Search Results: Titles starting with A from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards, Broughton, & Co., 1884. 16 pages. Original printed wraps. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Good. The lower third of the spine is split; some foxing and marginal soiling to the wraps; minor foxing to title page. FIRST EDITION. The topic of Reade’s address is "The Legal Profession of North Carolina -- What It is and What It Ought to Be." Expounding on the virtues that make a great attorney, Reade discusses some of the eminent jurists he knew, including George E. Badger, William A. Graham, Judge Mangum, and Justice Ruffin. His prefatory remarks allude to women in attendance, and he recalls his experience of giving the examination to the first woman to apply to the North Carolina bar (Tabitha Ann Holton, admitted 1878). Edwin Godwin Reade (1812-1894) was an antebellum U.S. Congressman, Confederate Senator, president of the North Carolina convention on Reconstruction of 1865-66, and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1868-1879). OCLC finds nine copies; NUC adds no… Read More

San Antonio: Pearson Newcomb, [printed by the] Standard Print. Co., [1926]. 154 pages. Illustrated with portraits and historic photographs in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gold. [20.4 cm.] Near fine. Binding shows slightest evidence of rubbing. A nice, bright copy. FIRST EDITION.

Augusta: Richards & Shaver, 1893. 143 pages. Original embossed maroon cloth stamped in gold. [19.8 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with no external markings. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on a few leaves including title, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else very good. Some light rubbing and soiling to cloth, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, neat corner repair to the same leaf, first hundred pages a bit tanned. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. A collection of poems, aphorisms, and essays. One of the essays, "The Drama of Joseph E. Brown's Heart," is a memoir of the Confederate governor. Carlton Hillyer (1844-1918), was the auditor for the Georgia Railroad at Augusta and sat on the Augusta City Council. He served with the Georgia state forces near the end of the Civil War. His father was Julian Hillyer, U.S. Congressman and solicitor of the U.S. Treasury. His brother, George Hillyer, was a Confederate… Read More

New York: Exposition Press, [1952]. 80 pages. Original blue cloth with green lettering. [22 cm.] Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. A hint of sun to top edges of covers, endpapers slightly foxed. Jacket is slightly sunned on the spine panel and shows tiny chips at the spine ends and one corner. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free paper, with a generic inscription ("With many good wishes.") The first and only collection of the author's poems. Her only other publication was a collection of stories, "At Christmas Time the World Grows Young" (1939). A native of West Point, Nebraska, Almy was a longtime resident of Lincoln, where she was active in numerous literary and civic organizations.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. 8vo. 92 pages, plus [4] pages terminal ads. Text in two columns. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Chip to dedication/contents leaf with loss of two words in table of contents ("System" in "Lowell and its Factory System" and the word "to" on another line), else fair only. Both wraps detached, creased, and marginally chipped with no loss of text. Early gift inscription at head of front wrap. Several leaves with corner creases. Moderate foxing and small, light dampstain throughout. Third American edition, published just one day after the first. The two preceding American editions were published as extras by New York newspapers ("The New World" and "Brother Jonathan"). Dickens' account of his highly-publicized travels in America during the first half of 1842. He toured the northeastern states and went by steamer down the Ohio and Mississippi as far as St. Louis and through the Great Lakes. His experience of the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. [16], 230 pages, plus frontispiece and numerous plates reproducing paintings by the author. Original dark green cloth, stamped in gold, with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. [23 cm.] Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, else near fine. Lacks the rare dust jacket. Minor evidence of rubbing, tiny area of light speckling to front board, still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940) was a noted American artist and illustrator. During World War I, he served as a captain in charge of a group of painters appointed by the U.S. Army to depict the war.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton and N.Y.], 1924. [14], 262 pages. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Top edge stained red. [22.3 cm.] A bright, very nearly fine copy in dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel slightly affecting two letters of title and several internal repairs with archival tape. Jacket otherwise in very good or better condition. Book shows slightest rubbing. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's reply card (offering free illustrated booklet about the present work) laid-in.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1938]. [40] pages. Original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in red and green. [16.7 cm.] A good plus copy in like dust jacket. Moderate foxing to cloth, but internally clean. Early owner's inscription dated 1942 on front free endpaper. Jacket has several small tears and short repairs on verso with archival tape (minimal loss, not affecting lettering), a small abrasion to front panel, and some light soil. Early printing of the author's first book. [It is more commonly found under the imprint, "Gentry Press, New York," dated 1938, which appears to have priority. Comparison of the title page with a bookseller's photo of the Gentry issue suggests that only the imprint was reset.] Illustrated with wood engravings in the text by Willard Clark, most of which are printed in color. A charming children's book set in San Antonio, describing the traditional Christmas miracle play, "Los Pastores." Janette Sebring Lowrey (b. 1892) was a… Read More

Mount Vernon: Limited Editions Club, Walpole Printing Office, 1937. Three volumes. xiii, [7], 431; 493; and 685 pages, plus nine lithograph plates by Edward A. Wilson. Chapter headpieces printed in color. Original rust-colored cloth. [24.6 cm.] A fine set in very good cardboard slipcase; lacking the fragile glassine dust jackets. Slipcase has edgewear with minor chipping and some soiling, but is sound. FIRST OF THIS LIMITED EDITION. No. 1,405 of 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. New introduction by the author.

Lexington, Va.: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University, [printed by C. Harold Lauck], 1938. 27 pages. Original light blue cloth with black spine lettering. [21.8 cm.] Near fine in original unprinted dust jacket (a bit tanned, especially on spine panel and with a small chip and a few tiny closed tears). FIRST EDITION. One of 200 copies in boards (there were also 600 copies in wraps). A keepsake prepared for members of the National Graphic Arts Education Association and friends of Graphic Arts Education on the occasion of the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Printing Education in Washington, D.C. Foreword by Fred J. Hartman. Harry Lawrence Gage (1887-1982) was vice president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a representative of industry to the Graphic Arts Education Association, professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and a lecturer in graphic arts at the Pratt Institute.�

New York: Century Co., [1928]. 337 pages, plus frontispiece, folding map, and numerous plates, including portraits, photographs, etc. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and small color illustration mounted on front cover. [21.1 cm.] Near fine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Spine slightly sun-faded, still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. A anecdotal history of lumber rafting and steamboats on the Mississippi River.

Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt; New York: Mahlon Day and S. Wood & Sons, 1833. vii, [1], 165, [3 - blanks], 100 pages. Original quarter cloth and boards. [20.3 cm]. Printed spine label mostly worn away, spine stained and with small chip at head, corners worn, some light stains to boards. Foxing throughout, usually light and scattered, but a bit heavier on title, prelims, and a few other leaves. Several small corner chips and short marginal tears due to a lack of care in opening some of the leaves, in no way affecting text; much of the book remains unopened. Good only. The work was first published in Trenton in 1832 with the title beginning, "The Society of Friends Vindicated ... " A second edition was printed the following year by Gray in Philadelphia. The present volume uses Gray's sheets with a revised title page. "An important case relating to a dispute between Orthodox and Hicksite Friends over funds belonging to the Society before the division." --Sabin 105026… Read More

[Asheville?, circa 1920's]. 31 pages. One diagram in the text. Original printed tan wraps [23.5 cm], with illustrated ad on rear wrap. Bound into later black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library with small ink stamp on front wrap, several marginal stamps, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, and small remnant of a removed call number sticker on the front board. Cloth binding is otherwise fine; pamphlet is otherwise good only. Top half inch of front wrap excised and filled-in with paper of a near match in color. Upper corners damped throughout, in no way impacting text. FIRST OF THIS EDITION. An apparent reprint of a 1884 pamphlet issued under the same title, which listed the co-authors as E. L. and F. P. Love. The work includes advice on growing tobacco (pp. 11-21) as well as recipes and instructions for curing it. The present edition includes a form bound at the front which obliged the purchaser to pay the author fifty dollars unless the purchaser complied with these terms:… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [printed by Hazell Watson and Viney, Aylesbury, U.K., 1957]. 232 pages, plus frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. [22.1 cm.] Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown, faint vertical crease to first few leaves, a little foxing to title. Jacket shows sunning to spine panel, a few tiny chips and tears, and light soiling. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, using the sheets of the English original. Dobbs was governor of North Carolina from 1753 to 1764, a period coinciding with the French and Indian War.

Cleveland and N.Y.: World Publishing Co., [Forum Books, 1945]. 251 pages. Original red cloth. [21.1 cm.] A very good plus copy in good dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped and rubbed; upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket is bright, but has nickel-sized chip at upper corner of front panel not affecting lettering; shallow chip to base of spine panel; some light wear with minor loss to corners; and short tear along fold between rear panel and rear flap. FIRST EDITION IN CLOTH, preceded by the paperback original of the same year (published by Pocket Books). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, GERALD WENDT, on the title page. An account of the development of the atomic bomb, including its recent use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a discussion of the potential and dangers of continuing to develop atomic energy. Subtitle on dust jacket reads: "Exciting and authoritative answers to the questions the man in the street is asking: What is atomic energy? What does it mean in your daily life? How… Read More

Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1942]. 292 pages. Original maroon cloth stamped in black and gold on the spine. [21 cm.] Near very good, lacking the dust jacket. Spine slightly faded and with faint vertical crease, minor wear at ends, and gilt decorations partially flaked. Volume is also bit cocked and shows some rather faint spotting to covers. Leaves just a trifle toned, but clean. FIRST EDITION, so stated. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY HER, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "Affectionate greetings to Marion Mason, one of my best friends and severest critics. Isabella Holt Finnie, March 2, 1942." The drawing depicts a person writing at a desk with a vase of flowers. Isabella Holt Finnie (1892-1962), a native of Chicago and later a resident of Detroit and Grosse Point, Michigan, wrote a number of novels concerned with domestic life in the upper Midwest.