Search Results: Titles starting with E from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922 Second Printing. Hardcover, 8vo, in publisher's navy cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, 12 plates in volume 1, 10 plates in volume 2, 421pp + foldout map; 421pp. Stated Second Impression. CONDITION: Near Fine. Light bumps to corners and small dent to spine on vol. 1. Former owner's signature to ffeps. Clean and bright, with firm hinges. Some pages unopened. ** An illustrated biography of Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909), the American railroad tycoon associated with the Illinois Central and Union Pacific Railroads, among others. His sharp business practices were criticized by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and he was considered "robber baron" of the Gilded Age, with interests in finance as well as industry. The book paints, however, a somewhat sympathetic view, discussing his philanthropic causes such as founding the Boys' Club of New York in 1876. A steamboat scientific journey underwritten by him along the Alaskan coast to Siberia in 1899 is… Read More

New York: Burt Frankin, 1970 Hard cover in red cloth, 40pp + 38 plates + 2pp of printers' marks. Reprint of 1896 edition. Author Edward Gordon Duff (1863 - 1924) was a British bibliographer who specialized in early printing. Condition: About Fine, with small, light mark to front cover.Lacking d/j.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Chicago: American Publishing Company, 1876 Hard cover, 8vo, in black decorated cloth gilt with titles to spine, undated, 175pp. Author H.V. Reed is known for having visited Latter Day Saint leader James J. Strang, discoverer of The Voree Plates, thought to be the final testament of an ancient American ruler, Rajah Manchou of Vorito. Reed published an addition to the official translation of the plates. Condition: Very Good. OCLC 79417527. Scarce.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Batchworth Press, Ltd., , 1949 Hard cover, 16mo, in brown cloth, title in gilt to spine, the dust jacket light blue with darker blue print, with color frontispiece illustration of maritime flags, 218 pp. Condition: Near Fine, minor toning to pages, previous owner's signature to front pastedown in ink, dated 1959. In a Very good dust jacket, price clipped, spine sunned. A history of the merchant marine service of the East India Company, and its role in the development of the English hegemony in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stories of ships and sailors, pirates and other foreign adversaries. Indexed. Author Sir Evan Cotton (1868-1939) was a barrister, artist and historian, born in India, the son of Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton. Cotton Elder had a long career with the Indian Civil Service (and was pro-independence in view.) OCLC 559826561.. Illustrated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good .

Brooklyn, New York: Self-Published, 1929 Hardcover, quarto, 159pp. Printed at Hebrew Monotype Press, Brooklyn, NY. In publisher's purple cloth with orange pictorial decoration. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear worn to corners and at head and foot of spine. Rear board has some bands of discoloration that might be production-related. Hinges are fine. Not written in. Small closed tear to the top of one page, repaired. Moderate age-toning. Generally quite clean. ** A collection of songs from Palestine arranged for piano and voice. From religious songs to love songs to songs of the homeland. In Hebrew with English translations. Illustrated throughout. The anthologist, Thelma Goldfarb, collected the musical material from Harold Horowitz and other immigrants. She was the daughter of Rabbi Israel Goldfarb, described as a composer and "father of congregational singing." The Goldfarb family's home in Brooklyn also housed the The Jewish Songster Publishing Company. More information may be found at The… Read More

Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1895 Hard cover, 8vo, First Edition, 89pp. A sort of yearbook of poetry by students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, including poems of romance and of exams. Condition: About Very Good. Inscription to front free endpaper. Some to top edge of covers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Ed. Sagot, Marchand D’Estampes, 1900 In French. Soft cover pamphlet, (measuring 7 ½ x 11 ⅛ inches), some pages unopened, with a biography of the artist and seven black and white lithographic reproductions. Condition Very Good, generally very clean except for (original) glue shadow in gutter, moderately age toned, two small closed tears on rear page and small chip to upper top corner. **Edgar Chahine (1874-1947) was born to a well-to-do Amrnenian family, who moved between Venice and Constaninople, and were later able to support the studies of the promising young artist in the best academies of Paris and Venice. His work has been compared to that of the Belle epoch French masters of printmaking, Jaques Villon and Louis LeGrand. He won a gold medal at Paris's Universal Exhibition in the year of this publication. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Edgar Chahine.

Edinburgh: W.&.R.Chambers, 1926 231pp + ads. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on front endpaper to The Right Hon. Lord Provost Henry Steele, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1938-1941. Foxing to edges of textblock.. Signed by author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Parma: Stamperia Nazionale, 1804 Soft cover in mottled-style card wraps, 12mo (measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches) 33 [1] [36] + 2 foldout plates. In Italian. Prof. Pietro Cossali (1748 - 1815) was an Italian mathematician, meteorologist and astronomer, who taught at the University of Parma. After an introduction about the study of astronomy, there follows a series of tables of the various astronomical events for the leap year 1804. Condition: Covers worn at corners with chips missing from spine. Last foldout plate has a split on the outer fold. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1975 Soft cover, quarto, 96pp. Condition: Very Good. Shelf wear to covers, with tiny chip to edge of back cover. ** Exhibition catalog of works by Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras, Costas Tsoclis, Stephen Antonakos, Takis, Pavlos, Chryssa, and Vlassis Caniaris.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Madrid: Editorial de Espiritualidad, 1969 Paper wraps. 8vo. 130pp. Signed by the author to front free endpaper. Spanish text. Condition: Very Good. Crease to corner of covers. Small tears and marks to covers. ** Title translates as "The Treatment of Subjective Time in the Work of Gabriel Miró". Gabriel Miró Ferrer (1879 - 1930), known as Gabriel Miró, was a Spanish modernist writer. His 1915 work, "El abuelo del rey" ["The King's Grandfather"] is the story of three generations of a family in the Levant, and considered a "meditation" on the passage of time.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Signed by author.

Hartford [CT]: Cook and Company, 1834 Hard cover, 8vo. (8 ¾" x 5 ½"), in publisher's pebbled brown cloth with leather label in gilt to spine, top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. xxxiv + 355 pp. Condition : Good. Spine moderately sunned. Corners lightly rubbed, with the cloth at foot of spine a bit crumpled. Foxed throughout. Pencilled ownership signature ("Charles Ingalls") to front free endpaper. Otherwise the book is sound and remarkably well preserved, given its age. *** From the advertisement: " This examination of the Essay on the Human Understanding, is pronounced, by the writer of the article on the "Philosophy of Perception," in the Edinburgh Review for October 1830, No. 103, Art. IX., p 191, to be " the most important work on Locke, since the Nouveaux Essais of Leibnitz." …."It must be acknowledged to be perhaps the greatest master-piece of philosophical criticism ever exhibited to the public. (excerpt from the translator). *** Victor Cousin (1792-1867) was a French philosopher,… Read More

West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1988 16pp unnumbered. The first book published by Machen, albeit privately. This is a "desktop-published" reprint from the Necronomicon Press in 1988. Condition: Very light foxing else about Fine.. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934 56pp. Octavo (6" x 8 ⅝"). In publisher's black cloth binding with silver title to spine. Condition: Near Fine, with inscription to front free endpaper dated October 1937, and quoting from Canto XXIX. *** Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a key figure in modernist literature, being the editor for T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922), and a promoter of James Joyce's early works, "Dubliners" (1914) and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916). It is said that he reduced the size of "The Waste Land" by half - so that Eliot dedicated the work to Pound thus: "For Ezra Pound / il miglior fabbro" (the "better craftsman"). *** Pound's magnum opus was his epic 800-page poem, "The Cantos" published at various dates (c1917-1962). Like Eliot's work and Joyce's, The Cantos is both erudite and wandering, referencing amongst many others: Homer, Dante, the Medici family, Venice, the American founders Jefferson and Adams (the subject of this volume), Siena and its banks, China,… Read More

Washington D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1897 Hard Cover , 8vo, in black cloth, with titles in blind to spine, 671 pp. Condition: Very Good Minus with a few marks to covers, a tiny chip to the top outer joint,very light foxing to prelims and light age toning. Bookplate with photo, to fffep. belonging to Jno. C. Sjodin with his facsimile signature. Sjodin was a Socialist politician from Galesburg, Illinois. He is named as the local party secretary in the May 3, 1902 edition of the Chicago Socialist. (p. 4) He ran for mayor of Galesburg in 1917, but was defeated as reported in the Galesburg Evening Mail of April 16, 1917, losing to Dr. William O. Bradley of the People's Party by over one thousand votes.** As described in the transmittal letter by Commissioner Wright, the report includes : a reporting of the effects of mechanization on the costs of production, in terms of labor, time and money; a comparative chart on the price of labor around the world; the economic costs of the liquor trade such as… Read More

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1955 Hard cover, 8 vo, in half black cloth, with white and grey paper covered boards, titles to spine in gold, 97pp. This is a reprint of an original journal from 1809 now in the Princeton University Library. New Jersey native, Elias Boudinot, LL.D. (1740-1821) was a founding father, a member and later President, of Congress from 1782 to 1783. He was also a founder-member and President of the American Bible Society, and appointed by Washington as the Director of the United States Mint. The narrative is from a journal kept by Mr. Boudinot of a trip from his home in Burlington, New Jersey to Boston soon after the loss of his wife. Notes and an index are appended as auxiliary to the appreciation of the author's notable friends and acquaintances, and familiarity with the movers and shakers of early American industry passed by along his carriage route through New Jersey, Connecticut and on to Boston. One of his works, entitled: A Star in the West;… Read More

London / New York: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd./ M. Renner, 1904 Reprint of the 1901 first edition. Soft cover in the original tan paper wraps, 12 mo (5 x 7 1/2 inches), with titles in black ink to front and spine, ex-library Bowdoin College, with large withdrawal sticker to verso front wrap, call letters to spine on a vintage paper label. Blind stamp to title page. Condition: Very Good Minus: edges dusty, spine shows one crack, missing quarter -inch of wraps at head of spine. Light soiling to exterior. However, the inside pages are clean and unmarked (looks unread.)**Described by its author in the Preface as a novel "with a social and political purpose," it appears to be highly autobiographical in nature. The saga follows a New York doctor's family removal to England, There are robust allusions to various reform questions, many based on religious interpretation, including a discussion of polygamous versus monogamous marriage, and broad hints of spiritualism. Genealogical… Read More

New York: The Typophiles, 1964 Hard cover, quarto, 114pp. Reminiscences of Frederick B. Adams Jr, John T. Winterich, Lawrence Thompson, Kneeland McNulty, Al Hine, David Jackson McWilliams, Edward Naumburg Jr, Philip C, Duschnes, Elmer Adler. Elmer Adler (1884 - 1962) was an American book designer and collector. He founded Pynson Printers in 1922 and began designing books with Burton Emmett and John T.Winterich. Condition: Very Good, with light bumps to corners of back board.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861 Hard cover, 12 vo., (measuring 4 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches) in brown "T" publisher's cloth with several blindstamped banded borders, corner fleurons and a large central filigree design. Title in gilt to spine. 288 pp and 312 pp. Per Blanck: has Currents "Nearly Ready," suggesting first or second state. However, p. 13 "richer" and p. 23 "all" and "it's" suggest fourth state. So, likely an amalgamation of the two. This was Oliver Wendell Holme's first novel, republished from earlier serialization in The Atlantic Monthly. This was one of Holme's "medicated" novels, wherein the Harvard-trained medical doctor and author diagnosed a "medical aberration" in his main character. In this case, a snakebite to the mother whilst pregnant, causing the onset of weird, snake-like tendencies in a young woman. An interesting moral tale, involving marriage, inheritance and the concept of original sin. The origin of the phrase "Boston Brahmin" stems from the first chapter of this… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955 Hard cover, 8vo in green cloth, titles in gold, in the original tan and green dust jacket, map endpapers, xvii, 600pp. Stated First Edition, with Harper Code D-E , (for April, 1955). Includes the fold-out map, facsimile correspondence.**CONDITION: Near Fine. Slight edge wear, top edge of boards, otherwise exterior is very clean. D/j is price clipped, lightly sunned to spine, with light edgewear at head and tail of same. Pages are clean and bright.** This is the fourth in a series of four works about Dickinson by the Author Millicent Todd Bingham, who sidestepped a scholarly career in geology and geography when presented with a trunk of literary off-cuts and other unpublished materials by her mother, Mabel Todd Loomis (1856-1932). Loomis, along with Newburyport's own Rev. Thomas W. Higginson, were the original editors of the famously reclusive poet's works to the world. Loomis's choices have been controversial, perhaps affected by her longterm affair with the… Read More