Search Results: Authors starting with E from Abbey Bookshop

Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot, 1875. First edition thus. Very Good +. 8vo., contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards, with frontispiece. Handsome edition of this French poem, originally written in 1325 by an eye witness, with notes on the text by F. Bonnardot. pages slightly warped

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923. First edition. Very Good +. Four volumes, 8vo., original red cloth, frontispiece in every volume. Brilliant scholarly work on the theatre in Elizabethan England, with the bookplate of Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Co., in every volume. spines slightly dulled, the odd mark to cloth

London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd., [c.1931]. Australian edition. Very Good +. 4to., original orange pictorial cloth, with 160 photographic reproductions. neat early ownership inscription, light foxing to last few pages of text

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1929. Reprint. Very Good. 12mo., original green cloth. Part of The Kings Treasuries of Literature series. ex-library copy with sticker to spine and stamps

London: Constable and Co, 1931. First edition. Very Good +. 8vo., original green cloth. An investigation into the "supernormal" communication of birds presented as a dicursive diary of the author's bird-watching. a few marks to back cover

London: R. Ackermann, 1813. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Sm. folio, original half blue paper-covered cloth, title piece to front board. Lacks two of the six engravings. Most scarce spine worn, lacks two engravings, some neat scotch repairs to the inner joints

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1920). First edition. Very Good +. 8vo., original blue cloth. A polemic against Spiriualism by the author of "Ghostly Phenomena" and "Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter". some wear to head of spine

Paris: Editions Casterman, [c. 1916]. First edition. Very Good. 8vo., original red wrappers, printed in gilt and illustrated with a view of the lake laid down. The author's impressions, in French, from his trip around the area of Lake Saint-Jean in Québec. pages unopened, spine and upper cover slightly faded and a little worn at edges

New York: The Modern Library, [c. 1930]. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. An early Modern Library edition of Hemingway's first novel, originally published in 1926. Scarce in dust jacket. ---- All books are available to view here at our independent bookshop in central Paris (29, rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Paris. Tel: +33 01 46 33 75 00), between the hours of 10am-7pm, Mon-Sat. Our multilingual staff will be happy to answer any enquiries in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish. dust jacket has a few closed tears

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Nineteenth impression. Very Good. 8vo., original cream cloth, dust jacket, eight plates and various illustrations in the text by the author. Scarce dust jacket a little browned and worn at the edges, one plate loose

Toronto: George N. Morang, 1902. Reprint. Very Good +. 8vo., original green cloth, with 200 illustrations, some full page. A delightful collection of animal biographies by the Naturalist to the Government of Manitoba. The first edition was published in 1898. Scarce. spine dulled, some very light shelf wear to back cover

Madrid: Bailly-Bailliere e Hijos, 1906. First edition thus. Fair. 4to., original plain wrappers, dust jacket. Most scarce ex-library copy, worn, with some considerable loss to jacket and wrappers, some light soiling

London: Ward Lock and Co., 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, original red cloth spine, illustrated boards, with 9 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Scarce extremities a little worn, boards scuffed

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original blue buckram. First American edition of Waugh's most accomplished novel. spine faded, cloth lightly spotted