Authors starting with E from Bauman Rare Books

1874. EASTMAN, Edwin and JOHNSON, Clark. Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography. Jersey City: Clark Johnson, 1874. Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in blind and black. $365. Second edition of this "fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup… with considerable garbling from Catlin" (Ayer, 29), with frontispiece portrait and seven full-page wood-engravings. First published a year earlier, Eastman's tale includes a... more information

1992. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. EDGERTON, Clyde. In Memory of Junior. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $110. First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Revolving around the Summerlin Baptist Cemetery, Edgerton's fifth book finds good-natured humor in the eccentricities of its Southern characters. A fine copy. ... more information

1991. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. EDGERTON, Clyde. Walking Across Egypt. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991. Small octavo, original half blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $110. First edition, signed by Edgerton on the title page. "Edgerton's decision to be a serious writer was a very deliberate one, but somewhat of a surprise even to him. He had been keeping a journal, jotting down ideas, feelings, characters, and events on paper. He planned to use this resource in case he continued to writ... more information

1992. SIGNED. EDGERTON, Clyde. Raney. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992. Small octavo, original half black cloth, lavender paper boards, original pictorial dust jacket. $110. Later printing, signed by Edgerton on a publisher's label, mounted on the half title. Edgerton "enjoys watching what happens with unlikely couples…. He takes us inside the houses and hearts of people living in the modern South." First published in 1985, Raney documents "the first two years, two months, and t... more information

1987. FIRST EDITION. (EDGERTON, Harold E.) JUSSIM, Estelle. Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton. New York: Harry Abrams, (1987). Quarto, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $125. First edition of this engaging chronicle of the analysis of motion by means of multi-flash photography. Generously illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of Edgerton's photographs, this work chronicles the history and achievements of his pioneering work in the fields of stroboscopy and ... more information

1893. EDGEWORTH, Maria. The Novels. London: J.M. Dent, 1893. Twelve volumes. Octavo, three-quarter brown levant morocco, gilt-tooled spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $2400. Holland Paper Edition, number 20 of only 100 sets produced, this set extra-illustrated. With engraved frontispieces, titles, illustrations, and headpieces. Plates in excellent condition. A beautifully bound, fine set. ... more information

1928. EINSTEIN, Albert. Neue Möglichkeit für Eine Einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenchaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter, 1928. Quarto, original orange paper wrappers. $1100. First offprint edition of one of Einstein's classic papers on the theory of distant parallelism, in original wrappers. In 1928, Einstein took a new approach to field theory, which he named "distant parallelism." "By early 1929, he... more information

1950. SIGNED. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Photograph inscribed and signed. No place, no date. In original dark blue leather presentation frame with gilt presidential seal, backed in watered silk. Photograph measures 9 by 12 inches; framed 13 by 17 inches. $1750. Superb color presentation photograph, boldly inscribed and signed by Eisenhower: "For His Excellency Colonel D. E. M. Levidis with best wishes from Dwight D. Eisenhower." Dimitrios Levidis was a colonel attached to the Greek court, which he f... more information

1860. FIRST EDITION. ELIOT, George. The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. Three volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine. $2200. First edition of one of Eliot's most widely read works, in original cloth. Eliot's largely autobiographical novel was written immediately after Adam Bede and published in 1860. "The portrayal of childhood, of rural life, and the subsidiary characters… delighted most critics… It remain... more information

1965. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ELKIN, Stanley. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers. New York: Random House, (1965). Octavo, original half-white cloth, original dust jacket. $950. First edition, presentation copy of Elkin's second book, inscribed to his mother in the year of publication: "For Mother, with love, Stanley, 11/16/65." Irony, black humor, and rich prose run throughout these nine stories, Elkin's first collection. Book spine lightly soiled. Bright original dust jacket ne... more information

2001. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ELLROY, James. The Cold Six Thousand. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2001. Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $300. First edition of Ellroy's provocative novel of the Sixties, boldly inscribed on the title page, "2/12/04, To Scott Murphy, You bridge the gap J.B. '62, To You!!! J. E." "A great and terrible book about a great and terrible time in America" (Village Voice). In The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy's edgy vision sur... more information

1996. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ELLROY, James. My Dark Places. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $200. First edition of Ellroy's investigation into his mother's murder, signed by him. Crime-writer James Ellroy's memoir, centered on his mother's still-unsolved murder when he was ten, "displays a reality more chilling than fiction" (Time). "Ellroy is a haunted man, and more than writer enough to haunt anyone who hears his ... more information

1894. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Works. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, [1894]. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown morocco, elaborately gilt decorated spines, raised bands, top boards with elaborate gilt monograms, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4500. Standard Library Edition of Emerson's prose and poetry, illustrated with frontispiece in each volume, splendidly bound. Emerson's ideas and ideals-as expressed in his essays, lectures, letters and poetry, most of which i... more information

1974. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ERWITT, Elliott. The Private Experience: Elliott Erwitt. Los Angeles: Alskog/Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. Quarto, original brown leatherette, photographic endpapers, original photographic dust jacket. $350. First edition, inscribed in the year of publication on the verso of the front free endpaper, "For Dan Berley (copy #143,592 of a limited edition) with, all like the best, Elliott Erwitt, 24 Sep. 1974," with over 75 color and black-and-white photogravures of the photoj... more information

1950. SIGNED. ESHKOL, Levi. Typed letter signed. Jerusalem: January 25, 1950. Octavo, one sheet of official Jewish Agency stationery, writing on recto only, 6 by 8 inches. $650. Typed letter in Hebrew signed by Levi Eshkol. The letter reads: "The Jewish Agency. Address for telegrams: "JEVAGENCY. Code: Bentley. Telephone 4671 POB 92. Please cite in your response: Department: [blank]; No.: 2977/5/2005. Jerusalem, 7 Shevat 5710. January 25, 1950. Mr. E.Z. Hoofjen. Agricultural Treasury Ltd. Tel Av... more information

1912. FIRST EDITION. ESSWEIN, Hermann and HEYMEL, Alfred Walter. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Zweite, vermehrte auflage. Munich: R. Piper, 1912. WITH: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Dritte auflage. Munich: R. Piper, 1916. Two volumes. Slim quarto, original half blue cloth, illustrated paper boards; pp. [66]. Housed together in custom chemise and slipcase. $650. Second and third editions of this famous scholarly article on Toulouse-Lautrec, with 50 halftone photographs of Lautrec's works, many from Heymel... more information

1998. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. EVANS, Nicholas. The Loop. (New York): Delacorte Press, (1998). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $100. First edition of this bestseller, signed by Nicholas Evans on the title page. "At once a haunting exploration of man's conflict with nature and the wild within himself and a sweeping story of deadly passions and redemptive love, The Loop is destined to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere." "Colorful, captivatin... more information

1972. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. EVANS, Walker. Exhibition poster, inscribed. Walker Evans: Artist-in-Residence. (Hanover): Dartmouth College, 1972. Original photogravure poster, measuring 19 by 31 inches, closely framed. $3800. Original signed limited edition exhibition poster, number 8 of only 100 copies, inscribed, "To Jo and Ivan Albright, affectionately, Walker Evans." Albright is considered "one of the 20th century's most original artists." "For how many of us has our imagi... more information

1990. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (PHOTOGRAPHY) EVANS, Walker and CHRISTENBERRY, William. Of Time & Place. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1990. Quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. $150. First edition, issue in wrappers, of this comparison of Evans' and Christenberry's photographic studies of Hale County, Alabama, with 26 black-and-white photographs by both (including several of Evans' iconic portraits) and 28 in color by Christenberry. From the collection of acclaime... more information

1906. EVELYN, John. Diary of John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S. London: Bickers and Son, and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Four volumes. Octavo, dark blue three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $950. Later edition, handsomely bound by Morrell, with 30 illustrations. "It is impossible to overrate the interest and value of a diary and correspondence written by such a man as Evelyn, and in such times as those of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles ... more information