Search Results: Titles starting with E from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

New York: Macmillan, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Lacking Dustjacket. Aiken's first book, signed by him in black ink on the ffe "Reluctantly/ Conrad Aiken" Lacking dustjacket, minor soiling, edgewear, internals fine.

NY: E. P. Dutton, 1907. First US Edition. Pub Cloth. VG+. First US edition, printed from British plates, imperial 8vo, pub red cloth, pressed titles and gilt horse portraits front, titles to spine. xxxi + 313p, incl index. Illustrated w/ b& w plates. Some foxing confinedmosstly to prelims, spine soiled, overall very good. Scarce.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929. Eighth Revised Edition. Very Good +. Uncommonly well-preserved copy showing little signs of use. Red cloth, spine moderately faded. PON top of pastedown and bookplate verso ffe. ccvii, 495. 106 maps (all in original folds), 56 woodcuts. A collectible copy.

Boston: Richard G. Badger (The Gorham Press), 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Solid copy, lacking dustjacket. Bookplate pastedown.

NY/ London: Writers and Readers, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Oblong softcover, 120p. "For Susan" and signed by Forche, Meiselas and Mattison on the title page.

London: Sampson Low, 1855. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. HAYDAY (binding). 8vo, maroon pebbled full morocco, HAYDAY binding, joints and corners moderately worn, covers moderately soiled, internals near fine.

Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey: London, 1795. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 19thc quarter-leather over marbleized boards, 516p, with binder's instructions and errata and addenda after table of contents. Dedicated "To the Female Sex"; Walker writes, "to enforce the equality of the sexes, some pages of this wrok have been devoted.in asserting the rights of women and on every other moral subject, I have spoken from the language of my heart." Fittingly, the inscription on the fee in old-fashioned script is to "Ann Hardacre from Rachel Endworth". Covers rubbed, leather modestly worn. Internals near fine.

(Boston): unidenitified, 1862. Soft cover. Very Good. Original pamphlet printed in Boston in 186, speech given by Sumnber at Fanueiil Hall on Oct 6, 1862. Measures 14 x 22.5 cm, 23 page, string tied, very nice condition, with (presumably) original or early owner name top of front cover (title page). Uncommon in the marketplace these days. Major Abolitionist rallying cry for freeing slaves so they couid join the Union and battle the Confederacy.With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861,Sumner forced himself into the inner circle of Abraham Lincoln. He encouraged the President to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, advocated for the creation of all-Black regiments, and played a key role in the passage of the 13th Amendment in the Senate. CIVIL WAR. UNION. CONFEDERACY SLAVERY Uncommon in the marketplace these days.

NY: Random House, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Association copy from Pulitzer Prize author and journalist Logevall to American author and journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald whose watershed 1972 book "Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam" - and winner of 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction - informed so many serious studies of Vietnam that followed. Inscribed by Logevall on the half title: "To Frankie who knows this story, and who has taught me so much. With admiration in friendship,. Fred. Jan 2014" Logevall's book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History. Near fine copy.

Madrid: Graficino, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Folio, 32 pages, 16 loose sheets on thick stock, folded together. Profusely illustrated with plans and b&w photos of Spanish architectures work, including centerfold of 4 colored photos of plans and models for the College of Architecture in Seville (1977). Fine copy.

NY: The Century Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price (, 1897 - 1997), American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books, who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A sea-going juvenile. Book apparently unread - blue linen, stamped in gilt, prictorial endpapers. Striking dustjacket pictorial in orange, blue and white. Dustjacket is dustily soiled, more so at spine, and chipped at corners and head of spine. Still, presentable overall. JUVENILE.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. The third edition. 13 volumes including index volume. Publisher's green cloth front and back covers, gilt to front. Brown moroccan spine, gilt titles and devices. 1,922 colored plates. Internals near fine, except for index volume where the upper right corner of pages 80 - 102 have been crunched/ damaged and pages 23 - 35 have been sliced. A handsome set.

London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, publisher's polished, tan linen, gilt titles spine, beveled edges, 224p, Duckworth device blind-stamped rear cover. Some light fosxing largely at prelims and rears. Handsome book. Stephen, noted for his literary criticism and mountaineering, perhaps more famous as the father of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Bell.

NY: Triangle Books, 1939. 1st reprint edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dustjacket art by Bip Pares (1904-1977), British commercial artist. Her most visually striking work was done in a highly commercial British art-deco style, which is on clear display here. Third printing 1939 of the Triangle reprint edition after the first by Little Brown in 1937. Remarkably well preserved, collectible condition. Pages of book toned, as usual, high acid pulp stock.

Zurich: Galerie Ernst Scheidegger, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Scarce exhibition catalog of Neisvestny's sculpture with text by Russian Revolutionary Art authority John Berger. Published as part of the Begegnung series, this No.8, April/May 1977. Five large stiff sheets, folded, for a total of 10 pages, amply illustrated with b&w photos of Neisvestny's sculptures plus his pen and ink drawings, one of which is a doubletruck. Imopressive catalog, splendidly produced.

Amiens: Duval et Herment, 1852. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Original pink, printed covers, string tied, 55 pages. Long, critical essay by Marcel Jerome Riggolot (1786-1854) about the life and work of Italian painter Giorgio Barbarelli (1477/78-1510). Known as Giorgio, Barbarelli, although he died in his thirties, is credited along with Titian by art historians for the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting. Rigollot (1786- 1854) was a French doctor and antiquarian best known for his archeological studies of early European inhabitants. Charles Athanese Walckenaer (1771 - 1852) was an Oxford-educated French civil servant and scientist, expert in geography. The inscription at the top of the front cover was in the year of Walckenaer's death with "homage de l'auteur". Covers soiled, with light water stain traversing the upper left corner of the cover and first three pages.

Edinburgh; London: Caledonian Mercury Press for Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, and Longman, Huirts, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce first edition, metaphysical meanderings of Baron Mackenzie, leading to biological questions about the size of the brain and intelleigence, among other things. Rebound in full mottled leather, gilt rules and cevices front and back, more gilt and red later label on spine. 8vo, vi, (2), 301, foldout plate of outlines of skulls. Covers slightly bowed, as the book has been pressed down after being water-soaked. Some "crinkling" of ;leaves remains, as does light staining to some sections of the book, largely confined to wide margins. Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, 7th Baronet (1780-1848) was a Scottish geologist, chemist, agricultural improver, and author perhaps best known for "Travels in the Island of Iceland" (1807).

Ridgewood NY: Press of the Alwil Shop, 1902. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Scarce publication printed in the Arts&Crafts studio located in the Palisades NY of the Anwil Shop (per colophon). Cream paper over boards (toned and rubbed), gilt title front, green cloth spine, unpaginated (some leaves uncut), every page decorated in vivid green and red Arts&Crafts surround. Unknown number of copies. With the bookplate on pastedown of Elisha Whipple McGuire (1854-1940), educator, lawyer and bibliophile, whose book collection was sold in auction in 1931, mostly early Americana. Bookplate designed by R. Sneider, Jr., NY. Some edgewear, sound binding, some incidental spotting internally but overall internals quite nice. OCLC lists only one copy at one library, Rutgers in New Jesey.

London: Printed by Luke Hanford. for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies. and E. Harding, 1800. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, xxii, 262 , (1). Dewitt Clinton's copy with his signature in black-ink on the upper right corner of the title page. Bound by Sagorski & Sutcliff. Full tree calf, inner gilt dentelles, marbleized endpapers. Front cover detached, and leather over spine in two pieces, thus requiring re-backing. DeWitt Clinton (1769 1828) was an American politician and naturalist. He served as a United States Senator, Mayor of New York City, and as the sixth Governor of New York. As NY Governor, he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. He was a major candidate for President in the election of 1812, challenging incumbent James Madison. Provenance: from the library of American commercial artist Irv Docktor (1918-2008) with his expressively graphic signature on the ffe.

Bryn Mawr PA/ NY: Bryn Mawr College/ Longmans, Green, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First volume in the Bryn Mawr Notes and Monographs series. Small 8vo, "pocket size', tan linen, stamped red titles, rounded corners, stained red all around, viii, 263. Inscribed by Carpenter, Professro of Classical Archeology, on the ffe: "For one who really cares to read it. Rhys Carpenter