Authors starting with E from Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

Octavo bound in the original publisher's pictorial binding of brown cloth with marvelous jester in a burnt orange costume raising a toast against a gilt background. Gilt spine lettering.  A compilation of toasts for all occasions as well as advice about etiquette and selection of appropriate words.  Small previous owner's name on front free endpaper, dated 1916.  A pristine copy of the second edition.  Rare in that the book retains the original dust wrapper repeating the cover design in full. Aside from... more information

London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., (1929). A stout octavo, 320 pp. including index, bound in dark green cloth. An attractive and highly useful book with sections on Wall, Paved, Marsh and Water gardens. Illustrated with 8 colour plates mounted on heavy stock and 50 photographic plates and diagrams. A fine copy in the original pictorial dust wrapper which has a bit of minor soiling and wear. Unusual to find this nice English garden book in the dust wrapper. ... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company September 1903 Original brown art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 4, number 3. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by R. Radcliffe-Whitehead, Dora Amsden, Ernest Carrol Moore, Josephine M. Hyde and a frontispiece illustration by William Keith. This issue also has Part II of The Building of a Home by Charles Keeler which precedes his book "The Simple Home" in ... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company June 1903 Original brown art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 4, number 2. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by Alfred A. Wheeler, Prof. A. T. Murray, H. W. R., Jeremy Collier and Thomas Fuller. Frontispiece on A Song of Books by Gordon Ross. This issue also has Part I of The Building of a Home by Charles Keeler which precedes his book "The Simple Home" i... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company December 1903 Original brown art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 4, number 4. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by Dora Amsden, Ralph Erwin Gibbs, Bailey Millard, Dorothea Moore and several others. This issue also has an article by Charles Keeler on The Furnishing of a Home which precedes his book "The Simple Home" in 1906. The text is essentially the sam... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company December 1905 Original blue art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 6, number 4. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by Thomas R. Bacon, Howard V. Sutherland, Langley Porter, George L. Noyes and verse by Neera. The frontispiece is "White Birches" from a painting by Noyes. Light soiling to a few leaves, 1/8 inch closed tear along fore edge of cover but still a ne... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company March 1902 Original gray art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 1, number 3. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by the well known Anna Strunsky, Dorothea Moore, Thomas Dykes Beasley, H. W. Rolfe, Edwin Markham and many others. Both supplements are missing from this copy. (a book mark and "Baby Roland" by George Hansen) Slight age toning to a few leaves, bottom... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder and Company June 1902 Original gray art nouveau decorated wrappers. Octavo. Volume 2, number 3. Beautifully printed and decorated literary and art journal from the turn of the last century. This volume contains articles by Wallace Irwin, P. I. Johansen, Valentine Blake, Laura B. Everett, Harold Johnson and many others. As issued with the supplement ("With the Field-Lark" by Irene Hardy) laid in Slight age toning to a few leaves, bottom corner of front cover creased ... more information

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, (ca. 1876 & 1883). A handsome set of the Cabinet Edition of the works of George Eliot, complete in 24 volumes including three volumes of the Life Of George Eliot as related in her letters and journals, arranged and edited by her husband, J. W. Cross. Uniformly bound in contemporary scarlet half-calf over marbled boards. Top edge gilt, marbled endleaves matching the covers. These fine bindings, with six paneled spines, gilt rules and decorative devices a... more information

New York Random House 1967 First printing INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. A blue cloth octavo withprinting in yellow, orange and purple. Slight fading of blue cloth along top edges. A little fading to bottom of spine, 1/4 inch spot of cloth discoloration to top of spine. The dark green pictorial dust jacket has slight edge wear and crease on back flap, otherwise clean and bright with the original price of $5.95 intact. Ink inscription on front free endpaper: "For Sidney fondly Stanley 11/25/68. Ha... more information

London: George G. Harrap, n.d. (1910). Octavo, 241 pages, bound in full vellum with gilt titles andArt Nouveau ruled borders on both the upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece. There is overall soiling to the vellum, else this is a handsome copy of one of the "Harrap Library" series, in a restrained binding that suits the work of Mr. Emerson. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition, later printing; 12mo, pp. [8], 288; orig. brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spine ends cracked and slightly chipped, else good and sound. BAL's reprint issue A (signature mark 1 present, the title is priced at $1 and described as being in 7 divisions in the adverts). BAL 5231 ... more information

Concord N.H.: G. F. Bemis, 1835. First edition, first state with signature mark 3 absent. Bound with the ORIGINAL BLUE WRAPPERS present. Recent cloth backed marble boards, uncut as issued. Scattered foxing throughout, several leaves with slight tears to fore edge, wrappers archivally backed but still a nice copy of Emerson's first separately published book or substantial publication preceded only by contributions to journals and a broadside. The rarity of this pamphlet can be explained by the  small nu... more information