Authors starting with E from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Viking Press,, [1977].. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine, fresh dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, [1988].. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

Chapel Hill:: Algonquin Books,, 1987.. Advance reading copy of the author's second book. Gathered and sewn signatures with publisher's label. Fine. 12mo. ... more information

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, [2000].. First edition of the author's acclaimed first book. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Small 4to. Cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the five best novels of the year 2000. ... more information

Brooklyn:: McSweeney's,, [2000].. 14 separately bound booklets in publisher's folding box. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in a fine publisher's box. Small 4to. Separately bound works by 12 writers (including Denis Johnson, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Lydia Davis, Lawrence Weschler, Haruki Murakami, and Jonathan Lethem), together with an introduction by Eggers and a booklet of very short stories by 14 lesser-known writers. A subscription sheet is also laid in. McSweeney's may be the most interes... more information

Gurnee:: McSweeney's,, [2000].. Pictorial boards with dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Illustrated. Contributors include: Lydia Davis, Susan Minot, Steven Barthelme, and Ben Marcus. This is one of 4 variants, with the book having only text on it and the dust jacket featuring a large picture of a woman's head with a medical drawing of what lies beneath the skin around her eye. The text on the book is set backwards and is different from that on the jacket. McSweeney'... more information

San Francisco:: McSweeney's Publishing,, [2002].. First edition, bookstore issue. Hardcover. Fine (issued without dust jacket).. 8vo. Signed by Eggers on the back pastedown (where the publication information is given) and dated "10/2/02" by him. Though reportedly printed and issued simultaneously, copies (like this one) there were sold through ordinary bookstores do not have a "First Edition" statement on the back pastedown like those that were sold directly (mostly over the intern... more information

Nutting Lake:: McSweeney's,, [2001].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Coth boards with cloth spine with the words "WE NOW KNOW WHO" on the front cover (there is a variant with "FIND THEM AND CONVINCE THEM"). Oblong small 4to. Ilustrated with numerous drawings, photographs and reproductions of artwork, many in full color. Contributors include: Breyten Breytenbach, Lydia Davis, Ian Frazier, Zadie Smith, and Lawrence Weschler. With a music cd, titled "They Might Be Giants vs. McS... more information

San Francisco:: McSweeney's,, [2004].. First edition. Hardcover. As new in a folded-over dust jacket that hides two small comic books in its folds. This copy is in the original shrinkwrap. Pictorial paper boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Small 4to. The title page text describes the scope of this issue: "An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories, &c. / by many of the most dignified and skilled practitioners of the cartooning art, presented on ov... more information

Brooklyn:: McSweeney's,, [2000].. 9 separately bound booklets in publisher's folding box. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in a fine publisher's folding box with large rubber band, as issued. 8vo. Separately bound works by 9 writers, including Michael Chabon, William T. Vollman, Ann Cummins and A.M. Homes. ... more information

London:: Picador,, [1998].. First edition of the American author's first book, preceding U.S. publication. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

Santa Barbara:: Capricorn Press,, 1970.. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket as issued. 8vo. One of 50 numbered, hardbound copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition was issued softbound and unsigned (550 copies). Laid in are two APCs from Ehrlich to the book's publisher, Noel Young. ... more information

Franklin Center:: Franklin Library,, 1981.. Fifth edition, Franklin Greatest Books issue. Hardcover. Fine (issued without dust jacket). 8vo. One of an unspecified number of copies bound in full leather with all edges gilt and a ribbon marker. With the publisher's booklet laid in. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1987.. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1991.. First edition of the author's second book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

London:: R. Cobden-Sanderson,, [1926].. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo. With a six-page introduction by T.S. Eliot. This copy bears Charlotte Eliot's inscription to a friend, dated "Dec. 25, 1926." A verse play by the mother of T.S. Eliot about the Catholic heretic that opens, intriguingly enough, with a colloquy between Savonarola and his mother on their spiritual and religious differences. ... more information

New York:: Harcourt Brace,, [1943].. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine example of the first impression dust jacket. 8vo. One of the 788 copies, comprising what Eliot bibliographer Donald Gallup identifies as the first impression. This ambitious poem wedded Eliot's Christian beliefs with a formidable array of literary techniques and established him as the regnant poet of his day. ... more information

London:: Faber & Faber,, [1960].. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's slipcase as issued. 4to. One of 290 numbered copies signed by the poet. Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona. An elegant presentation of this key Eliot work. ... more information

New York:: Random House,, [1964].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. This copy is signed by Elkin. ... more information

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, [1976].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket that shows only the lightest of use.. 8vo. Signed and dated (1982) by the author on the title page. ... more information