Authors starting with E from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1950. First, limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 52pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed jacket. ... more information

New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1974. First edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 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

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

Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1803. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 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 a... more information

Philadelphia, (1822). First editions. Wraps. good. Three octavo pamphlets, including: :: McClellan, George. A Statement [Phil: 1822]. 4pp. :: McClellan, George. A Statement of Facts. Phil: 1822. 24pp. :: Gwinn, John. A Narrative of Facts. [Phil], 1822. 11pp. First two items with contemporary ink ownership signature of Philadelphia physician John Redman Coxe (first practitioner of vaccination in Philadelphia; qv. G-M 5425). Removed; one possibly lacking cover wraps (other two self-wraps); variable foxing; ... more information

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

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

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good +. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 398pp. Tight, near fine copy. In the very scarce pictorial dustjacket, unclipped, with a few short closed tears at extremities, small (1/4") loss at base of rear panel, still easily on the better side of Very Good. A novel loosely based on the life and career of Eastman's friend John Reed, concerning a young businessman who is converted to the IWW cause by the Paterson silk strike ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Inscribed by Eastman to his college roommate Ralph Erskine: "For Ralph, my poet-brother, from Max," dated in year of publication. Also laid in is a TLS on Eastman's letterhead to Ralph [Erskine] in Tryon, North Carolina, thanking him for a visit and recalling a conversation: "...it is good news that I persuaded you to be more chary of using the words that div... more information

New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1927. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Octavo. Original blue cloth boards; gilt spine and cover titles; xxii, 489p. Upper board corner bumped, else a tight, bright, Near Fine copy, free of markings or wear. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. A revision and elaboration of the author's landmark 1913 work, which set the course for the study of economic cycles for the next thirty years. Published as No. 10 in the series "Publications of the... more information

New York: Ronald Press, 1938. Second printing. Cloth. Very Good +/good. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket; 798p. Dusting & faint foxing to text block edges, else Near Fine in rather worn jacket with marginal losses and closed tears. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of the Great Depression. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending, etc., as well as discussion of the failure of Wall Street. Uncommon. ... more information

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, 1909. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine. Original gilt pictorial cloth (hardcover); 718pp + 8pp ads; illus; 2 folding pls. Mild wear to spine ends and corners, else Near Fine; a bright, unrubbed copy. Well-illustrated and comprehensive treatise covering every aspect of electric railway power generation. Uncommon. 8vo. ... more information

Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1904. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 19p. Covers slightly soiled with brief closed, marginal tears; small tear to base of title page, else clean and unmarked. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First issue, with "here" for "her" on p.29. Mild sunning to upper board edges, else a tight, Fine copy in a very nice, unclipped jacket, just slightly lightened on spine. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, 1925. First, limited edition. Fine. Octavo. Limp vellum stamped in gilt on spine; 99pp. Number 18 of 85 signed copies. This is one of approximately 10 hors-commerce copies that Eliot had made up at his own expense as gifts for friends. A typed note quoting bibliographer Donald Gallup is laid-in: "One of a handful, certainly not more than 10 copies, specially bound for the poet as gifts to his friends. Of known copies, most still are in private hands. ... this copy belonged ... more information

New York: United States District Court, New York, 1955. Wraps. Very Good. Original mimeographed brief. Cover sheet worn, with old tape repairs; text fresh, with scattered pencil underlining and marginalia, presumably in the hand of Newsweek editor Ralph de Toledano, from whose library this item was acquired. With written ownership signature of "Mrs Ralph de Toledano / 54 Riverside Dr. / New York" to cover. In July 1948, 12 leaders of the Communist Party were arrested and charged with violating... more information

New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1849. Tenth Edition. Full Leather. Good. 12mo. Cont. full sheep; 300p; frontis, text illus. Moderate wear; scattered foxing to text; occasional faint stains from laid-in floral specimens. A complete, unmarked copy, Good or better. ... more information

Portland: William Hyde, 1837. First edition thus. Wraps. Good. 24mo. Sewn pamphlet; original printed wrappers; 72p. Old splash-stains to cover wrappers; text foxed throughout; still a good, solid copy. ... more information

London: Edwin Arnold, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo. Cloth boards; 88p; illus; 8-page publisher's catalogue. Slight external wear; bit of insecting to front board; endpapers darkened, else a solid and unmarked copy of the uncommon first edition. Pioneering study of the environmental effects of industrial smokestacks, conducted in the city of Leeds during the height of the industrial revolution. Cohen was the first to document (in the present work) the clogging of stomatic cells in plan... more information

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo. Cloth boards; 706pp. Mild wear; small perforation to front joint; some darkening to endpapers from adhesive action. Still a bright, attractive, unmarked copy, VG or better. A second volume, dealing with the 18th-19th centuries, was published later. ... more information