Search Results: Titles starting with E from Crow Hop Rare Books

Los Angeles: North American Aviation, Inc./Los Angeles Division, [1966?]. Contributors include John Young (Corporate VP for Quality and Logistics), Carl Hansen (Former Chief Engineer of LA Division), and Dick Schleicher (Special Assistant to the Chief Engineer Structures). Oblong stapled wraps (11” x 8.5”), overall VG+ with a touch of rubbing and soiling to covers. 36pp. with numerous images reproduced from those used in the presentation. Records the discussion of the three contributors who presented to the Senior Engineers of the LA Division on the subject “Famous Firsts.” The discussion covers The Fokker Era, The Berliner-Joyce Era up to WWII, and WWII through 1950 and particular NAA Firsts. Uncommon, and only two holdings per OCLC as of November 2019.

Illustrated uncut sheet on rag paper (no watermark visible), sepia-toned, measuring approximately 25.25” x 21”. Im Verlag und zufinden bey Peter Schencken (Amsterdam, circa 1705). Originally published in Paris in the seventeenth century, with a few variations listed in OCLC, mostly appearing in European institutions (one appears at Harvard).  Half-inch loss to upper left edge, three small holes at lower edge, vertical crease, soiling, and edgewear. Numerous tape repairs on verso, most likely two disbound sheets from a composite atlas joined with early tape reinforcement. Alphabetical table of figures and index on left margin, rules of the game printed across top. 52 separately numbered uncut game cards (each approximately 2” x 3.25”). Each card has an illustration (fortification) and text. Each card could be cut or the entire sheet could also be used as a gameboard.  A scarce European military fortification game dating from the early eighteenth century.

Newton, MA: Phillips Publishers Inc., 1953. First edition. Softcover. Illustrated by Barbara Corrigan. Torn box present.

Louisville, KY: The Standard Printing Co., 1940. First Edition, one of 350 copies, this copy being unnumbered and formerly belonging to John A. Medley, one of the 5 Medley Brothers from Owensboro, KY who established Medley Distilling Company in 1937. SIGNED by John A. Medley on ffep with his ownership mailing label pasted to front board. The book contains underlining and markings in red pencil throughout. VG+ in an about VG slipcase with tape reinforcing spine.Contents include: Thomas Marshall, Inspector, Major Peyton Short, Washington's Proclamation, Carrington''s Statement of the Law, The Whisky Rebellion, Judge Harry Innes, First Kentucky Distillers, and Pioneer Distillers.

New Orleans: The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1964. Oblong (approximately 7.5" x 5.5") in plastic comb binding. VG+ wraps (a few small stains to front cover and rubbing to rear). 33 images--oil crayon paintings and drypoint etchings--scenes of the French Quarter painted by Woodward (1858-1939).

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. VG+ black boards with blue spine lettering in an about Very Good unclipped dustjacket (3” tear at rear flap fold, 2” tear with loss at front lower flap fold, tear at spine, toning, rubbing, edgewear). Jacket design by Tony Palladino. 15 “Science Fiction Tales of Our Own Planet.”

New York: Self Published, 1978. About VG+ stapled illustrated wraps (by Eddie M. Granderson). 4 photographs by Billie Brown and drawings by Nash and Ditte Nielsen. 55 pp. Soiling and offsetting/sunning to covers with a small indentation near upper staple. INSCRIBED by the editor on the half-title page: “To the family iÂ’ve known for so long—enjoy. Love to you all Debora Nash Â’79 P.S. comments welcome (Piri especially)” [Piri Thomas, author of the 1967 autobiography Down These Mean Streets]. First and apparently only issue of this journal. Nash writes in her Foreword, “People must and will eventually realize that we are all drops in the sea of a humanity composed of many colors and cultures. We must also realize that we are all tied to one origin, one cradle of mankind, which is AfricaÂ…we must realize that the exploration of Black culture is the exploration of African culture and, ultimately, the exploration of human culture. Accepting this fact does not require assent or surrender, for it is… Read More

Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. Foreword by John Logan. Near Fine wraps. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Gioseffi to poet and translator Ruth Feldman in 1983. Also SIGNED by Logan at the conclusion of his Foreword, along with a correction in pen. Includes numerous annotations by Gioseffi. Folded BOA promotional flyer included.

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1983. Calligraphy by Douglas Strickler. 186 copies were printed in December 1983 for private distribution by the author and publisher; of these, 36 copies were numbered and signed by the author, this being #34 SIGNED by Levertov. Small (5.75” x 8.5”) broadside tipped in to red wrappers with gilt lettering. Fine.

Elberton, GA: Elbert County Historical Society, 2005. First Edition. 266 pp. Illustrations and photos throughout. VG+ (a touch of rubbing and edgewear). SIGNED by Jane Farmer on the inside of front cover.Explores the people of Elbert County from the Civil War through the 1960s.

New York: Random House (A Ramparts Book), 1969. First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. 220 pp. With ownership stamps “A.F. Cornish” on ffep.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974. VG+ or better illustrated wraps, side-stapled. (70 pp). Published at The Poetry Project, St. MarkÂ’s In-The-Bowery, New York City. 26 copies were lettered and SIGNED by North and artist Jane Freilicher, this being copy F. A nice limited edition from the Adventures in Poetry series of New Yorker NorthÂ’s second book of poetry.

Chicago: Third World Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine pictorial softcover, 78[8] pp. INSCRIBED to surrealist poet Tom Lux on ffep: “To Tom Lux Thank you for your support—The Best Brian Gilmore April 1996.” Poetry collection in two sections: “bo didley’s guitar reminds me of” and “richard wright is the consummate alien.”

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (sunning to spine). SIGNED by Canin on title page. Canin's first book, a short story collection published at the age of 27. Walker Percy praised these stories, writing that they are "dazzling--at times breathtaking, at other times heartbreaking." Canin was recognized as a Granta 20 author.

London: Picador/Pan Books Ltd., 1988. First British Edition (9-2 number line). Near Fine in a VG+ dustjacket (soiling to flaps). Canin's first book, a short story collection published at the age of 27.

New York: Scribner , 1996. Advance Reader's Copy. SIGNED by Homes on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. First Edition. 191 pp. VG+ black cloth with spine lettering in red (rubbing, toning to endpapers) in a VG unclipped dustjacket (wrinkling at rear top edge, sticker stain on front flap, tiny losses at folds and edgewear).

New York: Knopf, 1992. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of the First American edition of Ackroyd's novel. 400 pp. VG+ in illustrated wraps (edgewear, "Discarded" stamps on ffep and half-title). SIGNED by Ackroyd on half-title page.

Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1966. First Edition. VG+ (spine ends worn, a touch rubbed) in an about VG+ unclipped dustjacket (creasing to rear lower edge, wear to spine ends, light wrinkle to front top edge). SIGNED by Anderson on title page. Jacket design by Roger Hane. The third in the Flandry books. 

London: Anthony Blond, 1969. First Edition. 46 pp. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. 17 two-color illustrations by Erte. VG+ in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (stain to top of front cover, edgewear).