey cloth boards. In original unclipped (no price) pictorial dust jacket. Brown topstain, brown endpapers. xii, 241, [1] pages. Faint foxing to edges. Jacket with a… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First edition, first printing of this classic Tudor title, featuring a well-meaning crow who wants to help around the house. 6.5'' x 6''. Original navy cloth, pictorial paste-on. In original unclipped ($1.75) color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. [32] pages. Jacket with toning to spine and margins, a few short closed tears. Book with light bumping to extremities, offsetting to endpapers. Interior clean.

Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Second printing of this extensive and comprehensive biographical study, with a foreword by ERB's son Hulburt Burroughs and a floridly enthusiastic introduction by fellow legend and Burroughs fan Ray Bradbury. 11'' x 8.5''. Original black and green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) dust jacket. 819, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards. Light to moderate foxing along jacket spine, edges, and verso. A few very small closed tears to spine ends.

London: John Murray, 1930. Very good plus.. First edition of Doyle's selected essays and articles on assorted mysteries and psychic phenomena. Subjects covered include the mediumistic powers of Harry Houdini (who certainly objected to this treatment) and whether psychic messages from Oscar Wilde, Jack London, and Charles Dickens really came from those deceased gentleman, or from less esteemed ghosts impersonating their betters. 7.15'' x 4.75''. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Lacking original dust jacket. [viii], 332 pages. Light edgewear and a few small stains and scuffs to boards, minor foxing to fore-edge. Pen to front free endpaper.

New York: Pocket Books, 1980. Fine.. First edition, paperback original, of this science fiction anthology on the theme of "outsiders, threshold people, edge-dwellers," with contributions by many acclaimed New Wave writers. 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers, image not credited but possibly Stanislaw Fernandes (per ISFDB), 83532-7, priced at $2.50. All edges stained yellow. Ads at rear. 239, [1] pages. Almost no wear, no signs of use.

London: Walker Books, 1988. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this charming picture book about a young boy becoming acquainted with the countryside. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 9.25'' x 7.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (£8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [22] leaves. Jacket with a hint of sunning to spine. Sharp and bright.