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New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stiff white illustrated wrappers, staple bound. Sixteen pages of paper doll cutouts to dress E.D. Ward Bear (bear on front and back covers). Illustrated and produced by Edward Gorey. First edition. Signed by Gorey on rear cover in typical fashion by using his pseudonym Dogear Wryde, written directly above the crossed out printed version. Dogear Wryde was one of the many anagrams of the author's name used over the years as both author and illustrator, several of the more familiar being Ogdred Weary, Ms. Regera Dowdy, and Eduard Blutig. No previous ownership marks. A very nice copy with sharp corners, clean unmarked interior and only a hint of cover soiling to rear wrapper below hinge. Near fine. Toleando A87.
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E.D. Ward: A Mercurial Bear
by Gorey, Edward (as Dogear Wryde)
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E.M. Forster
by Trilling, Lionel
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Norfork, CT: New Directions, 1943. Green cloth sans dustjacket. Portrait frontispeice. Page edges beginning to brown, as per usual for this wartime edition, and fraying to top of ba ckstrip. Good or better reading copy.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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EDDIE CONDON'S SCRAPBOOK OF JAZZ
by Condon, Eddie; O'Neil, Hank
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New York: Galahad Books, 1973. Hardcover, large format oblong quarto in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket,. Unpaginated. Foreword by John Steinbeck. Profusely illustrated with photographs, record labels, and assorted ephemera. A unique and personal odyssey of the history of jazz the saloons of 1920's Chicago, round the world to the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall. No previous ownership marks. Slight nick to top of front board and mild bow to covers, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Near very good in a near very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Eagle And The Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941 1943 Pearl Harbor Through Guadalcanal
by Schom, Alan Morris
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New York: W W Norton & Company, 2004. Harcover in dust-jacket. 540pp., Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. History Book Club issue, A well written and objective study of America's entry into the Pacific war, unprepared, weakened, yet determined. Very mild stain to top edge, else fine. A clean, square, copy with no previois ownership marks. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Eagle And The Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941 1943 Pearl Harbor Through Guadalcanal
by Schom, Alan Morris
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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2003. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 540pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and map endpapers. First edition, first printing. A diplomatic, political and military history of the lead up to, and first two years of, America's war with Japan. No previous ownership marks. Light wear to lower corner of front board, else fine. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War 1941-1943: Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal
by Schom, Alan
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 540 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index.. Illustrated with 32 pages of black and white photographs on coated stock. Book club edition, no price on dust-jacket flap. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, appears like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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The Eagle and the Small Birds: Crisis in the Soviet Empire From Yalta to Solidarity
by Charlton, Michael
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Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Hardcover, red cloth in non clipped dust-jacket. 192pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A discussion of the origins and realities of the building of Churchill's "iron curtain" and the schism in European culture after 1945. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust=-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Eagles Shadow
by Cabell, James Branch
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New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in white, no dust-jacket. 256 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and 7 full page plates by Will Grafe; decorated by Blanche Ostertag. First edition, second state with frontis figure standing and dedication to Martha Louise Branch. Author's first book. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+. .
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Early America at Work A Pictorial Guide to Our Vanishing Occupations
by Wilson, Everett
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New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1963. Small quarto, black cloth in dustjacket. Illustrated with over 300 graphics, many reproduced from books and magazines published prior to 1900. An interesting social history of bygone jobs and trades, and the lexicon which described there activities. Near fine in very good non price-clipped dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Early Arabic Poetry
by [Various]
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Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seven off-prints from various scholarly journals, in several different languages, all pertaining to early Arabic poetry. Publishing dates range from 1928 to 1975. Printed on rectos only and professionally bound in brown buckram hardcovers. No marking or lettering to buckram covers. Handwritten table of contents insdie front cover. Articles are as follows: K.S, Kashtaleva, "The term hanif in the Koran", [from Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the 1st USSR, pp.157-162, 1928. TEXT IN RUSSIAN]; two other articles in Russian, one by Kraukovskii and another by D. N. Petrov; Von E. Braunlich, "Versuch einer literargeschiehtlichen Betrachtungsweise altarabischer Poesien" pp. 201-269; Francesco Gabrieli, "La Poesie Religieuse de L'Ancien Islam" pp. 7-50; Von Wolfhart Heinrichs, "Die altarabishe Qaside als Dichtkunst Bemerkungen und Gedanken zu einem neuen Buch" pp.118-124;…
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Early Cars: Pleasures and Treasures
by Sedgwick, Michael
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London: Octopus Books, 1972. Large format hardcover, green cloth in publisher's green pictorial dust-jacket. 96 pages. Illustrated with 144 black and white and color photographs. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Very small notation inside rear cover indicating date book purchased by former collector [1-74]. A clean, square, fresh and otherwise unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows mild wear to lower portion of front cover. Very good+ in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Early Houses Of New England
by Baker, Norman B.
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Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co.; Publishers, 1967. Hardcover, large format quarto, beige cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 144 pages. Profusely illustrated with plans and sketches of New England houses of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Stated first edition, first printing. A depiction of "53 vintage houses of Colonial America, all based on and inspired by homes of yesterday still extant-- many of them kept up by historical societies of the towns in which they are located." Small previous owner's label inside front cover. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Early Homes of New York and the Mid-Atlantic States
by [Editors of the Early American Society]
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New York: Arno Press, 1977. Red cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and measured drawings. A volume in the mongraph series 'Architectual Treasure s of Early America', containing historical background, authentic detail design ideas and a wide variety of homes from New York, New Jersey and Maryland. Fine in near fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Early Kingdoms in Madagascar, 1500-1700
by Kent, Raymond K
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 336pp., Index. Illustrated with maps. Appendices in English, Malagesy, and French. Bibliography. A novel examination the Malagasy past pointing to a much greater African influence than had previously been thought. No previous owner's marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Early Masters: Ukiyo-E Prints and Paintings from 16.80 to 1750
by Avitabile, Gunhild
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New York: Japan Society Gallery, 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large quarto paperback bound in pictorial gray and black stiff wraps with French Flaps. 139 pages. Bibliography, Glossary. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white pictures of eighteen artists. A catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "Early Masters: Japanese Woodblock Prints from 1680-1750", shown at the Japan Society Gallery from October 3 to November 24, 1991. First edition in English, revised and printed in an edition of 1,000. Originally published in Germany in 1988 by the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk , Frankfurt am Main. Label on front cover with list price and net price [for those attending exhibition?]. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy, like new. Fine. .
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Early Photographs and Early Photographers: A Survey in Dictionary Form
by Mathews, Oliver
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New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1973. Hardcover, blue cloth in pictorial white dust-jacket. 198 pages. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated with over 250 examples of the world's earliest and finest photographs. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Contains chapters on the origins and prehistory of photography; chronology; photographers and photographic inventors; general information on types and processes; and recorded prices for early photographs at the time of publication. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Early Sea Charts
by Putnam, Robert
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New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Large (elephant folio) sized book bound in blue cloth and with publisher's original dust-jacket. 143 pages. Illustrated with 76 plates, many double page and all but one in full color. First American edition, first printing thus, originally published in the UK. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy in a nice duct-jacket which has no tears or chips. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A very large book, media mail shipping only. No Priority or International shipping available but by special arrangement. .
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Earth Oil
by Egloff, Gustav
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Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1933. Cloth. Small volume published in cooperation with The Century of Progress Exposition on the history, nature and uses of oil. First edition. Hardcover in non price-clipped d ustjacket. Illustrated. Dustjacket age soiled, edgeworn and torn at top and bottom of spine. Good in poor dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic
by Giamatti, A. Bartlett
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969. Trade paperback. 374 pages. Stated First paperback edition. No previous ownership marks. Text free from underlining, highlighting and writing. No spine crease. Mild toning to rear cover, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Good+. . First Edition Thus. Softcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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East European Jews In Two Worlds: Studies From The Yivo Annual
by Moore, Deborah D
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Northwestern Univ Pr, 1990. Large trade paperback. 334pp., First edition in bbok form. Contents include: "The Eastern European Era in Jewish History"; "Swislocz: Portrait of a Jewish Community in Eastern Europe"; "A Kheyder in Tyszowce (Tishewits)"; "The Discovery of Mendele Moykher-Seforim and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Literature"; "The Struggle of the Vaad Arba Arazot for the Jewish Right of Religious Worship in Breslau in the Seventeenth Century"; "The Jew in Cities of the Republic of Poland"; "The Economic Background of Jewish Emigration from Galicia to the United States"; "Jewish and Non-Jewish Criminality in Poland, 1932-1937"; "Religious, Educational and Cultural Problems in the Eastern European Ghettos under German Occupation"; "Was There an 'Other Germany' During the Nazi Period?"; "The Bearing of Emancipation on Jewish Survival"; "The…
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