Search Results: Authors starting with E from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1921; First Edition; 7 1/2" x 9 3/4". Color pochoir print by Ebel of a Camille Roger design for a stylish lady’s hat. From La Gazette Du Bon Ton, Lucien Vogel’s legendary fashion journal issued between November 1912 and December 1925, but for a hiatus during The First World War between the Summer of 1915 and January 1920. The Gazette was steadfastly uncompromising both in its print quality and choice of artists and illustrators, who formed a veritable Who’s Who of the Art Deco period, with George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, Andre Marty, Charles Martin, Edouardo Garcia Benito, Erté, Thayaht, Georges Lepape, Pierre Mourgue, and Robert Bonfils listed among them. Likewise, its articles were authored by the leading Parisian writers, academics, and critics of the day, and its opinions highly influential. Vogel signed exclusive contracts to feature the lines of Paris’s leading couture houses in the pages of the Gazette, and the magazine was looked upon by… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1989; First Edition; 8vo, 641 pages; black boards; silver spine titles; blue end papers. Umberto Eco’s rip-roaring semiotic thriller. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. No previous owner signatures or any other markings of any kind, not price-clipped. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. A handsome copy.

Allison V. Stewart, Boston, 1917; 12mo; black leather flex covers; gilt titles; all page edges gilt. The complete individual texts of "Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures," plus numerous other of Mrs. Eddy’s writings: "Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896"; "Unity Of Good"; "Rudimental Divine Science"; "No And Yes"; "Retrospection And Introspection"; "The First Church Of Christ Scientist"; "Miscellany" (which includes responses to criticisms made by Mark Twain and McClure’s Magazine, and a 1906 refutation of allegations that Rev. James Henry Wiggin was co-author of Science and Health); "Christian Healing"; "The People’s Idea Of God"; "Pulpit And Press"; "Christian Science vs. Pantheism"; "Message To The Mother Church, 1900"; "Message To The Mother Church, 1901"; and "Message To The Mother Church, 1902," the entire collection bound together… Read More

M.E. Paige, NY, 1930; First Edition; 12mo, 64 pages; pastel blue cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. An examination of the attacks leveled against Mary Baker Eddy in 1906, plus the full text of journalist Arthur Brisbane’s 1907 interview with her about the facts. Illustrated with photos of Mrs. Eddy and her homes in Lynn, MA, Chestnut Hill, MA, and Concorde, NH, plus exterior and interior photographic views of the first Church of Christ Scientist in Boston. Near Fine, no dust jacket. Clean, crisp, and bright. Titles brilliant.

Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, 1929; First Edition; 8vo, 320 pages; illustrated. Authoritative treatise on rock gardening by A. Edwards, assistant curator in charge of rock gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos, plus 8 beautiful tipped-in color plates. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket.

Rand McNally & Company, NY, 1969; First Edition; 4to, 245 pages; photo illustrated. The expedition diaries of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, illustrated with extraordinary modern b&w photographs of each landscape as it is mentioned in the manuscript. Very Good Plus, in a price-clipped clean, bright, and attractive Very Good dust jacket.

Element, Rockport, Mass., 1992; First Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 286 pages, plus 16 pages of photographs at the back; maroon boards, gilt titles. Verbatim transcription into modern Hebrew characters from the Archaic Hebrew and Aramaic originals of fifty of the Qumran manuscripts from Cave 4, followed by their complete English translations and interpretive commentary. Authored by Robert Eisenman, Professor of Middle East Religions and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at California State University Long Beach, and Michael Wise, Assistant Professor of Aramaic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, New York, 1847; 12mo, 248 pages; no p.d. (circa 1847); embossed black cloth; gilt titles. Autobiography of early 19th century author, poet, journalist, and political activist Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, née Browne (1790-1846) who, though never an ordained minister, was a zealous evangelist for Protestantism in both England and Ireland. Struck deaf at age nine, she became a pioneer in deaf education, and her 1844 book The Wrongs Of Woman was credited as being instrumental in the passage of worker safety regulations in Britain. Tonna’s works were widely popular during her lifetime, but often criticized as too political, something the author freely admitted, and for which she made no apology. The American Tract Society edition, published for American readers and abridged for extraneous British political content. VG-, 3/8" closed cloth tear upper portion of the spine panel, small chips at top spine extremity, some cloth wear along the shoulders,… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1914; First Edition; 8vo, 414 pages; top edges gilt; black cloth boards; gilt titles. English physician Havelock Ellis’s chilling designs for worldwide social engineering through the implementation of eugenics, euphemistically termed "Social Hygiene." Ellis was in addition an ardent champion of women’s rights, and there are three full chapters on the subject. A revealing book which provides an early look at systematic plans for a homogeneous human race, ruled by one world government. Disquietingly familiar, viewed against today’s liberal political agenda. Very Good, no dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned.

Morpheus International, Beverly Hills, 1991; First Edition; 8vo, 1,019 pages. Monumental collection of the best works of Harlan Ellison, from earliest beginnings to 1983. Edited and with an introduction by Terry Dowling. First Trade Paperback Edition, October, 1991. Fine, in illustrated wraps.

Country Life Limited, London, 1960; Revised Edition; large 8vo, 275 pages; photo illustrated. Detailed survey and identification guide to English table glass, written expressly for the collector. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Updated and expanded, with prefatory remarks by the author pointing out the improvements. Very Good Plus, in a clean and bright price-clipped Very Good dust jacket.

P. Price, New York, 1835; First Edition; 12mo (4" x 5 7/8"); 288 pgs.; brown cloth with embossed grapevine design; gilt spine titles. The complete series of letters exchanged between Abel C. Thomas and Ezra Stiles Ely from 1833-1835 debating the doctrine of eternal punishment, which incited widespread controversy at the time. The letters of Doctor Ely originally appeared in The Philadelphian, those of Thomas in The Messenger and Universalist, except the concluding seven epistles, which were published here for the first time. Printed by J. S. Redfield. Very Good. Scattered light foxing, light transparent dampstain upper right corner pgs. 17-109, very light cloth wear of the spine panel extremities, interior hinges cracked. A rare first edition of this theological exchange between two prominent thinkers from the period of The Second Great Awakening.

Universalist Paper And Book Establishment, New York, 1851; 12mo (4" x 6"), 288 pages; embossed brown cloth; gilt spine titles. An 1851 Universalist press printing of this book, first published in 1835. A compendium of the entire series of letters exchanged between Abel C. Thomas and Ezra Stiles Ely from 1833-1835 on the question of eternal punishment, which caused such widespread controversy in its day. The letters of Doctor Ely were originally published in The Philadelphian, those of Thomas in The Messenger and Universalist, except the seven concluding epistles, which appeared for the first time in the first edition of this book. Complete and verbatim in all respects with the 1835 edition, including the seven final epistles and all original pagination. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, binding tight, sound, and square, foxing of end papers only, previous owner signature contemporary with the book on f.f.e.p.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, ca. 1911; 8vo, 409 pages; half leather. The poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Edward Emerson, the poet’s brother, with his preface describing the history behind this edition. Includes the entirety of the Riverside Press edition plus additional poems and fragments. ‘The House,’ which appeared in the first volume of "Poems," and ‘Nemesis,’ ‘Una,’ ‘Love and Thought,’ and ‘Merlin’s Songs, from the "May-Day" volume, have been restored, and some of the essays to the "Elements," plus a few poems by Ellen Tucker, the poet’s first wife, have likewise been added. A few poems from the verse books, ‘Insight,’ ‘September,’ ‘October,’ ‘Hymn,’ and ‘Riches’ are printed here for the first time, as well as some twenty early unpublished pieces "not so much for their poetic merit as for the light they shed on the growth of Emerson’s thought and character." Very Good, original leather,… Read More

California Dep’t. Of Natural Resources, San Francisco, 1959; First Edition; 8vo, 154 pages; tan cloth; Illustrated. Bulletin #146 of the California Department Of Natural Resources Division of Mines, containing professional studies on the Geology of the Lake Elsinore area and its Mineral Deposits. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos and charts. Comprehensive four-page bibliography and index, plus the complete set of seven folding maps in pocket at the back. Fine, in tan cloth boards, w/o dust jacket, as issued. All maps fine. A superb copy.

University Of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2008; First Edition; 8vo, 316 pages; illustrated. Biography of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986), photographer, filmmaker, friend and contemporary of Adams, Weston, Ralph Steiner, Pare Lorentz, et. al., and co-founder of Group f/64. An exhaustive and fascinating history, begun by Van Dyke and completed after his death by photographer and professor emeritus James Enyeart, former director of George Eastman House in Rochester and Director of the Center For Creative Photography at University Of Arizona, Tucson. Photo-illustrated. Signed by the author on the f.f.e.p. As New, in an As New dustjacket. A pristine copy.

Arno Press, NY, 1969; 8vo, 373 pages of text plus 43-page alphabetical index at the back; blue cloth; gilt titles. Two volumes in one. Arno Press facsimile reprint of the 1894 edition in the collection of Harvard College Library, consisting of biographical sketches for 2,050 nineteenth-century artists, followed in as many instances as possible by critical quotations from art authorities the world over. Near Fine, clean, crisp, bright, titles brilliant. Some minor spotting of the front cover.

Goupil, Paris, 1878; Large woodburytype photograph of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) attired in white papal robe and skullcap. Photo measures 7 1/2" x 9", mounted on 11" x 14" card with the pontiff’s name and date of birth printed at the bottom. Accompanied by four pages of biographical text, in French, with an engraving of the papal coat of arms on the top half of the first page. From the 19th century "Galerie Contemporaine" photographic collection of eminent public figures, published in Paris by Goupil et Cie., and issued in parts from 1876 to 1884. Photograph is in Fine condition, Text Near Fine, with faint foxing.

Hollywood, California, 1920; Vintage 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" b&w silver gelatin photograph of screen star Mary Pickford, by early Hollywood portrait photographer Nelson Evans, picturing "Little Mary," coiffed in her trademark blonde ringlets in the part of an ingenue, a role responsible for her meteoric rise but from which she later struggled to escape. A charming portrait from the early years of the actress who was perhaps the most influential film star of all time. Stamp signed "Sincerely, Mary Pickford." Excellent condition, clean, crisp, bright, no chips or tears. Some silvering at the margins. Additionally signed in the negative at lower left by Evans.

Harper & Row, New York, 1967; First Edition; 8vo, 142 pages. Psychologist/ author Richard Evans’ probing personal interviews with psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, in which Erikson elucidates his concept of the Eight Stages Of Man, his cross-cultural theories, the constructive/ destructive energies of world figures like Gandhi and Hitler as expressions of their identity needs, and the meaning of psychoanalysis and its uses in modern society. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket.