Search Results: Authors starting with E from Nudelman Rare Books

One page letter on one face (lacks blank rear) in third person, by the celebrated furniture designer and innovator, Charles Eastlake, to F. Fitzroy. "Sir Chas. Eastlake presents his compliments to Mr. Gye (sp?) and is exceedingly obliged to him for the favour of the box from the performance of the Prophite this evening."

London: J. Johnson, 1806. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Bound in contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spines. Both front covers detached. Moderate wear to calf, one very small piece missing from top of one spine, internally fairly clean. Quite a scarce Edgeworth title.

London: J. Johnson, 1812. First Edition. First Edition. Six matching volumes. 6 3/4 x 4 in. Bound uniformly in contemporary diced Russia calf, with flat spines tooled in gilt, some fr. covers either detached or split (see below). All first editions. Tales include: Ennui, Almeria, Madame de Fleury, The Dun, Manoeuvring, Vivian, Emilie de Coulanges, and The Absentee. "[Edgeworth's] copious works move uneasily between an enthusiastic espousal of a progressive paternalist social model and a more radical ideology that embraced change. She referred to herself as 'little i' in letters to her father and aunt but was described by Sir Walter Scott as 'the Great Maria.' She was the most highly acclaimed author of her day and an established member of the international literati, but until recent years her place in the British canon--or even the canons of Irish or women writers--has been as a precursor to Jane Austen or Sir Walter Scott. [New scholarship] move[s] beyond the binary categorizations of 'radical' and… Read More

London: J. Johnson, 1799. Second Edition. Second Edition. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Full contemporary calf (cover neatly detached). The second edition, though still very rare (Revised & Enlarged Edition), and the title is scarce and and a witty defense of female education. A wonderful Presentation Copy, inscribed by Maria to her father on the title page, "Rich[ar]d Lovell Edgeworth from his partner. Mary [?], June 1817," also dated "Jan. 1804," in a lighter ink in same place. With R.L. Edgeworth's engraved armorial bookplate pasted inside front board, and the later bookplate of Percival & Elisabeth Merritt, American author Member visiting committee department of English, Harvard, Boston Public Library.on ffep. R.L. Edgeworth, Maria father, was also (as indicated in this inscription) her partner in literary pursuits. The author likely inscribed this copy to her father close to the time of his death on 13 June 1817. Light scraping to the leather at edges of boards, the front cover being detached. Internally… Read More

London: Henry & Co, 1897. First edition. First edition. Original mauve cloth with striking gilt cover design of birds with blossoms, by Charles Ricketts. The seminal Nineties publication with art and literature by noted figures of the period. Theodore Brown Hapgood's Copy (noted Boston book cover designer and artist), with his decorative bookplate on front pastedown. An extraordinarily nice copy, fine.

London: W. S. Hodginson & Sons, 1934. First edition. First edition. Original full tree calf, gilt borders, as issued. 250 Copies only, specially bound by Birdsall and printed by Frank E. Seary on copper from the original un-faced plates (13) on hand made paper by Hodkinson & Sons. A fine copy with very minimal board bowing (as found), internally extremely fine and unopened. A scarce and beautiful production. With bookplate of Basil Truscott Hargrave.

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. Third issue. Third issue. Three quarter polished tan calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco label, marbled boards and endsheets. 376pp. With 36 exquisite hand-colored aquatint illustrations by Cruikshank, wood-engraved title page and 20 textual illustrations, as well as three large folding plates containing musical notation and words. Contains both front and back scarce original printed pictorial card wrappers. TEG, others uncut. A very good copy with slight wear to margins of spine.

Berlin: Herbert Stuffer, 1924. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, green cloth spine. IN ORIGINAL COLOR PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (very good with one tear). With 10 superb and expressive full-page color illustrations by Ehmke in what is now considered to be a groundbreaking new style termed, "The New Objectivity," (Neue Sachlichkeit) which emerged as a style in Germany in the 1920s as a challenge to Expressionism. As its name suggests, it offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic, or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism 1 9.5x19.5cm. This is the second children's book by the illustrator Ehmcke (1906-1982), with motifs from the world of children's toys: teddy bears, merry-go-round, wooden horses, sailing dinghy, etc. "The 'Steglitz Workshop' was created in 1900 by G. Belwe, F. H. Ehmcke and F. W. Kleukens in protest against the formal exuberance of Art Nouveau for commercial art and book art, and rather introducing… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1906. First Edition. First Edition. Original publishers dark green cloth with superb all-over cover design by Hugh Thomas of shepherd and dog and 22 sheep, with flowers interspersed, spine with similar motif and lettering. An rare, fine copy of a beautiful book, replete with 16 color plates and text illustrations throughout, by Hugh Thomson.

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First Edition. First Edition. Original light blue paper covered boards, red lettering on spine. In original yellow dust wrapper with bold lettering on front cover and spine, back cover list of "Faber Library." First issue binding and wrapper with "2. 6d. net." An uncommon title, book and wrapper are near fine.

London: Faber & Faber; La Jolla Playhouse, 1951. First Editions. First Editions. Offered here is the original book, and the program for the play which premiered in 1951 (a year after the book), and starring Vincent Price. ìThe Cocktail Party.î 8vo. London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First Edition. Original lime green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. In original color printed dust wrapper. First edition, first issue with "here" uncorrected ["her] on p. 29. An uncommon Eliot title. Book near fine with very slight discoloration on lower margins of covers, wrapper very good with some chipping esp. front cover, tape repairs on inside. ìProgram for the Cocktail Party.î Presented by the La Jolla Playhouse and starring Vincent Price and Marsha Hunt. 4to. Original color pictorial paper wrappers, 12pp. Illustrated with photographs of the actors posed, and in scenes. With scarce original folding playbill. Near fine. A wonderful pairing.

London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. First trade edition. Green cloth, gilt spine. In original light green dust wrapper with maroon lettering.

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. Original yellow cloth pictorial vignette on cover stamped in red, spine with red lettering. In the unrestored and unclipped yellow dust jacket with enchanting cover illustration of cats climbing a ladder. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, Stephen Spender's Copy, noted novelist and essayist whose work focused on social injustice and class struggle. With his bookplate. Book is fine, wrapper near fine. Eliot published four of Spender's poems in†T1930 (in the Criterion, and later, Spender's first standalone work,†Poems, in 1933) Spender recalled: "At our first luncheon [T.S. Eliot] asked me what I wanted to do. I said: 'Be a poet.' 'I can understand you wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by "being a poet,"' he objected."†A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.†.

London: Faber & Faber; Faber and Gwyer; Faber & Faber, 1964. First Editions. First Editions. Offered here are three books by T. S. Eliot: "For Lancelot Andrewes, Essays on Style and Order," 1928, Faber & Gwyer, blue cloth, VG dust wrapper; "Ash Wednesday," 1930, Faber and Faber, brown gilt cloth, VG dust wrapper with unclipped price of 3s. 6d. net; and "Knowledge and Experience," 1964, Faber & Faber, blue cloth, VG dust wrapper.

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo. Original gray cloth, lettered in red on spine. In the original unrestored unclipped dust jacket printed in teal and red border. Half-title. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on title page: "Inscribed for Mrs. B. ?Idding? Bell by T. S. Eliot Holy Saturday 1939." The Family Reunion was first performed in March,1939 at the Westminster Theatre in London. Slight wear to spine and edges, wrapper near fine with a few creases.

Concord: Benjamin Tolman, 1867. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo. Original publisher's light purple printed card paper wrappers. 75pp. Contains, as issued, a mounted albumen photographic frontispiece by A. H. Folsom, of Roxbury, Mass, showing the monument. This account describes the proceedings and history of the dedication of the monument to Concord's Civil War soldiers, as well as the actual address given by Emerson (pp. 29-63) and remarks following. A fresh, bright copy with minor exterior soil, minor wormhole marks to back cover, with minor damage to last 4 leaves, but otherwise clean and bright. Very scarce.

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo, (8 x 5 inches)/ Attractively bound by Harry Avery in full crushed turquoise Morocco featuring swirling gilt ruling ending in two large inlaid beige circles with stylized floral designs and nailheads, with similar pattering on spine. Superb dentelles with more lavish gilt nailhead designs, and Avery's trademark handmade paper doublures and endsheets. Signed in black stamping, "H.A." on rear lower dentelle, and Roycroft orb and cross on lateral dentelle. Title page, initials, and tailpieces designed by Dard Hunter. #67 of 100 Copies, Printed on Japan Vellum. Bookmakers, Ogle, pg. 196 illustrates one example "On a High Shelf," David Ogle OB-099-05, and the binding featured in color on pg. 196. A fine copy, with spine evenly sunned.

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1904. First edition thus. First edition thus. Original publisher's three-quarter dark green crushed morocco, elaborately gilt decorated spine, finely marbled boards and matching endsheets. #28 of 100 Copies, Signed by Elbert Hubbard. In original publishers dark green and felt-lined paper covered box with printed label. Frontispiece photogravure of the "Old Manse," superb decorated title-page, elaborate border/initial at beginning, and large colophon, all printed and heightened in color and gold. A fine copy, with no signs of use. Box near fine with minimal edge-wear. A rare Roycroft title.

Eugene: John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's light brown paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. Limited to Only 100 copies, this is copy #29, written in holograph on limitation page at end of book. Printed by Nash as the printing project for the 1937 class in typography of the John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press at the University of Oregon under the direction of Robert C. Hall, with students actively engaged in the project. Only 14 copies in WorldCat, almost all local Northwest Library Collections. A fine. copy.

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1902. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo, (9 x 6 inches). A striking full morocco binding by Kinder featuring an innovative highlighting employed by Kinder to give the appearance of grained wood, or simply a pleasing and novel effect. The full light brown smooth morocco has color variations and background patterning ranging from light to darker brown, and overlaid onto that is a complex and novel vein design that is expanded onto the spine and then the full back cover (i.e. no repeat to the design). We have never seen such a fine example of this patterning, and top it off, the cover is attractively adorned with three gilt leafed, long stems terminating in blossoms. This patterning is repeated on inner dentelles.#22 of 100 Copies printed on Japan Vellum, Signed and Illumined by Lily Ess. In original Roycroft labeled box (worn). The book is in fine condition. "On a High Shelf," David Ogle OB-068-02 and the binding featured in color (pg. 203).