Search Results: Titles starting with E from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1983. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. Original illustrated paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Paris, 1936. Typescript, 16 p. on rectos only of fine laid paper (8 ½" x 6 ½"), with handmade and lettered paper wrappers. The wrappers are detached, with chipping along the edges. A possibly unique presentation of Levinson's 1930 essay lauding the accomplishments of Craig, this typescript, including the original French text as well as a translation into English, appears to have been prepared for Craig himself, or at least at his behest. The wrappers are lettered in Craig's hand. In addition, he has made a number of holographic notes at the end, identifying both the author and translation ("D.W.") and adding: "Levinson writing to me soon after says 'Lugne-Poe has written me a letter of hate.'" He also inserted a quote from Horace: "The limbs of the dismembered poet." On the verso of the last leaf, Craig has begun a pencil list of names along with the designations "English" and / or "French" as if compiling a roster of recipients for this essay. A likely scenario was that Craig saw Levinson's… Read More

London: Andrew Melrose, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Frontispiece portrait. First edition, published as "When the Tree Flowered" (1951) in the U.S. A mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. Ink bookseller's stamp to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some general light wear; otherwise a crisp, very good copy.

New York: Aldus Book Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. This is Nr. 289 of 300 copies printed on antique laid paper. Goldschmidt (1871-1950) was a Lithuanian-born scholar and bibliophile who translated the entire Babylonian Talmud into German. Quarto: 60 p. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a vellum spine with gilt titles. Near fine.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With an Introduction by Harry T. Peters. Twelve plates. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Original brown cloth binding, with a burgundy leather title label on the front and gilt titles. The spine is lightly faded, with a bit of minor wear to the spine ends; otherwise very good.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Catalogue of a Collection of American Books Illustrated for the most part with Woodcuts and Wood Engravings in the Princeton University Library, with an Introductory Sketch of the Development of Early American Book Illustration by Sinclair Hamilton. With a Foreword by Frank Weitenkampf. 124 illustrations, including a tipped-in facsimile. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. Quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A very good copy.

Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 25 plates, including the frontispiece. Octavo. Original pebbled black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles on the front. Previous owner's ink signature to the front pastedown, with her small ink stamp to the bottom edge and the vestiges of a removed label to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is browned, with some general edgewear, including two thumbnail-size chips, and tape reinforcement to the verso; otherwise about very good.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Rupert Pole, the second husband of Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor, to Jean Sherman, who translated several posthumous works by Nin, including Linotte (1978): "For Jean who again helped with this volume. The first diary in English. Anaïs' transformation from girl to woman... the beginning of the artist/woman conflict. With love, Rupert, Jan. 1983." An extraordinary journal of self-education and self-discovery, disclosing a part of Nin's life that has hitherto remained private. Octavo: xvi, 541 p. with textual photographs. Original pink paper-covered boards over a mauve cloth spine, with silver titles. A crisp, unread copy. The dust jacket lightly faded along the spine, with a tiny stain to the bottom edge of the front panel and a minor crease to the front flap; else very good or better.

Geneve: Slatkine Reprints, 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated Monographs, No. XIV. 34 plates. Facsimile reprint of the 1906 first edition. A notable 13th century instance of courtly literature, the Roman de la Rose is a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision. Original burgundy buckram binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy.

San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of the 1926 first edition. Quarto. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited from the Unique Manuscript British Museum Ms. Cotton Nero A. x by Richard Morris. London: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1965. Reprint. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Bookplate. A bit of light wear to the corners and tips. Better than very good.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from the French by E.A. Lunzer and D. Papert. First American edition. A classic work in the field of developmental psychology. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Ink signature and date to the frotn pastedown. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn; otherwise a very good copy.

San Francisco: Cross & Brandt, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Historical study of California's early roadside inns and their role in the development of the state, from the Ash-Hopper Days to the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad. Includes an extensive bibliography. Octavo: v, 302 p. with numerous textual illustrations and a folding map. Original patterned red paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, with a tiny ink notation to the rear pastedown; else near fine.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with seven tables, nineteen figures, and sixteen maps. Reprint. The 46th volume in the Cambridge Latin American Studies series. Red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A crisp, very good copy.

Hartford: Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With an Appendix of Historical Notes, by Nathaniel H. Morgan, of Hartford, Conn. Frontispiece portrait, with a textual illustration. Located 20 miles east of Hartford, Lebanon, Connecticut is a farming town is best known for its role in the American Revolution, where it was a major base of American operations. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is sun faded, with some wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise very good.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. 16 plates, including the frontispiece. First edition, limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. An account not only of the Zamorano Press but also of the other early printing establishments in California. Prospectus laid in. Original green-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with a gilt-stamped red leather spine label. A near fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 266 p. Six illustrations. Cambridge: Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. Just a hint of wear to the dust jacket; else a fine copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 342 specially bound copies signed by David Brin. Set in the year 2038, this novel is a cautionary tale of the harm humans can cause their planet via disregard for the environment and reckless scientific experiments. Octavo. Full black leatherette binding, with gilt titles and marbled endpapers. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shipping carton.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. Wraps. Very good. An early printing of this religious tract, which enjoyed a wide circulation in the 1850s. "Stowe reasons that since 'worldly care forms the greater part of the staple of every human life, there must be some mode of viewing and meeting it, which converts it from an enemy of spirituality into a means of grace and spiritual advancement.' Critiquing the strands of Christian Platonism and Calvinism which see discontinuity between the worldly and the eternal, Stowe emphasizes the continuity between 'worldly care' and 'spiritual advancement' with her reading of how the 'Bible tells us that our whole existence here is disciplinary; that this whole physical system, by which our spirit is connected with all the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, and wants which form a part of it, designed as an education to fit the soul its immortality' (Elizabeth Ludlow, Prayer and the Role of the 'Soul-Artist' in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Historical Fiction). Earthly… Read More

London: The Hakluyt Society, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. One of the most successful Dutch voyages" (Hill 1619). Joris van Spilbergen sailed in command of six vessels from Texel in 1614 charged with reasserting Dutch claims to the Eastern access to the Pacific. After surviving several mutinies Spilbergen sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and up the coast of Peru, disrupting Spanish shipping throughout the area. He discovered land along the coast of what is now California (Borba de Moraes), and on his Pacific crossing discovered several small island groups. "With the conquest of the Molucca islands, a main object of the voyage, Spilbergen had succeeded in establishing the power and reputation of the Dutch East India Company throughout the South Pacific" (Hill). In Java he took on board Le Maire and Schouten's crew, whose vessels had been confiscated. Spilbergen's account is published with that of Le Maire, who found a new passage between the South Atlantic and the Pacific. Second… Read More