Authors starting with E from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Eakins Press, 2001. First, limited edition.. 12mo. Printed card wrappers. Photofacsimile of the only known copy of the original (1531) printing; followed by a modern English version. ... more information

New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1974. First Edition.. 16mo. Pictorial self-wraps. Accordion-style panel book of 28 panels, illustrating scenes from the 1974 New York City Ballet production . Mild wear and dusting; Near Fine. ... more information

Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1803. First edition.. Sewn pamphlet. Small octavo (8"x5"); 3 p.l., (7)-17p. Removed; cover wrappers lacking. Text clean and complete. Inscribed in Latin on half-title: "Johanni Eliot Artum Magistro, Sacra Theologia Doctori, Societate Historica Socio. / Ex dono / Auctoris."Inaugural dissertation of William Ingalls (1769-1851), on a case of bursal abscess, with a comment thereon. Ingalls became a prominent Boston surgeon, taught medicine at Harvard, and joi... more information

Summit, NJ: Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, 1947. First Edition.. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers; pp. 502-532. Light dusting & soil; text clean and unmarked. ... more information

Summit, NJ: Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, 1948. First Edition.. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers; pp. 826-856. Light dusting & soil; text clean and unmarked. ... more information

Paris: Bloud and Gay, 1916. Staple-bound pamphlet; 22pp. Wear and sunning to edges of covers, pages foxed and chipped at two points of fore edge, else a clean and sound copy.Praise for Serbia's role in WW1. Publication of the Committee "The Effort of France and of her Allies.". ... more information

New York: United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, 1946. Staple-bound pamphlet; 14pp. Pencil date to cover sunned along edges, mailing address and postage on rear cover, corners worn, else a sound copy. ... more information

New York: Eakins Press, 1967. First Edition.. 12mo (17cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; [41]pp. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and unclipped jacket. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed to Ben Shahn on front endpaper: "Ben Shahn - After giving the Phi Beta Kappa poem in June the next day I saw you on the stage but could not get over to say hello. Here are the sonnets after some lapse of time. Yours as ever, Richard Eberhart," datemarked Hanover NH, November 9, 196... more information

Philadelphia: John Buchanan, 1869. First Editions.. Scattered run, unbound and in original printed paper wraps, comprising: Vol. VII, nos 11-12 (Nov & Dec. 1869); Vol VIII, nos 2, 4 & 5; Vol IX, nos 2-3; Vol X, no 5; Vol XI, no 1 (Jan-Mar, 1873). Together, 10 issues. VIII/2 lacking its rear wrapper, else uniformly very good, with lighter than expected wear to wraps and free of internal markings or wear; spines toned but intact. An uncommon journal of so-called "Eclectic Medicine," issue... more information

London: William Hodge & Company, (1936). First English Language Edition.. Octavo (25cm). Green ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; xi, 224pp. Mild external wear; endpapers lightly foxed; text clean, tight and unmarked. Brief ownership signature inside front board. Very Good. A major work of Austrian School economics, described by the Ludwig von Mises Institute as possibly "...the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School..."... more information

Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986. First Edition.. Two octavo volumes; blue cloth; dustjacket; pp790-1273. Ink hand-stamps and old price-sticker residue to endpapers; Vol I lacking jacket, Vol II in moderately rubbed and edgeworn jacket; else tight and unmarked. Very Good. A sound and unmarked working set. ... more information

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 189pp; illus. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in lightly soiled, VG+ dustwrapper. ... more information

Chicago: National Historical Society, 1928. First Edition.. Small octavo (18.5cm). Original orange cloth boards, lettered in dark brown; dustjacket; 208pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce and extremely fragile dustwrapper with several clear tape mends to verso; Good. An ultra-nationalist diatribe against the revision of American history textbooks that took place during the decade of the 1920s, mostly under the direction of the Carnegie Institution and The English Speaking Union. The anti-revi... more information

Washington: USNSA [United States National Student Association], 1971. First Edition.. Octavo (23cm). Original printed wrappers; 298pp. Ownership signature to front cover and title page; mild external wear and soil; Very Good. Collection of essays on educational reform, including contributions by Carl rogers, Rick Kean, Gerald Farber, James Nixon, Peter Marin, and others. ... more information

Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1972. First Edition.. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 128pp. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Clean, tight and unmarked in lightly worn and soiled jacket; Very Good. Journal and ruminations based on the author's 3-month-long experiment in alternative education in a conservative, rural West Virginia school district (purposely left unidentified in the text). ... more information

Hardford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Company, 1862. First Edition.. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued). Woodcut frontis; 55pp; 1 woodcut plate (of sign language alphabet). Rear wrapper neatly detached; front wrapper split 1" at bottom; spine partially perished. Internally fresh, unmarked and unworn. ... more information

New York: International Publishers, 1938. First Edition in English.. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 29pp. Mild toning to covers, else about Fine. ... more information

Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, 1924. First Edition.. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth (hardcover); x, 454, [7]. One of 5000 cloth copies printed in the First Edition (there were also 5000 copies in wraps). Cover design & frontispiece by Art Young. Mild rubbing and soil to cloth and page edges; a Near Fine copy with spine gilt bright, front cover illustration unrubbed, text clean and unmarked, joints and hinges tight. Lacking dustjacket. AHOUSE A32a. ... more information

Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams & Co, 1959. First Edition.. Cloth-backed boards; illus.; 524pp. Small owner's stamp to free endpapers, minimal wear to extremities, else a tight and clean copy in lightly soiled and edgeworn dustjacket. ... more information