Authors starting with E from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

Oxford: at the Clarendon,, 1977.. 8vo, blue cloth, dust-jacket. Name on endpaper, otherwise very good.. ... more information

Leamington: W.H. Smith, Printer,, 1890.. 8vo, 28pp, map to rear wrapper. Printed wrappers, detached, otherwise very good.. First Edition, a presentation copy, with a 2-page ALs by the author tipped-in to inside upper wrapper. ... more information

Bishop: Privately Published,, 1954.. 8vo, (48)pp printed in purple & bound in purple wrappers. Very good.. First Edition of a collection of stories, songs and poems on Death Valley and environs. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.70. Paher 528. ... more information

London: Quarto Press,, 1981.. 8vo, unpaginated. Printed wrappers, fine.. Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies. ... more information

Leipzig/ London: Tauchnitz/ Sampson Low,, 1877.. 2 vols, 8vo, 333, 320pp. Red linen soft boards, gilt lettered, very good. . First Edition in English, Copyright Edition, volume 30 in Tauchnitz' Collection of German Writers. Ebers (1837-98) studied Egyptology at Berlin University and was appointed to a professorial chair in 1870. His historical novels, set in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, enjoyed considerable success and are noteworthy for the faithfulness to authentic detail. Scarce. Morgan, Critical B... more information

Leipzig/ London: Tauchnitz/ Sampson Low,, 1880.. 2 vols, 8vo, 311, 295pp. Red linen soft boards, gilt lettered, very good. . First Edition in English, Copyright Edition, volume 40 in Tauchnitz' Collection of German Writers. Ebers (1837-98), studied Egyptology at Berlin University and was appointed to a professorial chair in 1870. His historical novels, set in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, enjoyed considerable success and are noteworthy for the faithfulness to authentic detail. The present novel occurs ... more information

Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell,, 1967.. 8vo, 185pp. Red library cloth, a few scattered text markings, but a very good working copy. . Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, I. ... more information

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press,, 1958.. 8vo, xxviii, 215pp. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good in very good dj, with slightest wear to edges.. First Edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies, of the first comrehensive bibliography of the California deserts and the forerunner to the author's Enduring Desert. Approximately 1500 items relating to California deserts are listed descriptively. Edwards, pp.72-73. ... more information

[N.p.]: [printed by Ward Ritchie Press],, (1964).. 8vo, [60]pp, b/w photo-illus. White wrappers, lettered in black. Wrappers slightly soiled, paper adhesion mark to title, otherwise very good.. First Edition in book form, reprinted from an article in The Westerners Brand Book Number 11, 1964 of the Los Angeles Corral. Limited to 200 copies and quite scarce. ... more information

London: Lund Humphries,, (2007).. 4to, illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. Fine. Describes the textiles, soft furnishings and floor coverings used in Western interiors over the from medievaql times to the mid twentieth century, with details on the manufacture, distribution and consumption of furnishing goods. ... more information

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press,, 1961.. 8vo, xvi, 126pp. 8 phot plates, endpaper map. Tan cloth, with gold-embossed front cover decoration & gold-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. Very good copy.. First Edition, one of 500 copies, this copy signed by the author on the title.. The story of an isolated corridor in one of the most desolate sections of the Colorado Desert, and of a remote palm tree oasis that once flourished midway through the corridor. 'On at least four separate occasions epoch-making ... more information

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie,, 1969.. 8vo, xiii, (1), 306 pp, index. Tan cloth with matching slipcase. Very good.. First Edition. The culmination of Edwards' long career as the preeminent bibliographer of the California desert, and the essential reference tool for desert collectors and enthusiasts. He ponders 'the writings of the historian, the folklorist, the novelist, the magazine writer, the newspaperman,' putting each into its proper place and perspective (Russ Leadabrand). 'Edwards' close encounters wi... more information

New York: Moffat, yard,, 1916.. 8vo, 463pp, photo illus. Blue cloth, gilt. Front joint starting, some browning as usual, otherwise very good.. Inscribed by the author to his cousin: 'To the dearest of cousins, Nellie Furman, from a fellow she used to hold on her lap.' Edwards records the early days of collegiate football. 'Big Bill Edwards was the captain of the Princeton teams. ... more information

Brussels: Acadî;mie Royale de Belgique,, 1858.. 4to, iv, 45pp. Modern quarter leather, boards, very good.. First Separate Edition, being the offprint from the Mî;moires Couronnî;s et Mî;moires des Savants Etrangers, vol. XXX. The text, on the pre-Islamic Arab calendar and the birth and age of the prophet Mohammad, is preceded by brief reports by Liagre and Quetelet, both recommending publication and commenting on Mahoud's solution to problems of chronology in Arab history.... more information

London: Printed for M. Arnold..., 1831.. 12mo, 59, (1)pp, woodcut frontispiece and 8 hors-text plates. Cont. half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco label at spine. Joints and extremities moderately worn, occasional mild foxing, else a good, clean copy.. First Edition of this humorous account of 'a young artist of great promise.' This copy is complete with the half-title and all nine plates called-for at the final page. ... more information

New York: Free Press, , (1969).. 4to, xxxvii, 571pp. Black cloth, library mark on spine and pocket on endpaper, otherwise very good.. ... more information

Ca., 1930s.. The pair:. Two drawings by the influential American artist. Each drawing measures about 6 x 4 in. on an 8 x 11 sheet of stationary, with the artist's printed letterhead. Images on request. ... more information

San Francisco: Paul Elder,, 1913.. 4to, 89pp, numerous tipped-in photographic plates. Orig. quarter linen, illustrated boards. Nearly fine copy of a fragile book. . Attractive work with photographs by Vroman, Dassonville and others. Cowan p.193. Levin & Morris, Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 88. Cowan p.193. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1866.. 8vo, 184 double-column pp. Quarter leatherette over marbled boards, original wrappers preserved, orig. owner's sig., otherwise unusually crisp, clean and fine. . First U.S. Edition, Harper's Library of Select Novels No. 274. Not in Wolfe or NCBEL. Scarce, particularly in this condition. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, , (1941).. 8vo, 15pp. Original light blue stapled wrappers, light soiling to covers, modern bookplate, otherwise very good.. First Issue of the poem, later part of Eliot's The Four Quartets, one of the most powerful & ambitious works of the century. Printed on laid paper without watermark. Gallup A39. ... more information